Academic Affairs Cluster

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

CLUSTER OF CPC

 

March 17, 2010.

2:30 p.m.

SSA 219

 

 

ATTENDANCE

 

 

PRESENT

Administration

 

Luis Rosas, David Humphreys, Kristi Blackburn, Nabeel Barakat, Jonathon Lee, Stanley Sandell, June Smith, Mark Wood, Joy Fisher, Bradley Young, Lynn Yamakawa, Susan McMurray, Joyce Parker, Lauren McKenzie, Carmen Carrillo

 

CALL TO ORDER

Luis Rosas called the meeting to order at 2:30 p.m. in SSA 219.

 

 

ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA

The agenda was accepted as presented.

 

 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

 

The minutes for the meeting of February 17, 2009 were adopted as presented.

 

The Fall 2010 cuts were distributed. Policy decisions and shared governance was discussed.

• The necessity that the administration abide by District directives and the power of administration to reach certain decisions against the advice of campus shared governance bodies does not obligate those bodies to endorse the final decisions in principle.

• What sections and programs we trim will affect our contracts with our feeder schools and community.

• We are going to be funded at 6871 FTES.

• Scheduling of classes is an administrative prerogative, within the policy guidelines developed through the planning process.

• Through viability studies we can come up with a rationale of why courses should be offered.

• The Planning Manual requires that divisions prioritize their offerings, and the unit plans provide a vision of what the division should be teaching.

• Cuts are being discussed administratively before the committees properly involved in such actions have made the necessary decisions.

• The District would like to see our efficiency numbers go up from 37 to 40.

 

Three of our five feeder schools are now considered underperforming: Carson High, Gardena High and San Pedro High. Grant monies were discussed. By the end of the Fiscal year Program 100 is supposed to be reimbursed by the Grant Program through which it is funded. There was discussion on why we are still in deficit even though these programs are being funded by grants.

 

S. McMurray pointed out that there was no Basic Skills Coordinator, and there is inadequate faculty to do the work required by law. The projected budget could leave us as much as $5 million short. We must not only prioritize among classes but among programs and divisions and make vertical cuts.

 

The growth of the CTE Programs was discussed. B. Young noted that the Administration of Justice Class is being moved out of CTE and into Academics.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 3:25 p.m.