Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

for the Meeting held May 19, 2005

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Present
	Academic Services............................
	Business...........................................	Jeff Courchaine, Dale Craig
	Counseling........................................
	Fine Arts...........................................	Bill Hayner
	Humanities........................................	Danielle Fouquette, John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Jeff Rodine
	Library..............................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
	Math/Computer Science.....................	Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen
	Natural Sciences...............................	Ken Collins
	Part-Time Faculty..............................	Brenda Terry
	Physical Education............................	Jim Kiefer, Jim Snyder
	Social Sciences.................................	Calista Lee, Arienne Turner
	Student Services................................
	Technology/Engineering......................	Dennis Howey, Kevin Sampson
	At-large.............................................	Pamela Lewin, Adela Lopez, Sally Moore, Tomono Taguchi, Marcus Wilson
	Associated Students..........................	Araz Pourmorad
	President..........................................	Rolando Sanabria
	President-elect..................................	Joumana McGowan
	Secretary..........................................	Jane Troop
	Treasurer...........................................	Behnoosh Armani
	At-large, Curriculum Chair...................	Doug Eisner
Guests: Mark Greenhalgh, Kathleen Hodge, Liz Kiszely, Paul McKinley, Cindy Zarske
Absent
	Academic Services............................	Doris Wright
	At-large.............................................	Paul Farnham, Elise Donley, Ken Lewis
	Counseling........................................	Karyn Nguyen
	Humanities........................................	Renee Bangerter, Kathleen Engstrom, Miguel Powers
	Natural Sciences...............................	Brad Dawson, Jeff Feaster
	Part-Time..........................................	Jim Book
	Social Sciences.................................	Susan Grabiel

I. CALL TO ORDER

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

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

The Minutes of the May 5, 2005 meeting were approved with one change by consensus.

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

The agenda for this meeting was approved by consensus.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Jim Kiefer announced the passing of June Smith. Araz Pourmorad was recognized as a Man of Distinction. Michelle Fitzsimmons announced that some of the library furnishings will be sold.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

President Sanabria introduced the new Senators and presented departing Senators with certificates of appreciation. He also recognized the Senate Exec.

Rolando reviewed his term in office and the accomplishments of the Senate. These included wider participation in college level decision making as well as presenting and championing new Board Policies. These include the Program Discontinuance and Academic Freedom policies, which, in large part, came out of concerns expressed by the Fullerton College Senate.

Dr. Hodge was recognized and asked to give the traditional College President’s end-of-year Senate address. She expressed her appreciation for the work the Senate has done this year under the leadership of Rolando. She indicated that, in her opinion, we have a much stronger institution because of the Faculty Senate. She talked about the fact that the level of institutional dialog has been greatly enhanced during Rolando’s term as Senate President and that she feels there is a new level of respect and enhanced communication among the various college groups. Dr. Hodge also congratulated Rolando and the Senate leadership for being vigorous advocates for the college in meetings with the District. She expressed confidence that the Senate will remain an effective institution and looks forward to working with the Senate next year.

Rolando thanked Lis Leyson for her many years of service to Fullerton College and her dedication to the students and faculty of this institution.

Doug Eisner has been elected Student Learning Outcomes Trainer, effective July 1.

DPC—The Unlawful Discrimination and Academic Freedom policies were discussed, but revised versions were not presented to the faculty. The Chancellor indicated that he would bring in revisions to the Unlawful Discrimination policy that addressed faculty concerns. These concerns were primarily related to the issue of notification. As currently written, the policy does not require the District to 1) notify a faculty member if he or she is being investigated for unlawful discrimination, 2) notify the faculty member of the outcome, or 3) notify the faculty member if the investigation is being extended. Hopefully, the Chancellor will bring in a revised policy at the June 20 DPC meeting.

A Senator raised the question as to whether the Chancellor has, to date, put in writing the intention of the District to modify these notification parts of the policy. The answer was that there was only a verbal indication that these would be changed, but no written notification. An opinion was then expressed about the veracity of verbal agreements.

PCC – The current discussion at PCC concerns the reorganization of the college. Several proposed reorganization plans (organization charts) were distributed to the Senate. With Fullerton College acquiring a new Vice President of Student Services, the current placement of administrative areas in the campus organizational structure must be reexamined. The goal is to complete the organizational change by July 1. This will likely go to the Board of Trustees as an information item sometime in September or October.

Several Senators questioned the timing of this reorganization. It was felt that since the Senate does not meet during the summer, faculty on campus would not have input to the final reorganization. Dr. Hodge indicated that the reorganization is being implemented effective July 1, 2005 in order to be in place prior to or concurrent with the arrival of a new Vice President of Student Services. It was thought that the particular skills of the new VP should be matched to the new organizational structure. In addition, most of the organizational structure will fit a natural division among the various areas on campus. For example, the Vice President of Academic Affairs would be responsible for the various divisions on campus, while the Vice President of Student Services would be responsible for Counseling and other areas that are not directly classroom related. It is only the hard-to-place areas, such as Academic Computing, that will be most affected by the new organizational plan.

Other Senators pointed out that faculty should only be concerned with campus issues that overlap with instruction. Most of these areas are clearly defined and can easily fit into a new organizational structure. It was the sense of the Senate that Dr. Hodge proceed with the reorganization and that she notify the Senate next semester.

In PCC, Staff Development was funded at $75,000. The motion for this funding was made by a Senate representative on PCC.

The structure of PCC was again discussed at the last PCC meeting. All the represented groups, except faculty, felt it was appropriate for the college President to chair this committee.

A question was raised about the Instructional Dynamic Fund (previous voted on by PCC). The question concerned the procedures for requesting allocations from this fund and the criteria to be followed by PCC in making such allocations. Dr. Hodge indicated that this information would be distributed to the Faculty.

An update from the Bond Oversight Committee as presented. The Classroom/Office Building is at the 50 percent mark in terms of architectural drawings. Current issues include what to relocate to the Berkeley site (the old District headquarters), issues with the Campus Image Plan, and the Physical Education Project. It was announced that the P.E. Project plans had been sent to the State Architect for approval. After the project (which is a combination of two old projects) is approved, it will be re-bid. It was also announced that the projected costs for the Classroom/Office Building are almost at what was initially allocated for this project (about $20 million).

Treasurer’s Report

No report.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

Doug Eisner announced that the District has purchased Curricunet, and it will begin to be implemented in the summer. He is hoping to do a test run in the spring with the Math Division Six-year Review. Senators should expect to receive notices for training. It is likely that this package will be ready for use by the Fall semester. A question was raised about the source of money for this package. It was reported that funds were contributed by both campuses, and that a good price for this software has been negotiated with the assistance of District IS.

A question was raised about the status of SCE curriculum, since such courses must now be approved by this institution. A Senator expressed concern about SCE courses that substantially overlap college level courses. It was pointed out that when a vote is taken on these courses at DCCC, Cypress College normally supports SCE because many Cypress College courses have dual listing with SCE courses. The Fullerton College curriculum representative indicated that he would express the concerns of Fullerton College faculty at the District meeting.

VII. ELECTIONS

M/S/P (McGowan/Courchaine) to confirm that Doug Eisner was nominated and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the At-large member of the Senate Exec.

In response to a question about reporting the number of votes received by Senate candidates for office and committee membership, the Election Chairperson explained that it is a past practice to have the elections Committee count votes and merely name the winners rather than reveal how many votes each person received. The ballots and spreadsheets are always available for inspection, but it was the previous decision of the Senate that reporting vote counts is not in the spirit of collegiality.

M/S/P (Wilson/McGowan) To continue the practice of having the ballots counted and not publicize the count number of the elections and to ensure that the ballots are kept for one year and available for inspection during that year.

Elections were held for the Educational Technology Committee (four faculty), Staff Development Committee (three faculty), and the Study Abroad Committee (six faculty).

The election results were as follows:

Educational Technology Committee for 2005-2007

Callista Lee

Sean Chamberlin

Jay Goldstein

Diana Kyle

Staff Development Committee for 2005-2007 and 2005-2006

Cindy Zarske (05-06)

Karyn Nguyen (05-07)

Cathryn O'Donnell (05-07)

Study Abroad Committee for 2005-2007

Anita Varela

Marcus Wilson

Patricia Thomas

John Walker

Wei Ping Kong

Nancy Bjorkland

VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

None.

IX. OLD BUSINESS

The Senate will revisit the college planning agenda in the fall. The outgoing Senate President will give the action report grid to the incoming Senate President.

X. NEW BUSINESS

Log-On Committee—An ad-hoc committee was recently formed to deal with the log-on procedures in the new LLRC. The issue was how to handle anonymous users. The current Library procedure allows anonymous Internet access. Academic Computing wants to remove all anonymous access and force all uses to get and use a campus account. This proposed procedure is opposed by Library staff.

The workgroup was divided about the proposed change to existing procedures. This question was raised in the ACT advisory committee and, like the ad-hoc committee, the ACT committee was divided. Dr. Hodge indicated that she will maintain the current Library procedure until a new procedure can be agreed upon by all parties.

In a related issue, it was announced that ACT is refusing to enable laptop/wireless ports in the new Library until a Laptop Usage Policy has been developed. It was pointed out that such a policy is not currently in effect and that the development of such a policy must include faculty input.

Various Senators expressed concern about ACT apparently creating and implementing “policies” that are not found in the official Board Policy documents. Using the justification that ACT is only “interpreting” Board Policy was not felt to be an adequate or even sensible answer to faculty concerns.

The issue of new non-faculty positions was raised. A ranked list of new classified positions was recently presented to PCC. This list was developed by the Deans Council. These positions will be funded by the Fullerton College share of the million dollars of new on-going money allocated by the District. For Fullerton, this comes to about $400,000. Dr. Hodge ranked seven positions from the Dean’s list as the most critical. These are maintenance staff positions (4) that will be used to support the new LLRC as well as administrative positions that will support the new Vice President of Student Services, the Master Calendar, and Curriculum. Senators raised questions about the procedures in PCC for allocating new positions. Several Senators had concerns about the lack of faculty participation in this decision-making process. Other Senators pointed out that these are non-academic positions and that the money has already been allocated by the District; therefore, faculty should have limited, if any, input to the allocation procedures. It was pointed out that faculty have recently been given an unprecedented role in the decision-making process for allocating new faculty positions on campus.

XI. LIAISON REPORTS

United Faculty

Dale Craig reported that the 6 percent retroactive pay will be in the June paycheck.

Associated Students

Araz Pourmorad announced that Alejandra Goodrich will serve as A.S. President next year. He presented a certificate of appreciation to Rolando and another to the Senate as a whole.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop, Secretary