Approved Minutes
March 30, 2006
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Business......................................... |
Dale Craig |
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Counseling...................................... |
Elias Dominguez |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
Chuck Ketter |
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Humanities...................................... |
Danielle Fouquette, John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Miguel Powers, Jeff
Rodine |
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Library............................................. |
Michele Fitzsimmons |
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Math/Computer Science................... |
Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen |
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Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jacob Sapiro |
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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............................... |
Diana Kyle, Arienne Turner |
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Student Services.............................. |
Paul McKinley |
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Technology/Engineering.................... |
Gayle Cebrian, Dennis Howey |
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At-large........................................... |
Elise Donley, Callista Lee, Mike Moore, Sally Moore, Marcus Wilson |
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Associated Students........................ |
Jonathan Mayer |
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President......................................... |
Joumana McGowan |
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Past President................................. |
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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: Peter Fong, Barbara Hollowell, Deborah
Ludford, Nilo Niccolai |
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Absent |
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Business/CIS................................... |
Joel Willenbring |
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Counseling...................................... |
Karyn Nguyen |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
Bill Hayner |
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Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jeff Feaster |
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Part-time......................................... |
Jim Book |
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Senate Exec...................................................... R |
Rolando Sanabria |
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Social Sciences............................... |
Susan Grabiel |
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Technology...................................... |
Kevin Sampson |
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 (Lee/McQueen) to approve the Minutes of the March 16, 2006
meeting.
III.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
M/S/U (McQueen/Troop) to approve the agenda for this meeting.
IV.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Alex
Zima stated his opposition to censoring myspace.com on campus because of its
importance to the music business class.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
REPORTS
President’s
Report
DPC—Estimated FTES target for this year and
next year was discussed.
Dr. McGowan received a response from Dr. Hodge
regarding the shared governance issue of adding a director to work groups.
M/S/U (Wilson/Powers) that the
Senate Executive committee respond to the college President and indicate that the Senate has discussed this issue at length
and stands firm by its position under the constitution and Board Policy that the college president must come to
agreement with the Senate on the creation and modification of any committee.
The Directors of Research at both colleges
have garnered information about local high school students. Current research indicates that
Dynamic fund information was sent out last
week. Applications are located on the J
drive, and April 18 is the deadline for submission. The process for evaluating
requests will be changed this year. The Senate President recommends that the proposal
selection committee vote by closed ballot and that people not vote on their own
division’s requests. It is also recommended that the details of each proposal
requested be discussed in
A question was raised concerning the amount
of dynamic fund money in terms of the amount of college carry-over money, given
the current college carry-over of about $7 million. The $150,000 is carry-over
money taken from the various divisions.
Another question raised was concerning
whether PAC evaluated the use of prior year allocations. The allocations are
continuing, but to date there has been no announcement of any type of
evaluation as to the effectiveness of the funds.
Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer thanked those who provided the
refreshments for this meeting and reported that the Senate has even less money
than it had before.
VI.
CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE REPORT
Dr. Eisner reported
that Curricunet training went well last week. Testing will continue for the
rest of the next semester.
VII. ELECTIONS
The following were election results:
Honors Program Advisory Committee Term 2005-2007
Robert Lundergan
Kelly Nelson-Wright
Bruce Henderson
Selection Committee for Director of Health Services
Lisa Campbell
Elias Dominguez
VIII. LIAISON REPORTS
Associated Students
Jonathan Mayer presented a resolution on
myspace.com. As a student representative, he indicated that a poll of the
students found that a large majority of students did not want myspace.com blocked
at the campus level, but that some controls in the Library would be
appropriate.
United Faculty
The United Faculty representative indicated
that Faculty will shortly receive a Salary Survey asking for their input on the
current salary proposal from the District.
Adjunct Faculty United
No report.
IX. UNFNISHED
BUSINESS
Deborah
Ludford addressed the Senate on AP 3720.
Ms. Ludford explained that the policy was based on input from the three
campus IS directors and that it reflects current practice. She indicated that
the campus IS directors were to have discussed this policy with members of the
college. Several Senators indicated that this was not done at
M/S/P (Eisner/M. Moore) that a subcommittee of the Senate go through the
policy and make recommendations for changes.
The Senators who will serve on this
committee will be Chuck Ketter, Elise Donley, Marcus Wilson, Sally Moore, Pete
Snyder, and Dale Craig.
X. OLD BUSINESS
M/S/P (Fitzsimmons/Wilson) that the Library
staff resolve the issue of access to myspace.com with ACT and that there not be
a campus-wide ban of the use of myspace.com.
The issue of Title V was again introduced in the Senate. A
recommendation was made that this issue not be discussed until the Title V
chairperson was present.
XI. NEW BUSINESS
It was announced that all the faculty
members serving on the Academic Computing Technology Oversight committee had
resigned. The chairperson of this committee submitted a letter to the Senate
indicating why he was resigning. One of the ACT Oversight members indicated
that the ACT committee was not working as intended. ACT policies impacting
instruction were not being brought through the committee and so, in the opinion
of the faculty members on the committee, it was not serving its intended
purpose.
Dr. Niccolai, who was attending the Senate
meeting, responded by stating that none of the faculty issues were brought
forward in the committee and that it is unfair to say that ACT did not address
the issues. He also pointed out that PAC intended the committee to create a
strategic plan for ACT and not provide a mechanism for faculty input to ACT
policies and procedures that impact instruction.
Several Senators felt that faculty lacked
input to ACT policies and procedures that impacted Instruction and that ACT
support for instructional programs is marginal at best. A list of faculty
concerns about the operation of ACT, which was solicited from the faculty after
the last Senate meeting, was presented to the director of ACT. These issues
included inadequate support for MacIntosh computer system, inadequate support
for in-class demo stations, and concerns about network security. There was no
response from ACT on particular concerns.
The sense of the Senate was that the purpose
and role of an ACT oversight committee would be presented at the next PAC
meeting. Most members of the previous ACT oversight committee indicated that
they no longer wished to serve.
The Senate was presented with an information
item concerning a proposal to develop guidelines for the institutionalism of
programs. This proposal consisted of collecting information validating the
value of the proposed program and criteria for program success.
A representative of classified personnel sought
the support of the Senate in urging PAC to develop an objective formula for
hiring new staff. Discussion ensued.
An information item from the Accreditation
Response Committee was presented. This committee is drafting the response to
the recent accreditation findings. This response will be very short and will
detail what steps have been taken to remedy the findings. The final version of
this response will be brought back to the Senate. If any Senators have input for
the committee, they can e-mail them to either of the Senate committee
representatives (Dale Craig or Doug Eisner).
It was reported that the Equivalency Committee
deciding on a new process for awarding faculty equivalence is still being
worked on by a subcommittee of the three Senates. The new process will allow
faculty more input into the process by
allowing department faculty to review the material and let the department
coordinator, who attends the meeting, present the
department’s views on the equivalency being evaluated.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:03 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/
Jane Troop, Secretary