Academic Senate Minutes

 

February 27, 2007

3:00 PM,

 

I. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:07

 

Senators & Officers Present: Jennifer Fellguth, President, Phil Adams, Vice President, Kelly Locke, Secretary/Treasurer, Liz Estrella, Past President, Peggy Mayfield, Cathy Noble, Melissa Stave, Susan Hovde, Jeff Roth, Joe Welch, Phil Adams, Nancy Schur

 

Guests Present: Ann Wright, Lourdes Villarreal, Chris Myers, Chris Svendsen, Dyan Miller, Jerry Noble

 

II. Adoption of the Agenda: The Agenda was adopted.

 

III. Approval of the Minutes: No minutes were available for approval.

 

IV. Public Comments:  Lourdes Villarreal and Chris Myers gave an update on the Equity for All project.  The findings were submitted to Dr. Valeau in June 2006.  They met with him and presented the findings this spring 2007 and are now presenting to the Senate and to the Math, English and ESL departments.  They would like the departments to determine actions to take regarding improvement targets and equity goals.  Then the findings will be presented to the campus.

 

V. President’s Report:  The Committee structure revision is moving forward in the few areas in which information has been submitted.  J. Fellguth is updating a committee webpage with membership information.  With the pending accreditations site visit, many more chairs have been responding.  As a result vacancies are becoming apparent.  The Hiring Committee, Diversity Committee, Matriculation Committee and Staff Development Committee have vacancies.

 

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 drafting revisions of the hiring processes and procedures documents in order to clear up some of the vagueness that has created problems.  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

 

VI.  First Vice President’s Report  None.

 

VII. Student Senate Report  None.

 

VIII.  Classified Senate Report  None.

 

IX.  HCFA President’s Report  HCFA President Svendsen reported that she has been speaking at conferences about the Hartnell College strike and the organizing that led up to the strike.  She reported the the HCFA will be going through the process to form Political Action Committees.  The CSU system is getting closer to a strike.  She has spoken to the VP of Instruction about inequities in the assignment of NIC from division to division.

 

X. Committee Reports 
Curriculum.  The CurricuNet representative is coming again (March 15, 2 pm) to discuss the product with the Curriculum Committee and other interested parties.  All faculty are invited to attend.  In addition, technology staff and administrative assistants will be invited to attend.  The VP of Instruction would like the endorsement of the Curriculum Committee and the Senate before he requests funding to purchase this and a line item in the budget for annual expense.
TMPC.  They will be meeting on Friday March 2 to work on a draft of the Technology plan.
Diversity Committee.  They have met and will be working on the EEO plan.  This is a new plan that replaces the former Diversity Plan.  It is required of all colleges by the Chancellor’s Office.
SLO work group.  They are continuing to refine their proposal for committee structure and function, using Santa Rosa’s committee as a model.  The chair, C. O’Donnell did a training for the Occupational Education Division.  They had many questions which she is collecting and group will be producing a FAQ sheet that will address them.
Enrollment Management Team.  See below in discussion items.

 

 

XI.  Discussion/Information Items

A.  Accreditation Minority Report 
The group working on the minority report for accreditation is meeting Friday, March 2 at 1:30 in CAB 209.  Email Phil Adams if you would like a copy of the draft so far.  Last chance for input is on Friday.

 

B.  Instructional Planning and Growth  Tabled until next meeting.

 

C.  Enrollment Management Team as a Shared Governance Committee 

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 1:15 in the Board Room.  Anyone is welcome.

 

D.  SLO Committee as a Shared Governance Committee   Tabled until next meeting

 

E.  President’s Planning/Budgeting Task Force

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. 

 

 

XII.  Action Items

A. Adoption of Role of the Academic Senate in Enrollment Management position paper.

The Senate unanimously 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/

 

B. Resolution in Support of CSU faculty

The Senate unanimously adopted the Resolution in Support of CSU faculty. 

 

C. Appointments to LVN/RN screening committee

The Senate ratified appointments of Mary Cousineau, Nancy Schur, and Ignacio Pando for the LVN/RN screening committee.

 

D.  Appointment to Staff Development Committee
The Senate tabled this appointment until the next meeting pending possible discussion of the concerns about chair reporting to VP of Student Services.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 pm.

 

 

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X. Announcements: 

 

XI. Adjournment: