Approved Faculty Senate Minutes

9/28/2000

I. Call to Order

A. A quorum being present, President Reed called the Senate to order

at 2:33 in the HTC1 Teleconference Room.

Present: President Jim Reed; Vice President Carmela Arnoldt; Senators

Renée Barstack, Larry Bohlender, Jim Daugherty, Paul DePippo, Gay

Garesche, Patricia Hofer, Robert Hubbard, Phil Moloso, David Raffaelle,

Jack Rose, Jeanne

Saint-Amour, Kirt Shineman, Bill Stewart; and Councilor-at-large Linda

Smith.

Absent: None

Guests: Including, but not limited to, Lyle Walcott, Ruth Callahan, and

Richard Cary.

B. Arnoldt moved to approve the agenda. (Garesché seconded) DePippo

asked whether he could address Reed's "One Agenda, Please" letter read

to the Board 9/26/2000 under Communication with Administration, II.A.

It was agreed. Motion to approve agenda as amended PASSED unanimously.

C. Arnoldt moved to approve the minutes of 8/31/2000. (Smith

seconded) Numerous corrections were requested. DePippo moved that the

minutes from 8/31, 9/14 and 9/21 be approved at the next meeting.

(Hubbard seconded) Concern was expressed that this would delay when the

faculty would receive the minutes. Motion to approve at next meeting

FAILED. Yeas: DePippo, Hubbard, Moloso. Nay: Daugherty, Arnoldt,

Stewart, Smith, Shineman, Rose, Saint-Amour, Garesché, Bohlender,

Barstack. Abstain: Rafaelle, Hofer. Motion to approve the 8/31 minutes

as amended

PASSED unanimously.

Arnoldt moved to approve the minutes of the 9/14 Senate meeting.

(Daugherty seconded) Motion to approve as amended PASSED unanimously.

Daugherty moved to approve the minutes of the 9/21 Senate meeting.

(Barstack seconded) Motion to approve as amended PASSED unanimously.

D. Treasurer's Report - Treasury balance of $15,551,50, with one

outstanding check of $2,112.50 to District Faculty Assn for cash

memberships. Smith asked why the Faculty/Staff Development Committee

has not received the $600 the Senate approved towards the presentation

of "The Gift" and the tree. Moloso said he has not been presented with

a

bill or a receipt. He needs one in order to write a check.

GCC's Faculty Assn membership has risen to 130.5.

Moloso indicated that he is resigning from the Senate as of the end

of the meeting. He is also declining his nomination to the Staffing

Committee.

E. President's Report

1. Reed has discussed with President Pollack how the Senate and

faculty could meet with her and the deans. President Pollack

offered to pay for breakfasts, if the Senate would like to meet at

7:00a.m.

2. The Kellogg Foundation has declined the Los Vecinos project.

There is no intention to submit the grant proposal elsewhere at this

time.

3. Reed has some materials from MCC concerning their campus

climate study. He will make them available.

4. At a PEC debriefing concerning the 9/18 Board meeting

Arnoldt, attending with Reed, suggested identifying an

editor for President Pollack's memos.

5. Reed wanted to halt some rumors that the Counseling Dept. is

to move under a different dean and how it was that Susan High ran

unopposed for chair of the Counseling Dept. He said that another

faculty member had also been nominated for chair, but that he had

withdrawn his name. Hence, she was unopposed.

6. Reed has sent flowers to Toni McClory and to Ann

Brandt-Williams following their surgeries.

II. Old Business

A. Communication with Administration (Breakfast) - Arnoldt suggested

breakfast meetings might be another

appeasement. Senate was reminded of its earlier decision to not have

the President at

Senate meetings because it makes them too long. Rather we had agreed to

meet

on other Thursday afternoons that are not the fourth Thursday of the

month. To start, Reed will ask that she meet with the Senate only, and

without her deans. The topics will be announced later. It was

suggested that Joseph

Bednorz could help with the meetings.

DePippo made a few comments about "One Agenda, Please". (See

Attachment 1). 1). It should have been reviewed by the Senate, despite

the disclaimer. The Senate president is always perceived to be speaking

for

the faculty. 2). The history of faculty going after Board members is

not

good. It has always harmed faculty. (He gave example). 3) The letter

puts the faculty between a Board member and a high level administrator.

4). When the letter states "We strongly support our President and

Deans...", this type of unqualified support could be interpreted as

license. 5.) The faculty appear to be allied with other employee

groups. To treat faculty as another employee group is to diminish

faculty's power.

Arnoldt said we can't expect other employee groups would agree with

our request to change a hard won process. We would not like the process

circumvented by other employee groups. She further commented that

Eastin and Pollack's is not our agenda.

Saint-Amour said she supports our campus against any outside

interference, however that is not to say that she supports the

administration's policies without qualification. She said she is

concerned that having gone to the PEC and having the PEC over-rule the

Senate is clearly a loss of faculty power. She expressed concern about

what this could do to education. As educators, faculty know more about

instruction than any other employee group on campus.

Garesché was gratified to hear the Chancellor say that all employees

have areas in which they are the appropriate decisionmakers. He

repeated that statement towards the end of the 9/18 Board meeting at

GCC. He

clearly gave support to the principle of shared governance.

Hubbard asked Reed why he didn't ask Senate to review the letter.

Reed

said he didn't see himself as representing faculty. He wanted to take a

stand. Hubbard advised Reed that he can't beat the Board, and that Reed

placed the

faculty in jeopardy. He said the Senate president "can't step out of

your skin", as he and Paul know, having been Senate presidents.

Daugherty said no one disagreed with Reed at the 9/18 Board

meeting.

Reed said he "will bridle his tongue henceforth".

B. Nomination Committee for Two Senators - Daugherty attempted to

reconvene the nomination committee from last spring. Two of the

non-Senate members declined to serve. Last spring Pat Haas served as a

Senator on the committee. He has agreed to serve as a non-Senate member

of the committee now. The new nominating committee to be Senators

Daugherty

and Hubbard, and non-Senators Pat Haas, Richard Cary and Steve Emrick.

Moloso recommended preferential balloting for the election. He

enumerated its advantages. Daugherty cited Robert's Rules as saying

that preferential balloting is not ideal if a run-off is possible.

Smith indicated that the Constitution indicates that the nominating

committee decides the type of balloting and that preferential balloting

is given as an alternative voting method in the Constitution, and that

previous research by the elections committee indicated that elections

with few candidates for a small number of slots were adversely affected

by preferential voting.

C. Faculty Mentoring/ Faculty Picnic - The decision was made to hold

the

picnic indoors. (Noted that it is no longer a picnic then). It will

make

it easier to sign up faculty in the Faculty Assn. It is to be held in

the Student Lounge at 1:00 p.m.

Meetings are being planned by the Faculty/Staff Development

Committee to provide mentoring to new faculty.

Current plans are for a meeting in October, one in November, and perhaps

as many as three in the spring.

III.B. Voting on email - (item taken out of order) Discussion followed

concerning whether the Senate should discuss and vote on issues on

email. Hofer explained that she didn't see the item, that the Senate

attempted to vote on before the 9/14 meeting was called instead, until

the vote had been taken. She suggested that we need some rules.

Perhaps it would work if the

Senate president gives a 72 hour vote warning. It would require a

change

in the Constitution. Informal polls among Senators would be fine in

some cases. Some Senators felt

that the email approach doesn't seem to allow for discussion. Bohlender

spoke in favor. He

said GCC has a computer package called Perception in the HTC for

polling. Shineman commented that technology is a problem in

communication. People appear to be willing to say things in an email

that they would never say in person. Shineman moved to create a

committee to look into the possibility of using email for Senate votes.

(Smith seconded) Moloso commented that if an issue is not important, it

can wait until the next Senate meeting. If it is important, the

Executive Committee can decide. Richard Cary suggested that it is not a

good way to represent the faculty, as it amounts to a secret ballot.

Smith thought it would shorten the lengthy Senate agendas. Motion to

create committee PASSED unanimously. Committee to be chaired by

Bohlender; members Hofer, Saint-Amour and Shineman.

II. Old Business (continued)

D. Communication with Faculty - Moloso distributed lists of faculty

assigned to each Senate member to keep in touch with this year. The

list doesn't indicate which faculty belong to the Faculty Assn and which

don't.

E. Campus Forum - The next Campus Forum will be two weeks from

today.

It will continue the discussion on ethics. Next topic: whether campus

safety

officers should carry firearms.

F. Recruitment - Covered above.

G. Dual Enrollment - The campus meeting on dual enrollment was

rescheduled to October

20th. Hubbard asked how Garesché became a

member of the Legislature's Dual Enrollment Study Committee. Garesché

replied that the governor had requested her resumé and appointed her.

H. Donation for "the Gift" and tree - Covered above

III. New Business

A. Campus Climate Survey - Garesché moved that a committee be

created to gather information about campus climate surveys. Reed and

Arnoldt informed Senate about how the results of the first part of MCC's

campus climate survey were returned to the campus administration, which

was able to identify respondents who made unfavorable comments. There

appears to have been retribution. Hubbard asked who would pay for the

survey. He is concerned that if we don't pay, we won't get to call the

shots. The College is to pay. Comments made to the effect that if

Senate

identifies good options for the survey, we can affect what instrument is

used. Motion to form committee PASSED unanimously. Members: Reed,

Smith, Barstack, Garesché, Lamkin and Arnoldt.

C. Referenda Resolution - Several Senators thought the proposed

language was too open-ended. It appeared every vote would need to be

taken

to the faculty for approval. Daugherty suggested the Senate would

decide what is "significant". It was suggested that it might raise

faculty's expectations

unreasonably. Moloso thought the Constitution's passage on which

Daugherty based his proposal was intended to allow faculty to overturn

Senate decisions. Perhaps polling or straw polls is what the Senate

could use.

Hubbard moved to table the proposal. (Barstack seconded) Yeas:

Arnoldt, Stewart, Smith, Shineman, Rafaelle, Rose, Saint-Amour,

Garesché, Hubbard, Bohlender, DePippo, Moloso, Barstack. Abstain:

Daugherty.

D. Faculty Code of Ethics - A District committee is forming to

address this. Saint-Amour pointed out that as academics, we have the

expertise to write a code of

ethics. Hubbard mentioned that the Professional Rights &

Responsibilities Committee had made recommendations to the

administration. Reed asked whether it had to have teeth in order to

have an effect. Hubbard agreed. DePippo pointed out that the

Professional Rights & Responsibilites Committee's purpose was only to

settle issues between

faculty.

E. Bookstore Follow-up - Smith received information that the episode

she described at the previous Senate meeting will not be repeated. The

bookstore manager has agreed that study guides/other materials

recommended by the bookstore staff will not be placed with faculty

required texts.

F. Slate Process - Garesché reminded the Senate that we had agreed

to consider ways to improve the process for generating committee

slates. Garesché proposed to put forward a

recommendation by email before the next Senate meeting.

Reed mentioned that a proposed member of the Student Services

Subcommittee of the Budget Committee has declined the appointment. Reed

will put forward the next

name on the list by email.

IV. Information

A. Book for New Faculty - Smith showed the Senate a book that the

Faculty/Staff Development Committee proposed to purchase for each

new faculty member. The book is "Advice for New Faculty Members", by

Robert Boice. The price is $25.20/copy. She will make a motion at the

next meeting.

B. Campus information request - Dean Abel has asked how she could

find out what we need to be more effective.

C. Response to Kozak - Arnoldt suggested that the Senate formulate a

response to Scott Kozak's letter to the campus following the 9/18

meeting. Comments followed to the effect that PEC is the problem, not

Kozak. Hubbard mentioned that

PEC is eroding our (the Senate's) power. DePippo said the PEC weakens

the power of the faculty. Faculty are grossly underrepresented on PEC.

Garesché said that while they decide things by consensus on the PEC, the

small number of faculty cannot carry the argument in a large committee.

That was our experience on the Budget Committee that lead the Budget

Process Review Team to make the number of faculty equal to the number of

other employee group members on the committee. Bohlender likened the

PEC to the Senate of the U.S., where each state has equal

representation, irrespective of its size. This underrepresents a

large employee group, like the faculty.

D. 9/18 Board Meeting Tape - Arnoldt mentioned that a videotape is

available of the 9/18 Board meeting here at GCC. DePippo mentioned that

every department chair also has been given a copy.

E. Buyback - Doug Dawson brought forward a problem with the buyback

of years for the State Retirement System. He requested that the FEC

members ask that the Faculty Assn lawyer, Mike Napier, look into

possible problems with the IRS for faculty who are buying back years and

making contributions to a TSA account. The issue has already been taken

to the FEC.

V. Meeting adjourned 5:09.

Respectfully submitted,

Gay Garesché

Attachment 1

Dear Colleagues:

The presidents of our campus employee associations met several days ago

and drafted the following letter. I then took the letter to the Board

last evening and read it at the citizens' interim. I made it quite

clear that these words came ONLY from the five individuals listed at the

bottom of the letter. Although other opinions we're quite certain

exist, we felt a very definite need, and took this opportunity, to

express ours--complete with title.

"Only One Agenda, Please!

We find it truly unfortunate that more than one agenda was being

entertained at Glendale Community College's meeting with the Chancellor

and Governing Board. While four of the five Board Members as well as

the Chancellor pledged their support to our President Dr. Pollack, Board

President Gene Eastin seized upon this opportunity to dredge up issues

from the past and called for her resignation. In so doing, Mr. Eastin

did not act in accordance with the directive from NCA, nor did he move

forward in a spirit of reconciliation, but chose rather to undermine

NCA's clearly stated recommendations.

For many of us in attendance this provided an all too real example of

the unprofessional and inappropriate behavior we have grown to abhor and

will no longer tolerate among our GCC administration, faculty, or staff.

Such actions and comments are even less tolerable from the individual

who was elected to objectively govern--not micro-manage--the number one

community college district in the United States.

Our employee groups began this term in a very upbeat fashion, and we as

their elected leadership refuse to waiver from our college-wide

commitment to develop community. We look forward to another year of

shared governance as we continue to serve the needs of our students

through our Mission and our tradition of educational excellence. We

strongly support our President and Deans as we further our productive

dialogues and develop more effective programs to better serve the needs

of our students and community."

James W. Reed, Ph.D., President of the Faculty Senate

Scott Kozak, President of the Professional Staff Association

Herman Gonzalez, President of the Management, Administrative, and

Technological Employee Association

Bruce Morrison, President of the Crafts Employee Association

Mario Quezada, President of the Maintenance and Operations Employee

Association