SSU Academic Senate Meeting of 1 September 2022

Report of the Chair of the Faculty – (L. Morimoto)
- New Academic Analyst Meredith (last name?)
- Emeritus Luncheon November 4 th at Prelude
Consent: Faculty Eligible for Emeritus Status F’ 22
- Approved 16 new faculty emeriti

Special Reports -
From SDS: Cost Materials Report – (L. Murdock-Perriera)
- Completed by Senate Diversity Subcommittee as a follow up report from 2020 regarding a
Senate Resolution in 2016 to reduce classroom material costs for students.
- Found a correlation between time spent in dept. meetings on this issue to increases in low cost
materials used in the classroom in that dept.; group effort in dept. versus a single person.
-Provided recommendations:1) ask faculty to talk to other faculty in their dept, 2) dept. form OER
materials committee specific to their discipline and 3) sharing this information in on-boarding of
new lectures and tenure-track faculty.
Enrollment Report – (E. Lopez)
- SSU #1 Transfer and #4 FTFY 4-year graduation rates in the CSU.
- Problem we are not getting new students equal to the 2300-2500 graduates each year.
- Fall 22 New Students FTFY 977 vs. goal or 1004 / Transfer 758 vs. 848 / PostBac 290 vs. 315.
- Plan: 1) Want 20K applications vs. current 16K (recruit scholarship/recruitment/marketing
especially admissions page/enlist faculty and alumni help/get potential students to visit days/new
enrollment software with automated communications for student groups and information on all
entities that have contacted that student), 2) Admit 80% by end of January with Financial Aid
letter in February (admitted 10.2K in 2022 vs. 5.5K by end of Jan. 2021) and 3) Increase yield
FTFY 20% vs. current 10% and Transfer 40% vs. current 24% (campus tours/preview days/high
touch communication/digital marketing/outreach by academic depts./financial aid/ etc like
housing).
- Yield rate from Southern CA have not rebounded.
Business:
1. Revision to Human Subjects Policy - First Reading – (H. Smith)
- New 2019 Federal Requirements necessitated policy revisions, as well as, board members
attempts to make the document clearer.
- No questions were asked.
2. Resolution CFA Petition on executive accountability and transparency - First Reading - E.
(Newman)
- Resolved that Interim President Lee at CSU Board Meeting advocate for the needs of faculty,
staff and students: with Petition indicating he talk about exorbitant CSU President salary
increases, transparency in selection of presidents, salary increases for faculty-staff, Title IX
reform, increased staffing of mental health counselors and CSU Board to push legislature-
Governor for adequate funding. Rational is the large pay raises for administrators versus smaller
raises for faculty and staff.
- Amendment to wording in the Resolve to support the CFA document but in the Academic
Senate version to eliminate the Petition section: the reason is not telling a new president what he
has to say to the CSU Board at their first meeting (Approved).
- Amendment to go back to including the Petition (Approved)
- Vote to include Rational (Approved)
- Amendment to change wording in Resolve: The SSU AS recognizes (vs. supports) the CFA

petition below …… (Approved)
- Amendment in Resolve: urges President vs. calls for President…. (Approved)
- Approval of Resolution as amended (Approved)
Standing Reports
1. Interim President of the University – (M. Lee)
- Expressed importance of Academic Senate at a University. Impressed with the pride people
have about this campus.
- Communication (and listening) are a 2-way street: better communication from administration
and he needs to hear thoughts-suggestions at mike.lee@sonoma.edu After all you are in the
classroom with students.
- Importance of faculty communicating with potential new students.
2. Provost/Vice-President, Academic Affairs – (K. Moranski)
- Grants: NSF Comp Science $345K / $1+M Special Education.
- Market capacity-demand for on-line programs report coming in Sept.
- New AVP position for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Success created this summer.
- SEIE Dean Search moving ahead (need entrepreneur to make money).
- WASC Working Group being reconstituted as permanent group(WASC coming 2024-25).

Good of the Order
Recognition of retirement and thank you for all of her service to Laurel Holmstrom-Keyes.