Notes - January 22nd, 2007
The De Anza Academic Senate
Approved Notes for the meeting of
January 22nd , 2007
Senators and Officers present: Bambhania, Capitolo, Chenoweth, Coleman, Cordero, Dolen,
Gallegos, Glapion, Goodwin, Hearn, Jensen-Sullivan, Joplin, Kessler, Kramer, Lizardi-Folley,
Lee-Klawender, Maynard, Miller, Osborne, Otake, Raffaelli, Schaffer, Setziol, Winters,
and Zill
Senators and Officers absent: Cole, Hertler, and Lathers,
DASB:
Classified Senate: Olivia Patlan
Administrative Liaison: Christina Espinosa-Pieb
Guests: Willie Pritchard, Brian Murphy, Marisa Spatafore, Andrew LaManque, and Linda
Conroy
[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 2:32 a quorum being present.
I. Approval of Agenda and Notes: The agenda was approved as distributed with the addition
of an item Vb "Funding Requests" and a change in the title of item VI from "self authored"
to "self published". There were no notes requiring approval.
II. Needs and Confirmations: A Tenure Review Committee spreadsheet dated January
21st, 2007 was distributed. To the list of names proposed on that spreadsheet for
confirmation, Cordero's name was added for the Mary Sullivan Tenure Review Committee.
John Cognetta and Mayra Cruz were confirmed for service on the Dean of Student Development
and EOPS Search and Selection Committee
Joy Duremdes and Karen Yamamoto were confirmed for service on the Director, Child
Development Center Search and Selection Committee conditionally, pending the addition
of a Child Development Education faculty member
Janet Takahashi and Benita Rashall were approved for the Educational Diagnostic Center
Executive Head Search and Selection Committee. Concerns about gender balance prompted
the group to approve Glapion's addition to the committee. His service is pending
the assignment of a responsible administrator and a conversation in his department
about the appointment.
Eduardo Luna, David, Newton, and Kimberly Sandstrom-Phillips were approved for service
on the Physics Technician Search and Selection Committee.
After lengthy discussion and repeated revisiting of the Senate's agreement with the
Board on faculty hiring policies and procedures, the group returned consideration
of a Math Faculty Search and Selection Committee to the division and department for
a vote to determine candidates from among volunteers.
Chenoweth was confirmed for service on the Director, Small Business Development Center
Search and Selection Committee
A proposed Chemistry Faculty Search and Selection committee was returned to the department
for reconsideration owing to its size and the presence of the name of a non tenured
faculty member.
III. Diversity Leadership Training: Linda Conroy was present to promote faculty
attendance of this annual event. She distributed a flyer descriptive of it. Further
information about the event running from Thursday, February 1st until Saturday, February
3rd can be obtained from either Linda, Leila McCabe, or Nicky Gonzales Yuen
IV. Public Domain Learning Materials: Willie Pritchard made his first appearance
before the group as a De Anza faculty member and distributed copies of a document
nicely describing the many things involved. The scope of the items spoken to by Willie
make the title somewhat misleading perhaps but, as of yet, there appears to be no
better title. One of Willie's short term goals is to facilitate dialogue among people
interested in sharing and in reducing the cost of textbooks and other course materials
to students. He is also prepared to give technical assistance to people interested
in sharing courseware etc. There is an in house Public Domain web site which can be
accessed through Judy Mowrey's web site
V. b Requests for Funding: Hearn presented a request for $450 to co sponsor attendance
by Anu Khanna at the Curriculum Institute conducted by the Academic Senate for California
Community Colleges. It was MSC (Goodwin/Cordero) to approve the request. It was
MSC (Winters/Joplin) to approve a second request by Hearn, $100 sponsoring a Youth
Empowerment conference February 9th.
V.a Strategic Planning Update: Brian Murphy was present to give the update. The
need to organize and prioritize the many offerings made in the Fall led to meeting
December 8th and December 19th. The outcome of these meetings was an organization
of the offerings in the following ways: First, there emerged four areas which substantially
overlapped the original four areas, Outreach, Individualized Attention for Retention,
Cultural Competence, and Community Collaborations. Second, foundational activities
emerged, Professional Development, Curriculum Development, Communication, Facilities
usage, and technology which will be addressed across the Institutional Initiatives.
Now in the works are small working groups for each of the above consisting of one
faculty member, one classified staff member, and one administrator. Each of these
groups will propose a plan for its specific area in consultation with proposers.
Andrew LaManque will provide assistance in terms of success measures etc. This work
will feed in to the work of the planning and budgeting teams, culminating in a joint
meeting of the teams April 20th and a meeting of the College Council April 26th.
Tentatively, the four areas of Outreach, Individualized Attention, Cultural Competence,
and Community Collaborations will be pursued with financial resources frames of reference
of $300,000, $300,000, $100,000, and $100,000 respectively.
A comment that, yet again, some participation from students was advisable was favorably
greeted by Murphy.
VI. Self Published Course Materials Policy: Hearn distributed a draft prepared by
her in consultation with the other officers. She began by stating that the starting
point for the draft was the proposed change to board policy previously proposed by
the Faculty Association and seen by the group and she mentioned that there was some
awkwardness in this because the concerns of the Senate made for a difficult fit in
terms of format.
After considerable discussion during which it was MSC (Winters/Khannu) to extend the
time of the meeting by 10 minutes, the officers perceived a shift in the attitude
of the group back towards an earlier position. The officers will produce several
alternative positions based on the discussion and previous discussions. Each of three
main areas will be included: 1) Conflict of interest, 2) significantly lower cost
to students, and 3) self publishing authors recusing themselves from textbook adoption
committees.
VII. Good of the Order: The item was not taken up.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:40