Notes - May 22, 2006
Notes for the meeting of
May 22, 2006
Senators and Officers present: Argyriou, Bryant, Capitolo, Chenoweth, Cordero, Dolen,
Dunn, Fox, Goodwin, Guevara, Hearn, Jensen Sullivan, Kramer, Logvinenko, Moreno, Mosh,
Nagel, Osborne, Setziol, Sheirich, Winters, and Zill
Senators and Officers absent: Barney, Joplin, and Ujifusa
Curriculum Cochair: Khanna
DASB:
Classified Senate: Olivia Patlan
Administrative Liaison:
Guests: Beth Bresnan, Dolores Davison, Karl Schaffer
The meeting was called to order at 2:31, a quorum being present.
I. Approval of Agenda and Notes: The agenda was approved with the renaming of Item
II as Item IIa and the addition of an item IIb, Elections. The notes of May 15, 2006
were approved with minor corrections.
IIa. Needs and Confirmations:
Randy Bryant was confirmed for the Instructional Planning and Budgeting Team
IIb. Election Update: The committee solicited volunteers to staff the voting booth
and Hearn advised the committee that she would distribute materials for the proposed
constitutional changes.
III. District and Campus Budget Reports: Hearn distributed a draft of the District
Budget, a chart of District enrollment, and a summary of changes to the De Anza College
Budget. She began with a backdrop of one of the numbers in a recent report showing
that the FTES ratio in the District is now 67/33 and then tied that figure to several
allocation decisions, e.g. the tentative Maintenance and Operations allocation of
5 positions for De Anza and 12.5 for Central Services and Foothill.
Hearn then took the group line by line through a budget report. Highlights included
Equalization (including a brief history), COLA for 2006-2007, and B budget restoration
(something for which she pledged to continue to argue). The percentage of the District
budget going to Central Services was said to be an important area of inquiry.
The announced reassignment of Willie Pritchard to faculty status at De Anza served
as an occasion to remind everyone of administrative retreat rights.
Senators were deeply engaged with the discussion of the budget. The item concluded
with the identification of a need for the group to figure out the best way to deal
with budget. On the one hand, for either the Executive Committee or a subset of the
group to be effective, an additional weekly meeting would be needed. On the other
hand, the current PBT and Campus Budget set up does not appear to be either working
well or promising to work well.
Speaking of PBTs, Winters announced that there were two faculty vacancies on the Student
Services PBT
V. Environmental Sustainability Update: Jensen Sullivan distributed a document titled
Environmental Sustainability Committee Second Report. She highlighted the two main
changes or additions since their last report: specific activities planned for Spring
Quarter and fine-tuning of the report’s other six sections on Priorities, Mission,
Definition, Ways to Facilitate Education, Other Project Activities, and Vision for
the Academic Senate
It was MSC Goodwin/Dolen to extend the meeting ten minutes beyond the normal time.
VII. District Senate President: Dolores Davison of Foothill College was present
to receive De Anza Senate confirmation to be District Academic Senate President for
2006-2007.
VI. Selection of Division Senators: Item was held over.
IV. ETS – Service Level Agreement: Chenoweth and Dolen distributed appropriate Service
Level Agreement documents. The consensus was to let the work of the Technology Taskforce
largely comprise the Senate’s specific input to the service level agreement and its
larger ramifications for District, College, and Division/Department areas of responsibility
.
Concerns were expressed about how and in what timeframe stated priorities will be
addressed and about previous input not affecting the service level agreement documents
but resulting only in iterations of “Frequently Asked Questions.” In addition, it
was observed that all the ETS documents appear to be from an organization which does
not see itself as part of the District.
IX. Good of the Order:
• Anyone interested in the June 9th Auto Tech Golf Tournament can call Randy Bryant
for further information (x8840)
• Karl Schaffer distributed a document about requests for information showing data
on textbook sales.
• Cordero announced an opportunity for two students to study Chinese in China
• Hearn mentioned the upcoming celebration of service on shared governance committees
The meeting was adjourned at 4:42.