College Council (met Nov 10)
Considered ten additional BPs from Administrative Services in first reading
Approved the General Fund Reserve BP that requires a 10% reserve.

MPC is using the CCLC template for board policies. Most of these are very short and basically charge the S/P with creating a policy or being responsible for this or that. The board policies indicate the "what" and the Administrative Procedures should indicate the "how we get it done".
There was much discussion about the relationship between BPs and Administrative Procedures. 
Steve Crow indicated that in some cases, the kinds of explanations that should be in administrative procedures are currently embedded in the Board Policies. There are currently very few administrative procedures, and some of them that do exist are very out of date.

The basic outcome I think we want from this Board Policy -- Admin Procedure effort is that we can all easily find out what the policies and procedures are on any given topic and find out how MPC does business. 

I tried to provide context for the situation by explaining that we've been frustrated for many years by MPC's lack of administrative procedures.

Other issues.

Approved (or unfroze) a Human Resources Specialist position.
There was overwhelming support for this position with all of the things that HR is trying to accomplish.

Listened to the same Google Project Update that will be presented here in Academic Senate on December 3.

Continued review of College Council bylaws. 
Discussed, but did not come to clear resolution, on how College Council members should communicate to their constituencies, which is one of the member responsibilities in the bylaws. Also why I continue to give these extensive reports.

Board of Trustees (October 28)
Approved several of the proposed Board Policies that the Academic Senate worked really hard on in 2012-2013. Language recommended by the Academic Senate was approved verbatim. I am very happy about this. These include:
BP 4010 Academic Calendar (no existing MPC policy)
BP 4030 Academic Freedom (Existing MPC policy 3120--no text changes)
BP 4050 Articulation (no existing MPC policy)
BP 4225 Course Repetition (existing MPC policy 3110)
BP 4300 Field Trips and Excursions (no existing MPC policy)
BP 4330 Instructional Service Agreements (existing MPC policy 3030)
BP 4334 Contract Education (existing MPC policy 3035)
BP 5052 Open Enrollment (existing MPC policy 3100)
See Board of Trustees New Business for October 28 (scroll down to "Item O" on p. 59)

Board Polices that the Academic Senate worked on back then that are still in process include the following.
BP 4100 Graduation Requirements for Degrees and Certificates (existing MPC policy 3000)
BP 4040 Library Services (existing MPC policy 3050)
BP 4260 Pre-Requisites and Co-requisites (existing MPC policy 3105)
BP 4020 Program, Curriculum, and Course Development (existing MPC policy 3010)
BP 405 Philosophy and Criteria for Associate Degree and General Education (existing MPC policy 3001)
See summary document for more information.

November 18
Approved the College Council recommendation to hire Collaborative Brain Trust to do a 

Learning Assessment Committee

Joined by Rosaleen Ryan and Jon Knolle (who will co-chair the committee; this is great news)
The newly appointed Director of Student Success, LaKisha Bradley, will join us in the near future.
Ruth Killens has joined us as the administrative support person to keep notes and help with information/data management.
We are still one faculty member short of the number of faculty members identified in the Committee Charge. I do, however, have at least two "promises" to be more involved next year. My current thinking is to go back to these individuals next year. 

Probably the most substantive thing to come out of the committee is the notion that there has been an unintended consequence with the Instructor Reflections: "please go complete *your* instructor reflections." We think it should be "let's figure out how to reflect upon *our* courses."

Screening Committees

Counseling

LaRon Johnson
Mike Torres
Susanne Muszala
Sonia Lizano (external)
Alethea DeSoto (chair)

CSIS
Leandro Castillo
Tom Rebold
Monika Bell (external)
D.J. Singh (chair)

History

Elias Kary (Chair)
Elizabeth Mullins
Alan Haffa
LaRon Johnson (external)
Rachel Whitworth

Early Childhood Education
Steve Albert (Chair)
Mary Johnson
Adrianne Kotecki
Cathy Nyznyk
Amber Kerschner
Jamie Dagdidian (external)
Shannon Watkins (Community Member)

Administration of Justice
Kendra Cabrera (Chair)
Lauren Handley
Anthony Villareal
Dawn Rae Davis
Mary Johnson
Darius Engles (adjunct/community member)
External member is being worked out

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