1 West Los Angeles College 2 Meeting of the Academic Senate 3 Approved Minutes 4 September 9, 2014 5 SSB 414 6 7 Present: President, Foster, Adrienne; Vice President, Chow, Judy; Secretary, Norris, Clare; Cordova, 8 Luis, Treasurer; Humanities & Fine Arts, Sweeney, Joyce; Senator-at-Large, Hunter, Casey; Allied 9 Health, Dones, Carmen; Senator at Large, Lin, Ken; Senator at Large, Leonard, Fran; Adjunct Senate 10 Representative, Porter, Arnita; Senator-At-Large, Samilton, Jawell; Aviation, Travel, and Hospitality, 11 Moy, Jack; Science, Bahta, Abraha; Language Arts, Alexander, Linda; District Senator, Young, Helen; 12 Health/PE, Hager, Rob; Senator at Large, Blustein, Bonnie; Computer Science, Chiang, Anna; 13 14 Absent: Library & Learning Resources & Counseling, Narez-Acosta, Alma; District Senator, Bakeer, 15 Kenyatta; Senator-at-Large, Boutry, Katherine; Social and Behavioral Sciences, Barragan, Norma; 16 Business, Jacobson, Nikki; Adjunct Faculty Senator, Taira, Kenneth; 17 18 Guests: Matthew McKracken, ASO President; Witucki, Jane, Curriculum Chair; Tillberg, Rebecca, 19 Dean; Trujillo, Susan, Library; Apigo, Mary-Jo, Teaching & Learning; Taylor, Alice, Accreditation Co- 20 Chair; Triviso, Rudy, Aviation; Kelley, Katy, CDC; Olivas, Richard, History; Bailey-Hofmann, Holly, 21 English/EMP; Hooper, Ricardo, Athletic Director; Considine, Kevin, MPTP; Jones, Walter, Dean AA; 22 Braxton, Phyllis, VP Student Services; Russell, Tim, Learning Skills; Boghos, Yervant, Allied Health; 23 Gallegos, Dolores, Child Development 24 25 Meeting Called to Order at 1:00pm 26 27 I. ORGANIZATIONAL ITEMS 28 a. Confirmation of the agenda MSP 29 1. The SLO Report was moved up to just after Organizational Items due to the SLO coordinator’s illness . 30 31 b. Moment of Silence 32 1. B. Blustein shared that just today an African-American male student was stopped on 33 his way to her class. 34 c. Confirmation of the June 3, 2014 minutes. 35 Minutes were accepted as presented MSP 36 37 II. SLO Report (Cordova) 38 a. West is at 90% Completion of all phases of the last SLO cycle. 39 b. As for the 2013-2017 cycle, for Fall 2013 only 45% of the 75 courses scheduled to be 40 assessed were assessed. Spring 2014 only 19% of courses scheduled to be assessed were 41 assessed, and 31% of courses that were scheduled for dialog got that phase complete. 42 c. The recommendation was made that chairs be sure to spend time consulting with their faculty 43 members before making commitments that may not be clear to the faculty like those on the SLO 44 assessment calendars. Another point was made about the time sensitive nature of this process. 45 d. The SLO Professional Development Week workshop had 25 attendees and a rich discussion 46 of assessment. K. Boutry and J. Moy presented about their processes of assessment. 47 e. The next SLO Committee meeting is September 22. L. Cordova expressed concern about 48 how few faculty members are fully engaged in this effort. 49 f. The SLO Database faculty demo Thursday, September 30 12:30-5:00 with an opportunity to 50 offer input on two choices: TracDat and eLumen. 51 52 III. ADMINISTRATION REPORT (Abu-Gazaleh) 1
1 a. President Abu-Gazaleh acknowledged the faculty members for all we do for students. He 2 talked about social justice. He mentioned student success, transfer, ATD, etc. West has been 3 engaged in issues of equity and pointed out that being a college that is well accredited is 4 important to equity as well. Thus, we must be prepared for the March 2015 midterm visit. 5 b. He acknowledged the recent statewide growth mindset workshop at West. West is involved 6 with two of the three recent statewide initiatives (Online Education Initiative and Common 7 Assessment). 8 c. He will be discussing reorganization with faculty members. The college is still involved with 9 hiring. The District will no longer subsidize faculty hires. West was able to benefit from those 10 subsidies with more than any other college. 11 12 IV. PUBLIC SPEAKERS: Speakers may speak no more than 2 minutes per speaker on any agenda item 13 not yet discussed. (none) a. Phyllis Braxton introduced Dr. Ricardo Hooper, West’s new Athletic Director. 14 15 16 V. ASO (McCracken) 17 a. He acknowledged the emphasis on student success in the meeting, and offered himself as a 18 resource for college faculty and administrators. 19 b. He named the new board members and listed the things ASO has been working on: Semester 20 Kickoff, Welcome Week, etc. 21 c. He also mentioned that they are interested in working on charity events this year. d. He al so mentioned ASO’s new book exchange program where they loan books to ASO 22 23 members. e. N. Abu-Gazaleh acknowledged Matthew in his internship in Sebastian Ridley- Thomas’s 24 25 office. OFFICERS’ REPORTS 26 VI. a. Adrienne Foster – President 27 28 1. She acknowledged Student Services for the use of SSB 414. 29 2. She acknowledged the committee who planned Professional Development Week. 30 3. The new content management system, Kentico, is coming to West, and because we are 31 going through this transition, updated minutes and agendas are not yet posted. 32 4. Policy changes need to be discussed, and she expressed the hope that divisions are 33 discussing these issues. 34 5. Curriculum Committee meets first September 22 at 1:00 in SSB 414. 35 6. Senate Exec will be working with chairs to review committee participation. 36 7. Division Reports should focus on intervention strategies to close equity gaps and SLO 37 Dialog. 38 8. District Academic Senate Summit scheduled for September 26 at LA City College. 39 West still has two openings on its team. 40 9. Questions were asked about faculty dues and where the senate would get money to 41 cover its expenses. b. Judy Chow – Vice President 42 43 1. Academic Rank certificates in process. c. Luis Cordova – Treasurer (No Report) 44 d. Clare Norris – Secretary (No Report) 45 46 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTERS – 45 MIN – INFORMATION 47 VI. 1. Election Committee – A. Foster announced that Marguet Miller, co-chair and Richard Olivas, 48 49 co-chair, Margot Michele, and Janise White will serve on the election committee. 50 2. Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Committee (Dones) 51 a. Program review has started. There are three changes this year: the software opened 52 early in August, answers from last year were rolled over, and a Word version of the 2
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