Approved Minutes
March 16, 2006
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Business......................................... |
Dale Craig, Joel Willenbring |
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Counseling...................................... |
Elias Dominguez |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
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Humanities...................................... |
Danielle Fouquette, John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Miguel Powers |
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Library............................................. |
Michele Fitzsimmons |
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Math/Computer Science................... |
Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen |
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Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jeff Feaster |
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Part-Time Faculty............................. |
Jim Book |
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Physical Education.......................... |
Jim Kiefer, Pete Snyder |
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Social Sciences............................... |
Susan Grabiel, Arienne Turner |
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Student Services.............................. |
Paul McKinley |
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Technology/Engineering.................... |
Gayle Cebrian, Kevin Sampson |
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At-large........................................... |
Callista Lee, Mike Moore, Marcus Wilson |
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Associated Students........................ |
Alejandra Goodrich |
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President......................................... |
Joumana McGowan |
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Past President................................. |
Rolando Sanabria |
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Secretary........................................ |
Jane Troop |
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Treasurer......................................... |
Ken Collins |
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At-large, Curriculum Chair................. |
Doug Eisner |
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Guests: Jane Ishibashi, Carol Matson |
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Absent |
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At-large........................................... |
Elise Donley, Sally Moore |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
Bill Hayner,
Chuck Ketter |
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Counseling...................................... |
Karyn Nguyen |
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Humanities...................................... |
Jeff Rodine |
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Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jacob Sapiro |
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Social Sciences............................... |
Diana Kyle |
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Technology...................................... |
Dennis Howey |
I.
CALL TO
ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President Joumana McGowan.
II.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (McQueen/Moore) to approve the Minutes of the March 2, 2006
meeting.
III.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Eisner/Sanabria) to approve the agenda for this meeting.
IV.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Ken Collins spoke about
the Science Club collecting used textbooks to send to libraries and
universities in
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
REPORTS
President’s
Report
DPC—A revised version of Administrative Policy
3570, having to do with a ban on smoking, was approved. This policy allows each
campus to develop its own smoking policy as long as it is acceptable to
collective bargaining agreements. CSEA is currently bargaining this issue and,
United Faculty has held open the right to bargain depending on what policy is
developed.
A Strategic Conversation will be held on
March 28, 2006, at 4:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Hotel in
The faculty had no changes to the college
goals for 2006-2007. The Natural Sciences and Business Divisions as well as the
Library object to the proposed Administrative Procedure AP 3720. One of the
issues with this policy was the inclusion of a clause indicating that once a
statement agreeing to the policy was signed, the signer automatically agrees to
future changes to the policy.
Commencement will be May 25 at 6 pm. in the
Regarding the memo to Dr. Hodge, at PAC Dr.
Hodge had made copies of board policy BP 2510 and AP 2510 and encouraged PAC
members to go over them and recommend changes. Dr. McGowan stated at PAC that
no changes can be made to AP 2510 unless initiated by any Faculty Senate or by
the Board of Trustees. By the next PAC
meeting that will be held March 22, we should have more input from Dr.
Hodge. When we get it, it will be passed
on.
Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer thanked those who provided the
refreshments for this meeting.
VI.
CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE REPORT
Dr. Eisner requested
that the Senate allow the Curriculum Committee to elect a new chairperson with
some release time for training.
M/S/P (Eisner/McQueen)
to approve the class size planning resource sheet guidelines.
VII. ELECTIONS
The Humanities
Division has not yet elected its Senators.
The following were elected:
Vice President of Instruction Selection Committee Ken Collins
Bruce
Hanson
Marcus
Wilson
Transfer Advisory Committee, Term 2005-2007 Susan Vincent
Robert
Lundergan
Student Equity Committee, Term 2005-2007 Jeanne
Costello
(English)
Campus Equity and Diversity Committee,
Term Spring, 2006, to Spring, 2008 Gigi
Blanche
VIII. LIAISON REPORTS
Associated Students
Alejandra Goodrich mentioned the passage of AP
3570, having to do with a ban on smoking on campus. She thanked the faculty for
its support at DPC. The men’s basketball team has won the state championship
and remains undefeated. A celebration
will be held on March 22, from 11 a.m. to noon in the Quad. College Hour will be held April 27 from noon
to 1 p.m.
United Faculty
No report.
Adjunct Faculty United
No report.
VIII.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
None.
IX.
OLD
BUSINESS
The Senate
discussed revisions to the summer elections and division dean elections issue
having to do with division-wide elections versus election by department within
division.
One Senator suggested
a change allowing voting by department or at large within the division. Dr. Eisner suggested a separate bullet to let
the divisions decide how they will vote internally. It was agreed
that the divisions would be given this choice on election procedures and
that the Constitution Committee would put that wording in the By-laws.
M/S/P
(Eisner/Lundergan) to approve the changes to the division dean, summer hiring,
and summer elections hiring committees and for those changes to be inserted
into the Faculty Senate By-laws.
Calista Lee
reported from the ETC committee that there are concerns about the viability of
the Distance Education Program. The
program currently serves a large number of students, and the program does not
have enough resources or management to be effective. The committee feels that the program needs to
be institutionalized with on-going financial support. The Senate expressed the desire to see a plan
for institutionalization and wanted to ensure that any centralized distance
education program leaves curriculum issues with the faculty and the divisions. The committee was urged to draft a plan and
bring it to the Senate for endorsement.
X.
NEW
BUSINESS
The Library faculty brought a concern to the
Senate about the Web site, myspace.com.
Students are using the open computers in the library to visit this Web site
and preventing other students from doing their work. The library requested ACT
to block myspace.com in the library. ACT
indicated that blocking the site in the library only was too labor intensive.
It was then pointed out
that this Web site is, in fact, blocked in
the library only on the
Robert Jaurequi gave an overview of the Learning
Communities program and indicated it has been a success.
The issue of extended hours for the
The Title V Committee issue was raised by a
member of the Humanities Division serving on its Steering Committee. The issue concerns expenditure of Title V
money before the end of the fiscal year.
The Steering Committee member unsuccessfully attempted to frame a motion
concerning this issue. The Senate requested that the Title V Steering Committee
chairperson address the Senate on these issues.
Garth Clayton, Director of the Foundation,
addressed the Senate about the current status of the Fullerton College
Foundation.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:03 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/
Jane Troop, Secretary