Meeting Notes - May 24, 2011
Meeting Notes - May 24, 2011
Review of Notes:
May 17 and May 19 notes were reviewed. The notes of May 19th are amended to say: The “eliminated positions” that were originally slated for hire during the 2010-11 year because they were chosen as part of a Division’s choice to meet their budget reduction numbers are placed in the following order for consideration when the hiring of any position resumes: 1) AS-Diversity, 2) LA-English, 3) Bus/CIS-Business, 4) LA-Reading, 5) PE-Soccer, 6) SSH-Child Development. Retirements and any other hiring requests will fall under another hiring process. It is hoped that hiring will resume in 2 to 3 years.
Group Work:
Teams gathered to discuss their questions and observations about Division proposals.
Outcomes:
A report to the college council will consist of the following recommendations:
1) the IPBT recognizes and honors the work of the faculty and staff in the creation of these proposals;
2) the IPBT does not support the extent of these reductions as they cause grave concerns:
Relative to the college’s stated mission and goals to support diversity, equity and student success of targeted underrepresented groups;
- a proportional cut to math classes will cause disproportionate burdens to these students;
- reductions in core English courses and ESL courses (which are often repeated a number of times) will impede student progress at all levels of the college
Relative to the college’s stated mission and goals to support transfer and CTE groups;
- reductions in general education biology courses in combination with math may cause a ripple effect in enrollments in physics and chemistry courses
- reductions of this magnitude will also impede the progress of transfer track students as waiting lists (which are already extraordinarily long)
In summary, this magnitude of a reduction would adversely affect, outreach, gateway courses, transfer, certificate and degree attainment with disproportional effects on underrepresented student groups.
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Administrative Reps |
Classified Reps |
Faculty Reps |
Student Reps |
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Christina Espinosa-Pieb, Co-Chair-- |
Donna Bradshaw-guest |
Randy Bryant |
Amira Fahah,- absent Meera Suresh-absent |
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Ron McFarland-- |
Mary Kay Englen-guest |
Catie Cadge-Moore |
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Edmundo Norte-- |
Greg Knittel |
Cinzia Muzzi |
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Rich Schroeder-- |
April Qian |
Coleen Lee-Wheat, Co-Chair |
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Rowena Tomaneng-- |
Kulwant Singh |