Fullerton College Faculty Senate

September 2, 2004

Approved Minutes

Present
Academic Services....................................	Doris Wright
Business..................................................	Jeff Couchaine, Dale Craig
Counseling................................................	Karyn Nguyen
Fine Arts...................................................	Bill Hayner
Humanities................................................	Renee Bangerter, John Ison, Miguel Powers, Jeff Rodine
Library......................................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
Math/Computer Science.............................	Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen
Natural Sciences.......................................	Jeff Feaster, Karen Robinson
Part-Time Faculty......................................	Jim Book
Physical Education....................................	Jim Kiefer
Social Sciences........................................	Susan Grabiel, Callista Lee, Arienne Turner
Student Services.......................................
Technology/Engineering.............................	Dennis Howey, Kevin Sampson
At-large ....................................................	Elise Donley, Ken Lewis, Adela Lopez, 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: Nadine Arndt , Joe Carrithers, Susan Clifford, Kathleen Hodge, Liz Kiszely, Victoria Lugo
Absent
At-large.....................................................	Paul Farnham
Humanities................................................	Kathleen Engstrom,
Natural Sciences.......................................	Ken Collins, Brad Dawson
Part-Time..................................................	Terry Gleason
Physical Education....................................	Pete Snyder
Student Services.......................................	Joe Reyes

I. The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President Rolando Sanabria.

II. M/S/U (Wilson/Lopez) to approve the Minutes of May 13, 2004
M/S/U (Sampson/Troop) to table the April 29 Minutes until the next meeting

III. The agenda for the present meeting was approved by consensus.

Dr. Hodge welcomed the Senate members back to school. She indicated that we have a growth in enrollment this semester and thanked faculty for taking additional students. It looks like we will indeed meet our FTES targets.

Dr. Hodge indicated that she doesn’t know when we will be hiring a new Executive Vice President. She feels that the college needs a VP of Student Services, and she is trying to workout the cost details Currently, both the EVP and VP jobs are being done by one person. Instruction pays the bills, and so the person doing the job has to default to instruction. This leaves Student Services short changed somewhat. Student Services is not less important. Both positions should have equally great representation.

We will have growth opportunities in terms of the faculty. We will have 11 positions that need to be filled and ten new positions for growth. This makes 21 replacements in the Spring semester.

Dr. Hodge also talked about the college governance structure and indicated that realigning it is a priority. This will be done through the accreditation process as well as through PCC. The goal is to make the decisions and make sure that all constituent groups have a say.

A question was raised about the impact of Cal-State students coming to the college. Dr. Hodge indicated that the impact is minimal. We will probably hit 20,000 FTES for the year and, if Cypress does not make its FTES this year, part of its base is shifted to Fullerton. This is important for funding of programs like PfE, since the allocation of such resources is done based on the FTES of the college.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENT

Adela Lopez announced that the annual Day of the Dead will be observed in the Gallery and east of the Library from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on October 28.

President Sanabria announced that Adela Lopez is the recipient of the Golden Apple Award from the Heath Corporation.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

DPC—This body has not met since our last meeting. DPC will need to deal with the academic freedom policy this year.

Banner Steering Committee— The Senate President has requested that the Senate select the faculty member to serve on the Banner Steering Committee. Dr. Hunter indicated that this decision will affect Cypress College and they should be consulted before he makes a decision.

Chapter 5 Policy, dealing with Student Services, will be mailed to Senators tonight.

A question was raised about the equalization funds being given to the District. This is about $3.1 million, and a question was raised about how the decision to allocate the funds will be made. Rolando felt that allocation of these funds should be part of the shared governance process. It was pointed out that equalization funds are part of the new on-going money coming into the District and that, per the agreement between the District and the Bargaining Units, all on-going funds are open to negotiation. It was further pointed out that the purpose of the equalization funds was to bring the amount we are given for FTES in line with other districts.

Board of Trustees—The Board of Trustees met three times during the summer. No major decisions were made, and those interested were invited to read the Board Minutes.

PCC—Adam O’Conner will be visiting the Senate to give a budget update September 19. In the meantime, Senators received a handout to study.

Rolando distributed a handout illustrating that almost half of the Senators did not contribute input at Senate meetings last year.

Treasurer’s Report

Treasurer Behnoosh Armani passed around a refreshments sign-up sheet.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

Kevin Sampson announced that OSCAR training will be held Tuesday, September 7, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. OSCAR is a program used in the submission of curriculum.

VII. ELECTIONS

President-elect Joumana McGowan announced that the Senate will elect replacement members to the Educational Technology Committee (ETC). An e-mail asking for those interested in serving will be sent.

VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Student Equity Plan

The Senate was reminded that all recommendations are due September 30. Look at the section of the Accreditation Report and send our recommendations to Cindy. After Cindy, it goes to the DPC. It will be presented to the Board of Trustees November 9

Academic Freedom

The Academic Freedom issue is still on the table. A committee from Fullerton created an Academic Freedom policy, but it has been rejected by the District. In order to implement an Academic Freedom district-wide policy, all three Faculty Senate bodies need to cooperate.

M/S/P (Wilson/Sampson) that it is the sense of the Senate to support the efforts of the leadership to protect faculty rights, due process, and academic freedom and for the leadership to address the Cypress and SCE Senates to elicit their support and to present those proposals to the Board of Trustees.

The Senate discussed the issue of off-line discussions. It was pointed out that the Senate has previously committed to developing some kind of process whereby Senators could discuss issues electronically. A ListServ program was mentioned, which is a subscription-based e-mail system, that would allow users to jointly discuss an issue. There was no resolution to this question, but the Senate indicated it would look into setting up such a process.

IX. OLD BUSINESS

None.

X. NEW BUSINESS

The issue of the Accreditation Report was reintroduced. Rolando asked the Senate how we can have a productive discussion over the issues raised in the Accreditation report. It was requested that this report be discussed in the various Division meetings and issues brought back to the next Senate meeting. The Senate is scheduled to have a meeting September 23, but there may be a special meeting prior to this to discuss this report.

Several issues related to the Accreditation report were discussed. Among these was the fact that, according to the Accreditation Chairman, the report content is basically done and will not be changed. Factual errors can be fixed, but the basic philosophical issued and outcomes in the report cannot be changed at this point. By the end of September, the report will be essentially complete because it must go to the Board of Trustees and to print on schedule.

An issue was also raised about the use of “quantitative” terms in the report such as “most faculty.” In some places, these terms were supported by actual numbers and in other places they were not supported by any numbers.

MSP (Wilson/Lee) that the Senate address the Accreditation report general issues at this meeting and encourage all Senators and faculty to directly contact the Accreditation Committee Chairman.

M/S/U (Craig/Lee) to continue this conversation at the next Senate meeting.

XI. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

Araz Pourmorad, Associated Students President, was introduced to the Senate.

United Faculty Report

Contract negotiations are continuing and will soon include salary.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

The meeting adjourned at 5 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop

Senate Secretary