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May 2, 2016 AS Minutes – Draft

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May 2, 2016 AS Minutes – Draft

Taft College Academic Senate Minutes

Monday, May 2, 2016

Cougar Conference Room

Members Present: President Geoffrey Dyer, Vice President Vicki Jacobi, Jennifer Altenhofel, Megan Andrews, Michelle Beasley, Eric Berube, Paul Blake, Adam Bledsoe, Kamala Carlson, Joe’ll Chaidez, Chris Chung-Wee, Bill Devine, Candace Duron, John Eigenauer, Juana Escobedo, Sharyn Eveland, Tori Furman, Lourdes Gonzalez, Dan Hall, Abbas Jarrahian, Mike Jiles, Diane Jones, Danielle Kerr, John Kopp, Kelly Kulzer-Reyes, David Layne, Julian Martinez, Mariza Martinez, Janis Mendenhall, Tina Mendoza, Michelle Oja, Ruby Payne, Robin Polski, Natalie Ramirez, Debora Rodenhauser, Terri Smith, Don Thornsberry, Veronica Lynne Van Ry, and Victoria Waugh.

Guests: Tony Cordova

The meeting was called to order at 12:10 PM.

Public Commentary

  • No public commentary was offered.

Review of April 4, 2016 Senate Minutes

  • No changes were made to the minutes. The minutes were thus approved.

Commentary on Electronic Committee Updates

  • There were no questions or comments about the committee updates that were sent via email.

ASCCC Spring Plenary Update – Dyer/Jacobi

  • Heavy emphasis on CTE. $200 million are in a budget bill for CTE and the Strong Workforce Recommendations.
  • Geoffrey Dyer went to breakouts on noncredit dual enrollment and the Online Education Initiative.
  • The following notable resolutions passed at this year’s Spring Plenary.
    • Training for diversity hiring.
    • The SLO resolution which states that the AS should review the SLOs as a research matter for improvement.
    • ASCCC will be issuing a paper on program development.
    • A resolution for awarding credit for prior learning experiences.
    • A resolution adding low unit certificates to student transcripts.
    • A resolution to remove the differential between lecture and lab so that CTE faculty have the ability to engage and participate in governance.
  • Vicki Jacobi shared other notable resolutions/topics:
    • One resolution supported an Assembly bill that would divert mental health funds to community colleges in order to provide mental health services at the colleges.
    • Another resolution was in support of giving more credit to military veterans.
    • There is a push for “Z Degrees” which stands for zero-cost, or zero-cost for textbooks.
    • The senate approved a white-paper for effective practices for curriculum.
    • C-IDs are being expanded. All basic skills courses and CTE courses will get C-IDs.
    • The front page of our college website should contain a link to our library.

Reading Institute for Academic Preparation – Kerr

  • Danielle Kerr and Becky Roth attended a 10-session Reading Institute for Academic Preparedness ERWC (Expository Reading and Writing Course) certificate program at CSUB.
    • Over half of the certificates issued have been for faculty who were not English/Language Arts faculty.
    • Danielle encouraged our faculty to take part in this invaluable program.
    • In addition to learning some reading and writing strategies to help our students, the participates receive valuable teaching resources and get to hear from and interact with notable and engaging speakers.
    • Kim Flachmann is the head of this program and she would really like to have representation from Taft College every year.
    • If you are interested in participating in this program, contact Danielle or Kamela.

Administrative Procedure for Student Learning Outcomes – Jacobi

  • The board approved the second reading of the board policy we wrote regarding the administrative procedure for SLOs.
  • There were no major changes made to the policy since the last time it was presented to the senate of the whole.
  • Previously, the AS Council made many revisions to this policy. The SLOASC committee also reviewed this policy multiple times.
  • The policy states that we will have 2 SLO days and that we will have a SLO handbook.
  • The next step is that our recommendation will go to the president and then the president will present it to the board.
  • Mike Jiles made the motion to approve this procedure. Jen Altenhofel seconded the motion. The motion carried.

Revised Annual Program Review Documents – Berube

  • The AS Council approved the revised APR documents on April 20th.
  • The APR form is divided into two parts- the Annual Program Review part and the Goal part.
  • We’ve made some simple revisions to simplify the form and made it more versatile.
  • Program Review is one of the 10 + 1 areas, so Eric encouraged the senate to look at these documents and to know what to expect.
  • If approved, these documents will go to the Governance Council.
  • Bill Devine moved to approve the revised Annual Program Review documents. Tori Furman seconded the motion and the motion passed. Michelle Oja abstained.

Identified Programs for Program Review – Berube

  • As part of the program review process, each year we identify the instructional and the non-instructional programs with departments that will undergo the program review.
  • Geoffrey added that the AS Council approved to authorize the Strategic Planning Committee to work with division chairs to better identify the programs to be reviewed and to make this APR process more efficient and simplified.
  • Michelle raised the program lead issue and whether it is part of our faculty contract. A program lead title makes it sound like an additional job or task.
    • Geoffrey responded that the program lead is the facilitator for the program who works with other faculty in the program to complete the review.
  • If approved, this will go to the SCC (or SPC?) committee on Friday.
  • Sharyn Eveland made the motion to authorize the Strategic Planning Committee to work with division chairs to identify the programs to be reviewed for the next APR cycle for the purposes of increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the APR. Mike seconded the motion. The motion passed.

Canvas Adoption (Second Reading) – Hall

  • Michelle asked if we approve this adoption, will we go live with Canvas in the Fall? Also, will we be required to go to Canvas in the Fall? Dan responded that we will start converting more classes over to Canvas this coming summer if this is approved. Faculty would not be required to convert their Etudes/Moodle courses over to Canvas until Fall 2017. [Actually, I should have stated Summer 2017. Our contract with Etudes will be over on June 30, 2017.]
  • Bill stated that the longer he has worked with Canvas, the more he realizes that it is an inferior product compared to Etudes.
  • Kelly Kulzer-Reyes expressed that she loves Canvas because of so many functionality tools are available.
  • David Layne made the motion to approve the adoption of Canvas as our CMS. Kelly seconded the motion and the motion carried. Bill and Kamala Carlson voted against the motion. Paul Blake, Eric, and Danielle abstained.

Open Educational Resources – Dyer

  • AB798 will provide funding to implement OER in at least 10 course sections. However, our proposal for those funds needs to be completed by June. Geoffrey, Terri Smith and Dan investigated the details of submitting a plan and determined that doing so is not feasible at this time.
  • Geoffrey indicated that there is a taskforce that include two of our ASCCC state reps, working with the League and the Associated Student Body to look for other options to implement OER into our curriculum.
  • Our Senate Council passed a motion on April 20th to create a taskforce to evaluate existing OER and explore possibilities for adopting Open Educational Resources in the future.
  • Vicki suggested that this might tie into the “Z Degrees” resolution.
  • Mike Jiles made the motion to create our own taskforce to evaluate existing Open Education Resources and to explore possibilities for adopting OER in the future. Sharyn seconded the motion. The motion passed.
  • Kelly Kulzer-Reyes, Michelle Oja, and Dan volunteered to be part of the OER taskforce.

Other

  • Geoffrey reminded the division chairs to have their new position request presentations ready by the August in-service.

Meeting adjourned at 12:59 PM. Respectfully submitted by Dan Hall

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