Academic Faculty Senate Meeting
November 12, 2015, 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Board Room, Building 200
Minutes
Attendees: Mike Sherburne, Jeff Drouin, Kim Morrison, Frances Fon, Barbara
Ogman, Diane Zuliani, Laurie Dockter, Lisa Ulibarri, Clara McLean, Elaine
Baiardi
OFFICERS
Absent: Donna Gibson
Senate President
Laurie Dockter
Vice President
Diane Zuliani
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S E N AT O R S
Applied Technology
& Business Mike
Sherburne
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
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Call to Order – 2:43
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Public Comments –
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Counseling
Frances Fon
Health, Kinesiology
& Athletics
Elaine Baiardi
Jeff Drouin
Language Arts
Clara McLean(Fall2015)
Michael Langdon(sp 2016)
Diane Zuilani – Asked to address and bring to the attention of
Senate by an Environmentalist/Activist from Peralta School District
regarding the 4000% increase of oil trains transporting oil throughout
California and the concern of numerous train derailments throughout
the United States.
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There is concern with the construction of the railways,
increased railroad traffic and potentially unsafe rail-cars
transporting this increased amount of oil on our railways.
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Chabot College is between two blast zones because of Union
Pacific railways running East and West of the college. This
means if there is any type of train derailment we are in the
location where we all will need to be evacuated.
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Teacher Unions, Labor Unions, Senates have submitted
resolutions to the Planning Commission to state that they are
opposed to the use of our degraded railways for the
transportation of such a hazardous substance.
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Diane asked if Senate would like her to draft a resolution for
Senate's review to decide if this is a cause they would like to
support. Agreement to have Diane draft a resolution and
have Senate review for submission to Planning Commission.
Library
Kim Morrison
Arts, Humanities &
Social Studies
Barbara Ogman
Science &
Mathematics
Donna Gibson
Ming-Lun Ho
(on leave fall)
Adjunct Faculty
Lisa Ulibarri
FA rep
Jeff Drouin
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Art across Chabot Exhibit is today at 4:00 p.m.
EX OFFICIO
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Associated Students of
Chabot College
Approval of the minutes- October 22, 2015
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Kim Morrison motioned to approve the October 22, 2015 minutes,
Mike Sherburne seconded with two abstentions minutes were
approved.
REPORTS –
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Senate Presidents report
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ASCCC
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Curriculum calculating units has changed
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Laurie to get more information on how this will affect (ex. 3
hours of activity equals a unit)
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What and when, could have a major change
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Laurie asked Kim Morrison to ask the questions regarding
this change at the Curriculum Council meeting she will be
attending
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ADT’s (Associate Degree For Transfer), a push to have them
reviewed
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AA degree is possibly invalid if there is a ADT and AAT, can’t have
one without the other within some disciplines. Need to know more
and looked into this further. The state is the only one that can
decide if a degree is valid or not
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CID’s (Course ID) are reviewed by a committee made up of faculty
and state employees, they are looking for others to get involved in
this process of reviewing course ID's
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Report on Accreditation – A group reviewed process and approved
the recommendations submitted to the state, stating that the ACCJC
has no accountability. Changes will be made to this accreditation
process. The accredited body was not focusing on how good our
instruction and how good our students are doing.
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Laurie spoke about a discussion regarding what to do with the $62
million for the hiring of new fulltime faculty, how can this money be
used, they were told on fulltime hires. Question asked can it be
used for raises, answer no. The purpose of the funds to hire new
fulltime hires. Even if given a FON, the amount of money you get
could be above what is required to do that FON but you still want to
use the funds for new hires. Senate needs to support this process
so the college does not try to use the funds for something else.
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Jeff Drouin reported on DEMC
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The committee recommended at the October 16th meeting,
17,191 FTES for the whole district, district is going on
strategic stability, don’t have to meet any goal in 16-17 but
need generate as much FTES during the stability year.
Current year increases goal to 17,191 and is general a
stretch goal of 17,362.
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Chancellor Jackson through Vice Chancellor Esposito-Noy
said no, with no explanation until the board is informed. Very
upset not increasing goal, there is plenty of money, frustrated
no reason given as to the “no” answer. Not thinking about our
students or colleges
Jeff Drouin reported on PBC
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There are so many pots of millions of dollars sitting at the
district
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Committee is continues to hear the monies are encumbered,
the four million that is for faculty raises still has not been
released to the college
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Unallocated currently sitting at the district is 6.55 million
dollars. Proposed the $800,000 to pay for FTES to go with
the stretch goal. We reach the goal but the monies never
come to the college funds stay at district
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Chancellor is not even in the room to have dialogue, only
meeting once a month nothing is resolved
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Laurie Dockter asked if there is a resolution or a statement
she could read at the board meeting. Jeff will ask Dave
Fouquet to write a statement to be read at Board Meeting
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Strategic Stability will help us to stop the rollback game
Mike Sherburne reported on Shared Governance
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Workgroup meet last Thursday
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Timeline and draft organization chart handed out for
reviewed
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Looking at the committees
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Memberships who should be on the
committee
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Reporting relationship
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Charge
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Term and process for rotation
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Voting procedure (true vote)
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Suggestion the need for a creative writer to come up with a
“sales pitch” to get the reader to read the document
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Everyone in the division should be serving on some type of
shared governance
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Dean’s as far as a dean’s body should be in College planning
and college budget
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College as a whole approves then the President should have
the final say
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Shared Governance works better on paper
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Workgroup to meet next Thursday at 2:00 p.m. to continue
work. Lisa Ulibarri will send email
Budget Committee –
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Is currently a resource allocation committee
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Who are the six best faculty to serve on the committee
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Revaluate 2 or 3 year term
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Need to get more involved
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Senate to reach out to faculty
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Place faculty on committees for next year now, before the
class schedules are determined
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Requests for equipment are reviewed line by line, suggestion
to handle requests like Curriculum Council process
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Deans are critical to have on Budget Committee to represent
the faculty of the division
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Budget’s job is to give the money
Deonne Kunkel gave a brief description as to the process for
Program Review and Prioritization statements for Faculty and
Classified
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Over the last two years PRBC has worked to tie Program
Review to budget
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Over two year PRBC does a large synthesis activity to create
a statement to College Council, Classified and Faculty
Prioritization to guide and director how they allocate
resources
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Accreditors came in wanted to know exactly how Program
Review was tied to budget and planning
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Suggestion to make PRBC only Program Review
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Planning and Budget needs to have a good working
relationship
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Representative to bring information, so the Chair is not
having to attend 3 meetings
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Suggestion once a month all representatives of committees
meet all together
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Suggestion to have Planning to not only come up with a plan
but also prioritize
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College needs to know what we need to achieve equity
Adjournment @ 4:30 p.m.
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