Minutes,
Harbor College Academic Senate
Regular Meeting,
1:00, Th., Dec. 20, 2001
LRC 125
Officers present: Mark Wood [presiding], Susan McMurray, Jim Stanbery [recording]
Senators present: Sally Fasteau [vice Lemon/Behavioral Sciences]; Dorothy Clayton [vice Campbell/Communications]; Wendy Hollis, Arlene Smith [Health Sciences]; Kathy Keller [Math/Physical Sciences], Yvonne Pueblos, Steve Hirsch [Counseling]; Jonathan Lee [Library]
Senators excused: June Smith, Len Glover [officers]; Bruce Lemon [Behavioral Sciences]; Kate Campbell [Communications]
Senators absent: Adell Shay [Business], Mike Hiscocks, Victor Grassian [Humani-ties]; Linda Forrest, Linda Forrest [Math/Physical Sciences]; [David Weber [Social Sciences]; Nabeel Barakat [Physical Education]; Tissa Munasinghe, Joyce Parker [Science/ FCS]
Guests: Debbie Tull
OPENING PROCEDURES
Call to Order and Approval of Agenda
The meeting was called to order and the agenda adopted with the adjustments shown below.
Treasurer's Report
[none]
Approval of Minutes
MSU (Hollis/Clayton) to adopt the minutes of the Dec. 6 meeting with three technical adjustments.
SPECIAL ORDERS
President's Report
DAS and EPAC continue to focus intensively on discipline eligibility
CONSENT AGENDA
Mr. Wood summarized Division Council and PAC discussion as to new department locations in the evolving building plan. Other faculty representatives on PAC subsequently supplemented the discussion.
Facilities Assumptions (Stanbery/Hollis)
Unanimous consent that facilities planning should proceed on the following assumptions:
1) information on the alternatives under consideration will be distributed campus-wide before, not after, the decision-making bodies involved have essentially completed their discussions;
2) inclusion of planning options such as a high school academy or YMCA roller rinks should not be taken to imply Senate approval of such ideas, for which data as to costs, benefits, etc., has not as yet been made available.
PUBLIC COMMENT
[none]
NOTICED MOTIONS
Life Skills Center (Hirsch/Pueblos)
MSU to adopt the text of the motion as distributed in that the substance of the proposal has previously been before the Senate, the action clauses to read as follows:
1) that the Academic Senate express its support of the Life Skills Center and recommends that the position of clinical director be funded at .6 plus benefits for the remainder of the academic year as originally proposed and approved by the Partnership for Excellence Committee.
2) that the Academic Senate, the Counseling Division, and the Matriculation Advisory Committee support the full institutionalization of the Life Skills Center through the use of combined resources found within Student Services and Academic Affairs budget allocations.
Ms. Tull summarized the gist of the center status report being submitted to the PFE committee tomorrow.
Partnership for Excellence Report
Unanimous consent to [1] direct the PFC committee to complete its non-substantive revisions of the document as distributed and [2] empower the president of the Senate to sign the document as adopted by the committee on behalf of the Senate.
ADJOURNMENT