Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

March 15, 2007

Present
	Business.........................................
	Counseling......................................	Robert Jaurequi
	Fine Arts.........................................	Michelle Coletta
	Humanities......................................	Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Danielle Fouquette, Jeff Rodine
	Library.............................................	Anita Varela
	Math/Computer Science...................	Robert Diaz, Greg Nguyen
	Natural Sciences..............................	Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro
	Part-Time Faculty.............................
	Physical Education..........................	Jim Kiefer
	Social Sciences...............................	Diana Kyle, Arrienne Turner
	Student Services..............................	Paul McKinley
	Technology/Engineering....................	Rosa Molina, Dennis Howey
	At-large...........................................	Gayle Cebrian, Mike Moore

	Associated Students........................	Jonathan Meyer

	President.........................................	Joumana McGowan
	President-elect.................................	Ken Collins
	Secretary........................................	Jane Troop
	Treasurer.........................................	Callista Lee
	At-large, Curriculum Chair.................

Guests Nick Karvia, Adela Lopez, Gloria Negrete Lopez, Edward Scott

Absent
	At-large...........................................	Gayle Cebrian, Debbie McQueen, Marcus Wilson
	Business	Steve Dayton, Nancy Woolridge
	Counseling......................................	Elias Dominguez, Flor Huerta
	Fine Arts.........................................	Chuck Ketter
	Humanities......................................	Robert Lundergan
	Part-Time........................................	Jim Book
	Physical Education	Alicia Okouchi-Guy
	Senate Exec....................................	Doug Eisner
	Social Sciences...............................	Chris Lamm

I. CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 3:02 p.m. by President McGowan.

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

M/S/U (McKinley/Diaz) to approve the Minutes of the March 1, 2007 meeting with the change that the smoking ban procedure was approved with the proviso that it will require further discussion on enforcement at the PAC.

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

M/S/U (Collopy-O’Donnell/Sapiro) to approve the agenda for this meeting.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Benoosh Armani announced that Parent Night will be held April 19 in the campus theater, and it will be attended by approximately three hundred to four hundred students. She urged Senators to encourage divisions to take tables to promote their programs. Anyone wishing to reserve a table should e-mail her at barmani@fullcoll.edu.

Senator Collopy-O’Donnell urged faculty to be sure to take the Staff Development survey.

Adela Lopez announced that the Friends of the Library will be presenting Mendez vs. Westminster.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

Board of Trustees—Dr. McGowan thanked Senators for attending the recent Board of Trustees meeting and those who spoke to the Board. Trustee Lahtinen indicated that he had received calls from faculty members concerning retirees getting retroactive pay if salary is settled after the end of the semester. The Board of Trustees had discussed this issue in closed session; and we received information that, if negotiations are settled after the end of this semester, retirees who will no longer be working for the district will receive the retroactive pay.

The resolution drafted by the Fullerton Senate was presented to the Board of Trustees concerning lack of faculty input on bonds. On an Agenda item Trustee Lahtinen asked the Fullerton Senate President if faculty were given the chance to provide input on the bond item, and she responded in the negative. This question was asked of the Vice Chancellor of Finance, and the answer was forwarded to the two college presidents. There was another inconclusive answer. On the vote to accept a new bond management company to replace FLM, all of the Board of Trustees members voted yes except Trustee Lahtinen who abstained.

DPC (District Planning Committee)—The Senate Presidents and the UF President drafted a letter to Chancellor Hunter that reviewed the mandate of DPC and requested Chancellor Hunter to include the following three principles into the existing process:

· Allow faculty to participate in discussing the initial district budget priorities and in any revisions to these priorities throughout the year,

· Allow faculty to participate in aligning specific spending requests with the budget priorities and the District strategic plans,

· Allow faculty to participate in the decisions to hire new faculty district-wide as well as decisions to reduce faculty.

The Chancellor was given until March 15 to respond to these issues in writing.

At the last DPC meeting, the Chancellor did not respond to these in writing as requested, but attempted to have the faculty present give him specific examples. He proceeded to reject these examples. As a result of this situation, the Senates and UF are in the process of writing a final document requesting the Chancellor, in writing, to affirm the basic principles of DPC and agree, in writing, that he will abide by these principles.

Capital Outlay Program—At DPC, the District presented the Fullerton College 300/500 Buildings retrofit and the Cypress College Fine Arts Building. It was announced that these state bond projects are ready-access, that they are being moved to the final stage of project proposal, and that the architects have already done a preliminary design, and that the architects will be same ones as before, which is not acceptable to the campus. When Dr. McGowan asked at DPC who made the decision to rehire this firm, knowing that FC has had concerns and problems with this company on several previous projects, the response from Fred Williams was “I made the decision.” These decisions have been made without faculty input. This has been protested, and communicated to the Board of Trustees.

PAC (President’s Advisory Committee)—There was discussion of college goals that were adopted. They were written to include measurable criteria to support the dynamic funding process.

DEAC (Distance Education Advisory Committee)—It was announced that the District IS will be hosting the Moodle software and will consider hosting another online package if both Cypress and Fullerton agree. PAC voted to support the new online program with adequate personnel but will not support a new classified management person. The software will move from WebCT 4 to WebCT 6 and hosting will be on campus.

Homecoming—It is scheduled during the college hour that is set for November 1.

Festival of Diversity—These activities will be held April 23.

Smoking policy—This was passed with the understanding that there will be a task force relative to enforcement.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)—The ACCJC has sent a form to the college that requests the number of courses that have SLOs. Information will be requested from department’s individual course SLOs though the Deans.

Treasurer’s Report

Treasurer Lee thanked those who provided snacks for this meeting and reported that the Senate has not spent any money since the last report.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

Class Size Document—At DCCC the class size document was approved, but a request was made to add an assumption about offering multiple sections with a lowered class size. If a class has less than 35, then the request is that such classes will not be offered as multiple sections unless there is a unique situation. It is requested that the Senators obtain input from their division faculty on this issue.

It was pointed out that unless such a restriction is based on function or safety, then such restrictions should be left up to the faculty since this is a workload issue.

Curricunet—There are still issues with Curricunet that are primarily based on formatting. It requires a rewrite to insert material in Curricunet rather than cutting and pasting old course outlines.

VII. ELECTIONS

No elections were held in the Senate today.

Division Senatorial elections are coming up, and second calls will be going out. If a division does not fill its seats, then they will be given to at-large Senators.

VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Natural Science Bond Project—It was reported that the District may agree to move the building, but the required information to move it was not presented by the District. The timeline for making a decision was very short, and the division faculty voted to not recommend moving it because there were no new drawings, or site survey. The faculty could not be assured that a relocated building would have adequate space and resources.

IX. OLD BUSINESS

None.

X. NEW BUSINESS

HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities)—Several students asked for the support of the faculty in finding ways to implement institutional membership for Fullerton College in HACU. They have been told that membership costs too much since the cost is now $7,900 a year.

Since they did not have sufficient time to fully explain their concerns, they requested that they be placed on the Senate agenda at a later date. Dr. McGowan recommended that the Senate wait until the Associated Students have discussed this issue. In addition to scholarships and internships, HACU has pushed legislation to support Hispanic Serving Institutions.

Course Pack Procedure—This new procedure was explained by Nick Karvia of the bookstore. He distributed a booklet covering various copyright issues and questions and emphasized that in order to clear copyrights for course packs, the bookstore needs a bibliographic list and at least six weeks for processing.

There is faculty responsibility as to the accessible nature of the originals. This is to ensure an easy and timely translation into alternate formats for students who need educational accommodations.

He introduced a worksheet that is to be submitted with the original pages detailing how the instructor wants the course pack to appear.

Instructional Technology Committee—The committee members continue to work on the survey. The information is in the database and they are crunching the data now. They want to put it in a report rather than just answer specific questions. Of the 172 respondents, 103 were full-timers, 51 were adjunct, 16 showed no affiliation, and 2 were blank. The respondents showed much concern about technology in the classroom.

The committee talked about three configurations of work stations: a mobile cart, standard demo stations, and semi-permanent models. The Senate will recommend that each division needs to carefully consider its own needs.

M/S/U (Kyle/Fouquette) that the Senate President address the Board of Trustees as an Agenda item in open session to present a review of the bond process on campus, indicate the science project is in direct opposition to faculty input, that the 300/500 retrofit projects are being done without faculty input, communicate that all current building projects must include faculty and campus input, and review the architects assigned to the projects.

MESA—Discussion of MESA was tabled as it was the wish of the Senate to allot sufficient time for discussion of this issue.

XI. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students—A.S. is giving due process to HACU

United Faculty— The UF representative stated that the Board may have been caught off guard by the swelling in numbers at the last Board meeting. However, things still do not seem to be moving forward—they just don’t get it. Comparability started in 1993 to bring the faculty salaries into line with other districts. Everyone received increases as the faculty was brought up to the 75^th percentile.

Now managers are brought up in pay, and the District states that it cannot afford to do this for everyone. They have violated the Simpson model. The Chancellor is defining “finished” as the District’s last, best, and final offer.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

The meeting was adjourned at 5 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Jane Troop, Secretary

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