Cabrillo College Faculty Senate
December 4, 2007
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Sesnon House
In Attendance: Marcy Alancraig, Winnie Baer, Dave Balogh, Arturo Cantu, Jennifer
Cass, Virginia Coe, John Govsky, Paul Harvell, Steve Hodges, Renee Kilmer, Brian
Legakis, Diego James Navarro, Rory O’Brien, Dave Reynolds, Georg Romero, Dan
Rothwell, Jonathan Saad, Topsy Smalley, Mary Ellen Sullivan, Francine Van Meter,
Nancy Brown, Claudia Close, Dale Attias, Brad Krien, Michael Mangin, Brian King.
Note Taker: Amber Parker.
1.0 Call To Order
The meeting was called to order at 3:06 p.m.
2.0 Minutes
After brief review, it was moved and seconded to approve the Minutes. Motion
carried.
3.0 Reports
3.1 President—Rory O’Brien
3.1.1 Rory expressed how honored he felt to represent the faculty during
his term as president, thanking all for their support and confidence.
He also thanked Nancy Brown as his predecessor, who
recommended that he run for the position in the first place. Rory
added that he will enter his name for the position of vice president.
3.1.2 Marcy thanked Rory for all his time and dedication.
3.1.3 Rory recommends the position of president or vice president to any
and all faculty members, because you really get to learn what
happens on campus.
3.1.4 He is proud of the fact that with Marcy’s help we were able to
make SLO’s palatable, and thinks that the fact that the senate has
really tackled the issues of SLO’s and made it a faculty-driven
process, along with the strong role of Michael and Renee working
together, has turned out really great.
3.2 Vice President—Steve Hodges
3.2.1 Steve thanked Rory for his term as president. He advocated Rory
as the future vice president, saying that it would also be helpful
with Steve’s training as president. Steve is looking forward to
some things that are on the agenda in the future: housekeeping
types of things, the textbook program, the use of free sources on
the internet, accreditation results…lot’s of exciting stuff to talk
about in the future.
3.3 Treasurer—Paul Harvell
3.3.1 We have money.
3.3.2 Paul drew attention to the 2007 Fact Book, and that the average
grade is a B+. Marcy said this was a good topic for discussion next
semester.
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3.4 Secretary—Georg Romero
3.41 Hidden in his office, Georg found a small pile of notes for changes
to make on the website. The changes have been made now.
3.5 Student Senate—Jonathan Saad
3.5.1 Jonathan also referred to the 2007 Fact Book, and noted that there
were less proficiency degrees—does this indicate declining student
success?
3.5.2 Brian mentioned that a high percentage of his students had not
seen a counselor lately, and that they really need to go through this
process.
3.5.3 Georg wondered about an analysis of the numbers in the Fact
Book. Marcy said it would be interesting to disaggregate the data.
3.5.4 Rory mentioned that the new beautiful Arts buildings would
probably bring more students.
3.5.5 Dave Balogh wanted to know if there was any way to pull the
statistic of who is qualified to transfer versus how many actually
do transfer. He thought that is students are qualified to transfer
they should still go to commencement.
3.5.6 Renee mentioned that we could give these students a certificate of
achievement by default if they are eligible to walk. Rory said that
it would be another measure of success.
3.5.7 Dan Rothwell expressed what a tragedy it was that so many
students are just one or two classes away from obtaining a degree.
He tells his students to get a degree at Cabrillo first instead of
transferring with a bunch of classes.
3.5.8 Arturo thought that we need to work on marketing this better, and
informing students of the possibilities.
3.5.9 Jonathan informed the Senate that the Proposition 92 Rally will be
held on campus on Tuesday December 11 at 12:30 p.m. The
Student Senate will be offering food at 1:00 for people who attend.
He said that there were going to be a lot of great speakers at the
rally.
3.6 CCFT—John Govsky
3.6.1 FIELD program hiring—an issue, and something to bring up in the
spring. It is definitely something to keep an eye on.
3.7 Watsonville Campus—Diego Navarro
3.7.1 Rachel mentioned that Pajaro Valley had their first class of seniors,
so Cabrillo had a fair there. Over 300 seniors and underclassmen
went through the fair.
3.8 Vice President of Instruction—Renee Kilmer
3.8.1 Renee had received an answer back about student on the waitlist
for allied health programs, and whether or not they are “continuing
students” for their graduation requirements. It has been decided
that they will retain their catalog rights.
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3.8.2
BFGC: will be doing work through January, but it will be
preliminary. The majority of their work will be happening in the
spring.
3.8.3 Spring Finals Week: unfortunately it got scheduled from Tuesday
through Saturday. It is possible to move those Friday classed to
Monday, if desired. She is leaving it to the department’s choice.
She said that the time would be the same, only the day would be
moved if they chose to do so.
3.8.4 Dave said that communication to all faculty regarding this is
essential.
3.8.5 Paul mentioned that the Saturday classes cannot switch to Friday,
because there could be a conflict.
3.8.6 Marcy said that this mistake could be a benefit, because it really
illustrates that help is needed to complete the schedule (since
Renee had noted that a lot of people just see the completed
schedule without seeing that it takes work, and that help is
needed).
4.0 Curriculum Committee Report—Claudia Close
4.1 The first semester with Curricunet went fairly well.
4.2 She presented the Fall 2007 Curriculum to the Faculty Senate.
4.3 Coming up next semester: changes in Title 5 are affecting some of the ways
we do things. She will discuss these issues later. We are working on the Title
5 changes.
4.4 Motion on the floor to approve the Curriculum Report. Motion seconded and
approved.
4.5 Claudia noted that Mark Eastman has not agreed to accept the Curriculum
Chair position. He has not declined it either. Claudia says she is resigning, and
means it.
5.0 Report From Academic Council—Brad Krein
5.1 The Academic Council Report was presented to the Faculty Senate. It was
motioned to accept the report. The motion was seconded and approved.
5.2 Rory added that the ninth meeting on the Senate schedule (put there for last
minute business) is not needed, and that this meeting will be the last one.
6.0 Title V Grant—Rachel Mayo
6.1 We are applying for the Title V Grant. First, we need to establish eligibility.
Applications are due January through March, and the guidelines are released
at the time of the program announcement (January). The deadline is in April.
General guidelines are that the grant must address institutional weakness,
must fund development rather than operations, and it cannot expand existing
services or programs.
6.2 Three activity areas allowed: strengthening student services, administration
management, and strengthening academic programs. The activities you do,
you can expand, not programs. She noted that the Basic Skills program does
not technically exist right now, so it counts.
6.3 Georg asked if a program offered at Aptos but not Watsonville counts. Rachel
said that it is college-wide.
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6.4 The Endowment Option: an even match for new dollars raised—can be up to
20% of total. After 20 years 100% is released.
6.5 There are several personnel considerations. A grant writer does not have to be
staff beforehand.
6.6 Application considerations: the most recent limit is 50 pages.
6.7 The Title V universe: it gets more competitive each year. More colleges
qualify, which increases the number of eligible candidates.
6.8 The review process: the application is read by a three-reader panel, none of
whom have reader training. Readers detail strengths and weaknesses of each
application section. Required in addition: program profile, abstract, GEPA,
assurances.
6.9 If we go with the Emerging Scholars Institute, there are a lot of pieces that
could come under that. Not only Basic Skills, but the whole transition.
6.10 Marcy noted that we need to examine and plan this whole process really
carefully, which is good. Rachel said that part of the process was making it
sustainable, that this is a “systems” grant more than anything else.
6.11 At the conference she learned that you get extra points for collaboration. It
looks good that we are already coming in at this level, wanting to take it to the
next level.
6.12 The Senate thanked Rachel for her thorough presentation.
6.13 Renee said that Rachel has been going to these presentations, but
eventually we will have to hire a grant writer and give them the raw material.
This is something we should discuss early in the Spring semester.
6.14 Arturo wanted to see the demographics of the next couple of classes. Rory
said this was all the more reason to discuss the subject early in the semester, to
bring up all the issues. He said we can expect to see it in the spring.
6.15 Rachel said that it is an example of being able to say that we can point out
weakness in an area (demographics), and would like to improve. Where do we
need to institutionalize systems, for example? Rory said that perhaps we can
rely on Renee for keeping us informed of timelines.
6.16 Diego said that we should look at statistics from Watsonville, what is our
constituency, and where are we putting our money to deal with these
community crises?
6.17 Rory said that in February we should bring this entire topic up at the
meeting.
7.0 Faculty Hiring Prioritization Process—Rory O’Brien
7.1 Rory thinks that we should look at this issue in the spring, and consider
forming a committee of three to five people to address questions and issues.
Rory thought that Wanda would be a great person to have on the committee.
Paul, Brian, and Dan also volunteered. Rory said that in spring we will
formalize the process.
7.2 Motion to approve forming a sub-committee to revisit report issues by the end
of the semester with suggestions for the fall: motion seconded and approved.
8.0 Accreditation De-Briefing—Rory O’Brien
8.1 What worked or didn’t work this time around?
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8.2 Paul said that what worked really well was to have Michael Mangin in
charge—he recommends it for next time! Rory agreed.
8.3 Paul said that it would be easier to have on or two people that knew what was
needed, and could compile it all along. Rory said yes, that the Standards are
the same, so we could be continually preparing and compiling yearly. Marcy
seconded Paul’s opinion.
8.4 Renee mentioned the mid-year report—she was talking to Rory about ways to
keep people involved. Marcy mentioned integrating it into the master planning
process.
8.5 Georg said that it is a great concept, but didn’t feel that the level of
participation is sustainable. Rory said that this was a good point…if we could
just keep a skeleton crew together, just a few people keeping files, perhaps
they could have the incentive of walking away before the actual process.
Renee pointed out that there will be electronic resources on the P: drive next
time.
8.6 Georg said that some standards are under-represented.
8.7 Michael said that CPC has an important role in deciding this. He also said that
the Senate leading the process was great, that it has to come from us. He said
that driving it was a really important role.
8.8 Rory agreed, and said that we need to hang onto this steering wheel as much
as we can.
8.9 Topsy felt that we should send this out to advisory committees in occupational
programs. Rory said that this was a great idea, to encourage the outside
community.
8.10 Marcy said that the Faculty Senate needs to be involved in the process
because they have been there the longest.
8.11 Dave Balogh thought that it is important that Michael be a mentor to the
next person, and we need to find that next person now.
9.0 Adjournment
9.1 Rory ended the discussion by saying that at the next meeting on February 5,
Steve will be the new president.
9.2 The meeting was adjourned at 5:02 p.m.
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