Faculty Council Meeting Minutes
October 10, 2003
Approved October 24, 2003

Faculty Council members & Liaisons present:

Mary Brau Mason Davis Norma Driscoll Sharon Hagan Teresa Hughes Laura Maitland Larry Scott Bob Barber Sheila Broderick

David Leung Judy McKenzie Benedict Nmah Albert Pooth Jim Salt John Thompson Mark Williams

 

 

 

 

Also present for open discussion:

Stan Taylor Anne McGrail Jane Benjamin Margaret Bayless Mary Spilde Karen Louise White Sharon Kimble Dennis Gilbert Bill Griffiths

Russell Shitabata Ken Zimmerman Eileen Thompson Stan Taylor David Shellabarger Lee Imonen Michael McDonald Dale Green

 

 

 

 

Announcements

New notes/minutes administrator: Ingrid Tucker

Special Presentation Re: Governance Committee Progress to date (Bob Barber)

Current Status
Representational Committee working on a plan. Its next meetings are in late October. Its charter calls for it to make recommendations to the President. The President is accountable to the Board for having such a plan, but not (formally at least) for what’s in the plan.

Background
Moskus years led to creation of current policy B070.
Now the opportunity to revamp has arisen with new president and with the catalyst of the Accreditation Standard 6 team report that was critical of the system relative to accreditation standards.

Board had a retreat in June. Formally decided to go to “governance by policy” and delegate the system to the President. The Board Governance Policy is now official.

Board also began the process of specifying certain parameters to the President. The College Governance Policy has been through one reading but has been held back from a second reading.

In this context the President has appointed the task force of managers, classified staff, faculty, and ASLCC. Faculty reps are Bob Barber and Karen Louise White for faculty council and Jim Salt and Stan Taylor for LCCEA. Scheduled meetings are Oct. 27, Oct. 29, and Nov. 3.

Have created a charter and some working principles. A draft will go out for college wide consideration. The draft will be of recommendations to the President. Nothing ready to be offered for consideration by the committee yet. Some initial discussion of “functional councils.” Division-level governance is outside the scope of this project.

The faculty teams need help thinking about this from all faculty members.

Open Discussion Re: Governance System
Suggestions brought by two or more participators
Make better use of, expand scope of collective bargaining
Consider CC demographics/history
Make a distinction between input process and decision-making
Increase decision-making capacity of faculty
Clearer lines of communication, coordination of efforts to meet goals
Functional work teams further advancing LCC mission
More faculty involvement
In-service day meeting to brainstorm, provide direction, input/vested interest
Troubleshoot first, plan second
Smooth over false sense of concensus
Recognize tensions, differences
Lack of availability of info/adequacy of info
Consider where decisions needed, leave other issues alone
Adopt a multi-dimensional perspective about governance
Consider/evaluate labor relations principles
Every decision need not be a shared governance decision
Adopt broader view of shared gov.—union/council as well as mgmt/fac/staff
Don’t need agreement for shared gov. to work
Look toward president for leadership
-Bob Barber opened discussion to examples of non-efficient gov. decisions; Banyan e-mail sys was brought up; decision as to which vacant contracted positions to fill did not have faculty involvement.
-Jim Salt offered thoughts on right of representation and issue of authority of board over the president.
-Suggestion to explicate the structural similarities and differences between part and full time faculty and administration. Hard to share governance when including part-time staff. “Time constraints hinder voices”
Consider student perspective re governance.
Consider faculty workload

Council Business
-Reviewed charter: suggestions regarding meeting format to condense meeting time to 90 minutes using practice of prior year. Council members agreed to electronic organizational format for committee reports with pertinent items discussed at meetings.
-Suggest structure to create format to facilitate thoughtful participation.
-Suggest discussion board to frame issues and also get increased benefit of face-to-face discussion
-Current charter under revision, waiting on governance discussion

Future FC Items

Strategic Plan & Strategic Directions: Presentation & Discussion set for October 24th.
The Committee to develop Strategic Directions is in progress

Accreditation Self-Study
-Issues available on LCC website
-Request to highlight issues to be brought up for discussion

Credit for Prior Learning
-New policy defining why doing this
-Parallels language found in 2.3 policy: conditions B, F, G, I, J, L, M
-Condition B clarified: no credit for prior work can be attained through co-op education; co-op education is different from Credit for Prior Learning

3-4 Credit Conversion
-Mary Brau reported via handout to all present members

New Agenda Business suggestions
-Certification process review
-On-line education, faculty training
-Ways in which we currently practice divisional representation, active roles in department division meetings

Adjourn 4:41 pm
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