Faculty Senate
Approved Minutes
November 18, 2004
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Present |
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Academic Services............................. |
Doris Wright |
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Business........................................... |
Jeff Courchaine, Dale Craig |
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Counseling........................................ |
Karyn Nguyen |
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Fine Arts........................................... |
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Humanities........................................ |
Renee Bangerter, Kathleen Engstrom, John Ison, 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................................ |
Ken Collins, Jeff Feaster, Karen
Robinson |
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Part-Time Faculty............................... |
Jim Book, Brenda Terry |
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Physical Education............................ |
Jim Kiefer, Pete Snyder |
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Social Sciences................................. |
Susan Grabiel, Callista Lee, Arienne Turner |
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Student Services................................ |
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Technology/Engineering...................... |
Dennis Howey, Kevin Sampson, |
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At-large............................................. |
Ken Lewis, Adela Lopez, Pamela Lewin, Tanomo
Taguchi, Marcus Wilson |
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Associated Students.......................... |
Araz Pourmorad |
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President........................................... |
Rolando Sanabria |
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President-elect................................... |
Joumana McGowan |
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Secretary.......................................... |
Jane Troop |
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Treasurer........................................... |
Behnoosh Armani |
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At-large, Curriculum Chair................... |
Doug Eisner |
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Guests: Vickie
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Absent |
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At-large............................................. |
Elise Donley, Paul Farnham |
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Fine Arts........................................... |
Bill Hayner |
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Natural Sciences................................ |
Brad Dawson |
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I. Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at
II. Approval of Minutes for the
The Minutes of the
III. Approval of Agenda
The agenda for this meeting was approved by consensus.
IV. Public Comments
Dennis Howey announced that tomorrow approximately 200 high
school students will be on campus from
Callista Lee announced that the Psychology Club is doing a
toy drive until next Tuesday. All of the donations will be taken to the local
Fire Department for distribution. Toys
may be taken to Callista’s office.
V. Executive Committee Reports
President’s Report
Rolando Sanabria reported that the classroom/office building
plans will be going to the state office of final approval. There was a question
about this because of a report that the Classroom/Office building plans were not
correctly submitted to the State Architect’s office. A question was raised from
a senator about who is responsible for submitting this paperwork in a timely
manner and if the person responsible had correctly submitted such paperwork on
previous projects, prior to the arrival of Dr. Hodge. Rolando indicated that
Dr. Hodge takes responsibility for this paperwork being submitted.
He reported that he read the motion (Wilson/Craig) to the
Board of Trustees that he was requested to read as a result of a prior senate
motion. Rolando indicated that he added a request that the Board respond to his
request in writing. The Board will have a response by next Tuesday and it will
be sent out to the Senators.
The Board approved the Vice President of Instruction and Vice President of
Student Services positions for
PCC—At PCC Dr. Hodge presented her idea about hiring a new Vice President
of Student Services. She felt that we needed to restructure the college
somewhat so that it makes sense to her. Rolando felt that such restructuring
should also make sense to the entire campus community and should be workable
after Dr. Hodge is no longer President. A campus wide committee will meet to
discuss the planned restructuring and what areas will be assigned to the new
Vice President of Student Services. Everything that arises from this committee
will be reported to the Senate.
Rolando mentioned that the President will create a committee
to deal with Faculty parking concerns for the Spring
semester.
The BDC (Budget Development Committee) has met several times
this semester to address developing and proposing a campus budget. The members have reviewed several other
college budget models and are currently concentrating on a handful that they
believe may provide concepts that might work at
The BDC’s first priority is creating a new model for the
college ongoing operational allocation. The
committee intends to include General Fund, Partnership for Excellence, and
Campus Services operational allocations.
The BDC believes so far that the type of model that would work best is
an historical model with a dynamic and discretionary adjustment component. All allocations would be reduced by “x”
percent (to be determined) to a point that would be the new “base budget” for
all areas. This will create a new pool
of ongoing resources that can be used to reallocate to the highest
priorities. This method would tie
budgeting to planning without the cumbersome details of a zero-based budget
model.
This model is still in the early stages, and we are awaiting
direction from Dr. Hodge as to how we will proceed.
DPC—Chapter V Board Policy is being reviewed and Rolando
urged everyone to review it. There will
be at least three more readings. He would like everyone to read the NOCCCD
budget allocation model and send questions and concerns to him. The State
Chancellors Office is considering changing the allocation method. No one knows what is going on. That model
helps large, multi-college districts but does not help those with continuing
education programs.
Kevin Sampson reported that they are very close to agreement
on academic freedom.
Treasurer’s Report
No report.
VI. Curriculum Committee Report
VII.
Elections
The following are the results of the
two elections held in the Senate:
Curriculum Division Representative (Student Services)........................ Susan Vincent
Curriculum Division Representative (Natural
Science)......................... Sean
Chamberlin
Curriculum Division Representative (Technology)................................ Kevin
Sampson
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Social Science)...................
Education Program Advisory Committee (Library)............................... Anita
Varela
Education Program Advisory Committee (Technology)........................ Kevin Sampson
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Natural Science)................. Annie
Bianchino
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Social Science)................... Jodi
Balma
Education Program Advisory Committee (Counseling)........................ Elias Dominguez
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Counseling)........................ Heather
Halverson
Education Program Advisory Committee (Humanities)........................ Angela Hendersen
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Student Services)................ Paul
McKinley
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Humanities)........................ Nadine
Arndt
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Humanities)........................ Rene
Bangerter
Education Program Advisory Committee
(Social Sciences)................. Adela
Lopez
VIII.
Unfinished Business
M/S/P
(Wilson/McGowan) that the Senate direct Rolando
Sanabria to accept the Accreditation Report and sign it.
The Senate should also acknowledge that the report does not
clarify relative terms.
IX. Old Business
Restructuring PCC
The Senate discussed the issues related to restructuring
PCC. Senate members broke-up into small groups and discussed four questions
about the role of PCC, how PCC operates, and the Faculty representation on PCC.
After the group discussions, the full Senate met and consolidated these issues.
- The sense of the Senate was:
PCC will be an Advisory body and needs to provide the President with a single recommendation, with the understanding that the President has the right of veto.
- Faculty representation on PCC
needs to be equal to that of Management.
- There will not be any term
limits imposed on Faculty representatives to PCC, but these will be
selected by the Faculty Senate.
- There will be no more than one
representative from a single division at any one time (excluding the
Senate President).
X.
New Business
Room/Office Allocation
The Dean’s Council is working on
possible solutions now.
ACT and Banner
The issue of Faculty input to
computer related policies and procedures on campus was
raised. The two main areas affecting Faculty and Instruction are Banner and
Academic Computing Technology (ACT). The faculty has limited representation on
the Banner Steering Committee and no input to ACT policies and procedures.
M/S/U (Craig/Wilson) that the Senate
Exec. request Dr. Hodge establish an ACT Oversight committee
that will include Faculty and that will oversee ACT policies and procedures.
XI. Liaison Reports
Associated Students
Araz Pourmorad announced that he should have the results of
the smoking on campus survey by next week.
A.S. will be giving out food during the holidays. He expressed the hope that more students
would be put on committees. Adela Lopez
thanked Associated Students for its support for the Thanksgiving food
drive. She mentioned that checks can be
made out to MECHA Thanksgiving Food Drive.
United Faculty
Negotiations for salary are continuing, and faculty will
probably be getting something in the mail about negotiations. We have been falling in salary comparability,
and it is felt that the Board of Trustees is interested in comparability.
By negotiated settlement, we should be getting sick time
statements from the District, but currently do not receive such statements. The
District is implementing a system whereby Faculty can log into their Banner accounts
and see their current sick-time.
Adjunct Faculty United
No report.
The meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
/s/
Jane Troop,
Secretary