REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Minutes of the College Council
7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka, CA, Board Room
Monday, December 15, 2010
MEMBERS
PRESENT
Mark Winter, Dave Holper, Ruth Moon, Marcia Williams (phone), Becky Blatnick
(phone), Jeff Marsee, Keith Snow-Flamer, Mike Wells, Roxanne Metz, Jolene
Gates
MEMBERS
ABSENT
Jose Ramirez, Ron McQueen, Utpal Goswami, Teagen Teslow (ASCR), Ahron
Cervania (ASCR), VP of Admin Service (vacant)
CALL TO ORDER
Jeff Marsee called the meeting to order at 3:05 pm.
MINUTES
The minutes of 11/29/2010 were approved as presented.
Regarding College Council assignments or agreements to take action, a
suggestion was made to include in the College Council minutes a description
detailing who is the responsible party, the target due date, and the intended
results.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
AP305.03
“FACULTY
PRIORITIZATION”
Support staff noted that the draft faculty prioritization model was distributed for
district-wide constituent review on 11/30/2010 with a recommended feedback
report-out date of 12/15/2010.
Ruth Moon reported that the CRFO had reviewed the model and suggested no
revisions.
Dave Holper shared the key points of the Academic Senate discussion regarding
the prioritization model:
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The model should include a process for replacing retirements
The position description and where the posting is advertised should be
coordinated with discipline faculty
The reference to growth data should be revised to say “fill rate percentage
of classes that are offered within that discipline”
A way to address the hiring freeze of the last few years
Roxanne Metz shared the following questions regarding the model submitted by
the Managers’ Council:
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#4- The Managers’ Council requests that if a non-teaching faculty position
is vacated the VP of Student Services will be consulted (the revised
language allows for mutual agreement).
Dave Holper reported that he, Utpal Goswami and Mark Winter had scheduled
the first prioritization meeting for January 12, 2011.
Dave Holper opined that the draft model could be used to facilitate the
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prioritization process under way. Dave suggested that Dave, Utpal, and Mark
collaborate to incorporate the Senate recommendations noted above. Following
incorporation of the Senate recommendations, the model will be presented again
to College Council.
INSTITUTIONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
COMMITTEE/IPM
NARRATIVE
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that the Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC)
met and agreed to address scope, committee representation, and process. IEC
will submit a document to College Council in January ’11.
MISSION, VISION, Support staff presented feed-back submitted to College Council regarding the
CORE VALUES
Mission, Vision and Values drafts.
The Council discussed organizing a Spring flex activity designed to solicit
additional feedback regarding the drafts.
The Council supported a suggestion that Dave Holper, Keith Snow-Flamer, and
Becky Blatnick meet over the Christmas break in order to consider constituent
feedback and incorporate changes into the drafts. This ad-hoc will forward their
draft to Utpal Goswami for consideration during the Spring flex.
Ruth Moon agreed to work with Utpal Goswami to organize the flex activity. The
results of the Spring flex activity will be presented to College Council at their
01/24/11 meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
SPRING 2011
COLLEGE
COUNCIL
CALENDAR
Support staff suggested the following Spring ’11 College Council calendar:
Date
Monday, Jan 24
Monday, Feb 7
Monday, Feb 14
Monday, March 7
Monday, March 21
Monday, April 11
Monday, April 18
Monday, May 2
Time
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
3:00 – 4:30
Location
Boardroom
Boardroom
Boardroom
Boardroom
Boardroom
Boardroom
Boardroom
Boardroom
President Marsee requested that “College Council summer calendar” be
included as an agenda item regarding the January 24, 2011 College Council
meeting.
Recognizing that the proposed calendar calls for continuation of the bi-monthly
meeting format, and recognizing the tremendous amount of policy and procedure
yet to be revised, a suggestion was made encouraging the formation of the
College Council Subcommittee on Policy and Procedure.
The Council discussed the possible make-up of the Policy and Procedure
subcommittee. The suggested representation includes:
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One support staff (Doug)
Two College Council representatives (Keith plus one)
Student
Academic Senate
Mgmt (possibly Roxanne, Sue Alton, or Cheryl Tucker)
Classified
CRFO (Ruth)
The initial parameter of the group will be “getting all the back-log into the College
Council agenda and identifying the critical next policies and procedures that
need to be addressed.”
The members of the committee identified above agreed to solicit committee
representation from other constituency groups. Committee make-up should be
as broad based as possible but small enough to enable completion of the work.
INTEREST
BASED
APPROACH
WORKSHOP
REPORT
Managers’ Council President Mary Grace Barrick reported that she, Keith SnowFlamer and Tony Sartori had attended a three day ‘Interest Based’ training
facilitated by Los Rios Community College District.
According to Mary Grace, all who attended the training agreed that the process,
if implemented, could be very effective at CR. Mary Grace suggested that the
first step in implementing the process at CR should be to form a Interest Based
steering committee.
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that he, Mary Grace, and Tony Sartori planned to
meet over the Christmas break to begin developing an IBA implementation plan
for CR.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 pm
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