General Meeting Information

Date: February 26, 2018
Time: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: ADM 109


  • Agenda

    Time Topic Purpose Discussion Leader
    2:30 - 2:35 p.m. Welcome I De Toro
    2:35 - 2:40 p.m. Approval of Agenda & Notes from February 12, 2018 meeting A De Toro
    2:40 - 2:50 p.m. Needs and Confirmations I/D/A De Toro
    2:50 - 3:00 p.m. Courses Into Disciplines and Faculty Service Area (FSA) Review—Physical Sciences, Math, and Engineering (PSME), Creative Arts, and Language Arts I/D/A
    • Setziol
    • De Toro
    • others
    3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Resolution on Applying to be part of Online Education Initiative (OEI) 2.0 Consortium (2nd Discussion) I/D De Toro
    3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Low Textbook Cost Designation Process and Form (2nd reading/discussion) I/D/A Hearn
    3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Instructional Planning and Budget Team (IPBT) Review of Departments and Programs Process and Matrix (see “February 20 Meeting Notes” on the IPBT website)  I/D Pape
    3:45 - 4:00 p.m. Business Process Alignment Task Force document (presented to 2/9 Chancellor’s Advisory Committee meeting for review)—see link on Senate Agendas webpage  I/D De Toro
    4:00 - 4:25 p.m. Committee Updates I/D
    • De Toro
    • Stockwell
    • Woodbury
    • Pape
    4:25 - 4:30 p.m. Good of the Order and Appreciations
    • Update: Valerie Greene and Angelica Esquivel secured $250 from Classified Senate to support UndocuAllies Training
     I All

    A = Action
    D = Discussion
    I = Information

  • Minutes

    Meeting Minutes


    Approval of Agenda & Notes from February 12, 2018 meeting
    • Agenda approved
    • No requests to edit notes, no objections, notes approved

    Courses Into Disciplines and Faculty Service Area (FSA) Review—Physical Sciences, Math, and Engineering (PSME), Creative Arts, and Language Arts
    • PSME, Creative Arts, Language Arts
      • PSME: No changes to existing list, don’t know about math - move to next week;
      • LA - Speech => Communication Studies
    • Notes from Paul:
      • If requesting changing FSA name, must contact sister school (FH) to confirm
      • Catalog has changed course title, but FSA has not changed; change to align with university curriculum title (name)
    • Mary Sullivan moves to approve name change to align with university name - approved; 1 abstention, no objections
    • Creative Arts and LA - All had input
    • No state list for FSA discipline
    • Any time there is a change in qualifying discipline, needs to invite input from ALL faculty in department, FT AND PT

    Resolution on Applying to be part of Online Education Initiative (OEI) 2.0 Consortium (2 nd discussion)
    • To write a resolution: De Anza needs to work with administration - collaborate
    • Mary Sullivan motioned to move forward, all in favor, no abstentions or objections

    Business Process Alignment Task Force document (presented to 2/9 Chancellor’s Advisory Committee meeting for review)
    • To merge FH and DA so that students don’t overlap fees and be more uniform at both campuses, classes, requirements
    • Karen wants to discuss: needs representation from faculty and students to diversify task force
    • Areas for exploring - Application and Admissions, Fin. Aid, Matriculation, Term Dates, Registration Periods, Educational Planning
    • Marc Coronado suggested counselors and students on task force, reduce administration
    • Have people on task force who are actually experiencing issues as they happen
    • Push for counselors to be on task force - they talk to students and know about their issues
    • Administrator or faculty? Those who talk to DACA students

    Instructional Planning and Budget Team (IPBT) Review of Departments and Programs Process and Matrix (see “ February 20 Meeting Notes ” on the IPBT website)
    • Looking at each dept in each division and looking at what each dept is doing to look to see what they are doing right to improve enrollment
    • Geography - number of sections correct - ratio
    • Each team looks at division and dept to see what dept is doing
    • Fill rates - What percentage of sections are full in dept
    • IPBT will talk to Deans about depts, deans will in turn talk to chairs
    • WSCH per FTFE - Weekly Student Contact Hours/Full-Time Faculty Equivalent
    • Shooting for 509 for productivity
    • Timeline for March 9 (ADM 109) for IPBT to put together date
    • IPBT looking at budget planning for each dept and division, looking at courses of liability
    • Paul Klingman: Nothing would be discussed behind closed doors: Concern that is not true
    • Erik Woodbury - offered for anyone who wants to come to IPBT meeting to offer suggestions welcome to be there
    • IPBT Meeting on March 9: 8:30 am to 4:00 in ADM 109 pm to discuss programs

    Low Textbook Cost Designation Process and Form (2nd reading/discussion)
    • Cost cut-off: $50 suggested by Marc Coronado, agreement from Mary Pape; Erik Woodbury concerned about sequence course book - What exactly is the cost? Divide by 3? E-text cost could be used instead of hard-copy; Cheryl Balm - When do we revisit costs? - Reconsider if wide-spread complaint by students or faculty; Lydia suggested DASB or Academic Senate bring up reconsiderations
    • Not all faculty uses the same textbook for sequence courses - can’t guarantee faculty will use same book for sequence courses ● New purchasing price as baseline
    • Cost per copy - print out to bring to class (reader) - 15 cents/page
    • Process to make faculty and bookstore aware of costs earlier
    • If students are required to print out themselves - DA Bookstore or themselves - 15 cents/page
    • $50 or less, new purchase price, 15 cents/page, revision from “no-cost” to “low-cost”
    • Rob Clem motions, Mary Donahue second, no objections, no abstentions - passed

    Committee Updates:
    • Suggestions that colleges offer more variety of certificates
    • Provisional credentials - “Single Course Equivalency”; work on campus FT as instructor - faculty interns - official instructor of record, college supply mentor, two years to get credentials
    • CTE quals possibly too high
    • Faculty websites moved over Spring Break
    • Omni training to move faculty websites
    • Mary Donahue encourages faculty to go to training to switch over websites, Cheryl Balm and Paul Klingman concerned about confusing nature of information or when switch will happen; Mary Pape concerned links will be broken when site moved over
    Accreditation report from Mallory Newell:

    After the site visit in October 2017 by a team from the Accrediting Commission for Junior Colleges (ACCJC), the commission gave De Anza three compliance recommendations that need to be addressed within 18 months, in order to reaffirm the college’s accreditation for the full seven years. Upon receiving the ACCJC letter in late January, Senior Staff agreed the college would work towards full reaffirmation as quickly as possible and submit a follow-up report for the June ACCJC Commission meeting, rather than waiting 18 months. This means the college needs to submit a follow-up report by March 6.

    As you probably know, all faculty members have been asked to ensure that the SLOs on their green sheets matched the SLO on their Course Outline of Record. That grew out of one of the commission recommendations. We are confident that faculty, division deans and division assistants have worked diligently to ensure this happened and that the college is now in compliance.

    The SLO Core Team has been working with faculty, departments and student service areas to ensure that all courses and programs have been assessed at least once in the past six years and that this information is entered in TracDat. We also feel the college is now in compliance with this recommendation.

    Lastly, the faculty members whose online courses were reviewed by the accreditation team have now provided detailed information about the ways they engage students in substantive interaction. These examples are included in the follow-up report and we feel the college is in compliance with this recommendation as well.

    The follow-up report is scheduled for approval by College Council on March 1. It will go to the district Board of Trustees by March 5 and be submitted to ACCJC the following day. During a follow-up site visit, scheduled for April 26, one of the visiting team members will return to determine if De Anza has met the three compliance recommendations.

    The college will learn its reaffirmation status after the June ACCJC Board meeting. The follow-up report will be posted by March 6 on the De Anza accreditation website. If you have any questions, please contact the accreditation liaison officer, Mallory Newell.


    Good of the Order and Appreciations

    Update: Valerie Greene and Angelica Esquivel secured $250 from Classified Senate to support UndocuAllies Training

    • Global Issues Conference tomorrow 9-3:30 Conf A&B
      • Power of Community
    • Convocation Friday!
    • Marc Coronado - Women Studies 29 - Masculinity
    • Erik Woodbury - Curriculum Committee update - almost done with revisions, need to be done by March 21, May 2 EVERYTHING needs to be turned in; 2 workshops - check curriculum website, April 17 and 24, 2:30-4:00 pm, working with SLO to implement SLO into curriculum process
    • SLO Convocation Friday, March 2 - need to be there to tell chairs what we need
    • Mary Donahue - Outdoor Club kayaking

    Officers and Senators


    Executive Committee Members Present

    Name Position Present
    Karen Chow President  
    Jim Nguyen Vice President   
    Alicia Del Toro Executive Secretary/Treasurer Y
    Yael Karmi PT Y
    Mary Donahue PT Y
    Paul Klingman App Tech Y
    John Walton App Tech  
    Bob Kalpin BHES  
    Peter Miskin BHES Y
    Mia Breen Bus/CIS  
    Mary Pape Bus/CIS  
    Milena Grozeva Levy CA Y
    Vacancy CA  
    Nellie Vargas CD&E  
    Natasha Joplin Counseling  Y
    Rob Clem Counseling  Y
    Vacancy DSPS  
    Maria Delas DSPS Y
    Catie Cadge Moore IIS  
    Marc Coronado ICS/IIS Y
    Cheryl Balm PSME  
    Chris DiLeonardo PSME Y
    Iva Tracey LA  
    Vacancy LA  
    Laura Chin SSH Y
    My Linh Pham SSH Y
    Arden Kragalott PE  
    Scott Hertler PE  
    Tom Dolen LR Y
    Mary Sullivan SD Y
    Eric Woodbury Curriculum Committee Y
    Natahsa Joplin Counseling Y
    Anita Vazdifar DSPS Y

    Guests Present

    Name Position Present
    Brian Murphy DA Pres  
    Stacey Cook VPSS  
    Christina Espinosa-Pieb VPI  
    Susan Cheu VPFCO  
    Lorrie Ranck AVPI  
    TBA OSOD  
    Marisa Spatafore Mktng  
    Vacancy DASB  
    Bob Stockwell FA  
    Lorna Maynard CS  
    Elias Kamal Student Trustee  
    Mallory Newell IR  
    Moaty Fayek Dean BS/CIS  
    Renee Augenstein Articulation  
    Mary Bennett Tenure Review  
    Sheila White-Daniels Dean Counseling  
    Nancy Canter Dean CA  
    Alicia Cortez Interim Dean, Equity and Engagement  
    Coleen Lee Wheat Dean PE  
    Isaac Escoto FH Academic Senate  
    Mayra Cruz District Academic Senate President  
    Pam Grey AVPCO  
    Stacey Shears DSP&S  
    Anita Kandula Dean BHES  
    Michele LeBleu-Burns Dean, Stud Dev/EOPS  
    Rob Mieso Associate VP of Student Services  
    Lisa Mandy Dir Finan Aid  
    Tamica Ward Enrollment Services Dean  
    Edmundo Norte Dean IIS  
    Thomas Ray Dean LA  
    Jerry Rosenberg Dean PSME  
    Judy Miner Chancellor  
    Dawn Lee Tu Office of Professional Development  
    Carolyn Wilkins-Green Dean SSH  
    Kelly Swanson Book Store  
    Mary Pape SLO  
    David Ulate FHDA Research & Planning  

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