Approved 11-02-2011

ACADEMIC SENATE Meeting MINUTES for Wednesday, October 26, 2011

West Campus, BC 214, 2:30 – 5:00 pm

Members Present: Ignacio Alarcón, Cornelia Alsheimer, Cindy Bower, Stan Bursten, Angel Cardenas, Gary Carroll, Gordon Coburn, Steve DaVega, Melanie Eckford-Prosser, Jeff rey Englert, Esther Frankel, David Gilbert, Debbie Mackie, Jeff Meyer, David Morris, Kenley Neufeld, Dean Nevins (President), Kathy O’Connor, Gail Reynolds, Sally Saenger, Alice Scharper for Marilynn Spaventa (EVP), Patricia Stark, Ann Wilkinson

Member(s) Absent: Marilynn Spaventa (EVP)

Guest(s): Christopher Bates, Linda Benet, Randy Bublitz, Craig Cook, Stephanie Dotson, Jana Garnett, Dane Goodman, Michael Gros, Denise Harrison (via Skype), Katie Laris, Art Olguin, Alice Scharper, Jan Schultz, Harrison Tibbits (Student Senate) Al Vera-Graziano, Mike Walker, Nina Warner, Joe White

1.0 Call to Order

1.1 Public Comments – Speaker(s) at this meeting:

Celeste Barber commented on the recommendation the Senate made in the “Guidelines for Reallocations and Reductions” in particular the last item “that full-time faculty should not be laid off” and she saw nothing mentioned about the adjunct faculty.

1.2 Approval of Agenda – so approved

1.3 Approval of Minutes 10-12-11 (Attachment A)

1.4 Approval of Minutes 10-19-11 (Attachment B)

M/S/C To approve the meeting Minutes of 10-12-2011 & 10-19-2011 w/corrections (Meyer/Bursten)

2.0 Unfinished Business

none

3.0 New Business

3.1 Proposed Recommendation [for Course Realignment] List (Attachment C)

President Nevins explained that this document will be going out to all Divisions for final vote. President Nevins reported that he has received no recommendation for changes except from VP Neufeld who recommended that student support component be added and placed above number 4: “We acknowledge that student support services are a critical component to the college and to student success.” Senator Alsheimer requested that a similar statement be added in support of adjunct faculty. President Nevins reminded everyone that the Guidelines are to inform the deans for their discussion. Senator Bursten suggested putting Senator Alsheimers’ statement in another part of the document and not in the Guidelines section; to add the statement “Consider the impact to adjuncts” under the Process section and make it the second bulleted item. VP Neufeld commented that that section is about students and what has been handed down by the state and added that personally he did not like the addition of the full time faculty statement either for the same reason that faculty positions are already covered in BP 6251 which states that we have a legal obligation to give our full time faculty a load. Recommendation from Senators O’Connor, Cardenas and Alarcón: Look at the program when scheduling courses and not the names of the instructor normally associated with a course; base your course offering decision on the course not the instructor. Senator Morris suggested removing all reference to faculty in the documents because we are dealing with very sensitive feelings and he did not want the college to end up in a civil war between adjuncts and FTF and we would be better leaving out those types of references because we are not looking to lay off anybody.

M/S/C To move to Action agenda item 3.1 Proposed Recommendation [for Course Realignment] List (Attachment C) (Neufeld/Bursten)

M/S/C Move to strike the language in the existing document #5 under the “Guidelines for Reallocations and Reductions” and the second bulleted point in the document and to approve the “Senate Proposed Recommendations for Course Realignment” document (Neufeld/Alarcón) 2 opposed

3.2 2012-2013 Academic Calendar (Attachment D)

M/S/C To move agenda item 3.2 to Action (Neufeld/Bursten)

M/S/C To approve the 2012-2013 Academic Calendar as presented (O’Connor/Carroll)

3.3 AP 5047 / BP5047 Multiple and Overlapping Enrollments Priorities (Attachment E)

Senator Bursten suggested for AP 5047 3.a. Admissions & Records will review and approvalformayapprove the time conflicts equal to 10 minutes or less. Senator O’Connor noted the policy does not address the is of “passing time” as being a part of the conflict. Senator Eckford-Prossor suggested for AP 5047 3.a Admissions & Records will review and approval for time conflicts of meeting time or lack of passing time equal to 10 minutes or less; or, it should go in the very first sentence of the policy. Senator Neufeld added that we need to match policy with practice or vice versa. Senator O’Connor was concerned that a student would even need to fill out a petition. Senator Morris wanted to know why item number 4 had been added to this policy – it seems completely irrelevant.

Recommendation from President Nevins: To send BP 547/AP 5047 to Academic Policies committee.

3.4 Replacement Position Ranking Hearings (Proposals Distributed Separately)

The hearings consisted of 5 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of Q and A from the Senate. The order of the hearings by department and presenter are listed below:

3.4.1 Theatre Arts – Katie Laris

3.4.2 English Comp – Mike Walker

3.4.3 SCAHM – Randy Bublitz

3.4.4 Accounting – Al Vera-Graziano

3.4.5 Art – Drawing – Stephanie Dotson

3.4.6 Philosophy – Joe White

3.4.7 Psychology – Stan Bursten

3.4.8 Art – Painting/Design – Stephanie Dotson

3.4.9 HIT/CIM – via Skype Denise Harrison

4.0 Reports

none

5.0 Adjourn – next meeting Wednesday November 2, 2011 beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Key: AP - Administrative Procedure, BP - Board Policy, FTF - Full time faculty, M/S/C - Moved/Seconded/Carried

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