ࡱ> 02/M bjbj== "&WWl `2$ dPPPP PPP  Pw2R00`,PPMinutes Academic Senate Meeting December 5, 2005 Meeting was called to order 2:04 p.m. Announcements winter meeting schedule, we will meet on January 9th, the first day of Winter Qtr, so as not to meet during the final week of class, as well as work around the January 16th holiday. Consent calendar - DeAnza faculty will be serving on anthropology and philosophy search committees for open faculty positions at 17Թ. The minutes from November 28th were approved with corrections as noted. Work to contract resolution senators generally supported the work to contract resolution, with two reservations. First, the CTIS division commented that they must continue to work on new programs, courses, and significant outreach efforts in their continued attempt to bolster enrollment. Second, several senators expressed concern that any easing of outreach efforts could affect the colleges goal of growing by 3% this year. That growth is critical to accessing growth funds, without which the FHDA district could face even more budget tightening. Several divisions indicated that, like CTIS, they must continue outreach efforts in order to maintain enrollment, and or to stem decreasing enrollments. The work action itself is thought to bring the District to good negotiation. The senate further complimented Paul Starer on authoring the resolution, and concurred that the intent of the Senates support of the FA work to contract resolution is to bring the District to good negotiations with faculty. Some senators did ask about seat count being adjusted or readjusted during the work action period, especially the start of Winter Qtr. Work to contract simply means that the minimum seat count must be fill, and or faculty must accept the first day attendance, but are not required to add students from a wait list. The rules were suspended to allow the senate to vote on the resolution put forward. The resolution to support the FA work to contract resolution was adopted unanimously. Part-time senate representation Donna Frankel discussed a movement across the state to add two senators representing part-time faculty to academic senates. This would be a dedicated senator that represents part-time faculty alone, without allegiance to any one division. Donna mentioned that across the state, many of these representatives are often paid. Many local colleges, including West Valley, Mission, and DeAnza, have part-time senators. Donna stated that many part-time faculty have told her that they do not feel represented by their divisions. Some part-time issues relate to overloads and money where full-time faculty appear to have a stronger voice. If a part-time senate position is created, a general faculty election will be needed to fill the positions. A part-time senator position would require at least one, if not two, changes to the constitution. Currently part-time faculty have vote in elections, which may change in the upcoming Spring election. An elected part-time faculty senator who did not receive an assignment would not be able to serve on the senate for that quarter. Some senators commented, with strong assertions, that they do represent their part-time faculty quite well, but others noted that sometimes the interests of full-time and part-time senators are at odds. Some part-time faculty have commented that they do not receive the same information as full-time faculty. In turn, senators commented that reaching part-time faculty is often difficult, as most part-time faculty do not check their mail boxes as frequently, and reaching part-time faculty electronically can sometimes be challenging. Currently, most part-time faculty use private email addresses, and have not forwarded their 17Թ email accounts to their private email accounts. One senator agreed that part-time faculty arent represented as well. Part-time faculty carry 50% of the teaching load and should be represented. Speaking to the vote that part-time faculty currently are allowed, anyone may draft an amendment to the senate constitution to put on the ballot for spring. Senators commented that adding a part-time faculty senator could cause a problem if that changes the number of senators required for quorum, and if attendance by a part-time faulty senator becomes a problem. Another logistical problem is the part-time faculty senator would have to poll a large amount of faculty in order to gain a reasonable consensus on any issue. Electronic voting Robert Cormia presented an overview of the electronic voting system being developed by 17Թ Institutional Research as a secure survey. The system will allow for secure authentication and one use user-password combinations. Senators will receive a mock election ballot in the coming week to test the system. Both eligible part-time and full-time faculty would be notified by email using the 17Թ email address, with a link and their individual user-password. The results are outputted as a spreadsheet, from which we can check for irregularities such as double-voting. Senate scholarships The senate budget has enough funds to increase our support of academic scholarships. Discussion focused on the possibility for increasing the amount of the scholarship from $500 to $1000 for both academic and vocational scholarships. Senators should poll all their constituents. An additional thought was to possibly have an additional scholarship, or twice as many smaller scholarships. A further thought was to have 10 new smaller $100 scholarships, or perhaps have a new Sentinel scholarship. 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