Memo
To:
Behavioral Sciences Faculty
From: Haydn Davis
CC:
Sheri & Rebecca
Date: 2/6/2016
Re:
Department Meeting Minutes and Notes
Behavioral Sciences Department News
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Congratulations to Dr. Michael Lockett who was unanimously
elected to serve as Department Chair beginning July, 2013.
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An Online Teaching Contest is sponsored by Academic
Technology. For more information:
http://www2.palomar.edu/pages/onlineshowcase/ This link was provided in
the last “Notes” email but several at the department meeting asked about it.
Four categories of online use will be recognized.
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7:00 pm – 7:00 am lockdown in MD Building – Campus police are now
locking the MD building at 7 pm each night; part-time instructors who want to
have an outside door key, please see Sheri
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Summer schedule will be the same as last summer – the campus will be
open M-TH only
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Department Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order by Department Chair Haydn Davis at 10:00 a.m. The
minutes of 11/9/2012 were approved by Susan Miller and seconded by Hal Lingerman.
Department Chair Election
Michael Lockett was nominated for the position of Behavioral Sciences Department Chair for
the two year term ending June 30, 2015 by Dillon Emerick and seconded by Lee Kerckhove.
The vote to confirm Michael was unanimous.
Budget Issues
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The Chancellor’s Office recommends that CCCs maintain a 5% reserve as prudent
fiscal policy [Palomar’s reserve: 2010-11 = 22%, 2011-12 = 17.4%. Several college
constituencies have argued that this is far higher than necessary]
The current Governor’s budget proposal calls for a 3.6% ($196.7 million) increase in
funding to CCCs. Palomar’s general fund will increase from $88.8 million to $92 million.
A couple of other budget policy reforms contained in the Governor’s budget proposal:
$16.9 million to expand online courses and create a “centralized Virtual Campus”
(details to be worked out and publicized)
$300 million to shift Adult Education from K-12 to CCCs
a change that is controversial and sure to be resisted calls for shifting the census date
used for funding from early in the semester to the course completion date (a lot more
discussion to come before anything like this is implemented)
90-unit cap for students – upon completion of the 90-unit cap, students would pay the
full cost
[all of the above was taken from a February 8, 2013 Community College Update]
Instructional Planning Council (IPC)
At the end of last semester a Faculty Hiring Priority was established by the IPC based upon
departments’ Faculty Rationale Forms and relevant PRPs. The following Behavioral Science
disciplines were represented in the top 30: AODS - #2, Sociology - #4, Psychology - #16,
Philosophy - #25, Anthropology - #26. The Administration authorized hiring the first 13 from the
priority list. However, after Palomar received additional funding, it turned out the college would
actually hire 16 new full-time faculty. A new faculty priority list will be established this semester.
Faculty Rationale Forms for 2014-15 are due to Dean Cater by March 13.
The IPC is also the committee that makes recommendations regarding funding for instructional
equipment, technology, and supplies that disciplines and departments request on their
Program Review and Planning (PRP) documents. Unfortunately, office computers are one of
the items that this committee has been told it cannot recommend.
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Discipline Reports
AODS – The hiring committee to replace Maria Miller, full time faculty and Coordinator of
AODS, has been progressing well and the committee has selected 7 applicants to interview.
The interviews will be held on April 4th and 5th.
Philosophy – the Philosophy AA Transfer Program has been approved through the state level.
These degrees are designed to facilitate transfers to four year colleges. These degree
programs should streamline the process for students getting into the CSU system and give
them priority in transferring.
Psychology – Katie Townsend-Merino spoke about the process of adding prerequisites in
Psychology. Psyc 100, “Introduction to Psychology” has added the prerequisite of English 100
eligibility. The enforcement of this prerequisite cannot be done electronically for 18 months so
the faculty teaching these courses will be required to do this themselves until the relevant
District software is implemented. Psychology will be adding a note under the class listings that
prerequisites will be enforced. In order to compensate for the reduction of eligible students
taking Psych 100, seven courses have been cut for the Fall 2013 semester.
Dr. Fred Rose is Chair of the Psychology hiring committee.
Katie Townsend-Merino alerted Psyc faculty about an upcoming conference
The Southern California Teaching of Psychology Conference – October 19, 2013.
Proposals for paper presentations, teaching exercise presentations, or panel topics should
be kept under one page in length and emailed to SCTOP2013@gmail.com by the due date
of April 30th, 2013.
Religious Studies –Religious Studies sponsors a field trip to the Mt. Calvary Monastery in
Santa Barbara. The event usually has attendance of over 20 students and has been taking
place for a number of years.
Sociology – As part of Women’s History Month, there will be a film screening “Half The Sky” on
March 5th and 7th at 2 pm – speakers, discussion and food also. Faculty were asked to help
promote the film by offering extra credit to students who attend.
Sociology is in the process of hiring a full time faculty member and there have been over 80
applications for this position.
Kathy Grove reminded faculty of the great opportunity for students to participate in Service
Learning. In 2012 alone, Service Learning accumulated over 3500 volunteer hours of service.
Anthropology - Anne-Marie began a discussion regarding the process of adding classes in our
department. Is there a model for the justification process in doing this and how can we have an
appropriate balance among the different disciplines? It was suggested that we set
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department-wide polices regarding the adding of classes and function in a coordinated fashion
with department discipline coordinators to accomplish this.
Other Items Of Interest To Our Department
New Printer – The small HP printer in Service Room MD-242 has been out of warranty for
several years and should be replaced. That printer/copier will be replaced by one which is
smaller but similar in function to the copier in the MD-260 Service Room. The cost of this
machine will be equally shared among our department, the Dean, and the Instruction Office
(total cost, about $2,400).
Wait Limit – The discipline coordinators have made a decision that all course wait limits be
standardized at 5.
Changes to Academic Calendar – Classes that meet on a Monday were not meeting the legal
minimum number of hours. This necessitated the following change in the academic calendar:
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The fall 2013 academic semester shall have one additional Monday added at the end of
the semester. The spring academic semester 2014 shall begin the Monday before the
Martin Luther King holiday and end the Monday before Memorial Day holiday.
Spring break shall be scheduled for the week between the first and second eight (8)
week fast track sessions in the spring 2014 semester.
There will be two (2) added non-instructional days: one on Tuesday, September 3, 2013
and the other Tuesday, February 18, 2014.
The requirement for Professional Development hours will remain unchanged.
The number of instructional days will remain unchanged at 163 for 10 month faculty
assignments and 181 days for 11 month faculty assignments.
The meeting adjourned at 11:15 am.
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