COLLEGE OF MARIN

Academic Senate Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 29, 2007
12:45 -2:00 pm
Student Service Building,
Conference Rooms A & B

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

Senators Absent:  Deborah Graham, Sheri Rollison

Guests: Hoa-Long Tam, Bernie Blackman, Sara McKinnon, Conor Johnston, Matt Fluke

Approval of Agenda & Minutes    

Motion made to approve the agenda

• Motion adopted

Motion made to approve the minutes

• Motion adopted with corrections
  

Officers’ Reports

The President reported the following:

• A written report was submitted.
• A nationally normed student opinion survey was submitted to the Senate for review. They survey is part of program review.

Senator Fearnley requested that the 75/25 requirement be placed on the agenda.

Senator Sutherland requested that the student printing fees in the LRC be placed on a future agenda.

The Vice President reported the following:

• Joe Meuller has worked with former student and head of Autobon Canyon Ranch, Gwen Histad, who has completed research on the Bolinas lab issue. The draft, The Bolinas Marine Lab Feasability Study, will be updated and submitted to the AS in a future meeting.
• The Testing Center hours have been extended and the glitches have been fixed with the sign-up system.
  

The Treasurer reported the following:

• A written report was submitted.
  

Standing Reports

Academic Standards Committee

• A written report was submitted.
• The AP Psychology 110 policy for equivalency was approved by mutual consent of the AS.
  

Ed Planning Committee

• Peggy Dodge was noinated as Chair and Susan Andrian was nomiated as secretary.
• The language of the charge was discussed and the charge was sent to GRC.
  
• The committee reached consensus to send IPC 8 planning goals to inform program review.
  
• The committee will concentrate on updating the EMP this semester.
  

Laurie Ordin volunteered for the matriculation committee, a President appointed committee, and the Senate approved her candidacy. The matriculation committee is a sub-committee of the Student Services Committee.

Action Items

Approval of Senate Ballot

• The ballot was approved by the Senate.

Motion Regarding the Mail Room Security

• Senator Fearnley made the following motion: The AS call upon the campus police dept. to conduct a full investigation into the possibility that the mailroom [was] used by unauthorized persons.
• Motion adopted

• Senator Lutz made the following motion with three parts:
  

• "that the district furnish locked mailboxes for faculty;"
  

• "that there be no censorship (which will require a revision of board policy), except where prohibited by law, of delivery of mail;"
  

• that "there shall be improved security of the mailroom."
• These three motions will be voted on next week.
  

Discussion Items

Status of Retreat Right Policy

• Senator Rollison made the motion to accept the Retreat Rights Policy.
• This motion will be voted on next week.
  

Requests to Address the Senate on Non-Agenda Items

• No requests
  

Meeting adjourned at 2:00
Minutes submitted by Schreck