Cabrillo College Faculty Senate
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
3-5 P.M.
SAC West, Room 202
In Attendance: Winnie Baer, Arturo Cantu, John Govsky, Steve Hodges, Calais Ingel, Sheryl
Kern-Jones, Jackie Logg, Michael Mangin, Robin McFarland, Diego Navarro, Lenny Norton,
Ekua Omosupe, Jo-Ann Panzardi, Beth Regardz, Dan Rothwell, Pam Sanborn, Patricia Stokke,
Alex Taurke, Sylvia Winder, Eva Acosta, Marcy Alancraig, Rick Fillman, Abigail Kennedy,
Kathy Welch
Guests: Gordon Hammer, Vicki Fabri, Jamilya Ukudeeva, Beverlie Terra, Mark Eastman,
Michelle Chao, Letitia Scott-Curtis, Claire Thorson, Tom Marshal, Jennifer Lee, Rory O’Brien,
Michelle Merrill, Eve Hinkley, Yaming Shen, Phil Carr, Ian Haslam, Brian Garcia, Terrey
Muller, Jennifer Vered, Peter Shaw, Steve Schessler, Enrique M. Buelna, Dennis BaileyFougnier, Matt Halter, Dusty McKenzie, Michael Strunk, Jason Smith, Lalu Simcik, Victor
Ramos, Ryan Scherbart, Michelle Morton, Denise Lim, Isabel O’Conner, Dorothy Nunn, Jay
Jackson, James Buffett, Laurel Jones, Georg Romero, Merrill Tucker, Beth Peterson, Mark
DeSmet, Ed Braunhut, Jeffrey Bergamini, Rebecca Morgan, Zerubba Levi, James Weckler,
Wanda Garner, Kim Belliveau, Jennifer Cass, Patrick Meyer, Margery Regalado
Note Taker: Jeffrey Leach
1. Call to Order
1. The meeting was called to order at 3:05 pm.
2. Minutes
1. December 11th, 2012
1. Name change (Robert to Robin from 2/5/13)
2. Approved
3. Announcements
1. Introductions and celebration of new hires.
2. Agenda changes.
4. Standing Reports
1. Watsonville - Eva Acosta
1. Reported that the memorial service for Edy and Joe Henderson was a success.
2. New president in Watsonville office, in green tech building. Thanks to President
Jones for her increased visibility in Watsonville.
2. President – Part One (Michael Mangin)
1. Appreciation for Faculty Senate, and those who participate.
2. Thanks to Steve for serving as VP for so a year and a half.
3. Vote for New VP
1. Calais Ingel is only candidate.
1. Verbal vote, which Calais wins unopposed.
4. 800 building will be open soon.
3. Secretary (John Govsky)
1. Robin is in her second term, she is continuing.
2. Calais is now officially beginning her term as VP.
3. John posts all the info for these meetings online, so if you have a laptop or tablet
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you can use those resources while you’re here.
1. Senate agrees that website has lots of useful resources (see handout).
Treasurer (Lenny Norton)
1. We do have money.
2. Not all CCFS members are dues paying members.
1. Division Reps, please mention that full time people can become dues payers,
only $9 monthly, part time people can for even less.
2. Benefits of paying dues are that they pay for food at these meetings, sending
our people to other conferences, and throwing the end of year graduation
party.
3. Senate is not sure whether you will be double-paying your dues if you sign up
a second time by mistake.
Secretary (John Govsky)
1. CFT will be discussed later.
2. Changes
1. Faculty will now start to get better benefits, which hasn’t happened for maybe
5 years.
2. If you have feedback contact the union.
3. How to make adjuncts . . . .
4. Review of tenure.
3. Upcoming events
1. Meeting on Leads and sexual harassment stuff.
2. Luncheon with a good speaker about ACCJC and prop 30. Bring a plate and
cup, you’ll be able to cut in line.
CCEU Liaison (Rick Fillman)
1. Things are getting better
1. CCEU Account a year ago was 250 or so, now it’s 204 or so.
2. We used to feel targeted and under-appreciated. This semester things are
looking better.
3. We’re beginning healing process. Salary increase will help a lot.
2. Treat classified people kindly.
Student Senate Rep. (Abigail Kennedy)
1. This is her first meeting, she’s observing.
2. Devon, the treasurer of Student Senate will be here half the time instead of
Abigail.
3. What are the students doing?
1. Working to fill senate seats.
2. Working on social media involvement (likes on Facebook page).
8. SLO Assess. Coor. (Marcy Alancraig)
1. We’re getting better at assessments
1. We have been assessing 60%, now we’re 76.1%, but that number might even
be higher.
2. We will be trying to assess classes more. We’re on track to get to 90%
compliance.
1. We’ll have new electronic program to tell us how many of our assessments
we’ve done.
1. We will be doing individual assessment of classes.
1. Senate worries that this will make more paper trail and less efficiency
for professors.
1. This is just a pilot of the program, we’re trying to digitalize to
make things more efficient.
9. VPI (Kathy Welch)
1. We appreciate faculty.
2. Welcome, new faculty!
3. More report later.
10. President – Part Two (Michael)
1. Recognition of the passing of Billee Paul, and her importance.
2. Student success
1. We won’t talk about it much today
2. Look at instructors’ tool kit.
1. Senate asks how data can inform us to make things work better.
3. Senate responds
1. How can we support each other without taking too much time from our very
busy days?
2. It was discussed at student retreat, how student senate can help teachers help
the other students and help inform students.
3. Flex session Thurs morning on SOFIA for data exploration. SOFIA is Student
Outcomes for Faculty Inquiry and Analysis. It’s designed for faculty to
answer their questions.
4. Three ongoing issues
1. Focused emails about possibly making Cabrillo a non-smoking campus, there
seems to be renewed interest. If interested, get in touch.
2. People are looking at FS election processes. Are we holding elections in the
best way? This applies mostly to votes for offices.
3. Possible committee for a rep at statewide meetings about making community
colleges able to offer Bachelors degrees. Rural districts could benefit if they
have a community college but no 4-year.
1. Senate responds
1. This could be good for nursing, there aren’t enough schools to make
enough nurses.
2. British Columbia, community colleges grew into 4 years.
3. Not sure how close we are to this, or how widespread it would be.
4. It could be great for dental students too.
5. This would be a big change.
5. Unfinished Business
1. Introduction of Laurel Jones
2. Need FS reps on a couple of committees, including
1. Enrollment appeals. New state mandates/three strikes.
3. Concerns about accreditation with ACCJC
1. ACCJC is facing a number of lawsuits and legal actions. They’re putting more
and more colleges on watch list, giving bad reports.
1. SF City College was put on watch list. Their people filed a complaint, which
ACCJC dismissed, but DOE didn’t ignore. DOE is threatening ACCJC. The
state will conduct audit of ACCJC. There’s bipartisan support for this action.
Sen. Nelson said ACCJC Pres. is the most arrogant person he’s ever met. City
of SF is suing ACCJC and separate suit for BOG.
2. Go to accreditationwatch.com to see complaints against ACCJC. If you don’t
want to read it all, there’s a good video.
3. The 4 page letter from DOE saying ACCJC is doing things wrong was cc’ed
to Cabrillo’s Paul Harvell.
2. The DOE listed four specific areas that ACCJC needs to address if it wants to
retain the DOE’s certification as an accrediting agency. Ambiguity of some
ACCJC “recommendations” of thing to change.
1. DOE noted that when ACCJC gives a “recommendations” of things that need
to be changed they don’t distinguish between the ones that have countdowns
and the ones that aren’t that urgent
2. DOE also noted that ACCJC often does not have enough faculty on visiting
teams, and there are conflict of interest issues.
3. There has been confusion about timelines, since preliminary recommendations
come a long time before the real recommendations, but the 2 year time limit
for us to comply with them starts ticking when they first visit for preliminary
recommendations. They don’t actually give colleges 2 years from when they
ask for things.
4. Cabrillo’s accreditation will go forward as planned, despite the unsettled
situation at ACCJC. Visiting team here in October.
5. There is a petition being circulated to rein in ACCJC. We have to watch, wait,
evaluate what happens in next month or two. The petition will be emailed
around this week. It’s relatively lax.
6. There’s also a committee whose talking points were fairly mild. The ground
has shifted.
7. CA is behind other states in establishing SLO’s. ACCJC has been the agency
responsible for their implementation; that accounts for some of the conflict.
8. Faculty can submit comments at www.ed.gov
3. Our accrediting agency operating compared to other states?
1. ACCJC is much more punitive.
2. Other states talk about accreditation agencies with appreciation, unlike CA.
4. Emergency prep with Oscar Guillen and colleagues on Safety Committee.
1. We’ll have another review Flex week to run down protocol for emergencies.
2. We’ll have an Oct. 25 Fri emergency readiness drill.
1. Three hour period will be going through what to do in an emergency situation.
2. Intercom will be activated, students will be brought out and then back in after
5 min.
3. How do emergencies go down? Sheriff and La Selva fire and Aptos will be
here
4. Senate expresses concerns about preparing for emergency with a shooter too.
1. We have lockdown capabilities
5. Even if you wouldn’t otherwise be here on that Friday, come practice. You
need practice, or you won’t know what to do in those situations.
6. April incident problems and things we learned:
1. People didn’t know what to do, but the people who did act knew what they
were doing.
2. Problem was that lower campus didn’t hear that they weren’t supposed to
evacuate.
3. Parents were notified before teachers on campus were.
4. Watsonville doesn’t have great communications capabilities. They’re
isolated, but we’re working on it.
5. We’ve taken into account the Stroke center, and the high schools around.
6. Teachers don’t know the complete plan of the campus, don’t know what to
do in all situations.
7. Watsonville drill is Thurs 24th, 1-4pm.
8. How do we get people off campus quickly/safely?
1. Now the buildings all have vests for traffic direction.
2. If students don’t have driver’s licenses and buses aren’t working well,
what do teachers do?
3. Can teachers have a protocol sheet?
4. Security needs better way to communicate to teachers.
3. Schedule Change. – FS Oct. 22 moved to Oct. 15 for Accreditation Team.
4. FTES Projections and Faculty Obligation Number - Kathy Welch
1. Good news, Fall ’13 to date enrollments are getting closer to Fall ’12 over the
last few weeks. Still 2.2% down. We’re below projection on FTES, but still
have time before census.
2. Good thing Prop 30 passed, at one point we were at a 3 million dollar
structural deficit, now it’s just 1 mill.
3. Things are looking better than expected this year for the state revenues.
1. Deans will be talking to you about allocation for instructional equipment.
This will be one-time, not regular.
2. 12-13 we met our restoration goal. 13-14 if we meet projections we could
get another round of restoration funding (another 750k), which isn’t built
into the budget because it’s unknown.
4. Why is enrollment soft?
1. Economy is better.
2. There have never been so many legislative changes – e.g., repeatability.
financial aid, repetition, curriculum changes.
3. These things are decreasing FTES.
5. New source of funding might be possible growth/restoration funding and/or
COLA.
6. Biggest surprise this year was our faculty obligation number (FON) is down
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now that it’s not frozen.
1. Our FTES in 2008-09 was 13,472. If we capture restoration from 13-14
we’ll probably be at 11,000.
2. We have had workload reductions every year since 2008-09.
3. We will still be over our FON. This year our FON is about 190 with about
193 contract faculty. Next year’s FON is estimated to be about 162-168, a
huge drop.
4. We might not be hiring more faculty.
5. This is a good year to take a breath and look at external and internal
community.
6. We won’t be growing as a region. We want to stabilize, perhaps at 11,000.
7. We’re not sure about some things.
1. The effects of unfreezing on some community colleges vs others.
2. This is a headline. FON looks like it’s going down a lot, but we need
to review the numbers carefully.
3. Many of our programs still say they need staffing, we need to look into
it.
8. We’re not sure what our right number should be.
5. Teachers should inform students about the benefits of getting an Associates
degree at Cabrillo.
1. We have to tell them when it’s smart to get associates instead of transferring
without one.
2. It’s not always better to get the associates degree.
1. If transferring to a school with low unit requirements it might not be
smart to get degree.
6. Life limit for financial aid is 12 full semesters.
7. We should have presentation from someone form Financial aid.
1. Changes in the BOG form
What should be discussed this year at future FS meetings?
Academic goals.
Student success.
Adjourned
Senate was adjourned at 4:52 PM.