Academic Senate Meeting
December 2, 2004
Voting Members
Present: (Senators) Donna Ayers, Terri English, Maria Fenyes,
Pat Flood,
Leslie Foster, Clive Gordon, Paul Kubicki, Eloise Cantrell, Stan Levine,
Vickie Oddino, Gary Prostak, Janice Silver, Rick Scuderi,
Charles Dirks, John Orozco
(Exec. Members) Angela Echeverri, Louise
Barbato, Gwen Walker, Margie Long, Leslie Milke, Michael Climo, Dale Newman
Faculty
Present:
Deborah Paulson, Lorraine Manoogian, Said Pazirandeh, David
Jordan,
Sonia Soto-Bair, Tricia Johnson, Mike
Reynolds, Cindy Cooper, Phoebe
Rivera, Ralph LaRosa, John Klitzner, Lilamani De Silva, Myriam
Mekelburg, Mark Pursley, Jeanne Cassara, Sandy Thomsen, Suzanne
Ritcheson, Ruthie Grant, Joanne Kalter-Flink, Joyce Woodmansee,
Sandi Lampert, Cecilia Chu-Ru Chan, June Wada, Alex
Yguado, Sherrill Frank, Lucy Griesbach, Mari Rettke, Debby Wong, Carolyn Daly,
Vilma Bernal, Geri Shapiro, Harlan Goldberg
Visitors Present: Martha Soto, Dean of Academic Affairs, Bill Farmer, Vice President
of Academic Affairs
Voting Members Absent: Roxanne Dalrymple
I.
The meeting was called to order at 1:40 pm by
Parliamentarian Gwen Walker. As there had been some question as to
who had the right to speak at senate
meetings, Gwen quoted from items 8 & 10 of the standing rules of our
constitution.
“ The
order of precedence in privilege to speak shall be: Senators who have not
spoken on the matter; other senators,
faculty; invited guests.” “Guests
may attend sessions upon the invitation of senators who will introduce their
guest
and inform them of their
speaking privileges, including time limits.” She then asked if any senators wanted to introduce
guests. There was no response.
II.
Approval of Minutes: (MSC KUBICKI/LONG) TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF
NOVEMBER 4 AS AMENDED
III.
Officer’s Reports
A.
President (Angela Echeverri):
1. Responses to LAMC Senate Motions (Approved
11/4/2004)
Motion
# 1: The LAMC Academic Senate moves
to establish an “instructional equipment committee” that will
operate
under the auspices of the Academic Senate and the Council of Instruction. The Committee shall be
charged with the distribution of the 2004-05
instructional equipment funds to instructional departments.
The instructional equipment committee shall
be composed of at least five full time regular faculty members,
three of whom shall be department
chairs. The committee shall be renewed
every academic year.
Response from
President Barrera:
In
keeping with the practice established in 2003-04, the establishment of an
Academic Senate committee in
conjunction with the Council of Instruction
to oversee the distribution of instructional equipment funds meets
with my approval on the proviso that the
committee include in its charge consideration of requests for a portion
of the funds for instructional support. I would include the Dean of Academic Affairs
(in this case, Dr. Martha Soto)
and the Vice President for Administrative
Services to serve as resource staff for the committee.
Motion
# 2: The LAMC Academic Senate moves
to approve the challenge policy for pre-requisites, co-requisites
and advisories developed by the Curriculum
Committee in consultation with the Academic Senate.
Response from
President Barrera: I
certainly approve the development of a challenge process for pre-requisites,
co-requisites, and advisories.
2. Resource Analysis Committee
Motion (Approved 11/10/2004)
The Resource Analysis Committee moves to set aside $120,000
out of program 10147 for an instructional equipment
sub-committee
established by the Academic Senate.
Response from President
Barrera: I
anticipate that this recommendation will be forwarded to the College Council
and will support it at that time.
3. Instructional Equipment Subcommittee
Last
year the committee members were: Leslie Milke, Dale Newman, Louise Barbato, Sandy
Thomsen, Maria Fenyes,
Bob Smazenka, and Angela Echeverri. This year
the following individuals have requested to be on the committee
so far: Sandy Thomsen, Pat Flood, Gwen
Walker, Louise Barbato, Rick Scuderi, and Mari Rettke. ((At the request
of Leslie Milke, a call for additional
volunteers will be presented at the next Council of Instruction meeting.))
4.
Spring Schedule of Classes
As
of today, the Spring 2005 schedule of classes has not been published and is not
posted. Students are asking faculty and staff when they will be able to
register. Faculty are concerned about the effect on Spring 05 enrollment. I
received the following response from Dr. Soto this morning: “Regarding the schedule of classes, I am hoping to have a
PDF file on-line by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. We have now made all of the latest changes. The chairs will have one last opportunity to
look it over…As you may know, we begin the production of the schedule at the
very beginning of each semester. This
is enough time if there are no problems.
Unfortunately, this was only the case once since I have been here. In order to avoid delays like this in the
future I'd like to move toward preparing the schedule one year in advance
instead of one semester in advance.
What do you think?”
5. Follow-up on Prerequisites at Los Angeles Mission
College (See attachment)
A
spreadsheet containing LAMC courses with prerequisites and/or co requisites was
e-mailed to all fulltime faculty
on 10/28/04. Academic Affairs needs to verify
whether prerequisites that were put in between Fall of 1994 and Fall
of
1998 should be enforced, and whether there are any errors on the spreadsheet.
Please review all courses in your
disciplines
carefully and notify Dr. Martha Soto, Leslie Foster, and Angela Echeverri immediately
whether
prerequisites put in between F94-F98 should
be published and/or enforced or if any other changes need to be made.
6. Review of Shared Governance Committees
Meeting to review your
assessment of the shared governance committees will take place on Tuesday,
December 7, 2004,
at 3:00 p.m. Meeting room T.B.A.
7. Commencement Committee Meeting:
The
Commencement Planning Committee will hold its first meeting on Wednesday
December 8, at 1:00 PM in CC-1.
Please
e-mail your suggestions for a keynote speaker to Debra Manning.
9. Board of Trustees Meeting at LAMC (November 2004)
Infrastructure
Committee Meeting: I relayed LAMC faculty concerns about cost
overruns affecting the Child Development Building. Trustees Mona Field, Nancy
Pearlman, and Georgia Mercer were present. Larry Eisenberg, noted that the LAMC
Child Development building was the district "poster child" for cost
overruns. There was a long discussion on the causes. The consensus was that
most of the increases were due to overpriced bids by contractors in Southern
California taking advantage of a market with $14 Billion in construction bonds.
Possible solutions such as hiring nonprofit and out of state companies were
discussed. I also stressed the importance of relying on faculty input and
expertise when redesigns are made to meet budgetary constraints.
Paul
Kubicki aired his concerns regarding shared governance at LAMC.
Louise
Barbato addressed the committee about long overdue ESL and Biology labs.
D.A.S.
President Leon Marzillier gave a presentation on how faculty input and shared
governance are working in the implementation of Prop A and AA projects in the
LACCD.
Follow-up: In response to faculty concerns,
President Barrera is directing Luis Cruz to give updates at College Council, has
invited union reps including Gary Prostak to attend monthly “Six-pack” meetings
on facilities updates, and will be sending regular updates to faculty.
General
Meeting: Gary Prostak
and Mike Reynolds gave a Power Point presentation of the LAMC Educational
Master Plan.
10. Hiring Committee for Vice President of Student
Services
Committee members include: Rick Scuderi (AFT), Gwen
Walker (Senate), Angela Echeverri (Senate), Fern Reisner,
Anafe Robinson, and Ed Pardo. The Committee met with
Dr. Barrera on Tuesday, November 23rd to discuss a timeline
and
selection process. Interviews will probably take place in January. Hiring may
not occur until the summer.
11. Appointment of Senate Executive Committee
Representative to Curriculum Committee
Effective
immediately, Louise Barbato will officially represent the Executive Committee
of the Academic Senate
on the Curriculum Committee.
B.
Treasurer (Margie Long): Margie reported that there
was $2,047.07 in the Faculty Association account, $653.76
in the David Lee Moss Scholarship account, and $3,356.45 in the Carla
Bowman Scholarship account.
IV.
Public Address:
A. David
Jordan announced that the holiday party would take place next Monday. He asked that people bring
unwrapped
toys, canned food, & clothing to donate to MEND (Meet
Each Need with Dignity).
B. Leslie
Milke congratulated Cindy Cooper on receiving tenure.
C. Lucy Griesbach announced
that the “Car-less
Drive-in Film Festival” would take place next Monday.
D. Maria
Fenyes congratulated Said Pazirandeh on his tenure.
E. Clive
Gordon stated he believed that Faculty should stay together and united and
support our senate president.
F. Alex
Yguado reported that our Winter schedule included ITV classes offered through
City and Valley but not at
G. Mission as well as Citizenship and non-credit
ESL classes. These listings detract
from the credit classes offered
H. here
at Mission. He suggested that ITV have its own schedule.
V.
Old Business
A.
Procedure
to modify instructional departments-
Procedure to
Modify Instructional Departments at Los Angeles Mission College
(moving a discipline or a
group of related disciplines from one department to another)
(MSC KUBIKI/OROZCO)
Some people felt they have
not had it long enough. It was, however, presented last month and no
suggestions were made
to change it. It has been on the web page. The following vote was
taken and the measure was passed. 18 yes, 1 no,
1 abstention. It will now go
to the College President for her signature.
B. Instructional Equipment
sub-committee— This recommendation will go to the Council of Instruction to
seek additional
volunteers.
C.
Educational
Master Plan— Co-Chairs Gary Prostak and Mike Reynolds presented the document.
CDs were passed out
to all present and it
was announced that the document was on the web page. Faculty were asked to
review it and bring
and suggestions to the
senate for a vote in February. Suggestions need to be submitted by Jan 15.
VI.
New Business
A.
Use of CAOT Top codes for non-credit courses in other disciplines— Apparently a Photo 10 class
lab was offered
with a CAOT TOP Code number. AS
everyone should be aware of the possibility of this happening, the following
resolution was
presented and passed. (MSC
KUBIKI/OROZCO)
Whereas presently students
in credit Photography 10 (section # 6146) are being enrolled in non-credit
Vocational
Education 178 (section # 5765) under the TOP CODE assigned to
Computer Applications and Technologies (0514)
in order to collect non-credit FTES for the lab portion of the
Photography class,
Resolved that the Academic
Senate call upon President Barrera to ensure that the Office of Academic
Affairs observe
the following criteria for offering non-credit courses (amended
with) as of spring 2005 and in the future:
1.
Offer only those non-credit classes for which an approved non-credit
course outline exists on record,
2.
Confirm that the subject matter being taught corresponds to the subject
matter on the official course outline,
3.
Use the proper TOP CODE assigned to the discipline for each non-credit
course offered, and
4.
Verify that the instructor of record is qualified to teach in the
discipline in which the non-credit course is
5.
being offered.
Department
Chair Pat Flood stated that the use of the CAOT Top Code for the photo lab was
an accident. They are going
to submit a non-credit course outline to fix
the situation for next semester. Maria
Fenyes then asked to amend the motion
with
the following: “as of spring 2005 and in the future.” The vote was 16 yes, 0
no, 6 abstentions
VII.
Reports of Campus Committee
Meetings
A. Institutional
Effectiveness: Submitted By Mark Pursley on
12/1/04. The Institutional
Effectiveness Committee met on 11/11/04.
Members present: Martha Soto;
(administrator); Abdo Malki; David Garza;
Deborah Paulsen; Donna Ayers; Mark Pursley; (faculty) Priscilla
Dominguez; Romeo Gonzalez (students).
The committee met to review Unit Assessment forms
prepared by John Cantley. Since members
of the committee had a number of questions about the forms and their
relationship to accreditation standards, we decided to postpone the review
until a meeting with Mr. Cantley could be scheduled. This meeting will take place on Thursday 12/2 at 3:30 P.M.
Next
meeting: Thursday, 11/11 12-2
CMPC 2
B. Resource Analysis: Submitted by Angela C. Echeverri
The committee met on 11/10/04 and passed a
motion regarding instructional equipment funds. The next meeting will be on
12/15/04 at 1:40 PM in PFCR.
C.
Staff Dev Events: Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2004 Submitted by David
Jordan, updated: 11-30-04.
1. Holiday Party
- Celebrate Christmas, Hanukhah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Chinese New Year, Rekindling
of the Chief Kiva Fire (distribution of its coals to all homes) (Hope &
Zuni Soyala New Year) - December 6th, 11:30 - 1:30, $10 per person. Also bring
an unwrapped toy, canned food, or clothing to donate to MEND (Meet Each Need
with Dignity).
2. Introduction to Using ETUDES Workshop - Join ITV and Staff
Development, Friday, January 7th, 2005, 1 - 4 pm in LRC 234 to learn about use
of etudes learning management system in your classroom. please bring a course
syllabus, assignment instructions and a sample quiz. contact Lina Lin @
linls@laccd.edu.
3. Using the LACCD On-Line Faculty System - Joint ITV and Staff
Development, Weds. January 12th, 2005, 12 NOON - 1 pm, and Tuesday, January
18th, 2005, 7 - 8 pm in LRC 234 to learn the LACCD Faculty Services -
Instructor System, Viewing and Downloading Your Student Roster, Exclude
students from your class, and Assign grades to your students. contact: Lina Lin
@ linls@laccd.edu.
VIII.
Reports of Senate Committee
Meetings
A.
Curriculum: (Leslie Foster) Foster reminded us that the deadline for
any new Spring 2006 courses was April 8,
and that any prerequisites for Fall or Spring 2006 need to
be done by April 8 also.
B.
District Academic Senate: The DAS will hold its general meeting at LAMC
on Thursday December 9th in the
main room of the campus center.
Lunch will be served at 12:30 PM, the meeting will start at 1:30 PM.
Action items include: Changes
to the DAS By-Laws, Article III, Election of DAS Officers and decentralizing
the Academic Rank Policy.
Information/Discussion Items: DAS Goals for 2004-05
Academic Year, Discussion of faculty input into academic
and professional matters in the upcoming
contract negotiations, Model policy regarding student cheating and
plagiarism, ASCCC Fall Session and the AA
degree requirements, Bond Steering Committee, Chancellor’s
consultation,
and visit to cabinet.
C.
EPAC: Sonia Soto-Bair handed out the
minutes of the November 30 EPAC meeting at Trade. TOP Code
information
was presented for discussion. There was a review of transcripts
with plus or minus grades. They approve the policy
to exceed the 15-unit limit on course
repetition. Equivalency petitions were acted upon in Anthropology, Biology,
Child Development, English, Math, and
Accounting.
The
meeting was adjourned at 3:05 p.m.
Submitted
by Dale Newman, Secretary