Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

for the Meeting held October 20, 2005

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Present
	Academic Services............................	Gayle Cebrian
	Business...........................................	Dale Craig, Joel Willenbring
	Counseling........................................	Elias Dominguez
	Fine Arts...........................................	Bill Hayner, Chuck Ketter
	Humanities........................................	Danielle Fouquette, Robert Lundergan, Miguel Powers
	Library..............................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
	Math/Computer Science.....................	Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen
	Natural Sciences...............................	Jacob Sapiro
	Part-Time Faculty..............................	Jim Book
	Physical Education............................	Jim Kiefer
	Social Sciences.................................	Susan Grabiel, Arienne Turner
	Student Services................................	Paul McKinley
	Technology/Engineering......................	Dennis Howey, Kevin Sampson
	At-large.............................................	Elise Donley, Callista Lee, Marcus Wilson
	Associated Students..........................	Alejandra Goodrich
	President..........................................	Joumana McGowan
	Past President...................................	Rolando Sanabria
	Secretary..........................................	Jane Troop
	Treasurer...........................................	Ken Collins
	At-large, Curriculum Chair...................	Doug Eisner
Guests: Emilio Perez
Absent
	At-large.............................................	Sally Moore, Ken Lewis
	Counseling........................................	Karyn Nguyen
	Humanities........................................	John Ison, Jeff Rodine
	Physical Education............................	Pete Snyder
	Natural Sciences...............................	Jeff Feaster
	Social Sciences.................................	Diana Kyle

I. CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President Joumana McGowan.

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

M/S/U (Wilson/Book) to approve the Minutes of the October 6, 2005 meeting.

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

M/S/U (Wilson/Book) to approve the agenda for this meeting.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Danielle Fouquette relayed a message to the Senate from Joe Carrithers that per Joe, the Steering Committee for Accreditation was not given the opportunity to respond to recommendations.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

On November 22 the FC Annual Report will be made at the Board of Trustees meeting to be held on the Fullerton College campus.

The Board of Trustees—Our Board members decided to conduct a workshop as part of the October 25 meeting to stimulate interaction among Board and Resource Table members as well as enhance the understanding of the role of the Board.

DPC—Dr. Hunter informed us that he will be allocating monies from the District to subsidize or make up the difference for the individual bond projects. This money can include carryover funds from the individual campuses. The carryover money may be used by the District to fund bond projects anywhere within the District.

PAC—The decision on the allocation of dynamic fund monies was delayed until the next DPC meeting because the faculty representatives on DPC were not ready to present their recommendations.

Treasurer’s Report

The Treasurer thanked those who provided the refreshments for this meeting.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

Doug Eisner reported that the Distance Education definition was tabled at the last meeting. A.S. passed a resolution asking that students be allowed to earn multiple A.A. degrees. At present, a student can receive more than one A.S. degree. The committee decided to postpone further discussion to await advisement from the State as to whether or not there has been a ruling that prevented the granting of multiple A.A. degrees in the past.

VII. ELECTIONS

Election results were as follows:

Educational Technology Committee

Sally Moore

Manager’s Comprehensive Evaluation for Christine Fighera

Jim Brooks

Manager’s Comprehensive Evaluation for Co Ho

Dale Craig

Manager’s Comprehensive Evaluation for Bob Morrison

Marcus Wilson

Confirmation of the Results for the Coordinator of the Semester Abroad Program

Patricia Thomas

Office Furniture Workgroup

Chuck Ketter

VIII. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

This year’s homecoming will be November 2. The theme will be Las Vegas. The A.S. President thanked the faculty for its Care Bank donations.

United Faculty

The UF representative announced that the faculty salary proposal, which was sent to all faculty through e-mail last week, was designed to bring faculty to comparability. This was an increase of 6 percent across all salary schedules, an increase of 10 percent in benefits, and the addition of a step 14.

United Faculty is also committed to finishing negotiations on the contract, which have been continuing since 2004. Other priorities discussed at the UF Board meeting were investigating the implementation of a 125 benefit plan and dealing with the unfunded liability for medical expenses.

A question concerning the academic calendar was raised relative to the 16-week academic calendar. Various members of the Senate expressed a desire to investigate implementing this type of calendar. The UF representative at the Senate indicated that UF represents the wishes of the faculty. Any faculty member who wants UF to deal with issues should e-mail UF President Tony Jones or talk with members of the UF Board.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

SCE Curriculum—The discussion concerning SCE and curriculum continued. Dr. Hunter is generally supportive of the position expressed by Fullerton College faculty at DCCC and in other venues, about issues concerning School of Continuing Education courses. SCE offers short-term vocational classes that directly compete with vocational courses offered at Fullerton and Cypress Colleges. There are currently no clear guidelines about the kinds of courses that can be offered at the three locations in the District. Dr. Hunter is going to propose a subcommittee of DCCC be formed to define what types of courses and programs that should be offered at the colleges and what should be offered at SCE.

M/S/P (Wilson/Sanabria) to change the last paragraph of the draft of the resolution concerning SCE and its class numbering as follows:

Therefore be it resolved that the Fullerton College Faculty Senate requests the Board of trustees prohibit the SCE that S.C.E. be prohibited from numbering non-credit courses

between 100 and 499, and from offering courses traditionally taught in a college credit program without an agreement with the Faculty fro the College’s credit department and from offering vocational certificates that impact the State approved vocational certificates being offered on the Fullerton and Cypress campuses.

The Fullerton College Curriculum Chair was directed to read this resolution at the next DCCC meeting

X. OLD BUSINESS

Division Dean Elections—The past practice in division dean faculty elections has been that the Senate only confirms these elections. The Senate has been asked if it wants to continue doing this or hold the elections in the Senate. Most Senators expressed concern over selecting division hiring committees though the Senate. One suggestion was that the Senate Elections Committee conduct the elections for the divisions. Ken Collins and Miguel Powers will develop some recommendations for the By-laws and bring them back to the Senate at the next meeting.

Academic Freedom Policy—A first reading of the Academic Freedom Policy draft was done.

It was the sense of the Senate that Sections 2.0, 3.0, and 5.0 of the Academic Freedom Policy be removed and that Sections 1.0 and 4.0 be retained.

Student Equity Plan Committee Purpose—After editing, the Student Equity Plan Committee purpose now reads as follows:

Purpose: To develop and recommend policies, programs, and strategies that promote equity in student success, retention, degree/certificate completion, and transfer as outlined in the Fullerton College Student Equity Plan.

MS/U (McQueen/Fouquette) to accept the student Equity Plan Committee purpose as edited.

LLRC Log-in Issue—Dr. Hodge has met with the ACT Committee and has asked students in the library how they feel about logging in. The ACT Committee recommended that all the laptop ports in the Library be enabled but remain password accessible only and that some of the general use ports remain open (not requiring a password for access).

The recommendation of the ACT Committee members was rejected, by the Senate and it was the sense of the Senate that we support the librarians in their quest not to require logging in.

XI. NEW BUSINESS

Faculty Allocation Committee—This committee has recommended to the President that replacements be hired the following replacements:

Natural Science-Physics (spring, 2006)

Fine Arts-Arts (spring, 2006)

Library (spring, 2006)

Social Sciences-History (spring, 2006)

Technology and Engineering-Fashion (spring, 2006) Technology and Engineering-Machine Tech (In progress)

Library-Librarian-Circulation (In progress)

These are only replacement positions.

M/S/U (Eisner/McQueen) to approve the recommendations of the Faculty Allocation Committee except for the Fashion position, at this time, pending more information from the Technology and Engineering Senate representatives.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop, Secretary