ACADEMIC AFFAIRS STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE CPC

MINUTES

FOR THE MEETING OF

March 1, 2006

2:30 p.m.

President’s Conference Room

Attending:      

Administration – Nancy Carson, Bobby McNeel, Luis Rosas

Classified – Traci Liley

Faculty – Nabeel Barakat, Carmen Carrillo, Tricia Wickers for Wendy Hollis, Jonathon Lee, Bruce Lemon, Lauren McKenzie, Joyce Parker, Evelyn Portis, Stanley Sandell, Jim Stanbery, Pamela Watkins Mark Wood, Bradley Young

Absent:

Administration - Charlie Bossler, Bob Richards, Ann Tomlinson

Classified –Hovsep Kotelyan

Classified Manager - Carla Mussa-Muldoon

Faculty – King Carter, Joy Fisher, Susan McMurray

Students

Nabeel Barakat chaired the meeting.

I.          MINUTES

Minutes of the February 22, 2006 meeting were distributed to members.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bruce Lemon and Bradley Young announced the proposed plan to merge Behavioral Science and Social Science into one larger division, following the retirement of Mr. Lemon in June of 2006.  The matter of the proposed merger will be taken to the Academic Senate at its meeting on Thursday, 3/2/06.  There are several strong reasons in support of the merger: 

·        The two smaller divisions were in the past one “super” division

      with over 35 regular faculty and many adjuncts

·        With the departure of Bruce Lemon, Behavioral Sciences will consist of 3 fulltime faculty, plus one .5 ISA in LRC.  Social Science will be at a low of 7 fulltime faculty, including a 1.0 FTE ISA assigned as PACE director

·        With the two smaller divisions it becomes increasingly difficulty to provide adequate representation to the various governance committees.

·        A proposed merger has been proposed, discussed and accepted by the members of the two divisions.

·        Clerical support will be mandated by the AFT contract upon a merger of the divisions.

·        Shared equipment and supplies would benefit all division members involved.

II.       PROPOSITION A/AA AND FEMA ACTIVITY UPDATE

Issues with access doors to the LAC have subsided.  With the recent rains, leaks have become apparent in the Fine Arts Building.  Trenching from Administration to the LAC is now complete and area walkways are back to normal.  A new trench will begin between the Bookstore and the Theater.  The newly installed handicap accessible restroom in Nursing has water coming up through the tiled floor.

III.     PROGRAM REVIEWS

Business Division’s program review is in its second draft, and looking very good.  Communications has been turned in.  It should be posted on the web site by 3/6/06.  Tricia Wickers, filling in for chair of the Nursing Division, Wendy Hollis, has been working to pull a document together prior to accreditation.  Nursing did have a recent review for the Associate Degree Nursing Program, which has much of the content of the program review required of the other divisions.

IV.     PRIORITIZATION

The path Jim Stanbery would like to have the cluster take is to take step one during this meeting; step two during the next regular meeting, and if necessary to complete the committee’s work, conduct step three at another meeting, on 3/15/06, immediately following the Division Council meeting.

Last fall the cluster agreed to seven student success goals:

·        Learning and Instruction

·        Student Support and Services

·        Participatory Governance

·        Economic Resources

·        Partnerships

·        Institutional Environment and Physical Resources

·        Human Resources and Development

Each division had been asked to identify their number one priority prior to this meeting.  It is Mr. Stanbery’s suggestion that each member of the committee rank each division’s priorities from 4-1, with 4 representing the greatest and 1 the least. As the exercise unfolds, an overall cluster ranking should develop.   A possible conflict with the ranking of the FHPC was pointed out.  Q-How could this committee rank without regard to the on-going work of the FHPC?  Q-How should the cluster deal with a division asking the FHPC for one discipline and now approaching the Academic Cluster with a different priority?  Some members raised the point that there should be just one ranking of faculty positions and the only list that should be recognized, to avoid conflict, is that of the FHPC.

Mr. McKenzie stated that positions other than faculty also have a place and value in the cluster’s priorities.  Science requests an instructional assistant position.  Mrs. Carson announced that the administrative secretary position in Academic Affairs will be vacant in June, 2006.  This position will also need to be included.  At the next meeting the cluster will try the priorities exercise again, using the top 10 FHPC positions (without altering rank) plus the classified positions. 

V.         ADJOURNMENT

Members agreed to conduct another unscheduled meeting, on Wednesday, March 15, should it be necessary, to finish the current prioritization exercises.  This meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m., in the President’s Conference Room.

Regular meetings take place at 2:15 p.m., in the Global Classroom, on:

March 22

April 26

March 10 and 24