M I N U T E S
September 24, 2003
3:00 p.m. - BC214
Members
Present: Barbara Bell, Susan Broderick, Gary Carroll, Jim Chesher, Esther
Frankel, Jack Friedlander, Michelle Fulton, Tom Garey, Peter Haslund (Chair),
Tom Mahoney, Kim Monda, Kathy O’Connor, Peter Rojas, Lana Rose, Jan
Schultz, Sheri Shields, Bob Stockero, Sonia Zuniga-Lomeli.
Guest: Mangai Pitchai, The Channels
1.0 CALL
TO ORDER
1.1 Approval
of Minutes – September 10, 2003 Meeting
Corrections:
pg
#4 – Item 4.0 Delete “there was discussion of each Agenda
item.”
pg
#3 – Item 3.1 – third bulleted item, replace “briefly”
with “not”
pg
#5 – Item 5.3 Motion, insert after “policy” “, which replaces District
Policy
#2520,”
pg
#5 – Item 5.2 Change “unanimous” to “1 nay 2 abstentions”
M/S/C
Approval of the 9/10/03 Academic Senate meeting Minutes with corrections
(Garey/Carroll) Unanimous.
1.2
Approval of the
Agenda – so approved
2.0 INFORMATION (Announcements, Communications)
2.1 ESL/Foreign Languages Senator announced the Foreign
Language Department’s formation of a new “School of Modern
Languages”.
3.0 REPORTS
3.1
President’s
Report:
Ø
An End to
Anonymity! See Senate bulletin
board.
Photos of the Academic Senate are on display outside
the Senate office A117, in the Administration Building.
Ø
Committee Assignments
& Meeting Times
The information is updated regularly. The most
current information can be obtained from the Academic Senate Office. Concern: The new calendar is making it
difficult for some who wish to participate in committee service.
Suggestion: Committees may need to reschedule their
meetings to another day and time.
All committees will be notified to review their
schedule and make a decision by semester’s end if there are any changes to
be made in the day and time they meet.
Ø
Issue Development and
Assignment
The issue of overload – exceeding 21 TLUs, a
complex issue, has emerged due to the substantial number of faculty exceeding
this limit without formal approval.
P&R, AP and Committee on Teaching and Learning
are being asked to review the issue with regard to the allocation of resources,
possible modification of policy and pedagogy.
Questions and Comments were presented regarding the
attached document “What is an Full Load” prepared by the Senate
President.
The State Academic Senate and Curriculum Committee
are looking at the lecture/lab item. Title V language has no clear language
between lecture and lab activity for students. There are inconsistencies among
community colleges between lab and lecture hours. There are compensation issues
to be considered. What is a lecture, what is a lab?
P&R will also work to develop criteria for budget
reductions that represent faculty interests. Suggestion was made that AP might
also review and develop criteria for such a possibility. Request: That both
committees have an ongoing dialogue during this process with the Senate to
bring up to date their ideas and thoughts as a work in progress. Suggestion:
Request a joint meeting to encourage/promote conversation.
Ø
Election of Adjunct
Member of Senate
As there was only one formal nominee for candidate
submitted to the Senate, it was suggested that this nominee be declared the
winner.
A question was raised as to whether hard copy
notifications had been delivered to adjunct faculty mailboxes, and since our
efforts had relied on email communications, it was urged that we take one
additional step in the process to insure fairness.
M/S To move the Report item “Election of
Adjunct Member of Senate” to Action. (Garey/Rose) Unanimous
3.2
EVP’s Report
Ø
Review of Announcement
for New & Replacement Faculty, Fall ’04
The EVP is preparing to send out the standard
“new and replacement faculty” letter to Department chairs and has
requested the Senate’s informal input regarding the content of the
letter.
The EVP addressed the Senate’s concerns about
ranking the approved replacements stating that ranking the replacement
positions was not the intent of his request for input regarding the letter to
Department chairs. From the Senate’s comments and suggestions the EVP has
established what the letter should include.
Ø
FTES Projections for
’03-‘04
The projection is that FTES will be approximately 5%
over cap at the current rate. Efforts are being made to reduce the amount of
unfounded FTES by cutting FTES from the non-credit program and consolidating
low enrolled credit classes offered in the Spring 2004 semester.
Ø
Budget Status
CPC will be asked to begin work on the development of
the 2004-05 college budget. The budget
development process will be challenging in that there are still many unknowns to be determined at the state
level.
Ø
Response to concern re:
minutes of 7-18-03.
The EVP stated that the Minutes are accurate.
3.3 Liaison Reports
Request: Liaisons should apprise the Senate President
if there is a report for presentation or if there is not.
The P&R liaison reported that the committee has
begun to brainstorm possible criteria if budget cuts affect academic programs.
The “What is a Load” will also be reviewed.
The CAC liaison reported the deadline for Fall 04
– All CAC changes are due October 20, 2003. The committee will be looking
at Prerequisite issues during the spring semester.
Regarding Sabbatical Leave Committee – strong
effort is underway to reinstate the approved leaves. The one-year suspension of funding for sabbatical leaves is
now up and deliberation/discussion of restoring the funding for leaves should
begin. Request for next meeting:
have previous Minutes available for next meeting.
Comment: Notify
Academic Senate Committee Chairs who their Senate Liaison is.
Request: Discuss
the expectations of the Liaison.
4.0
DISCUSSION ITEMS
4.1 Should we rename this section, “New Business?”
No change recommended.
4.2 Defining “Committee Service”
What constitutes committee service? The question arose as we became aware that a small number of committees meet once or twice a year and others meet twice or more each month. Discussion postponed.
5.0 ACTION ITEMS
5.1
Master Teacher
Evaluation Procedure
M/S/C
Remove the tabled motion (Garey/Carroll) Unanimous
The
last two sentences in paragraph A should be reversed.
Peer
= Any tenured faculty.
M/S/C Friendly amendment substitution: add the
sentence “At his/her sole discretion the evaluatee may incorporate
additional evaluation activities.” to B 1 as the last sentence.
(Garey/Carroll)
M/S/C To adopt and approve the proposed language for
the Master Teacher Evaluation Procedure as amended (Garey/Carroll) Unanimous
5.2
Election of Adjunct
Member of Senate
The
Adjunct Faculty Senator, Michelle Fulton, voiced concern about the need to
reach all the Adjunct Faculty in the nomination process.
M/S/C To direct the President of the Academic Senate
to hold a formal election for Adjunct Faculty representative via traditional
hard copy double envelope ballot (Garey/Schultz) Unanimous
6.0 ADJOURNMENT