Cabrillo College Faculty Senate
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sesnon House
In Attendance: Eva Acosta, Winnie Baer, Dave Balogh, Janus Blume, Becka
Fortune, Jean Gallagher-Heil, John Govsky, Bernadette Guimberteau, Paul
Harvell, Steve Hodges, Renee Kilmer, Brian Legakis, Diego Navarro, Rory
O’Brien, Beth Regardz, Dave Reynolds, Georg Romero, Dan Rothwell, Pam
Sanborn, Letitia Scott-Curtis, Mary Ellen Sullivan, Alex Taurke, Francine
Van Meter
Guests: John Mauceri, Margery Regalado, Mary Planning, Dale Attias,
Jennifer Cass
Note Taker: Jamie Malone
1.0 Call to Order
1.1 – The meeting was called to order at 3:10 PM.
2.0 Minutes
2.1 – Reviewed the minutes from September 23, 2008.
2.1.1 – Minutes approved with no corrections.
3.0 Reports
3.1 – President (Steve Hodges)
3.1.1 – Gave an update on the governing board meeting. CCFT and CCEU
had similar ideas that they reported to the board regarding space
allocation. The number one area of concern seems to be the number of
full-time faculty. Steve reminded them about 75/25, as well as the recent
change of 60-67%. Also reminded them of the 50% law (half of our
budget has to be spent on the classroom). He closed by telling them we
have 8 retirees this year. He observed that we have a community member
who attends and shares her concerns about wireless radiations (requests
that they remove wireless equipment and cell phone towers).
3.1.2 – The Sesnon House has not been selected as an election site, so we
will meet here on Election Day.
3.1.3 – He created a “welcome to the faculty senate” document when he
was Vice President of the senate, and is planning to update it so we can
hand it out to visitors and new senators (explains what to expect). Georg
said he would put an electronic copy on the web site.
3.1.4 – Received an e-mail from Fresno City College. They are not
satisfied with their faculty representation in the process to hire a new
college president.
3.1.5 – Oath of Allegiance Policy (BP 5110). Board policy requires you to
sign it. Steve said he likes to follow policy and for the policy to be
followable. It is an on going step in the master plan (publish, and update
things).
3.1.6 – CIP is looking to fill a new position. This position involves hearing
instructional plans from various departments and voting to prioritize
requests from programs for funding. Looking for one additional faculty
member to sit on CIP. Meets a few Fridays (especially in the spring)
throughout the year.
3.2 – Vice President (Rory O’Brien)
3.2.1 – The students are holding an event in room 225 (SAC) to discuss
the presidential debates. The last meeting overflowed into the hallway.
3.2.2 – Rory thanked the people who came to give faculty a voice in the
space allocation meeting. Last week there was further discussion and CPC
heard many concerns. The process is slowing down more to accommodate
people. Things are going in the right direction.
3.2.3 – We have committees on distance education teaching and staff
development. We are now taking proposals for workshops during spring
flex and you get flex credit. Rory urged people to take advantage of these
meetings because they only happen a few times a year.
3.2.4 – We have only received 6 requests for conference funding (deadline
is this month).
3.3 – Secretary (Georg Romero)
3.3.1 – Reminded everyone that it is time to redo the senate photo for the
web site (possibly at the next meeting).
3.4 – Treasurer (Paul Harvell)
3.4.1 – We have money.
3.4.2 – Next week at 5PM is the candidate’s forum for the Governing
Board.
3.5 – CCFT (John Govsky)
3.5.1 – We are about to start another round of re-opener on salary.
3.6 – CCEU (Janus Blume)
3.6.1 – We are in the process of forming a political actions committee. We
have a committee, money in the bank, and we supported our candidates.
3.6.2 – An area of concern is that we lost a position in financial aid
(budget cuts). When we lose staff, we need to reduce the level of service
we provide the students. We cannot expect the remaining staff to pick up
the slack.
3.7 – Watsonville (still no rep, but Eva Acosta gave an update)
3.7.1 – Students at the Watsonville campus can now get an AA in Liberal
Arts entirely at the Watsonville campus. Have not discussed the possibility
of having a graduation ceremony at Watsonville. Maybe have a family
reception.
3.7.2 – Showing 3 films for the Pacific Rim Festival. The first one is on
October 18, at 7PM.
3.8 – ASCC (Becka Fortune)
3.8.1 – We have made some changes. Last week she was appointed as
treasurer to fill a vacancy, and someone filled her spot.
3.8.2 – We still have no Watsonville or Scotts Valley reps (please spread
the word).
3.8.3 – We are co-sponsoring with the Cabrillo Democrats Club.
3.8.4 – We are organizing Halloween and Thanksgiving events.
3.8.5 – In the process of updating our web site.
3.8.6 – Announced that Senator Sophia Ford will place voter registration
forms in the faculty lounge to hand out to students (may include
instructions/demonstration of how to fill them out).
3.8.7 – Still working on committee development, and organizing internal
committees.
3.8.8 – Last week we endorsed Susan True.
3.9 – VPI (Renee Kilmer)
3.9.1 – We don’t need 15 subgroups anymore because they are combined
into bigger GAITS. No need to volunteer.
3.9.2 – Now we have to deal with a deficit budget. There is likely to be
serious mid-year cuts. There is a budget workshop next week that Peggy is
attending. She and Victoria will do a budget presentation at our next
meeting.
4.0 Action Items
4.1 – No action items scheduled for this meeting.
5.0 Information Items
5.1 – Curriculum Committee Report
5.1.1 – Jennifer Cass thanked the senate on behalf of the committee for
providing their snacks.
5.1.2 – One course got left off the list (HORT 162AA). We have now
streamlined the process to go through curricunet. It includes a few honors
courses to support the honors program. We also streamlined the approval
process for honors classes (easier since they are based on an existing
class). Distance ed is now built into curricunet.
5.1.3 – Sue discussed the issue of a course overlap that wasn’t noticed
until recently: HS 24 and ES 10 (over half of the curriculum is the same).
A handout she distributed showed an outline of both classes and 13 out of
22 points are the same. What do we do? An overlap has never been
discovered this late. We want both classes to be available. There is nothing
that says we can’t stop a course from continuing at this point. The classes
have the same objectives and content. Decided to take off HS 24 and
submit all the other classes on the list (including 139 ELF which was left
off).
5.2 – Web Migration Report
5.2.1 – We started a huge project to improve our web site. The site has
grown to 48,000 pages (that was a year ago). We want to make it better for
the users and be sure the information on the site is current and accurate.
There are 250 authors who are creating the site’s content. Not changing
the tilde (~) pages. We ran 9 focus groups to find out what was working
and what was not working (operations, usability teams, etc). Some people
didn’t even know they owned spaces on the site. We received over 1,000
pages of feedback on the site.
5.2.2 – Design Criteria: we wanted a predictable and satisfying
experience, to simplify organization of information, an audience-focused
site, and a design which retained the college identity. It is an on going
process to update information. Hoping to make it iphone and handheld
compatible.
5.2.3 – Mary unveiled the new Cabrillo College web site template to the
senate.
5.2.4 – E-mail Georg, John, or Mary with feedback and suggestions.
5.2.5 – We are hoping to launch the new site on July 29th, 2009, which
allows for a month of testing before the fall rush. Design was $25,000.
Still collecting photos and video to put on it.
5.3 – Counseling Organization
5.3.1 – Presented a proposal that we turn one of our counseling positions
into a dean of counseling (we have the money for it). We have met with
CCEU already and will meet with CCFT. Our division has become more
complex (spreading from north to south county). Currently addressing
concerns. The dean would be responsible for leadership of our division.
Right now we have a three-person leadership team. This process is more
of a reorganization of what we have plus hiring an additional
administrator.
5.3.2 – There is a vacant counseling position (person resigned). We have
the budget for one more.
5.4 – Space Allocation
5.4.1 – There will be a meeting between the facilities planning advisory
committee and focus groups. Will announcement the time and date soon.
They received 127 feedback forms and now they are breaking them down
into categories and areas. You can see all of them online.
5.4.2 – Ran out of time to discuss the issue more in depth.
6.0 Open Forum and Agenda Building
6.1 – What are we doing about being over cap on enrollment? Need to discuss it.
7.0 Adjourn
7.1 – The meeting was adjourned at 4:59 PM.