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I. Call to Order

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Welcome

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Approval of Agenda and Minutes from April 14th, 2025.

Veronica Acevedo moved, Jayanti Roy seconded to approve both minutes and agenda. No objection. Agenda and minutes approved by unanimous consent.

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Public Comment 

Mark Landefeld: West Valley managed to obtain full funding for any in-district resident students, full-time or part-time, and not subject to a two-year cap like the ������ý College Promise Program. West Valley also has launched a guaranteed meal program for all in-person students.

The athletic coaches discovered that these enrollment incentives make West Valley more attractive in recruiting athletes.

Veronica Acevedo had a question about their funding sources. It was believed that they have additional community and commercial funding.

Mary Donahue received a faculty inquiry regarding the Grant Ave Faculty Housing Project. People who have applied have not received any updates or responses. They would like more information about the process and progress as well as the statistics around the application.

The Senate took a moment to acknowledge the passing of Pope Francis.

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II. Consent Calendar

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Consent Calendar: (Attachment)

District Committee to Update Enrollment Priorities (AP/BP 5055)

Faculty representative

Felisa Vilaubi, Equity & Engagement/VIDA

Hiring Committee Update

Instructor, PE and Track & Field and Cross-Country Head Coach

Mark (Rusty) Johnson replaced Dawnis Guevara

Ravjeet Singh moved to approve the consent calendar, Jayanti Roy seconded. No objection. Approved by unanimous consent.

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III. Needs and Confirmation

District and College Needs (Attachment)

Hiring Committee: Vice President for Student Services

Need 3 faculty representatives. One spot was prioritized for part-time faculty. Another spot with preference for a counselor. Other committee members: Sam Bliss, Karen Hunter, Nazy Galoyan, Lisa Mandy, Adrienne Hypolit, Elvin Ramos

Volunteer by filling out the request to serve form on the Senate website. To be confirmed next week.

Tenure Review At-Large Representatives

Need many members for the tenure review committee for next year

Tenure Review Due Process Pool

Need at least 2 faculty members, 2 FA members, 2 administrators to form the pool in the spring for the 25-26 academic year. The pool is active and on call for due process complaints.

EO Representatives

Ongoing need.

District Diversity & Equity Advisory Committee/Human Resources Advisory Committee

Need one faculty member to serve on these two committees that meet together on Thursday once a month.

April 26, Open House 

Welcome more volunteers.

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Confirmations 

Hiring Committee: Vice Chancellor for Strategy, Institutional Effectiveness, and Engagement (new position)

One ������ý faculty member needed as soon as possible.

No one volunteered. Called for volunteers from the floor. Erik Woodbury volunteered.

No objection.

Erik Woodbury confirmed.

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IV. New & Continuing Business

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Quick Notes:

Listening Project - Report Out

The project was held last Wednesday and Thursday. There were 12 volunteer listeners and 10 people that came to talk to them. They got some good feedback that Erik Woodbury will summarize and bring back to the Senate. They learned that location was important. In the future, they should hold it in a place with more foot traffic.

Vice President for Instruction (VPI) Open Forum Topics

Class cancellation policy, timelines and criteria, the inequity of having courses pay their way budgetarily, protect the intellectual and academic integrity of the process of students getting classes at ������ý.

Class sizes, ������ý has the highest seat counts

Approach toward the dilemma of balancing budget and enrollment issues to support faculty, programs, student needs

Course scheduling, course cancellation

Setting the instructional direction

Expansion of programs that support innovation and curriculum

Budget and resource allocation that is fair and equitable.

Partnerships with industry

Faculty development and growth. ������ý is no longer competitive in hiring.

Shared governance

Growth for STEM classes given their high demand

Opportunity for faculty to give feedback on the candidates 

Email topics and questions to Erik.

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DASG Update

DASG general elections have concluded. They have started the election certification process and election reimbursement. They are doing internal elections for internal officers.

2025-2026 DASG Senate Internal Officer Application

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=n7L3RQCxQUyAT7NBighZSuDwQW__ZexGnvjwAREGYuhUQ0YxMUYxMVZDNEk3TkFFREFFOFpGTVlQMSQlQCN0PWcu

DASG events

Earth Week Activity at the Kirsch Center next week in collaboration with the ES department.

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DAPA Affinity Group Addition to Executive Committee

DAPA, ������ý Pride Association, was ​​approved as the newest affinity group at the College Council last Thursday. They gave a presentation at the council meeting on  the history of LGBTQ plus on the ������ý campus.

Presentation from College Council - for reference

/gov/college_council/meetings/DA%20LGBTQ%20Employee%20Advocacy%20Group.pdf

There was a proposal to update the constitution and bylaws to include DAPA as voting members of the Academic Senate like other affinity groups.

Mary Donahue moved to approve at the first read the proposal to update the constitution and bylaws to add DAPA as voting members to the Academic Senate. Barbara Dahlke seconded. Mary Pape moved to approve by acclamation.

No objection. All yay. Approved by acclamation.

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Academic Senate Funding Guidelines and Request Process (1st read) (DRAFT: )

Erik Woodbury gave an overview of a draft on guidelines and process to request Senate support and funding. The draft in  4 sections covered the Purpose of Senate Dues, the Scale of the Senate funds, Funding Request Guidelines, and Funding Request and Disbursement Process  

Shagun Kaur suggested including a link on the Senate website with an accessible form and a standardized template to track the requests.

The goal of the fund was to supplement and augment campus events. 

Sherwin Mendoza proposed that in the Scale section stated that the Senate may fund many or a few events depending on available funds that are determined by collected dues.

There was discussion on promoting support and recruiting efforts to increase fee paying members

There was a conversation about setting the amount that AS can spend per year.  The suggestion was to cap the request at $500 with a sliding option starting from $100.

To be continued

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District Senate President Position

There is an opening for a district senate president. Historically this position was rotated between ������ý and Foothill. For the last three years, Kathryn Maurer, Foothill, has held that position. Her current term will conclude in June.

Current responsibilities:

• Vote at ASCCC plenary
• Chair the monthly district senate with district leadership team 
• Co-chair APM and to deal with district and policy issues, esp. BPs and APs
• Continue to formalize tasks and responsibilities for this role

Conversation about whether or not there should be a District Senate President. 

An important role, what do we want this position to do?

Mary Pape: it is important at this juncture to have colleges work together and get things through. It is good to have a tie breaker vote at the plenary. Often decisions are made with one vote.

Shagun Kaur: faculty voice is needed with all the changes happening.

Mary Pape: prior the position was just a figurehead. It has grown and evolved in the last 4 years and has been very effective.

How are other district senates organized?

Qualification: someone who has served as senate officers or has executive experience

Current AS presidents at FH and DA do not and should not also serve as District Senate President due to current responsibilities

The new term will start in July and it includes a $9k compensation but no release time. Higher compensation has been proposed for the last two year

Bob Singh :$9 is not enough compensation for the work

Motin

Shagun Kaur motion to keep the position and lobby for more  compensation. Barbara Dahlke seconded. No objection. Motion passed.

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ASCCC Spring Plenary Resolutions

President's Summary and Notes: Updated Resolution Guide

Strong support for 101.2 California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC) Approval of California Community Colleges (CCC) Ethnic Studies Courses that increases classes under area 6 but decreases the number of faculty eligible to teach those classes; another potential fallout, will affect cross listing.

Ishmael Tarikh support for 106.1 New Resolution: Advocating for Inclusive Participation of Part-Time Faculty in California Community College Local Academic Senates by Researching a Potential Change in Title 5 Section 53202 (d)

Shagun Kaur asked about compensation for Part-Time Faculty. The answer was “Probably not.”

Veronica Acevedo support for 113.3 New Resolution: Allow Districts to Offer Mathematics and English Courses to Support Upskilling for Student Advancement

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Policy Development on Overlapping and Multiple Enrollments (AP 4226)

Proposed AP: AP 4336 DRAFT
Alternate Reference AP:

There is currently no official ������ý policy on overlapping enrollment or multiple enrollment. 

Multiple enrollment may happen when a student takes the same 6 week class during one quarter.

Overlapping enrollment (10 minutes overlap in two classes); reference for AP 4226; how to make up for the missed times in a class. No current process for overlapping at DA; it is not allowed unless there are extenuating circumstances. The exception and accommodation was possible but to manually overlap classes takes a lot of work.

Shagun Kaur suggested Block Scheduling as a solution.

There was a proposal to create a policy to address this issue. Discussion to be continued.

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College Mission and Vision Review (Attachment)

Mallory Newell shares a review and a proposal to update the College Mission and Vision

Slide 5. Add “ A Commitment to Equity” to the mission statement. Add “Quantitative Reasoning” added to institutional core competencies

Mallory shared 2 options.

Option 1: Embed Quantitative Reasoning Into Current ICCs, slide 6

Option 2: Add a 6th ICC, slide 7. 

Shagun Kaur; 3rd option include Quantitative Reasoning in critical thinking; 

AS discussion on Quantitative Reasoning vs. Quantitative Analysis

Discussion to be continued. will follow up with Mallory Newell.

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Good of the Order

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Adjournment

Bob Singh motioned, Jayanti Roy seconded, to adjourn, no objection.

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Attendance

In person

Erik Woodbury, Patty Guitron, So Kam Lee

Veronica Avila Acevedo, *Deborah Armstrong, Barbara Dahlke, *Sam Bliss, Mark Hamer, Kevin Glapion, Lauren Gordon, Julie Hughes, Rusty Johnson, Shagun Kaur, Sherwin Mendoza, Lisa Mesh, Mary Pape, *Victor Pham, Christian Rodriguez, Jayanti Roy, Lakshmikanta "LK" Sengupta, Leah Smith, Ravjeet Singh, Sukhjit Bob Singh, Felisa Vilaubi, Lianna Wong

Online

Mary Donahue, Mark Landefeld, Ishmael Tarikh, 

Absent

James Adams, Viviana Alcazar, James Capurso, Alicia Mullens, Jesus Ruelas

*Non-voting members