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MINUTES
Committee:
Academic Council
Date:
March 3, 2011
Time
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Location:
TE501
Present:
Department Chairs
Carole Anderson
John Glavan
Alicia Rodriquez-Estrada
Christina Anketell
Steve Kasmar
Rudy Serrato
Paulette Bailey
Joyce Livingston
Allison Tom-Miura
Maurice Burnett
Marilyn Maine
R. Weingourt/R. Villora
Eric Chavez
J. McDowell/K. Yasuda
Ricky Wong
Bill Elarton
Margaret Murphy
Jan Gangel-Vasquez
Joe Ratcliff
Deans
Leticia Barajas
Cynthia Morley-Mower
Vincent Jackson
Dorothy Smith
Vice Presidents
Marcy Drummond
Deborah Harrington
Guests/Resources: K. Jetter, R. Cardoza, J. Babb, C. Clark, M. Gallagher, E. Romero, J. Tucker,
D. Wood
Meeting Convened: The meeting was called to order at 1:22 p.m.
Approval of Minutes: 2/3/11 minutes approved by consensus.
Discussion/Presentation Items:
1. District On-line Faculty Roster System – C. Clark presented the instructions (see handout) for faculty to
submit many of the instructional forms online such as exclusion rosters, grades, and attendance hours.
Only a hard copy of the census roster must be submitted to Admissions. Training will be available to all
departments since it will be mandatory effective fall 2011. Only faculty will have access to their forms.
Chairs felt that they should also have access to all their faculty’s forms since many adjunct are not
readily available when and if there are conflicts or grievances. R. Cardoza will look into possibilities.
2. LACCD Legal Obligations for DSP&S – K. Jetter from District Office covered the basics for our legal
obligations to disabled students as well as staff. (See handout).
Committee Name: Academic Council
Date: March 3, 2011
Status of Document: Approved
Initials:aoc
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3. J. Babb/D. Wood – AB1440 (see handout). General crossover of courses from community college to
Cal State Universities.
a. The language on requirements is not clear at this time.
b. Other pathways are not impacted.
4. New Policy Regarding Use of Technology in Web Support Classes – J. Gangel-Vasquez
provided clarification and upgrading of existing policies on distance education courses. (See handout).
The new policy outlines effective practices, faculty skills, and course consistency between traditional
classes and distance.
5. FTEF/FTES Targets/Annual Scheduling – M. Gallagher
a. The budget for 2011-12 is anticipated to be the same as in 2010-11 - $20M = FTEF
b. There will be 22 FTES (full-time equivalent students) to 1 FTEF (full-time equivalent faculty),
with average class size at 38, there will be approximately $500,000 to play with.
c. The chairs felt this was an optimistic scenario, especially if there are additional cuts this year.
d. The target FTES is 12,500 and chair and deans need to watch their departmental FTES for the
upcoming fall and spring semesters. A. Badalyan is producing work sheets to breakdown FTES
numbers. They should be available to the department chairs by March 11, 2011.
6. Department Chairs are to receive the FTEF per department by Friday, March 7, 2011 from their
department chairs. Chairs will begin the process of preparing their semester course offerings on an
annual basis.
Meeting Dates:
1. April 7th, 1:15 to 3:00 p.m. in TE501
2. May 5th, 1:15 to 3:00 p.m. in TE501
Meeting Adjourned: 3:25 p.m.
Committee Name: Academic Council
Date: March 3, 2011
Status of Document: Approved
Initials:aoc