SEN MIN 5-13-2009Approved 7-15-09
Academic Senate
M I N U T E S
May 13, 2009
Endless Summer Café(113 Harbor WaySanta Barbara, CA93109) 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Members Present: Ignacio Alarcón (Chair), Armando Arias, Barbara Bell, Susan Broderick, Stephanie Durfor, Esther Frankel, Jack Friedlander, Tom Garey, David Gilbert, Kathy Molloy,
Kim Monda, Marcy Moore, David Morris, Mimi Muraoka, Dean Nevins, Kathy O’Connor, Jan Schultz, Ana María Ygualt, Oscar Zavala
Members Excused: Jessica Aparicio, Cathie Carroll
Guests: Cindy Bower, Gary Carroll, Kenley Neufeld, Laurie Vasquez
1.0Call to Order
1.1Approval of Agenda– so approved
1.2Approval of Minutes, April 29, 2009
M/S/C To approve the Academic Senate April 29, 2009 meeting minutes w/ correction (Frankel/Broderick) 2 abstentions
2.0Information
2.1Academic Senate Summer Meeting, July 15, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
This meeting will be held on a Wednesday in BC 214.
2.2Academic Senate Extraordinary Meeting, June 15, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
(Contingency Plan for SBCC, post May 28 Governor’s Revise)
This meeting will be held on Monday, June 15 in BC 214.Ignacio reminded the senators that
if they were not going to be at the June 15 or July 15 meetings to arrange for a proxy. Jack
Friedlander mentioned that given the news of the state budget deficit, it is good that the
extraordinary meeting of June 15 is being planned.
2.3Tentative Budget Assumptions and Tentative Budget 09-10
The information looks to be more and more a best case scenario.More at end of month.
2.4Education Forum in Ventura (called by Das Williams on May 1)
Jack Friedlander, who was a speaker,andIgnacio Alarcón attended the Education Forumarranged by Santa Barbaracouncilmember Das Williams. It was a townhall style meeting with keynote speaker Gloria Romero, state senator and chair of the Senate Education Committee.Among other topics, the discussion focused on:
- The California legislature is dysfunctional at best. There are reasonable proposals that do not even get considered due to partisan strife
- Some are considering that there is a need for a constitutional convention
- Demands on community colleges keep growing
- According to legislators, the public doesn’t want to believe that the education
sector cannot raise to the challenge with fewer resources
- In this situation of dwindling funding, we still have to comply with federal and
state mandates.
2.5Randy Bublitz will be CAC Chair 2009-2012
It is now official that Randy Bublitz will be the new chair of the Curriculum Advisory
Committee.
2.6Partnership for Student Success 2008-2009 Reports
Kathy Molloy stated that the report focuses on the PSS groups that received one time funding and to please take the time to read about the work your colleagues have been doing.
There is a focus on integrating Basic Skills with Career Technical Education offerings. Several projects are slated for the Fall 2009 semester with KellyLake, Dixie Budke, Elizabeth Bowman, Esther Frankel, Donna Terpening, Paula Congleton and Anita Cruse. The ESL department also worked on several projects 1) integration of skills, 2) connecting with Career Technical Programs, and 3) focusing on extensive reading through Literature Circles.
2.7SBCC Student Senate delegates’ resolution passed unanimously at SSCCC ;
SBCC’s Student Senator Atty Garfinkel has been elected to SSCCC
The SBCC delegation to the Student Senate brought up apolicy to request local senates to help reduce textbook costs, by instituting policies relative to timely book orders by faculty.
3.0Action
3.1Academic Integrity Policy (BP 5231.6)
The green handout is the most current version that incorporates the recommendations from Student Senate, Ben Partee’s office, HRLA and the Academic Senate. Kim Monda asked if the language could be changed from “grieve” to “appeal.” It was mentioned that there is a concern about the timeline. The use of the form to report incidents will be the start of the notification timeline, and will be an important component of the tracking in specific cases.
Jan Schulz said that she felt strongly that the student integrity information (plagiarism) should not be just embedded in a long list among the Standards of Student Conduct. Academic integrity violations should be prominent in the Standards of Student Conduct.
M/S/C to approve BP 5231.6 Academic Integrity Policy (Broderick/Monda)
3.2Board Policy 1500 (Faculty Job Descriptions)
M/S/C To approve BP 1500 Duties of Faculty – General (Reference: BP 1501 Instructional Faculty Job Description and Responsibilities; BP 1502 Educational Support Faculty Job Description and Responsibilities). Note: checklists are not part of BP 1500 (O’Connor/Molloy)
3.3Board Policy 2100 (Faculty Evaluation)
The added item is to have the SLO information on the syllabi.
Tom/Jan: The checklist should parallel the Job Description. We should not add anything on
the responsibilities checklists that is not part of the job description.Kathy O’Connor asked
where is the Master Teacher evaluation procedure was?
Jan Schultz said that the proposed procedures had some typos, referring to different sections
for the same reason. Under “Faculty Evaluation Summary” page 6 of 7 (agenda pages 62-63)
and in the “Satisfactory” section one (agenda page 62) “Availability to students…”
references AP 2100, Section VI and on agenda page 63 it references AP 2100, Section V.
Under “Needs Improvement” and “Substandard” for Regular or Contract Faculty it is clear
what you would need to do if you checked those boxes. It is not clear for Adjuncts in the
“Faculty Evaluation Summary” (agenda page 63).When an improvement plan is developed,
you need to know what that means, where does that go and what is the next step.
Oscar asked if it would be advisable to break “Satisfactory” designation into the different
criteria. If someone doesn’t have a “Satisfactory” designation in one criterion, would that
mean that they cannot be designated “Satisfactory”? Is it all or nothing? Kathy O’Connor
said that the intent should be that faculty have satisfactory performance in all criteria? Jack
Friedlander said that the language under “Satisfactory” should state that the faculty being
evaluated has satisfactory performance on each criterion.
Kathy Molloy expressed that there are too many changes being proposed and that she would
rather have this be forwarded to the Academic Policies Committee, making sure that the
Master Teacher Evaluation procedure is included.
Ignacio asked if the Senate could at least approve the faculty responsibilities checklists? This
would allow the evaluation packets to be prepared for the fall.Esther Frankel said that she
wouldn’t feel comfortable approving any change without notifying her division.
Jack Friedlander said that the intent of the checklists is to have them line up with the job
descriptions.
Oscar Zavala asked if online faculty evaluation/surveys need to be adjusted.Kathy O’Connor
said that the process works, and that we can’t have a totally different process. Oscar said that
he wasn’t suggesting a totally different process.Just indicate that the observation is different
for the online process.
Tom Garey said that the proposed item about SLOs on syllabi is above and beyond what the
job description states.
Ignacio said that he would forward the evaluation policy to the Academic Policies
Committee, and that he would bring back the checklists to the next meeting, after researching
their matching to the job descriptions.
M/S/ To approve BP 2100 checklists (current agenda pages 38-39 only) (O’Connor/Molloy)
M/S/C To postpone the checklist approval vote.(Garey/Schultz)
3.4Senate Officers (CPC, BPAP Committee, Committee on Non-Teaching
Compensation, Senate-IA Liaison)
The Senate President welcomed the new senators Gary Carroll, Cindy Bower and Kenley Neufeld and thanked the Senators that were leaving, Mimi Muraoka, Kim Monda and Susan Broderick for their dedicated participation and service. Ignacio said that the Committee on
Non-Teaching Compensation senate representatives would be Karolyn Hanna and Gary
Carroll. They join Kathy O’Connor and Tom Garey as Instructors’ Association
representatives. The Board Policies and Administrative Procedures senate representatives
will be Ignacio Alarcón, Karolyn Hanna, and Susan Broderick. There was a vote taken for
the Academic Senate Vice President position. Dean Nevins and Kenley Neufeld were the
candidates and each had an opportunity to speak briefly before the voting. Dean Nevins was
elected Vice President for 2009-2010.Other positions: CPC membership: Kathy Molloy,
Kim Monda, Dean Nevins, and Ignacio Alarcón. There was a second senate wide votewith
candidates Armando Arias and Tom Garey for the remaining CPC seat. Tom Garey was
reelected as CPC member.
3.5ITC Rankings
M/S/C To approve the ITC rankings as presented in their report handed out at the 4-29-09 Senate meeting (O’Connor/Frankel) 1 abstention
4.0Hearing/Discussion
4.1Educational Master Plan (to be completed by October)
Ignacio Alarcón reported that he along with Jack Friedlander and Julie Hendricksattended a
Planning and Resources Committee meeting to discuss the development of the Educational
Master Plan, which is an objective in the College Plan that we need to complete in the fall
semester.
Kim Monda said that this is really something P&R wanted to do with the LongRange Construction and Development Plan. With the new vision, to pull resource request
information from the program review process, and think into the future.
There will be a group convened during the summer to start work on this.Jack Friedlander
said that this is a very good opportunity to work with P&R and Julie Hendricks, who has
expressed that it would be very valuable to have a plan such like this in place. Jack said that
he was glad to have P&R be a part of this process.
4.2Faculty Lecturer Committee Recommendation of Bob Gray as
SBCC’s Faculty Lecturer 2009-2010
M/S/C To move the Faculty Lecturer Committee’s recommendation to action
(Schultz/Zavala)
M/S/C To approve Bob Gray as SBCC’s Faculty Lecturer for 2009-2010 (Schultz/Zavala)
4.3Board Policy 3420 (Equal Employment Opportunity)
4.4Board Policy 4560 (Faculty Professional Development)
4.5Board Policy 2343 (Emeritus Status)
The above three agenda items, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 were not considered.
4.6Academic Senate Bylaws Revision Subgroup
The group that will be working on the Academic Senate Constitution Bylaws shall consist of Kathy O’Connor, Kathy Molloy, Kenley Neufeld and Ignacio Alarcón.
4.7Advertising Courses Grouped by Themes (Globalization, Web
Technologies, Environment/Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Emerging
Technologies, …)
Jack Friedlander explained that this is somethingthe Marketing department has been
working on. The world and education areincreasingly interdisciplinary and it can be
difficult to find all the appropriate associated courses. The idea is to bundle/group courses
thematically to show students what we offer. Jan Schultz said that a big problem is not being
able to find things because of the inability at this time to do “key word searches.” Jan
suggested that implementing such a crucial feature would be very beneficial.
Jack Friedlander said that he will be asking deans to look at possible themes and to put
together examples to try out for the Spring Schedule. Jack Friedlander wanted senators to
please send him suggestions as they talk to their divisions about possible themes.
5.0Reports
5.1President’s Report
5.2CPC Liaison Report
Tom Garey reported thebiggest issue at CPC is the budget for next year. The Board of Trustees needs to approve the tentative budget at their June meeting. In Sacramento, the expression used to refer to the situation in the state, whether Propositions 1A – 1F pass or not, is “fiscal Armageddon.”
5.3Liaison Reports
Jan Schultz reported that Academic Policies has worked on 1) the Academic Honesty/Integrity Policy 2) the Salary Class Transfer Policy with the I.A. and 3)Ignacio Alarcon visited and reported on the Board Policies committe that has been formed.
Armando Arias reported the FPD has finalized the Inservice agenda and they are reviewing the faculty professional development policy. The Faculty Recognition committee are beginning their search for new award nominees. The faculty excellence awards will be presented during Inservice days. The Sabbatical Leave committee has been reviewing reports and the Committee on Teaching and Learning has been reviewing ISLOs performance data.
Kathy O’Connor reported that ITC was completing the ranking of all technology requests. The DTC replacement cycle list is complete although no decision to replace will be made until after the budget issue is settled. Once the information is been distributed departments should review carefully to make sure there is nothing missing. The Curriculum Advisory Committee has been working on CurricUNET training. Hopefully,campus wide training will be available this fall and the system will be operational in the Spring.
5.4EVP Report
6.0Adjourn
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