Cabrillo College Faculty Senate
March 13, 2007
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Sesnon House
In Attendance: Marcy Alancraig, Rebecca Arnesty, Janus Blume, Arturo Cantu, Jennifer
Cass, Virginia Coe, John Govsky, Paul Harvell, Steve Hodges, Janis Keyser, Adela
Najarro, Diego James Navarro, Dorothy Nunn, Rory O’Brien, Jo-Ann Panzardi, Dave
Reynolds, Georg Romero, Dan Rothwell, Deborah Shulman, Topsey Smalley, Marko
Realmonte, Sesario Escoto, Elissa Wagner.
Note taker: Amber Parker
1.0 Call To Order
The meeting was called to order at 3:08 p.m.
2.0 Minutes
Reviewed Minutes of February 27, 2007 meeting. After some suggestions for
revision, it was moved and seconded to approve the Minutes. Motion carried.
3.0 Reports
3.1 President’s Report—Rory O’Brien
3.1.1 Sesario Escoto--requests a volunteer to be present for a one-time
Disciplinary Hearing Committee. Volunteer is needed to review
facts for a possible student suspension/expulsion, March 23, 2:004:00 p.m.
3.1.2 Rory--requests 3 volunteers for faculty representatives (not
necessarily part of Senate), as follows:
Two out of CPC: one for a diversity committee, one on a task force
“Why is it difficult to fill certain positions on campus?”
One out of Human Resources: faculty representative, input on how
management is doing.
(Rory will send a reminder later on this week regarding possible
interest in these volunteer positions.)
3.2 Vice-President’s Report—Steve Hodges
Steve has joined the Retirement Party Planning Committee.
3.3 Treasurer’s Report—Paul Harvell
3.3.1 Retiree liability-medical benefits to continue after retirement:
partial or full funding? Zero is not acceptable, but is full funding
realistic? Somewhere in-between seems desirable so far. Perhaps
taking the money needed out of a one-time fund might make the
impact smaller?
3.4 Secretary’s Report—Georg Romero
3.4.1 Technology Committee: on-campus, web-based, spam-filtering
software will soon be implemented (March or April).
3.4.2 Printout of Faculty Senate roster page provided for examination.
3.4.3 Will send out a survey to Senate Representatives—please email
with any questions or input.
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3.5 Liaison Reports
3.5.1 Student Representative-Marko Realmonte
3.5.1.1 Introduction to Marko as new student representative. In
process of reviewing budget, students trying to fund last
few things this year, including a luncheon for the Stroke
Center. Also updating club charter.
3.5.1.2 Reminder from Rory: request for Marko to please keep
open communication between students and faculty
regarding on-campus (possibly noisy, etc) events.
3.5.2 SEIU-Janus Blume
3.5.2.1 Advisory vote of general membership-75% majority to
make move was amended to 65% to make move. Once
votes were in, it was a 60%-60% split, so a re-vote was
called with 70% majority necessary to make move in favor
of decertification.
3.5.2.2 An attorney with a lot of labor experience has expressed
interest in advising us if we become an independent union.
3.5.2.3 Will soon vote on option of making funds available for
legal representation through process.
3.5.2.4 Janus expressed a strong feeling of solidarity, one of a
strong union, and is impressed with everyone that is
involved with this process.
3.5.3 CCFT-John Govsky
3.5.3.1 In negotiations.
3.5.3.2 All positions are up, nominations deadline is on April 16,
2007.
3.5.4 Watsonville-Diego Navarro
3.5.4.1 Career support instruction provided for math students.
3.5.4.2 Title V Hispanic Serving Institution grant eligible—will
have one year to submit application and plans.
3.5.4.3 Rory: added that we will want faculty representation if
Title V is approved; CPC decided 3-year master-planning
process, 10-year visionary document that would feed into a
3-year plan.
4.0 Curriculum Report
None at this time.
5.0 Non-Credit Courses and Supplemental Instruction
Agenda moved until: (date undetermined).
6.0 Action Items
6.1 Honor’s Program
Agenda moved until: March 27, 2007
6.2 Changes to the Core 4—Marcy Alancraig
6.2.1 Core 4 revisions are available—revisions were submitted for
examination and feedback.
6.2.2 A few suggestions were made to revise the wording in some
sections for clarity.
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Motion to accept Marcy’s document, with the few wording
suggestions inserted. Motion seconded.
6.2.4 Marcy: VAPA—no listing of visual arts under communication
section. There was no response to an email she sent out regarding
this, any feedback now?
6.2.5 Some discussion ensued on including not only visual but culinary
communication. Counter-discussion: “What is the critical mass?”
6.2.6 Questions: How can visual expression be fully represented? How
should developing strategies for addressing issues in our
community, state, country, and world be expressed? Do developing
these specific strategies fall under the category of Problem-Solving
or Global Awareness?
6.2.7 Motion to table the motion to accept Marcy’s document as is—
motion seconded and passed.
6.3 Elissa Wagner—Gap in Global Awareness in Core 4
6.3.1 Elissa pointed out the ethical concern of what we are doing to the
environment, possibly making changes in how we live. She
explained that Cabrillo teaches its students computer literacy,
critical literacy—why not ecological literacy? She feels that this
should be added to the Core 4 document.
6.3.2 Questions raised: Are existing courses already teaching students
the ability to evaluate this? Or should it be core to our education,
considering the critical state of the environment? Is this something
that we learn in a science or philosophy course? Is this topic
covered in the problem-solving section? While this is an important
topic, is this really the document for it? If it is added in, should it
be as an “additional bullet,” or as its own letter under the heading
of Global Awareness?
6.3.3 The point was asserted that this is such an important issue, we
should make it important within the Core 4 document. It was
generally felt that students are interested in “greener” ways to
accomplish things.
6.4 Shared Governance
(Could not discuss due to time constraints.)
6.5 The Role of CPC
(Could not discuss due to time constraints.)
7.0 Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 5:04 p.m.
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