President’s Report to the Academic Senate

First things first…

Welcome to our new Senators LaNae Jaimez, Karen Wanek, Matt Borchert and Richard Kleeberg. Many thanks to those who formerly occupied those seats: Ferdinanda Florence, Deborah Kalish, John Nagle, Michael Goodwin and Thom Watkins. You will be missed and I thank you for having made the Senate better.

Also, we have a new Administrative Assistant, Ms. Connie Adams, who has begun to learn the ropes of managing the Senate. I am grateful that she is here and hope she enjoys working at Solano College.

Meetings:

Shared Governance Council (SGC): September 9th, 2009

    The job descriptions for the Director of Fiscal Services and the Bond Accountant came back before SGC with suggested modifications. Board Policies 1070 Board Self-Evaluation and procedures to BP 2035 on evaluating the S/P came back for comment to the council. Members suggested that the Board broaden its self-evaluation and that of the S/P to include more input from all constituent groups and the frequency of the evaluations.

Financial and Budget Planning Advisory Council (FaBPAC):

This meeting was cancelled to allow for the joint SGC/ Academic Senate Accreditation meeting.

A conversation with S/P Laguerre:

I met with Dr. Laguerre, as per you instructions, to discuss the eminent executive level reorganization. I did my best to summarize the questions, concerns, and positive feedback that I have received about his proposed change. I expressed to him that the College needs to see how this is "productive dialogue" and that it would behoove him to make manifest the ways in which constituent input is, or is not, influencing the nature of the final product. In addition to discussing the substance of the reorganization, I urged him to follow the form for change that the College has recently embraced in the Integrated Planning Process; the Strategic Proposal Form, as the vehicle through which he discuss this change. What should be the next steps that the Senate takes?

Accreditation update:

The second draft of the accreditation document is now up on the intranet. There are still a few holes… a few paragraphs and some evidence, but for the most part, it is complete. Senators and all groups on campus are urged to read it.

Other news…

The Senate office is being moved to the 400 building. By our next meeting, I think, we should be relocated.