REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Minutes of the College Council
7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka, CA, Board Room
Monday, January 24, 2011
MEMBERS
PRESENT
Mark Winter, Dave Holper, Marcia Williams (phone), Ron McQueen, Jeff Marsee,
Keith Snow-Flamer, Utpal Goswami, Roxanne Metz
MEMBERS
ABSENT
CRFO rep, Becky Blatnick, ASCR rep (2), Jose Ramirez, Ahn Fielding, Jolene
Gates, VP of Admin Service (vacant)
CALL TO ORDER
Jeff Marsee called the meeting to order at 3:03 pm.
MINUTES
The minutes of 12/15/2010 were approved as presented.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
AP305.03
“FACULTY
PRIORITIZATION”
Dave Holper reported that the draft faculty prioritization model was utilized to
establish a faculty prioritization list and that through the implementation process
feedback was generated regarding the model. Dave suggested that College
Council could either approve the draft model ‘as is’ or revise the model to
incorporate suggested revisions that resulted from the implementation process.
Utpal Goswami added that following the implementation and ongoing execution
of any process, suggestions should be made for that process’s improvement.
Utpal noted that in this case, “… the question is what part of the improvement
ought to be approved by College Council and what part of processes are simply
process improvements?”
Utpal added that one topic related to the faculty prioritization model that should
be addressed by College Council is “… the issue of the role of subjective
assessments in the process. If we decide to include some subjective elements in
the process, we need to bring it forward to College Council.”
President Marsee requested support staff to forward the draft prioritization model
to Expanded Cabinet for review.
MISSION, VISION, Support staff presented the draft Mission, Vision and Values statements that
CORE VALUES
resulted from the 01/13/2011 and 01/14/2011 Spring Flex Activities.
Council members voiced feedback regarding the flex-generated Mission, Vision
and Values statements.
Dave Holper suggested that the Mission, Vision and Values ad-hoc committee
re-convene to consider the flex generated statements and subsequent feedback
and revise the statements as necessary. The ad-hoc will present their revised
drafts to College Council when complete.
INSTITUTIONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
COMMITTEE/IPM
NARRATIVE
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that the Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC)
membership had been expanded to include two additional faculty members.
Keith reported that the IEC’s first meeting of Spring ’11 was scheduled for the
week of January 31, 2011 and that the group would be discussing planning
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agendas to meet the “ACCJC standards questions.”
Keith Reported that work to the IPM narrative was underway, and that the
Integrated Planning Model and Integrated Planning Narrative could serve as
building blocks for the Governance Procedure Manual.
President Marsee requested that Keith Snow-Flamer prepare a matrix that
compares the College of Marin governance manual with CR governance
processes. Members of the Council requested that the Integrated Planning
narrative be presented to College Council as soon as possible. Keith SnowFlamer reported that he would present to College Council the Integrated
Planning Narrative and the Marin/CR governance matrix by the end of February.
INTEREST
BASED
STEERING
COMMITTEE
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that the IBA Steering Committee had been
expanded to include:
 Keith Snow-Flamer
 Mary Grace Barrick
 Tony Sartori
 Rory Johnson
 Cheryl Tucker
 Additional member to be confirmed
Keith also reported the group had met thrice with the intention of moving the
project forward as quickly and carefully as possible.
Keith noted that The Center for Collaborative Decision Making (CCDM) provided
support to Los Rios during Los Rios’ IBA development process, and that Keith
was scheduled to discuss with CCDM IBA Facilitator training opportunities.
BP/AP 3200
ACCREDITATION
Support Staff noted that the constituent feedback period regarding the BP and
AP 3200 drafts ended on 01/24/2011. President Marsee invited constituent
feedback regarding BP and AP 3200.
There being none (outside of a punctuation error which support staff agreed to
address), the Council moved, seconded and passed unanimously a motion to
forward to the Board of Trustees for approval (BP) and information (AP) draft BP
and AP 3200.
COLLEGE
COUNCIL
SUMMER
SCHEDULE
The Council discussed the relationship of College Council constituent
representatives and the constituent groups they represent “…Does a constituent
representative have the authority to speak on behalf of their group without
specific authorization?”
The following topics were discussed:
 Authority to speak/vote with out specific constituent consent may be
determined before-hand by each constituent group
 Even if no ‘action’ was taken during the summer, participation by all
representatives would be beneficial
 Faculty participation over the summer should be negotiated and finalized
long before the summer term begins
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The Academic Senate Co-Presidents agreed to forward the item to CRFO,
Academic Senate, and SARCO for discussion.
BP/AP 5055
“ENROLLMENT
PRIORITIES”
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that changes to education code and title 5 will
necessitate revisions to BP/AP 5055. Keith suggested tabling discussion on the
item pending further investigation by Student Services and the Enrollment
Management Committee.
Keith agreed to include the ASPC in the revision development process.
CONVERSION
PROCESS FOR
GRANT FUNDED
TO DISTRICT
FUNDED
FACULTY
Dave Holper suggested that the process for converting grant funded faculty to
district funded faculty should occur outside of the faculty prioritization process.
STUDENT
SERVICES
BP/APs
Support Staff noted that Student Services had drafted the following BP and AP
revisions and they would soon be presented to College Council for review:
After much discussion regarding the process for becoming tenured, the
importance of many of the grant funded positions, and grant funded faculty
evaluations, Roxanne Metz agreed to investigate education code regarding
rights to tenure and report back to College Council.
a. BP 4070, 5010, 5030, 5040, 5400, 5410, 5420
b. AP 4070, 5010, 5011, 5012, 5030, 5031, 5040, 5045, 5400,
5410, 5420
Support Staff agreed to prioritize the proposed BPs and APs in preparation for
an orderly presentation to College Council.
AP2436
EVALUATION OF
PRESIDENT/SUP
ERINTENDENT
Support Staff noted that the Board of Trustees requested to amend the
evaluation timeline noted in AP2436.
A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to distribute the revised
AP2436 to constituents for a 30 day review.
UPDATES/FUTUR Roxanne Metz requested future discussion of College Council term lengths.
E AGENDA
ITEMS
Keith Snow-Flamer noted that the Institutional Effectiveness Committee would
begin work on developing BP and AP 3250 “Institutional Planning.”
Jeff Marsee requested that “Accreditation” be a regular College Council agenda
item.
A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to extend the ‘2008 to
2011 Strategic Plan’ for one year. Keith Snow-Flamer noted that the IEC will be
evaluating the current Strategic Plan and the Key Performance Indicators
contained therein.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:18 pm
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