CSUDH Academic Senate Meeting
Loker Student Union 10/9/02
Voting Members Present: Abaya, Auth, Cappel for Casten, Chlebicki, Christie, Cokelez, Cruise, Dominguez, Frickel, Furtado, Furusa, Ganezer, Goders, Gould, Jacobs, Jennings, C. Johnson, Kaplan, Kim, Kowolski, Leonard, Long, Lyons, Malamud, McDermott, Moscovici, Moy, Parker, Saunders, Sheu, L. Smith, Sturm, Todd, Turk, Vanterpool, Valle, Waller, Watson, Welch, and Whetmore.
Voting Members Absent: Charnofsky, Gasco, and J. Johnson.
Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members Present: Ambrosetti, Bowman, A. Brown, M. Gordon, Lindsay, Pardon, Parham, A. Rodriguez, Walton, Whittemore, and S. Williams.
Guests: Bell-Waters, Boggs, Frieze, Mellblom, Pomerantz, and Porter
1. Call to Order at 2:40 p.m.
2. Approval of Amended Agenda M/S/P
3. Approval of Amended Minutes for 9/25/02 M/S/P
4. Parliamentarian
Parliamentarian Johnson conducted the first election for two faculty to serve on the Committee to Review Perceived Administrative Effectiveness. Two were nominated and elected by acclamation--Noel Sturm and Marek Suchenek.
The next election was for two faculty to serve on the WASC Self Study Committee. Four faculty were nominated—Cynthia Johnson, Joyce Johnson, Kim McClane, and Hedy Moscovici. C. Johnson and Moscovici were elected.
5. Chair’s Report
Chair Whetmore announced that senators wanting a tour of the NTC or Welch Hall should contact Mary Brooks in the Senate Office to schedule a tour.
Whetmore said that the Senate, CFA and the President would be holding a joint “Get Out The Vote” luncheon on October 24, 2002 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. The location will be forthcoming.
Whetmore shared an email from K. McEnerney. He said that she had read his Eddlines and that she sends her regards to the Senate.
Whetmore said that Virginia Long had been appointed to head up the Strategic Planning Taskforce. Initially there was going to be one representative from the Executive Committee and one representative from the faculty to sit on this task force, but now there will be three faculty members. This taskforce will be a sub-committee of UPC.
Whetmore said that we draw our procedures or ways of doing things from our Senate constitution or Robert’s Rules. We are trying to find new ways to make the Senate more efficient and more responsive to all the senators, and more responsive to the general faculty. The Senate basically does three things: 1). Perform functions assigned by law and the Board of Trustees. 2). Recommend policy and procedures pertaining to the development, maintenance and improvement of the University and, 3). Serve as a medium of expressing the opinions of faculty members on matters affecting the University. He noted that while he was campaigning he heard two distinct items from faculty: 1). What is the Senate and what do they do? 2). The Senate has had no impact on anything (which is only a perception). He didn’t agree with either. He wanted the Senate to know that he and the Executive Committee are trying to do things differently from past practice with the intent to be more efficient. If the experiment fails then it fails. He asked the Senate’s indulgence in trying to make things better.
6. NTC Parking Issues
Vice Presidents Bowman and Pardon were called to the Executive Committee table to respond to questions.
Four Questions
Q1). Since the agreement states that up to 106 events per year can be held and since the University police will be responsible for some of the additional security—what, if any, budget increase is being contemplated and will new security personnel be required?
A). Bowman said that there is a budget augmentation in the works but it is not necessarily related to the training center. We simply need more officers to patrol the campus. The University police will coordinate and approve any plans that might go through, working with Carson Sheriff’s Station and the Anschutz Security people. Our police will patrol the campus premises as they always have. The streets will belong to the Sheriff’s Department and the NTC belongs to Anschutz Corporation security people. We will ask for an augmentation because we need it for the University
Q2). Let’s suppose there is a Level Three event on a Saturday afternoon with 27,000 patrons attending. How many campus spaces would be needed and how would this kind of event impact students attending Saturday classes?
A). Bowman said that during a Level Three Event the Agreement states that 3,800 spaces would be needed. This Level would be too much for our lots and there would be an off-site parking for NTC patrons. No University students, staff, or faculty would be asked to park off-campus.
Q3). Let’s suppose there is a Level One event on a Tuesday afternoon with 13,500 patrons attending. How many campus spaces would be needed, and how would this impact students attending classes?
A). Bowman said that the agreement calls for 225 spaces for this lower level event. University lots would be identified for faculty, staff and students. The existing entrances to our lots would be ours. There will be times when there will be overflow traffic in areas that have been identified. Anschutz will manage the lots, so that we don’t have to hire staffing to manage one of their events. They will work very closely with us so that our students, faculty and staff are considered first. There will be traffic lights, neon lights and traffic police to keep car lines from forming. Five Star will be in charge of parking during events. We are working with them now and of course we will meet after every event and reassess to see how we can make things better for our faculty, staff and students.
Q4). Are there any estimates as to how many minutes faculty may be delayed for these kinds of events and scenarios?
Bowman said that it depends on the level of the event. By doing the assessment afterwards we will have a better idea.
Senator Goders said that at a Level Three event the agreement stipulates that we will make 3,800 campus spaces available. The tally in exhibit F shows that the campus parking is 2,255 spaces. How can we provide more spaces than what we have if those numbers are correct? Bowman said that there are overflow parking spaces and some of the parking spaces will be dirt areas. Goders asked if the University would be fully prepared to deal with the unexpected parking problems before they happen. Bowman said that we are meeting regularly with Anschutz to do preventive kinds of things. What he hopes to do is send out a FAQ sheet and answer as many questions as possible.
Whetmore pointed out that in section 5.8 there is a stack parking option, and that final page has a listing of all existing and additional spaces scheduled to be available. Senator Malamud was concerned about events starting at 7:00 p.m., the same time when classes start with students arriving on campus at the same time as patrons of events. He wanted to know why Anschutz would not pay for additional police and parking. He was concerned about patrons parking behind SBS and walking right through the buildings perhaps doing damage. Bowman said that it doesn’t always take police to keep these kinds of scenarios from happening and that the parking personnel will be in charge of monitoring this traffic. Bowman said that Anschutz would be paying for extra personnel.
Senator Jennings asked about the revenue from parking that would go to the Foundation. He wanted to know how much money would be going to the Foundation and whether it would pay for the maintenance of parking lots to offset our costs. Vice President Pardon said that there would be a ticket tax of 1% to 5% on each ticket sold. There would also be 25 % of net parking revenues coming off of each project with a minimum each year of $200,000.00. The Board of Trustees wanted us to ensure that we were getting adequate revenue from the project. If you take 100 events with 10,000 people at each event at a ticket price of $30 it would generate $30 million and with a 1% ticket tax we would get $300,000.00. Any amount over $200,000 would be split with Anschutz.
ASI President Solache asked whether the campus would still have the $2.00 daily parking permits? Pardon said that there would be meetings held to iron this out and that the $2.00 fee would still apply for students of the campus. Bowman said that the University will require students to always carry their student I.D. card to assure entrance to a parking lot. He said that we need to increase awareness on the campus as to how things are going to change.
7. T.C. 3:30 p.m. President’s Report
President Lyons announced that Virginia Long would be coordinating the development of our strategic plan and that Sam Wiley would help the Office of the President develop and enhance academic programs in order to take advantage of opportunities created by the arrival of our new “neighbor,” the Home Depot National Training Center. The President said that our strategic plan would be completed by October 1, 2003. Dr Wiley would be in charge of an inventory of academic programs related to the Home Depot National Training Center; this inventory should be completed by May 30, 2003. The inventory would consist of programs recommended by the faculty for development and expansion. He said that our aim is to meet the new opportunities created by the Training Center.
Senator L. Smith asked if the University was thinking about using revenue from the NTC for program development. The President said that some of the revenue from the NTC would be used for program development and that we might also get support from outside industry.
The President said that students of color have noted that our campus has not hired enough faculty members of color and that currently we do not have adequately diverse faculty representation. The Latino students and African American students are very concerned about this and want more faculty members that look like them. The President will discuss this more with the Executive Committee and decide how to proceed.
8. First Reading Items
FPC 02-14 Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award
Some grammatical changes were discussed and would be taken back to FPC for a re-write and finalization. Gould said the rationale does not address the resolution. Malamud said that we should table this resolution and deal with all awards all at once. McDermott said that the Leaves and Honors Committee requested further guidelines.
FPC 02-15 RTP Guidelines Suggestions
Malamud said that this is not a suggestion and should be written as policy. Goders was in favor of reducing the bulk of the files but was concerned about limiting the SIF to 10 pages. He said that some of the most pertinent reading is in the SIF. He also suggested that instead of a 3-ring binder we use a 1-foot cubic box--that way there is more room for publications. Senator Vanterpool said the language should be changed to reflect policy not suggestion. Dean S. Williams said to change the timeline so that a new faculty person would not have to submit anything the first semester they start. Senator Ganezer said that posting research and scholarship material on the web was a good idea.
FPC 02-16 NTC Guidelines Taskforce
Malamud thought that we already had a committee in place that does this and wanted to know why we are doing it again. He wanted to know what the constituency of this committee was. Whetmore said that we lost our quorum and could not vote and so we would continue the discussion at the next meeting.
FPC 02-17 Pre-Tax Parking Payroll Deduction
Malamud said that all other unions except the CFA have this benefit. He said that this is not a bargaining issue but it is a tax benefit. He asked that the document be modified to read that we urge the CSU to unilaterally permit faculty employees to have this benefit.
9. T.C. 4:00 p.m. Provost’s Report
Provost Walton said that the information had been passed out regarding MPP/faculty ratio. She said that the information will be reformatted and will be passed out next week at the open forum on October 16 as well. She said that administration doesn’t think that the faculty is interested in zinging this person or that person. She said faculty want to know which of these positions the University really needs--and so by next Wednesday Academic Affairs will have this information re-formatted and she said they will attach a job description for each position. She said that if you want to recommend which MPP positions should be abolished, you will have a better idea of how each position is supposed to function.
Malamud asked about the definition of MPP. Walton said that generally managers become MPP. Walton also said that at times the University does not fill MPP positions to save money. As the budget became more robust, these positions are filled.
McDermott thanked the Provost for putting this information together. McDermott said that faculty want to know how much administrative work needs to be done, versus how much faculty work needs to be done. We don’t want to “zing” people. We want to know what dollars are being spent to administer the University as opposed to dollars being spent on faculty. McDermott said that we have individuals on the campus who are functioning in MPP positions (but are not MPP’s) and that this is a concern.
Senator Chlebicki asked about all the data and the analysis of the data. She wanted to know the Provost’s interpretation of the numbers of administrators and the increase in administrators. The Provost said that she agreed that we need more faculty but accomplishing this goal is difficult when resources are low. We could hire new, younger faculty, at assistant professor rates, or put together two FERP positions to create one position. Chlebicki asked Walton if this was the correct data in her opinion to get to the solution of the problem. Walton said that the solution would come through the University approval processes, the allocation of funds, and what the chancellor and the legislator decide about the budget. The Provost said that it is not enough to say we want more faculty if we don’t have dollars to support them.