Fullerton College

Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

November 4, 2004

Present
	Academic Services.............................	Gayle Cebrian
	Business...........................................	Jeff Courchaine, Dale Craig
	Counseling........................................	Karyn Nguyen
	Fine Arts...........................................	Bill Hayner
	Humanities........................................	Kathleen Engstrom, Miguel Powers, Jeff Rodine
	Library...............................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
	Math/Computer Science.....................	Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen
	Natural Sciences................................	Ken Collins, Jeff Feaster, Karen Robinson
	Part-Time Faculty...............................	Brenda Terry
	Physical Education............................	Pamela Lewin
	Social Sciences.................................	Callista Lee, Arienne Turner
	Student Services................................
	Technology/Engineering......................	Dennis Howey, Kevin Sampson
	At-large.............................................	Elise Donley, Tanomo 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: Susan Clifford, Mark Greenhalgh, Victoria Lugo, Andrea Sibley-Smith
Absent
	Academic Services.............................	Doris Wright
	At-large.............................................	Paul Farnham, Ken Lewis, Adela Lopez
	Humanities........................................	Renee Bangerter, John Ison
	Natural Sciences................................	Brad Dawson
	Part-Time..........................................	Jim Book
	Physical Education............................	Jim Kiefer
	Physical Education............................	Pete Snyder
	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 for the October 21, 2004 Meeting

The Minutes of the October 21, 2004 meeting were approved by consensus.

III. Approval of Agenda

The agenda for this meeting was approved by consensus.

IV. Public Comments

The bond oversight report has been posted on the Senate Web site, and Senators were encouraged to read it. It was also mentioned that the District Vice Chancellor of Finance has resigned.

Faculty were informed that Academic Computing has installed software which allows ACT personnel to directly access the contents of student and faculty computer in real-time. This means that ACT can watch as information is being entered on the screen.

V. Executive Committee Reports

President’s Report

PCC— The last meeting was primarily an informational meeting. The Student Equity Plan was approved, and the President indicated that the Senate should take the lead in implementing some of those activities in the student equity plan.

Joint Senate and Union Meeting—Hold the date of Thursday, January 13, 2005, at the Anaheim Campus for this meeting. The meeting time will be from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

E-mails to Senators can also be sent to people who are not Senators. The state-wide Senate office recommends that the non-Senators contact their representatives on the Senate for desired e-mails.

The Senators were urged to read the Board of Trustees minutes.

DPC—The Simpson model was reviewed at the last DPC meeting. Rolando announced that he will e-mail the model to Senators so everyone will understand what the Simpson model is and how it works. Growth money is not distributed to the colleges until the end of July, and Dr. Hodge (as well as many others) feels that this money should be distributed on July 1.

Treasurer’s Report

No report

VI. Curriculum Committee Report

Doug Eisner reported that the committee is moving ahead and is almost finished with new and revised curriculum. At the State Academic Senate, the vote on requiring that students complete college level English and Math courses to get an AA degree was postponed. Speculation was that the State Academic Senate fears that it will not pass. Therefore, there is no hurry for a vote. A paper on this subject is posted on the State Academic Senate Web site.

The State Academic Senate recommends that student learning outcomes not be integrated into the regular curriculum. It was also reported that the State Senate is reviewing courses structured in career ladders so that completion of certificates leads to a degree. The issue was raised about having separate guidelines for these courses.

It was also announced that there is a program at the Cal State system that would allow students to defer some general education courses until after they transfer so that they can take more sciences before they transfer.

California State University, Dominguez Hills, signed an agreement with Coastline College for Coastline to offer an online Bachelor’s degree. The degree would be from CSUDH, but the courses and course management would be through Coastline. This happens in other states (those with rural populations) but is not commonly done in California. The Community College Chancellor’s Office is opposed to this because it is not part of the Community College mission.

VII. Elections

The following are the results of the two elections held in the Senate:

Evaluation Committee for Jeff Horsley .............................................. Phil Mayfield

Curriculum Chairperson................................................................... Doug Eisner

Miguel Powers spoke on behalf of Phil Mayfield.

VIII. Unfinished Business

Bond Projects Update

Members of the Senate raised more questions about the Bond Report and the implications for the District. Various Senators expressed concern that the management structures leading to the bond failures are still in place at the District and could lead to more problems. The main issues raised by members of the Senate in the discussion over the Bond Report were:

· Why was there not better oversight on the Program Management contracts and on the District bond projects?

· In light of the Bond Report suggestions of malfeasance, will there be a more comprehensive investigation into the problems raised by the Bond report? When will this investigation be started?

· When was the Chancellor aware of the problems with the Program Management contracts as drafted by the Vice Chancellor of Finance? (This is outlined in the Bond Report as Finding 4.2.2.2.)

· Because of the management problems highlighted in the Bond Report, are other District projects also in trouble? Will the Board conduct a review of other large ongoing projects, such as Banner, for similar management problems?

· Many Senators expressed regret that when the problems with the Bond become public knowledge it will likely make it difficult to ever pass another bond measure in this District. The long-term affect of these bond problems are likely to impact NOCCCD for years to come.

M/S/U (Wilson/Craig) that the Faculty Senate President address the Board of Trustees at its next meeting to share the concerns of the Faculty Senate that the apparent mismanagement of bond funds has a direct, adverse affect on the academic programs of the college. We request that the Board of Trustees inform us of the extent of the investigation and their findings as to the mismanagement. We also request that the Board of Trustees share their proposal to correct and remedy the problem to protect the educational programs and services at Fullerton College. This includes protection of college funds so that the effect on the academic programs will be minimized.

Program Discontinuance Policy Update

The current status of the development of a Program Discontinuance process was presented. Meetings have been held among members of the Senates at Cypress, Fullerton, and SCE. Most of the general details have been agreed upon. The general outline of this process is:

1. The request to discontinue a program is presented to a committee that will likely include members of various groups on campus. This committee will decide if the request has merit. If it does, it moves to the next stage.

2. A plan to revive the program is developed which includes monitoring the program’s enrollment, marketing, and curriculum changes. This stage will take a minimum of three years.

The main point of contention is with the first stage. Both Cypress and SCE feel that administration should have the primary voice in whether the process proceeds to the second stage. Fullerton feels that since program discontinuance falls under participatory governance, it should require mutual consent between faculty and administration.

The President of the SCE Senate attended the meeting and presented arguments for allowing the Administration to proceed to the second stage without mutual consent of faculty. The argument was that the financial impact of program discontinuance would require administrative concurrence in any event and would likely be the caveat under the AB 1725 that can be used to justify proceeding without faculty consent. In addition, it may require more information, which will be developed at stage two, to evaluate whether a program should be maintained or discontinued. If stage two is never reached, this information will not be available.

It was pointed out by Senate members that there should be a way to fast-track program discontinuance in those cases where the program is clearly not working (such as no faculty or students are in the program). The currently proposed process would allow this to happen.

It was the sense of the Senate that at Fullerton College, the Curriculum Committee is the appropriate body to make the initial determination of whether a program should be proposed for discontinuance.

IX. Old Business

None.

X. New Business

Restructuring of PCC

It was announced that at the next Senate meeting the first item on the agenda will be a discussion of the proposals for restructuring PCC.

Room/Office Allocation

This will be on the agenda for the next Senate meeting.

ACT and Banner

This will be on the agenda for the next Senate meeting.

XI. Liaison Reports

Associated Students

Araz Pourmorad announced that a doctor would be on campus to talk about West Nile Virus. Homecoming will be next week.

United Faculty

The new grievance representative will be Steve Credidio.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

The meeting was adjourned at 5 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop, Secretary