SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGEACADEMIC SENATE MEETING MINUTES

February 27, 2017

Academic Senators: M. Alsoraimi-Esperitu, C. Cheung, P. Haro, A. Johnson, M. Hernandez, B. Kostlan, L. Levy, H. McGray, A. Milburn, P. Patto, M. St. George, A. Sanz, B. Zamora.Officers: J. Akers, R. Escamilla, B. Harris, J. Jarrell, S. Pesce.Proxy Senators:Officers Absent: E. Norvell.Adjunct Senate School Representatives: A. Rivera.Adjunct Senators Absent: S. Miles, W. Wilson. Academic Senators Absent: T. Davies, S. Deaton, E. Engstrom, P. Grooms-Jones, R. Pelletier, Doc Rivera, N. Slinglend, D. Spearman.Guests: J. Boots, B. Alderete.

I. Call to Order: 2:37 P. M.II. Approval of Minutes from February 13th: Approved with amendments.

III. Agenda: Approved with changes (announcements added; item VII.a tabled to future meeting ) IV. Announcements.

a) Election – B. KostlanThe election for the Academic Senate President (Elect) position is now open. A set of guidelines for the process was distributed; these included the time commitment, how to apply, and the timeline for the election. This information will be emailed to all faculty. The new President-Elect will be announced the week of Monday, April 3rd.

b) District Restroom Policy – J. AkersIn reference to the recent email from the Vice Chancellor of Facilities Christopher Manis, new restroom signage will be posted on single-occupancy restrooms to indicate All-Gender. Please share this information with your departments and students.

c) Immigration Information Sessions – J. AkersImmigration lawyers hired by the District will be conducting workshops to address concerns regarding recent immigration legislation and policy. These will be held at City in MS 140 on March 15 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.; March 21 from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.; and April 6th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Senators are encouraged to spread the word about this resource so as to help build a case for an immigration center on campus.

d) Men’s Basketball Team – A. MilburnThe team has advanced to the third round of playoffs and will be hosting Riverside this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for faculty, students and seniors are $8.00; $12 for general admission. Ask A. Milburn about free tickets. Winning team will advance to the final four.

V. Academic Senate Reports.a) MPAROC – A. Rivera

At the February 22 meeting MPAROC had a review of its fall workgroup projects. Topics included integrating program review into master planning; making planning to be more meaningful and relevant; adopting a staggered approach to comprehensive master planning and program review; reporting of departmental goals and objectives; availability of data for program review; integrating SLOs and AOs into program review; embedding forms in Taskstream; requests for hiring, technology, equipment and budget forms; disaggregation of data. J. Akers will invite the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness Susan Murray and the new campus researcher to talk to Senate about the strategic plan and program review process.

b) Social Courtesy Committee –B. HarrisAcademic Senate’s Social Courtesy Committee has sponsored a Retirement Tea for many years, but interest in serving on this committee has waned to one person and gathering information about upcoming retirements has become more difficult to obtain. How should the committee proceed? It was suggested that the name of the committee be changed to something more relevant to party planning. Please take this back to your department to generate interest.

c) “Disaggregated SLO Data” – J. JarrellThe ACCJC standards of 2014 (Standard I.B.6) require that we report on student outcome data in a disaggregated manner in order to see how a group is doing in comparison to the whole or to other groups. Concerns for using this process include student privacy, faculty workload, and faculty control over assessment. More discussion on this issue will be held after the accreditation team visit.

VI. Guests/Special Committees.a) ASG -- B. Alderete

Projects this semester include getting more food options on campus, like food trucks and vending machines, especially vegan and vegetarian; the Social Justice Conference will be held March 22 & 23 from 12:45 to 2:50 p.m.; scholarship selection is underway; cards were sent from ASG students to the campus police department thanking them for their support.

VII. Old Business.a) A.S. Strategic Plan 2017 – implementation.

Tabled to future meeting.b) Student Legal Support – R. Escamilla and M. Hernandez

Next meeting will be on March 10th at noon in MS 451. The support committee now has subcommittees: campus climate, communications, and legal. Committee leaders have a pending meeting with President Wisenhunt to discuss progress on an immigration center. MeCHa students are working with CE students. R. Escamilla attended an ACLU dinner from San Diego County called by the faith community leadership looking for sites for sanctuary. There is work underway on a rapid response system to protect undocumented immigrants. A CityTimes student journalist would like to interview undocumented students for an upcoming article—please contact Melissa at mgdph@live.com if you know students who would be interested. The Union (Grant Robinson) is working on solutions to faculty questions about responding to ICE interruptions in class. J. Akers informed senators of the CSU Chancellor’s alert to CSU students to call campus police to intervene if confronted by ICE agents; he will bring this to DGC to ask for a similar statement from our district.

VIII. New Business.  None

IX. Standing Committees. a) Curriculum Review Committee (CRC) – J. Boots

Last year Miramar College’s CRC voted to combine District 4 and 5 affecting Exercise Science; Mesa’s CRC voted against it. City’s CRC will discuss this on their meeting this Wednesday.

b) Committee on Committees – S. PesceFaculty appointed to the Scholarship Committee: Kristen Cole (Psychology) and Norell Martinez (Chicano/a Studies/English). Faculty appointed to the Professional Development Advisory Committee: Donna Carter (EOPS) and Angelica Palacios (Chicano/a Studies); two more adjuncts and one more contract faculty are still needed for the professional development advisory committee. Elva Salinas will do some more recruiting and then another call for members will be issued.

c) Distance Learning Committee – S. PesceNext meeting of the committee is March 3rd at 11:00 a.m. in R108.

X. Public Comment. P. Patto had suggestions regarding colors for the new City College web site. J. Jarrell

recommended contacting the web site committee members to voice those suggestions. J. Akers has invited the web site committee to report at a future meeting of the Senate.

P. Haro asked about the timeline for the Canvas conversion. S. Pesce said it is still in limbo due to the ERP (Peoplesoft) conversion.

XI. Adjourn: 3:54 P.M.