LEEWARD
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
2004-2005 Faculty Senate
APPROVED Minutes of the May 11, 2005 Meeting
James Goodman, Chair
Nancy Buchanan, Vice Chair
Susan Lum, Secretary
SENATORS PRESENT: N. Buchanan, J. Chernisky, L. Currivan, R. Flegal, K. Fujishima-Lee, C. Ganne, J. Goodman, K. Hill, B. Hotta, S. Laycock, R. Liongson, P. Lococo, S. Lum,
C. Martin, D. Matsumoto, S. May, A. Ross, D. Sakai, W. Teraoka
SENATORS EXCUSED:
K. Mohanan, L. Yamada
GUESTS: Kaz Chambers, Amy Ching, Michael Fujita, Candace Hochstein, Stanley May,
Mark Silliman, Stacy Thomas, James West
CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 3:10 p.m. with a quorum. Present also are newly elected Senators for the 2005-2006 term.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES:
The minutes from
April 20, 2005 were approved unanimously with a few minor changes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Chancellor Silliman
expressed his gratitude to the Senate for our dedication and hard work,
especially the Senate’s focus on improving the College.
2005-2006 Senate Chair Joe Chernisky
2005-2006 Senate Vice Chair Aulii Ross
2005-2006 Senate Secretary Susan Lum
The 2005-2006 Senate adjourned at 3:40 pm. The 2004-2005 Senate reconvened at 3:40 pm.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
BUDGET AND PLANNING
– No report.
FACULTY COMMITTEE
– No report.
ELECTION COMMITTEE –
No report.
ACADEMIC/INSITUTIONAL
SUPPORT – Senator Fujishima-Lee and Senator Martin distributed a report from
their last committee meeting held on May 5, 2005. The committee discussed four topics: assistance for stranded students and faculty, Clean-Up Day, the
need for campus signage, and complaints about voting for Strategic Plan Action
Plans.
The committee plans
to ask Doug Hill to allow and encourage Security to offer more assistance to
students and faculty who experience car trouble, especially at night. This would involve offering stranded drivers
a telephone and telephone book and remaining with the driver until assistance
arrives. The committee will also work
with Doug Hill to set-up cleaning projects for stairwells and other areas, and
painting the picnic tables around campus.
An Action Plan for
campus signage was included in the proposals which were voted on this
semester. The committee also discussed
numerous complaints concerning the process of voting for Action Plans. One Senator asked about whether Action Plan
proposals were data driven and how it was that faculty was to know about the
results of data studies. Senator Martin
reported that because the process is new, some of the proposals were allowed to
be submitted without data support, but that in the future, action plan
proposals are going to require data to back them up.
LEGISLATIVE
RELATIONS COMMITTEE – No report.
STUDENT COMMITTEE
– Senator Flegal reported that Sandra
Albers and
Jan Shimabukuro-Lee
will be in charge of Opening Day Experience beginning in the fall.
PROGRAM REVIEW COMMITTEE – Senator Hill asked the Senate for feedback on the Policy on Program Reviews.
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Motion 05-25 (Hotta/Ross): To approve the Policy on Program Reviews. PASSED –
Unanimously |
Senator Hill reminded the Senate that in the fall, a senator will have to be selected to become a member of the Assessment Team. He or she will serve as a liaison between the Senate and other members of the Assessment Team. Chair Goodman took a moment to thank Senator Hill for her work taking on the monumental task of program review.
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE – Senator Lococo presented two curriculum committee proposals. The first involved modifications to seven courses in English Literature. The modifications are primarily revisions to the SLO’s and filling in the blanks created by a Curriculum Central glitch.
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Motion 05-26: To accept the recommendation of the Curriculum Committee regarding course modifications to ENG 250, ENG 251, ENG 252, ENG 253, ENG 254, ENG 255 and ENG 256. PASSED –
Unanimously |
The second Curriculum Committee proposal was a request to add GG 103 Geology of the Hawaiian Islands to LCC’s A.A. core, Natural Science (NS) 2 Category. GG 103 was voted on and approved by the Senate as a new course on April 20, 2005.
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Motion 05-27 To accept the recommendation of the Curriculum Committee to add GG 103 Geology of the Hawaiian Islands to LCC’s A.A. core, NS 2 Category. PASSED –
Unanimously |
Senator Lococo expressed thanks to Senator Buchanan for her invaluable input regarding Curriculum Committee concerns.
Chair Goodman expressed his gratitude to Senator Lococo for taking on the newly added responsibilities of the Curriculum Committee, including the new Curriculum Central, and the A.A. core revision efforts.
CHAIR’S REPORT:
The ACCFSC Charter was approved by a two-thirds vote during the last ACCFSC Meeting held at WCC on Friday, April 22, 2005. Other items that were discussed are plans for a meeting during the summer, which may or may not occur due to faculty scheduling conflicts and the availability of continuing and non-continuing Senate Chairs.
NEW BUSINESS:
Community College Faculty Senates were asked to provide input on the System
Level Community College Reorganization proposal which was only distributed two
days ago. Input is due to the ACCFSC
Co-Chairs before May 20, 2005. Senators
took issue with the process of the System’s latest reorganization efforts, as
well as, some of the proposal’s content.
Senators were especially frustrated by the bad timing and small window
given, ten days, to review a 40 page document.
Some of the matters that were discussed include the lack of appropriate
consultation by the groups most effected by the reorganization, dual reporting
lines for Chancellors (reporting to both the President and the VP of Community
Colleges), and the seemingly prejudiced, uninformed and premature decision to
reject five other administrative models on the basis of informal conversation,
rather than formal consultation with campus-wide governance bodies, staff, and
faculty.
It was decided that the Senate would submit a list to Chancellor Silliman and the ACCFSC expressing the Senate’s major concerns with the proposal.
Chair Goodman thanked Senators, Officers, and Committee Chairs for their hard work and for making his job these past four years a lot easier than it could have been.
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 4:35 pm.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED: Susan Lum, Secretary