Glendale Community College Faculty Senate

Meeting of October 26, 2006

Approved Minutes

 

(Please note:  General interest issues or meeting and notifications are listed below in bold to allow them to be located more easily.)

 

I.                    General

 

A.     Call to Order:  A quorum being present, President Jim Daugherty called the meeting to order at 2:31 P.M. in the A-146 Conference Room, Senators present included Vice President Deborah Van Marche, Secretary Laura Avila, Treasurer David Jenkins, and Senators Doug Brenner, Ruth Callahan, Susan Campbell, Paula Davis, Fernando Garcia, Emily Gwinn, Steve Kadel, John Kelly, Carlos V. Nunez, Alicia Ottenberg, Robert Reavis, and Jim Reed. 

 

B.     Introduction of Guests- Including, but not limited to, Vice President of Academic Affairs Jean Ann Abel, Carmela Arnoldt, Joseph Bednorz, College President Velvie Green, Scott Kozak, George Martinez, and Lyle Walcott.

 

 

C.     The proposed meeting agenda was adopted as amended.

 

D.     George Martinez and Scott

 

E.      The minutes from the April 27th meeting, distributed via email, were unanimously approved.

 

F.      Treasurer’s Report-

 

President Daugherty reported a balance of $5702.46 for all accounts.   He reported expenditures of $1000.01 for the Faculty Picnic, $1000.00 for the Gaucho Mentoring Scholarship, and $10.50 for check order in the months of April and May.

 

G.     President’s Report-

President Daugherty informed Senate that he attended the past several Governing Board meetings.  He had a list of all approved course fees for the September meeting.  He also passed out a recommendation made by Dr. Glasper to the Governing Board regarding the adoption of language for a new policy title on Public safety.

 

President Daugherty also informed Senate of his weekly meetings with President Green. 

 

H.     FEC Report-

 

Vice-President Van Marche informed Senate of the Leaseback program.  Leaseback program will be a second option for a retirement program in addition to the 49% Active Retirement Program.  Leaseback is not replacing Active Retirement and Faculty still have the option to retire and come back at 49% if they wish. Faculty must understand that there are no guarantees with the Leaseback program as with Active Retirement in terms of job security.  Faculty who chose Leaseback will not be considered employees of MCCD, but will be considered employees of the Leaseback Company.  A detailed summary of the Leaseback Program was prepared by the FEC and given to everyone present.

 

Vice-President Van Marche informed Senate that the Administrators at Paradise Valley created a new prefix (COL) to house curriculum very similar to content contained in Counseling courses.  A COL101 course was created with similar content to CPD150 (3 credits) and CPD150AB (1 credit).  Anyone can teach the COL101 course as long as they have a Masters degree and have completed the 3 day training required to teach the course.  Senate was extremely concerned and a motion was made and approved to move this discussion item to new business to pass a resolution. The resolution was passed and was to be sent to the District Curriculum Office.  The resolution reads:

 

The GCC Faculty Senate objects to the creation of the COL101 course, and the administrative driven process by which this prefix and course were created.   

 

I.        Governing Board Report-

Please refer to letter G. President’s Report.

  

 

II.                 Old Business

 

A.     President Daugherty asked Senate for their approval on the following Committee Assignments:

·        Travel Committee:  Jim Daugherty/ ex-officio, Deb Van Marche, Paula Davis, Nanci Burk, Ray Esparza, David Frederickson, John Kelly, and Helena Mays

·        Staffing Committee:  Jim Daugherty, Joann Paderi, Susan Campbell, Jay Covey, and Glen Sims

·        District Professional Growth: Sabbaticals:  Pamela Jorranstad, Projects and Registration: Joseph Bednorz

A motion was made and passed.

B.     President Daugherty informed Senate that Dr. Green is very much in favor of an Administrative Evaluation.  Dr. Green informed President Daugherty that Administrators are currently working on a self evaluation tool.

C.     President Daugherty asked for the Constitution Review Committee to review the language written concerning Senate Elections and when new Senators officially take office.  Senator Doug Brenner agreed to chair the committee.  Senators Fernando Garcia and Laura Avila will also serve on this committee. 

III.               New Business

 

A.     President Daugherty informed Senate of the new Senate website.  Senator Ottenberg will be responsible for posting Senate minutes. 

B.     President Daugherty asked for volunteers for the College Plan Review committee.  Senators John Kelly, Alicia Ottenberg, and Connie LaBuhn volunteered.

C.     Senators were also asked to confirm future meeting dates for the Fall semester.  A motion was made and carried to confirm meetings for October 26th and November 30th.

IV.              Information

A.  Senator Garcia informed Senate of his concern regarding our recruitment and retention plan.  He informed Senate of the "massive multi-media campaign".  This campaign is referred to as the marketing blitz.  He brought in the two marketing items for Senate to view.  These items highlight other West Valley colleges not just GCC.  Many Senators felt that more needed to be done.  Joseph Bednorz also informed Senate that we have many people doing recruitment, but we need to bring everyone together to formulate a better plan.  Senator Nunez also agreed and suggested the need for one person to coordinate all recruiting efforts.  A long discussion ensued and Senate asked President Daugherty to take this matter to Dr. Green.

B.  Senator Garcia also informed Senate of the recurring problems with network services.  He provided Senate with a list of programs from the Technology and Consumer Sciences Dept, Math Department, and Business Department that where having problems this semester.  He expressed his frustration at the lack of accountability and the promise that softricity would fix all these problems.  Senator May also expressed her concern at the complexity of transfer to the new system.  Senator Gwinn stated that many students have dropped out of online courses because of login problems with MIDAS and blackboard.

 

President Daugherty informed Senate that login time is down compared to last semester.  He also stated that online courses have many different delivery methods, which can also lead to different problems.  A long discussion ensued. Senate then asked President Daugherty to inform Dr. Green of everyone’s frustration at their weekly meeting.

 

C.  Senator May expressed passionately how disappointed she was at the lack of support for learning communities.  Many successful learning communities were rejected for next fall semester.  Faculty were not informed as to why these proposals were rejected.  Senate asked President Daugherty to inform Dr. Green of this situation.

 

V.  The meeting was adjourned at 5:15pm.  Next meeting will be Thursday October 26, 2006 at 2:30 pm in A-146.