Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

October 19, 2006

Present
	Business.........................................	Steve Dayton, Nancy Woolridge
	Counseling......................................	Elias Dominguez, Flor Huerta
	Fine Arts.........................................	Michelle Coletta,
	Humanities......................................	Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Danielle Fouquette, Robert Lundergan
	Library.............................................	Anita Varela
	Math/Computer Science...................	Robert Diaz, Greg Nguyen
	Natural Sciences..............................	Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro
	Part-Time Faculty.............................
	Physical Education..........................	Alicia Okouchi-Guy
	Social Sciences...............................	Diana Kyle, Chris Lamm, Arrienne Turner
	Student Services..............................	Paul McKinley
	Technology/Engineering....................	Rosa Molina
	At-large...........................................	Mike Moore, Marcus Wilson

	Associated Students........................	Jonathan Meyer

	President.........................................	Joumana McGowan
	President-elect.................................	Ken Collins
	Secretary........................................	Jane Troop
	Treasurer.........................................	Callista Lee
	At-large, Curriculum Chair.................	Doug Eisner

Guests Lupe Casillas, Janine Cirrito, Irene Cohn, Brian Couron, Peter Fong, Heather Halverson, Jonathan Morrell, Queen Peterson, Janet Portolan, Sunshine Vidal

Absent
	At-large...........................................	Gayle Cebrian, Deborah McQueen , Sally Moore
	Fine Arts.........................................	Chuck Ketter
	Humanities......................................	Jeff Rodine
	Part-Time........................................	Jim Book
	Physical Education..........................	Jim Kiefer
	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 (Wilson/Lee) to approve the Minutes of the October 19, 2006 meeting.

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

M/S/U (Molina/Lee) to approve the agenda for this meeting.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Connie Lopez, of the Cosmetology Department, addressed the Senate on the negative impact that the compressed calendar would have on her department.

Danielle Fouquette announced that the license for the Turnitin program may not be renewed due to lack of use. She urged Senators to use the program as well as the Writing Center.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

Dr. McGowan reminded Senators to contact Campus Safety in cases of emergency. She also indicated that the Standardized Emergency Management procedure will be used on campus. This requires that a group of people go through training in this procedure. It was suggested that faculty participate in this training. The question was raised as to whether or not this was allowed through the employment contract and the state Education Code.

Dr. McGowan also mentioned that, at the last meeting of the PAC, the Institutionalization Committee draft (criteria and procedures for institutionalizing grant-funded programs) was approved. The Dean’s had some changes and, after they were made, the draft was approved.

Room 611 will become a lab in the spring 2007 semester. This room will serve as an open lab when it is not reserved by faculty for their classes. The software in 611 will be the same as is currently installed in Room 317. The procedure for reserving this room had not been finalized. Both 611 and 317 rooms will be under the control of the Business Division.

It was the sense of the Senate that individuals should not come to the Senate for support for dynamic fund applications.

The issue of new District Administrative Policies was discussed. The issue of the management hiring process was discussed. Section 4.1 of Administrative Policy 7120-4, having to do with the responsibilities of screening committee members for management employee hiring, was reviewed. It was the sense of the Senate to add back and amend section 4.1.1.2 to read Development or recommended desirable qualifications and job description.

Section 4.1.3 of the same Policy was also reviewed. It was the sense of the Senate to leave this section as is, reading as follows: A committee member who fails to participate in any aspect of the process may, at the discretion of the committee, be removed from the committee.

M/S/P (Sapiro/Dominguez) that a Section 4.4 be added that states any member who fails to attend a formal meeting of the hiring committee may be removed from the committee at the discretion of the committee members.

In Section 3.0, the policy is being changed to allow candidates from outside the District to apply an interim position.

M/S/U (Wilson/Sapiro) to reject the change of section 3.0 of AP 7120-5.

Treasurer’s Report

The Senate has not spent any money since the last meeting.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

The Curriculum Committee has passed a change to the college catalog regarding the awarding of degrees and other issues. This proposal was reviewed by the Dean of Admissions and Records. The input from the Dean was that:

The proposal is that students must achieve at least a letter grade of “C” in courses within the major. It was pointed out that this is higher than either University of California or California State University standards.

Under the multiple majors section, it was suggested this be changed to multiple AA degrees and the statement “received from other colleges” should indicate that these are accredited institutions.

It was also pointed out that these changes must align with what is done at Cypress College because these kinds of requirements must be the same for both colleges.

For these reasons, and because the Curriculum Chair is not present, the recommendations from the Curriculum Committee will be held until the next meeting.

It was reported that the Distance Learning committee was asked by the Curriculum Committee to address the issue of online class size. The question concerned making online classes the same size as in-class courses. This question is also being held.

VII. ELECTIONS

Following are the results of the elections held in the Senate today:

College Catalog Committee............................................... Karyn Nguyen Cecilia Meisenhelder

.............................................................................. Flor Huerta

Class Schedule Task Force.................................................. Mike Moore

............................................................................ Steve Dayton

........................................................................... Jan Chadwick

Hiring Committee-Interim Director of Academic

Support Programs and Services................................... Angela Henderson

.................................................................... Danielle Fouquette

VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

The purpose of the Distance Education Committee was read into the record by its new chairperson, Callista Lee.

The Distance Education Committee is a campus-level committee to provide advisement to the President’s Advisory Council to ensure a high quality Distance Education program. The Distance Education Committee coordinates the use of instructional technology and the delivery of instruction and student services at a distance; designs and develops training curriculum; and oversees the training of faculty in DL practices and methodologies. Among the issues the committee may address are course management systems, curriculum development, staff development, student services, counseling facilities, technology services, media production, and administration.

The Distance Learning Committee has changed its name to the Distance Education Advisory Committee.

M/S/P (Kyle/Varela) to approve the Distance Education Advisory Committee without recommending curriculum development.

IX. OLD BUSINESS

A meeting on the compressed calendar will be held November 7 in Room 415. It was requested that Senators report back concerning whether their divisions are in favor of the calendar. Not all divisions have had a meeting in order to present this issue. If faculty members have questions about the meeting on November 7, they should email the Senate President.

A draft of the college goals that are aligned with the District goals was distributed to the Senators.

M/S/P (Kyle/Varela) to approve the college goals that align our goals with those of the District.

X. NEW BUSINESS

Relative to the Faculty Allocation Committee, nine replacement positions are available. The Faculty Allocation Committee met on this issue and voted to endorse the Dean’s Council position to make the replacements with two suggestions. They are that (1) the Deans do not do any “swapping” agreements, and (2) all divisions provide justification for hiring, even for replacements.

M/S/P (Wilson/Kiefer) to approve the recommendation of the Faculty Allocation Committee including the nine replacement positions.

M/S/P (Kiefer/ Wilson) to request a tenth replacement position that was not on the original Dean’s list.

Chris Kiger, Director of the Health Center, presented information to the Senate about the High Risk Drinking grant. She will be launching the social awareness campaign January, 2007. In part, it will entail putting up approximately 60 posters per week. She will be sending e-mails to faculty requesting that their classes be allowed to take surveys as a part of the grant.

The budget development committee (a subcommittee of PAC) has developed a series of proposals. These include processes to:

· use COLA awarded to the college to allow a 4.23 percent increase in funding for all programs and divisions

· award growth money (growth beyond extended day) given to the campus to those divisions that are growing

· justify awarding ongoing money to current programs based on expense and not historical funding levels

These proposals will be presented to PAC next week, and the Senate representatives need direction.

M/S/P (Wilson/Feaster) to support awarding a COLA increase to all programs.

M/S/P (Wilson/Feaster) to support a procedure to allocate additional ongoing funds based on actual costs and to ask for the addition of a section asking for identification of the thing that will be funded.

The issue of the ACT Strategic Plan was discussed. It was pointed out that this plan arose out of the old ACT Committee, which resulted in all the faculty members resigning from this committee. It was indicated that there was limited faculty input to this plan.

M/S/U (Wilson/Collopy O’Donnell) to accept the draft of the Strategic Plan and forward it to PAC with a note that there was limited faculty participation.

M/S/P (Collopy-O’Donnell/Lamm) that the Faculty Allocation Committee members serve two more years because their terms are all about to end, and they are the experts in this area.