ࡱ> 130M  bjbj== "*WWl }$3 Sr""N7NNNNN N Px2RM0}NNMinutes Academic Senate Meeting May 22, 2006 Meeting was called to order at 2:04 p.m. Announcements The PDL committee needs two faculty members for service in 2006-2007. This committee is very demanding, especially in fall. Service is for one year, and is renewable. The senate retreat is June 19th. Senators need to decide to recommit, find replacements, and if possible, bring new senators to the retreat. Social hour will follow business. The minutes of May 8th were approved with changes as noted. Walter Scott and Allison Lenkeit Meezan were added to the consent calendar to serve on Penny Patzs VP search committee. The consent calendar was approved. Meeting Agenda Senate officer election by acclamation Mary Thomas. The election committee, having not heard any nominations for other candidates to run against Paul Starer and Dolores Davison for President and Vice President, proposed that these officers be elected by acclamation. A motion to approve Paul and Dolores to be elected as President and Vice President was approved unanimously. President Bernadine Fong addressed the senate and spoke of the upcoming State of the College to be presented at the June 5th board meeting, and for the entire college June 14th. Bernadine spoke of the importance of continued reflection to maintain both historical perspective and reinforcing institutional memory. She mentioned the importance of a film shown on opening day in 1996, The Color of Fear which helped the college become more aware of racial issues, and in turn, diversity and sensitivity. Bernadine discussed the recent efforts of the CTIS division to stem the precipitous enrollment decline since 2001, which has slowed to single digits, but remains a serious issue for the division. She referred to discussions between 17Թ and De Anza Colleges on creation of new FSAs, and also suggested a possible reorganization of the CTIS division at a future date. Bernadine then discussed the various construction projects on the campus, including concerns over construction quality in the new campus center, and impacts of potential budget overruns that might require delay or reordering of construction. She spoke about some potential measure C projects (assuming the bond measure passes) including moving the campus loop road out around the KCI and soccer field to make room for the proposed North Slope Science building. This would also allow for larger parking areas and possibly forgoing building a new parking structure, saving both time and money. Bernadine discussed the activities around the naming of the new student campus center, after the late Jean Thomas, and the importance of such a decision that would have a long-lived impact to the campus. She mentioned that the potential renaming of the building would be brought forward to the college round table. Bernadine then announced that she will join the faculty at Stanford doing research on community colleges, and that she would not seek other academic employment after this effort. In her final remarks to the academic senate, she discussed issues that would need continued attention in the future, specifically the tenure review process needing one person to really watch over the process for rigor, uniformity, and quality control. She also mentioned the issue of FSAs, eminence, and equivalence as critical ongoing activities for the Senate. Kim Chief Elk disused the diversity climate survey, and the importance of distributing packets to our students to complete, as well as encouraging faculty to complete the online survey. Results of last years survey were used to help design and conduct a series of critical communication workshops among classified staff, faculty, and administrators. These workshops were most helpful in creating a more formal process for mediation activities, especially for faculty faculty communication issues. Kurt Hueg addressed the senate to report on usability of the website, and a survey that will be conducted in fall. 17Թ has purchased a new server and added a Google search engine feature. The user satisfaction survey will also help with a needs assessment for the campus website / Web infrastructure. The marketing group will be working on a new navigation interface, as well as changes to the search interface. Faculty service resolution - Starer. The senate discussed the requirement for statements about why faculty wishes to serve, and the process for voting. During voting procedures for faculty who wish to serve, the vote by each senator would be recorded, but not published, and kept by the senate secretary for a period of one year, in accordance with the Brown Act. Voting of yea, neigh, and abstention will all be allowed in such votes. This resolution will be voted on at the June 5th meeting. Procedural changes were adopted by a unanimous vote. Equivalency Starer. The proposed resolution would change the structure of the 17Թ equivalency committee and process. Designed for those faculty replacements that occur at the last minute, just prior to the start of a quarter. The selection of the discipline expertise is a faculty decision rather than administrative. Change the resolution to adopt language that these meetings can be by voice, email, and or in person. New polices on equivalency, eminence, to a working document that faculty could review. Equivalency is part of the duties of the Dean of Faculty and Staff, whose position will be filled by a new candidate this year. This person needs to be briefed on the process of equivalency as understood by the senate. This could be a pool of highly qualified faculty, but the exact mechanism of selection isnt certain. These decisions are very important, and are critical for the integrity of academic programs. Ultimately the job of determining and or defining eminence could fall to a local division senator. The goal of this whole process is to ensure that a replacement faculty is not in the classroom teaching for a length of time without having been certificated (through minimum qualifications or equivalency). Senators might need to build a list of division faculty who could serve at the very last minute. Paul Starer again reminded senators of the importance of sharing this dialogue and the process for equivalence with division faculty. De Anza bookstore self-written / self-published textbooks - Starer. De Anzas bookstore now includes a disclaimer / submission that when substituting books for adoption, that faculty would agree that they are aware of board policy on this issue. There might be times when a laboratory manual, which is very good, but very new, might be adopted with 17Թ and or DeAnza Colleges. What about programs that sell readers for a class? Plus / minus follow up discussion Starer. How do we get faculty trained and having discussions about plus / minus grading? What would be the most efficient way to help students and faculty understand the plus / minus grading issues, perhaps create a forum for such discussions? One senator suggested having a Web-based presence. Senators should query faculty about how they are implementing plus / minus grading in their classrooms. It was again stated as a reminder that grading policies are an individual faculty members choice, as stated in Title V. 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