Academic Senate

Grossmont College

Minutes of the Meeting – October 30, 2006

 

PRESENT: Beth Smith (President); Bonnie Schmiege (Vice President); Victoria Howitt (Senate Officer at Large); Jennifer Carmean (Senate Officer at Large); P.J.Ortmeier, Tina Young (Administration of Justice); Jennifer Carmean (ASL); Paul Turounet (Art); Gregg Robinson (Behavioral Sciences); Virginia Dudley, Michael Golden, Michelle Perchez (Biological Sciences); Judith Zander, Evan Enowitz, Nate Scharff (Business Administration); Linda Snider, Mark Pressnall (Business Office Technology); Don Ridgway (Cardiovascular Technology); Jeff Lehman, Tom Olmstead for Martin Larter (Chemistry); Mary Courtney, Sheridan Dewolf (Child Development); Joel Castellaw (Communication); Janet Gelb, Diane Mayne-Stafford (Computer Science); Mary Rider, Debbie Lim, Renee Tuller (Counseling); (Culinary Arts);Scott Barr (Disabled Student Services); David Mullen (Dance); Chris Hill (Earth Sciences); Joan Ahrens, Tony Ding, Tate Hurvitz, Micah Jendian (English); Barbara Loveless (ESL); Sylvia Montejano (EOPS); Jim Symington, Laura Burger, Steve Johns, Larry Larsen (Exercise Science and Wellness); Paul Vincent (Foreign Language); Sue Gonda, Devon Hansen (History); (International Business); Pat Morrison (Library); Shirley Pereira, Jeff Waller, Jenny Vanden Eynden (Math); Evan Wirig, William Snead (Media Communications); (Music); Tom Oertel (Nursing); (Occupational Therapy); David Milroy, Raul Sandelin (PartTime Representatives); Zoe Close, Bill Hoaglin (Philosophy, Humanities & Religious Studies); (Physics, Astronomy, & Physical Sciences); Brian Jennings, Jim Wood (Political Economy); Lorenda Seibold-Phalan (Respiratory Therapy); Craig Everett (Theatre Arts).

ABSENT: (Vice President); (Administration of Justice); (ASL); Jim Wilsterman, Suda House (Art); Israel Cardona, Teresa Jacob (Behavioral Sciences); (Biological Sciences); (Business Administration); Rick Kirby (Cardiovascular Technology); Martin Larter (Chemistry); (Child Development); Sheri Guseman (Communication); (Computer Science); Tom Gamboa (Cross Cultural Studies); (Counseling);Joe Orate, James Foran (Culinary Arts); (Dance); Jane Nolan (Disabled Student Services); Judd Curran (Earth Sciences); Gary Phillips, Julie Cardenas (English); Pat Bennett (ESL); (EOPS); (Exercise Science and Wellness); Ruth F. Konopka (Foreign Language); Marty Ennis (History); Priscilla Rogers (International Business); (LRC); Peg Hovde (Math); (Media Communications); Steve Baker (Music); (Nursing); Christine Vicino (Occupational Therapy); (PartTime Representatives); (Philosophy, Humanities & Religious Studies); Ross Cohen (Physics, Astronomy, & Physical Sciences);(Political Economy); (Respiratory Therapy); Beth Mallette (Theatre Arts).

GUESTS: John Colson – Vice President, Student Services

Bob Eygenhuysen – Director, Risk Management

Tim Flood – Director, Campus Facilities & Operations

Kendra Jeffcoat – Interim Assistant Dean, Student Affairs

Chuck Passentino – Faculty, SLO Presentation

Walter Sachau – Manager, Campus Projects

Crystal Suldano – Student

Mike Wangler – Faculty, Geography – Cuyamaca

RECORDER: Tasa Campos

I. CALL TO ORDER

A. Approval of Agenda

A motion was made to approve the agenda.

M/S/U Wirig/Morrison

Approval of Minutes from October 2, 2006

Devon Hansen stated she is shown as present at the meeting but she was absent.

A motion was made to approve the minutes from the October 16, 2006 meeting with the above change.

M/S/U Schmiege/Wirig

II. PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Beth stated she felt the email distributed this morning to the Grossmont, Cuyamaca, and District sites calling for an in-house investigation is ridiculous. The group discussed in-house and outside agency investigations.

A motion was made stating the Academic Senate body is calling for an investigation into the Chancellor Contract incident by an independent outside agency.

M/S/U Robinson/Rider

A motion was made to suspend the rules and move the motion to action.

M/S/U Hill/Burger

Both motions passed unanimously.

Report – State Plenary Session

Beth distributed copies of some of the resolutions voted on at the State Plenary Session she and Bonnie Schmiege attended last week. A total of sixty resolutions were voted on. Beth reviewed the following three resolutions related to Associate Degrees that passed:

13.04 F06 – Opposition to Associate Degrees based Solely on IGETC and CSU GE Breadth

14.01 F06 – Minimum Grade Requirement for Associate Degree Courses

20.01 F06 – Supporting Student Self-Referral for Tutoring Services

With the election of a new Academic Senate President, Vice President, and Senators at Large, Beth recommended any persons interested in these seats will want to get familiar with the current resolutions and information. Please contact a SOC member to find out more information.

David Milroy gave a brief update on the presentation he gave at the Plenary Session on Part Time Faculty.

Part Time Faculty Issues

Beth shared the Part Faculty Reps David Milroy and Raul Sandelin had concerns regarding the composition of and the process of decision making regarding the Academic Senate’s Part Time Faculty Issues Committee. An overhead review of the form used to develop a committee was presented. Beth shared that all new committee development or any changes to existing committees go through ADSOC and the decisions are made there. ADSOC consists of the College President, the Senate Officers and President Cabinet members. David and Raul expressed the following concerns with the process:

Open membership vs. assigned membership

No Part Time reps present during the discussion regarding this committee

Contradiction in the Academic Senate Constitution

Two Full Time Faculty being made part of the composition

Possibility of having ad hoc members at large

Information being addressed in the wrong way

The group discussed the Part Time Reps concerns and the process of formalizing the senate’s committee as a college committee.

A motion was made requesting the Academic Senate develop a Task Force to review the composition of the committee.

M/S/P Milroy/Robinson

It was agreed the task force would consist of the Senate Officers, the two Part Time Reps, and one Administrator.

There were three nays and nine abstentions. The motion passed.

Other

The following information was also shared:

Beth reminded everyone on the importance of arriving to the Senate meetings on time in order to keep quorum. Quorum is required in order to vote on items.

Beth reviewed the following calendar timeline for the Senate:

v October 30 – Review information items on the agenda

v November 6 – Review information items on the agenda – Institutional Values and Constitution

v November 6 – Open nominations for the Academic Senate President seat

v November 20 – Close nominations for the Academic Senate President seat

v November 20 – Vote on action items reviewed as information items at the last couple meetings

The next two meetings will contain a lot of important information. Please be aware of the time line and discuss the information with your departments. The Academic Senate President Election ballots will be sent out with the information on the changes that may be made to the constitution so both items will be voted on at the same time.

III. COMMITTEE REPORTS

None at today’s meeting.

IV. ACTION ITEMS

None at today’s meeting.

V. INFORMATION ITEMS

Smoking Policy Update – Attachment #1

Beth welcomed Bob Eygenhuysen, Tim Flood and Walter Sachau to the meeting. She thanked Tom Oertel for helping to arrange the information. Beth reminded the group the Senate has been reviewing the Board Policy BP 6810 Smoking Ordinance. The Senate asked for more information at the last meeting.

Bob thanked the Senate and gave a brief overview on the history of the Smoking Task Force. Tim gave an electronic presentation showing and reviewing the designate smoking areas on the map determined and recommended by the Facilities Committee. The designated areas are as follow:

Concrete table by President’s parking space, next to lot 7; add an umbrella

East of bus structure

Griffin Gate patio; north east corner, add an umbrella and table

At the ROP area by the storage garage

Southeast corner of the 500 quad

North 500 lower patio, 2 tables

Football field behind the bleachers to the east

Grass area by the weight room, add a table

Bench area east of the LTRC

By the west 300 at the retaining wall and man hole

By 270 in front of the mechanical room

300 south in front of the ceramics kiln area

After the presentation of locations, the group discussed the following:

Signage

District office designate areas

Using air filters

Moving all smoking to parking lots

Discipline would go through Student Affairs and United Faculty

Enforcement would be done by Public Safety

The Senate will be voting on endorsing a policy of a smoke free campus except in designated areas. Concern was expressed regarding voting on any action that may assist in the disciplinary action to any faculty or staff member.

Beth thanked Bob, Tom, Tim and Walter for their time and requested any additional questions or suggestion be sent to them.

Institutional Values – Chuck Passentino – Attachment #2

Chuck Passentino shared that after the last Senate meeting, he received many suggestions for change and/or additions for the Institutional Student Learning Outcomes diagram. He will be putting together addition information and changes to present at the next Senate meeting. Please send your suggestions to him.

Review of Senate Constitution and By-Laws – Attachment(s) #3 & #4

Due to lack of time this item was not discussed but Beth requested all Senator be discussing this their departments prior to the next meeting.

VI. OTHER

Meeting adjourned at 12:20p.m.

*The next meeting will be on November 6th in Griffin Gate.

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