COLLEGE OF MARIN

Academic Senate Meeting Minutes

Thursday, November 9, 2006

12:45 -2:00 pm

Student Service Building,

Conference Rooms A & B

 

Senators Present: Yolanda Bellisimo, Barbara Bonander, Hank Fearnley, Theo Fung, Ron Gaiz, Deborah Graham, Erika Harkins, Patrick Kelly, Arthur Lutz, Radicia Portello, David Rollison, Sheri Rollison, Ingrid Schreck, John Sutherland, Blaze Woodlief

 

Guests: Bernie Blackman, Becky Reetz, Peggy Dodge, Sara McKinnon

 

Motion made to suspend the rules and discuss the advanced placement equivalency issue

• Motion adopted

 

AS gave Academic Standards Committee consent to act on advanced placement equivalency.

 

Approval of Agenda & Minutes     

 

Motion made to approve the agenda

• Motion adopted

 

Motion to approve the minutes dated November 2, 2006

• Motion adopted

 

Officers’ Reports

 

President’s Report

• According to Management the Dean of Enrollment Services was never removed from the Academic Standards Committee and should be attending meetings.
• Changes will be made to the policies and procedures manual (“The Gold Book”); different committees will be updating different parts that relate to each committee.
• Bolinas Lab Taskforce will include Patrick Kelly, Erik Dunmire and Joe Mueller.
• The Senate will now nominate people for the Golden Bell Award. AS President passed out a nomination form and asked that Senators get them back by next week. Two people may be nominated.
• VP Kelly will send out an announcement on AS News
• AS will also put nomination forms in faculty mailboxes
• Nomination forms should be returned to the AS secretary via e-mail or the AS mailbox.

 

Vice President’s Report:

• AS VP has gotten a number of e-mails from people about how to calculate the modernization square footage and suggested that if there is interest, he will give a brief presentations on how the numbers work.
• Some of the numbers are not adding up; for example, an error was found in the calculations for Auto Tech. Each individual department should work with their Deans on checking the numbers for their departments.
• The VP reported on the process used to assign square footage.  Everyone working on the project is receptive to changes and recommendations. Arguments based on numbers and scheduling will give departments a chance to have appropriate sized buildings. Administrative offices, lab technician space, & secretary office space are not represented by state formulas. These are some of the problems that need to be addressed and that are currently being discussed with the modernization team.

 

The Treasurer’s report

• A written report was submitted.
• Funds have been transferred into the AS account.

 

Secretary’s Report

• The election committee will meet next week to tally the votes for the referendum.
• The Teller’s Report will include results from full-time credit, part-time credit and non-credit.

 

 

Standing Reports

 

Curriculum Committee

·         A written report was submitted.

 

Academic Standards Committee

·         No report

 

Community Education

·         Com Education is publishing the schedule for all the performing art programs, which has not been done in the past.

·         Commu nity Education is also working with the Center for Regenerative Design  in the “Speaker Series” which are free to the public and which will be published in the Community Education program; topics include architecture, food handling, water purification, transportation issues, and these will start once a month during the spring. 

 

Technology Committee

·         The Committee is researching  Learning Management Systems (such as Blackboard, Etudes, etc.) to insure the direction of the instructional technology planning meets CoMs needs.

·         The committee is also working on policies for acceptable use, e-mail, etc.

·         The committee is also developing a rollover plan that meets the vision of the tech committee in terms of how equipment decisions drive instructional technology planning.

      

      Institutional Planning Committee

·         The IPC has formed a writing group to revise the program review piece.

·         The committee recommends that program review should be organized from the “bottom up”—governed by the people in each program who determine their own goals for their program rather than program review being defined by the goals of the institution and the EMP.

·         The terminology of document is being changed to less punitive, more positive language.

 

Action Items

 

Senate Participation in WASC Visit

• Senator Lutz made a motion “that the Senate direct President Bellisimo to send an e-mail message and a hard copy letter to Director Blackman notifying him of the Senate’s desire to meet with the WASC team on November 13 and requesting Director Blackman to notify WASC in wrting of the Senate’s desire to meet with the Senate.

 

Senator Lutz requests a roll call vote:

Fearnley: yes; Fung: yes; Sutherland: yes;  Rollison, D: yes; Rollison, S: yes; Graham: yes; Portello: yes; Gaiz: yes; Bonander: yes; Kelly: yes; Lutz: yes; Harkins: yes; Woodlief: yes; Schreck: yes; Bellisimo: yes.

• Motion adopted.

 

Discussion Items

Board approved shared Governance

• Senator Lutz made the motion that the results of the referendum be null and void and shall defer to board approved governance  policy.

·         President Bellisimo  reminded the Senate that the Senate cannot nullify a referendum of the faculty and further that a motion cannot be made if the motion requests an action that is already being followed—in this case the Senate following approved board policy.

·         The motion will be tabled until next week.

Meeting adjourned at 1:58 pm

Minutes submitted by Schreck