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.