Academic Senate General Meeting
November 18, 2008
Room 77 ECC
Present: Esther Matthew, Pat Mosteller, Ellen Zelniker, Marie Doerner, Roma Weaver, Gretchen Bitterlin, Antoinette Griffin, Rebecca Wallies, Greg Shirer, Ann Marie Damrau, Barbara Pongsrikul, Paul Richard, Lee Blackmore, Mary Burns Prine, Joan McKenna, Elissa Claar, Joe McGerald, Rosa Castillo, Monique Wood, Colleen Fitzmaurice, David Holden, Richard Weinroth, Laurie Cozzolino, Jane Halsema, Vicki Maheu, Lorraine Munoz, Hieu Nguyen, Kenny Parker, George Mendivil, Suzanne Beach, Maria Reyes, Jan Forstrom, Wendy White, Lana McFarlane.
The meeting was called to order at 3:40 p.m.
Minutes: Approved.
President's Report:
Administrative Governance Council – This new committee consists of the Deans, the 2 VP’s, the Academic Senate President and the Classified Senate President. This committee looked at the master plan and program review. The Adjunct Hiring Procedures Committee will report in January.
Esther Matthew presented a message from Mark Wade-Lieu, the State Academic Senate President. He said to stay calm and not panic over the bleak budget outlook. We must stay informed in order to be strong advocates. Sources of information can be found through the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges at www.faccc.org and the Community College League of California at www.ccleague.org.
Governance Handbook. Esther Matthew asked for faculty members to sign up to look over the document for input.
Fall resolution session: Esther Matthew and Roma Weaver attended and said there was no noncredit at this session. Some of adopted resolutions of interest included:
- Accreditation – Opposition to using SLOs in faculty evaluation
- Equity and diversity – support for the efforts of the Umoja Community – they had a mentor and helped them through the process of registering, etc.
- Budget and Finance – Maintaining “10+1” in the budget crisis.
- Counseling – Standards of practice for counseling faculty and programs
- Curriculum – Ensuring the integrity of credit by exam processes
- SLO library – to help share ideas
Union: Jim Mahler has been the president since 1996. He is officially our representative. He is getting together some interim officers. CE will be well represented on the executive council with a contract and adjunct rep from each site. We have to negotiate any changes to our existing agreement to 2010. Because of the budget crisis, he feels that only non-economic areas might be negotiated.
A question was asked about the medical benefit packages that were negotiated in our last contract. Brian Ellison told us that management looked at the average load for the last 2 years of the adjuncts that had 14.75 hours and 21 people were offered 15 hours to be eligible for medical benefits. Jim Mahler said he will find out more information about who got these benefits. You can contact Jim at 619-640-1155 or email him at aftjim@pacbell.net.
Ancillary activities: The 4 areas that adjunct faculty can participate in during the fall and spring semesters are:
- Governance
- Staff Development
- Grant Writing
- Advising Student Organizations
Applications for each semester must be submitted 4 weeks before the beginning of the semester. Applications for ancillary activities during the spring semester are due on December 19, 2008.
Accreditation: The Accreditation Leadership Steering Committee, chaired by Ray Ramirez and Esther Matthew are ready to conduct surveys for students and employees. They are working on a time line and will keep everyone posted on what is happening.
FLEX: Laurie Cozzolino is the FLEX Coordinator. She would like to reconvene a FLEX committee in December. She has forms to fill out to offer a workshop for FLEX credit.
UNITED WAY: George Mendivil, the United Way Coordinator, wants to encourage people to get involved. A form online is now also available for contributions.
The Calendar for next year was approved.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLOs): These describe the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes that students have attained by the end of their course or program. The types of SLOs required for the accreditation process include: Institutional SLOs, Program SLOs, and Course SLOs.
CE INSTITUTIONAL SLOs: Gretchen Bitterlin and Barbara Pongsrikul proposed 4 institutional SLOs which are:
- Social Responsibility
- Effective Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Personal and Professional Development
A motion was made and passed to have the faculty members who were present, look over the proposed SLOs and to email suggestions and then vote by email whether to accept these proposed institutional SLOs.
The members decided to have no meeting in December.
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 5:05 p.m.