Approved Minutes
November
30, 2006
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Business......................................... |
Steve Dayton |
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Counseling...................................... |
Elias Dominguez, Flor Huerta |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
Michelle Coletta, Chuck Ketter |
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Humanities...................................... |
Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Danielle Fouquette Robert Lundergan, Jeff Rodine |
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Library............................................. |
Anita Varela |
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Math/Computer Science................... |
Robert Diaz, Greg Nguyen |
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Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro |
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Part-Time Faculty............................. |
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Physical Education.......................... |
Jim Kiefer, Alicia Okouchi-Guy |
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Social Sciences............................... |
Chris Lamm, Arrienne Turner |
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Student Services.............................. |
Paul McKinley |
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Technology/Engineering.................... |
Rosa Molina, Dennis Howey |
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At-large........................................... |
Deborah McQueen, Mike Moore, Marcus Wilson |
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Associated Students........................ |
Jonathan Meyer |
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President......................................... |
Joumana McGowan |
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President-elect................................. |
Ken Collins |
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Secretary........................................ |
Jane Troop |
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Treasurer......................................... |
Callista Lee |
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At-large, Curriculum Chair................. |
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Guests
Peter Fong, Ken Meehan |
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Absent |
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At-large........................................... |
Gayle Cebrian |
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Business |
Nancy Woolridge |
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Part-Time........................................ |
Jim Book |
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Senate Exec.................................... |
Doug Eisner |
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Social Sciences............................... |
Diana Kyle |
I.
CALL TO
ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 3:03 p.m. by President McGowan.
II.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (McQueen/Sapiro)
to approve the Minutes of the November 16, 2006 meeting.
III.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Lundergan/McQueen)
to approve the agenda for this meeting.
IV.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Danielle Fouquette announced that the Humanities Division’s Student
Learning Outcomes were completed. She
has them if anyone would like to see them.
Senator Fouquette asked for support for the licensing of the Turnitin
program. It is currently $12,000 per
year for a campus-wide license.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
Board of Trustees—Dr. Hodge presented the
DPC (District Planning Committee)—Campus-level planning was discussed at
this meeting. After the meeting, Dr.
Hunter met with the Senate Presidents about his slow feedback on academic
freedom and program discontinuance. He
will be giving us feedback on these matters by December 16.
PAC (President’s Advisory Committee)—Dr. Hodge mentioned that there is a
need for a Master Calendar Task Force.
It was in understood in the Senate that this Task Force would be asked
to evaluate the software used for calendaring in light of recent booking
conflicts.
Dr. McGowan noted
that efforts to market our classes this fall cost $50,000. Plans call for a marketing effort for the
spring semester that will cost this much as well. The faculty was satisfied with the current
marketing efforts.
Requests for ongoing
funds will be turned in early in the spring semester. Evaluations will be later on in spring.
Treasurer’s
Report
Treasurer Lee
thanked those who provided snacks for this meeting and reported that she can’t
spend any money because she doesn’t have a Banner number.
VI. CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE REPORT
Regarding
multiple AA degrees, Dr. Dayton reported that a draft containing changes to the
Graduation Requirements section of the Catalog was approved by a majority of
the Curriculum Committee.
M/S/P (Wilson/Varela) to pass
this draft of changes to the Catalog.
VII. ELECTIONS
Following are the results of the elections
held in the Senate today:
Adela Lopez ....................................................... Educational
Program Advisory Committee
Nadine Arndt ....................................................... Educational
Program Advisory Committee
Jennifer Combs ..................................................................... VP
Instruction Hiring Committee
Rosa Arceo ......................................................... Distance
Education Advisory Committee
The Senate unanimously confirmed the
election of the following:
Danielle Fouquette.......................................... Curriculum
Committee Rep., Humanities Division
VIII. UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
Distance Education Advisory Committee—The Committee is investigating a name for
an online AA degree other than “online degree.”
The committee members would like to offer a wide variety of options to
prospective online students and have considered offering a pilot program in
business. There are, however, some
problems with the number of general education courses online. The feeling was that there isn’t much
motivation for faculty to offer these classes because of lack of training. Administration needs to support this
training. The committee is currently exploring what equals a quality experience
and addressing issues such as offering an entire degree online, “from A to Z.” Discussion ensued.
The issue of where
an online degree fits into strategic planning was explored. Distance learning would be part of growing,
and that is part of our plan. Dr.
McGowan explained that Dr. Hodge believes this is the purview of the faculty.
Her vision is that we put courses through the Curriculum Committee and take
training in Staff Development. She would
like faculty to take the lead in this.
Callista Lee stated
that someone needs to take care of the technology and answer faculty and
student questions. There must be some
centralized support by a full-time person.
On the other hand, the curriculum will go through the Curriculum
Committee, and this is faculty driven.
Dr. McGowan
recommended that the Distance Education Advisory Committee develop a plan to be
shared with the Faculty Senate in the early part of the spring semester.
Peter Fong
mentioned that Banner has many valuable features that are underused because
people are not aware of them.
IX. OLD BUSINESS
None.
X. NEW
BUSINESS
Dropping Students for Nonpayment in the
spring Semester—Peter Fong
informed the Senators that the dropping of students for nonpayment will not
affect faculty. They will still be able
to add students to their classes by issuing add authorization numbers.
AP/BP—At DPC copies of Chapter 7 policies were distributed to all the DPC
members. The changes to the policies were not marked on the copies, which was
different from the previous practice of identifying changes to policies. The
Senate Presidents and the United Faculty representatives asked why were the
changes not identified in the new policy. They were told that they would not be
provided with the changes because no one on the Chancellor’s staff or Human
Resources has a list of changes. The Senate and United Faculty Presidents were
not satisfied with that response since it impacts the transparency that they’re
used to having with district managers. The presidents will split up the
policies among themselves to review them in detail prior to approving any
Chapter 7 policies.
Staff Parking—Dr. Portolan addressed
the Senate about the changing parking situation. Although there is no concrete plan yet, we
are losing about 200 parking spaces in Lot B, but compensatory spaces for staff
will be found in other lots. There is no
plan to designate spaces in the structure. The city of
Joint Senates/United Faculty Meeting—Dr. McGowan announced that the Joint
Senates/United Faculty Meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.,
Thursday, January 11, 2007, at the Anaheim Campus in the First Floor
Multi-Purpose Room. Those wishing to
attend should respond by January 3. Flex
credit is given for attendance. Some of
the topics are “How the Unfunded Retiree Benefits Liability Could Affect You?,”
“Do We Want a Compressed Calendar?,” “Part-Time Faculty Issues are Full-Time
Faculty Issues,” and “Hot Topics.”
Following
is a list of those to whom responses should be sent:
Fullerton College Joumana McGowan 714-992-7082 jmcgowan@fullcoll.edu
SCE Andrea
Sibley-Smith 714-815-3991 asibleysmith@sce.cc.ca.us
ADFAC Sam
Russo 714-526-5759 union@adfacunited.org
Instructional
Technology Services Committee—A new survey is going out to faculty to
determine what their expectations are of instructional technology. The deadline to return surveys is December
11.
XI. LIAISON
REPORTS
Associated Students
Jonathan Mayer mentioned that, to the detriment of A.S., the
Bookstore Advisory Committee no longer meets.
Dr. McGowan will look into the matter.
A.S. would like to see students receive academic credit for
participating in the Community Service Program. The structure of A.S. is being
examined in light of its changing leadership.
They would like to have a co-advisor who is familiar with shared
governance to ensure continuity from one year to the next.
United Faculty
The UF President
addressed the Senate and reported that the District has not addressed the
salary proposal presented by the United Faculty Board. The counter proposal by
the District is to increase the pay from COLA of 5.92% to 6%, which would
represent less than $10 a month for most faculty members. The way the Board of Trustees is treating
faculty is disturbing because it indicates that the Board of Trustees does not
value the contribution faculty make to the District and do not apparently
intend to work with faculty concerning the new budgets and ongoing money.
Adjunct Faculty United
No report.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:10 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Troop, Secretary