Location: Kirk Student Center, Papago Room

Members:	Representing/Office	Present:	Absent:
Phillip Carrillo	At-large	X
Harold Cranswick	Zone 5	X
Lyn Dutson	Zone 1		X
Charles Horn	Active Retirees Rep.	X
Mehrzad Khorsandi	At-large	X
Charles Lewis	President	X
David Nachman	Zone 8, Secretary	X
Gregg Pratt	At-large	X
Erin Rawson	At-large		X
Janice Reilly	President-elect	X
Mona Scott	At-large		X
John Seims	Zone 4	X
Ann Stine	At-large, DCA liaison		X
Naomi Story	Zone 7	X
Barry Vaughan	Zone 3	X
Niccole Villa Cerveny	At-large		X
Phillip Waclawski	Zone 2, Treasurer	X
Maureen Zimmerman	Zone 6	X

I. Call to Order at 3:15 p.m.

II. Agenda Approval

The agenda was unanimously approved.

III. Approval of Minutes

The minutes of the 2/5/2004 meeting were unanimously approved as amended.

IV. Treasurerπs Report

The Treasurer reported $50,334.38 in the Senateπs accounts.

V. Committee & Project Reports

No reports received.

VI. Old Business

A. Senate/DCA/Administrators retreat will proceed as scheduled. The Presidentπs office has distributed a set of discussion questions to guide our deliberations.

B. Distance Education degrees will be the subject of a retreat being planned by Dean Mee. The issues of interest to the Senate include the go/no-go enrollment limit for distance delivery classes and any restrictions placed on the percent of a faculty memberπs teaching load delivered at a distance.

C. Student records are accessible by military recruiters, under the Solomon Act.

D. Bond election support subcommittee does not have uniform support in the FEC, and will not be established district-wide.

E. Staffing/hiring recommendations for administrative positions will go from managers and division directors to the appropriate dean, who will take the recommendation to a Deansπ Council where final recommendations to the President will be made. The Senate will ask the leaders of the PSA and MAT employee groups to share their viewpoints on the implications of this staffing model.

F. Speed bumps are approved for installation in the South parking lot.

VII. New Business

A. Instructional Councils (ICs) have the responsibility and authority to request the amendment or establishment of minimum qualifications for the hiring of faculty. Rumor has it that Dr. Anna Solley has consulted with college deans to establish minimum qualifications in some cases, so the ICs should remain vigilant.

B. The Senate approved payment of an invoice for flowers sent in sympathy for the death of Board member Gene Eastin.

VIII. Information & Announcements

A. Presidentπs report

1. Innovation awards have been announced.

2. Charles Lewis has invited Chancellor Glasper to meet with our Senate.

B. President-electπs report

1. Faculty at another college have expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed administrative regulations covering travel by MCCD employees. The regulations were designed by members of the Risk Management office in the District Legal department without input from the affected employees.

2. The District Human Resources department is thought to believe that hiring more HR employees and reclassifying some of their current positions at higher level will solve the current chaos in our hiring processes. The HR department wants to require that each member of a search committee for new hiring will undergo training by HR staff. The HR staff has obstructed the hiring of international faculty holding J-1 visas. No apparent consideration has been given to making the current HR office more efficient.

C. Secretaryπs report

No report.

D. Department Chair Association liaison report

No report.

E. Active retiree representative report

Charles Horn has sent invitations to active retired faculty inviting them to participate on a committee to establish the issues of importance to the community of 49%-ers.

F. Senate membersπ reports

1. At-large members

Philip Carrillo made us aware of the collegeπs non-enforcement of the limit placed on the number of times a student may register for the same course. In one case, a disruptive student has registered for ENG101 12 times. The Senate leadership will ask Dean Johnson whether this is a problem in the advisement area or in the registration process. It may be that the new Student Information System will solve this problem.

2. Zone representatives

Phillip Waclawski inquired as to the status of the 12-month pay option for faculty working on a 9-month academic calendar. The Senate has no information to suggest that the option will not be in place by summer 2004, as promised.

John Seims pointed out a faculty concern that the Department Chair Evaluation form might not uncover a department chairπs actual faults; that poor instructors and bad chairs could collude to cover up such faults.

Harold Cranswick reported that the concern for the mid-term and long-term future of Information Technology planning is widely shared. The Senate called for the initiation of a white-paper/visioning process, to involve technology-savvy faculty, especially young faculty whose future careers are most at stake.

Maureen Zimmerman reported that faculty are concerned about the confidentiality of the Department Chair evaluation process, and have suggested the need for revising Appendix D of the Residential Faculty Policies manual, which covers the selection, evaluation, and responsibilities of department chairs.

Naomi Story asked if the Senate would consider how faculty assigned in the Business & Industry Institute are represented among the Senate zones. She also distributed preliminary data on the disparate disbursement of funds from Proposition 301.