Committee Name: Faculty Senate
Date: 09/08/2015
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Facilitators/Location/Chair: Sesnon House, Room 1804
Attending
Members:
Guests:
Marcy Alancraig, Toni Alderson, Lori Amato, Essy Barroso-Ramirez (ASCC rep), Vicki Fabbri, Timothy Frank, Skye Gentile,
John Govsky, Meg Gudgeirsson, Jay Jackson, Sheryl Kern-Jones, Ray Kaupp, Drew Kelley, Robin McFarland, Jaqueline
Mendoza, (alternate ASCC rep), Ekua Omosupe, Nancy Phillips, Rudy Puente, Beth Regardz, Dave Reynolds, Barbara
Schultz-Perez (CCFT), Peter Shaw, Susan Stuart, Michelle Morton, Kathie Welch, Anna Zagorska.
Wanda Garner, Isabel O’Connor, Terrence Willett, Margery Regalado Rodriguez, Ian Haslam, Joseph Carter, Georg Romero,
Dennis Bailey-Fougnier
Topic,
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ApprovalofAgenda
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Discussion
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Call to Order
• Meeting convened at 3:01 p.m.
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Minutes (from 08-25-15 meeting)
ApprovalofMinutes Action:
• All in favor of approving the 08-25-2015 minutes?
3min.
• All FS approve 08-25-2015 pending minor changes to:
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PublicComments
3.0 Public Comments
• None
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StandingReports
20min.
SLO report
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Page 6 re: Deep Dive on Sept. 25 – it occurs from 9-12 p.m., not 9-3 p.m.
Standing Reports
President (Robin McFarland):
• Like to send out some appreciations to our honored Senators
• Want the Faculty Senate (FS) meetings to include themes that relate to our working groups
• Today’s theme is, “Equity”
• Re: Equity Deep Dive – Skye will be sharing some ideas with FS
• Next FS meeting theme will be, “Outreach” and Dijon and Kristin will be here to speak
• Would like to make these FS meetings as useful as possible
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Vice President (Skye Gentile):
• Once a month we will be carving out some time for the working groups to talk
• Presentation question: Which words of wisdom stick with you?
• Equity Mindset
• CPC:
- Employee Climate Survey
- Budget Planning
- Digital Nest
- Help
• Need an alternate to be with me at CPC:
- Nancy Phillips volunteers to be another FS rep
- Anna Zagorska will be secondary FS rep backup
• Sticky Note Challenge – Gratitude – take a moment to show your appreciation for someone you work with here on
campus using these key terms:
- Reflect
- Write
- Give
• Ekua came up with this innovative idea of showing appreciation in her classroom
Secretary (John Govsky):
• Membership roster cleanup
• Ray Kaupp, from BELA, will be replacing Diego Navarro. Ray will be on the FS for at least one semester.
• John discusses bi-laws in relation to FS committee terms of service
• No changes to the roster
Treasurer (Sheryl Kern-Jones):
• Adding a check, which we just got, making the new total balance $6,972
CCFT (Barbara Schultz-Perez):
• Productive CCFT meeting
• We did a preliminary survey at that meeting
• A formal survey will be going out soon
• Have negotiations update:
- Finalized compensation agreement for 2015-16
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Ongoing salary increases – agreed to an ongoing 3% increase broken down as follows:
○ 2.63% ongoing increase to all faculty salary schedules
○ 1% ongoing g increase in the adjunct and overload pro rata pay from 63.8% to 64.8%
- One-time salary increases
○ Equivalent of a 3.5% one-time lump-sum payment will be made at the end of October, 2015, based on workload
for the 2014-15 academic year
- Health benefits
○ Total health benefits increase for 2015-16 was 1.95% for faculty eligible for district-paid benefits
- Notes about the final budget for 2015-16
○ Final budget was the best we’ve seen in years and included system-wide increases (refer to handout)
- CalSTRS increases
○ AB 1469 increases CalSTRS contributions significantly over the next several years
- Evaluation pilot programs in the HASS division
○ SP 14 – study group met to review evaluation process, membership, and start making recommendations for
improving Article 17 of the Contract (governing evaluations)
○ Recommendations became a part of the negotiations for SP 15
○ Proposed revisions to evaluation process will be tested via pilot program in HASS division in FA 15
- Ancillary Activities: extension of pilot program (refer to handout)
If you don’t know who your CCFT rep is, refer to our website
CCEU (Lori Amato):
• Not present
Watsonville (Rudy Puente):
• 2 new EMT sections
• Mention of Fall 2016 BOG Fee Waiver Changes
• FS comments:
- Mention of workshop(s) in counseling to help student to succeed
- Feedback has been that these workshops are very valuable to students and their success rate
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ASCC (Essy Barroso-Ramirez):
• Introduces Jaqueline Mendoza, alternate ASCC Representative
• 2 more student senators
• Currently have 18 or 19 total student senators
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SLO Coordinator (Marcy Alancraig):
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• 1 ARC meeting is on Monday, Sept. 14th
• Nothing new to report
Vice President of Instruction (Kathie Welch):
• 1 to 1.5% down for FA 15 is the current projection
• All the deans and FS deserves appreciation
• Devoting November Instruction Council (IC) meeting to a faculty panel to discuss enrollment strategies
- Opportunity to educate
- Robin will develop the faculty panel
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5.0
NewBusiness
45 min.
5.1 Leading From Middle Update: The Upcoming Year – Marcy Alancraig (8 minutes):
• Pedagogy & Pathway project:
- Heard about some of the members of the groups successes
- Math had a table to direct students at the beginning of this semester
• After the Equity Deep Dive, there will be another meeting of the work groups
- We will be working to figure out what we want to do for next year regarding Equity Funds
• FS Comments:
- Some instructors will have their office hours in the HUB
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ItemsfromtheFloor
New Business
Agenda Setting and Items from the Floor:
6.1 Learning Moments – Nancy Phillips (10 minutes):
• Many students are not reading at a college level when they enter Cabrillo
• Reading research results:
- How many student who assess below college reading, actually enroll in a reading class?
- Demographics = students who scored below 19 – January 1, 2009 to January 2014
- Total population = 3,191
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- 29.6% enrolled in reading classes
- 25.8% completed reading class
- 19.6% student success rate
Send students to the Reading Center (the HUB) as a resource
Students don’t have any extra strategies to improve their reading
Reading is an interaction
Reading is problem solving and knowledge building
Strategies to use in the classroom
- Explore conceptual vocabulary
- Brainstorm and share knowledge on the topic
- Identify any conflicting knowledge on the topic
- Ask students to evaluate their prior knowledge with the ideas in the text
Program Plan numbers – relating to how many students have a need for help with reading skills
FS:
- Reading was a better indicator of success than were a student’s writing skills
- Quick way(s) to assess students to find out where they are at the beginning of semester
- At start of semester, give students something to read and have them write their interpretation of its meaning
- 1AMC class – have students find a writer they like, read a passage (about 5 to 10 minutes long) aloud to the class –
have students tell us what the passage means to them
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6.2 Update: Student Equity Report – Joseph Carter and Dennis Bailey (40 minutes):
• Looking at student equity plans across the state
• Students have to go thru a complicated process to get into certain programs and/or college
• Problems with disseminating information
• What do we mean by equity?
• Cabrillo feels the need to have its own definition of “Equity,” alongside the Chancellor’s Office definition
• Chancellor’s Office imposes fast deadlines, making it difficult to devise an appropriate equity plan
• Quickly had to put together the last equity plan
• Robin sent out the current plan (the one we’re working on right now)
• $70 million allotment – a portion of which will be designated for Cabrillo
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• The new revised plan will need to be submitted to the Chancellor’s Office by November 23
• Process of: How do we fund new programs?
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• If something was already being funded, it will continue to be funded
- Do not need to resubmit for plans that are already receiving funds
• Previously sent an e-mail to everyone which had the proposal, expenditure guide, current equity plan, and rubric
• Need to apply rubric to new proposals as well as plans that have already been funded
• We should budget for $295,000 and have a waitlist. Then, if we receive $500,000, we can apply those funds where
necessary.
• The Collaborated Plan Workgroup:
- All these plans have their funds due in October
- Putting together a master fund plan
- How does the workgroup relate to the rubric
• Didn’t do enough for certain groups:
- Foster group
- Veterans
- Disabled
• New plan is massively different than the one we currently have in place
• Imposed deadlines take us back to where were we in the beginning
• Because a few schools submitted plans that included things that shouldn’t have been included in their equity plan (or taken
out of equity funds), it seems all of the schools have been grouped together as doing the same with regards to their Equity
Plans
• FS comments:
- Shouldn’t lose sight of the big picture
- Resource Fair being held in the mall in Aptos – tomorrow from 10 – 2 p.m.
- Important that word gets out about what the students’ needs are in order for them to be successful
- Different committees should host other events for students
- Professional development that increases awareness of our students will help student success rate at Cabrillo
• What are other colleges are doing with their Equity Plans?
- There are parallel conversations both on the institutional and emotional side of things
○ Institutional barriers that get in the way of students
○ Students emotions about feeling connected and guided at their college
• The hope is to integrate the two and have them work together coherently
• Institutional efficiency
• Leadership position – address the possibility of hiring an equity coordinator
• FS comments:
- We are doing our best up against that opposition but is this short-term or long-term – can we make that commitment
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Use De Anza College as a model
Deadlines are fast but discussions are slow – complicates the process
FS is a place to have these conversations (What is equity and what can we do?) – we can make a difference
By October we need to have input
Proposals are due Sept. 25th
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6.3 Equity Deep Dive Update and Planning – Skye Gentile (20 minutes):
• Subcommittee meeting summary
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• Deep Dive on Sept 25 , 9-12 p.m.
• Next steps
• Framework possibilities
• Different ways of thinking about equity
• Veronica – Director of Equity at De Anza College
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- Visit is scheduled for 22 or 23 – small group will be attending
• In October, there should be another conversation about equity
• Need to have every division in on it and being a part of it
Adjournment
Meeting ended at 5:00 p.m.
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