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: Johannes Masare
Counseling: Jacqueline Escobar
Language Arts/Learning Resources, chair: Garry Nicol

Non Faculty Reps
Classified: Chuck Leach, TLC Instructional Aid

ASSC: Melody Hisatake, Commissioner of Finance

Ex Officio
VP Student Services: Loretta Adrian
Dean of Enrollment Services: Sherri Hancock  
Acting Dean of Counseling: Carlene Gibson
Matriculation Coordinator: Carlene Gibson
Recorder: Angelica Gorostiza

2006/07 First Tuesday meeting dates 1:30-3:00 Room 5131: 9/05, 10/03, 11/07 (MAC), 12/05, 2/06 (MAC), 3/06, (no 4/03 meeting: spring break), 5/01

Edited Notes for 3/06/07 meeting

Present: Moss, Escobar, Leach, Hancock, Sullivan, Tsuchida, Nicol, and visitor Kathryn Harer

ED POLICY COMMITTEE NOTES

March 6, 2007

Academic Senate Report

• There will be a projected 1.7 million deficit for 07-08
• Accreditation is coming October 22^nd – October 25^th
• Latest draft of accreditation report can be found on the Skyline webpage. Need to review and make comments. Sherri will work on surveys??
• Gary mentioned that Professional Ethics was an issue that came up for discussion. While the Ed Policy committee not assigned to review the issue of Professional Ethics, not sure if this is something that would go through Ed Policy or a union issue.
• Reviewing the issue of + or – grading. Fermin Irigoyen is organizing with students to put together a forum. He is having difficulty finding an appropriate date.

Change in Graduation Requirements

Ed Policy is playing no special role in this matter, except to monitor the progress the changes as they are implemented on the college. The changes were approved by the Curriculum Committee. At this point in time, we are just waiting to see when the changes will be implemented. Tadashi mentioned that his department is looking at possibly adding alternative classes (equivalent to Math 120) that would satisfy the Math requirement.

Degree Audit (Sherri Hancock)

Sherri mentioned that the Degree Audit System will be piloted this Spring. She indicated that A&R ran several compliance reports from students who had applied for AA/AS degrees and that everything seemed to be working well. DAS will be piloted with counselors (via Websmart) to see if counselors are getting the information they need to help students. DAG committee is still working on ways to note student credit for transfer courses through the electronic version (DAS) instead of the paper form that we currently use.

DSPS

Lynne Douglas has been working on a timeline and procedures for DSPS accommodations. At this point, it has been taken to the Office of Civil Rights. Consultants The Galvin Group who help administer and interpret the federal laws At this point, there are many loose ends.

Student Grievance

Student Grievance currently responds to academic matters. What we have in place is a ladder of appeals. The college recently had a hearing in which Lori was the hearing officer. Lori found that there were holes in the procedure: 1) Lori did not think we highlighted enough in the appeals form that this appeal must have nothing to do with employment issues. It should be clear that this would be related to discipline and academic issues; 2) Lori had concerns about the make-up of the committee – originally there was to be one student on the committee, but when the committee recently met there were 2 -3 students. She also found other things she wanted to change. Sherri indicated that she will locate and send the electronic version of the recent Student Grievance form.

Academic Code (Cindy Moss)

Cindy Moss’s HONORS Statistics students Sonja Gugajew and Caitlin Morrison presented their findings on student and faculty perception on cheating/plagiarism at Skyline. Notable were that 62% of the student said that cheating was not a problem, but 70% knew of a student who had cheated. Cindy would like suggestions for questions sent to her.

Academic Renewal Policy (Jacquie Escobar)

Jacquie Escobar presented on the Academic Renewal Policy. She noted that the current Academic Renewal Policy requires that students wait a three-year period before being allowed to alleviate substandard coursework (students must also meet unit and gpa requirements). Jacquie has proposed that the policy be changed to one-year wait period for (see attached form). The committee felt that they did not have sufficient knowledge and information about the policy to make a determination at this point. Jacquie agreed to present further information on the topic at the next meeting.

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