Approved Minutes
November
16, 2006
|
Present |
|
|
|
|
Business......................................... |
Nancy Woolridge |
|
|
Counseling...................................... |
Elias Dominguez, Flor Huerta |
|
|
Fine Arts......................................... |
Michelle Coletta, Chuck Ketter |
|
|
Humanities...................................... |
Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Danielle Fouquette |
|
|
Library............................................. |
Anita Varela |
|
|
Math/Computer Science................... |
Robert Diaz, Greg Nguyen |
|
|
Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro |
|
|
Part-Time Faculty............................. |
Jim Book |
|
|
Physical Education.......................... |
Jim Kiefer, Alicia Okouchi-Guy |
|
|
Social Sciences............................... |
Chris Lamm, Arrienne Turner |
|
|
Student Services.............................. |
Paul McKinley |
|
|
Technology/Engineering.................... |
Rosa Molina |
|
|
At-large........................................... |
Gayle Cebrian, Deborah McQueen, Mike Moore |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Associated Students........................ |
Jonathan Meyer |
|
|
|
|
|
|
President......................................... |
Joumana McGowan |
|
|
President-elect................................. |
Ken Collins |
|
|
Secretary........................................ |
Jane Troop |
|
|
Treasurer......................................... |
Callista Lee |
|
|
At-large, Curriculum Chair................. |
Doug Eisner |
|
|
|
|
|
Guests |
||
|
|
|
|
|
Absent |
|
|
|
|
At-large........................................... |
Marcus Wilson |
|
|
Business |
Steve Dayton |
|
|
Humanities...................................... |
Robert Lundergan, Jeff Rodine |
|
|
Social Sciences............................... |
Diana Kyle |
|
|
Technology/Engineering.................... |
Dennis Howey |
I.
CALL TO
ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President McGowan.
II.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (Book/Sapiro)
to approve the Minutes of the November 2, 2006 meeting.
III.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
M/S/U (McKinley/Book)
to approve the agenda for this meeting.
IV.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Senator Fouquette circulated a
Senator McKinley announced that video captioning is now available at the
price of $300 per tape. DSP&S will match funds put up by the divisions to
help cover the captioning cost.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
Senator Sally Moore passed away in her sleep last Friday. To honor Sally’s request, President McGowan
asked that we not replace Senator Moore during this academic year. The Senate wished to honor her request.
The Equivalency Policy was passed in DPC and will be going to the Board
of Trustees for approval. President McGowan expressed appreciation for various
senators in developing and supporting this new policy.
In PAC, the Senate
informed the Deans that it does not support the growth beyond extended day
allocation model. The Senate will develop a proposed allocation model and bring
this back to
Jonathan Morrell announced
that interviews for an interim Dean of Counseling are being held this week and
that notice of the permanent position is being advertised now.
Treasurer’s
Report
Treasurer Lee
thanked those who provided snacks for this meeting.
VI. CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE REPORT
Dr.
Eisner reported that Dr. Hodge has not signed many physical education classes
because of the class size issue. The Curriculum
Committee is awaiting her response at its next meeting. If Dr. Hodge does not
sign the classes, they will still be sent forward to the DCCC.
VII. ELECTIONS
A fifth VPI Hiring Committee will be formed. It was the sense of the Senate to keep Ken
Collins and Bruce Hanson on the committee and replace Marcus Wilson who will be
in
It was also announced that faculty will be asked to serve on the
upcoming EPAC Committee, and notices will be going out soon.
Following are the results of the elections
held in the Senate today:
Joumana McGowan.......................................................................... Study
Abroad Committee
Levonne Nelson Study Abroad Committee
Violette Vornicel-Guthmann............................................................... Study
Abroad Committee
Paul St. John ............................................................................... Study
Abroad Committee
Rosa Molina ............................................................................... Study
Abroad Committee
Jake Sapiro ............................................................................ Bond
Oversight Committee
Cathy Collopy O’Donnell.............................................. Distance
Education Advisory Committee
The Senate unanimously confirmed the
election of the following:
Karyn Nguyen ............................................................ Matriculation
Officer Hiring Committee
Flor Aguilera-Huerta........................................................ Matriculation
Officer Hiring Committee
Steve Credidio ............................................................ Matriculation
Officer Hiring Committee
Irene Cohn ............................................................ Matriculation
Officer Hiring Committee
VIII. UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
None.
IX. OLD BUSINESS
AP
3720
A District-level committee will be formed with two members each from the
three Senates, a member from United Faculty, the District IS Director, the Vice
Chancellor of Human Resources, and the Cypress College IS Director. This
committee would work to revise the AP 3720 policy. Since this will be one of
the few times faculty participates at this level, initially the Senate
presidents will attend.
President McGowan asked the Senate if it would like to appoint Richard
Smead as the other
Growth beyond Extended Day Model
The proposed model for distributing the growth beyond extended day did
not account for planning and was based only on past growth. It was felt by the
representatives on the Budget Development Committee that these growth funds
should be added to the request for additional ongoing funds. This ongoing fund
will be given to areas based on proposals rather than just growth percentages.
The questions concerned whether this would penalize high growth
divisions and whether the allocation from the ongoing fund would be fair.
M/S/P (Fouquette/Kiefer) Accept the plan proposed by the
Budget Development Committee for allocating the $103,000 growth beyond extended
day funds.
Student Services
Advisory Committee
Senator Dominguez
mentioned that his department was confused about the Student Access and Success
Committee from prior years. They will pursue this issue after a permanent Dean
of Counseling is hired. Two faculty
members will participate in Jonathan Morrell’s workgroup.
Online A.A.
Degree
Callista Lee
requested that Senators ask their divisions about advertising and offering an
online A.A. degree. The committee will move forward after hearing from faculty.
Curriculum Committee Chairman Eisner suggested that we make sure there are
online courses in every general education area and, if the courses are missing,
then the relevant divisions should be approached to offer such required courses
online.
There would be a
problem with the labs in the sciences area, as well as activity classes in
Physical Education. In addition, the
number of online courses has diminished somewhat. The issue of online courses with
prerequisites that are not offered online must also be addressed.
Distance Education
Advisory Committee
PAC would like to
know if the Distance Education Advisory Committee wants to centralize or
decentralize the Distance Learning Program on our campus. The Senate felt that more information from Dr.
Hodge is necessary to gauge the level of support that the college president is
willing to give. President McGowan will ask Dr. Hodge for her vision of the
Distance Education program.
X. NEW
BUSINESS
Emilio
Perez presented the SEMS program. This program encourages faculty to be trained
in emergency procedures so that, in the event of a disaster, the District will
be paid by the Federal Government.
XI. LIAISON
REPORTS
Associated Students
The Student Services Committee is looking into setting up an
internship program in community services.
United Faculty
Dale Craig, President of United Faculty, delivered the UF report. He
indicated that the United Faculty salary request has been presented to the
District, and the District has responded.
The response from the District was sent out to faculty for input prior
to the meeting of the UF Board to formally consider the salary response. Mr. Craig indicated that he and other UF Board
members he has contacted have received numerous responses from faculty, and
such responses are almost 100% in favor of rejecting the District’s response.
The main concern expressed by faculty was the fact that the District has
more than adequate funds to meet the UF salary request but, in light of its response,
is refusing to negotiate seriously.
There were several questions from Senators about how they can help
complete negotiations. Mr. Craig indicated that Faculty, through the shared
governance process, must be involved in many parts of how the district is run. If faculty refused to participate, then
decisions made by non-faculty cannot be considered legal.
The UF Board will formally consider this District salary response and
report back to the Senate and the Faculty. FC Faculty Senate indicated that it would be
willing to assist the UF in any capacity to help negotiations move forward
favorably for the faculty of the NOCCCD.
Adjunct Faculty United
No report.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Troop, Secretary