Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

October 7, 2004

Present
Academic Services....................................	Doris Wright
Business..................................................	Jeff Couchaine, Dale Craig
Counseling................................................	Karyn Nguyen
Fine Arts...................................................	Bill Hayner
Humanities................................................	Renee Bangerter, Kathleen Engstrom, John Ison, Miguel Powers
Library......................................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
Math/Computer Science.............................	Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen
Natural Sciences.......................................	Ken Collins
Part-Time Faculty......................................	Jim Book
Physical Education....................................	Jim Kiefer, Pete Snyder
Social Sciences........................................	Susan Grabiel, Callista Lee
Student Services.......................................
Technology/Engineering.............................	Dennis Howey
At-large ....................................................	Elise Donley, Ken Lewis, Adela Lopez, Tanomo Taguchi, Marcus Wilson, Paul Farnham
Associated Students..................................	Araz Pourmorad
President..................................................	Rolando Sanabria
President-elect..........................................	Joumana McGowan
Secretary..................................................
Treasurer..................................................	Behnoosh Armani
At-large, Curriculum Chair...........................	Doug Eisner
Guests: Dana Clahane, Cheryl Duhme, Mark Greenhalgh, Liz Kiszely, Dan Tesar, Cindy Zarske, Linda Shideler
Absent
At-large.....................................................	Ken Lewis
Humanities................................................	Jeff Rodine
Natural Sciences.......................................	Brad Dawson, Jeff Feaster, Karen Robinson
Part-Time..................................................	Terry Gleason
Senate Exec.............................................	Jane Troop
Social Sciences........................................	Arienne Turner
Technology...............................................	Kevin Sampson

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

II. The Minutes for September 16, 2004 were approved by consensus.

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

IV. PUBLIC COMMENT

The Cosmetology Department raised $4,500 for the City of Hope by giving haircuts and donating the proceeds.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

The Faculty Allocation Committee has met and voted on the list of faculty by department to be allocated for new growth positions. This list matches the list developed by the Deans. There were 15 available growth positions and 18 requests for new faculty. This is the first year the faculty has had an opportunity to participate in this process. The general consensus was that it was successful. It was suggested that the next time this process is used the Deans’ list not be released until the faculty has created its own list.

It was reported that the college will be allowed to create a new vice presidential position. This will give Fullerton College three vice presidents: an Executive Vice President of Instruction, a Vice President of Facilities, and a new Vice President who will likely be assigned to oversee Student Services. However, this additional Vice President must fit the current resource allocation, and the District will not give our campus any additional money.

All Senators were e-mailed the student complaint and grade complaint forms developed by a faculty committee. The President requested that Senators review these forms and garner input from their departments. If the Senate President does not receive any substantial comments before the next Senate meeting, he will assume that faculty approve of these forms.

PCC—The Senate’s concerns with the Accreditation document were presented, and we are waiting for a response from the Accreditation Chairman and the Committee.

DPC—The issue about the unlawful discrimination board policy was discussed, and it was announced that the faculty will bring back changes to this policy at the next DPC meeting. This will allow the new proposal to be discussed at Chancellor’s Cabinet.

Another issue arising from DPC was a request by the District (Rod Fleeman) for a list of options on spending 5 million dollars of new on-going and one-time money. It was indicated by faculty at the DPC meeting that such decisions must wait until the salary requests from the bargaining units has been settled.

Treasurer’s Report

No report.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

A discussion in the Curriculum committee was held about the teaching areas allowed under the new teacher training classed being developed. Instructors with an MA in education may be allowed to teach some of these new teacher-training classes.

Issues related to distance education classes were raised. These primarily related to the fact that some state universities and other universities are concerned about distance education-based classes and may not accept some classes taught using this modality. A more comprehensive review of distance education classes may be done.

The new curriculum management program, “Curricunet,” was discussed. The District has discussed purchasing this software for all three campuses in order to meet state requirements. The concern is that on-going maintenance costs would be charged to the campuses.

The State Academic Senate proposal on college level English and math was discussed in the Curriculum Committee. This proposal would require all students receiving A.A. degrees to pass college-level English and math courses. The math part of the requirement has been changed; however, if the English part goes through, the Curriculum Committee will likely review content and prerequisites on all non-English courses that are used to meet the English 100 requirement.

The State Academic Senate will be voting on a proposal to raise the standards of English and math for an A.A./A.S. The proposal would raise English levels to college-level and math to one below college level. If passed, we would need to verify that all the courses on our approved list have been matriculated correctly.

VII. ELECTIONS

President-elect Joumana McGowan reported these election results:

Part-Time Representative Term 04-06	Jim Book
Part-Time Representative Term 04-05 (replacement)	Brenda Terry
Evaluation Committee for Dan Tesar	Francis Mummery
Evaluation Committee for Bob Simpson	Cindy Zarske
Evaluation Committee for Lexi Donovan	Marcus Wilson
Evaluation Committee for Dorothy Whitehurst	Bill Hayner
Staff Development: (Replacing Liz Kiszely for term 04-06)	Steve Dayton
General Education Advisory Subcommittee Term: 04-07	Lena Llerena
General Education Advisory Subcommittee Term: 04-07	Bernadette Archer
General Education Advisory Subcommittee Term: 04-07	Connie Carroll
General Education Advisory Subcommittee Term: 04-07	Susan Vincent
Transfer Center Advisory Committee Term: 04-06	Robert Lundergan
Transfer Center Advisory Committee Term: 04-06	Karyn Nguyen

VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Adam O’Connor will attend the next Senate Meeting.

The Academic Freedom Senate Subcommittee presented the academic freedom policy issues to the Cypress College Faculty Senate. This was a successful meeting, and subsequent feedback from the Cypress Senate is very positive.

The current bond projects, as announced in PCC, are falling behind schedule and seriously over budget. There are now five major projects, and most are over budget. The fact that previously promised bond projects have been discarded was discussed. It was the sense of the Senate that the Senate President and other PCC members appointed by the Senate strongly express the concern of the Senate about maintaining the two previously indicated priorities: completing the Classroom Office Building and completing the Parking Structure(s).

The issue of the bond planning failures was discussed. Discussion ensued relative to how well the initial bond projects had been planned and how well the various costs factors were computed.

It was also pointed out that aside from the LLRC (which was funded previously by a different bond), the only physical structure resulting from the $125 million bond money given to Fullerton College is the safety building in parking lot C.

No progress was reported by the Program Discontinuance Committee.

It was reported by the Senate President that it has been agreed that the Staff Development Coordinator Selection Committee would have two faculty, one manager, and one classified member. This is still under negotiation. It was also reported that the re-assigned time for Staff Development Coordinator will still be three units. President Hodge announced that until the campus-wide reassigned time allocations have been reviewed, this will not be increased.

The issue of restructuring PCC was raised. This restructuring has been requested by PCC, and faculty will participate in the process. The problem of how the Senate would develop a restructuring plan was discussed.

M/S/P (Collins/Courchaine) that the Senate members will break into small groups and develop a set of ideas on restructuring PCC at the next Senate meeting. These small group ideas will then be discussed in the Senate and an overall plan developed. This plan will then be presented to the divisional faculty. At the next Senate meeting, past Senate Presidents and Faculty PCC members will be invited to provide input.

Dean Dan Tesar presented a proposal for a Teacher Advisory Committee to work as the Honors Committee for the new Teacher Preparation grant-funded program being developed. This was a first read.

IX. OLD BUSINESS

None.

X. NEW BUSINESS

None.

XI. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

No report.

United Faculty Report

No report.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

The meeting adjourned at 5:10 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Dale Craig for Jane Troop

Senate Secretary