Notes - December 4th, 2006
The De Anza Academic Senate
Approved Notes for the meeting of
December 4th , 2006
Senators and Officers present: Bambhania, Capitolo, Chenoweth, Cole, Coleman, Cordero,
Dolen, Glapion, Goodwin, Hearn, Jensen-Sullivan, Joplin, Kessler, Kramer, Lathers,
Lizardi-Folley, Lee-Klawender, Maynard, Mowrey , Osborne, Schaffer, Setziol, Winters,
and Zill
Senators and Officers absent: Bresnan, Gallegos, Hertler, Kang, Miller, and Raffaelli,
DASB: Sam Karimzadeh and Celeste Enriquez,
Classified Senate: Olivia Patlan
Administrative Liaison: Christina Espinosa-Pieb
Guests: Judy Miner, Brian Murphy, Jeanine Hawk, Marisa Spatafore, Carolyn Wilkins-Greene,
and Andrew LaManque
[NOTE: Item numbers are reflective of agenda numbers in the order they
are actually taken up at the meeting.]
The meeting was called to order at 2:36 a quorum being present.
I. Approval of Agenda and Notes: The agenda was approved as distributed.
II. Shared Governance Processes and Policies: Hearn began by setting a background
frame of reference of questioning the place of "The Deans" and "Senior Staff" in the
governance and decision making structure of the college. In as much as those terms
pertain to specific groups of people meeting on a regular basis they do not appear
on the official governance chart of the college. No further mention of "The Deans"
was made. The discussion quickly shifted to the strategic planning effort and budgeting
and questions about the role of "Senior Staff" were narrowed to these contexts. The
pending meeting of December 8th about which a number of concerns had previously surfaced
was characterized in this meeting as being about grouping rather than eliminating
individual and group commitments.
Given groupings, a well received proposal was introduced which would gather together
the people responsible for the items in each grouping. In addition, Hearn announced
that both Academic and Classified Senates were invited to establish sub committees
to review the 600 odd items and the groupings identified by the meeting of the 8th.
Later it became the sense of the Senate to form such a sub committee. Winters expressed
concern that the people who did the early work of the planning were being left out.
President Murphy immediately agreed to invite them to review and comment on the body
of work at this stage. There was some concern about timelines. Murphy acknowledged
that these recent ideas regarding review and recommendation might push the time frame
back as much as a couple of weeks. Jeanine Hawk implied that the last College Council
Meeting in January would still be a deadline for action. The rest of the time was
spent separating out planning from budgeting. In particular, Hawk and Murphy asked
that the current confusion about pots of money and how much would be viewed through
the lens of the planning initiative should not deter everyone from moving ahead with
planning. In other words, review and recommend in terms of grouping and priority
and sort out the pots of money later.
In the midst of discussion, Murphy announced a total victory on the part of the District
in the lawsuit against Measure C. He also mentioned that De Anza's share of this
year's one time money is likely to be in the neighborhood of $3.3 million. He also
said that it had never occurred to him that people would think that the $500,000 earmarked
initially for the strategic initiative work would be the total finally allocated for
that purpose but understood completely how people might have gotten that impression
and, therefore, the impression that there were two distinct one time money budget
discussions.
Back to Item I: The notes of the meeting of November 27th were approved as distributed
correcting the title of Item III to indicate the real name of the Vice Chancellor
of Technology, Fred Sherman.
III. Needs and Confirmations: Chenoweth asked for and received confirmation of Maynard
and Vladimir Logvinenko for service on the Library Advisory Sub Committee
IV. Academic Senate's Strategic Planning Commitment: The group returned to a discussion
of the primary proposal made by the officers at the November 27th meeting focusing
on what got called discipline or group of disciplines advising and coordination with
services promoting student success. The role and potential role of counseling and
individual counselors was considered. Generally speaking, more promise than problem
surfaced in the various ideas present.
Hearn interjected her plan not to oppose the Central Services proposal for its share
of the one time money going to the December 4th Board meeting. She told the group
of three broad categories identified by Central Services and said she would pursue
discussion on a larger scale of the increasing percentage of the District budget going
to Central Services.
V. Good of the Order: - A 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. December 6th get together in honor of
Jim McCarthy was announced as taking place in the library
- Mowrey was announced to be the interim director of library services
- Setziol announced that he had received one of the twelve reviews of this year's
Courses Into Discliplines/FGAs report and asked for the others before the end of the
term.
- Setziol also mentioned that students report coming to what they thought would
be a first class meeting and finding only a sign saying the class had been canceled
and no person present to present alternatives for them.
- A Town Hall meeting was announced for December 11th from 1:30 to 2:30 in Forum
4 to report the groupings of strategic initiative commitments accomplished December
8th.
- Hearn ended the item by telling the group that she would be sending out a call for
sub committee volunteers.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:40
Proposed Committee Members Needing Confirmation
Library Advisory Subcommittee
• Tom Dolen, Librarian
Hiring Committee for MLT/HTEC faculty position:
• Jean Burke, IA, Nursing Department
• Judith Clavijo, Chair, Nursing Department
• Sherri Cozzens, Faculty, Nursing Department
• Pat Hassel, Program Coordinator, Faculty HTEC Department
• Beth McPartlan, Faculty, Biology Department
• Patti O'Neal (on PDL winter 07) Faculty, Nursing and HTEC Departments
• Marge Sainten, Laboratory Technician, Nursing and HTEC Departments
• Doris Spanggord, Chair, Biology Department and previous Director, MLT Program
• Stephanie Sherman, Dean/Committee Chair
Hiring Committee for classified IA Nursing Skills Laboratory position:
(Note: this is the same committee we approved last week for Allied health and Nursing
Specialist)
• Judith Clavijo,Dept. Chair - Nursing
• Sherri Cozzens, Nursing
• Catherine Hrycyk, Nursing
• Pat Quarato, Biology