Cañada College Academic Senate Governing Council
Minutes of May 13, 2010
Building 3, Room 104, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
ASGC members present: Martin Partlan, David Clay, Monica Malamud, Doug Hirzel, David Meckler,
Karen Olesen, Sharon Finn, Denise Erickson.
Senate members: Leonor Cabrera
Guests: Tom Mohr
1. Call to order: 2:08 p.m.
2. Adoption of the Agenda
Moved/seconded/approved unanimously.
3. Approval of Minutes of April 22 and April 29, 2010
April 22, 2010 minutes: moved/seconded/approved unanimously, with minor additions for clarification.
April 29, 2010 minutes: moved/seconded/approved unanimously
4. Public Comment
None.
5. Committee reports
5.1. Curriculum:
Last meeting was canceled. There will be a CurricUNET demo meeting next Tuesday at Cañada. The
hands-on training will be on August 30th and 31st at CSM. Program Review module of CurricUNET will be
implemented a bit later than COR module.
5.2. Budget:
Committee discussed Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences position, advancements for research and
public information positions, allocation of $150K in RDA funds. They reviewed District Budget book.
Academic Senate Governing Council – 2009-2010
President: Martin Partlan (x3355); Vice President: David Clay (x3379) ; Secretary: Monica Malamud (x3442); Treasurer: David Patterson (x3476);
Humanities and Social Sciences Division Rep: David Meckler (x3439); Business, Workforce and Athletics Division Rep: Ana Miladinova (x3147);
Science and Technology Division Rep: Doug Hirzel (x3284); Student Services Rep: Karen Olesen (x3415) / Kathy Sammut (x3447);
Curriculum Committee Chair: Sharon Finn (x3450); Professional Personnel Chair: Denise Erickson (x3352).
5.3. College Planning Council, IPC, SSPC:
CPC: forwarded General Counseling and Chemistry positions to president
IPC: heard hiring requests from presenters, and prioritized Counseling position first, Chemistry second.
SSPC: recent meetings were cancelled because staff was very busy with a variety of events.
5.4. AFT:
Election ballots will go out on Monday. There are contested elections for several positions. Please sign
petition for Binding Arbitration and encourage faculty colleagues to sign it as well.
5.5. Professional Personnel:
The current balance in the Professional Personnel account is $10784. Newly appointed chair is
Jeannette Medina. In the works by CIETL:
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2-day Technology Forum scheduled for fall,
planning on starting Faculty Inquiry Groups,
a couple of invited speakers are lined up,
workshop on professional development opportunities available for faculty,
workshop on Learning Communities, June 1st
5.6. Finance
No report.
6. Old Business
6.1. Committee Appointments:
Chemistry hiring committee: Jeannette Medina, Martin Partlan, Nathan Staples (from the Science
Division), Lezlee Ware (for a college-wide perspective). Moved/seconded/approved unanimously.
A Counselor hiring committee has been put together by Linda Hayes: Lorraine Barrales-Ramirez, Leonor
Cabrera, Kathy Sammut, Linda Haley and Romeo García. This committee was not approved by ASGC.
ASGC members expressed concern that the Faculty Hiring Procedure had not been respected. Tom
Mohr stated that this should be a consensus process, just like the VP hiring. ASGC members reminded
everyone that the process for hiring faculty and the process for hiring administrators are different, and
that the selection of a faculty hiring committee is faculty-driven, according to college-adopted
procedure. Tom Mohr said that he needed the committee ready by the CPC meeting that will be held
next Wednesday. Since there is a Counseling Department meeting scheduled for the same day, Karen
Academic Senate Governing Council – 2009-2010
President: Martin Partlan (x3355); Vice President: David Clay (x3379) ; Secretary: Monica Malamud (x3442); Treasurer: David Patterson (x3476);
Humanities and Social Sciences Division Rep: David Meckler (x3439); Business, Workforce and Athletics Division Rep: Ana Miladinova (x3147);
Science and Technology Division Rep: Doug Hirzel (x3284); Student Services Rep: Karen Olesen (x3415) / Kathy Sammut (x3447);
Curriculum Committee Chair: Sharon Finn (x3450); Professional Personnel Chair: Denise Erickson (x3352).
will request that this item be at the beginning of the agenda of said meeting, and a Counselor Hiring
Committee will be forwarded in time for consideration by CPC.
Curriculum Chair: Sharon nominated Alicia Aguirre. Moved/seconded/approved unanimously.
Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences: division should start thinking about the hiring of Division Dean.
6.2. Hiring Prioritization Process Review:
Recommendations for future rounds of hiring:
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ASGC should receive written hiring request justifications in advance of its meeting
Presenters should be given 15’ each
IPC criteria should be shared in advance with ASGC
Include an additional question: What do you predict will be the short-term and long-term effect
of not hiring FT in the discipline
Tom Mohr recommends that the CPC not vote/rank hiring requests, because, according to him,
CPC members are not in a position to consider hiring from a holistic perspective. This
recommendation will be discussed further at a later time.
6.3. Rules and Regulations
Martin distributed a list of policies that the DSGC will be discussing at the May 17 meeting, based on an
e-mail from Jing Luan and Patty Dilko of May 5. In that e-mail, it says that “Barbara [Christensen] and
Harry [Joel] met with AFT reps and changes were made and agreed upon by all parties”. Monica stated
that this is not correct: the AFT demanded to negotiate on these policies, but the district and AFT have
not yet come to agreement on them and therefore they are not ready to move forward in DSGC; this
was confirmed by Harry Joel at a negotiations session.
Monica requested that Freedom of Speech Policy (Time, Place and Manner) be placed on the first ASGC
meeting agenda for fall semester. She summarized the district’s and the AFT’s positions on these
policies: the district proposes that the colleges be non-public forums, with free expression allowed only
in designated public forums; the AFT maintains that community colleges are naturally public forums
where freedom of expression should be allowed and protected.
6.4. ASGC Elections: Secretary and Treasurer
There were 30 valid ballots and 8 invalid ballots. Vote counts:
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30 votes for Monica for Secretary
Academic Senate Governing Council – 2009-2010
President: Martin Partlan (x3355); Vice President: David Clay (x3379) ; Secretary: Monica Malamud (x3442); Treasurer: David Patterson (x3476);
Humanities and Social Sciences Division Rep: David Meckler (x3439); Business, Workforce and Athletics Division Rep: Ana Miladinova (x3147);
Science and Technology Division Rep: Doug Hirzel (x3284); Student Services Rep: Karen Olesen (x3415) / Kathy Sammut (x3447);
Curriculum Committee Chair: Sharon Finn (x3450); Professional Personnel Chair: Denise Erickson (x3352).
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29 votes for Leonor for Treasurer
Leonor Cabrera was elected to serve as ASGC Treasurer and Monica Malamud was elected to serve as
ASGC Secretary for the two year term 2010-2012.
7. New Business
7.1. Accreditation midterm report update
The Accreditation Steering Committee has started to meet in order to address recommendations from
the Commission, as well as self-identified recommendations from the College. A draft will be ready at
the beginning of fall semester.
There are five areas that the College needs to address. Area and lead person for each one:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Integrated Planning: Greg Stoup
SLOs: Carol Rhodes
Distance Ed: Ray Lapuz
Another area
Decision-making process: Greg Stoup
7.2. End of year party planning
ASGC selected the recipient of Outstanding Classified Staff award.
For future years, we should solicit nominations from the faculty at large before the ASGC meeting when
the award recipient is selected.
8. Matters of Council Interest
Dave C. gave an update on the Cañada College Committee for Student Equity. The college researcher
will be producing retention and success data at the course level disaggregated by ethnic groups to be
available for Program Reviews.
Meeting adjourned: 3:44 p.m.
Academic Senate Governing Council – 2009-2010
President: Martin Partlan (x3355); Vice President: David Clay (x3379) ; Secretary: Monica Malamud (x3442); Treasurer: David Patterson (x3476);
Humanities and Social Sciences Division Rep: David Meckler (x3439); Business, Workforce and Athletics Division Rep: Ana Miladinova (x3147);
Science and Technology Division Rep: Doug Hirzel (x3284); Student Services Rep: Karen Olesen (x3415) / Kathy Sammut (x3447);
Curriculum Committee Chair: Sharon Finn (x3450); Professional Personnel Chair: Denise Erickson (x3352).