Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Mayock House
Minutes
In attendance: N. Andrade, A. Arid, R. Beede, M. Bumgarner, E. Cervantes, G. Cribb, D. Ellis, L. Halper,
D. Klein,R. Kreider, B. Lawn, J. McMillan, J. Nari, M. Sanidad, J. Stewart. Guests: J. Chargin, F. Lozano,
J. Olivas, J.Pruitt.
- Opening Items
- Call to order at 3:01pm by Debbie Klein.
- Welcome and Roll Call
- Agenda Adjustments - none.
- Approval of Minutes from 10/5/10- no additions or corrections.
MSC (A. Arid/M. Bumgarner). Vote: approved with 1 abstention.
- Comments from the Public
a. Jesse Olivas - spoke about SB 1440 that will initiate a program at all community
colleges where all schools will agree on the course requirements for their degrees,
with a minimum of 18 units in the major. CSU-GE or IGETC patterns must be
followed for transfer to a 4-year university. The new CID (course identification)
numbers will be assigned to courses, allowing them to be accepted without
articulation at a specific university. Community colleges would also agree to
accept a course with a CID regardless of which community college it came from.
Students with these degrees would be given priority (but not a guarantee of
admission) over students without a degree. Jesse will continue to update Senate.
b.John Pruitt spoke about the need to look at acceptance of advanced high school
transcripted courses. He will bring “Credit by Exam” to the next meeting.
- Information Items
a.Gavilan College Style Guide project - Jan Chargin introduced a new committee
working on the Style Guide for the college - defining logos, fonts, styles for all
campus documents, forms, signage, formats on dates, numbers, capitalization, etc.
Departments are encouraged to participate - join the Marketing Group on MyGav.
We need usability of forms for effectiveness. Contact Jan if interested.
b.Professional Ethics Committee report - Mary Ann Sanidad presented a document
which will become part of our accreditation document. Codes of ethics have been
gathered from schools, universities, businesses and community. Many of these
included consequences for infractions. It was determined to create this as a
positive language document. Please review and share with your departments.
Senate will gather feedback and forward as appropriate.
- Discussion Items
a.Strategic Planning - Leah Halper shared concerns about whether classified staff
were heard in this process. Please email her with your thoughts. Discussion is
postponed to the next meeting. Several senators remarked that they did not
receive all the documents for review and discussion for this meeting. Debbie sent
an email with the meeting information to senators and a separate email to faculty
with fewer documents. This seemed to cause confusion. It was suggested that
this type of information could be posted on the Senate Website or MyGav. Debbie
only has access to the website while on campus and finds MyGav somewhat
difficult to use. Additional training on the new technologies we have is needed.
This topic will return on a future agenda for more discussion.
b.Resolution: Recommendation For Cutting Back Future Class Schedules Gradually
and Strategically - The resolution was read aloud. It was reported that 240 FTES
were cut for the spring; our enrollment however, is up. In their desire to serve
their students faculty added students into their classes over the class caps. Debbie,
in recent meetings, has learned that the decision to cut classes was not driven by
the budget, but by State mandates. In recent years, we were chasing enrollment,
now we are being asked to send it away. Education is being used as the pawn in
political maneuvering. Changes were suggested to the resolution, which will be brought back to a future meeting for consideration.
c.Senate guidelines for cutting classes - Bea will revise the document to incorporate
suggested changes, remove specifics and forward to Debbie who will send out to
Senators. Please share this with your departments and request feedback. Send
your comments to Bea for inclusion. This will come back for more discussion.
d.Recommendation to Board on criteria for selecting site for Hollister expansion -
Jen McMillan revised the list into sections - one refers to criteria for the building
and the location; the second refers to classroom and resources criteria. Several
changes were suggested to the document, possibly noting which site would or
would not be acceptable based on the criteria listed. This should apply to any
expansion by the college. It is hoped that the Board would take this seriously.
e.Recommendation to Board on development of the golf course - this document
seems to contradict our position on cutting classes (FTES). It is difficult to justify
growing new programs. Fran Lozano explained Item C.2. - these are not new
programs, but vehicles to be used by exiting classes. Please share this with your
department and bring your feedback to the next Senate meeting. The lease by the
current management company expires on October 29th.
f.Senator topics - please email these to Debbie.
- Reports
- Vision Committee - no report.
- Learning Council - Eddie Cervantes - the sub-groups continue to meet throughout
the month. The Bay Area Coordinator for Basic Skills will be a guest speaker at
the November meeting.
- Senate President - no report.
- Action Items
a.Physical Education Department name change to Kinesiology Department
MSC (M. Bumgarner/J. Stewart). Vote: unanimous.
b.Student Success Board Policy4600& Administrative Procedure 4600
MSC to Approve BP 4600 Student Success Policy (B. Lawn/M. Bumgarner)
Vote: unanimous.
Discussion continued on AP 4600 to determine who will chair, or co-chair the
committee, and the term of service for the student member(s). Representation
from the divisions and determination of “instructional staff” was discussed.
MSC to Approve AP 4600 The Learning Council Organization
(B. Lawn/R. Beede). Vote: not approved. Document will be revised further and
brought back to the next meeting.
- Closing Items
a.Items for next agenda - please send to Debbie Klein
b.Next meeting: November 3, 2010
c.Adjournment at 4:40 pm by consensus.
Submitted by Diane Stone
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