Approved Minutes
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Present |
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Academic
Services.................................... |
Doris
Wright |
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Business.................................................. |
Jeff
Couchaine, Dale Craig |
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Counseling................................................ |
Karyn
Nguyen |
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Fine
Arts................................................... |
Bill
Hayner, Richard McMillan |
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Humanities................................................ |
Sharon
Portman, Miguel Powers |
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Library...................................................... |
Anita
Varela |
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Math/Computer
Science............................. |
Pete
Bouzar, Irene Jones |
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Natural
Sciences....................................... |
Jeff
Feaster |
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Part-Time
Faculty...................................... |
Jim Book,
Terry Gleason |
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Physical
Education.................................... |
Jim
Kiefer, Pete Snyder |
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Social
Sciences........................................ |
Patti
Green, Calista Lee, Diana Kyle |
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Student
Services....................................... |
Joe
Reyes, Jr. |
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Technology/Engineering............................. |
Dennis
Howey, Kevin Sampson |
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At-large..................................................... |
Paul
Farnham, Liz Kiszely, Adela Lopez, Tanomo
Taguchi, Nancy Woolridge |
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President.................................................. |
Rolando
Sanabria |
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Presidential
Assistant................................ |
Susan
Nack |
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Secretary.................................................. |
Jane
Troop |
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Treasurer.................................................. |
Joumana
McGowan |
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Associated
Students.................................. |
Andrew
Jun, Michael Beemer |
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Guests |
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Michael Beemer, Joe Carrithers, Mark
Greenhalgh, Liz Leyson, Mary Molina, Milton Randall, Cindy Zarske |
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Absent |
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Marcus
Wilson.......................................... |
At-large |
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Behnoosh
Armani...................................... |
Counseling |
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Doug
Eisner.............................................. |
Senate
Exec/Curriculum Chairman |
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Renee
Bangerter........................................ |
Humanities |
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Ken
Collins, Brad Dawson, Karen Robinson. |
Natural
Sciences |
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Lina
Llerena.............................................. |
Humanities |
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I. The meeting was called to order at
II. M/S/U (Courchaine/McGowan) to approve
the Minutes of
III. The agenda
for the present meeting was approved by consensus.
IV. PUBLIC COMMENT
MECHA will be distributing food baskets in approximately a month.
V. EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s
Report
President Sanabria reported that several board policies were
pulled for review. Among them are
policies on unlawful discrimination, intellectual property and copyright, and
work place violence. Both the Board
Policies and Unlawful Procedures Work Groups will be giving us updates.
Functions of DPC have been revisited. DPC is the District equivalent of PCC. Rolando went over the PCC discussion draft
showing the Enrollment Management and
Faculty need to be involved in how decisions are made
relative to the budget. A Budget Development Committee was proposed. The people on the committee would be trained
on the budget. Discussion ensued relative to advocating for this. We will still work toward a consensus mode in
PCC. The Senate will receive more
information on this.
A question was raised about the program review process and
why it is being done by a committee (PCC) that is not exclusively academic. This
issue will be raised by the Senate Executive Committee.
It was noted that the Chairperson of the Accreditation Committee
should have been appointed by the Senate, but this was not done. This issue
will also be brought up by the Senate Executive Committee. It is felt that this was the responsibility of
the Senate.
It was announced at the District Board meeting that
continuing costs of retiree benefits may pose a severe financial burden on the
North Orange County Community College District. The life-time retiree medical benefit
is one of its major costs, and it was suggested at the District Board meeting
that such a benefit might not be made available to new employees. It was also announced at the District Board
meeting that reserves would be used to cover midyear budget cuts.
An independent auditor from the statewide Senate office will
review the District budget and present the results and recommendations to
faculty at the January joint Senates and UF meeting if he responds a month
before the meeting.
The District is currently in violation of the state law
mandating 75 percent of the classes be taught by full-time instructors. The
District has petitioned the State for a waiver.
The Program Discontinuance Workgroup consists of Jeff
Courchaine, Susan Nack, Joumana McGowan,
The work group meetings are open to anyone and are primarily
scheduled on Tuesday afternoons. The meeting dates will be given to the Senate President.
The work group will not deal with Student Services programs but it will deal
with Counseling since it includes a teaching element. It was stated that any
process developed by this work group will likely require substantial time to
implement, perhaps up to three years. It was stated that comments by members of
the Administration indicated that they want the program discontinuance process
to be developed so that it can be used to evaluate programs in a few months.
The Senate discussed the program discontinuance process. It
was pointed out that, despite public statements by the North Orange County
Community College District Board of Trustees that budget cuts would be done
away from the classroom,
It was also stated that a discontinuance process for
non-academic Student Services programs should also be developed. United Faculty
would like to offer its assistance to this Work Group Discontinuance Committee.
Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer Joumana McGowan thanked those responsible for
bringing snacks.
VI. CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE
No Report
VII. ELECTIONS
The following individuals will serve in the various
positions listed below:
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Cheryl Duhme |
Curriculum
Representative for Math/Computer Science |
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Anita
Varela |
Curriculum
Representative for the Library |
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Heidi Guss |
Matriculation
Committee, English |
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Angela
Henderson |
Matriculation
Committee, |
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Debby
McQueen |
Matriculation
Committee, Math/CS |
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Anita
Varela |
Matriculation
Committee, At-large |
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Kathy
Johnson |
Matriculation
Committee, ESL |
VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
None.
IX. OLD BUSINESS
A request for candidates for the Staff Development Coordinator
position was made to the general faculty, but no one responded. It was pointed
out that having the Senate elect the Coordinator is not according to any
established guidelines. It was stated that the position should be advertised
again to the general faculty.
Adela Lopez and Diana Kyle were elected to the Staff
Development Coordinator Hiring Committee.
M/S/U (Craig/McGowan) to send these names forward as serving
on the hiring committee
X.
NEW BUSINESS
The Student Access and Success Committee presented a report
to the Senate. The committee members reported that they investigated student
learning outcomes (slos) and the various ways of
defining and measuring them at schools using.
Some useful information was collected, but the committee did not arrive
at any definitive conclusion. The committee members indicated that they felt
the work had been completed and that the committee should be sunset. The
committee made a general recommendation that slos be
developed in a bottom-up process that starts at the Instructor and Department
levels. The Student Access and Success Committee will report to PCC.
Accreditation
The members of the Accreditation Team engaged in a dialog
with the Senate members and asked a series of questions. The Accreditation
Chairperson reminded the Senate members of the mission statement (“We support
Teaching and Learning”) in case members of the visiting accreditation team
asks.
The Accreditation Committee asked Senate members questions
related to the Core Values adopted by the Campus and the resulting dialog was
very helpful.
XI. LIAISON REPORTS
Associated Students
No report.
United Faculty
Report
October 23 at
No report.
The meeting
adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
/s/
Jane Troop
Senate
Secretary