Cabrillo College Faculty Senate
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Sesnon House
In Attendance: Winnie Baer, Cheryl Barkey, Arturo Cantu, John Govsky, Steve Hodges, Calais Ingel,
Brian Legakis, Denise Lim, Jackie Logg, Michael Mangin, Lenny Norton, Ekua Omosupe, Jo-Ann
Panzardi, Beth Regardz, Dan Rothwell, Pam Sanborn, Alex Taurke, Deborah Shulman, Sylvia Winder,
Eva Acosta, Marcy Alancraig, Lori Amato, Chris Steele, Wanda Garner
Guests: Isabel O'Connor, Rock Pfotenhauer, Kathie Welch, James Weckler, Georg Romero, Charlotte
Achen, Joseph Gomez, Margery Regalado, Barbara Schultz-Perez
Note Taker: Kayla Sikes
1.
Call to Order
1.
The meeting was called to order at 3:05 pm.
2.
Minutes
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
1.
Revisions.
2.
Motion to approve, second.
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Approved.
3.
Standing Reports
1.
President (Michael Mangin)
1.
Quinn- Cabrillo Food Cooperative, new club on campus
1.
Promotes sustainable food consumption on campus, work w/cafeteria to provide healthy food students want to eat.
2.
Hosing a farmer's market next Monday 3-5:30 below the library- info on social justice/environmental justice issues about food.
3.
Please promote in classes or post flyers- quintinuous@gmail.com
2.
Renee will be out for a few months- hoping that she gets better. Passing around a getwell card.
1.
Left itemized list of ongoing tasks and special projects. Deans had conversations about strengths in each area, divided it up. Seem to have everything covered.
Additional tasks on top of regular jobs can be stressful.
3.
Wanda and Joanne informing Senate about formal request to map ENGR 99S to
Computer Science.
1.
4-week summer class for Rachel Mayo's STARS grant where students are exposed to
STEM fields.
2.
Will ask for pro forma approval at next meeting. Email Michael or Joanne with questions.
4.
College Master Plan- distributed at the CPC Council meeting on Wednesday last week.
1.
3-hour brainstorming session for Cabrillo's future plans.
2.
Goals- increasing student success (with 5 objectives), and enhancing institutional

effectiveness (with 5 objectives).
3.
GAIT committees looking at objectives in more detail, trying to put into narrative form. Will help to guide college's actions for next 3 years.
4.
Ideas should be sent primarily to Craig but can be sent to Michael or those on CPC.
5.
Objective B5- AUO stands for “Administrative Unit Outcomes”- administrative areas should have the equivalent of student learning outcomes.
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Accreditation is ongoing.
1.
Committees are doing a lot of work. Reports are trickling in.
2.
Same standards as before. Looking to see how assessment and planning processes are unfolding now- beyond SLOs to the assessment of SLOs.
6.
CPC updates.
1.
Will discuss short-term budget outlook in later section of the meeting.
2.
Should be aware of colleagues getting lay-off notices, difficult time for many people.
3.
SPRAC committee report- cutting hours at College Bank, two custodial positions cut, computer LIA in Watsonville going from 11 to 10-month contract, Outreach
Coordinator position is being eliminated.
1.
Will go forward to the board next Monday evening.
2.
SPRAC committee only decides whether position eliminations are workable.
CPC decides whether it should be done.
3.
Phase 2 goes to CPC tomorrow.
7.
State issues.
1.
Rather than having governor's and teacher's initiatives competing for votes, a combined initiative that's polling about 65%. 7-year initiative generates revenue from taxes on high incomes. Will alleviate some of the worst budget scenarios.
2.
State Academic Senate consent calendar- next meeting, can get input for issues.
Addresses concerns about paraprofessionals and other things presented last time.
3.
Momentum on CID and AA-T and AS-T helps students transfer to Cal State.
Departments including Philosophy and Music. If anyone wants to be more involved with study groups, contact Michael.
1.
Degrees coming out of legislative attempt to integrate community college and
Cal State systems.
2.
Chancellor's Office is putting out info to articulation officers, would ideally get to 80% as AA-T and AS-T developed by 2013.
2.
Vice President (Steve Hodges)
1.
Recently attended Program Reduction and Elimination Taskforce meeting- considered changes to the metric.
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Made a few small changes. Will be brought forward at next meeting for approval.
2.
Trying to find volunteer for SLRB committee, was sent to all faculty.
3.
Start recruiting for another committee, CIP (Council on Instructional Planning) for the fall. Meetings on Friday mornings in Spring semester for 4-5 weeks.
1.
Is a lot of work, but you get to read program plans across the whole college- have a bird's eye view of what's going on in instruction.
4.
Party planning- working on timelines, choosing a caterer is the biggest financial decision. Past will be a general guideline for finances.
1.
Next meeting, will come forward with timeline and look for volunteers to coordinate specific things. Will probably request bid from caterer for last two parties.
3.
Secretary and CCFT (John Govsky)
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Working on system to get minutes up in a more timely fashion.

2.
Will talk about SSTF later in the meeting.
4.
Treasurer (Lenny Norton)
5.
CCEU (Lori Amato)
1.
Article from this morning's Sentinel and general membership meeting at noon- huge turnout for meeting, perhaps a result of the article.
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A number of classified staff upset by the information conveyed in the article. Some felt there were inaccuracies and ambiguous language. Also upset that longevity, pension, history behind those issues was put into a public arena.
2.
Classified staff hasn't decided how to move forward on acting on the article.
6.
Watsonville (Eva Acosta)
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Reducing staff in financial aid, A&R and counseling.
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Main concern is safety- working on plan to move things around so no one is alone in the building.
7.
Student Senate (Chris Steele and Charlotte Achen)
1.
Bookstore Committee met, students can encourage teachers to use cheaper alternatives.
1.
On Faculty Senate webpage, PowerPoint presentation on open source learning resources.
2.
Elections for Senate coming up, applications due April 20 th
. Encourage students to run.
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Watsonville and Scotts Valley student rep positions are still vacant.
3.
Screening of “Misrepresentation” on April 30 th
. In Crocker Theater, free to students, ticket mechanism is being worked out.
8.
SLO Assessment Coordinator (Marcy Alancraig)
1.
Moving forward on SLOs and Assessment.
2.
Have been helping several departments write SLOs, one had no SLOs for courses but are now doing them because of the Program Discontinuance matrix.
3.
President of Gavilan (on ACCJC) might come to talk about trends in accreditation.
9.
VPI (Wanda Garner)
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Obligation number- four hires in process that went through Senate approval last fall.
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If all four are successful, will bring Cabrillo to a FON of 193.5. Victoria's calculation of where we need to be in fall is 194.6.
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One more position in recruitment, Learning Skills position. Then will put
Cabrillo .1 below the FON.
2.
Cabrillo has a history of maintaining a cushion with the FON. If institution is under, it gets fined for basically the cost of the faculty position.
3.
Question is, would the Senate support requesting a hire or two from that list? Serious question due to the bad budget. Would mean giving up the 30 adjunct units, about
$35-40,000.
4.
Possible that the Faculty Committee would not find someone they wanted to hire.
5.
As a person on the SPRAC committee, have some ambivalence- hiring more faculty at a time of cutting staff. Understand the consequences of the FON, but before we jump whole-heartedly we should consider consequences to the whole committee.
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Have to weigh the cost of a hire versus cost of the fine for falling below the
FON.
6.
Should communicate the rationale behind making this decision to the rest of the college.
7.
Should re-do the prioritization list since changes have occurred since the fall.
1.
Not enough time to do so.
8.
Rationale for hiring two is that a suitable candidate may not be found, and if a faculty member is lost we're back to where we started- one hire isn't a sufficient

buffer.
9.
Student Services faculty hiring has not been in the Senate's purview. Student
Services faculty are prioritized at the administrative level of review.
1.
Question of how should a Student Services faculty position be prioritized. It is not now reviewed by the Senate. Some concern about this gap in getting faculty input into the process. Will be agendized at some point.
2.
Would have to be a new process designed from scratch and would take time to create- creating sub-committees, dealing with various parties, etc.
10.
Motion to request up to two additional faculty hires, second.
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Approved.
4.
Unfinished Business
1.
Temporary Arrangements for VPI Leave of Absence – covered earlier in Wanda's report.
2.
Program Reduction and Discontinuance Next Steps
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TU Outlook for '12-'13
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4% goal as a cushion- want to have enrollments 4% above what the state will fund
Cabrillo for- 1% higher than current amount.
2.
Deans have been moving forward systematically.
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115 TUs have been announced in one area (Criminal Justice In-Service).
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Classes that have been offered to fire and police officers in the area to further professional development.
2.
Was not a cut in positions, but reimbursements will be cut by half.
1.
Own officers do the training, Cabrillo hires them for purposes of meeting
Title V. Compensate them for their instruction, allows Cabrillo to claim
FTS for it. Was particularly important when Cabrillo was below cap.
2.
Real Estate program has been suspended.
3.
Journalism and Welding are being cut by about a third, programs are not being eliminated.
4.
Other cuts to Watsonville evening summer classes and one section of Library 10.
3.
Gets to roughly half of target for TU cuts. Other cuts will be to courses- whether they're in core or not is a conversation going on at program and division level.
4.
'12-'13 TU cuts will be informed by, but not determined by, the matrix.
5.
Many variables- if $46/unit fee increase results in students not being able to attend, or if CalState not admitting as many students results in an increase in enrollment- will have to be flexible.
2.
Qualitative Considerations
1.
Looking at Renee's list from last time.
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FTES growth potential- yes.
2.
High number of students served in core classes.
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Can count against programs like English and History because class size is limited.
2.
Middling vote.
3.
Program completion rates- no.
4.
Employment potential- yes.
5.
HSI programs- yes.
1.
What is the long-term plan? How long will Title V grant money last?
2.
ACE grant had paid for some TUs for faculty research. The only thing that it costs above and beyond offering regular classes is the coordination unit- built into the contract.

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STARS is in year 3 of 5- less integrated.
2.
Goal is to institutionalize these without incurring additional costs.
3.
Reasons for changing from Hispanic serving institution to a broader term- things like the Perkins grant are ongoing aid, federal mandates such as serving students with disabilities, and because it's the right thing to do.
4.
Hispanic population will increase significantly in the next ten years.
6.
Potential to generate significant revenue for the college- middling.
1.
How do you define “significant”- a percentage of their working budget, or a dollar amount?
7.
Provides low-cost marketing for the college- yes.
8.
Basic Skills programs that feed other programs- does not include learning communities, study skills, etc.
2.
Should consider classes that are pre-requisites for other classes.
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If you have a program that draws from a variety of other programs- Engineering, for example- Math, Physics and Chemistry are all interconnected to Engineering.
2.
Would address issues in HServ.
3.
Student Success Task Force – Cabrillo Response
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In January, state Board of Governors approved in concept the task force report with 8 recommendations. Many of them have to do with student success and matriculation.
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Some proposals have been translated into legislative language and changes in ed code. None have been passed yet but are pending.
2.
Considerations of audience- does the senate want to have public input? Does the senate want to communicate to Cabrillo faculty and/or local legislators?
2.
Draft faculty position statement includes 3 things supported and 7 things opposed.
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In opposition #6, should be changed to broad collaboration.
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There was a small representative group but there was no true collaboration where local faculty and students were able to communicate their concerns about the proposals.
2.
Most faculty organizations are firmly in opposition to SSTF momentum. Cabrillo should be a part of that conversation.
3.
In opposition #5, earlier draft stated clear opposition to use of paraprofessionals that was later removed. Shouldn't shy away from that word. Should also include “overreliance on electronic tools.”
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Sentence that “It makes no sense to enact policies...” should stress that these policies would cost money.
5.
FAC's AB1741 asks for increasing ratio of faculty counselors to students and increased proportions of courses taught by full-time faculty.
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Faculty need to communicate their opposition- 90% of internet comments were negative, were dismissed as representing only a few biased groups. Legislators need to realize there is not consistent agreement through the ranks.
6.
Would like to have something tentative to email by Thursday morning and CCFT could approve (or not) by next week.
7.
Motion to approve general direction and intent of this, will vote on final document via email once it's cleaned up.
1.
Second, approved.
5.
Adjourn.