Officers present: Mark Wood [presiding], Susan McMurray, Jim Stanbery
[recording], June Smith
Senators present: Bruce Lemon [Behavioral Sciences]; Kate Campbell
[Communications]; Wendy Hollis, Arlene Smith [Health Sciences]; Linda Forrest
[Math/Physical Sciences]; Linda Whitehead [for Barakat/Physical Education];
Coni Juno [for Pueblos/Counseling]; Jonathan Lee [Library]
Senators absent/excused: Len Glover [officer]; Adell Shay [Business];
Pamela Watkins [Communications]; Mike Hiscocks, Vic Grassian [Humanities];
Kathleen Keller [Math/Physical Sciences]; Nabeel Barakat [Physical Education];
David Weber [Social Sciences]; Steve Judge [Technology]; Steve Hirsch,
Yvonne Pueblos [Counseling]
Guests: Dorothy Clayton, Sally Fasteau, Larry Heimgartner, Jennifer
Hutchins, Pat Lovett, Rod Oakes, Sam Sandt
OPENING PROCEDURES
Call to Order and Approval of Agenda
The agenda was approved with the adjustments shown below.
Treasurer's Report
No report in the absence of the treasurer.
Approval of Minutes
The minutes of May 17, September 6, and September 18 were approved
as distributed.
SPECIAL ORDERS
Senate committee representatives [Wood]
Mr. Wood drew the attention of the body to the committee representation
form included in the agenda packet and urged all senators to make sure
their divisions are fully represented. He also alerted the senate to the
necessity for designating Senate representatives for the bodies on which
the Senate is represented. Ms. Hollis briefed the Senate on the Budget
Committee schedule.
President's Report [Wood]
Mr. Wood relayed the Virtual College announcement; congratulated three
new tenured faculty (Nabeel Barakat, Susan McMurray, and Melanie Renfrue);
announced his refusal to sign further administrative documents on behalf
of the Senate unless the document has reached him through a Senate committee
or the Senate itself. It was the sense of the Senate that this should be
Senate policy.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Ms. Forrest drew the Senate's attention to possible dangers to our
Islamic students in the wake of the World Trade Center disaster. Mr. Wood
and Ms. Forrest will meet with Dr. Spink later this afternoon to address
this concern. Ms. Smith agreed to compose a resolution on the issue for
possible campus-wide distribution. The Senate was updated on plans for
a Campus Unity Day and Teach-In.
NOTICED MOTION
College Governance Agreement
Mr. Wood ruled that a general statement on governance arrangements
proposed by Ms. Smith could be discussed if the body ruled it to be in
order. Mr. Stanbery pointed out that the minutes of the Sept. 18 meeting
and the notice provisions for today's meeting stipulated that only specific
amendments to the language of the document before us were in order. Ms.
Smith then moved her proposal in the form of an addendum to the proposed
document. Mr. Wood ruled that the proposal was sufficiently at variance
with the document as a whole that to consider it as an addendum would be
out of order. A motion to entertain Ms. Smith's proposal in its own right
was defeated by voice vote.
General discussion of the document itself resulted in five subsequent
motions:
1. MSC (Forrest/Hollis; 8 to 2} to change the composition of the faculty
representation on PAC to three representatives selected by the Faculty
Guild and three representatives of the Senate "selected as the Academic
Senate shall determine".
2. MSC (Stanbery/Forrest; unanimous} to make specified technical changes
in the languae on pp. 1, 4, and 5, omitting phrasing it had previously
been decided to omit but which still was present in the document, and to
amend the provision on standing committees to provide: "The standing committees
will employ the same consensus procedure as the PAC itself, with the vice
presidents concerned fulfilling the same role in defining consensus for
each of the standing committees as the college president does for PAC."
3. MSC (Hollis/Lemon; 6 to 3} to replace all references to the Academic
Affairs Committee with "Academic Policy and Planning Committee of the Academic
Senate."
4. MSC {Forrest/Lemon; 6 to 3) to reconsider the previous motion and
restore the original language.
5. MSC (Hollis/Campbell; unanimous} to adopt the governance agreement
assuming concurrence by administration in the proposed amendments.
ADJOURNMENT