Bonnie Price, Coordinator – Title III Grant

Raul Sandelin, Faculty Part-time – English

Crystal Sudano, Board Member – Associated Students of Grossmont College

Steve Tamanaha, Associate Dean – EOPS

The agenda was changed. Information Items number "A. Equivalencies – Discussion with colleagues from San Diego Community Colleges" about the impact of discipline-wide equivalencies was moved to the first item on the agenda due to the fact that there were visiting guests.

An error was noted in the section under "Nominations & Elections Committee." The information should read "The seats are open for two part-time representatives…" instead of three.

M/S/U Wertlieb/Carmean

Certificates were presented to Sue Gonda – Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee, Gary Phillips – Chair ICC, Mike Matherly – Chair, Staff Development Committee, and Jennifer Carmean – Senate Officer at Large, Academic Senate. They were thanked for their effort, time, commitment, humor, and hard work.

The Matriculation Report that was on the agenda last time but due to lack of time the item was not reviewed. The Academic Senate officers will review the item and sign off on it due to a deadline. They will report back with the information.

The next Governing Board meeting is tomorrow, May 17^th at Cuyamaca. Please try to attend and participate. The Grossmont College Academic Senate will be giving a presentation, at the request of the Board, on what the Senate does.

Beth shared the status on the Grossmont Academic Senate’s request for technical assistance with the District. She has meet with the Chancellor three times in the last two weeks, one of those times also included President Martinez. The Chancellor has given the choice of requesting technical assistance to the Cuyamaca Academic Senate. Chancellor Suarez does not feel that technical assistance is needed at this time since Cuyamaca nor the District feels there are any problems. The Academic Senate has been reviewing and discussing alternatives.

It was shared that the Cuyamaca Academic Senate President volunteered to cancel the Joint Academic Senate meeting in the fall because Cuyamaca faculty have decided not to meet with the Grossmont faculty. The group discussed feelings between Grossmont and Cuyamaca faculty and indicated that they want to encourage dialogue among the faculty. It was suggested that an informal meeting be scheduled sometime in the fall for the two faculty groups to get together to share ideas and concerns, possibly a barbeque of some type.

Beth shared that the Academic Senate election that is currently in process has been compromised due to the fact that some ballots have been removed from the mailroom recycle/trash bins. On Wednesday, May 11^th, Bob Eygenhuysen, District Director, Benefits & Risk Management was observed going through the bins in the mailroom. Bob left with items from the recycle/trash bins including some of the Academic Senate ballots. Beth requested feedback from the Senate on how to proceed with the election: go forward as is or nullify the election and redo the process in the Fall ’06 semester. The group discussed the options.

A motion was made to nullify the current election process and start again during Professional Development in the fall.

M/S/C Enowitz/Robinson

The motion passed.

It was agreed the current Senate officers will continue in their seats until the next election is complete in the fall. The slate will stay the same. There will be no additional names added.

The Senate also requested that information be requested from Bob Eygenhuysen regarding the removal of the ballots along with a request for the District to cover the costs of an additional election.

Beth welcomed and introduced Gail Conrad from San Diego Mesa College and Kathy McGinnis from San Diego City College. Wheeler North from San Diego Miramar College joined the meeting also. All are Academic Senate President’s at their colleges. They distributed two hand-outs to the group. One was a San Diego Community College District Equivalency Evaluation form and the other was Equivalence to Minimum Qualifications Procedures used by the San Diego Community College District. The information covered conclusive evidence, acceptable criteria, selection committee procedures, and qualifications. Gail and Kathy reviewed the information on the hand-outs. There was a question and answer session with the group and the guests. A variety of scenarios were discussed. Gail and Kathy would send the reviewed information to Beth electronically if anyone was interested. They suggested reading Title 5 – 53430 for the state interpretation. Beth thanked them all for their time and information.

The Academic Senate will follow-up on equivalencies in the fall.

Due to time constraints the group briefly discussed the Resolution of Continued Concerns – Attachment #1. It was suggested a special meeting be scheduled to discuss the resolution during the summer. Information regarding a special meeting will be sent out during the week.

Susan Herney – Office of Community and College Relations

Ted Martinez, Jr., President – Grossmont College

Don McCloud

Pat Murray

Lisa Oertling

Dana Quittner

Brad Tiffany

Peter White, Vice President – Student Services

Beth thanked the faculty for their attendance at the meeting in the summer. She also thanked ASGC for providing the refreshments for the meeting.

She announced that a faculty member, Marcelle Karlin from the OPT program, had died in June. The OPT program will be facilitated by part time faculty since Marcelle was the only full time faculty member in that area.

Victoria Howitt’s birthday was announced, and the faculty wished her a happy birthday.

Beth announced that Debra Fitzsimons is leaving Grossmont for a position at another college. Debra was presented with a plaque and flowers from the senate, and she received a standing ovation. Debra’s contributions to the college are numerous, and her integrity and desire to problem solve will be missed by the faculty.

Dr. Martinez addressed the senate to discuss the recent action by the governing board to extend all contracts for chancellor’s cabinet members except his. He told the faculty that he wishes to stay at Grossmont, is grateful for the support he has received, and that Grossmont is the best college because of the people here. He said that his contract officially expires on June 30, 2006.

A. Resolution in support of Dr. Martinez

Faculty asked Dr. Martinez how best to help him. He said that sending a resolution to the board is the senate’s decision. He suggested that all the units (campus constituent groups) unify with one message to give to the board. A draft had already been prepared for review and possible adoption by the units. He brought copies of the draft to the senate.

The senate discussed supporting the draft letter (not the resolution provided in the agenda) since Dr. Martinez believes it is the correct way to proceed. Other ways to support Dr. Martinez were also discussed such as asking community members to write letters of support for him, wearing a certain color shirt to the board meeting, attending the board meeting, wearing buttons with a message of support, and others.

A motion was made to support the content of the letter knowing that Beth would meet with the other unit leaders and minor adjustments to the letter might be made. The units would also decide how to present the letter to the board at the next board meeting.

Motion to suspend the rules to consider the draft letter.

M/S/U Bennett/Phillips

Motion to approve the draft letter.

M/S/C Robinson/Wirig

The recent call for work action by the UF has consequences for the senate since it has the authority to appoint faculty to all shared governance committees. Beth asked Zoe to address the work action. Zoe stated that the UF has asked for faculty to work only to the primary duties identified on the job descriptions with an asterisk. Committee work is not a primary duty, and the union was hoping to target accreditation committees since that is a common task in the district for which faculty can be united in the work action. Faculty with reassigned time are encouraged to continue to participate in all assignments, including committees, where compensation is involved, for example a department chair or other committee chair. The decision to withdraw from committees will be individual to the faculty and any questions should be addressed to Zoe. Faculty seemed protective of hiring committees and committees working on construction/renovation plans. It was noted that any action that negatively impacts part time faculty should be considered carefully and avoided whenever possible. The student leaders are also supporting the work action.

Motion to suspend the rules to consider the resolution.

M/S/U Bennett/Kirby

Motion to approve the resolution.

M/S/U Bennett/Wilsterman

Begin granting discipline-wide equivalencies for all new part time faculty hired.

Formalize the process used to determine equivalences as it currently occurs, namely at the department level at each college, with consultation of the division dean and confirmation of the appropriate vice-president.

Establish a District-wide Equivalency Process and Practice Committee as an oversight group. This Committee would review issues of implementation, as they arise, and review and confirm departmental recommendations for discipline-wide equivalencies for any full-time academic employee (faculty or administrator).

Continue to request technological support for departments and divisions in order to accurately track part time faculty assignments and other pertinent information.

Recognize that an equivalency granted by either college constitutes an equivalency for that part time faculty member as an employee of the district, and each college retains the right of assignment of any part time faculty member.

Develop a method to "grandfather" current part time faculty who have received assignments with a course-by-course equivalency.