Lots of non-Senate visitors today, including IVC Prez Glenn R, Police Chief
Will Glen, Shack, David G, Cathleen G, Linda Fontanilla, et al.
Public comments:
Tracy F informed us that her Friday morning hike event now gets flex
credit.
VP Linda F yammered about the availability of new money, something about
the Student Success Act. We’ve got to decide how to use these funds, and we’re
thinking of hiring 4 full-time counselors, more matriculation staff, etc.
Waiting for first draft of IVC budget.
IVC Prez Glenn Roquemore spoke to the group. He wants to help “with the
flow of communication,” he says. Wants to answer any questions we might have.
Naturally, nobody had any questions for him. He, or his suit, sat down.
Police Chief Will Glen addressed anxieties and problems concerning
parking stickers. He’s trying to set up some kind of online thingy. Right now,
stickers are available, but, if they run out, his office will go with some kind
of grace period.
He says the college anticipated increased enrollments by creating new
parking spaces, etc. in the grass, so parking has gone well thus far. (I spoke
privately with Will recently and he seemed anxious to explain why he does what
he does. He noted that, down at Saddleback, they tow parking offenders, but he
and his dept. really try to avoid that here.)
Exec reports:
Ac. Sen. Prez Kathy
Schmeidler:
The Senate Cabinet was busy over the summer, attending lots of meetings. Looks
like we’re finally moving forward with ATEP, our troubled Tustin facility.
(There was a fair amount of blathering about ATEP during this meeting.) Kathy
announced that there’s been an increase in reassigned time for the Curriculum
Chair (Diana H) [up to 9] and Vice President (Bob U) [up to 6]. That’s good,
but I asked if there’s any movement with regard to increasing reassigned time
for faculty chairs. Um, that’s a Faculty Union issue, said Kathy.
As we move forward with ATEP, we’ll need volunteers to serve on the various
committees. Same for the new round of Accreditation (yep, that’s gearing up).
HR presented training for (faculty) EE0’s reps on hiring committees during flex
week, but few attended. If you are interested, let us know. Scholarship
committee is looking for members. Any interest? We need to show interest or
this “opportunity” will be lost. (Good grief. How long have we been at this? I
don’t think they want this thing fixed.)
VP Bob Urell:
Bob attended the budget committee meeting yesterday. Davit’s presentation is
available
Do take a look. There’s
new info on resource requests (an old sore subject).
Ac Affairs dude Brent
McKim
(Design Model Making Instructor):
He’s looking for suggestions, volunteers for our speaker series (DALS and
IVC2IVC).
Curriculum maven Diana
Hurlbut:
Her committee’s stuff is now available at insideIVC (at the college
website). The course revision schedule is available on Curricunit (which she
calls C-net). October 1 is deadline for new courses, November 1 for programs. I
think her committee meets every Tuesday at 2. Look at old May email for
deadlines for course revision. These days, the state is being very picky, and
all of our work experience courses got kicked back. Blah blah blah.
Item 7: Board Policies
and Administrative Regulations:
Looks like we’re not ready to take action on any of this. The review committee
met in June and has not met since. Please look at the BP concerning student
rights (5530):
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(This is at InsideIVC.)
Some issues here.
Uh-oh, looks like Ray Chandos has volunteered for the BPAR (BP review)
committee. (That can’t be good.) That’ll be up for a vote next time. Any
interest in serving on that committee? It’s pretty important. (Ray used to
serve as Raghu Mathur’s mole, providing reports on faculty conduct after every
senate meeting.)
Item 8: Grade Grievance
and Student Discipline Panel Pool
We’re looking for volunteers. Any interest?
Item 10: security and
safety
“Academic Affairs Committee is engaged in conversation with the Safety
Committee concerning campus safety and security policies and procedures.” Kathy
had nothing for us; hopes to have updates soon.
Item 11: Faculty Advisor
Handbook (For Student Clubs)
There’s been a fair amount of carping about the old handbook. Somebody’s
working on it; no updates.
Item 12: Training to be
an Equal Employment Opportunity Rep on Hiring Committees
“Very few faculty members attended the Professional Development Week training
session. Is there interest in providing this training to faculty members?” Use
it or lose it.
Item 13: 2015-2016
Academic Calendar
There seems to be some faculty interest in a winter intersession (January),
which would not offer ordinary classes but classes that can be presented in a
brief period (e.g., field trips, counseling, different timing modules, extended
studies, etc.). WHAT DO YOU THINK? (No, I’m really asking, and so is Kathy.)
What’s the sense of the faculty?
At last board meeting, the calendar went to a vote, but one board member, who
had been approached by “some faculty,” had concerns about the calendar, owing
to the January break. (Trustee James Wright, as I recall.) But the calendar had
already been approved by all groups, including the senates (thus the faculty).
Clearly, once again, the Saddleback nurses aren’t happy and they’re pounding
their little fists on the floor. In any case, we need to know: do faculty wish
to pursue this calendar? We need faculty input. (So tell Brittany or me what
you think.)
Getting back to the calendar issue: do our faculty even care about this
calendar issue (the intersession, etc.)? Let us know what you think.
I reminded everyone of the old issue of “separate calendars” (i.e., the two
colleges going their own way). Kathy reminded us that the Chancellor and IT are
dead set against that. But many other groups favor the change.
Item 14: CTE Coordinator
June McLaughlin - approved
Item 15: IVC Faculty Involvement
in Contract Education, Community Education, and Continuing Education
“Senators requested that information be provided as to the process of
determining faculty involvement in Contract Education, Community Education and
Continuing Education.” Our new dean will come and present about this.
We faculty want a voice regarding this kind of instruction, since it all flies
under the IVC banner. (There’ve been disturbing problems in the past. See here.)
Item 16: Host ASCCC
[State Ac. Senate]
Executive Committee Meeting 11/12
“ASCCC asked [us] to host their November 12th meeting at IVC.” Glenn’s onboard
with this. Are we? (We briefly discussed the recent turmoil at the State Ac.
Senate, much of it concerning the Pres of that body. (There were transparency
concerns and, in general, concerns about how the state senate was run.) She’s
now out and things will likely return to normal. Taking these meetings
on the road is part of the “healing process.” So, yes, we are on board with
this. (We voted in favor.)
Item 17:
Senate-Organized Orientation for New and Interested Faculty Members
“New Full-time faculty receive an ongoing orientation through the Office of
Instruction. It was suggested that the Academic Senate offer an additional
orientation for new and interested faculty members.” –Do we favor this? Seems
like a good idea and Craig is amenable. Yes.
Item 18: LGBTQ Campus
Liaison
The Ed Code requests (?) each district “designate an employee at each [campus]
as a point of contact for the needs of [LGBT] faculty, staff, and students….”
For now, VP Linda F does this job, though she’s not a designated liaison, etc.
She’ll be holding a meeting (Aug 26) to pursue this matter.
We discussed the situation; it seemed to several of us that we should indeed go
forward, identifying this liaison, etc. In the end, a motion was passed according
to which the Senate supports considering the creation of this designated
person. That’s good; it’ll go forward.
Some of us wanted a stronger motion, but that might have inspired opposition.
(At least one senator—he hails from the Mathurian end of campus—voted against
pursuit of this, and our own Ac. Sen. VP seemed to have a problem with it.)
Please attend Linda F’s meeting (on the 26th, at 2 p.m.) if you have any
interest in any of this. Brooke Choo seemed to be the point person (very much in
favor of the campus liaison idea); send her word if you want her to represent
you.
So, in the end, the Senate moved to support the consideration of this position
through a formal work group. Academic Affairs will head this up.
There was a bizarre discussion of ways to keep input about this “anonymous.”
What was that all about? Anyway, anyone who wishes his or her input to be
anonymous will be accommodated. (Contact Brooke. Identify yourself as “Deep
Throat.”)
Also, we’re looking for a faculty advisor for the LGBTQ student club. (Years
ago, I was the faculty advisor to GLAS, but the group seemed to melt away after
a few weeks.) (And, no, I’m not gay [etc.], not that there’s anything wrong
with that.)
Part Time Faculty Reps on Senate: please let us know if you would like to be
put forward for this! (These notes are sent to the full Hum faculty.)
Senator Roy Bauer
Your senators:
Roy Bauer – rbauer@ivc.edu
Brittany Adams – badams26@ivc.edu
—But, again, there’s the availability of a part-time faculty
rep!
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