Year-End Summary – Academic Senate

Carol Kimbrough, President

9/8/2015

Action:

  1. Support formation of 16-Week Calendar Task Force
  2. Request formation of Program Evaluation Committee: Sustainable Construction
  3. Request formation of Program Evaluation Committee: Theatre Arts and Cinema
  4. Confirm appointments to governance councils (2-year appointments)
  5. Confirm appointments of peer advisors for non-tenured faculty
  6. Confirm appointments to hiring committees:
  7. VP of Information and Technology Resources
  8. Director of Student Support
  9. Director of Institutional Research
  10. Academic Follow-Up Specialist
  11. Consider applicants for PT faculty Senator
  12. Confirm appointment of SLO Coordinator
  13. Establish timelines for tenure review workshops for new faculty

Discussion:

  1. Budget update 2015-16, Marty Parsons
  2. Pending grants and news from Hartnell Foundation, LoyanneFlinn
  3. Enrollment and FTES goals for 2015-16, Lori Kildal
  4. Update on 16-week calendar mock-up
  5. Revision of student questionnaire for faculty evaluations

9/22/2015

Action:

  1. Support BSI Action Plan
  2. Confirm faculty appointments to governance councils and committees
  3. Institutional Effectiveness Council (new)
  4. Diversity/EEO Committee
  5. Peer Advisors
  6. Revised student questionnaire for faculty evaluation (refer to Union)
  7. Support DE Committee recommendation to adopt Canvas

Discussion:

  1. SSSSP, Mark Sanchez
  2. BSI Action Plan
  3. Proposal and timelines to adopt Canvas (DE Committee)
  4. Updates from Institutional Planning & Effectiveness, Brian Lofman

10/13/2015

Action:

  1. Support Student Success and Support Plan (SSSP)
  2. Boars Policies and Administrative Procedures:
  3. BP/AP 3280, Grants
  4. BP 4250, Probation, Disqualification, and Readmission
  5. AP 4250, Probation
  6. AP 4255, Dismissal and Readmission
  7. Approve Professional Development & Flex Committee Handbook
  8. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees
  9. Professional Development & Flex Committee
  10. Flex Coordinator
  11. Diversity/EEO Committee
  12. Selection Committee: Director of Student Affairs, DSPS
  13. Academic Affairs Council
  14. Accreditation Council
  15. Program Evaluation Committee for AP 4021

Discussion:

  1. Request to Initiate Program Revitalization, Suspension or Discontinuance (per AP 4021)
  2. AIT, Industrial Mechanics (Al Graham)
  3. Drafting Technology (ParvizEntekhabi)
  4. CTE Program Job Placement Standards, Brian Lofman
  5. Professional Development & Flex Committee Handbook

10/27/2015

Action:

  1. Resolution: Noncredit Curriculum, Request to Negotiate
  2. Governance councils and faculty selection committees
  3. Professional Development & Flex Committee (PT Faculty appointment)
  4. Selection Committee: Academic Follow-up Services Specialist
  5. Task Force: Review of PPA Template

Discussion:

  1. 2015-16 Student Equity Plan, Kathy Mendelsohn
  2. Plans for Development: Learning Center, Antonio Alarcon
  3. Supplemental Instruction, Frank Henderson & Brownwyn Moreno
  4. Math Academy, Ken Rand
  5. Pending grant proposals, LoyanneFlinn
  6. Resolutions for Fall Plenary
  7. Scheduling Hybrid curriculum

11/10/2015

Action:

  1. BP/AP 5130, Financial Aid
  2. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
  3. Institutional Effectiveness Committee
  4. Selection Committee: Director Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium

Discussion:

  1. Apportionment funding and the 50% Law, Tracey Richardson
  2. Enrollment management, Celine Pinet
  3. Proposal for Faculty Chairs
  4. BP/AP 3540, Sexual and Other Assaults on Campus
  5. Fall Academic Senate retreat and goals for 2015-16

11/24/2015

Action:

  1. Accept report from Full-Time Faculty Hiring Committee

Discussion:

  1. BPs and Aps
  2. Grant application: 2015 Registered Nurse Capitation Application and Special Programs
  3. Faculty Chairs, results of constituency dialogs
  4. Report from Full-Time Faculty Hiring Committee
  5. Report from 16-week calendar task force
  6. Report on “Habits of the Mind” workshop
  7. “Regular and Effective Contact” DE Committee
  8. Chancellor’s Task Force on Accreditation
  9. Reports from Senators and Standing Committees

12/8/2015

Action:

  1. Support 2015-16 Student Equity Plan (SEP)
  2. Board Policies and Administrative Procedures:
  3. AP 5075, Course Adds and Withdrawals/Drops
  4. BP/AP 5110, Counseling
  5. BP/AP 5300 Student Equity
  6. AP 5610, Voter Registration
  7. Support DE Regular and Effective Contact Policy
  8. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
  9. FT Cal Works Counselor Selection Committee

Discussion:

  1. 2015-16 SEP
  2. Academic Standards Committee, faculty support needed (Mark Sanchez)
  3. Updates to PPA Template
  4. Update HCFA Bargaining Timelines, issues
  5. O & A Committee: Revised Core Competencies
  6. DE Committee: potential CMS savings and professional development for DE faculty
  7. Support for CTE faculty liaison

2/9/2016

Action:

  1. Support ACCJC Midterm Report
  2. Support revisions to Core Competencies
  3. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees
  4. Curriculum committee
  5. Administrative Services Council
  6. CPC proxy
  7. Institutional Effectiveness Council
  8. Advancement Council
  9. Academic Senate proxy

Discussion:

  1. California Dreamer Students, Bronwyn Moreno
  2. Update on Canvas conversion
  3. HFA bargaining timelines, sunshine letters
  4. SSSP, SEP, BSI and HSI comparison chart, MoisesAlmendariz
  5. Update: pending grants, LoyanneFlinn (HSI Title III STEM)

2/23/2016

Action:

  1. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees
  2. Academic Standards committee
  3. Academic Affairs Council
  4. Selection committees:
  5. Salinas Valley Health Professions Pathway Partnership (Manager)
  6. Nursing Instructor
  7. Counselor (Veterans)

Discussion:

  1. Institution-set standards and goals for institutional effectiveness, Brian Lofman, Natalia Cordoba-Velasquez
  2. AB 104/AB 86 Adult Education Block Grant, Kristen Arps
  3. Grant report/update Feb 2016

3/8/2016

Action:

  1. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
  2. Technology Development Council
  3. Selection Committees:
  4. FT Nursing Instructor
  5. Director, Information Technology Systems
  6. Nominations Committee for Senate Officers

Discussion:

  1. Loss of priority enrollment and BOG fee waiver, Mary Dominguez
  2. Institution-set standards and goals for institutional effectiveness, Brian Lofman
  3. Grant updates, LoyanneFlinn
  4. Legislative updates
  5. Report from Tenure Review Committee and BOT meeting 3/1/16
  6. Tenure granted to: Sonia Arteaga, Steve Ettinger, Al Graham, Tanya Ho, Meagan Plumb, Deborah Stevens
  7. Reports from Senators and updates from standing committees

3/22/2016

Action:

  1. Institution-set standards and goals for institutional effectiveness
  2. HCFA Resolution in support of AB 1690: failed

Discussion:

  1. Phishing and ransomware, Dave Phillips
  2. Outcomes & Assessment Committee: update on SLO implementation
  3. Resolutions for ASCCC Spring Plenary Session
  4. AB 626, Low
  5. Open Educational Resources

4/12/2016

Action:

  1. Administrative Procedures:
  2. AP 4051, High School Articulation (not approved)
  3. AP 4102, Career & Technical Education
  4. AP 4222, Remedial Coursework (not approved)
  5. AP 5700, Intercollegiate Athletics
  6. Confirm appointments to (selection) committees:
  7. Computer Science
  8. Early Childhood Education
  9. Nursing
  10. English
  11. Approval of Program Evaluation Committee recommendations: Real Estate
  12. Approved: Resolution to Support AB 798, Textbook Affordability Act
  13. Approve SLO Implementation and Timelines
  14. Establish a task force to consider alignment of SLO assessment with other planning activities (PPA, curriculum revision, budget)

Discussion:

  1. AP 3515, 5500 & 5520, courtesy review mandated by Jeanne Clery Act and Acts Against Violence to Women
  2. Resolutions for discussion for Spring Plenary
  3. OER and Resolution to Support AB 798
  4. AP 4021 and recommendations of Real Estate Program Evaluation Committee
  5. Resolution to establish local legislative and CTE liaison positions
  6. BP/AP 3225, Institutional Effectiveness & BP/AP 3250, Institutional Planning, Brian Lofman
  7. SLO implementation and timelines
  8. Local “Area B” Meeting and Spring Plenary

4/26/2016

Action:

  1. Board Policies/Administrative Procedures:
  2. BP/AP 3225, Institutional Effectiveness
  3. BP/AP 3250, Institutional Planning
  4. BP/AP 7160, Professional Development
  5. BP/AP 7310, Nepotism
  6. BP 7340, Leaves
  7. AP 7343, Industrial Accident and Illness Leave
  8. AP 7344, Attendance Policies and Notification to District of Illness or Absence
  9. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
  10. Early Childhood Education, selection committee
  11. Outcomes & Assessment Committee
  12. Accounting Manager, selection committee

Discussion:

  1. Grant development process, LoyanneFlinn and David Techaira
  2. USDA HEC Grant/CSUMB
  3. ASCCC Spring Plenary and resolutions results
  4. Hybrid courses: last date of attendance policy
  5. Update on task force: SLO implementation/timelines
  6. AB 2017 (McCarty) Mental Health Services