Hawai`i Community College

4. Standing and Other Committee Reports

a Ed Policy - no report

b Faculty Policy - Kathy Kotecki reported that they are reviewing faculty handbooks from other campuses and making recommendations as well as staying in close touch with Joni Onishi.

c Curriculum Review - Kent Killam presented proposals for review and discussion. It was agreed to vote on the proposals as presented at this time. As part of the discussion on curriculum proposals it was reiterated that the Senate’s responsibilities included final approval of curriculum proposals. The CRC reviews proposals but the final decision must be made by the Senate. January 25, 2008 is deadline for course proposals to be included in catalog and fall course lists.

Eng 215	Writing in Humanities/Social Science	approved
HWST 180	Kahu Ku’una I	concern about the absence of reading pre reqs. Vote: 5 ayes for accepting; 9 nays. proposal will go back to CRC for further review.
LING 235 / ANTH236	Linguistic Analysis: Austronesian	Approved
AAS	Food Service	Approved
FSER 20 FSER 21 FSER 50	Food Service Orientation Food Service Sanitation Fundamentals of Cooking	Approved
FSER 63 FSER 70 FSER 72	Patisserie Advanced Cookery Buffet Preparation	Unanimously voted to return to CRC to clarify numbering sequence
FIRE 101 FIRE 151 FIRE 156	Essentials of Fire Suppression Introduction to Wildland Fire Control Incident Command System	Concern about the absence of pre reqs primarily reading. Honolulu CC has similar courses all of which have pre reqs Vote: 7 ayes; 8 nays. Proposal will be returned to CRC for further review
FIRE 202	Fire Hydraulics	approved
AAS/CA	Marketing	approved
BUS 120 BUS 157 ECOM 100 MGT 24 MKT 20 MKT 50 MKT 85 MKT 158 MKT 159	Principles of Business Fundamentals of Web Design Principles of E-Commerce Personnel Management Relations Principles of Marketing Principles of Selling Principles of E-Marketing Principles of Web Design II Principles of PHP and My SQL	approved

d Writing Intensive - Deadline for submissions is January 25, 2008.

e Planning - no report

f Budget Planning - NoeNoe Wong-Wilson presented the survey results and recommendations from the AdHoc Budget Review Committee. 11 responses to survey received. Committee made recommendations which were discussed and formed into a resolution.

Whereas the Ad Hoc Budget Review Committee of the Academic Senate was tasked in Fall, 2006 to determine the need for the Senate’s role in the campus budget process; and

Whereas the Ad Hoc Budget Committee conducted a survey of Senators in October, 2007; and

Whereas the Ad Hoc Budget Committee has presented results of the survey and has made recommendations on November 30, 2007;

Now, therefore be it resolved that the Academic Senate;

1. Request the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of Administrative Affairs give an annual presentation on the HawCC budget; and

2. Request a process be established by the administration and the Academic Senate that will involve the Academic Senate in the Budget Review process;

3. Arrange for workshops that will provide assistance in understanding and developing the budget; and

4. Accept the report of the Ad Hoc Committee with these revised recommendations; and

5. Disband the Ad Hoc Budget Committee.

It was also noted that the CERC process will include budget review and a member of the Senate will be on the CERC.

It was moved, seconded and unanimously accepted to approve the Committee’s recommendation and resolution.

g Distance Ed - work in progress

5 New Business

a Guidelines for Children of Students on Campus - Barbara Arthurs presented concerns about safety of children on campus and need for college policy. Draft guidelines have been circulated. Feedback is being sought from campus community. It was noted that children of students and children of faculty and employees will be two separate policies. If there are violations by children of students the student conduct code may be used for disciplinary action. It was suggested that a policy of this nature needed to be included in the catalog. Input is being sought from College Council and the Student Senate. The issue of classroom management was discussed and the Senate asked that the final proposal be brought back to the Senate in January for final approval. Draft Guidelines concerning HawCC Students’ Children on Campus

b Curriculum Proposals - see above

c CERC - There will be a member of the Senate on the CERC. It can be either the Chair of the Senate or a designee. Christina Hoffman expressed interest in CERC membership. Jill Savage was nominated from the floor. Jill Savage was elected to be the Senate member on the CERC.

d Norms for e-café - Resolution proposed by Senate Exec committee was reviewed. A friendly amendment was made to combine to whereas statements: Whereas a norm may be useful for comparison purposes when no standard exists, but the student evaluation rating provides a clear standard of numerical values with 1 being “strongly agree” and 5 being “strongly disagree” against which every instructor could compare her/his respective mean; and...

The resolution was unanimously accepted and will be forwarded to the VCAA by the Senate Chair.

AS Resolution Omission of Norms

e Achieving the Dream - Noe Noe Wong-Wilson briefed the Senate on the purpose and goals of the initiative. It is the hope of the core team to begin to examine gatekeeper courses in order to understand better how to nurture success in the underachieving student populations. Discussion ensued concerning gatekeeper courses and the criteria which determined which courses were in that category. There will teams set up to further discussion in relationship to all the issues involved.

The meeting was adjourned at 1435.