APPROVED MINUTES of SPECIAL MEETING
APRIL 2, 2009, 2:15 – 4:15 pm
LIBRARY 107A/B
Submitted by Ming Ho
Senators
OFFICERS
Senate President
Ming-Lun Ho
Vice President
Mike Absher
SENATORS
Applied Technology
& Business
Mike Absher
Arts & Humanities
Dov Hassan
Counseling
Rachel Aziminia
Charles Gebhardt
Health, Physical
Education & Athletics
Nancy Cowan
Ken Grace
Language Arts
Jason Ames
Linda Barde
Library
Jim Matthews
Part-Time Faculty
Anne Brichacek
Science &
Mathematics
Dave Fouquet
Wanda Wong
Applied Technology & Business — Michael Absher
Arts & Humanities — Dov Hassan
Counseling — Rachel Azimina & Charles Gebhardt
Health, Physical Education, & Athletics — Nancy Cowan & Ken Grace
Language Arts — Jason Ames & Linda Barde
Library — Jim Matthews
Part-time Faculty — Anne Brichacek
Science & Mathematics — Dave Fouquet & Wanda Wong
Social Sciences — Barbara Ogman (Pro Tempore), Kathy Kelley & Sherri Yeager
Ex-Officios
ASCC — Ahmad Asir, Vice President
CLPFA — Shari Jacobsen, Membership Coordinator
Guests
Dr. Carolyn Arnold — Institution Researcher and Accreditation Standard I Chair
Dr. Celia Barbarena — College President
Chad Mark Glen — Accreditation Steering Committee Co-Chair
Jennifer Lange — Biology faculty & Coordinator of Center for Teaching and Learning
Rebecca Otto — Accreditation Standard IIA Chair
Presiding Officer
President Ming-Lun Ho.
ITEM
1.0
1.1
Call to Order at 2:24 PM.
1.2
Approval of Minutes of March 26, 2009. MSC (Barde/Wong).
2.0
2.1
Associated Students
of Chabot College
Ahmad Asir
Chabot-Las Positas
Faculty Association
Shari Jacobsen
REPORTS I
ASCC — Ahmad Asir
The ASCC has made presentations with the Bookstore manager and the Chabot
Foundation at Division meetings about the book rental program and other options that
could lower the textbook cost for students. ♦ The ASCC is planning Earth Day
activities for April 22, which includes a presentation by State Senator Ellen Corbett on
green policies and legislations. ♦ Co-curricular Fund applications are due April 16. ♦
Movie nights will be on April 14 and 21.
Social Science
Sherri Yeager
Kathy Kelley
EX OFFICIO
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
2.2
3.0
3.1
4.0
4.1
CLPFA — None
ACTION ITEMS
Revision of College Budget Committee Charges — Tabled due to Senator
Absher’s absence.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
Accreditation Steering Committee Presentation of Self-Study: Standards 3 & 4
Senator Matthews reviewed the timeline for the last stretch of the accreditation selfstudy. By April 10, the self-study will have been physically put together to submit to
the District Office to be submitted to the Board of Trustees at its April 21 meeting for
first reading. Meanwhile, inputs from Classified and ASCC Senates will be solicited.
Chabot Academic Faculty/Senate Approved Minutes of April 2, 2009
Input from faculty should be directed to Jim Matthews, Faculty Co-Chair of the
Accreditation Steering Committee.
As chair for Standard 4, President Ho emphasized that the standard focuses on
whether or not the College has structures in place to support governance. This
includes a shared governance structure; a delineated mapping showing which
operating functions are shared between the College and the District, are the primary
responsibilities of the College, or are those of the District; accountability of the Board,
District Chancellor, and the College President. He noted that one major planning
agenda item for this standard is the need to have a document control system to keep
proper records to avoid, for example, lapse of institutional memory that occurred with
the faculty hiring procedure that the Board approved in 1991. Dr. Barberena shared
that she has discussed this planning agenda item with the Chancellor, and the
Chancellor is very supportive. Matthews remarked that the planning agenda items in
the self-study are to be strategic, not tactical, in nature.
4.2
Smoking Policy — Tabled due to Sgt. Ruben Pola’s absence.
4.3
Resolutions at the Spring ASCCC Plenary
President Ho reminded Senators to review the CCC Assess proposal discussed at the
last meeting and send him feedback. No senator brought up any resolution for
discussion.
5.0
5.1
REPORTS II
Senate President  — Ming Ho
President Ho reported that LPC Senate has not voted on the issue of Heath and PE
GE waiver for veterans. He also reminded Senators to help recruit faculty interested in
proposing an enrollment process using waitlist on Banner.
Ho passed out a memo he received last week. The memo, from the Faulty
Association lawyer to the FA President Charlotte Lofft, is in response to Lofft’s request
to review the District’s 2005 proposed faculty hiring procedure. While Ho had not yet
studied the content in detail, his scanning the document suggested that the main
concern centered on the issue of the union’s right to negotiate in certain areas.
5.2
Senate Committees
Senator Wang reported on the Facilities Committee. Because cost has increased over
the years, plans to rebuild Buildings 1500 and 2000 have gone away. Instead they are
considering whether to renovate the existing offices in those buildings to the newer
office standards, to a do a lighter renovation, or to leave them. The last option means
that we’ll have to have another bond in order to improve those buildings. Senator
Matthews reported that, because of the downturn in the housing market, the District
will not be able to get another bond until property values increase significantly from
the current value.
5.3
6.0
Senators — None
Good of the Order
6.1
Future Agenda Items — CurricuNet demonstration.
6.2
Adjournment — Next meeting is April 23, 2009.
Future Meetings — cf. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/FacultySenate/#MeetingDates
 = Agenda Item Handout
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