Voting Faculty Reps: one vote per division
SMT: Tadashi Tsuchida and Cindy Moss, co-reps  
Business; Kevin Sullivan,
Physical Education: vacant
Social Science/Creative Arts: George Buckingham
Counseling: Lynne Douglas
Language Arts/Learning Resources, chair: Garry Nicol

Non Faculty Reps
Classified: Char Wulbers, A & R Certifications/ Grade Evaluator

ASSC : Peter Monrroy. VP, ASSC

Ex Officio
VP Student Services: Loretta Adrian
Dean of Enrollment Services: Sherri Hancock  
Dean of Counseling: Jennifer Hughes
Matriculation Coordinator: vacant
Recorder for the day: Garry Nicol

 

2005/06 First Tuesday meeting dates 1:30 Room 5131: 9/06, 10/04, 11/01, 12/06, 2/07, 3/07, 4/04, 5/02

 

notes from 9/06/05

 

Present: Buckingham, Douglas, Nicol, Adrian, Hancock, Hughes,

 

1. Introductions: Members introduced themselves and Garry went over the scope of Academic Senate delineated in the Ō10 + 1Ķ academic and professional areas of Title 5 of the Calif Ed Code, acknowledged by the district board and repeated in our AS by-laws.  Members given a copy of the Ed Policy Committees responsibilities described in the Sky Faculty Hand Book. It was noted that although strictly speaking this was an Academic Senate Committee, in the interest of shared governance, most decisions were made by consensus and that meetings could continue without a quorum of voting faculty members, unless a voice vote was called for and seconded.

 

2. May 3, 2005, minutes read and approved with a number of amendments

 

3. Last yearÕs accomplishments and this yearÕs goalÕs reviewed from year-end meeting:

Ed Policy Year End May 2005
Accomplishments 2004/5
1. Finished the fine tuning for the three different credit by testing programs on the books at Skyline.  The revisions have been published in the 2005/2006 catalog.  One thing noticed is that the credit for College Board CLEP tests in five areas has been on cruise control for 25 years and weÕve asked Regina if she would take it to the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) to ask the appropriate academic divisions if they want to continue to give credit for these CLEP tests.

2.The grievance policy was completed some time ago but now Judith Redwine has the form to go with it.

3. The cheating/ plagiarism test pilot survey has gone out and we should have results for that next semester.

Goals for next year 2005/6include

1. Review Degree Audit Steering Committee recommendations

2. Review the Academic Adjustments Policy for students with disabilities

3. Review current policy on academic integrity in light of new data from faculty and solicit similar info from students

George said he would take the issue of CLEP to his division and Sherry and Jennifer would take it to the Instructional Leadership Team.  It was decided to review goals again next meeting.

 

4. Report form Academic Senate: Garry noted the planning for SLOs and Accreditation.  Garry agreed to follow up on the suggestion that Karen Wong and/or Ray Hernandez keep this committee informed.  Both Jennifer and Sherri will attend the SLO workshop on the 23rd. Committee members also suggested that we post committee documents on the web site and have Jerry Peel put our meetings on the master calendar.  It was noted that we will soon have an agenda/minute template of some kind with a key word search. Garry will keep track of these developments

 

5. Reviewed Degree Audit Steering Committee recs: Of the 38 recommendations on the Dec 2003 steering committee document, Ed Policy had responsibility for 13: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 27, 28, 29, 24, 35, and 37.  Sherry will look over these and report on any that might still be outstanding.

 

6. Review Academic adjustments for disabled students: Lynne gave committee members copies of the current district policy for providing academic adjustments for students with disabilities.  Lynne noted that the policy includes a ladder of appeals that sounds much like the grievance appeal process this committee finalized last year.  It would make sense to coordinate /consolidate procedures as much as possible and try to draw on Ed Policy for the academic standards committee required by the district academic accommodations procedure.  Lynne will talk to her counterparts at the sister schools and see what she can do to find ways to fit together the two policies.

 

7. Report on cheating/plagiarism survey: Cindy.  Postponed to next meeting.

 

8. Set next monthÕs tentative agenda.  Members are reminded they can send Garry additions up to the Thursday before our Tuesday meetings.  So far, we have: 1.  Review Degree Audit Steering Committee Recommendations: Sherry

2. Review disabled student academic adjustment procedures: Lynne

3.  Report on cheating/plagiarism survey: Cindy.  4.  Discuss additional goals.