Transcription of Senate Minutes for February 19, 2004 Meeting

Fullerton College Faculty Senate

March 4, 2004

Approved Minutes

Present
Academic Services....................................	Doris Wright
Business..................................................	Jeff Couchaine, Dale Craig
Counseling................................................	Behnoosh Armani, Karyn Nguyen
Fine Arts...................................................
Humanities................................................	Renee Bangerter, Cathie Engstrom, Sharon Portman, Miguel Powers
Library......................................................	Jackie Boll
Math/Computer Science.............................	Pete Bouzar, Irene Jones
Natural Sciences.......................................	Ken Collins, Brad Dawson, Jeff Feaster
Part-Time Faculty......................................	Terry Gleason
Physical Education....................................	Jim Kiefer
Social Sciences........................................	Patti Green, Diana Kyle, Callista Lee
Student Services.......................................
Technology/Engineering.............................	Dennis Howey, Kevin Sampson
At-large.....................................................	Liz Kiszely, Tanomo Taguchi, Marcus Wilson, Nancy Woolridge
Associated Students..................................

President..................................................	Rolando Sanabria
Presidential Assistant................................	Susan Nack
Secretary..................................................	Jane Troop
Treasurer..................................................	Joumana McGowan
At-large, Curriculum Chair...........................	Doug Eisner

Guests:

Absent
Associated Students..................................	Andrew Jun
At-large.....................................................	Adela Lopez, Paul Farnham
Fine Arts...................................................	Bill Hayner, Richard McMillan
Part-Time..................................................	Jim Book
Physical Education....................................	Pete Snyder
Student Services.......................................	Joe Reyes, Jr.

I. The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President Rolando Sanabria.

II. The minutes of the February 19, 2004 Senate meeting were approved by consensus with changes.

III. The agenda for the present meeting was approved by consensus with changes.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENT

Anyone interested in setting up an information table at “Annual Parent Night” can contact Behnoosh Armani. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 30, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Wilshire Theater.

It was suggested that the Senate should discuss the policy for communication, including e-mails. A Senator congratulated everyone on the passage of Proposition 55 and asked how it helped us.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

President Rolando Sanabria stated that the money from Proposition 55 will not help us. The reason is that the college did not apply in time for it to benefit us if it passed.

Prerequisites, corequisites, and advisories for courses must be validated every six years. Program review is supposed to do that. Policy has to be changed because the Curriculum Committee has been doing this all along.

PCC—This body had no official agenda this week. Business consisted of updates and discussions only. Dr. Hodge was informed that faculty Senate would like to assume responsibility for program review since this falls under state guidelines for faculty responsibilities. A workable compromise was reached with the current program review procedures, which was not under the responsibility of Faculty Senate, by removing the last page of the program review package for the current year as well as for the packages for the last several years. It is to be used to reflect on our programs and serves as a chance to see what is working and what is not. There is no answer to the question about which programs to discontinue.

Cindy Vyskocil has written a new Student Equity Plan. Rolando will e-mail it to all Senators. He is asking for our responses. Then it will be returned to us for discussion. We have to have one done to be in compliance with state law.

Rolando will tell the President that we need a place to put comments on the e-mail survey that came from the Accreditation Steering Committee. He will also follow up on this. There was some concern about the possible monitoring of e-mail.

Rolando announced that the only concern the other Senate presidents had with Chancellor Hunter’s our response to our Resolution of February 19 was that they wanted the number 550 to be in his response.

One of the Senators mentioned that he was concerned because of the money being spent on the Anaheim Campus. We now don’t have enough bond money to build all of the buildings that we had planned to build.

Board of Trustees meeting – During a discussion of shared governance, the question of whether or not faculty should participate in the allocation of FTES arose. Kate Clark, President of State Academic Senate, responded that faculty should be involved in allocation of FTES. The Board and the Chancellor thought that the faculty had been participating in the allocation of FTES at Fullerton College. Rolando mentioned that he will advocate for a committee to be developed that would address FTES issues District-wide.

DPC: Policies in Chapter 3, General Institution, are being reviewed now. Some of Senate’s recommendations were adopted and other not. Policy 4030, has been moved to Chapter 4, Academic Affairs. For the last four meetings, they will be looking at the remaining four policy chapters.

Chapter 3 went forward even though it does not contain an academic freedom policy. A compromise was reached to send it forward with a letter from Rolando, representing the Senate, and United Faculty explaining that Senate and UF have dissenting views. He will forward the letter that will accompany Chapter 3 to us.

Rolando had been tabling policies for four weeks, and it was clear that he couldn’t keep doing this. He felt satisfied, however, in sending the Chapter forward because AP 2410 states that “Any employee, student, or member of the public may initiate a review of any policy by submitting a request or recommendation in writing to the Chancellor’s Office.” Discussion ensued.

It was requested that the letter say that we will have an academic freedom policy by a certain date and want to review the policy again. Rolando stated that the Academic freedom policy should be done by the end of the semester and that the first draft is to be done by two weeks from this coming Monday.

The Board Policies Work Group presented the policies for Chapter 3 to the Senate, but there was no review.

It was mentioned that the Senate Exec. is not adhering to the process agreed to when the Senate approved the recommendations of its ad hoc committee. Rolando responded that the proper channel is to have DPC create an Academic Freedom policy since it is a District-wide policy. A Senator stated that we cannot stop the District from reviewing or creating policies.

Dr. Hodge has asked the Senate Exec. to meet with her more often. Currently, the only person who cannot meet with her one-on-one is the Senate President. The Senate was asked to consider whether this should still be a policy. It will be on the next agenda.

Treasurer’s Report

Treasurer McGowan thanked those who provided the snacks for today’s meeting. The Budget Development Committee met and reviewed the Fullerton College budget. Budget Director Adam O’Connor explained transfers and different categories of monies as well as division allotments. Guests at the Budget Development Committee meetings can have the handouts but cannot ask questions.

Adam will be finding out the impact of Propositions 57 and 58 and will begin putting together next year’s budget. It must be done by April for discussion in May in PCC. Members of the committee will have input into the budget.

In PCC Adam is going to ask for more FTES in the beginning of the academic year so that we don’t have to make it up in the Spring semester. Rod Fleeman was open to this idea. In PCC, faculty on the committee will be reporting back to the Senate.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

No curriculum that will be proposed for inclusion in IGETC will be accepted unless it is in electronic form for OSCAR. Nilo’s group will be developing this so that faculty can use dialog boxes for curriculum development. At some point, we will have to do some training. By fall, we should be able to use OSCAR to put our curriculum on ASSIST where other people can look at it.

In PCC, it was mentioned that Cypress needs a policy for online class size. Some classes are different sizes at Cypress from their counterparts at FC. The Union does not want to be involved unless there is a grievance. Representatives from both campuses meet to develop a draft for presentation to DCCC. The Senate will see it also. These are guidelines to give people a sense of range. Existing class size will not be changed. The Senators were asked to take this back to their faculty and get their reactions. A Senator asked what happened to monitoring seat count. Doug said he would find out and report.

When Pat Spencer went to see the State Chancellor, he thought seat count for WSCH was 30.

VII. ELECTIONS

Calls for nominations for committees will be going out soon.

The following were elected in the Senate to committees:

Sunshine Vidal	Teacher of the Year
Julie Felender	Teacher of the Year
Nancy Woolridge	Teacher of the Year
Carolyn Heath	Study Abroad
Emily Teipe	Study Abroad
Dale Craig	Study Abroad
Staff of Distinction	Cindy Zarske

Since the terms of all members of the Honors Committee expire this year, Susan Nack suggested staggering the terms of the members.

VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

None

IX. OLD BUSINESS

None

X. NEW BUSINESS

The faculty has had no input before to budget assumptions. We need to provide three assumptions from the Senate. President Hodge wants to know what is important to us. The Senators need to go back to their divisions and get three things that are important and then e-mail them to Rolando by next Tuesday. This will not drive the budget.

It was mentioned that a high-level administrative member needs to manage curriculum. Academic Services is overworked. This person should be able to make sure that everything is consistent and the process works. This individual has to be able to input into OSCAR.

One of the Senators asked who the Staff Development Committee members are. There is no Staff Development Coordinator, and the only current member is Jan Chadwick. Mark Greenhalgh is currently working on staff development matters.

M/S/U (Kiszely/Wilson) that the Senate reestablish the Staff Development Committee in order prioritize staff development needs and the allocation of staff development funds.

M/S/U (Kiszely/Eisner) to request that, at the beginning of each semester, the Budget Officer for this campus present to the Senate the P11 report for the college.

XI. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

No report.

United Faculty Report

Regarding restoring an additional faculty member to a tenure review committee, Dale Craig asked that faculty input be sent to him via e-mail. The extra person would be a member of the committee for the entire tenure process term. Senators will gather information from their divisions and discuss it at the next Senate meeting.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

The meeting adjourned at 5 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop

Senate Secretary