Chabot College Academic/Faculty Senate
Minutes of REGULAR MEETING
February 7, 2013
Board Room, Building 200
ITEM
OFFICERS
1.0
Senate President
Kathy Kelley
Minutes of 1/24/13
1.2
Vice President
Jason Ames
Immediate Past
President
Kathy Kelley
2.0
Applied Technology
& Business
Mike Sherburne
Health, Physical
Education & Athletics
Jeff Drouin
Jane Vallely
Language Arts
Stephanie Zappa
Library
Jim Matthews
School of the Arts
Rachel LaPell
Science &
Mathematics
Ming-Lun Ho
Laurie Dockter
Social Science
Christina Mendoza
Adjunct Faculty
Lisa Ulibarri
EX OFFICIO
Associated Students
of Chabot College
Public Comments: None
REPORTS I
2.1 ASCC Flores: Adhoc Committees to get Tim wise to come to
campus; another to organize a safety workshop sponsored by
ASCC
2.2 CLPFA : Elections in March/April;
SENATORS
Counseling
Shirley Pejman
General Function
1.1 Review and Approval of Minutes MSC (Matthews/Ames)
3.0
ACTION ITEMS
3.1 Approve Administrative Procedures for Credit-byExam: Kathy: There is a Board Policy on Credit by Exam. All
Board Policies are currently being reviewed and will be re-arranged
to match a State numbering system and with the Board Policies and
Administrative Procedures. No more than 40 units can be gotten by
Credit by Exam (CBE) policy. The policy will still allow faculty to
determine which courses can be part of the CBE.
Laurie: What about lab courses: answer: faculty choose whether to
institute CBE for any course. Students can not demand that a
course be in the CBE.
Rachel: Is there a demand:
Jane: Still not many students use CBE.
Kathy: This issue came up from LPC’s fire marshal program. Also,
the CBE concept potentially would be in line with the State goal of
pressuring colleges to speed up course completions.
Question: What about veterans who got course in the military non
accredited or accredited course. What about experiential education?
Luis Flores
Chabot-Las Positas
Faculty Association
Shari Jacobsen
Kathy: On the board policy we need language about how both our
college and other college courses students can not take as a CBE
Also, the issue of what shows up on a transcript needs to be
discussed. We need a policy the considers the one time nature of
?challenging a course through CBE. Also that we exclude students
who took the course too. To do this, the eligibility language needs to
Chabot Academic Faculty/Senate Draft Minutes of February 26, 2009
be developed correctly. If a student took but did not pass the course,
they can not take the course (accredited) if not accredited then they
could.
Rachel: What latitude do faculty have to design the exam: Answer
you can do whatever you feel is necessary.
Laurie: does the CBE give grades? Answer: yes. The test design is
very important.
4.0 Faculty training for legal changes from SSTF: TMC’s,
Repeatability; Kathy: We need to create a Taskforce to look into the
repeatablity issue and unfunded mandate issues.
5.0
DISCUSSION ITEMS
5.1 Dealing with “Academic Changes”
5.2 Planning for Education Master Plan
Kathy: We need to work out how the college is going to fund the
work to do a new Educational Master plan.
5.3
5.4
Transfer Model Curriculum requirements
Staff Development - role/functioning:
Jason: Language Arts is concerned that we are spending our
Staff Development flex Days on non staff development tasks
such as SLOs and program review. We want the college to
return to doing actual staff development on flex days. It seems
like the staff development committee has been taken over by the
PRBC to get its work done but that no staff development still
exists anymore.
Andrew: The problem is that we also need to do the work of
SLOs and program review, etc. together and it is better to do that
work together and on flex days than on off hours.
Jim: We could change the name to “workdays” as the K-12s do
but we do need to do this work and I support Andrew that doing it
on flex days work. Perhaps we could get the staff development
committee to assign as least one flex day to actual staff
development in the future.
5.5
6.0
Changes to Senate Charter - Membership
REPORTS II
6.1 Senate President’s Report
6.2 Division Representatives
Next Meeting: February 28, 2013
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