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DRAFT
Minutes of the Academic Senate Meeting
May 1, 2008
Voting Members Present: (Senators Ed Casson , Terri English, John Klitsner,
Said Pazirandeh, Rick Scuderi, Janice Silver, Robert Smazenka, Joyce Woodmanse, Debby Wong,
Voting Members Absent:
Ruthie (Parthenia) Grant, Myriam Mekelburg, John Orozco, Ralph La Rosa, Yolanda Ramil, ), Charles Dirks,
Michong Park,
Exec, Members: Eloise Cantrell, Pat Flood, Angela Echeverri , Leslie Milke , Gary Prostak, Mark Pursley,
Louis Zandalasini
Executive Members Absent: Gwen Walker, Lorraine Manoogian
Faculty Present: Lilamani De Silva, Kelly Enos, Adolfo Espinosa,
Joanne Kalter-Flink, Mehri Hagar, Margie Long, Geri Shapiro, Michael Climo, Madelline Hernandez,
Monica Moreno,
Visitors/Guests: President Judith Valles –Los Angeles Mission
Robert Sambrano –Project Match LA City College
I. Parliamentarian- President Echeverri called the meeting to order at 1:39 p.m.
President Angela Echeverri asked to move the agenda to allow guests to be introduced and to
speak. Motion approved.
Angela introduced the new Los Angeles Mission College President – Judith Valles.
The entire faculty gave her a warm welcome from the Academic Senate.
President Valles complimented everyone on the accreditation visit and thanked Pat Flood and Angela
Echeverri for their outstanding job.
She mentioned that she loves to walk the Mission campus and expressed it is a beautiful campus.
President Valles indicated the following:
 She plans on working on the signage of the campus.
 Students that are here are happy to be here.
 Everyone does teaching and loves it.
 Students need to have more activities
 She will work on a newsletter from her office to communicate with faculty
 Communication is a prime concern and necessity and she will have an open door policy.
 Security – issues i.e. like gang activity – please report anything-suspicious activity.
 We are all encouraged to attend and participate in commencement exercises.
Robert Sambrano from LA City College spoke on the topic of Project Match. He encouraged
faculty to sign up to be a mentor in the program. He is reaching out to all campuses. He passed out
letters that have been sent to all faculty and a packet for those interested.
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II. Approval of Minutes: . (Silver, Milke
The minutes from the April 3, 2008) meeting were moved to approve with corrections)
Motion passed
III. Officers’ Reports
President Echeverri announced that this would be the last Senate meeting for this academic
semester.
President Echeverri Report
L.A. MISSION COLLEGE ACADEMIC SENATE
PRESIDENT’S REPORT May 1, 2008
Submitted by Angela C. Echeverri
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Administrative Update:
Vice President of Academic Affairs-Permanent: The selection committee forwarded two finalists to
President Valles for consideration. Alma Johnson-Hawkins is our new permanent vice president of
academic affairs.
 Dean of Academic Affairs: The process to hire a permanent dean of academic affairs to replace the
 position vacated by Vice President Alma Johnson-Hawkins has started.
 Consultation with President Valles: The Senate E-Board met with President on 4/28/08. We discussed
 the status of faculty hiring and the development of academic programs. She proposed having a
convocation ceremony at the beginning of the fall semester and inviting a motivational speaker to
 the campus for this event. A suggestion to reexamine the one-book, one-campus proposal was
discussed,
 Accreditation Update
The accreditation team visited the campus on Tuesday April 22nd. They met with several
administrators and faculty members (Milke, Pazirandeh, Flood, Echeverri, Prostak, De Silva,
Moreno, Silver, and Ramil).
In the afternoon they met with various administrators at the district office. Pat Flood will give a
detailed report.
 Academic Senate of California Community Colleges: The ASCCC Spring Plenary Session took place
 in San Francisco on April 17-19.
A. Resolutions Adopted: The adoption of the following papers was approved:
 The Course Outline of Record: A Curriculum Reference Guide
 Ensuring the Appropriate Use of Educational Technology: An Update for Local Senates
 Promoting Thoughtful Faculty Conversations about Grade Distributions
 Sabbaticals: Effective Practices for Proposals, Implementation, and Follow-Up
Other resolutions approved include several on concurrent enrollment, advanced placement exam
equivalencies, proposal for a new disciplines list format, Title 5 changes for non-master’s degrees
in the discipline list, noncredit accountability measures, and reducing textbook costs.
For a complete list of approved resolutions visit the ASCCC website at:
http://www.asccc.org/Events/sessions/spring2008/materials.html
B. Title 5 Revisions (Excerpts from T5 Part II: Discussion and Update): Changes to the following
sections
of Title 5 have been approved:
 55024: Limits W’s to 4 times (for each course); can be less if district chooses. Allows
fire/flood exceptions.
 55040-55046: Minor changes regarding credit course repetition and when it is allowed.
 55062: Allows for English reading courses one level below transfer to apply to degree as
per composition courses. Only allows one to apply though.
 55070: Prohibits certificate of achievement if sequence is solely basic skills and/or ESL.
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55154: Clarifies high school noncredit hours. Adds catalog rights for current students.
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55253: Work experience, modified to reflect repetition changes and to allow students
to get full 16 units in one work experience area.
 55502-55532: Allows for noncredit matriculation.
 58106: Limitations on enrollment.
 58160: Better definition of the 10 noncredit areas allowed for enhanced funding.
 1. Report on account 58161: Changes to apportionment to reflect changes in course
repetition.
 58509: Allows students to drop class with no “W” and full refund if major disaster,
fire, etc.
C. Discipline List Proposal Process: The minimum qualifications for faculty of the California
Community Colleges are reviewed on a two-year cycle. New proposed changes may be
submitted through local/district academic senates or through a recognized discipline or
professional organization. The following timeline will apply:
March-September, 2008: Submission of Proposals to the ASCCC Office.
April 17, 2008: Spring Plenary Session. First hearing on process any proposals received.
All testimony is collected. The following proposals were submitted:
 Communication Studies: Revision to add a Master is in Speech Language Pathology
and makes minimum qualifications less restrictive.
 Political Science: Removes some degrees in public administration.
Speech Language Pathology: New discipline requiring a Master’s Degree in Speech
 Language Pathology or Communication Disorders or the equivalent OR certification
by AHSA and/or licensure by CA Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Board,
whichever is higher.
September 30, 2008: Deadline for proposals; no new proposals will be accepted for this cycle.
November 6, 2008: Fall Plenary Session. Second hearing on process and any proposals received.
April, 2009: Spring Plenary Session. Third hearing on process and any proposals received. Delegates
vote on discipline changes. After consultation with various parties, approved changes are submitted
to the Board of Governors.
 Academic Reorganization: Two out of three proposals for reorganization were withdrawn. The EPC
met last month and recommended approving third proposal for the creation of the Physical and
Life Sciences Departments, by splitting of the Natural Sciences Department. A task force of the EPC and
Senate E-Board is working on revising the current academic reorganization policies.
 Proposition J Construction Bond: The Board of Trustees has approved placing a third bond measure
for $3.5 Billion dollars on the November 2008 ballot. The purpose of the bond would be to fund
construction projects that have not been funded by Props A/AA. This would include the Student
Services Building, Media Arts Building, and others. The bond will also fund two additional
instructional buildings (Health and Technology). Mission would get an additional $50 million for
satellite locations.
B. Treasurer (Louis Zandalasini)
at the First American Bank:
 Faculty Senate Checking Account
$ 1,734.10
(Owe$600- so really only
$1,134.100
 Carla Bowman Scholarship
$4144.90
 David Lee Moss Scholarship
$457.19
2. Faculty Dues of $25 are due now. The faculty dues of $25 help to provide scholarships
If you have not paid your dues, please do it soon
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IV. Public Address: comments on matters on the agenda for the current meeting (Echeverri)
None
V. Reports of Senate Committee Meetings
A.
Curriculum (Pazirandeh)
Curriculum Report
Academic Senate 5/1/08
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The district curriculum committee (DCC) voted to approve the Non-credit Task Force recommendations.
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Several proposals dealing with uniform Advanced Placement Exam policy, Credit by Examination policy,
and inclusion of a Computer Competency requirement for AA degrees are under discussion at the district
level.
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A petition put forward by the ESL discipline committee is under consideration. This petition proposes to
unify all ESL courses taught in a campus under the ESL discipline.
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The E-65 E-reg is being voted on by the DAS this month. This E-reg deals with the process for challenging
of a new course by other colleges in the district. The final draft of this E-reg allows for 20-day vetting
period to allow other faculty and campuses to challenge a new course.
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A list of MQ’s for various disciplines is being updated by the district. I will be emailing department chairs
with the final draft of this list. Please check the MQ’s for the disciplines in your department and note any
discrepancies that might be present.
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The new Liberal Studies degree submitted to the state has been approved. The other two transfer degrees
require minor revisions and will be resubmitted shortly.
The last meeting of the curriculum committee is scheduled for May 6.
B. District Academic Senate ( Echeverri, Flood, Pursley, Prostak)
The next DAS meeting will take place at West LA College on May 8, 2008.
Action items on the agenda include approval of several Board Rule changes:
9803.28 (Academic Dishonesty Definition)
6704 (Credit by Examination)
6705 (Grades and Grade Changes)
Other action items are approval of:
New E-Regulation (Transcript Notation of Reason for Expulsion)
Revision of E-65 (Curriculum Dvelopment and Approval)
and Non-credit Task Force recommendations
Finally, a report will be presented on the Innovation Fund for Career Tech Education
C. Education Planning Committee Report and Unit Assessment( Silver)
Educational Planning Committee
Senate Report, May 1, 2008
1. Unit Assessment Review – Unit Assessments have been divided into eleven groups, each of which has
been assigned to a team with members from EPC, Budget and Planning, and/or faculty volunteers. All
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validations must be submitted by May 9. The full EPC will meet May 12 to review the validation
reports.
Educational Master Plan Update – the EPC will meet May 5 to begin the writing of the Educational
Master Plan Update based on the goals of our existing plan, requests from the District, and input from
LAMC constituencies.
Departmental Reorganization – The task force recommended approval of the Science Department being
split into two departments: Life Sciences and Physical Sciences. It was unanimously approved by the
EPC and a report was sent to the Academic Senate via email.
Shared Governance Self-Evaluation – the committee reviewed the questions on the self-evaluation form
and contributed ideas and suggestions which were compiled into the required format and submitted to
Leslie Milke as requested.
As the end of the term approaches, we will be losing the one-year-term members of our committee.
Interested faculty should make themselves known to Angela Echeverri, Gary Prostak, Alma JohnsonHawkins or myself.
We will be meeting May 5, 12 and 19th this month.
D. Budget and Planning Committee( Milke)
Budget and Planning Committee
Report of business conducted on:
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Campus Center, Room 4 from 11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M
1. Report of College financial projection: The college projected deficit continues to fall thanks
mostly to the enrollment growth. The deficit has gone from a projected $660,00 to $230,00 in
the last month.
2. EPC/B&P Task Force – All members of the B&P Committee are participating with EPC in the Unit
Assessment validations which are scheduled to begin the week of April 14th.
3. Block Grant Allocations : With the unit assessment validation process underway, the committee
decided to begin the Block Grant Allocation Process in order to allow recipients time to submit
purchase orders before the end of the fiscal year. The requests that were imbedded in the unit
assessments have been culled from the data. Those units that did not go through the unit
assessment process are being given an opportunity to make requests using the old Request for
Resource form. These units have been notified and sent a copy of the form with an Apr. 24 th
deadline for submittal. It was agreed that $250, 000 will be made available and keep
approximately $100,000 for emergency/contingency.
April 30th - B&P will meet to review requests
May 1st - B&P and an EPC Taskforce will meet to make allocations.
The next B&P meeting will be held May 8 12:30 – 2:00 CC4
IT Department will be doing an inventory.
E. Shared Governance Committee- ( Milke)
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Everyone has done a great job with shared governance this first year.
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It was decided that the College Council would be the shared governance taskforce for the college
as all of the shared governance standing committees report to the college council and have
representation on the college council.
All shared governance committees are required to do a yearly summary report. The Educational
and Planning Committee co-chaired by Janice Silver has turned in their report. ( Thanks Jan for
all of the heart work and job well done).
Each shared governance committee needs to either re-appoint those members with one year terms
so they can continue or if the person is not interested then be replaced for the next cycle which is a
two year term. These appoints for faculty are done by the AFT ( Gary Prostak) or the Academic
Senate (Angela Echeverri). Please speak directly to each of them if you are interested in
continuing for a two year term or if you would like to join one of the standing committee where
there is a vacancy.
Each shared governance committee chair has the list of faculty and their terms. Leslie also has a
list and she will email it to everyone.
President Echeverri thanked Leslie Milke for the great job she has done in getting the shared
governance structure underway. The progress has been instrumental in our accreditation process.
We are on our way!
F. Academic Rank (Long)
Two requests pending – will be processed soon.
Bob Smazenka asked.” How do you know if you have the status?
Response: Gary Prostack can tell you what you are as he is updating the list for faculty for the college
catalog.. Margie Long encouraged all to apply as several faculty use “Professor” in front of their name
and have not gone through the process required to attain that honor. This is an on-going process and
anyone at any time can submit the paperwork to be considered for academic rank. The Academic Rank
Committee is please to accept all requests to evaluate and determine if a faculty member qualifies.
See Margie for the packet.
F. Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment (SLOA) Committee (Flood)
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT REPORT
MAY 2008
Pat Flood reported that in April she completed the second annual student learning outcomes report. She
distributed a chart indicating the progress compared to last year: course SLOs for the academic units have
increased from 25% to 61%; in the Student Service divisions they have increased from 0% to 100%, and for
G.E. courses they have increased from 34% to 71%. The areas we especially need to concentrate on now are
(1) completion of SLOs for the remaining 39% of courses; (2) doing assessments and using the results to
improve our courses; (3) developing program SLOs and a timetable for assessing them; and (4) beginning to
assess our institutional SLOs (core competencies).
Many new materials have been added to the SLO website at www.lamission.edu/slo, and two resource
notebooks have been compiled for faculty use. One of the notebooks contains examples of SLOs from other
schools. Both notebooks are divided by department for easy reference.
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A subcommittee of the Student Learning Outcomes Committee has been meeting weekly to review the SLOs
that have been submitted.
As part of our fall flex day activities, we will divide into departments and disciplines and work on our program
SLOs.
VI. Old Business
A. Department Chair Elections ( Prostak)
 Submit to President Valles your intention as a candidate by May 12, 2008.
 Special meeting from 12 noon to 1:30 for voting in campus center main.
 Voting is done by contract- only full-time faculty are allowed at this time to vote. The
AFT is working on the contract negotiations to allow adjunct representation in the future.
B. Department Re-organization Request Update ( Echeverri)
Life and Physical Sciences will be two separate departments
ESL and English will be two separate departments as of July 1, 2008
C. Accreditation Visit Report (Flood/Echeverri)
The report is very encouraging. See handout that Pat passed out..
The entire faculty in the Senate gave a big thank you to Pat and Angela for their hard
work and leadership.
ACCREDITATION PROGRESS REPORT
Pat Flood reported that a team of three people revisited our school on Tuesday, April 22, for the purpose of
validating our accreditation progress report submitted to the ACCJC on March 15. During the morning and
early afternoon, the team members met with our new president, Judith Valles, and interviewed approximately
ten people who had been especially involved in the activities that have moved our school forward during this
past year. Four faculty members were also interviewed. Though we have not yet received the team members’
formal report, their verbal comments were encouraging. They said numerous times that they were impressed
with the progress that we have made in such a short period of time. After meeting with representatives of the
school, they traveled to the District office and met with our former president, Ernie Moreno, the Chancellor, and
other representatives of the District offices. All reports thus far have been positive. Pat thanked everyone for
their hard work in moving our college forward so that she and Angela Echeverri had significant progress to
report.
D. Scholarship Committee –Presenters May 22, 2008 ( Zandalasini)
We have all of the volunteers we need for the scholarship ceremony. Louie thanked
everyone on the committee. Ceremony will take place on May 22 at 2 PM in the
campus center. Please come and honor those students receiving scholarships.
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VII. New Business
A. Shared Governance Taskforce (Milke)
( Given as part of the Shared Governance Committee Report )
B. Faculty offices and the move (Prostak)
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Gary has met with VP of Academic Affairs Alma Johnson-Hawkins to plan and
structure the move and re-location of faculty offices to temporary bungalows
located near the main walk-way.
Everyone must be packed up and ready to move by June 2.
A chart has been done showing where each faculty member will be housed.
It will be presented on May 7th in the Council of Instruction.
C. Commencement Committee (Long)
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President Valles will send out a memo encouraging all faculty to participate.
Ernest Moreno is the speaker.
You can earn flex credit for participating.
Pre-commencement hosted by Senate and post commencement party will be hosted by the
AFT.
 Graduation cap and gown –WALK OF THE COLORS
Angela Echeverri mentioned that this is the time that faculty put on their robes of color to
honor the graduating students. Adjuncts and full-time faculty are encouraged to
participate.
 May 2 is the last day to order your cap and gown from the bookstore. They are free.
 The Senate suggested that Pat Flood and Angela Echeverri be named the Faculty Marshals
and it was suggested that we look to seniority to select a faculty for the Grand Marshal.
John Orosco who is retiring was asked to be the Grand Marshal but he declined.
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Margie was asked to take the name of Check Dirks for the Grand Marshal for this year.
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Recognition of faculty will be done at the pre-commencement reception by the Executive
Board of the Senate. Those retiring will be mentioned.
Announcements:
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May 3, 2008 Modern Dance presentation and
Car-less Drive Inn – Multi Media Show
Spring fest –Save the date May 10, 2008 $50 for community and $35 for faculty and staff buy
your tickets now!
Scholarship reception May 22, 2008 from 2-4 PM Campus Center.
 Next Senate meeting September 4, 2008 Campus Center 5 1:30 p.m.
The meeting adjourned at 3:10 P.M.
Respectfully submitted by Eloise Cantrell - Secretary