Executive Summary

Academic Senate Meeting

Los Angeles Harbor College 

March 29, 2007

1:00 Tech. 113 

1. Confirmation of ballot for Senate Elections

            The Ballot for Academic Senate officers was accepted.  The nominees are:

            President:  June Smith; Vice-president: Pamela Watkins; Recording Secretary:        Jim Stanbery; Corresponding Secretary:  Brenda Guertin; Association Treasurer:      Len Glover.  The ballot will be distributed and collected by mail.  Distribution will be on April 11^th and the ballots will be due before 8:00 a.m. on April 24^th. 

            Additional members of the committee were approved by the Senate.  Nabeel            Barakat and Trisha Wickers will assist with the counting of the ballots on       Tuesday, April 24^th, 1:00p.m. in Drama Speech 101. 

2. Senate Resolution Response to the President re Full Time Faculty Hiring 2006-2007.

            After discussion, there was unanimous consent to support the following resolution: 

Whereas notices to division/department chairs, members of the Faculty Hiring Priorities Committee and the AFT were not issued, and

Whereas the President has indicated a desire to hire four full time faculty for the Fall 2007 semester, and

Whereas The Nursing Division was one of the positions the President skipped over in making choices, and

Whereas the Nursing Program’s accreditation will be seriously jeopardized if its full time to part time faculty ratio is not increased,

The Harbor College Academic Senate rejects the President’s intention to fill full time faculty positions out of the order endorsed by the Academic Senate, and

The Harbor College Academic Senate will proceed forthwith to form an Appeals Panel as stipulated under the Policy and Procedures agreement governing the Faculty Hiring Priorities and Senate’s responsibility to assure the timely and orderly hiring of full time faculty.

            The Recording Secretary will begin the appeals process by forming a panel per        the Faculty Hiring Committee’s Procedures Manual. 

3. Setting the date for the Next regular Senate meeting.

 There was unanimous consent to hold the next regular Senate meeting on its regular meeting time of April 19^th with Mark Wood presiding.