Approved Minutes
for the Meeting held
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Academic Services............................ |
Gayle Cebrian |
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Business........................................... |
Dale Craig, Joel
Willenbring |
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Counseling........................................ |
Flor Aguilera, Elias
Dominguez |
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Fine Arts........................................... |
Bill Hayner |
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Humanities........................................ |
Danielle Fouquette,
John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Miguel
Powers, Jeff Rodine |
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Library.............................................. |
Michele Fitzsimmons |
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Math/Computer Science..................... |
Kelly Klassen,
Deborah McQueen |
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Natural Sciences............................... |
Jeff Feaster, Jacob
Sapiro |
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Part-Time Faculty.............................. |
Jim Book |
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Physical Education............................ |
Pete Snyder |
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Social Sciences................................. |
Diana Kyle, Adela
Lopez, Arienne Turner |
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Student Services................................ |
Paul McKinley |
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Technology/Engineering...................... |
Dennis Howey |
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At-large............................................. |
Callista Lee, Sally
Moore, Marcus Wilson |
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Associated Students.......................... |
Alejandra Goodrich |
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President.......................................... |
Joumana McGowan |
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Past President................................... |
Rolando Sanabria |
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Secretary.......................................... |
Jane Troop |
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Treasurer........................................... |
Ken Collins |
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At-large, Curriculum Chair................... |
Doug Eisner |
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Guests: Victoria
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At-large............................................. |
Elise Donley, Ken Lewis |
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Fine Arts........................................... |
Chuck Ketter |
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Physical Education............................ |
Jim Kiefer |
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Social Sciences................................. |
Susan Grabiel |
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Technology........................................ |
Kevin Sampson |
I.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order
at
II.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (Feaster/Cebrian) to approve
the Minutes of the
III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
M/S/U (McQueen/Troop) to approve the agenda for this meeting.
IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Adela Lopez announced
the eleventh annual Dia de los Muertos celebration to be held on Thursday,
October 27, from
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
Barbara Dunsheath, of
At the last Board of Trustees meeting an
update on the Bond projects was presented by Fred Williams, Ron Bealer and the
campus presidents. This update covered
Our Board of Trustees members will conduct a
workshop as part of their October 25 meeting to stimulate interaction among
Board and Resource Table members and enhance the understanding of the role of
the Board. Topics for consideration at the workshop will include
long-range planning, budget, participative governance, collective bargaining,
and participation in community and campus events.
DPC—As a result of the Accreditation recommendations, Dr. Hunter informed
the members of DPC that the District and the Board of Trustees will start
developing a planning process which will result in more district-wide integrated
plans. This district-wide planning process and the resulting plans will be
integrated on the campus level into their local plans. Dr. Hunter requested
that each campus forward to the District its own planning processes so that
they could be integrated with the District-level planning processes. A campus
planning process document being sent to Dr. Hunter was passed among the
Senators for review. There were no questions.
The November 3, 2005 Senate meeting will be
cancelled because of the fall State Academic Senate Plenary Session.
By the next Senate meeting, Doug Eisner will
have developed a definition of the purpose of the Student Equity
Committee. After discussion of the definition, it will be given to the
Committee.
Treasurer’s
Report
Treasurer Collins reported that the Senate has about $2,500 in the treasury. He thanked those who provided the refreshments for this meeting.
VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT
Relative to the SCE issue, Dr. McGowan sent
a list of classes that are similar to our economics, auto body, and CIS classes
to the coordinators of those departments. Their responses have come back,
and are being examined by the Senate President and the curriculum committee. One of the problems
evaluating overlapping classes is that SCE does not have a complete printed
catalog, but rather relies on an electronic listing of classes. SCE has
outlines for its courses, but has not yet submitted all its course outlines to
the state for addition to the list of approved courses. All community
college courses have to be approved by the state as stand-alone courses unless
they are part of a certificate or degree. Since SCE does not offer certificates
or degrees, all of its courses must be approved as stand-alone courses. The college president is supporting the faculty
concerning these SCE issues.
Another issue relating to SCE was raised by a Senator. This issue concerned the
online classes being taught through SCE. These classes are not developed by SCE
but by a company named Ed2go. This company sells online classes, which
apparently have been purchased
by SCE. Students, through SCE, are then charged to take these courses. One of
the questions raised was whether or not SCE collected student contact hours on
these classes. Another question was why SCE is offering contract-ed online
classes that directly compete with credit online classes. Collecting $100 for
an online class rather than collecting the credit student contact hours seems
to be a money-losing scenario.
Doug addressed the requests by faculty for
access to the J drive. He explained that it contained many drafts of curriculum
that are not meant to be seen by anyone outside the Curriculum Committee until they are
finished. He asked that just the Curriculum Committee and Deans have
access to this drive. The Curriculum representatives can access it for
members of their respective divisions.
VII. ELECTIONS
Election results were as follows:
Title V Steering Committee
Danielle Fouquette
Confirmation of Curriculum
Committee Representative for Business/CIS
Delores Reha
Managers’ Comprehensive
Evaluation of Janet Portolan, VP of Facilities
Doug Eisner
Budget Development Committee
Dennis Howey
Managers’ Comprehensive
Evaluation of Adam O’Conner, Director of Budget and Finance
Marcus Wilson
Evening Staff Parking Work Group
Miguel Powers
Student Dining Area Work Group
Paul McKinley
VIII.
LIAISON REPORTS
Associated
Students
Care Bank
Pamphlets are now available. Group rush
is next week. A.S. has collected 45
pints of blood. This year’s homecoming
will be November 2. The theme will be
United Faculty
United Faculty has formally started
negotiations for salary. UF is
asking for comparability in salary.
Adjunct Faculty
United
No report.
IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
None.
X. OLD BUSINESS
The issue of summer hiring committee elections was raised. A Senator expressed the sentiment that when there is a need
for faculty on a committee in the summer, an e-mail should be sent to all
qualified faculty. This would give them five days to nominate themselves to
serve on the committee. After that five-day period, a ballot should be sent out.
This was a recommendation for the Constitution Committee.
The LLRC student computer login issue was raised. At the prior Senate meeting, the faculty
representatives on the ACT Committee were directed to confer with Nilo about
the reasons for restricting some of the network ports in the LLRC. The reason,
as reported by the ACT faculty representatives, was that Board policy and an
opinion by District Legal mandates that students log into the network with a
student account.
This given reason, as articulated by Nilo,
was challenged by several Senators. The main points of contention were that the
Board policy cited does not clearly mandate that students must log into the
network in order to use the Internet for library research. Another issue was
that community members without student accounts are prevented from using this resource,
even though the library is supposed to be open to the public. As one Senator
said, requiring a network login is like requiring students to show ID before
they can look at a library book on the shelf.
M/S/P (Craig/Kyle) that the Senate request Dr. Hodge to direct Nilo to open up the computers in the library so they do not require a network login, make all the laptop ports available for Internet access without requiring a network login, and require that someone on Nilo’s staff be further trained in security.
XI. NEW BUSINESS
A Senator wanted to know how we will define distance learning.
M/S/P (Eisner/Powers) that we defer this issue to the Curriculum Committee.
A first read was done of the Academic Freedom Policy. The Senate will not approve this before the Unlawful Discrimination Policy passes at the next Board of Trustees meeting.
Work has been done
on the Program Discontinuance draft of the last two years. Joumana explained
the process for discontinuing a program as stated in the Policy. Dr. McGowan
expressed her desire for the Senate to support the draft. The Senate President
thanked Doug Eisner, Karyn Nguyen, Susan Nack and Dennis Howey for their
dedication in working on this policy for two years.
M/S/U (Eisner/Craig) to support the Program Discontinuance draft.
Dr. McGowan stated
that SCE and Cypress Senates are interested in examining and updating the
Equivalency policy to plug the loopholes.
M/S/U
(Craig/Eisner) to support the opening of the Equivalency Policy for
examination.
The faculty members of the Bond Oversight Committee
reported on their last meeting and on the information presented at the Board of
Trustees meeting. The basic problem is that there is not enough bond money to
complete all the planned projects in the District. The estimated costs are
above what was initially projected and planned. This has resulted in the fact that,
currently,
The Bond Oversight Committee reported that
priorities have changed since the start of the bond projects. The three
main priorities now are: (1) the classroom/office building, (2) the
parking structure, and (3) keep existing projects on budget. After the
building of the parking structure, the new gain in parking spaces should be
approximately 300. The existing bond projects are being reduced in scope. The physical
education project has been drastically reduced in scope.
Many Senators expressed the opinion that
rather than spend money on new projects, that using the bond money to remodel
existing structures would be more beneficial. The bids on some of the major
bond projects are due to be received in the next few weeks and the faculty
members on the Bond Oversight committee will report back to the Senate.
The meeting was
adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
/s/
Jane Troop, Secretary