APPROVED MINUTES of REGULAR MEETING
November 13, 2008, 2:20 – 3:45 pm
Board Room in Building 200
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
Dara Greene
Health, Physical
Education & Athletics
Nancy Cowan
Ken Grace
Language Arts
Jason Ames
Linda Barde
Library
Jim Matthews
Applied Technology & Business — Michael Absher
Arts & Humanities — Dov Hassan
Counseling — Rachel Azimina & Dara Greene
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 — Kathy Kelley & Sherri Yeager
Ex-Officios
ASCC — Ahmad Asir, ASCC Vice President
CLPFA — Shari Jacobsen, Membership Coordinator
Guests
Marshall Mitzman, Trustee-Elect
Patricia Shannon, Chair of Curriculum Committee
Presiding Officer
President Ming-Lun Ho
ITEM
1.0
1.1
Call to Order at 2:20 pm by President Ho.
1.2
Approval of Minutes of October 30, 2008. MSC (Matthews/Barde).
1.3
Public Comments. Trustee-Elect Marshall Mitzman looks forward to working with the
Senate in his upcoming term. He announced that the swear-in ceremony is on
December 9, 2008 and that there will be a meeting with his constituency on January
15, 2009.
Part-Time Faculty
Anne Brichacek
Science &
Mathematics
Dave Fouquet
Wanda Wong
2.0
2.1
2.2
ASCC — Ahmad Asir.
CLPFA — Shari Jacobsen & Dave Fouquet
▪ The CLPFA union dues is $39, which includes $2 to its political action committee.
Union members may opt out of donating to PAC. The FA plans to donate to help
repeal Prop 8. ▪ Compressed calendar is off the table for the year. ▪ Budget
negotiation is not yet completed.
Associated Students
of Chabot College
Ahmad Asir
Chabot-Las Positas
Faculty Association
Shari Jacobsen
REPORTS I
▪ The ASCC will have two movie nights in December. ▪ Faculty are asked to remind
students to apply for ASCC’s book scholarship. ▪ Dec. 17–19 is Destress Week. ▪
There has been theft of donated canned goods in the big containers across campus. ▪
Students can send Candygram on Dec. 14.
Social Science
Sherri Yeager
Kathy Kelley
EX OFFICIO
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
3.0
ACTION ITEMS
3.1
Library Policy on Purchase of Material without Closed Captions. MSC
(Matthews/Cowan) as presented in the minutes of Oct. 30, 2008.
3.2
Review of College Mission Statement. MSC (Cowan/Aziminia) to reaffirm the
Chabot College Mission Statement as currently presented in the 2008-2010 Chabot
Catalog.
4.0
DISCUSSION ITEMS
Chabot Academic Faculty/Senate Approved Minutes of November 13, 2008
4.1
Review of College Council and Shared Governance Structure
Dr. Barberena has asked the Senate to revise the College Council composition to be
in line with the copy that she has of Administrative Rules and Procedures (ARP) for
Board Policy 2015. After some research, President Ho found that the copy she has,
dated 1997, is not the same as the current one posted on the District’s website. This
brings up the issue of the status of the current ARP. The current ARP, dated 2006,
refers to the document Chabot College Shared Governance and Collegial
Consultation for Chabot College but spells out the shared governance structure at
LPC. Question was raised whether the Board has authorized the Chabot College
President and the Chabot Academic Senate to modify Chabot’s shared governance
structure by mutual agreement, or whether any modification in shared governance
must eventually come in front of the Board for approval. Senator Barde feels that the
Board has not delegated its power to approve shared governance structure to Chabot
locally. President Ho is tasked to find the answer.
Upon reviewing Chabot College Shared Governance and Collegial Consultation, the
consensus of the Senate is to see the following in future meetings for approval:
a) Changing College Council to reflect the 1997 ARP, as requested by Dr.
Barberena.
b) Replacing Academic and Student Services Council with Academic Policy
Council, based on presentation at the Nov. 7 College Council.
c) Change to charges of the Budget Committee
d) Define the role of Core Representatives in committees so that they are the
only ones involved in decision-making, whether by consensus, vote, or any
adopted method.
5.0
5.1
REPORTS II
Senate President
President Ho attended the ASCCC Fall Plenary in LA Nov. 6–8. He will summarize
the list of resolutions passed in a future report.
5.2
Senate Committees
Curriculum Committee Chair Patricia Shannon updates the Senate on plans to use
technology to support the work of the committee. There are three options: pay to
develop an in-house system, buy an in-house system another college has developed,
or buy a system from a vendor. Support for the first two options are more difficult. In
pursuing the third option, there is really only one good choice in the market—
CurricuNet. The price quoted is reasonable, and she reports that the system is easy to
use. It allows for sharing of course outline information easily, with permission-access
management to view, edit, and make suggestions by individual users. It is web-based,
so it can be accessed anywhere. Question was asked whether the system is
accessible for persons with disability. Shannon will double check on that but does not
anticipate any problem.
CurricuNet will take two years before full implementation. It takes 6 to 8 months to
map the current process into the software system and 1 to 2 semesters to pilot and
beta test the system. This time frame is typical, regardless of which option we adopt. If
faculty can be briefed and test drive the system in early December, then it is possible
that we can implement CurricuNet fully by Fall 2010.
Facilities Committee has not met in a month, reported Senator Fouquet. Only a
subgroup of some current users of 1908 has been informed of the plan submitted to
the State for a large lecture hall.
5.3
Senators
Senator Matthews reported that at College Council the previous week, Academic
Policy Council was brought up. Before it was passed, he clarified that all issues
currently under Senate purview shall remain at the Senate and that the Academic
Policy Council Chair shall be a faculty member.
6.0
6.1
Good of the Order
Future Agenda Items
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Chabot Academic Faculty/Senate Approved Minutes of November 13, 2008
6.2
Adjournment at 3:45pm. Next meeting is December 11, 2008
6.3
Future Meetings — cf. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/FacultySenate/#MeetingDates
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