A World of Cultures United in Learning
Faculty Senate
Meeting
April 18, 2007
Room 5301
Senate
Representatives: Bunny
Others present: Jim Wright, Lilly Xu
1.
Announcements
In recognition of Earth Day, a campus-wide
clean up will take place on Friday, April 20th.
Faculty are encouraged to get involved.
2.
Approval of Minutes
Approved as written.
3. Accreditation Self Study Workshop - Myers
Discussion centered
on Standards II.A.7 and 7.a. which
address Academic Freedom. Discussion
focused on learning conditions in the classroom and in college-wide
presentations such as the World Forums.
Faculty responses were recorded in the Standard templates on Googledocs
and will be incorporated into the written accreditation report.
4.
Program
Discontinuance Policy - Myers
Adjustments were made to the Program Discontinuance Policy:
§ Added UFO President to the Task Force
§ Added the step to notify UFO in the event a program is being considered for
§ discontinuance
§ Updated the Vice President of Instruction’s title to Vice President of Academic Affairs.
5. Proposed revisions to Faculty Handbook, section II.C. Myers
Relevant to Standard II.A.6, the Ohlone College Faculty Handbook (section II.C), discussed guidelines regarding the course syllabus in the Ohlone Faculty Handbook. Suggested changes to the handbook:
§ require faculty to distribute the course syllabus to students via paper or electronic format
§ suggest that faculty include course Student Learning Outcomes in their syllabi
6. Summer Schedule 2008 - Myers
Ohlone’s academic
calendar for 2007-2008 shows Ohlone’s summer school session beginning on June
16 and ending on July 24. This overlaps
the
Motion: To avoid a scheduling conflict
with the public high schools, the
Second: Rodgers
Motion passed.
Susan was given feedback to consider
the idea of starting the Spring ‘08 semester, one week later, with Finals
starting on Tuesday, after Memorial Day weekend. This would allow a little more
time for “intercession” classes (we may need it for growth next year) if we
choose to support this concept for the ‘07/’08 academic year. Since we are also moving the summer schedule
back one week to avoid conflict with the FUSD schedule, this would still
maintain the same number of days between Spring and Summer, for maintenance,
lab upgrades, student registration, and other considerations. This idea was introduced but the senate did
not support it.
7. Review of changes to Senate By-Laws Myers
Because changes to the Constitution were not approved by the faculty in the recent ratification vote, discussed deleting items that would have been moved from the constitution to the by-laws (Section 3. B.1.c-f , 2.c, and 4.a.& b.) Susan will remove these items and send out a revised version of the by-laws.
Senators discussed the alternate
representative structure in which faculty are represented according to
Division. Senators like the structure,
although this may mean faculty in different divisions may have the same Senate
representative.
8.
President's Report - Myers
Board
meeting- the Board of Trustees will be interviewing candidates to fill the
seat
vacated by the retirement of Dan Archer.