GAVILAN JOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
REGULAR MEETING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
CLOSED SESSION - 5:30 p.m.
OPEN SESSION - 7:00 p.m.
MINUTES
I. CALL TO ORDER
Meeting call to order at 5:30 p.m.
1. Roll Call
Trustees: Mark Dover, Kent Child, Elvira Robinson, Leonard Washington, Tom Breen, Deb Smith
2. Recess to closed session
The Board recessed to closed session at 5:30 p.m.
II. OPEN SESSION
1. Call to Order
Meeting called to order at 7:01p.m.
2. Roll Call
Trustees: Mark Dover, Kent Child, Elvira Robinson, Leonard Washington, Tom Breen, Deb Smith, Jesse Sandow, Student Trustee
Dr. Steven M. Kinsella, President Diana Seelie, Professional Support Staff
Joe Keeler, Vice President, Administrative Services Erin Crook, Academic Senate
Adrienne Akinsete, Vice President, Instruction Suzanne Bulle, Recording Secretary
John Pruitt, Vice President, Student Services
Others in Attendance: Fran Lopez, Anne Ratto, Sherran Carr, Ron Hannon, Rachel Perez, Kaye Bedell, Debbie Amaro, Art Amaro, Linda Stubblefield, Anna Kearby
3. Pledge of Allegiance
Trustee Breen led the pledge of allegiance.
4. Report of any action taken in closed session
The Board voted to adopt the decision of the hearing officer and to deny the tenure claim of Deborah Roderick. MS (Smith Smith/Child), 6 ayes, 0 no, 1 absent (Trustee Perry)
5. Consent Agenda
MS (Breen/Smith) unanimously carried to approve consent agenda.
6. Approval of Agenda
MS (Smith/Breen) unanimously carried to approve agenda as amended.
Comments from the Public – This is a time for the public to address the Board.
None
7. Officers’ Reports
Vice Presidents
John acknowledged the commendation from the Accreditation
team for the
Adrienne reported that Gavilan did an excellent job in
Accreditation showing timelines for how we had implemented Learning Outcomes,
dating back to 2001, which provided Gavilan with a big start in addressing this
area. Adrienne and the Deans presented
information to the Accreditation team that reflected the progress in developing
student learning, program, and institutional learning outcomes and now moving into
the assessment phase. Faculty has been
very receptive to the learning outcomes movement. We are continuing to work on how we will
evaluate part time faculty. The GavTV
channel will broadcast in
College President’s Report
Steve reported that the Accreditation Team had three
recommendations; student learning outcomes, part time faculty evaluations,
which were identified in the self-study, and evaluation planning and
improvement. The college needs to consistently
apply and formally structure and document the activities, evaluate the actions
that we implement and regularly evaluate the goals, and develop mechanisms to
evaluate processes that are used. We
should receive a written copy of the recommendations in 2 weeks with the final
report from the Accrediting Commission some time in June along with our accreditation
status. There were more commendations
(exceeding standards) than recommendations, which included the
Academic Senate
Erin Crook reported that faculty is looking forward to getting more training on learning outcomes to use them in improving delivering instruction to students and to evaluating part-time faculty, congratulations to all.
Professional Support Staff
Diana reported that CSEA is selling Easter lilies and orchids for the scholarship fund.
Student Representative
Student Trustee Sandow congratulated the college, on behalf of the students, on the good work done on Accreditation and conveyed appreciation for the opportunity to participate on the task force.
Board Member Comments
Trustee Child, acknowledged the retirements of Danny Maquinales, Maintenance, and Judi Markus, Allied Health; attended Bach to Blues, conveyed accolades to Fran Lozano for coordination of the event, acknowledged the positive results of the accreditation visit, noted two items in local newspaper, Susan Dodd, SCOPE as Educator of the Year, and highlighting a Gavilan student and softball player.
Trustee Robinson noted information on
Trustees Breen,
Trustee Washington was happy to see college has done well in strategic planning and noted that he read an article in the newspaper (March 9) about community college fees and would like the college to be proactive and respond in writing to let the public know were we stand on the issue.
Trustee Smith congratulated Steve and staff on the results of the accreditation, attended Bach to Blues, commended the Gavilan College Educational Foundation for the successful annual auction event at Eagle Ridge. Steve reported that $39,000 was raised for the fine arts program.
Board President
None
8. Board Committee Reports
None
10. Information/Staff Reports
(a) Curriculum
Provided for information
(b) Student Profile of Opening Enrollment Spring 2002 - Spring 2007
John noted stability in student body enrollment over the last 5 years and a slight increase in Latino student enrollment. Trustees Child and Robinson acknowledged the presentation of the report.
(c) Update
on
John reported that the California Community College Foundation has accepted the Memorandum of Understanding and we have been funded. Michael Hall (GUSD) has been identified as the Principal and brings 7 years of experience in running a similar program (San Joaquin Delta). Curriculum master plan has been established.
(d) Update on Golf Course
Steve reviewed information and reported that staff has prepared documents to initiate the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Information on CEQA, last sentence on page 2 of update, was not available to present at the board meeting.
(e)
Adrienne reported that the Strategic Planning Committee has met to review the mission and strategic plan. Information has been received from constituent groups through focus groups. The college has reviewed the California Community Colleges system strategic plan to see if we are in alignment. Emphasis as been added to reflect a program review process and to indicate we are strengthening our programs. There is a change in the state for some noncredit courses; a group of courses in the noncredit area will be funded at higher apportionment rate. The state is looking at courses that will lead to other programs (transfer/vocational). The Basic Skills Committee will be looking at how we can use noncredit in order to bridge students into our credit and vocational programs. The commitment is to developing the student learning outcomes and the assessment.
Trustee Smith noted that Strategy #2 is a great idea and would like to see student success highlighted with a picture of the student and the story.
III. ACTION ITEMS
1. Old Business
(a) 2007 CCCT Election
MS (Sandow/Breen) nominations: Maria Elena Serna, Mary Figueroa, Luis Villegas, Bill McMillin, Tony Ubalde, John Rodgers, Charles H. Hayden, unanimously carried to approve nominees.
2. New Business
(a) Tenure Recommendations
Sherrean introduced and congratulated Debbie Amaro, Gavilan alumni, AS Life Science, BS, MS Nursing, San Jose State University, neonatal instructor at St. Louise hospital, second year Licensed Vocational Nursing instructor and Linda Stubblefield, BS Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, chart auditor for the correctional system, first year Licensed Vocational Nursing instructor. MS (Robinson/Sandow) unanimously carried to approve tenure recommendations.
(b) Faculty Contracts
MS (Robinson/Sandow) unanimously carried to approve faculty contracts.
(c) One-Time Funding Allocation - Basic Skills
MS (Sandow/Smith) unanimously carried to approve one-time funding allocation for basic skills.
(d) GCFA/District Contract Proposal (“Sunshine”)
MS (Child/Breen) unanimously carried to approve GCFA/District contract proposal.
(e) CSEA/District Contract Proposal (“Sunshine”)
MS (Smith/Child) unanimously carried to approve CSEA/District contract proposal.
(f) Budget Adjustments
MS (Smith/Breen) unanimously carried to approve budget adjustments.
IV. CLOSING ITEMS
1.The next regularly scheduled
Board meeting is April 10, 2007,
2.Meeting adjourned 7:59 p.m.