CSUDH Academic Senate Meeting

CSUDH Academic Senate Meeting Loker Student Union September 27, 2000

Voting Members Present: Andrews, Auth, Brulois, Casten, Charnofsky, R. Christie, Cruise, DeCohen, Dominguez, Dowling, Furtado, Ganezer, Gray-Shellberg, Greenwald, Goders, Hare (M. Hedy, proxy), Hata, Henschel, Hunt, C. Johnson, Kaplan, Kowalski, LaCorte, Lee, Levine, Little, Long, Lyons, Malamud, McCarthy, McDermott, McEnerney, McNulty, Moite, Needham, Park, Smith, Stricker, Sturm, Vanterpool, Vinovich, Watson, Welch, Whetmore, Dick Williams, Denise Williams,

Voting Members Absent: Amouzegar, Gould, J. Johnson, Lalas, Maciel, Finance & QM Senator

Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members Present: Ambrosetti, Blair, Castro, Lindsay, Pardon, Rodriguez, Walton, Webb, Whittemore

Guests: Leni Cook, Tony Garavente, Dave Karber, Bob Kratochvil, Kent Porter, Kathy Ramirez, Pat Ripple, Sara Waller, Randy Zarn, Joel Zarr

Chair McDermott called the meeting to order at 2:32 p.m.

Open Forum / Intent to Raise Questions

(1) Foundation. Some faculty think that dispersal accounts (meant to give scholarship recipients) should earn interest as the Endowments do. (2) Japanese Garden. Senator Hata was surprised to learn that money put aside in 1978 to maintain the garden has eroded because of monthly Foundation fees. He wondered how are folks informed that their account is being charged [Answer: Foundation sends out monthly financial reports to whoever is in charge of the account.] (3) Party-time. A mid-sized department learned that it could only use the University’s Food Service to bring in food.[ the University agreed to this policy in contract negotiations with the Food Service]. So the department may go off-campus to party. (4) Permanent Senate Room. Is that a possibility once Welch Hall is built, or once the Student Union is remodeled?

1. Approval of the Agenda M/S/P

2. Approval of Minutes of 9/13/00 (as amended) M/S/P

3. Parliamentarian’s Report. Parliamentarian Cynthia Johnson conducted elections for the following committees (results in parentheses): (1) UCC (Mary Cruise, Nursing); (2) Review of Perceived Administration Effectiveness (David Bradfield, Music; Laura Robles, Biology); (3) UPC (Hal Charnofsky, Sociology, MFT); (4) PRP (Laura Robles, Biology; William Whetstone, Nursing). Later in the meeting Parliamentarian Johnson conducted elections for the following search committees: (5) Director, University Housing Services (Pat Riple, Student Health and Psychological Counseling); (6) Director of Admissions and Records (Laura Inouye, Nursing;

1 needs one more faculty member); (7) Assistant VP, Undergraduate Studies (Angela Albright, Nursing; Laura Robles, Biology; Peter Rodney, Theatre Arts); and (8)Associate VP, Academic Planning and Resource Management (Mary Cruise, Nursing; Carole Shea, Nursing; Rudy Vanterpool, Philosophy).

On September 20th, the Senate Executive Committee appointed the following faculty to University Committees for AY 200-01:

 Academic Computing Laboratory Access Committee (Kaz Kowalski, CSC; Dorothy Fisher, CIS).  Athletics Governing Board (Carole Tubbs, Dance)  Banner Implementation Group (Dorothy Fisher, CIS)  Banner Management Group (Dorothy Fisher, CIS)  Commercial Service Advisory Committee (Mel Auerbach, Acct./Law)  Emergency Preparedness Committee (Thomas Reilly, Chemistry; Laura Phillips, Biology)  Energy Preparedness Committee (Thomas Reilly, Chemistry)  Foundation Board of Directors (Carol Tubbs, Dance; Denise Williams BSGP)  Parking Advisory Committee (Joel Greenwald)  Quality Management Coordinating Committee (Dave Andrew, SOE)  Representative to ASI (Don Hata, History)  Student Assistant Personnel Board (Eunice Krinsky, Mathematics)  University AIDS Committee (Laura Phillips, Biology)  Women’s Studies/Center Advisory Committee (Gay Goss, Nursing)

4. First Reading Items:

a. EXEC 00-16: Resolution in Oppositions to Propositions 38—School Vouchers. (Attached to full minutes in Senate office.) Senator Dick Williams introduced this resolution. He noted that the Statewide Senate had already passed it; he summarized the arguments for it:: private schools will not be required to be accountable to the public; funding for state-supported schools will decrease, yet they will be expected to enroll higher-risk and higher-cost students, since private schools will be able to admit students on the basis of ability. Williams moved that the rules be waived to act on this resolution today: M/S/P. Then the resolution was M/S/P. It will not require any further university action.

b. EXEC 00-17: Resolution Recommending a Moratorium on the Reorganization of Academic Units. This resolution asks that units do not formally reorganize themselves until a university policy is in place that sets up university-wide consultation. This would include reconfiguring of schools, movement of a department to a different school, the combination of departments to form a division within a school. Examples abound in the last several years of such actions being taken without full university consultation in the absence of university policy. Comments from the floor: (1) Other reports are looking at

2 this (Delphi, Moye)—can those reports still be discussed? (2) The Senate needs a voice in administrative creations. (3) Would the work of the Program Effective Councils be stopped? (4)What happened to last spring’s resolution? [It died; there was no second reading.] (5) Is the break up of a school or college the business of the Senate? (6) Whatever policy results, it should be flexible and speedily recommended to the President.

5. Special Reports:

a. Mike Lordanich, Chief of Police, CSUDH: The Chief handed out crime data for the last four years (to be attached to permanent Senate minutes) and said that they put us in the mid-range among CSUs. Burglary (36), theft (103), and vandalism (36) were noticeably up in 1999 compared to prior years, while other crimes were quite low (0-12). He warned that pack-back thefts were a particular concern. He also said that the sub-station in Student Housing has been very successful. Furthermore, the City of Carson has passed an ordinance not allowing parking on the north side of Victoria. This was done without any university involvement. Canvas tops have been placed over the no-parking signs, so parking is legal there for now. He then invited faculty (Edd Whetmore, Joel Greenwald) on the Parking Advisory Committee to discuss the current status of campus parking. The President opposes faculty only parking, so plans are going forward to add faculty/staff parking in all the lots. Under discussion is the idea of splitting faculty and staff parking in each lot, even it means faculty parking will be in the back row(s). There are 18 “100” Parking spaces, an MMP perk, with only about one-half sold ($35/per month). Under discussion is writing the name of the administrative position for each slot sold (e.g. like the President’s space southwest of ERC). Handicap parking exceeds state minimum in each lot. Comments for the Floor (with some responses from the Chief): (1) Why not try angled parking to prevent arguments between the drivers of two cars wanting one space? (2) How much of lot 3 will be unusable when Welch Hall construction begins? [less than one-half]. (3) There must be loose keys floating around because a lot of thefts occur without forced entry. (4) Lost and Found functions well. Senator Hata and others were impressed by the general honesty of our students. (5) The traffic officers, employees of the university, look for cars parking without appropriate permits, expired registrations, and illegal moving violations. (6) Some custodians seem to be using faculty telephones and computers [we’re working on that problem]. (7) Faculty should notify public safety when they are working in their offices at unusual times (e.g. Sundays, any day after 11 p.m.). Senator Grey-Shellberg wondered if there might be more walk-throughs during these off-hours. The third floor of SBS never seems to be locked.

b. Joel Zarr, Master Space Planning Consultant, Phase II. University Student Union. Mr. Zarr introduced himself as a consultant to attempt to identify university space needs as they apply to the Loker building. He has conducted student focus groups, sent out student surveys, and worked closely with ASI. He said that the space in the union now is not sufficient for the size of the campus. He said a third floor would be too expensive to build. Plans are more centered on moving space north rather than west into Sculpture Garden. Whatever happens will require the review and approval of the Master Plan Committee and the campus architect, as well as the President after appropriate

3 consultation (e.g. the Senate) and the Board of Trustees. Mr. Zarr will complete his full report, including some possible models for expansion and reorganization of current space, before a student referendum in the spring to help fund the project. If students approve the referendum, then fund-raising will take place to cover the full cost. He sought ideas from Senators about what might be included in an expanded union: (1) child care center [that is really a separate space issue]; (2) high-tech fitness center; (3) learning assistance center; (4) art gallery (5) newspaper space; (6) performance space (200 seats) for guest speakers, etc.; (7) more technology in all the rooms.

6. Reports: President Lyons reminded Senators of a campus-wide meeting on October 4th in University Theatre, 1-2:30 p.m., to discuss the National Training Center/Sports Complex being proposed for 85 acres of the west end of the campus. State-wide Senator Charnofsky said that the CSU Senate is undertaking a major study on academic governance at the system level throughout the United States. . State-wide Senator Williams said that the library at the Channel Islands’s campus would be partly used as a CSU repository for the purpose of collecting and memorializing the scholarly and creative work of faculty and staff. He also presented Secretary Smith with written reports regarding the 9/14 meeting of the CSU Senate and a 9/12 IMPAC report written by Williams himself. These will be attached to the permanent minutes in the Senate Office; Secretary Smith found four items that might be of particular interest to DH Senators: (1) The system really is moving towards Year Round Operations, with the legislature seemingly willing to fund it fully. (2) Some Trustees want to have a review of the Math competencies required for graduation. (3) The work of IMPAC (the state-wide committee working on articulation agreements between the CSU and community colleges in majors, as well as between CSU campuses themselves) is going forward with problems remaining in high unit majors requiring so much lower division coursework that community college students cannot complete both their GE requirements and their lower division major requirements without exceeding 70 units, the community college maximum they are allowed to transfer to a CSU. (4) More CSU transfer students should take advantage of IGETC, the UC/CSU/CC agreed-upon GE package of 39 semester units that takes care of all lower division GE requirements. Chair McDermott reminded the Senate that the faculty who have been selected to serve on committees should periodically report back to the Senate of their committee’s activities. She also said we have the opportunity to recommend a candidate for an Honorary Doctorate. Those names should be forwarded to the Executive Committee. She said that the log sculpture in the university’s Sculpture Garden is in such bad physical shape that it has been fenced off. We need faculty input on what to do with it. Finally, she reminded Senators to read “A Summary of the Results of the Spring 2000 Faculty Satisfaction and Institutional Practice Questionnaire” (handed-out), which will be discussed at a subsequent Senate meeting.

7. Open Discussion: “Faculty Merit Increases”: AVFA Ambrosetti opened the discussion by announcing that the Contract is still in force while CFA and Management “continue” their negotiations. Consequently, the university needs to act as if there were going to be FMIs, under contract rules, this AY. His office recently sent out to faculty and administrators a memo with a time-line for the various parts of the process to take place. Senator Goders noted that this activity could leave us with nothing expect wasted faculty time; this seemed to him “more abusive than the process itself.” Later in the meeting, he also questioned whether we should accept these

4 procedures. The literature overwhelming shows that merit pay does not work on university campuses; where it does work, it is entirely controlled by the faculty without administrative involvement. Senator Whetmore asked about SSIs: he was told that only those involving promotion are being acted on. Senator Dowling said that more guidance should be provided to faculty and deans. Equal distribution within a department would seem to be a contract violation. He also found the systematic exclusion of part-timers in some departments allowed faculty to take obscene merit increases: will the administration look into these embarrassing differences? President Lyons said he would investigate the large amounts going to some faculty, but he also said that the contract locks us into the ways departments can distribute its allocation. So for him, it becomes a moral question; he will ask deans to monitor excessive payouts. Leni Cook, guest from the CFA, read a statement that will be included in the permanent minutes. She especially focused on the problems part-time faculty presented. As of now, 23 have not been paid. This led to AVP Kratochvil and payroll supervisor Ramirez reporting the multiple difficulties with paying part-time faculty, especially those whose work varies from semester to semester or who only work one semester. Senator Smith wondered if these faculty could be given the option of “bonuses” rather than additions to their base pay over a 10 month period. Kent Porter said the contract severely limits the use of bonuses, and it excludes such a use of them (Contract 31.8, 31.9). Kratochvil also assured the Senators that all un-spent FMI money is in Academic Affairs. He did not know whether it has been further distributed. On another matter, both faculty and administrators expressed concern about the university’s current inability to produce an accurate list of full-time and part-time faculty, including their home addresses and phone numbers. VP Castro said they are trying to solve this problem as quickly as possible through better communication among Divisions. President Lyons said he was very frustrating by the FMI process, jokingly commenting at one point that “you can have” the 10% he is supposed to distribute. He said the CSU presidents must listen to the Chancellor’s Office, but the CO thus far has not been providing much guidance.

8. Adjournment. 5:00 p.m. (or there-about)

Respectfully Submitted:

Lyle Smith, Secretary