October 16, 2017

Meeting Minutes

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 Welcome

Approval of Agenda & Notes from October 9, 2017 meeting

both unanimously approved no edits or objections

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Needs & Confirmations

NEEDS:

• We are very close to filling all our Academic Senator seats--welcome My Linh Pham (SSH) and Chris Leonardi (BHES)
• New Need on Campus Facilities Committee (John Walton is stepping off; he explained the scope/purview of the committee, which is chaired by VP of Facilities Pam Grey)
• Finance and Budget Planning and Budget Team is a different shared governance committee (no current needs for faculty on that)

CONFIRMATIONS:

• Tenure committees:
  • Mark Taberna (COUN)committee--Sarah Lisha is replacing Usha Ganeshalingam as At-Large member--(No Objections to approval)
  • Erik Houser (MATH-Ph2) committee-- Tom Dolen to replace Marcy Betlach (on PDL) as At-Large member (No objections to approval)
  • Nahrin Rashid (MATH Ph2) committee -- Mehrdad Khosravi to replace Cinzia Muzzi as Division representative (No objections to approval)

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Accreditation Visit Update

Spatafore sent out a campus wide accreditation summary.

We were commended for:

1. our “heart” for underrepresented students;
2. support for online students and a vibrant student life. Because student life was mentioned, Karen introduced Guest Hyon Chu Yi-Baker and she gave a brief introduction of herself as interim Director of College Life;
3. commitment to Professional Development.

The Accreditation team also noted two Recommendations:

1. ACCJC standards in SLO course outlines may not have matched syllabi;
2. documentation of faculty-student contact hours in fully online courses. If faculty have questions they can follow up with Marisa Spatafore. Senators noted that verifying contact hours online may not necessarily be a technicality since many of us are using Canvas for the first time;this quarter, and asked: why can’t were cord the final presentation and why are the people writing the final report not here? Chow: they are peer evaluators / advisory to collect feed back to report back to ACCJC, and the final report will be formally is sued by ACCJC. Chow: over all we did well and kudos are deserved for all who were part of the process.

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First Reading of WMST Request

Coronado passed out copies of the Memorandum from WMST chair (Coronado) and from ICS Dean Edmundo Norte, which were also electronically shared by Chow the previous Wednesday.

Coronado: There was only one WMST course here for a long time but since then, more WMST courses have been developed and are regularly taught. WMST is looking for Senate to approve WMST classes to meet DAC’s ICS requirement. The courses in the handout were developed in coordination with ICS. But currently taking these courses does not meet the ICS GE requirements for the De Anza AA/AS degree.

Marc is requesting we as a body approve the listed  courses to satisfy the ICS requirement for the AA.

Sullivan: Just want clarification that we are doing a first reading today and a second reading and vote will occur later than ne next week? 

Chow: Yes.

Woodbury: this item came to Curriculum first but they suggested this is a large enough change to want Senate to decide on this.. 

Chow: This can be considered as a one-time request and we can form a senate subcommittee to come up with parameters for courses requesting for approval to satisfy other GE ares in the future. Of course, this would mean we would still need participation from divisions and departments in drafting the parameters, and approval from the divisions for those parameters before the Senate gives final approval.  

DiLeonardo: glad to see the Curriculum committee did vet it first and then suggest it come to Senate.

Clem: In support but Coronado mentioned cross listing. Coronado says they are not crosslisted. Stockwell: Which area would these courses go in? Coronado says some might be more appropriate in area C, other D or E. 

Chow: all areas need to be defined - we don't have definitions fr our GE areas, according to Augensteing. Could be a perfect role for a new subcommittee in senate to do that work. We will bring back for additional discussion and action next week.

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Review of Fall Plenary Resolutions

Resolutions on this site.

Update on Area B regional meeting, held last Friday at Skyline College - note first resolution is Emeritus Status for Paul.

• (Chow): Our Oct 30 meeting will be a joint Senates meeting with FH Senate to look over updated Resolution packet and advise Senate Officers/Representative son how to vote; this joint meeting will take place at Foothill, most likely the Toyon Room
• ( Jim ) Update on the 3 additional resolutions brought to Area B -- 1) from FH, a resolution to lower the number of units required for Baccalaureate degrees (for Dental Hygiene); 2) from Diablo Valley College, a resolution about homeschooled credit; 3) from CCSF, a resolution about being able to offer auditory assessment as part of the ESL placement
• (Karen)-Legislative Update, in particular AB 705 (amendment) - was signed by Governor. Brown also signed a free first year for CC students but funding as of yet not allocated for it. 705 requires use of high school GPA as multiple measure (MM) and requires students to be able to complete transfer level English and Math in one year and ESL students to be able to complete transfer level English in 3 years. As a senate, divided into groups of two to look at individual resolutions and come up with questions.
• 3.01 no comment.
• 4.01 Balm: with focus on transfer what about AA students? Delas: let’s have something to honor students who want vocation. Miskin: we should eliminate “non profit” from resolved. Stockwell: Vision for Success - what is it and why are we always seen as behind in some way as a system based on unrealistic goals?
• 14.01 Pape: who is going to determine which courses are equivalent between colleges for purposes of repetition? Are we creating a much more complex process than what currently exists? This would a major change and should be done carefully.
• 15.01 Clem: does this require we have one path for both CSU and UC? What does this mean for our current practices and policies?

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Update on Brainstormed Topics for Senate Discussion

Police Taskforce: Nguyen and Stockwell provided an update. There are areas of research for the group including hiring, training, the complaints, the process of complaints, etc. We will work closely with Classified Staff.

Chow: 2 part time faculty to help with feedback for District AS on hiring process and policies is a Need for next meeting

Streamlining registration and Ed plans: invite Daniels and Ward in to present to us.

Key request processes: will connect with Grey on Baldwin and keys. Dolen: still having issue.

Course repeatability: we could use more information/evidence about this, please go to your areas and provide information to Senate that we could use to advocate for repeatability.

Grant funded positions: Mieso and Ranck will be coming in to present.

Change to a semester term? EAT should consider.

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Committee Reports

Enrollment Advisory Team (EAT)

(Jim): We're down 6.3 in enrollment at DA from last Fall. Questions discussed in EAT: Whether we should move to a schedule at accommodates students' schedules better? What are some questions we should be asking each other and ourselves about hot to boost enrollment? About making schedule changes?

Kalpin: FH is pretty much flat. West Valley is not down.

Jim: EVC and SJCC might be up as much as 10%.

DiLeonardo: The parking has been the issue.  

Balm: Breaking down the demographics, where is the drop in students (e.g. regionally, ethically, etc)?

Are students taking fewer classes, or do we have fewer bodies/students on campus?

Marketing & Outreach: what are their specific efforts?

Herter: Look from student perspective -- why are students going to our neighbor CCC's?

Pape: In CIS div, huge drop down from first day of quarter to Census. What's going on in other areas? Possible that students are "shopping"in Week 1 ... they don't intend to tale all the courses they sign up for. Work with Curriculum Committee to grab students

Chow spoke to Lydia Hearn who looked at enrollment figures. Some success rates dropped in Spring as a pattern, secondly census date: why drop a student before the census so they won't show up a a W and not show up as a non-success?

English is also looking at short term or late start online courses.

Clem: ask ourselves - are we doing everything we can capture and keep student first week of the quarter? are we centralizing demand so we can quickly move to fill classes?

Miskin: nursing students are frustrated with our quarter system calendar transferring to CSUEB.

Hetler: we start later so we should catching students with bad experiences at other places so we must not be doing a good job with that.

Walton: anyway to give add codes earlier before term.

Chow: shopping cart idea - email follow up with students who don't finish registration process and remind them to register/enroll.

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Meeting Evaluation (On effectiveness of the meeting advancing academic & professional matters and the principles of equity)

skipped this item

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Good of the Order and Appreciations Announcements of Health Center and Outdoor Club events

Officers and Senators

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Executive Committee Members Present

Name	Position	Present
Karen Chow	President	Y
Jim Nguyen	Vice President	Y
Alicia Del Toro	Executive Secretary/Treasurer
Yael Karmi	PT	Y
Mary Donahue	PT
Paul Klingman	App Tech	Y
John Walton	App Tech	Y
Bob Kalpin	BHES	Y
Peter Miskin	BHES	Y
Mia Breen	Bus/CIS	Y
Mary Pape	Bus/CIS	Y
Milena Grozeva Levy	CA	Y
Elizabeth Mjelde (on PDL in Fall)	CA
Nellie Vargas	CD&E	Y
Robert Alexander (Paul Wethington on leave)	Counseling	Y
Rob Clem	Counseling	Y
Vacancy	DSPS
Maria Delas	DSPS	Y
Vacancy	IIS
Hua-Fu Liu	ICS/IIS	Y
Cheryl Balm	PSME	Y
Vacancy	PSME
Iva Tracey	LA	Y
Cecilia Deck	LA
MyLinh Pham	SSH
Robert (Bob) Stockwell	SSH	Y
Arden Kragalott	PE	Y
Scott Hertler	PE	Y
Tom Dolen	LR	Y
Mary Sullivan	SD	Y
Eric Woodbury	Curriculum Committee	Y

Guests Present

Name	Position	Present
Brian Murphy	DA Pres
Stacey Cook	VPSS
Christina Espinosa-Pieb	VPI
Susan Cheu	VPFCO
Lorrie Ranck	AVPI
TBA	OSOD
Marisa Spatafore	Mktng
Anastasia Soenjoto	DASB	Y
Bob Stockwell	FA	Y
Karen Hunter	CS
Lorna Maynard	CS	Y
Elias Kamal	Student Trustee
Mallory Newell	IR
Moaty Fayek	Dean BS/CIS
Renee Augenstein	Articulation
Mary Bennett	Tenure Review
Sheila White-Daniels	Dean Counseling
Nancy Canter	Dean CA
Alicia Cortez	Interim Dean, Equity and Engagement
Coleen Lee	Wheat Dean PE
Isaac Escoto	FH Academic Senate
Mayra Cruz	District Academic Senate President
Pam Grey	AVPCO
Stacey Shears	DSP&S
Anita Kandula	Dean BHES
Michele LeBleu-Burns	Dean, Stud Dev/EOPS
Rob Mieso	Associate VP of Student Services
Lisa Mandy	Dir Finan Aid
Tamica Ward	Enrollment Services Dean
Edmundo Norte	Dean IIS
Thomas Ray	Dean LA
Jerry Rosenberg	Dean PSME
Judy Miner	Chancellor
Dawn Tu Lee	Office of Professional Development
Carolyn Wilkins-Green	Dean SSH
Kelly Swanson	Book Store
Mary Pape	SLO
David Ulate	FHDA Research & Planning