Academic Senate Highlights
November 14, 2006
President’s Report: President Fellguth attended the Area B meeting of
the State Academic Senate. During this
meeting, the Area B representatives drafted a resolution supporting Hartnell
Faculty that was passed by the State Senate.
“Resolved, That the Academic
Senate for California Community Colleges support the faculty of Hartnell
College, and call upon the Hartnell Board of Trustees to work
collaboratively with faculty and staff
on an ongoing basis to improve the campus climate and restore collegial and
positive relations between all constituents for the benefit of their students
and community.” To see the full
resolution go to http://www.hartnell.edu/academic_senate/
Committee Reports: The Curriculum Committee met Nov. 2 to do planning
for future agenda items. Updating the
Distance Ed. Form, adoption and funding of a work flow system, SLO’s, and
electronic agenda packets were among the items planned.
Discussion Items: Two new resolutions came
before the Senate for discussion. They
will be on the next agenda as action items.
See the website for draft versions of these.
Resolution 2.07 Shared
Governance Committees
is about the need to update the list of committees, define the function and
membership of all committees, and to have regular reporting to the Senate. It also addresses the requirement that all
faculty on ANY committee need to be appointed by the Academic Senate. The Senate has attempted in past years to get
compliance with this by committee chairs and has been unsuccessful. This resolution voids all committee
appointments until the requirements of the resolution are met.
Resolution 3.07 Events in Campus Facilities is about the need to hold
meetings and fundraising activities in suitable locations so as not to disrupt
student learning and use of facilities.
Chris
Myers brought the results of the accreditation surveys done last year of
students, staff, and the community. He
highlighted main points of the surveys, including that students and the
community are generally positive about the college and that staff showed many
areas of concern about the college.
Senators questioned the low response rates and the effect of this on the
validity of the results. There was also
a question of whether the current opinions were reflected by the results since
the surveys were completed before campus climate had deteriorated as severely
as it has this semester.
He
also presented the Institutional Planning Process that was revised
Action Items: The following peer appointments were ratified
Parviz
Entekhabi for Neil Ledford and Ali Amercupan, Fred Etcheverry for Parviz
Entekhabi.