Year-End Summary – Academic Senate
Carol Kimbrough, President
9/8/2015
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Support formation of 16-Week Calendar Task Force
Request formation of Program Evaluation Committee: Sustainable Construction
Request formation of Program Evaluation Committee: Theatre Arts and Cinema
Confirm appointments to governance councils (2-year appointments)
Confirm appointments of peer advisors for non-tenured faculty
Confirm appointments to hiring committees:
a. VP of Information and Technology Resources
b. Director of Student Support
c. Director of Institutional Research
d. Academic Follow-Up Specialist
7. Consider applicants for PT faculty Senator
8. Confirm appointment of SLO Coordinator
9. Establish timelines for tenure review workshops for new faculty
Discussion:
1. Budget update 2015-16, Marty Parsons
2. Pending grants and news from Hartnell Foundation, Loyanne Flinn
3. Enrollment and FTES goals for 2015-16, Lori Kildal
4. Update on 16-week calendar mock-up
5. Revision of student questionnaire for faculty evaluations
9/22/2015
Action:
1. Support BSI Action Plan
2. Confirm faculty appointments to governance councils and committees
a. Institutional Effectiveness Council (new)
b. Diversity/EEO Committee
c. Peer Advisors
3. Revised student questionnaire for faculty evaluation (refer to Union)
4. Support DE Committee recommendation to adopt Canvas
Discussion:
1. SSSSP, Mark Sanchez
2. BSI Action Plan
3. Proposal and timelines to adopt Canvas (DE Committee)
4. Updates from Institutional Planning & Effectiveness, Brian Lofman
10/13/2015
Action:
1. Support Student Success and Support Plan (SSSP)
2. Boars Policies and Administrative Procedures:
a. BP/AP 3280, Grants
b. BP 4250, Probation, Disqualification, and Readmission
c. AP 4250, Probation
d. AP 4255, Dismissal and Readmission
3. Approve Professional Development & Flex Committee Handbook
4. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees
a. Professional Development & Flex Committee
b. Flex Coordinator
c. Diversity/EEO Committee
d. Selection Committee: Director of Student Affairs, DSPS
e. Academic Affairs Council
f. Accreditation Council
g. Program Evaluation Committee for AP 4021
Discussion:
1. Request to Initiate Program Revitalization, Suspension or Discontinuance (per AP 4021)
a. AIT, Industrial Mechanics (Al Graham)
b. Drafting Technology (Parviz Entekhabi)
2. CTE Program Job Placement Standards, Brian Lofman
3. Professional Development & Flex Committee Handbook
10/27/2015
Action:
1. Resolution: Noncredit Curriculum, Request to Negotiate
2. Governance councils and faculty selection committees
a. Professional Development & Flex Committee (PT Faculty appointment)
b. Selection Committee: Academic Follow-up Services Specialist
c. Task Force: Review of PPA Template
Discussion:
1. 2015-16 Student Equity Plan, Kathy Mendelsohn
2. Plans for Development: Learning Center, Antonio Alarcon
3. Supplemental Instruction, Frank Henderson & Brownwyn Moreno
4. Math Academy, Ken Rand
5. Pending grant proposals, Loyanne Flinn
6. Resolutions for Fall Plenary
7. Scheduling Hybrid curriculum
11/10/2015
Action:
1. BP/AP 5130, Financial Aid
2. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
a. Institutional Effectiveness Committee
b. Selection Committee: Director Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium
Discussion:
1. Apportionment funding and the 50% Law, Tracey Richardson
2. Enrollment management, Celine Pinet
3. Proposal for Faculty Chairs
4. BP/AP 3540, Sexual and Other Assaults on Campus
5. Fall Academic Senate retreat and goals for 2015-16
11/24/2015
Action:
1. Accept report from Full-Time Faculty Hiring Committee
Discussion:
1. BPs and Aps
2. Grant application: 2015 Registered Nurse Capitation Application and Special Programs
3. Faculty Chairs, results of constituency dialogs
4. Report from Full-Time Faculty Hiring Committee
5. Report from 16-week calendar task force
6. Report on “Habits of the Mind” workshop
7. “Regular and Effective Contact” DE Committee
8. Chancellor’s Task Force on Accreditation
9. Reports from Senators and Standing Committees
12/8/2015
Action:
1. Support 2015-16 Student Equity Plan (SEP)
2. Board Policies and Administrative Procedures:
a. AP 5075, Course Adds and Withdrawals/Drops
b. BP/AP 5110, Counseling
c. BP/AP 5300 Student Equity
d. AP 5610, Voter Registration
3. Support DE Regular and Effective Contact Policy
4. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
a. FT Cal Works Counselor Selection Committee
Discussion:
1. 2015-16 SEP
2. Academic Standards Committee, faculty support needed (Mark Sanchez)
3. Updates to PPA Template
4. Update HCFA Bargaining Timelines, issues
5. O & A Committee: Revised Core Competencies
6. DE Committee: potential CMS savings and professional development for DE faculty
7. Support for CTE faculty liaison
2/9/2016
Action:
1. Support ACCJC Midterm Report
2. Support revisions to Core Competencies
3. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees
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Curriculum committee
Administrative Services Council
CPC proxy
Institutional Effectiveness Council
Advancement Council
Academic Senate proxy
Discussion:
1. California Dreamer Students, Bronwyn Moreno
2. Update on Canvas conversion
3. HFA bargaining timelines, sunshine letters
4. SSSP, SEP, BSI and HSI comparison chart, Moises Almendariz
5. Update: pending grants, Loyanne Flinn (HSI Title III STEM)
2/23/2016
Action:
1. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees
a. Academic Standards committee
b. Academic Affairs Council
c. Selection committees:
i. Salinas Valley Health Professions Pathway Partnership (Manager)
ii. Nursing Instructor
iii. Counselor (Veterans)
Discussion:
1. Institution-set standards and goals for institutional effectiveness, Brian Lofman, Natalia
Cordoba-Velasquez
2. AB 104/AB 86 Adult Education Block Grant, Kristen Arps
3. Grant report/update Feb 2016
3/8/2016
Action:
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Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
a. Technology Development Council
b. Selection Committees:
i. FT Nursing Instructor
ii. Director, Information Technology Systems
iii. Nominations Committee for Senate Officers
Discussion:
1. Loss of priority enrollment and BOG fee waiver, Mary Dominguez
2. Institution-set standards and goals for institutional effectiveness, Brian Lofman
3. Grant updates, Loyanne Flinn
4. Legislative updates
5. Report from Tenure Review Committee and BOT meeting 3/1/16
a. Tenure granted to: Sonia Arteaga, Steve Ettinger, Al Graham, Tanya Ho, Meagan
Plumb, Deborah Stevens
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3/22/2016
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Reports from Senators and updates from standing committees
Institution-set standards and goals for institutional effectiveness
HCFA Resolution in support of AB 1690: failed
Phishing and ransomware, Dave Phillips
Outcomes & Assessment Committee: update on SLO implementation
Resolutions for ASCCC Spring Plenary Session
AB 626, Low
Open Educational Resources
4/12/2016
Action:
1. Administrative Procedures:
a. AP 4051, High School Articulation (not approved)
b. AP 4102, Career & Technical Education
c. AP 4222, Remedial Coursework (not approved)
d. AP 5700, Intercollegiate Athletics
2. Confirm appointments to (selection) committees:
a. Computer Science
b. Early Childhood Education
c. Nursing
d. English
3. Approval of Program Evaluation Committee recommendations: Real Estate
4. Approved: Resolution to Support AB 798, Textbook Affordability Act
5. Approve SLO Implementation and Timelines
6. Establish a task force to consider alignment of SLO assessment with other planning
activities (PPA, curriculum revision, budget)
Discussion:
1. AP 3515, 5500 & 5520, courtesy review mandated by Jeanne Clery Act and Acts Against
Violence to Women
2. Resolutions for discussion for Spring Plenary
3. OER and Resolution to Support AB 798
4. AP 4021 and recommendations of Real Estate Program Evaluation Committee
5. Resolution to establish local legislative and CTE liaison positions
6. BP/AP 3225, Institutional Effectiveness & BP/AP 3250, Institutional Planning, Brian Lofman
7. SLO implementation and timelines
8. Local “Area B” Meeting and Spring Plenary
4/26/2016
Action:
1. Board Policies/Administrative Procedures:
a. BP/AP 3225, Institutional Effectiveness
b. BP/AP 3250, Institutional Planning
c. BP/AP 7160, Professional Development
d. BP/AP 7310, Nepotism
e. BP 7340, Leaves
f. AP 7343, Industrial Accident and Illness Leave
g. AP 7344, Attendance Policies and Notification to District of Illness or Absence
2. Confirm appointments to governance councils and committees:
a. Early Childhood Education, selection committee
b. Outcomes & Assessment Committee
c. Accounting Manager, selection committee
Discussion:
1. Grant development process, Loyanne Flinn and David Techaira
2. USDA HEC Grant/CSUMB
3. ASCCC Spring Plenary and resolutions results
4. Hybrid courses: last date of attendance policy
5. Update on task force: SLO implementation/timelines
6. AB 2017 (McCarty) Mental Health Services