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Minutes Spring Semester 2008
FACULTY SENATE MINUTESMay 6, 2008 Members Present:President.............................................................................. Ardon Alger Vice President—Mathematics & Sciences........................ Cathie Keenan Secretary/Treasurer—Mathematics & Sciences............. Diana Cosand Curriculum Chair............................................................... Sid Burks Business & Applied Technology....................................... Joy Haerens Business & Applied Technology....................................... James Kerr Health Sciences.................................................................... Renee Ketchum Health Sciences.................................................................... Sue Bartell Instructional Support......................................................... Cecilia Best Language Arts..................................................................... Neil Watkins Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Karen Lyman Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Angela Sadowski Student Services.................................................................. Bob Baiz Student Services.................................................................. Monica Molina Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Tom deDobay Senator-at-Large................................................................. Jeff Brouwer Senator-at-Large................................................................. Bob Toister Members Absent:Instructional Support......................................................... Greg Creel Language Arts..................................................................... Laura Hope Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Orville Clarke/Teaching in Italy Senator-at-Large................................................................. Robin Ikeda Adjunct Senator-at-Large.................................................. Ky Suh Alternates Present:Language Arts..................................................................... Angela Bartlett Student Services.................................................................. Carol Hutte Student Services.................................................................. Maria Mora Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. John Machado Guests: Jon Ausubel Jeff Saito Earl Davis Henry Shannon Cathy Decker, New LA Alternate Senator Donna Walker Shirley Emilio Katherine Wilson, New SS Senator I. P.E.II. CALL TO ORDERIII. APPROVAL OF MINUTES AND CONSENT AGENDAMinutes of April 29, 2008 and consent agenda were approved 19-0 as amended. IV. CONSENT AGENDAV. REPORTS· President § Tenure Reception Correction to April 15, 2008 Minutes—Congratulations again to the newly-tenured faculty: Sue Bartell, Ruth Delgado, Rachel Hanna, Annette Henry, Linda Marcotte, Lucy Serrano, Tom Vitzelio, and Jane Warger. § President’s Cabinet—Clarification to April 15, 2008 Minutes—Admissions & Records will be open until 7:00 pm. Monday through Thursday during the 4/10 work week. Additionally, please note that Financial Aid, Cashiering, Counseling, and Assessment will also be open until 7:00 pm during the 4/10 work week. Salaries will be paid directly by Chaffey College beginning July 1, 2008. § Distance Education—Dr. Susan Lucas expressed concerns with the April 15 minutes. Faculty Senate will invite Dr. Lucas to Senate in the fall to address these issues. § Faculty Prioritizations for 2008-2009—President Alger provided Senators with a list of Faculty Prioritizations for full-time faculty for 2008-09. § Accreditation—President Alger again urged faculty to participate in the Accreditation process by volunteering to serve on one of the Accreditation Committees. Some areas are not well represented, specifically Standard III: Resources and Standard IV: Leadership and Governance. To sign up for a committee or additional information, please contact Inge Pelzer at Extension 6457. VI. OLD BUSINESSVII. NEW BUSINESS· Introduction of New & Acknowledgment of Outgoing Senators—Outgoing Senators whose terms expire this year are Bob Toister, who served for 3 years as Senator-at-Large; Karen Lyman, who served for 11 years as Senator from Social & Behavioral Sciences; and Monica Molina, who served for 6 years as Senator from Student Services. Senate expressed appreciation for their years of service and congratulated Karen on her retirement. Senate welcomed Senators who will be joining us beginning in the fall: Angela Bartlett will serve as Senator-At-Large, Cathy Decker will serve as Alternate Language Arts Senator, Alif Wardak will serve as Mathematics & Sciences Senator, Diana Cosand will serve as Alternate Mathematics & Sciences Senator, Marylee Requa will serve as Social & Behavioral Sciences Senator, Tim Greene will serve as Alternate Social & Behavioral Sciences Senator, and Katherine Wilson will serve as the Student Services Senator. James Kerr, Abel Chen, Renee Ketchum, Cecilia Best, Laura Hope, Maria Mora, Angela Sadowski, and Orville Clarke have won reelection to their current positions for an additional term. · Presentation of Scholarships—Faculty Senate Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each, were awarded to this year’s recipients, Christa Argueta and Orly Moshe. · Prioritization of Construction Projects—Dr. Henry Shannon, Superintendent/President; Earl Davis, Vice President, Business Services; Jeff Saito, Director, Purchasing; and Bill Winslow, Program Manager, Bernards Management Services—Senate’s construction concerns are in italics followed by responses. § All Instruction Areas: Make sure the air conditioning and heating are working satisfactorily for a good learning environment, and make sure each room looks presentable, including paint, carpet, furniture and lights. We are committed to safe, functional environments. It is a high priority. The board has provided direction for upgrading air conditioning and heating. Senators expressed concern that heating and air conditioning issues be resolved in Business, Language Arts, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics, and Visual, Performing, and Communication Arts. We are putting together a project to meet those needs. Painting is part of a regularly scheduled maintenance plan. We will get you a copy of the five-year plan. § Gym: Address the repair issues and student use issues. Repair issues with the current gym. The district is going out to bid with new gym and renovation program. Bernards will set up meetings with the Athletic Department. President Shannon commented that conditions in the current gym are not acceptable. He is committed to both fixing the old gym and putting in the new one. § Adequate General Classrooms: Making sure we have enough general classrooms to meet students’ needs. This is a particular concern on the Rancho Campus. The VSS building will be available for classroom use. There will be “swing space” (temporary space) for people being moved from building to building. The College is in line for State funding for a Humanities Building which will be all general classrooms. § New Student Center: Make sure there is some way for the College Culinary Program to continue to serve students on the Rancho Campus and serve and prepare food for college community functions. New Campus Center West (CCW) plans are done. Existing CCW must be demolished to build a two-story building. Upstairs will have student activities offices. Groups in the current building will go in the new building. Swing space for building residents has not yet been determined. Culinary is moving to Chino. However, the Culinary Program will be consulted on ways that they can continue to provide food for college community events in Campus Center West. When the cafeteria is demolished, food will be prepared in the Child Development area and served in Wargin Hall. There is a staff dining room in the new facility. No demolition date has been set yet. Meetings will be scheduled so stakeholders may be involved. Art Committee expressed concerns about the art in CCW. John Machado will be in contact with Dr. Shannon about transferring artworks. § Adequate Office Space for Faculty: This includes both full-time and part-time faculty. Lack of offices has a real effect on student learning. We are sensitive to the need to get faculty out of 7x7 cells as soon as possible and for getting space for adjunct faculty to work. All full-time faculty have offices but part-time faculty have nothing. We are sensitive to providing workspaces for adjunct faculty. The adjunct work area at the Chino Campus main instructional building is the model we are committed to do. Many faculty offices are shared and some faculty offices are not near where they work. Dr. Shannon will address these issues. § Parking Lot 6: Expand the parking lot to recover the lost parking due to the new VPA building, create a second exit out of the parking lot to the south and stripe the parking lot for the most efficient use. Omnitrans has provided a $3 million grant to design and construct a transit center; a permanent bus station with shelter. There is the potential that College Drive will widen because of the addition of the new gym. There are a number of issues involved with parking lot 6 (East of the Theater). The current parking lot 6 is not striped for an easy flow of traffic. Senators commented that they were worried about where students were going to park in the Fall. § Green Issues: Address some of the green issues around energy use now, both as a statement about saving the planet and saving on-going money. The College is highly interested in being good citizens of the planet and efficient facilities, and we are open to exploring a number of ideas. The College is committed to moving forward with green issues. § Landscaping: Senators expressed concern about there being too much grass in the center of campus and it not being drought-tolerant landscaping. The Tree Committee has worked with the landscape architect to plan a larger number of native and drought- tolerant plants for this area. Irrigation now contains a computer-controlled irrigation system to control water use. The campus also has pipes for using reclaimed water for irrigation, but Cucamonga County Water District (CCWD) does not yet have a system in place to bring reclaimed water to Chaffey College. Dr. Shannon and others will visit and talk with CCWD about the issue. Senators expressed concern that users groups had not always been invited to be part of the building planning process or continue to be consulted as the building plans evolve. Dr. Shannon plans to keep faculty in the loop. Senators also expressed concern about the Mathematics facilities. The plan is to renovate what we have and the College is committed to doing this. Dr. Shannon said he would look into the possibility of having a continuous loop shuttle/tram to transport students and staff from one part of the campus to another. This would help traffic flow and parking since students would not be moving their cars from one end of campus to the other to get to their next class on time. VIII. ANNOUNCEMENTSIX. FLOOR ITEMSX. SUMMARYXI. ADJOURNMENTThe meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m. Respectfully submitted by, ____________________________________ Donna Walker, Recording Secretary ____________________________________ Diana Cosand, Secretary/Treasurer
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Neil Watkins, LA |
§ Art Instructor Screening Committee
Victoria Tirado, LA |
§ Cashier’s Office Coordinator
Tim Arner, M&S |
§ Dean, Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts Screening Committee
Bill Stanford, VPCA |
Kipp Preble, VPCA |
Cynde Miller, VPCA |
Daniel Jacobo, VPCA |
Christa Havenhill, VPCA |
Vanessa Thomas, BAT |
§ Financial Aid Advisor Screening Committee
Susan Starr, SS |
§ Plant Maintenance Mechanic Screening Committee
Chuck Hollenbeck, M&S |
§ Vice President of Instruction Internal Position Screening Committee
Ardon Alger, VPCA |
Bret McMurran, SBS |
Paula Snyder, SBS |
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§ President’s Cabinet—President Alger reported that there was a long discussion about fiscal independence at the Cabinet meeting. Salaries are now being paid directly by Chaffey College. Chaffey will eventually have paperless confirmation available on Chaffey View for employees with direct deposit. Ardon also reported that Chaffey will be going to a four-day work week in summer, with exceptions in some of the learning centers. This will save Chaffey about $1000 per day. Admissions and Records will still be open until at least 6:30 p.m.
§ Accreditation—Ends policies will now line up more closely with accreditation standards. We need more faculty to participate on accreditation committees. Some areas are not well represented. The four accreditation standards are broken down on a handout shown to Senators.
§ Program and Services Review Committee Expired Terms—President Alger announced that three-year terms expire in June for Elmano Alves, Karen Encinas, Rachel Hanna, Ted Jenkins, Renee Ketchum, Linda Mundy, Kipp Preble, and Alan Roebuck. Senators should find out if the people in their areas would like to run again. This committee determines the extent to which the college's programs and services assist in achieving its adopted mission and goals. The committee then makes recommendations to the Superintendent/President regarding changes in operations and budget allocations. Faculty interested in serving on this committee should contact their Senator or the Faculty Senate Office at Extension 6965.
§ Senate will not meet next week in lieu of the Faculty Lecturer of the Year. Our last formal meeting will be April 29.
§ Senate Elections—In the absence of the Vice President, President Alger announced that Laura Hope was elected as the Senator from Language Arts (LA) and Cathy Decker was elected as the LA Alternate Senator; Alif Wardak was elected as the Senator representing Mathematics & Sciences (M&S) and Diana Cosand was elected as the Alternate Senator from M&S; Katherine Wilson was elected as the Student Services Senator and Maria Mora was elected as the Student Services Alternate Senator; Renee Ketchum was elected as the Health Sciences Senator; Angela Sadowski was elected as the Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Senator completing Karen Lyman’s term, Marylee Requa was elected as Senator from SBS with Tim Green elected as Alternate Senator from SBS. Elections are still pending for Visual, Performing, and Communication Arts. President Alger reminded Senators that elections need to be completed by April 20, 2008.
President Alger reminded faculty that if they haven’t voted in the Faculty Senate Elections there is still time. Faculty have received ballots via email and hardcopy. Ballots can be returned to the Faculty Senate Office through campus mail, email, or in person. The deadline for voting is Monday, April 28 at 4:30 pm.
· Curriculum
§ Chair Burks reported that the Institutional Level Learning Outcomes subcommittee (combined Senate and Curriculum) will meet immediately after the next Senate meeting on 4/29/08.
· Coordinators
§ Bill Winslow from Bernards Construction came to talk about construction issues. Senators were concerned that we choose construction options that benefit the entire campus rather than just limited areas.
· Committees
§ Distance Education—Beverly Cox reported that Distance Education has moved to ATL-109. Distance Education needs more administrative support. The existing staff may be overworked. When students make a phone call to get help, they have no direct access to help. They can only leave messages on a help line. There does not appear to be an effective pipeline to get all the needed information about Distance Education courses to students.
· Faculty Senate Scholarships—Senate reviewed and discussed the scholarship applications and selected Christa Argueta and Orly Moshe as this year’s Faculty Senate Scholarship recipients. Each recipient will receive a $1,000 scholarship which will be presented at the Installation of Officers luncheon on Tuesday, May 6.
· Meritorious Service Award Luncheon—Senate sends a special thank you to Eunice Clark, Auxiliary Services Director; Cafeteria Supervisor Connie Fung, Chef Victor Marcel, Assistants An Banh, Vi N. Do, Leslie Phung, Navidad Maldonaldo, and Jaime Rios; Chaffey Ambassadors Eva Cortez, Vanessa Grow, Crystal Heer, and Lindsay O’Bannon; for all of their efforts in coordinating and staging of the luncheon so beautifully. Once again the Meritorious Service Luncheon was a huge success thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Eunice Clark and S&B Foods. Over seventy-three faculty, administrators, and staff attended to honor Chuck Cargill, Crispin Gonzalez, and George Reeder. Chuck, Crispin, and George have a combined 86 years of service to Chaffey College. Library plates should arrive soon and will be installed on the perpetual plaque just inside the Library’s entrance.
· Tenure Reception—President Alger reported that the 2nd Annual Tenure Reception was a tremendous success. Faculty Senate would like to thank Dawn Taccone and the Hotel & Food Service Management students, Gilbert Camacho, Chaz Coggins, Dean Denike, Dustin Kruse, Elizabeth McSwain, Brenda Meza, Stefanie Moretti, Edward Oropeza, Casey Resendez, Derk Reshaw, Maritza Rigley, Leticia Rubio, and Camille Wallon, on the excellent service, presentation, and food provided for the newly-tenured faculty reception on April 9. Senate would also like to thank those that attended; approximately 75 administrators, faculty, & staff. Congratulations again to the newly-tenured faculty: Sue Bartell, Ruth Delgado, Rachel Hanna, Linda Marcotte, Lucy Serrano, Tom Vitzelio, and Jane Warger.
· Faculty Get-Together—The last faculty get-together of the year will be held in the Zoology lab on Thursday, April 17 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm. Faculty are encouraged to stop by for free food, fun with friends and colleagues, and see some very interesting things in the Zoology Lab.
· Add Code Draft Information Pamphlet—Frequently Asked Questions—A draft add code number information pamphlet was made available to Senators. Senators approved with no changes.
· Chaffey College Automatic Payment Plan—Senate looked at a draft flyer for the automatic payment plan which will be made available to Chaffey students. Students may pay by automatic bank payment or credit or debit card.
· Study Abroad South Africa Club Presentation—Monica Carter of the Political Science Department, as well as students Chelsey Crowley and Ian Scott presented a slide show and presentation about their upcoming Summer 08 Study Abroad South Africa trip. The trip will include a mixture of academics, volunteering (orphanages, hospitals, schools, etc.), and cultural excursions (safari, baboon & penguin colonies, Nelson Mandela's jail cell). Each trip is $5,380 per student. As a result of the large costs, the three are trying to raise money to offset the cost of the trip. They have successfully raised $14,000 and visited Faculty Senate in hopes of getting faculty support. If you'd like to help make sure Chaffey students get a more broader world view in their education AND get a great tax write-off, they could use your help. Checks can be sent to Monica Carter (made out to the Chaffey College Foundation with "Study Abroad South Africa 2008" in the memo).
· Faculty Senate’s Installation of New Senators—Luncheon meeting for the installation of new Senators and acknowledgement of outgoing Senators will be held on Tuesday, May 6 in the Staff Dining Room. Lunch will be catered by S&B Foods.
· Art Committee—Senate put out an open call for a faculty representative to replace Doug Duno who has stepped down because he is going on sabbatical. The purpose of the Art Committee is to evaluate and assist the college in locating art works throughout the various college campuses. The committee meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month from 12:30-1:30 pm in the EEC Building, Room 204. Interested faculty are encouraged to contact the Faculty Senate Office at Extension 6965 and ask to have their name put on the list.
· Course Substitution—Ardon Alger for Cathie Keenan—There is a committee that allows students to substitute courses for a variety of reasons. For instance, sometimes there is a learning disability that prevents success in algebra. Out of the total number of students who attempted class substitutions through Fall 2007, there were 31 positive outcomes and 16 negative outcomes.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by,
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Donna Walker, Recording Secretary
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Diana Cosand, Secretary/Treasurer
April 1, 2008
President.............................................................................. Ardon Alger
Vice President—Mathematics & Sciences........................ Cathie Keenan
Secretary/Treasurer—Mathematics & Sciences............. Diana Cosand
Curriculum Chair............................................................... Sid Burks
Business & Applied Technology....................................... James Kerr
Health Sciences.................................................................... Renee Ketchum
Instructional Support......................................................... Cecilia Best
Instructional Support......................................................... Greg Creel
Language Arts..................................................................... Neil Watkins
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Karen Lyman
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Angela Sadowski
Student Services.................................................................. Bob Baiz
Student Services.................................................................. Monica Molina
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Tom deDobay
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Jeff Brouwer
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Bob Toister
Adjunct Senator-at-Large.................................................. Ky Suh
Business & Applied Technology....................................... Joy Haerens
Health Sciences.................................................................... Sue Bartell
Language Arts..................................................................... Laura Hope
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Orville Clarke/Teaching in Italy
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Robin Ikeda
Health Sciences.................................................................... Beverly Cox
Language Arts..................................................................... Angela Bartlett
Mathematics & Sciences..................................................... Alif Wardak
Student Services.................................................................. Carol Hutte
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. John Machado
Minutes of March 25, 2008 and consent agenda were approved 20-0 as amended.
§ Faculty representatives have been requested to serve as follows:
§ Counselor Screening Committee
Bob Baiz, SS |
Angela Sadowski, SBS |
§ Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes Subcommittee (Faculty Senate & Curriculum)
Shelley Marcus, LLR |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Art Committee
Doug Duno, LA |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Cinema Instructor Screening Committee
Laurie Pratt, VPCA |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Counselor Screening Committee
Susan Starr, SS |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Dean, Business & Applied Technology Screening Committee
Vanessa Thomas, BAT |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Ethics Across the Curriculum Committee
Thierry Brusselle, BAT |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes Subcommittee (Faculty Senate & Curriculum)
Laurie Pratt, VPCA |
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§ Bernards Prioritization of Projects—Senators were given the Prioritization of Projects for the Measure L Bond Program. Dr. Shannon told the Senate last week that the College did not have enough money to do all of the projects it had hoped to do with the Measure L funds. Thus the College is going to re-examine what projects we can do and what projects will have to wait. There will be some opportunity for input from the faculty. Please seek out those opportunities if you are interested. The brown bag lunch with Dr. Shannon and the VPs, on Wednesday, April 16 during college hour might be one. The Senate on Tuesday, April 29 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm will feature Dr. Shannon and several others in charge of the construction speaking about what the College can do with the remaining funds.
§ Faculty Get-Together—President Alger announced that the faculty get-together in Aeronautics was a success.
§ 2008 Alumni of the Year & Athletic Hall of Fame—Senators Renee Ketcum and Monica Molina will represent Faculty Senate at the 2008 Alumni of the Year & Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario.
§ Senate will not meet next week in lieu of the Meritorious Service Award Luncheon.
§ State Academic Senate Resolutions—President Alger provided a table of contents with the web address for the resolutions that will be discussed and voted on at the Spring Plenary session April 17-19, 2008. Resolutions can be accessed at the following web site: http://www.asccc.org/Events/sessions/spring2008/materials/Final%20Resolutions%20Edited.doc.
§ Faculty Accomplishments—President Alger’s Governing Board Report for March was included in the Senate packets. This report details a number of faculty accomplishments. Faculty members who would like to be featured in an upcoming Board Report should email pertinent information (who, what, when, where, why, and please spell out all acronyms) to ardon.alger@chaffey.edu in the Faculty Senate Office. Please remember that incomplete reports cannot be included. Faculty Accomplishments can be viewed on the Faculty Senate website at http://www.chaffey.edu/facultysenate/accomplished.shtml.
§ Senate sends condolences to the family of retired Vocational Nursing Professor Mary Elizabeth Boul, who recently passed away. Senate authorized a memorial donation to St. Vincent de Paul Society in lieu of flowers.
§ Senate also sends condolences to the family of retired English Professor Richard J. Clements, who recently passed away.
§ Vice President
§ Senate Elections—Vice President Keenan polled Senators on their school elections. Elections for expired Senate seats need to be completed no later than thirty days before the end of the Spring semester; April 20, 2008.
· Curriculum
§ Chair Burks reported that Terri Helfand and Jim Kerr, representing Computer Information Systems and Computer Science, had addressed the Curriculum Committee regarding the proposal to drop the Computer Literacy graduation requirement. As a result of the presentation, the committee now recommends that the Computer Literacy graduation requirement remain in effect until Institutional Level Outcomes are developed.
· Committees
§ Budget Advisory Committee—Earl Davis reported that the College is not going to put the normal $500,000 from the General Fund into the GASB 45 Reserve. This is being done to free more general funds.
§ Datatel Colleague Steering— Vice President Keenan announced that students can now pay their fees in increments through an external vendor. If they have made arrangements for the payment plan, they will not be deregistered for non-payment. Registration slots for new and returning students will be cut back so there are fewer per day to avoid “clogging the system.”
· Senate Elections—Call for Nominations—Vice President Keenan announced the following nominations: Dan Loomis and Peggy Madden have been nominated for Faculty Lecturer of the Year; Angela Bartlett and Beverly Cox have been nominated for Senator-at-Large; Sandra Collins, Ken Koenigshofer, Sariwan Tjandra, and Alif Wardak have been nominated for the Professional Relations Committee. Ballots will be distributed by April 4. The deadline for voting is 4:30 pm on Monday, April 28, 2007.
Senator Keenan also announced that Jim Kerr won reelection for an additional term as Senator for Business & Applied Technology (BAT) and Abel Chen won reelection as the Alternate Senator for BAT. Cecelia Best has been elected Senator from Instructional Support. Elections for other schools are still pending.
· Final Exam Schedule Committee—Senate reviewed and discussed the list of nominees and selected Mark Lewis, Melanie Olivera-La Vallee, Lisa Padgett, and Candice Tinsley to serve on the Final Exam Schedule Committee.
· MyChaffey VIEW—Web Add Codes Demonstration—Melanie Siddiqi, Director, Administrative Systems and Cecilia Carrera, Director, Admissions & Records—Melanie and Cecilia presented a demonstration to the Senate on a new “add code” process that will allow students to register for a closed, waitlisted, and/or instructor signature-required class, once the class has started. With the exception of the circumstances listed above, all other registration checks and balances will remain status quo (e.g. prerequisite checking, student restrictions.) The new functionality will be effective with the start of the summer term. Each section will have 20 random add codes generated for it. The codes will be accessible on MyChaffeyVIEW, under the Faculty menu. Add codes may be given to students (one code per student) to add closed/waitlisted/instructor signature-required classes after the class has begun. Instructors having problems with the process may contact the ITS Help Desk. Students having problems with the process may contact Admissions and Records. This process has been used successfully at a number of other schools. The new add code functionality will be advertised in the schedule of classes, and an email announcing the process will be sent out to students. Senators have been given a draft of the add code pamphlet, and add code cards will be mailed out to faculty later. Further demonstrations on the new add code process will be provided to the coordinators, student services, and possibly during Flex. Open lab sessions on the add code functionality will also be scheduled in the ITS training room which will be open to all faculty. Several emails sent by different individuals will also be sent to all faculty, advising them of the new add code process.
· Bookstore Update—Eunice Clark, Director, Auxiliary Services—Eunice introduced Sylvia Martinez, the new textbook buyer, and Tara Johnson, the new buyer assistant. They submitted the draft of the bookstore information for the Faculty Senate handbook. Eunice reported that AB 1548, the College Textbook Transparency Act passed in January 2008, states that unsolicited complimentary copies may still be sold to buyers, but you may not sell marked instructors copies or copies of books you have chosen for your classes. Eunice is currently serving on the Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee that includes all the different stakeholders with the goal of lowering textbook costs, and this information will be given to the State Board of Governors. The Chancellor is very involved in this textbook summit to reduce costs. The National Association of College Stores is using Chaffey’s guidelines as a model for how to create a textbook task force. They have come up with textbook and materials adoption process guidelines to try to lower costs to students. There were a lot of questions about why we moved up the textbook adoption process. It has to do with the timing of the book buyback. The bookstore is promoting a “Go Green” culture change to save the planet. Book buyback shows that we are recycling books. The bookstore donated $25,000 to the telethon and to student scholarships. There is a plan to remodel the main store, take all the neon out, and remodel the floor so there is room for more books. As of today, we have received 93% of our book orders for summer school. The early orders have allowed us to acquire 24% more used books from wholesalers. We can now provide more assistance to instructors who have problems using the bookstore website and more service to instructors by following up status of outstanding orders.
· Meritorious Service Award Luncheon—Faculty Senate sends a very special thank you to Eunice Clark for funding Faculty Senate’s Meritorious Service Award Luncheon for the past 15 years. This is an extraordinary event that Eunice has provided as a courtesy to Faculty Senate to honor retired faculty for superior teaching, professional achievement, and college service.
· Waiver of Liability, Assumption of Risk, and Indemnity Agreement—This revised form for field trips was given to Senators for review and will then go to President’s Cabinet for final review.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by,
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Donna Walker, Recording Secretary
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Diana Cosand, Secretary/Treasurer
FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
March 25, 2008
President.............................................................................. Ardon Alger
Vice President—Mathematics & Sciences........................ Cathie Keenan
Secretary/Treasurer—Mathematics & Sciences............. Diana Cosand
Curriculum Chair............................................................... Sid Burks
Business & Applied Technology....................................... Joy Haerens
Business & Applied Technology....................................... James Kerr
Health Sciences.................................................................... Renee Ketchum
Health Sciences.................................................................... Sue Bartell
Instructional Support......................................................... Greg Creel
Language Arts..................................................................... Neil Watkins
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Karen Lyman
Student Services.................................................................. Bob Baiz
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Tom deDobay
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Jeff Brouwer
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Robin Ikeda
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Bob Toister
Adjunct Senator-at-Large.................................................. Ky Suh
Instructional Support......................................................... Cecilia Best
Language Arts..................................................................... Laura Hope
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Angela Sadowski
Student Services.................................................................. Monica Molina
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Orville Clarke/Teaching in Italy
Health Sciences.................................................................... Beverly Cox
Language Arts..................................................................... Angela Bartlett
Student Services.................................................................. Carol Hutte
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. John Machado
Guests:
Bret McMurran
Maggie Van Riper
Minutes of March 11, 2008 and consent agenda were approved 20-0 as amended.
§ Faculty representatives have been requested to serve as follows:
§ Art Instructor Screening Committee
Susan Starr, SS |
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§ Fontana Phase III Users Group
Michele Jenkins, VPCA |
Jan Raithel, VPCA |
Joyce Oakdale, M&S |
Dale DesLauriers, M&S |
§ Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes Subcommittee (Faculty Senate & Curriculum)
Robin Ikeda, M&S |
Neil Watkins, LA |
Laura Hope, LA |
Sid Burks, BAT |
Charmaine Phipps, LA |
Laurie Pratt, VPCA |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Art Instructor Screening Committee
Maria Fitzpatrick, SBS |
Mark Lewis, VPCA |
§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Counselor Screening Committee
Robin Ikeda, M&S |
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§ Technical Support Specialist Screening Committee
Steve Siedschlag, BAT |
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· President
§ Senate Calendar—President Alger distributed a calendar listing Senate’s March and April events/activities.
§ 2008 Alumni of the Year and Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet—Ardon polled Senators on their interest in attending this year’s Alumni of the Year & Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, April 10 at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario. Senators interested in attending need to let Ardon know by April 1.
§ Financial Aid—Ardon shared with Senators an email from Dr. Rahmani stating that students who apply for financial aid will not be dereged or dropped from classes. These students pay their fees when they receive their financial aid package. Students not packaged will pay out-of-pocket; however, they will not have been dereged or dropped. This is a very student friendly procedure and supportive of Chaffey’s enrollment goals. It also ensures that students in need are never blocked from access due to financial reasons.
§ Faculty Get-Together—Ardon encouraged Senators to attend the Faculty Get-Together on Thursday, March 27 in the Aeronautics Department from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Food will be provided by the Senate and beverages are courtesy of the Chaffey College Foundation.
§ Senate offers its condolences on the passing of Robert Marcus Lober, Emeritus astronomy professor and planetarium director. Senate authorized a donation in his memory to the Bishop Senior Center.
· Curriculum
§ Chair Burks announced that the Computer Information Systems faculty will attend the Curriculum meeting tomorrow to explain their side of the computer literacy requirement.
· Committee
§ Art—John Machado reported on the wonderful art installations that may be found all over the campus and distributed Temporary Art Park brochures to Senators.
§ Technology—President Alger clarified the computer replacement cycle. Replacements aren’t necessarily done on a three-year rotation. Computers are replaced based on many different factors, including age and available budget. Information Technology Services will soon notify those individuals regarding replacements for next year. All faculty computers scheduled to be replaced during the 2007-2008 academic year have been purchased.
· Pass/No Pass—A draft Pass/No Pass Request form was distributed to Senators. After review and discussion Senate approved the draft document as written 20/0.
· Final Exam Schedule—President Alger announced that the final exam schedule will not be changed for Fall 2008. A committee is being formed to resolve final exam schedule issues for Spring 2009. The issues that need to be resolved are: starting earlier in the evening, finding a better way of accommodating exceptions to the printed schedule, and more effectively addressing the needs of hybrid classes and classes that are less than three units. The committee will meet a couple of times this semester. Senate put out a call for faculty representatives to serve on this committee. Interested faculty should contact their Senator or the Faculty Senate Office at Extension 6965 and ask to be added to the list.
· Chaffey College Issues—Dr. Henry Shannon, Superintendent/President—Since arriving at Chaffey College, Dr. Shannon has been looking over an interesting list of challenges. One is the accreditation issue. Two weeks ago he served on an accreditation team for Lassen Community College to learn about what we will need to do for our self-study. The standards are different now and more rigorous than in 2004 when we did our last self-study. Accreditation requires an Education Master Plan and that master plan should be driven by a curriculum based approach. The college has hired Michael Dolence, a nationally known expert in this process, to help us create this plan. The process of developing this will begin with a two-day workshop on April 17-18 at the college. A cross section of the college will work on formulating the new plan.
The State budget appears to be about $16 billion short. The college is expecting a $5 million cut in funding for the next year. During the spring break the College was informed that it will have a $1 million cut to this year’s budget. The College has a policy of keeping a 7% reserve; the State requires a 5% reserve. The District currently has more than a 7% reserve.
Bret McMurran raised a number of questions about different categories of money that could be used for other purposes including teachers and class offerings. Dr. Shannon stated that we do not expect to hire an additional dean at this time; hiring freeze of non-faculty positions, barring critical need; and increase full-time faculty positions from 229 to 235; however, two positions are only temporary.
Dr. Shannon stated finding Deans and VPs is very difficult nationwide and that Chaffey is working to grow its own managers through a leadership academy. Stability and experience are important to a college and the large numbers of changes in our own management have added to our challenges.
Additional challenges have come from the massive construction projects we have undertaken; with little expertise on campus and too much reliance on 3DI. Additional problems came from the rapid increase in construction costs, as much as 40% in one year. Because of this we can’t do everything we had hoped to do with the Measure L money. We need to go back and figure out what we can do with the remaining money.
The concerns regarding phones in the classroom and communication in all areas of the campus during an emergency is being worked out and will be addressed soon.
Dr. Shannon said he has always been committed to shared governance and transparency. He is starting a regular series of brown bag open discussions on areas such as budget, campus security, and construction. The first session will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 12 noon until 1 p.m. at the Museum/Gallery Patio.
Additional discussion included what we would put into the Chino IT and Chino Education Center, what options there were for Allied Health in terms of location and administrative support. Senators expressed concern about the need for more communication between the VPs, Deans, and faculty. Dr. Shannon remains committed to the users being involved in building changes and construction.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by,
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Donna Walker, Recording Secretary
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Diana Cosand, Secretary/Treasurer
FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
March 11, 2008
President.............................................................................. Ardon Alger
Vice President—Mathematics & Sciences........................ Cathie Keenan
Secretary/Treasurer—Mathematics & Sciences............. Diana Cosand
Curriculum Chair............................................................... Sid Burks
Business & Applied Technology....................................... Joy Haerens
Business & Applied Technology....................................... James Kerr
Health Sciences.................................................................... Renee Ketchum
Health Sciences.................................................................... Sue Bartell
Instructional Support......................................................... Cecilia Best
Instructional Support......................................................... Greg Creel
Language Arts..................................................................... Laura Hope
Language Arts..................................................................... Neil Watkins
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Karen Lyman
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Angela Sadowski
Student Services.................................................................. Bob Baiz
Student Services.................................................................. Monica Molina
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Tom deDobay
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Jeff Brouwer
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Bob Toister
Adjunct Senator-at-Large.................................................. Gail Keith-Gibson
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Robin Ikeda
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Orville Clarke/Teaching in Italy
Language Arts..................................................................... Angela Bartlett
Mathematics & Sciences..................................................... Alif Wardak
Student Services.................................................................. Carol Hutte
Student Services.................................................................. Maria Mora
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. John Machado
Adjunct................................................................................. Ky Suh
Minutes of March 4, 2008 and consent agenda were approved 21-0 as amended.
§ Faculty representatives have been requested to serve as follows:
§ Community Relations Specialist Screening Committee
Susan Starr, SS |
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§ Dean, Business & Applied Technology Screening Committee
Vanessa Thomas, BAT |
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§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Accounting Instructor Screening Committee
David Karp, BAT |
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· President
§ Senate sends its condolences to the family of former Language Arts Dean Wayne Hubert on the recent loss of his youngest son, Greg. In lieu of flowers, Senate authorized a donation to the Tourette Syndrome Association in Greg Hubert’s memory.
§ Budget Concerns—President Alger distributed copies of an email from Bret to Linda Howdyshell in response to Linda’s email about faculty new hires. Chaffey College has a large reserve.
§ Senate Elections—Call for Nominations—Vice President Keenan announced that nomination memos will go out today for Senator-at-Large, Faculty Lecturer, and Professional Relations Committee. Please forward all nominations to Vice President Keenan no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 31.
· Curriculum
§ Computer Literacy—Chair Burks reported that the Chaffey Graduation Requirements Subcommittee voted to wait on recommending any changes to graduation requirements until Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes are developed, as these outcomes should drive graduation requirements. The exception to this was the computer literacy requirement. The subcommittee felt this requirement should be dropped. Chair Burks reported that the CIS/CS Department felt that they had not had an opportunity to give their input on this matter. He recommended that they have an opportunity to give input before any final decision is made.
· Faculty Screening Committees—Senate continued its discussion on faculty screening committees and approved the following faculty representatives:
§ Cinema Instructor Screening Committee
Bill Stanford, VPCA |
Daniel Jacobo, VPCA |
Kelly Ford, VPCA |
Laurie Pratt, VPCA |
Charles Williams, LA |
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· Sabbatical Reports—Tom de Dobay—Senators Baiz, Creel, Hutte, and Sadowski have reviewed Tom’s revised sabbatical report and recommend approval as revised; Senate concurred 21/0.
· Chaffey College Issues—Senate discussed different college issues and formulated questions they wanted to ask Dr. Shannon when he comes to Senate on March 25.
· Phones in Classrooms—The Chaffey College Faculty Senate and the Chaffey College Faculty Association would like to convey our great concern for the absence of reliable two-way communication between the classroom s and Campus Security. Currently, at Chaffey College, very few classrooms have telephones in which emergency information can be communicated both from the classroom and into the classroom. If emergency information were needed to be communicated to all faculty and students in all the classrooms scattered across the college, currently, it would be virtually impossible to do so in a timely manner.
In addition, any reliance by the District on cell phone communication to act as a replacement for reliable two-way classroom communication is unacceptable. Cellular reception can be sporadic at any campus site. Faculty instruct students to turn off cell phones during class (faculty also turn off their cell phones during class). Positions are not automatically given by cell phones. Many students and faculty will not participate in mass notification system using cell phones.
Why does Chaffey College not have phones in the classrooms? This issue is too important to delay any further. Both the Chaffey College Faculty Senate and the Chaffey College Faculty Association insist that phones be placed in all classrooms without any further delay. The safety of faculty and our students may very well depend on immediate action by the District concerning the placement of phones in the classroom.
· Faculty Get-Together—A suggestion was made regarding the possibility of hosting a Faculty Get-Together on campus in the Aeronautics Department on a Thursday at 4:00 pm the end of March or April. This would be a good way for faculty to get to see and know other people and departments. Senate could furnish light refreshments and beverages. Senate approved Thursday, March 27 for the next Faculty Get-Together among the airplanes.
· Faculty Ethics Statement—Emily Avila and Ryan Falcioni—The committee is working mainly on the teaching of ethics across the curriculum. We have done several panel discussions. We are doing one tomorrow on the ethics of the hiring process, with several invited speakers, including Lisa Bailey and Dale Deslauriers. We also focus on education about ethical issues. We adopted the statement of American Association of Universities and Colleges in 2000. There were comments that it was not sufficiently student centered, so we are revisiting it. We could craft it to our own issues. The State Academic Senate published an ethics statement for California Community Colleges. We have crafted our statement to include some of this in an intentionally abbreviated statement. We want to develop a statement only about a page long so that people would actually read it. An important statement is that we must maintain subject matter proficiency. Colleagues should avoid exploitation, harassment, and discriminatory treatment. And colleagues should accept responsibility for the shared governance of Chaffey College. The institution should advance honest academic conduct and the community should promote free and fair access to community college instruction. Colleagues must protect and advance academic freedom. Senators suggested that it should be added that faculty treat their colleagues with respect. Faculty should accept responsibility for responding to college communications. The Ethics Committee will revise their ethics statement in response to Senate comments. The Senate would like to thank the Ethics Committee for all its hard work.
· Accreditation—Inge Pelzer, Executive Assistant to the Superintendent/President—Inge has given all Senators a detailed handout on the process. The commission came to the campus Tuesday, March 4, for an in-service, and we were told accreditation is much more data-based than it was in the past. Inge mapped out the institutional picture of accreditation standards in relation to strategic planning and Ends Policies. The new accreditation standards have been a struggle for a lot of colleges. Now there is at least a model of how other schools have dealt with new standards in their self-study. Inge will take the leadership with faculty and staff at her side. Inge provided a chart overview of the four standards. There will be Tri Chairs, one faculty, one classified staff, and Inge. There will be four standards committees and ten support committees under those. Standard 1 is mission and effectiveness, 2 is student learning programs and services, 3 is student resources and 4 is leadership/governance. The vice-presidents will be involved on committees and work with the process. We have a series of themes that run throughout the standards titled: dialog, learning outcomes, institutional commitments and so on. Evaluation of standards has to be data-based.
Chaffey is expected to be in the proficiency range for student learning outcomes. Outcomes must have been developed, assessed, and implemented and changes must be shown. Some instructional programs are doing great with learning outcomes, Student Services are assessing and managers are just starting. Inge will be working with managers using the ends policies. We must pull all silos together into a whole of institutional effectiveness. Inge has conceptualized as follows: We have a mission. Inge has summarized learning outcomes and the mission statements presented in each of the listed standards. We are re-designing Chaffey’s mission. The strategic plan/education plan and a socio-economic impact study will be started with outside consultants. The ends policies and PSR might need changes. All of these things must be linked together to drive the accreditation.
· Final Exam Schedule—Senate agreed we needed to look at ways to make the final exam schedule work better for students and staff. They also felt the proposal to change the final schedule for Fall needed more input from different areas on campus. It was suggested that a committee be formed soon to look at options with a goal of having it ready for the Spring schedule.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by,
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Donna Walker, Recording Secretary
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Diana Cosand, Secretary/Treasurer
FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
March 4, 2008
President.............................................................................. Ardon Alger
Vice President—Mathematics & Sciences........................ Cathie Keenan
Secretary/Treasurer—Mathematics & Sciences............. Diana Cosand
Curriculum Chair............................................................... Sid Burks
Business & Applied Technology....................................... James Kerr
Health Sciences.................................................................... Renee Ketchum
Health Sciences.................................................................... Sue Bartell
Instructional Support......................................................... Greg Creel
Language Arts..................................................................... Laura Hope
Language Arts..................................................................... Neil Watkins
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Karen Lyman
Social & Behavioral Sciences.............................................. Angela Sadowski
Student Services.................................................................. Bob Baiz
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Tom deDobay
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Jeff Brouwer
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Robin Ikeda
Senator-at-Large................................................................. Bob Toister
Business & Applied Technology....................................... Joy Haerens
Instructional Support......................................................... Cecilia Best
Student Services.................................................................. Monica Molina
Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.................. Orville Clarke/Teaching in Italy
Adjunct Senator-at-Large.................................................. Gail Keith-Gibson/On Leave
Instructional Support......................................................... Rob Rundquist
Language Arts..................................................................... Angela Bartlett
Mathematics & Sciences..................................................... Alif Wardak
Student Services.................................................................. Carol Hutte
Adjunct................................................................................. Ky Suh
Minutes of February 19, 2008 and consent agenda were approved 20-0 as amended.
§ Approval of funds not to exceed $250 to purchase plaques for the Meritorious Service recipients.
§ Approval of funds not to exceed $200 to host a dessert reception for the Meritorious Service recipients.
§ Approval of funds not to exceed $100 to purchase the plaque for Faculty Lecturer.
§ Approval of funds not to exceed $200 for miscellaneous supplies for Faculty Lecturer event.
§ Approval of funds not to exceed $800 to host the annual Tenure Reception.
§ Faculty representatives have been requested to serve as follows:
§ Art Instructor Screening Committee
Ardon Alger, VPCA |
Stan Hunter, VPCA |
Mark Lewis, VPCA |
John Machado, VPCA |
Cynde Miller, VPCA |
Misty Burruel, VPCA |
Maria Fitzpatrick, SBS |
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§ Assistant Curator, Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts Screening Committee—Revised
Ardon Alger, VPCA |
Misty Burruel, VPCA |
§ Engineering Technology/CADD Instructor Screening Committee
Cathie Keenan, M&S |
Ted Jenkins, M&S |
Mo Tavakoli, M&S |
Sid Burks, BAT |
§ Ethics Across the Curriculum Committee
Robin Ikeda, M&S |
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§ Reference Librarian Screening Committee
Rob Rundquist, Instructional Support |
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§ Resigned—Unable to Serve—Reference Librarian Screening Committee
Mike Deschamps, BAT |
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· President
§ Technology Committee Tri-Chair—President Alger announced that Technology Tri-Chair Jonathan Ausubel is teaching during the committee’s regularly scheduled meeting time for the spring semester. Alternate Tri-Chair Steve Siedschlag will serve as the Tri-Chair during the spring semester in Jonathan’s absence.
§ Disciplines List—President Alger announced that it is that time again for the formal review of the Disciplines List, which establishes the minimum qualifications for faculty of California Community Colleges. It is where they set the minimum qualifications for instructors in each discipline. This is the beginning of a new two-year cycle. The Academic Senate is introducing a new format for the list for credit faculty. These proposed changes have been created in a response to Resolution 10.02 which called for the exploration of the need for a third list to reflect emerging disciplines requiring a bachelor’s degree in a specific major (e.g. in health professions) and two years of professional experience. This new format will be voted on at the April Spring Plenary Session which requires a change to Title 5. A copy of the current Disciplines List is available on the Academic Senate’s website at http://www.asccc.org/Publications/Papers/downloads/PDFs/minimum_quals_jan2008.pdf.
§ Emergency Cell Phone Service—President Alger shared with Senators an article from the Lompoc Record on California Community Colleges signing up with a cell phone service to provide emergency alerts to students and faculty. The program involves an administrator on a community college campus perceiving an emergency, then triggering a systemwide text message to let everyone on campus know. To join the system, all you need is a cell phone capable of receiving text messages, then text “AHC,” go to “ALERTU,” and reply “Y.” Sign-ups are also available on the Internet at www.alertu.org/ahc. While the service is free, standard text-messaging rates apply.
§ President Alger announced that former faculty member, Mark Rafter, Professor of Psychology, has announced his retirement from the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita Valley. Both he and his wife, Eva Conrad, Moorpark College President, will retire this summer.
§ Included in this week’s packet was the State Academic Senate’s President’s Update informing local senates of significant issues. Also included in the packet was a budget update from the Chancellor’s Office.
§ Administrative Procedure 5.6: Speech: Time, Place and Manner—Robin Ikeda reported that the Senate Subcommittee working on Administrative Procedure 5.6 (AP 5.6, Speech: Time, Place and Manner) had completed its revisions of the current procedure, and met with Inge Pelzer on February 26 to review the draft. In that meeting, we learned that management has also been reviewing the procedure, and has had the law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Rudd and Romo review, comment upon, and revise both the Board Policy 5.6 and AP 5.6, as well as Administrative Procedure 8.4 (AP 8.4, Use of District Facilities). Inge submitted to the subcommittee the legal opinion, as well as the revised BP 5.6, AP 5.6, and AP 8.4, with the expectation that the subcommittee would review the materials and meet with her again to discuss our response to the lawyers' revisions. The subcommittee requested that, when the second meeting occurs, the managers who have taken an interest in these policies and procedures be present to discuss their concerns directly with the subcommittee so that we can agree on suitable language for the documents.
The subcommittee has begun the review of the legal opinion, and of the revised policy and procedures. The lawyers have recommended that the protection of the free speech rights of students, compelled by the Ed Code and considered in BP 5.6 and AP 5.6, be separated from those of visitors (which the lawyers assert are not specifically addressed by the Ed Code). The lawyers therefore recommend that "the provisions related to other individuals and groups be moved to the facilities use provisions of AP 8.4."
The Subcommittee was charged by the Senate to continue its review of the lawyers' documents, submitted by Inge, and to work with Inge and other managers on language that protects the educational interests of the college.
§ Faculty Accomplishments—President Alger’s Governing Board Report for February was included in the Senate packets. This report details a number of faculty accomplishments. Faculty members who would like to be featured in an upcoming Board Report should email pertinent information (who, what, when, where, why, and please spell out all acronyms) to ardon.alger@chaffey.edu in the Faculty Senate Office. Please remember that incomplete reports cannot be included. Faculty Accomplishments can be viewed on the Faculty Senate website at http://www.chaffey.edu/facultysenate/accomplished.shtml.
§ Senate Elections—Expired Terms/Call for Nominations—Vice President Keenan announced that Senate needs to notify the Electorate of an election for Senators-at-Large, Professional Relations Committee, and Faculty Lecturer of the Year. Nominations must be made not later than sixty days before the end of the spring semester; March 14, 2008.
§ Senate reviewed the current list of seats coming up for re-election; Senators who are in mid-term were asked to conduct elections for those whose terms are expiring. We need to conduct elections in Business & Applied Technology, Health Sciences, Instructional Support, Language Arts, Math & Science, Social & Behavioral Science, Student Services, and Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts.
· Curriculum
§ Chair Burks reported that Sherrie Guerrero attended the recent meeting of the Curriculum Committee and requested that the Committee consider taking the lead in developing Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes, as learning outcomes should come from the faculty. Chair Burks requested direction from the Senate. Senators voted to form a joint subcommittee of the Senate and the Curriculum Committee consisting of Robin Ikeda, Neil Watkins, Laura Hope, Sid Burks, and two members of the Curriculum Committee. Chair Burks stated that Chaffey graduation requirements should be correlated to the Institutional Level Outcomes, and that discussions about graduation requirements would be tabled until outcomes are developed.
· Coordinators
§ Linda Howdyshell spoke to the Coordinators about what we can expect for growth for the next year in relationship to this year’s numbers. Teresa Hull spoke about preparations for the opening of the New Chino Campus on March 24, 2008.
§ Sherrie Guerrero spoke on SLOs and the Student Success Initiative.
· Committees
§ Program and Services Review—Ardon Alger reported that Program Review completed the written appeals on February 22; the results of the
written appeals were sent out on February 26. The oral appeals are taking place this Friday, March 7. Written appeals are open to everyone; oral appeals are only open to those who submitted a written appeal and were again denied.
§ Sign—Ardon Alger reported that the marquee sign in front of the campus has been designed, mostly by Jan Raithel, and has been approved by the Sign Committee, management, and the Chaffey College Board of Governors. It will be completed either a little before or after the 125th Anniversary Celebration.
· Faculty Screening Committees—Senate continued its discussion on faculty screening committees and approved the following faculty representatives:
§ Biology Instructor, Chino Campus Screening Committee
Angela Burk-Herrick, M&S |
Sandra Collins, M&S |
Dale DesLauriers, M&S |
Nicole DeRose, M&S |
Baron Brown, BAT |
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§ Fire Technology Instructor Screening Committee
Bob Baiz, SS |
Sue Herman, HS |
Sid Burks, BAT |
Natalie Hannum, Outside Consultant |
§ History Instructor Screening Committee
Kathy Brindell, SBS |
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§ Mathematics Instructor Screening Committee (2 positions/Rancho & Chino)
Wes Tom, M&S |
Tim Arner, M&S |
Greg Creel, Instructional Support |
Karen Pender, M&S |
Len Crow, M&S |
Alif Wardak, M&S |
· Meritorious Service Award—Senators reviewed nominations, discussed, and accepted Chuck Cargill, Crispin Gonzalez, and George Reeder as recipients of the Meritorious Service Award; approved 20/0. The luncheon to honor this year’s recipients will be held on Tuesday, April 8 at 12:30 pm in the Staff Lounge Dining Room provided courtesy of Eunice Clark in the Bookstore. The luncheon will be followed with a campus-wide dessert reception from 2:00‑2:30 pm.
· Sabbatical Reports—Tom de Dobay & Marylee Requa—Senators Cosand, Haerens, and Lyman have reviewed Marylee Requa’s sabbatical report and recommend approval with minor formatting and punctuation revisions; Senate concurred 20/0. Senators Baiz, Creel, Hutte, & Sadowski have reviewed Tom de Dobay’s sabbatical report and request a week’s extension for the revisions to be completed. Senate concurred 20/0.
· Chino Campus—Laura Hope—There is no money for new faculty and some money we already earmarked had been spent on FFE. There seems to be a serious lack of planning. There may not be enough money for needed facilities renovations such as PS and PE.
· Classified Senate Scholarship Award Committee—Senator Renee Ketchum volunteered to serve as the faculty representative on the Classified Senate Scholarship Award Committee. Classified Senate will award four scholarships in the amount of $250 each. Three scholarships will be awarded to Chaffey College students; one scholarship will be awarded to a Chaffey College employee. Scholarship applications are available in Student Activities. The application deadline is Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
· Tenure Reception—This year’s tenured faculty members will go to the board for approval in March. Faculty Senate will host the annual Tenure Reception after board approval on Wednesday, April 9 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm in the Staff Lounge Dining Room. The food will be provided by Dawn Taccone and the Hotel and Food Service Management students.
· Senate Scholarships—Senate discussed and reviewed the Faculty Senate Scholarship criteria and application form and agreed to award two scholarships in the amount of $ 1,000 each.
· Academic Senate Plenary Session—Ardon polled Senators on their interest in attending this year’s Plenary Session, April 17-19 in San Francisco. Sid Burks will attend with President Alger. Ardon reminded faculty that Professional Development has travel and conference money and will fund up to $1,000 per approved conference. Faculty interested in attending this year’s Academic Senate Plenary Session can download a Professional Development Travel and Conference application form at http://www.chaffey.edu/profdev/travel/index.html.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by,
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Donna Walker, Recording Secretary
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Diana Cosand, Secretary/Treasurer
FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
February 19, 2008
President.............................................................................. Ardon Alger
Secretary/Treasurer—Mathematics & Sciences............. Diana Cosand
Curriculum Chair............................................................... Sid Burks
Business & Applied Technology....................................... Joy Haerens
Business & Applied Technology....................................... James Kerr
Health Sciences.................................................................... Renee Ketchum
Instructional Support......................................................... Cecilia Best
Instructional Support......................................................... Greg Creel
Language Arts................................
