Senators Present: Carol Adair, Yolanda Bellisimo, Michael Dougan, Ron Gaiz, Erika Harkins, Patrick Kelly, Arthur Lutz, Joe Mueller, Meg Pasquel, Radica Portello, Robert Kennedy,  Ingrid Schreck, Blaze Woodlief, Derek Wilson

Senators Absent:  Sheri Rollison

Guests: Robert Bakestreri, Hoa-Long Tam, V-Anne Chernock, Laurie Ordin, Sara McKinnen

Approval of Agenda & Minutes

• Motion made to approve the agenda
• Motion adopted as amended
  
• Motion made to approve the minutes
• Motion adopted

Officers’ Reports

The President reported the following:

• A written report was submitted.
  

Guest Speaker Sara McKinnon discussed the Sate Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Non Credit. Non Credit classes are classes that are free, supported by state apportionment, and based on student hours of attendance. There are no grades, no credit, and courses can be repeated. In contrast, the Community Ed. schedule includes fee based courses. The State is working on changing the name of these apportionment classes to avoid further confusion.

CoM is on basic aid so we are not eligible to apply for apportionment funding. 30 million dollars was approved by the state for these program.

A Document was  submitted to the Senate titled Report on the State Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Noncredit. The document defines non-credit and will be filed with the minutes.

The Vice President reported the following:

• The Environmental Educational Council for Marin as put out a call for nominations on Marin Environmental Leadership Award. The VP nominated Joe Mueller for his dedication and teaching of environmental causes.
  
• The AS gave mutual consent to forward this nomination.
  

Standing Reports

Curriculum Committee

• The committee had a Tech Review and a curriculum review meeting.
  
• Senator Wilson clarified the process of Tech Review and Content Review process for curriculum. Tech review focuses on accuracy of information and appropriateness of data. The committee proofreads for errors and suggests changes for departments to consider in revision; after revisions are made and errors are corrected,  then the curriculum goes through a content review.
  

Academic Standards Committee

• Concerns were raised that many policies of the committee have been revised and implemented that do not follow existing policy.
  
• This discussion with Academic Standards and the AS will be on the agenda next week.

• CoM is faced with several major initiatives that we need to complete, or keep on track or fix. One is the WASC warning status; another is Institutional Planning (related to Program Review/SLO's) to prepare for the November visit from WASC. CoM hopes to be taken off of warning. In November WASC will be looking for evidence that  the Program Review process is underway and integrated with planning and budget.
• The budget committee is aware of this need and has been talking about this process in their committee.
• Architects have been hired for 6 different projects and have been meeting with user groups for input.
  
• The following projects are underway:
• Diamond PE Complex
• IVC Main Building
• TransTech Complex
• Fine Arts Building
• Science/Math/Central Plant
• Performing Arts Building
• Gateway Complex
• The scheduling process is being refocused. In an effort to increase enrollment, specifically in credit classes, the Admin is attempting to build an evening program. We currently have courses and classes, but not a program.
  
• These changes are being made to stregthen the transfer program.
  
• Research suggests that community colleges can embrace their missions if curriculum is designed to create an integrated academic service.
  
• The Senate discussed the need to hire full time faculty to meet the need to staff an evening program. Concerns were also discussed about offering student services--library, counseling, placement testing, admissions, etc.
• Dr. White stated that she supports more full-time hires to build the evening program and that she also supports expanding student services for evening students.
• White further stated that we must examine how to go about finding full-time hires and she is looking to the AS to help work on this because it is a 10 plus 1 issue.
  
• Senators discussed that this new change takes a budget commitment to build the program--to support low enrolled programs, to support offering more than one class at night, and to support late afternoon classes as well.
  

Action Items

Approval of Governance Committee Appointments

• The Senate gave approval to seat the names listed on the Governance Committees List.
  

Discussion Items

Full-Time Hiring Process

• Senator Kelly moved to accept the draft of the Full-Time Faculty Allocation Committee and to forward it to the UPM Executive Council for negotiations to place this in Article 16 of the contract.
• Changes were suggested by Senators to clarify the language and to streamline the FTF Allocation Committee Selection and Terms of Office process.
• It was discussed that the Chair will serve 2 year terms with a one term limit to insure rotation and that questions for the library and counseling will be added to the questionnaire.
• The AS discussed the fact that the more aware we can make 400 faculty at CoM, the better able we will be to implement a process that becomes conscious in the minds of 400 people, the better able we will be to establish a fair and logical hiring process. We are not decimating legal powers of UPM or of the faculty but rather, we are establishing a process by which faculty can have input, standing together, using the Budget Committee, the IPC and the shared governance system to forward the will, the logic, and the common sense of the faculty with a rational hiring process.
  
• This issue will be further discussed and voted on next week.
  

Requests to Address the Senate on Non-Agenda Items
No requests

Meeting adjourned at 2:01
Minutes submitted by Schreck