Executive Summary

Executive Summary,

Harbor College Academic Senate

Regular Meeting,

1:00, Thursday, May 21, 2009

SS/A 219

Call to order and approval of agenda

          Ms.J. Smith announced that the June 1 CPC meeting will include a campus-wide budget form.

ASO Activities

          Ms. McMurray expressed her concern over the planning process for the graduation ceremony, particularly the confusion over tickets for the ceremony.  Apparently the graduation committee no longer functions.  Ms. J. Smith helped arrange a compromise for seating additional students.

Administrative Report

          Dr. Spink summarized the state budget situation in the aftermath of Tuesday's special statewide election.  It was agreed that the co-chairs of CPC's standing committees should be regularly elected, and in order to serve, a co-chair naturally must be willing to have the committee involved meet regularly.

Consent Items

          Executive Committee meeting on Faculty Association dues

          Unanimous consent to delay the June 4 Senate meeeting until 1:30 that day in order to permit a Faculty Association meeting at 1 p.m for the consideration of an increase in association dues.

ITEMS/MOTIONS FOR ACTION MAY 21

          Curriculum Committee proposal for a Memorandum of Understanding between the District and the AFT College Guild on Distance Learning

            Unanimous consent to adopt the language as previously noticed, to read:

          1. a. Article 12, Class Size, applies to D/DL classes. In addition, the first time a D/DL

course is offered at a college, or the first time an instructor teaches a D/DL class, the

maximum class size shall be 25 students, unless the assigned faculty member permits the

class size to reach a maximum of 35. Thereafter D/DL class size shall not exceed 60 and D/DL faculty will be accorded the same right as in person faculty to negotiate lower class limits with approval of their respective division chairs and Deans.  In addition, D/DL faculty will have the same right as in-person faculty to permit additional students to enroll using the college’s processes for adding students. If these processes include the option for an instructor to add students to his/her closed classes prior to the first day of those classes, this option will be extended to all instructors.  The class size limit of 25 for the first time applies to the registration limits so that the number of students permitted to enroll cannot exceed this limit.