ࡱ> 352M "bjbj== ",WWl )$ HHHH"HH` H ܝ_&"0)HHMinutes Academic Senate Meeting November 14, 2005 Meeting was called to order at 2:06 p.m. General announcements: Academic council needs a faculty member for representation Dixie Macias volunteered and was added to the consent calendar. Due process panel needs an additional faculty member to represent the senate. It is comprised of two FA reps, two faculty, and two administrators Keith Pratt volunteered and was added to the consent calendar. John Schupp presented at meeting on legal issues of academic freedom on November 9th. It was not well attended but did address legal academic freedom issues in the classroom. Senate lacks a P/T faculty representative for 75% of the faculty who are part-time. Issue of an at-large senate representative might be brought back for discussion later. Approval of the minutes senate minutes from the October 31st joint senate meeting at DeAnza were approved unanimously. They will also have to be approved by DeAnza. Deans have been hearing complaints about students not having enough panels to hear grievances The following faculty have volunteered for administrative reviews: Karen Erickson for Shirley Treanor-Barker, Patrick Morris for Peter Murray, Allison Lenkeit for Robert Johnstone, Mary Hawkins for Kurt Hueg, and Dixie Macias and Keith Pratt were added for committees today. The consent calendar was approved unanimously. Kurt Hueg will conduct a survey of faculty and the staff for website usability. 17Թ is doing an organization update for the website and for registration process. Timeline would be to get the survey done before the holidays. Kurt will email Andy and Robert Cormia. Upgrade is designed to get the faculty and staff to use the website more. Willie Pritchard is creating a portal for employees to log in and look at information. Purpose of the survey is to get qualitative and quantitative analysis of employee sentiment towards how employees access and use Web based information. Kurt would like the portal to fulfill college needs through website rather than just using print. Evening students complain that the have to re-register for admission to the college every time they go to take a new course, if they havent taken a course for a while. Kurt was asked about marketing the college for greater awareness about what 17Թ offers. A question was asked about whether Kurt has enough staffing to accomplish his goals. Kurt replied that he currently has a requisition for an additional hire, a Web content position. A comment was made regarding the need for an email database-marketing program. Another question was asked about our senior program. We lost 1,000 seniors when we canceled a large number of classes from the senior center; De Anza lost 3,000 seniors when they did the same. Bob Bahr talked about the public domain survey being developed. Several senate members provided comments to improve the questions. Dialog focused on whether the Senate should endorse the survey, as some construed the purpose to be towards a political rather than pedagogical goal. Survey could be construed as being part of primary reliance as it deals with textbooks. The subject of public domain is always contentious. Andy commented on the amount of electronic equipment that is in the classroom. What are the advantages of a wireless campus? Classroom discipline issues are already rampant in the CTIS division. Faculty development might be needed for wireless protocol development. We may need to reopen this issue in the faculty handbook, as this might be a classroom development issue. Senators should share this concern with their faculty. Dolores and Paul covered the state plenary issues, focusing on the most important and contentious. The part-time equity issue would allow part-time faculty to teach up to 80%. Pros would allow part-time faculty to develop some stability in their assignment loads, and contribute more to the college, including activities often performed by full-time faculty. The resolution to perform a survey on reassigned / release time was passed. The resolution for Mike McHargue as senator Emeritus was passed unanimously. Bernadine Fong addressed the Senate regarding the CTIS enrollment situation to dispel rumors circulating since last April. She wanted the process of making any decision about the future f the division to be as open as possible. There are administrative decisions that might be made sometime before February 2006 that could affect faculty. Bernadine underscored that this was a statewide issue, if not national. She also acknowledged that it is a major change for a division to be reorganized. The importance of the CTIS division is that past productivity help support smaller programs. Bernadine met with the CTIS division last April in early Spring Qtr., with an FA representative present. The goal was to think about new programs and strategies that could boost enrollment. CTIS has been very responsive in many outreach and networking opportunities. Bernadine indicated that advisors she consults within industry have suggested that the computer technology sector is not likely to see another big boom as we saw in 1995-1999, and thus employment, and probably demand for computer instruction, would not likely experience another rapid growth period. At one time CTIS had over one hundred part-time faculty, and now has less than ten. Looking at enrollment across the college and district. When decisions are made about possible reorganization and or reductions in staff, it will follow the text of the email sent out on November 13th 2005. The college will need to make a decision by February 15th to ensure compliance with the process in issuing March 15th notices if that is required. Bernadine commented that it took a lot of effort to find and retain the four new faculty that are recently tenured and that will reach tenure this year. All full-time faculty would need to displace all part-time faculty before a RIF could occur. The senate will be very involved in any program discontinuation activities. FSA definitions could be critical in this process, which would likely include reassignment. Faculty should share that they are willing to be reassigned, and what area of expertise they might provide value. Our CTIS faculties have two FSAs, CIS and CS There is a list of faculty with their FSAs and seniority. Bernadine and Jane Enright will sit down and discuss this situation with the faculty association. Reassignment to DeAnza could be an option, as well as reassignment at 17Թ. As a process, reassignment is a mutual agreement. In addition, faculty may teach on both 17Թ and DeAnza campuses. A question was asked about whether we could consolidate CTIS / CIS between 17Թ and DeAnza? There are no plans to merge any of the CIS operations at this point. Bernadine again underscored that 17Թϒs goal is to have an open and honest dialog about how to solve this problem. The job market and labor market have driven much of this problem, and it is not a faculty or other personnel issue. CTIS faculties have met as a division to come up with new ideas for courses and marketing and outreach activities. Chuck Lindauer is working on a new computer gaming program with a planned trip to Washington this week. Any good ideas should be shared soon, and Bernadine thanked everyone for their help and cooperation. The final topic of the day was scheduling, and prioritizing room assignments. Some of the issues are forcing students to basic skills early. 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