Faculty Council Minutes
December 9, 2005

In attendance:

Patrick Lanninng (OISS)	Sonya Christian (OISS)	Joe McCully
Bert Pooth	Chris Siefert	Iley McCready
Sheila Broderick	Mary Brau	Bojana Stefanovska
Dennis Gilbert	Jim Bailey	Cynthia Adams
Stephen Selph	Sharon Kimble	Judy McKenzie
Mark Harris	Karen Louise White	Lynn Tullis
Alice Whitenack	Larry Scott
Jim Salt (LCCEA)	Jane Batterson

Approval of the minutes of the Council meeting of October 28, 2005:
Approved.

Introductions and Announcements
Alice Whitenack: Jim Garcia has a new position (interim) and will not be the Chair of the Diversity Council. Mark Harris has replaced Garcia as Chair.

Dennis Gilbert: He is currently the chair of the hiring committee for a new physics faculty member.

Jim Salt: Bargaining continues – the LCCEA Bargaining Team continues to work towards an agreement.

Mary Brau: A request was made for faculty representatives to the Assessment Team. There is a need for 9 faculty from all areas of the college.

Brau also handed out a draft of a Charter for the Curriculum Funding Committee for the Faculty Council to consider and approve. It was agreed that the Charter would be discussed at a meeting of Faculty Council in January.

Sonya Christian: The LCC Board of Education will meet on December 14, 2005 for a workshop and discussion on Educational Programs at LCC. The Office of Instruction and Student Services wrote the document that will form the  context for the discussion.

Christian also pointed out that Senate Bill 300 starts on January 1, 2006 and that OISS is preparing to be ready when it goes into effect.

The harassment survey is still moving through the channels. The date for its release is unknown at this time, however faculty are working towards completing the final draft.

Student Evaluations of Course:
There are 12 faculty members who have agreed to work on the committee that is charged with revising the current evaluation forms. The draft of the “Charge to the Committee” was approved as amended. The Committee will start their work winter term and Dennis Gilbert was asked to serve as the interim chair.

Learning Plan:
The Learning Plan was brought to Faculty Council for discussion and approval.
A discussion ensued that brought up differing points of view:

• Whether or not this was a “plan.”
• There is a conflict between “planning and implementation.”
• The connection between Unit Plans and the Learning Plan.
• he difficulty of prioritizing of the plan. Although the members of the Learning
  Council tried, it was a monumental task.
• Will there be funding to support the various goals and action items of the Plan.
  

The Learning Plan was approved as “the introduction and a list of goals.” It was also agreed that the priorities would be brought to the Faculty Council, which could approve or disapprove them. All Faculty Council members who voted were in favor of the motion to approve the Learning Plan as amended.