I. Call to Order

B. Henry called the meeting to order at 4:07 PM.

II. Roll Call

Present: P. Boudreaux, D. Bezayiff, C. Britton, B. Henry, D. Hensley, C. Hodges,

M. J. Jordan, Y. Kim, R. Osborne, M. Roman, L. Syrdahl, J. Wiens, D. Williams

Absent: J. Keele

III. Approval of Agenda

M: D. Bezayiff

S: P. Boudreaux

C: Unanimous

IV. Approval of minutes of November 1, 2006.

Amended

V. Reports

1. Senate President (Henry)

Short meeting at Chancellor’s Cabinet. Went to dinner with the State of California Board of Governors. Community colleges face the possibility of losing tech prep monies. VTEA funding is going through benchmark changes. The Cabinet also discussed calendar issues.

2. CCA (Bezayiff)

Meeting cancelled due to executive chair’s illness.

3. Curriculum (Britton)

No report.

4. PC Foundation

No recent meeting. No new report.

5. Division Reports

Social Science: Dr. Herb Bonds will be speaking about his experience and the dust bowl.

Student Services: The student services division will be attending a meeting for a possible tech prep grant.

VI. Old Business

1. Academic calendar

Cindy Collier (district nursing director) mentioned that the PC 16 week academic calendar would be one week earlier than Bakersfield College’s calendar. In order to keep the nursing programs the same, the Academic Senate voted to change the entire Porterville College’s calendar to match up with BC and CC.

Issues raised were:

1. The RN program worked fine last year when PC was on an 18 week calendar and BC was on a

16 week calendar. Why not this year?

2. If our Nursing/PT instructors are on an 18 week instructional calendar with staff support and

the 16 week falls within that 18 week, then why is there a problem?

3. Are some RN instructors Porterville College instructors who hired solely to teach in the
district RN program? If so, could they start and finish a week later to match the BC

calendar?

4. Is the Porterville College calendar held hostage by the BC nursing program? (All transcripts

and FTES go to BC, no PC scholarships available for students.)

M: 5 week winter break (by D. Bezayiff)

S: C. Britton

C. Unanimous

VII. New Business

1. Filling of Interim Dean Position – (Hensley)

Consider: Why do we automatically replace administrators when we don’t automatically replace faculty?

B. Henry brought up the fact that in year 2006-2007 confidential management employees numbered 77. Confidential management numbered 23 at district, 33 at BC, 13 at CC, and 8 at PC (which is 10% overall). The new dean would oversee a number of faculty evaluations that are needed in the spring. Presently new allocations in confidential management are being developed for Porterville College.

It was also mentioned that if we “rent a dean”, can we also “rent a librarian”?

It was agreed that it would be appropriate for the administration (but this would also mean district administration) to consider replacing faculty with the same thoughtful process as replacing administrators.

VIII. Adjournment: 5:00 PM
M: C. Britton

S: D. Bezayiff

Respectfully submitted:

J. Wiens