MEETING MINUTES
Faculty Action Committee
Dolores Huerta Labor Institute
Location: LATTC TE 501
Date/Time: Friday, October 5, 2012 at 10am
In attendance
Bill Loiterman (LAHC)
Darren Cifarelli (LASC)
Ellen Joiner (LAHC)
Glenn Britton (LACC)
James McKeever (Pierce)
Joe Meyer (LACC)
Jose Lopez (LAHC)
Kenadi Le (DHLI)
Kristine Wright (LASC)
Linda Tubach (CBEP)
Lou Siegel (LATTC)
Michael Colling (ELAC)
Pat Allen (LAVC)
Rebecca Romo (guest)
Shigueru Tsuha (DHLI)
Vivian Price (CSUDH)
Zack Knorr (LAVC)
Introductions
Shigueru reviewed DHLI May 2012 BOT presentation
Labor StEP
What are obstacles faculty perceive in doing StEP?
Lack of clarity in the project.
Shortage of ideas as for projects.
Not knowing how to do it. Ways to promote attendance at an event:
Give extra credit to encourage turn out.
Asking faculty to bring their classes.
Attach yourself to student group to do the same thing and have the
student group do some of the organizing. They can do the
research, figure out the time, space, etc. As the faculty, you can
check in with the students as to how it’s going. This allows
students to see that they can put these events together
themselves.
Suggestions for Improvements
Develop quick way to let others know what StEP is
Present a workshop at convocation to recruit for StEP/DHLI.
Call forms feedback instead of report
Use adjuncts, pay them
Use student clubs
Use the AFT interns are (Rebecca will send out intern info)
L-StEP Spring 2012 Commitments: Joe, Glenn, Jose, James, Paul, Kristin, Darren,
Zack, Haydee,
Voices & Images - Potential themes for Spring 2012
Chosen privatization/Publicazation? (Vivian Price will write up theme
definition and circulate for feedback)
Other themes considered: jobs for veterans, Labor and the war, Movie
“Won’t Back Down”, Feminized jobs, March in March.
District Wide Poster Contest – (Shigueru & James will explore idea)
You can have a photo essay. Every year we have a Labor and Social Justice
Fair in April. Vivian can work with the faculty to create an assignment
where students come to a 4-year university to display it.
Commitments for Spring 2012: Ellen, James, Kristin, Pat, Zack
Collective Bargaining Educational Project: Commitments for Spring 2012: Ellen
Course Development: Kristin Wright will look into developing Sociology of Labor at
Southwest sometime in the future
Resources
Ideas for resources:
Small group activity that launches a lecture
DVD archive that has to do with labor that faculty can use.
Online database with info about labor. PowerPoint slides that explain
different things about labor. Web Links.
labor view of whatever election that is coming up.
To do
Kenadi will send out FAC’s contact info to mailing list
Next meeting
Mid-march