Approved Minutes
for
the Meeting held
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Present |
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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........................................... |
Chuck Ketter |
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Humanities........................................ |
Danielle Fouquette,
John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Miguel
Powers |
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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............................ |
Jim Kiefer |
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Social Sciences................................. |
Susan Grabiel, Diana
Kyle, Arienne Turner |
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Student Services................................ |
Sylvia Pimentel |
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Technology/Engineering...................... |
Dennis Howey, Kevin
Sampson |
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At-large............................................. |
Elise Donley,
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: Connie
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Absent |
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At-large............................................. |
Ken Lewis |
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Counseling........................................ |
Karyn Nguyen |
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Fine Arts........................................... |
Bill Hayner |
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Humanities........................................ |
Jeff Rodine |
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Physical Education............................ |
Pete Snyder |
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Student Services................................ |
Paul McKinley |
I.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting
was called to order at
II.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (McQueen/Book) to approve the
Minutes of the
III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Book/Sanabria) to approve the agenda for this meeting.
IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS
The Crucible will be performed in the campus theater October 6-8. Connie Lopez spoke on the Cosmetology Department‘s position on the organization chart. Pat Wilson introduced herself as the classified employees’ representative.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
Unlawful Discrimination Policy—The Unlawful Discrimination policy was passed. Now faculty will be notified when someone files a complaint against them.
Six to seven faculty positions are available. Senators were requested to ask if their respective divisions needed any of these. The Deans and the Faculty Allocation Committee will prioritize the positions, and then the college President will review both lists and make a determination. This is the process previously used to ensure faculty input to the faculty allocation process.
Academic
Freedom Policy—The Academic Freedom policy, which was developed by faculty and
administrators, will be mailed to all Senators. This proposed policy has a
number of points that still need to be discussed.
Accreditation—President McGowan distributed handouts having to do with accreditation. One contained the recommendations of the visiting accreditation team, the other was the response of our Accreditation Committee. The full report is available from the Senate President and will be made available to anyone who is interested in reading it. The electronic version, when it is received, will be sent out via e-mail or posted on the Senate Web site.
Planning—A planning framework is being proposed and will be brought
to the Senate at a future date for consideration.
Dynamic Fund—There are approximately one hundred requests against this fund, amounting to approximately $2.2 million. However, the fund only contains about $220,000-223,000. The PAC will be making recommendations on how to allocate this money at the next Wednesday meeting.
It was
announced that the college’s FTES growth last year amounted to $149,999. Dr. Hodge is using this money to reimburse divisions
for the money used to create the dynamic fund.
Because of this, all divisions were funded for the money previously
withheld. This money must be used for instructional materials and cannot be
used for equipment.
There is also Instructional Equipment money to be allocated to the divisions. The
Division Deans will decide how much each division will receive from the
$507,294 allocated for instructional equipment.
The District budget was presented at the last Board of Trustees meeting. The current District budget includes $2,520,000 in one-time resources, and $6,900,000 in ongoing resources. This does not include the ongoing funds which are made up of base budget FTES, PFE, and Equalization.
It was pointed out that United Faculty is currently in negotiations for salary, and this salary will come from the ongoing funds. It was requested that the Senate support a resolution that ongoing funds not be spent until salary negotiations have been completed.
M/S/U
(Sanabria/Kiefer) to support United Faculty’s efforts not to allow the District
to spend ongoing funds until salary negotiations has been concluded.
Treasurer’s
Report
Treasurer Collins thanked those who provided the refreshments for this meeting.
VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT
Student Learning Training—The times and dates of training sessions, which will begin October 7, will be announced in a flyer next week.
VII. ELECTIONS
No nominations were taken from the floor. Election results were as follows:
Selection Committee for Vice President of Student Services
Steve Credidio
Selection Committee for Vice President of Instruction
Dale Craig
Confirmation of Curriculum Committee Members
Bruce Miller, Fine Arts
Carol Ward, Academic Services
Naji, Dahi, Social Science
Confirmation of Staff Development Coordinator
Cathy Collopy O’Donnell
VIII.
LIAISON REPORTS
Associated
Students
The A.S. blood drive will take place the 26th and 27th in the Quad. Rush is on October 13.
United Faculty
United Faculty is in negotiations with the District over the successor agreement for our contract. Salary negotiations will start early this semester.
Adjunct Faculty
United
No report.
IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
None.
X.
OLD BUSINESS
President McGowan discussed the Faculty Senate top ten issues, the bodies that deal with them, and the relevant part of Title V, Article 2, Section 53200. They are listed below.
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Body |
Title V, Article 2, Section 532000 |
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Ensure that bond monies are spent effectively |
Campus Bond Oversight Committee |
11 |
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Ensure that instruction and student support drive
fiscal decisions |
Budget Development Council President’s Advisory Council Faculty Senate Executive Committee |
5, 10, 11 |
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Place a greater emphasis on academic technology
support |
ACT, ETC |
11, 8, 10 |
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Enforce course pre-requisites through Banner |
Curriculum Committee Faculty Senate Executive Committee |
1 |
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Enforce that a full range of services is available
for evening students |
President’s Advisory Council Faculty Senate Executive Committee |
11, 5 |
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Improve technological support in academic and student
support programs |
Faculty Senate Ad hoc Committee ACT, ETC |
11, 8, 10, 5 |
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Allocate staff development funds to
divisions/departments to allow the faculty to determine how to spend the
staff development funds |
Staff Development Committee Faculty Senate |
8 |
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Enforce placement testing |
Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee Matriculation |
5 |
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Enforce the withdrawal deadline through Banner |
Admissions and Records Faculty Senate |
5 |
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Ensure the integration of planning with budget |
Budget Development Committee President’s Advisory Council |
11, 10 |
Study Abroad Program—The Study Abroad Committee is meeting to work on the job description of the committee chairperson, and the flyer will be out next week. Interviews will be held October 11.
XI. NEW BUSINESS
Budget Development Committee—Jeff Courchaine, who is now an interim dean, must be replaced on this committee for two years. The discussion on this issue centered on the requirement that the Budget Committee member regularly attend Senate meetings. It was pointed out that adding this restriction to the position can limit the pool.
M/S/U (Eisner/Ketter) that the Budget Development Committee replacement be with no restriction.
Dr. Hodge has requested that the Senate give her input on moving or not moving the Cosmetology Department back into the Technology and Engineering Division. Discussion ensued.
M/S/P (Collins/Sanabria) that the Senate take no position at this time on where Cosmetology should fit, but that we encourage the president to consult directly with Cosmetology and with their present and future Deans to work on the issue.
The concerns of Cosmetology should be addressed specifically and any change should be justified by more than merely the placement of the department on an organization chart.
SCE
Curriculum—SCE (School of Continuing Education) has been offering classes that
overlap existing Fullerton College classes in both content and course number. This
has been a problem because students have been asking to use these classes for
credit as prerequisites to
M/S/P (Wilson/Craig) that the Senate direct its curriculum representative at DCCC to support the concept that, except for the ESL courses in which the campuses have an agreement, non-credit courses should not be allowed to be numbered 100 or above and should not be named similarly to credit courses. This is necessary to avoid student confusion, program accreditation problems, and a negative affect on FTES generation.
LLRC Log-on Issue—An issue was recently brought forward from the Library staff that the open-access computers in the Library still require students to have a valid Fullerton College login in order to use them. This is contrary to the situation in the old library whereby no access code was needed to log onto the systems.
M/S/U (Craig/Kyle) that the Senate direct the faculty members on the ACT Committee to bring forward to that committee a request for the policy justification for locking computers down in the library and to have the committee discuss it and come to a resolution.
Summer Elections—The Senate Constitution and By-laws do not address elections held during the summer because the Senate is not in session then. We need to have a procedure on how to handle summer elections. The Division Dean election relied on past practice. Dr. McGowan’s recommendation is to have the Constitutional Committee create a process for both of these and bring it to the Senate so that we can discuss it.
M/S/U
(McGowan/Book) The Senate will have one meeting where summer and division dean elections
will be discussed and, after that, the ideas will be given to the Constitution
Committee to work on them.
The meeting was
adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
/s/
Jane Troop, Secretary