Approved Minutes
September 21, 2006
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Business......................................... |
Steve Dayton, Nancy Woolridge |
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Counseling...................................... |
Flor Aguilera-Huerta |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
Michelle Coletta |
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Humanities...................................... |
Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Jeff Rodine |
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Library............................................. |
Anita Varela |
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Math/Computer Science................... |
Robert Diaz, Greg Nguyen |
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Natural Sciences.............................. |
Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro |
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Part-Time Faculty............................. |
Jim Book |
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Physical Education.......................... |
Jim Kiefer, Alicia Okouchi-Guy |
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Social Sciences............................... |
Chris Lamm, 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, Deborah McQueen, Sally
Moore, Mike Moore |
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Associated Students........................ |
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President......................................... |
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Secretary........................................ |
Jane Troop |
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President-elect................................. |
Ken Collins |
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At-large, Curriculum Chair................. |
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Guests: Jennifer Combs, Chris Kiger, Carol Matson, Jay
Seidel |
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Absent |
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Associated Students |
Jonathan Meyer |
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Counseling |
Elias Dominguez |
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At-large........................................... |
Gale Cebrian,
Marcus Wilson |
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Fine Arts......................................... |
Chuck Ketter |
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Humanities...................................... |
Danielle
Fouquette, Robert Lundergan |
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Senate Exec. |
Doug Eisner |
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Social Sciences |
Diana Kyle |
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Technology/Engineering |
Rosa Molina |
I.
CALL TO
ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 3:00 p.m. by President McGowan.
II.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (Book/S. Moore) to approve the
Minutes of the September 7, 2006 meeting.
III.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Varela/McQueen) to approve
the agenda for this meeting.
IV.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell requested that Senators tell their constituents
that the TEC has a variety of software including Adobe Pro. The TEC hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
REPORTS
President’s Report
At the last District Planning Committee meeting,
the 2006-2007 budget was presented by Vice Chancellor of Finance Fred Williams.
At the next Senate meeting, October 5, Adam O’Connor will present the District
as well as the campus budgets for 2006-2007.
Since the District has completed its
Strategic Plan, the local entities must align their planning with the District
plan.
After internal evaluation, the President
Advisory Committee (PAC) has been restructured and now consists of four
faculty, two managers, two students, and two classified members.
The accreditation report draft was approved
by managers, classified, faculty, and students to go forward to the Board of
Trustees.
It was decided in PAC to narrow the scope of
the ETC (Educational Technology Committee) to distance learning and online education. Additionally,
Computer Lab 901A can be booked in the
afternoon, and 901B can be reserved anytime during the day or night. Dr. Portolan is looking into finding more
rooms that can be reserved. Rooms 317,
511, 315, and 720 are open labs now. As
more information on labs becomes available, Dr. McGowan will report it to the
Senate.
Since the Seconds are repetitive, the
discussion was to post only the Minutes and Agenda on the Faculty Senate web
site.
M/S/U
(Collopy-O’Donnell/Kiefer) that the motions merely be highlighted in yellow in
the Minutes.
No Vice President of Instruction was hired
and the position will be reopened again.
It was announced that Monica Hagmeier will
serve as the new Classified Senate President.
Treasurer’s Report
No report.
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT
No report.
VII. ELECTIONS
Following
are the results of the elections held in the Senate today:
Campus Bond Committee.................................................... Pete
Snyder
Campus Educational Technology Committee....................... Erica Bennett
Curriculum Committee Chair............................................ Jennifer
Combs
District Education Technical Committee............... Diana Kyle, Sally Moore
Emergency Evacuation Plan Committee................................. Jake
Sapiro
Evaluation Committee for Ron Beeler......................................... Jim
Book
Evaluator Hiring Committee................................................ Karyn
Nguyen
Faculty Senate Treasurer...................................................... Callista
Lee
Staff Development Committee......................... Janna Anderson,
Celia Asef
Brandon
Floerke, Sheilah Stokes
VIII. UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
The issue of online comments in the class schedule was raised. A small
ad hoc committee will be formed to examine the comments on distance learning with
the goal of finding something that will be used consistently across all
disciplines in the class schedule.
M/S/U (Lee/S.Moore) that an ad hoc
committee be formed to take the comments of faculty and write an acceptable
online class comment that can be used in future class schedules.
A call will be sent out to populate the ad hoc committee of three
faculty members.
It was decided that the ETC Committee will change its name to Distance Learning
so that it can focus only on distance education issues.
It was announced that the new Instructional Technology Committee will be
a Faculty Senate subcommittee including a variety of faculty members dealing
with issues of classroom technology. It is agreed with Dr. Hodge that this
committee will have Drs. Niccolai and Portolan as resources.
IX. OLD BUSINESS
The Senates have been working on the Academic Freedom Policy for the
last three years. This policy still does
not include any type of due process. This policy needs a due process clause to
prevent faculty members from being caught up in the unlawful discrimination
policy. It was requested that Senate members take this proposed policy back to
their faculty for input.
X. NEW
BUSINESS
Relative to removing class area headings in the class schedule, no
changes will be made for the spring, 2007 schedule. Apparently, decisions were
being made without input from faculty.
The issue of the class schedule was raised. The number of days for each
semester and the starting dates of the semester and finals affect the number of
hours from semester to semester. This can have a large impact on some classes
and can be solved by adjusting the schedule. The question was raised about the
desire of the Senate to pursue this issue and request United Faculty to take up
the issue. The Senate President indicated that this is an important issue and
that once the Senate has taken a position, it should communicate it to United
Faculty.
If this is something we want to pursue, Mike Moore can do the research
to see what the legal considerations are and bring this issue back. Mike will
talk to Carol Matson and, if the variety of meeting days can be adjusted, then
we could pursue this. Carol will be
happy to work with Mike on meeting days.
We can let United Faculty know that the Senate wants to see more
consistency in course hours and let that body work on it.
M/S/U (Collins/Book) that the
Senate form an ad hoc committee with Mike Moore, the Curriculum
Committee Chair or Mark Greenhalgh, and Curriculum Committee
Chair-elect Jennifer Combs to find out what options are available for
class meeting days.
XI. LIAISON REPORTS
Associated Students
No report.
United Faculty
The calendar will be reconsidered with
further input from the faculty.
Adjunct Faculty United
No report.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Troop, Secretary