Academic Senate Highlights
President’s Report: President Jennifer
Fellguth reported that the committee structure update is proceeding. Now that the accreditation site visit is so
close, she is getting responses to her requests for committee information from
committee chairs. Updated committee
membership information is on the Senate website http://www.hartnell.edu/academic_senate/governance.html
Of
particular interest is the vacant chair of the Staff Development Committee and
the current inactivity. It was suggested
that if this chair position was as an independent faculty chair(and flex
coordinator) as in the Committee Handbook, rather than set up as a faculty member
who must report to the VP of Student Services, there might be more interest in
the position of chair (and flex coordinator).
Work
on the goal of revising faculty hiring procedures (Jennifer and Cathy Noble,
subcommittee) have begun their work. The
tenure review process has begun. For
those in the tenure review process, information about the Tenure Review
Committee is found in the Committee Handbook on the senate website. http://www.hartnell.edu/academic_senate/documents/Committee_Handbook.htm
Committee Reports A representative from Curricunet, a curriculum
management system, will be presenting at the March 15 meeting (
The
SLO group is continuing to develop their proposal for the committee structure
using
The
Technology Master Planning Team is working on a draft of the Technology
Plan. The Diversity Committee met and
will be working on an Equal Employment Opportunity plan.
Discussion Items The group working on the minority report for
accreditation is meeting Friday, March 2 at
The
Enrollment Management Team is also working on their proposal of committee
structure in order to become an official shared governance committee and for
the Handbook. They have looked at models
from other schools (San Bernadino, for example) and they are almost ready to
bring the proposal to the Senate for approval.
They meet on the 1st and 3rd Monday at
President
Ed Valeau has announced that he would like to form a President’s Task Force to
look into planning and budgeting processes.
He recognizes that these functions are not well connected on campus and
proposes the task force to study this and make recommendations about how
planning and budgeting should be linked.
Senators pointed out that a Task Force is unnecessary. The planning process was originally developed
with the link to budget and if the documented committee structure was actually
followed there would be more connection.
If the Budget Committee was not limited to allocating only Block Grant
funds, there would be a connection. Also,
any revisions to the committees’ structure that need to be made should be proposed to the Senate through the
Committee Handbook revision process as the other committees (see SLO work group
and EMT above) are doing.
Action Items The Senate adopted the ASCCC document Role of
Academic Senate in Enrollment Management position paper. The paper is available on our Senate website
under documents. Other State Senate
resources can be found at http://www.asccc.org/
The
Senate adopted the Resolution in Support of CSU faculty.
The
Senate ratified appointments of Mary Cousineau, Nancy Schur, and Ignacio Pando
for the LVN/RN screening committee.
The
Senate tabled the following items until the next meeting:
Instructional
planning and growth discussion
SLO
as a shared governance committee—first reading
Appointment
to Staff Development Committee