1st FASP October Minutes

Academic Senate

California State University, Chico                                                                 

Chico, California 95929-020

(530) 898-6201

PRESENT: Allen, Cooprider, Gampel, Hagedorn, Huntsinger, Kotar (Huntsinger), Miller, Mills, Mittman, Ponarul, Schademan, Scholtes, Scholz, Sistrunk, Warner, Zimbelman

ABSENT:    Clower, Fairbanks, Dent McCabe Deleon, Douglas, Jayousi, Postma Monet

GUESTS:    Jason Cornwell (CFA) and Richard Soares (Faculty Rights Chair)

1.    Minutes from September 30, 2010 were approved with a change proposed by Allen.

2.    Today’s Agenda was approved.

3.    Announcements: Congratulations expressed for Mike Kotar on the arrival of his grand-daughter.  Since Senator Meadows was not available item 4 on the agenda was postponed to a later date.  It was decided that the committee will request additional information from Senator Meadows regarding Campus Fee Advisory Committee.

4.    It was decided to take up item 6 ahead of item 5 in the agenda.  It was pointed out (Allen) that what started as a discussion of online teaching has now expanded into a discussion of faculty workload which comes under the purview of the CBA.  Hence caution was advised in order to be in conformance with the CBA.  However, it was pointed out (Huntsinger) that the committee’s resolutions are strictly advisory.  Discussion continued as to the advisability of separating online teaching and in class teaching when it comes to the measurement of faculty workload.  The consensus was not to separate the two since many classes combine the two approaches.  Discussion centered on 20.3 in the FPPP.  A handout on the “C- classification” (Zimbelman) was circulated.  The question of whether or not this 35 year old document is useful for the current environment was raised. Also brought up was the variation across disciplines of the simple measurement of workload such as WTU.  A suggestion was made (Gampel) for adding language that workload issue should be negotiated with the chair and the Dean.  It was deemed unnecessary since such language already exists in the CBA and article 20 of the EP&R 76-36.

5.    The committee was divided into two teams A and B to devise the approach for addressing the questions in agenda item 5 (as per the published agenda.)

Team A headed by Gampel decided to form a subcommittee (Gampel, Hagedorn, Mittman and Scholz) to look at guidelines for candidate ratings undergoing performance review.

Team B headed by Mills decided that Mills will draft language for FPPP 8.1.b and get back to the committee on his suggested editorial changes.

6.         Meeting adjourned at 4:00

Minutes submitted by Ponarul