Academic Senate 1000 E. Victoria Carson, CA 90747 WH-A420 (310) 243-3312

Academic Senate 1000 E. Victoria  Carson, CA 90747 WH-A420  (310) 243-3312

Academic Senate 1000 E. Victoria  Carson, CA 90747  WH-A420  (310) 243-3312

Academic Senate Meeting Minutes

January 25, 2017

LSU 2:30 – 4:30 PM

Voting Members Present: Abdourazakou, Avila,Chun, Cid, Deng, Dotti, Durand, Ferris, Furtado, Grasse, Haney, Jarrett,Johnson, Kaplan, Krochalk, Kulikov, Lacanlale, Ladd, Ma, Macias, Monty,Moore,Nelson, Oesterheld, Peyton, Price, Radmacher,Riddick, Robles, Shakib, Sneed, Still, Tang, Tsuno, Vanderhoef, Vanterpool, Villanueva, Welch (proxy for Ledesma)

Voting Members Not Present: HeinzeBalcazar, Barab,Chavez, Ernst,Thomas

Voting Ex-Officio Members Present: Dellacioppa, Hill, Iheke, Perez, Talamante

Voting Ex-Officio Members Not Present: Esposito, Hagan, Norman,Pawar

Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members Present: Davis, Goodwin, Hay,Huizinga, LaPolt, Manriquez, McNutt, Stewart, Wen

Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members Not Present: Avila, Brasley,Carrier, Driscoll, Franklin, Kalayjian, O’Donnell, Poltorak, Sayed, Weber

Guests:J. Bersi, L. Wilson

2016-2017 Academic Senate Executive Committee:

Jim Hill – Chair, Laura Talamante – Vice Chair, Annemarie Perez – Parliamentarian, Sheela Pawar – EPC Chair, Kara Dellacioppa – FPC Chair, Thomas Norman – Statewide Senator, Kate Esposito – Statewide Senator

Recorded and Edited by SEW and the Executive Committee

Meeting Called to Order2:30 PM

Approval of AgendaMSP

Approval of Minutes (11/30/16)MSP

Senator Vanterpool asked that we check whether or not the name of an exam held for teaching students was listed accurately in the minutes. Noted. Minutes passed with potential correction. 38/0/1

Chair Hill’s Report:

- Recording in classrooms came up last year whereby a case in California after the election where a faculty member at a community college was recorded in his classroom without his knowledge, while he had been speaking about his thoughts on election results and it was posted online, went viral. There was a lot of discussion about the rules, politics and ethics of it. It had been suggested that there might be Senate resolutions calling for clarification of policy. There are two meta issues for this if we’re going to say anything. 1. Existing policies need to be completely understood. There was in that community college a policy in place about recording in classrooms. So if we’re going to suggest any changes, we’d better understand what the current policy is. 2. Policies that prohibit something need to identify consequence. The current policy we have may not do that.

- Importance of Tenure: the point of the statement from Senate Exec on the importance of tenure is that there were a couple of states actually have legislation in the works about removing tenure from public institution higher learning in their states. We need to be talking about it. Whether we want a resolution about it is another matter. We thought it important to make a statement first.

Hill’s highlights of 12/1/16 Senate Chairs meeting

- the System CIO is talking about the possibility of a CSU anywhere experience which implies a common learning management system, meaning that we all use Blackboard, or we all use Moodleis not settled, but we might ask VP Manriquez to provide us with an update on this at a later point.

- the Presidents of the CSUs were given a draft of a system-wide policy on intellectual freedom, which included recommendations for implementation. In the implementation, it could lead to the system hiring a system-wide patent expert.

- new emphasis from the system in course redesign that instead of having the process be initiated from individual faculty members, the emphasis will be on the department of program level coming together and saying our department would like to propose something. Hill noted that it might not be a departure from current practice for some, but it might be a huge change for others, even within a campus.

- the visit from the Department of Finance, Christian Osmena joined the meeting via teleconference. The high notes of that is that the Senate Chairs had the opportunity to discuss with him regarding alternate measures for success beyond the four and six year graduation rates. Hill commented that this was one of two times during that meeting people referred to CSUDH as taking the lead on something, in particular, helping people push Osmena about looking at alternate measures. They’re the ones who tell the Governor which numbers are important and they should be looking at what are the appropriate quantitative indicators.

Hill introduced Daniel Caballero the Director for the Toro Dreamers Success Center along with Paz Oliver. Hill noted that it had been brought to his attention that specific wording in FAC 16-21, the resolution affirming support for undocumented CSU students and community had language in it that was inaccurate and needed to be corrected. The 2nd page of the resolution, half way down states “in the event that DACA is reversed”, the first bullet in it reading at face value may appear to confuse federal and state money streams for student financial aid. Hill said he sent the initial approved resolution to our President and to the Senate Chairs list, but it had not gone out to the rest of those cc’d within the resolution. Because it mixes things about state and federal policy and state and federal law, it needs to be fixed. Within Roberts Rules of Order, there is a process by which to amend a resolution that’s been passed. We need to look at it very carefully, so that we don’t try to fix it too fast and leave something broken. The way to do that might be to do a W* resolution for next time. Hill said his opinion is not to try to fix it on the floor, but to come back with it after careful review.

Daniel Caballero said theyhad a meet and greet for a soft opening earlier that day with students and administrators. They’re providing resources for undocumented students on campus. They’re leading the effort in creating proactive programming and encourage that everyone share this resource with students, especially in light of the current political climate. The Dream Center is located in LSU Room 110A. Caballero said his office in is 110B and would love for folks to stop by and see what they’re all about. Paz Olivera also provided some remarks about the Dreamers Success Center as well as the phrasing in the resolution that needs to be addressed. She said the resolution speaks about if DACA were to be reversed, which is a federal policy. Currently undocumented students are only eligible for state aid, which is completely unrelated to DACA because DACA is a federal policy. They are eligible for state aid under AB130 and AB131, also known as the California Dream Act. DACA provides undocumented students, if they meet the eligibility requirements, the right to work in the United States as well as deferment from deportation but it does not have anything to do with financial aid from the federal or state government. Other resources that are available to undocumented students on campus, in addition to the Toro Dreamers Success Center, include the undocumented student ally coalition which has been effect on this campus for a couple of years now. It consists of faculty, staff, students and administrators from around campus. Anyone is welcome to join this group and if you can’t attend the meetings, you’re welcome to be on the list to receive information. Olivera also spoke about ENF; now known as Immigrant Student Alliance which is a student organization. There is also the Dreamers Scholarship in effect thanks to a partnership with the Mexican Consulate. It is a scholarship available just to immigrant students here at Cal State Dominguez Hills. You can find additional information at the Dreamer Success Center website. Resources on the website include the Campus Allies Directory. If you want to know who in your area has already been trained, you’ll be able to find out on the website. If you look at the list and don’t see anyone from your area, you can arrange to have ally training for your area. This semester she said that she and Cabellero are committed to offering more training and can tailor the training specific to your discipline.

Vanterpoolcommented on recording in the classrooms suggesting that given the political climate right now, it would be important to know what our campus policy looks like right now. Hill said he agreed and looked to FPC Chair Dellacioppa to see if she would be addressing it later in her report. Vanterpool said with regard to resolution that needs to be amended that he believed it to be a permissible function of Senate discussion to address an item that may have been overlooked with the resolution was first past and bring the resolution for an imminent purpose, and that that imminent purpose would be to discuss that one item. Given that Senator Thomas was the person who originally brought it to the floor, he would need to be involved in the discussion. Senator Furtado said that given she ran POCA grant and she does get students that are Juniors and Seniors, and there can be small travel stipends involved, Furtado asked if there were any suggestions with regard to determining if the student is a DACA student. She said she would want to be sure that she was doing the right thing. Hill asked Olivera to get back to the Senate with a clear response at a later point. Dr. Olivera said to give them a little bit of time to come up with the appropriate language on it.

Provost Hay Report

- Hay said that President Hagan sends his regards. He’s at the Association of American Colleges and Universities in San Francisco along with other administrators. The topic is Building Public Trust in the Promise of Liberal Education Inclusive Excellence. One of the goals is, front and center will be how today’s liberal education must serve the college of equity in American society. Educating and graduating students from all backgrounds equipped to lead and contribute to our diverse democracy. Hay said he felt the topic really fit in to what was being talked about with the Dreamer Center and something that we do really well at DH.

- Tolerance and Violence in the Mind of God series starts on Feb. 7th in the Library being held on the 5th floor at 2:30.

- Another event coming up is the Symposium EO9066 which is the Japanese Internment. This symposium will take place on Feb. 9th from 2:30 – 5:30 in LSU.

- Steinway by Starlight, February 2, with Sean Chen @ 7:30 PM

- Major/Minor Fair on 1/26

- Provost Search is moving forward. 4 candidates coming to campus on 2/13, 2/14, 2/16, and 2/23

- Student Research Day – 2/15 & 2/16; call for judges has gone out, you can still sign up

- Cabinet Retreat happened last week – one of the things that was talked about was continuing expansion of what we’re thinking about for the campus. In addition to the Science Building, renovating Small College and some of those things. A phrase that was coined by President Hagan was “Toroverse”, what does the “Toroverse” look like 10, 15, and 20 years down the line and how do we prepare for that?

- Campus Master Plan – the Master Plan goes to 20,000 students in about 20 years, a fairly good sized campus. A.C. Martin is still doing that work. March 13th will be a Town Hall held by A.C. Martin. They’ve done a lot of projections on what the campus might look like, including what some of the buildings might look like. Hay encouraged people to attend.

- LA Chargers are coming to our campus. We weren’t part of that conversation, it came as a surprise to us as well. They have been working with AEG to play on the Stubhub field for two years before transitioning to the new field that the LA RAMS will also be playing on. The question is what kind of impact with it have on CSUDH? They’re projecting 30,000 fans currently, that’s more than it seats at this time. They would like to do some other build out. As President Hagan has continued to say, if it doesn’t support the campus, we’re not interested. We don’t have any further information at this time.

- In Academic Affairs with regard to the Graduation Initiative, Hay noted that we’ll have two visitors from the Chancellor’s Office, Jeff Gold and James Minor. They’re coming here to discuss what we’re doing to promote student success. Hay commented that when the whole graduation initiative first came out it struck him the wrong way, with the idea that we were just trying to get students out. What he’s seeing is that as we create our plans for it, what we’ve done is create a path for students to get out by breaking down barriers. We’re not pushing anyone out, and certainly not restricting quality. We do have some targets for 2025 which Hay said he did not believe would be a problem. He said if you’ve been following our graduation rates, we’re improving as a result of all of the hard work everyone has put into it, including the high impact practices, looking at bottle neck courses and looking at what courses students need. We’re still looking at some technical things to identify where students need support. We’ll be looking at software where there can schedule things a few years out. There is a graduation innovation team – it has AVPs, VPs, University Advisors, College Advisors, Graduation Evaluators, we’re adding Financial Aid Personnel on it as well. When a student needs to graduate, any potential barriers can be addressed at once, kind of a one stop shop. Some examples of things they do is to take a look at seniors who have 102 units and did not apply for graduation. What’s happening is they’re contacting those students. Another example is when a student applies for graduation but were denied. That’s when intrusive advising will come in to determine what is in the way. One thing that’s come out of this is that when we looked at it in 2015 and again in 2016, and the barriers seem to be the same. That speaks to a systematic problem and help us to realize that we have some process issues.

- RTP: Hay said he’s finished Cycle Two and what he’s noticed out of the 20 new faculty in Cycle Two, the group is pretty impressive. Out of the 20, there were 23 peer review journals, 6 in press, 16 under review and 20 conference presentations. Hay commented that it was not the kind of faculty when he got started. He said that these folks are hitting the ground running we really need to provide services for them. The Faculty Development Center becomes more important, all the things we can do become important. Hay expressed appreciation for hiring a great group of faculty.

Q&A: Senator Monty asked if some of the common reasons for denial of graduation, would failure to satisfy GWAR be one of those.Monty gave the example of students who thought they had graduated but had taken the GWE in their last semester and failed and did not realize that they had not graduated. In the catalog, perhaps it has changed, it was required that students either sign up for ENG350 or sign up for the GWE after they reached 80 units before they would be allowed to enroll. It has never been enforced and yet it was one of the recommendations on the President’s Taskforce on Advising that we actually enforce that policy. Compel the student to satisfy that requirement before they get into their final semester at CSU.

Vanterpool in terms of engaging in conversation with AEG, that it’s not just Dominguez Hills, but the city of Carson as well. Folks will be parking all around the city of Carson, and if they have not been approached, it’s an opportunity for Dominguez Hills to engage with the community in a common interest. Hill noted that the word on the street is that the team actually approached AEG before they talked with the city of Carson.

ASI VP Grace Iheke reported that its time for elections and asked that faculty let students know that applications are available and that all positions will be vacant. There are also college representative positions available for this semester in the CNBS and COE before mid March. Within the elections there will be a referendum questions going out for students looking to vote due to minimum wage increasing. ASI is looking to allocate the student budget to help and encourage students to get involved and know exactly where our budget it going. We will be traveling to Sacramento March 11th – March 14th for CHESS to advocate and speak to the legislature regarding the FTE formula and other detailed updates we would like to give them. We’re encourage students, faculty, administration and staff to help us determine what other issues would be important for us to take to CHESS as well.

Vanterpool asked re. theIRA call for submitting proposals. It looks like some of the practices have changed in terms of how people apply for IRA funds, if you could give a sense when the call will go out and clarify what the changes in practices are as to how proposals get to ASI? Iheke said she would take it back to the President of ASI.

Statement on Tenure from the Senate Executive Committee, Chair Jim Hill

Prior to reading aloud the statement on tenure Chair Hill commented that there was a discussion within Senate Exec as to whether they would want to have a resolution on it very quickly or a broader resolution. What was decided is that they would come up with a statement first and then invite feedback on what the Senate thinks should be done.