Committee: Date: Location: Time: Steering Committee Tuesday, October 27, 2015 LATTC, ST 541 10:30am‐12:00pm MINUTES VOTING MEMBER 7/ 7/15 8/17/15 9/30/15 X X X Velma Butler, AFT 1521 A President (Lori Hunter rep) X (LH) X Carl Friedlander, AFT 1521 X X X Don Gauthier, DAS President X X X X Bobbi Kimble, Vice Chancellor EPIE X X X X Kenadi Le, DHLI X X X X John McDowell, Director LATTC Labor Center X X X X Lou Siegel, LATTC Labor Center X X X X Shigueru Tsuha, DHLI Chair (no longer as of 8/26/2015) X X Joanne Waddell, AFT 1521 President X X X Kent Wong, Director UCLA Labor Center X Kathleen Yasuda, Associate Director LATTC Labor Center X X X X David Beaulieu, DAS 10/27/2015 1.
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Call to Order: 10:40am Roll Call/Quorum: Attendance roster distribution and quorum Approve Agenda: M/S/U: D. Gauthier/J. Waddell. Approval of Minutes: M/S/U: J. Waddell/D. Gauthier moved to approve of the minutes from the meeting dated, 9/30/2015 with corrections. a. Change: Committee will strive for consensus and follow parliamentary procedures when consensus not reached. b. Delete “C Name: DHLI Steering Committee Website: www.laccd.edu/DHLI Status: final Initials: KL c. D. Beaulieu – “there needs to be more Senate representation because DHLI is a district academic program and that is a Senate responsibility.” d. Delete, “Why” …regarding DHLI not meeting definition. e. Change: we keep comparing the program to something that exists which does not exist. f. Change “Do one” to “no one” g. Add Joanne’s last name in selection committee list. 5. Reports: a. Limited‐term hiring – K. Le i. K. Le announced that the committee selected Mindy Chen. 6. DISCUSSION ITEMS Discussion Item: What is Academic Program Activity Key Consideration:  Individual committee members share their definitions of “academic program.”  The group agrees that there is no disagreement on what constitutes an “academic program.”  K. Le – Has there anything that DHLI done programmatically that is not “academic”?  Committee thinks DHLI’s programming is academic.  D. Beaulieu—“academic” is about organization, not about what the program is doing. o Other committee members disagree. Actions Taken (if any): None Discussion Item: DHLI Charter Key Consideration:  Committee discusses DHLI Steering Committee (SC) membership. The issue was raised that there needs to be more Senate representation on the committee. Questions arise about how many representatives each constituent should have and who gets to vote. Should the Staff Guild have two representatives instead of one? Should other District unions be part of the committee? Should there be additional members added to the Steering Committee, such as an additional administrator or more faculty? Should there be voting/non‐voting members? Should an academic program have non‐academic voting representatives?  Committee recounts history that former Chancellor LaVista wanted to see financial commitment from District unions. Faculty Guild and Staff Guild offered to make financial commitment. Staff Guild expressed interest in DHLI and wanted to be on the SC. Other District unions did not show interest.  K. Le—the Staff Guild expressed interest in educating students about what LACCD workers do and to collaborate on developing educational opportunities such as student scholarships.  The Committee discusses external support for DHLI. DHLI exists, in large part, because of support from the Labor Movement. The LA County Federation of Labor supports the program. DHLI needs labor representation. The Senate supports labor and labor education and needs to be more involved not less involved. Discussion continued about representation and balance on the SC and whether the numbers of representatives is important or whether it will make the SC operate like just another district committee. Name: DHLI Steering Committee Website: www.laccd.edu/DHLI Status: final Initials: KL C. Friedlander – The issue isn’t about voting or non‐voting. The problem is we don’t have enough people involved and participating. We need the Faculty Action Committee represented here. They should be the real voice that the SC supports.  B. Kimble – expresses concern that SC is spending time at meetings on oral history. The things the SC is grappling with, regardless of who is paying for DHLI, whose on the SC—if we can’t say why DHLI is institutionally valuable, then it has issues. It needs to be able to speak to anyone who looks at it—that DHLI provides something. People get involved when you show them something they want to get involved with.  K. Yasuda – DHLI is a labor education program. On the SC, the LATTC Labor Center represents the labor studies discipline, not AFT/union.  J. Waddell – summarizes that committee agreed on the roles of the faculty, senate, and district administrator representatives. Actions Taken (if any): None 
Discussion Item: DHLI 2014‐2017 Intermediate Strategic Plan Key Consideration: Not discussed Actions Taken (if any): None Discussion Item: DHLI Committees Self‐Evaluation Form Key Consideration: Not discussed Actions Taken (if any): None 6. Items from the Floor: None 7. Action Items/Next Steps for next meeting ‐ Action Items Overview Action Requested/Pending Items Set up DHLI List Serve Responsible Person Kenadi Le Next Meeting: TBD ADJOURNMENT: 12:10pm ‐ M/S/U D. Gauthier /K. Yasuda Name: DHLI Steering Committee Website: www.laccd.edu/DHLI Status: final Initials: KL Due Date TBD