Academic Senate Highlights
President’s Report:
Liz
gave an update on progress toward the Senate Goals for the year.
1. Update Constitution. Nothing
to report yet
2. Provide an orientation to the Senate. An
orientation was held in August and ongoing education is being provided to
Senators using “scenarios” from the State Academic Senate. To see
the source of the scenarios go to:
http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/Publications/Papers/FinalScenario.htm
3. Develop and Academic Senate Handbook. These
are being put together and will be handed out soon.
4. Investigate, research, and report on the
status of Information Competency; pursue Information Competency as a graduation
requirement. A report on current status was given at last meeting. It was a discussion item at today’s meeting
(see below).
5. Improve communication with the Governing
Board. Liz and a representative from the Community College League of
6. Update Committee Handbook. Nothing
to report yet.
7. Resume emailing Senate Highlights. And
here we are!
Committee Reports
Larry
Carrier reported that the Budget Committee is currently considering a
reallocation of block grant funding from the “Early Alert” program to a
combination of items that relate to increasing enrollments. He said the Budget Committee only deals with
allocation of block grant funding and the college budget is a “roll-over”
budget.
Discussion
Items
Information
Competency—As a first step the Senate will forward the Senate adopted competencies
(2003) to Dr. Valeau in order to reach mutual agreement on the
competencies.
Dean
of Advancement and Development, Beverly Grova explained her plans to expand the
focus of the Foundation beyond scholarships.
The survey (deadline 11/26) will identify needs. The needs will be
categorized by community members according to likelihood of community funding
and then a fundraising campaign will begin.
Mohammed
Hussain and Theresa Carbajal reported on the Campus Change Network, a group
that was formed under a grant from the Chancellor’s Office. Ten other colleges are participating. Its goal is to provide access and equity for
students of color. A meeting will be
held to coordinate with other diversity and equity committees on campus. The meeting is Nov. 30,
The
Senate discussed Resolution 1.05. In
1998 the Board of Trustees added language to Board Policy 2005 (dealing with
the Senate) that was not brought to the Senate for mutual agreement. This addition was recently discovered. The language seems to contradict Title 5
regulations about the role of the Senate.
This resolution will be an action item at the next meeting. To read the
resolution, see the second attachment.
Action Items
The
Senate voted to revise the membership of the Curriculum Committee to make the
Director of Enrollment Services a voting member and to add an additional
faculty member from Occ. Ed.
The
Senate approved peers for probationary faculty in the Language Arts/Fine
Arts/Social Sciences Division.