Representatives and Guests
Ray Smith (Computer Services)
Jim Salt (LCCEA)

Faculty Statements
-Mary Brau announced there will be forthcoming division presentations and possibly a quiz on the overall accreditation process
-Mark Williams passed out form/survey for faculty members to submit opinions of  the Instructional Technology Center, announced future formal proposal re instruction resource spending
-Judy McKenzie suggested working with Tamara Pinkas on links to a listing of all faculty publications.  Bob confirmed faculty council web page may be used, a few council members voiced interest in this suggestion
-Shannon Gaul announced Health Fair 1/28 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Workforce Training Center
-Mark Harris asks for the appropriate forum in which to explore a student complaint of a racist instructor—union? Faculty Council? Diversity Council? Management?  Mason mentioned current harassment policy; issue will be for future agenda
-Mason announced the February 27 discussion re 11-wk summer and Friday, 1/30/04 discussion re electronic evaluation procedure

Last (1/9/04) minutes approved

Discussion of governance in instruction emphasizing a) expanding and formalizing the role of faculty and b) creating a Learning Council as a means for faculty, students, classified staff, and administration to work together
-Bob Barber passed out a memo re Governance Task Force update with attached proposed Learning Council charter, gave overview of current standing

• extreme pressure to produce report w/in two weeks
• The all-staff discussion will be open during the period before the March Board meeting
• add’l council proposed:  Learning Council to integrate faculty with other elements of college to form more diversified group for decision-making
• Mary Spilde has been invited to attend the next meeting

Suggestions, comments, questions presented by faculty members/guests

• need a way of channeling issues to the people working on them in a functional way
• compliance is ongoing issue, who has the responsibility for what sectors of decision-making, address this later re governance process
• what will be the role of the Learning Council in taking information from other councils?
• consider what roles currently exist and how input is processed, find solutions as opposed to creating problems to solve, develop plans
• ultimately, mgmt has power to break disagreements
• Karen-Louise White was there to remind council that as much as possible, the decisions will be made by the Learning Council because proposals/decisions will be going back and forth between management and council with reasons, explanations, and accountability from mgmt
• where does unit planning fit in this proposed system?
• Will this system fix current unit planning problems?
• need for integration between unit planning and budget finance
• when admin., faculty, and more diverse group agree, fine.  But what happens when the group disagrees?  This issue needs work.
• consider the role of College Council in relation to this proposed integrated body
• where does the power really lie?  Seems to lie within the budget
• many councils must be involved in order for this to work
• functional councils will focus on planning and policy, we still need standing committees, there will still be initiatives from faculty and programs
• Not all committees will continue to exist; where things are working, they become standing committees under the council.  For example, placing Curriculum approval under auspices of Faculty Council.  No chart as of yet-only conversational
• philosophically speaking, it’s interesting we’re still using the term “management”—if questions are asked, management always has the “larger stick”
• accreditation standards 2 and 4, all standards distributed out in ongoing way, councils receive responsibility.  These are the two that focus on instructional & faculty issues.
• concern:  commitment to this new system must be taken seriously—is faculty willing to make a more qualitative and quantitative commitment?
• faculty council should look at this commitment as an opportunity, not only a demand
• This IS where the work will be done
• who ensures compliance re current substance abuse policy?  Not enough departmental support to administer required surveys—is this an instructional issue?  Student affairs council?  Organizational council?  Faculty council?  
• Bob asks that all faculty council members share this discussion with department faculty and staff

Requests for Faculty Representation on Facilities Management Team & Space Assignment Committee
-requests will go out electronically, need 1 faculty person for each appointment

Decision on Luminous Workgroup Membership
-it is agreed that the following volunteers will develop the model; Mark Williams will convene and report progress to faculty council
          Mara Levin, EFLS                        Bert Pooth, Science
          Jane Benjamin, Social Science      Linda Osak, CIT
          Sharon Kimble, BT                      Susan Reddoor, ALS
          Beth Naylor, FHC                       

 Adjourn 4:30 p.m.