College Council

1. SCHEDULE TEMPLATE—INFORMATION (Buckley)

Buckley reviewed the template and commented that it would require a change in the Final Exam Schedule, and that four options for the change will be sent from Academic Affairs to the Calendar Committee. Council members noted concerns about adequate support services for students taking courses at 7:30 am. Buckley stated that the various service operations will consider shifts as necessary and/or monitoring the situation next spring. Another concern was raised about the apparent discrepancy in minutes of instruction between classes that meet at different intervals. Buckley stated that those are not new to this template and that Academic Affairs wants to maintain a consistent 10 minute passing period as a guideline. How scheduled activities and (in some cases) breaks are scheduled is a matter for the professional judgment of individual faculty.

2. REVIEW OF CHAPTER 8 OF THE POLICY MANUAL (Navarrette, Smith)

Navarrette distributed a grid of the status of all policies and procedures in this chapter.

3. PROCESSING INFORMATION DISTRICT WIDE (Smith)

Smith explained that in order to allow the college community the opportunity to participate or comment on the policy review scheduled for this year, all proposed changes of all policies and procedures will be made generally available via the library reserve desks, CD rom, and look-up through Outlook. She also outlined the review process itself, of which Chapter 8 (above) is the first example.

4. HATE FREE TASK FORCE REPORT (Gordon)

Joel Gordon updated College Council. The task force was turned into a committee in order to bring a more formal commitment to having a "hate free" college. At its first meeting, the committee develop goals, including the provision of training sessions for itself and at least one individual from each area or department in the college, so that if issues arise, someone will be able to advise or intervene in a constructive way. Joe indicated the committee feels it needs to work with Associated Students in determining how to move this to wide-spread support among the student body. It is the committee's goal to have the "hate free campus" process developed to a state where it can be presented at the Winter PDA activities

5. HOUSEKEEPING OF COMMITTEE SYSTEM (Smith)

Dianne reviewed the draft District Wide Committee & Council Review Form, which is to be sent out soon to committee/council chairs with a deadline date of October 2nd. The intent is to elicit current information relevant to the function, schedule and structure of each committee. Additional information sought includes the committee chair selection process and total membership. College Council agreed with Dianne that this information is valuable and needs to be processed as soon as possible. This information will be shared on-line and modified when necessary.

6. CURRICULUM REVIEW COMMITTEE

This item was held over until the next College Council meeting when Brenda's formal request will be reviewed. The committee will have an additional three (3) faculty members until such time as it gains final College Council approval.

7. BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE

This item was held over until the next meeting when Ron Root will discuss the restructure of the committee.

8. STRATEGIC ENROLLMENT PLANNING COMMITTEE

Though the sense of College Council is that this is both an important committee and deserves the status requested, it will wait to hear Doug Garrison's review of its functions before acting.

9. 2001/2002 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Ricardo Navarrette reviewed the proposed 2001/2002 Academic Year Calendar. College Council, upon having its few questions answered, sent it out to constituent group review.

10. REVIEW COLLEGE COUNCIL STATUS AS A COMMITTEE

As part of this review of college committees, Diane asked that College Council members review the function/structure/chair selection statements in the "Academic Senate College Wide Committees" handout and be prepared to discuss at the next meeting.