Report of the Chair of the Faculty – (L. Morimoto)
1. SSP Positions have been empty on the Academic Senate and its committees since they are unsure how to run the elections. We have worked out the process.
2. Thank You to VP Monir and Team for discussions regarding closing of certain parts of buildings / President Lee sitting in dugout for a baseball game / O’Neil and Davis for Giving Day support to departments / Provost Moranski and VP Jones who dyed their hair blue to support students who came out for student elections vote.
3. Title IX Report to be live-streamed in May. The Report will not be campus specific. A question is whether campus-specific information will be forthcoming / maybe they will provide; no one is sure but the Statewide Academic Senate is asking for this information, which is wanted by campus implementation teams.
Announcements Info:
1. SAC: Student Learning Objectives for SSU's 2023 Orientation have been developed by SAC and AAS
2. SAC: Cheating and Plagiarism Process FAQs for Faculty have been developed
Reports:
1. Risk and Safety Services: Great Shakeout Drill – T. Hill
Will be held on April 18th at 10 am to practice Drop, Cover and Hold-on, with emergency notifications via text and email. This coordinates with a Sonoma County wide drill. People will not be asked to leave buildings.
Business Items:
1. EPC: Elementary Pre‐Credential Concentration / New Program; 2nd Reading – E. Asencio & C. Bacigalupa https://sonoma.curriculog.com/proposal:3799/form
- No Presentation / updates from 1st reading.
- Approved unanimously 18/0
Standing Reports:
1. Interim President of the University – (M. Lee)
- Giving Day shout out
- Recently attended baseball and softball double-header games. Concerned with lack of attendance. Will work with campus entities to promote athletics attendance.
- Title IX report: any information he gets he will share with campus.
- Need to fill Strategic Enrollment Management position with departure of Elias Lopez. Will be set-up as VP position. Find a person for a 3-year term, then run a national search.
- Questions from CFA President Napoleon Reyes about no response yet to requests for Meet and Confer about Athletics moving to Students Affairs; also requested information about Campus Police Safety Budget. President Lee indicated he will look into these matters.
2. Provost/Vice-President, Academic Affairs – (K. Moranski)
- Graduate Thesis Research 3-min Presentation Competition tomorrow with 15 participants from 5 different departments the most ever. The winner goes to CSU-wide and Western States competitions.
- CTET trans-inclusion and -affirmation series of programs forthcoming.
- Working with leaders in Japan to host a Japanese language speech contest at SSU in the Fall.
- Honor Society being reinvigorated on-campus.
- Hispanic Emerging Leaders Conference; sending 5 students from SSU.
- Academic Master Plan focus this year concentrating on multi-year course scheduling and designing metrics for current programs to analyze them to make sure they are healthy (not just number of students they have).
- Building Consolidation for Custodian Services (down 11 positions): International Hall is largely unused / Ives Hall with special spaces for music and theater but not used consistently / also Nichols Hall with special spaces for Nursing but otherwise is under-utilized. In general not using some classrooms in other buildings because based on CSU metrics we have twice the amount of teaching space available compared to our current enrollment. Comment: Shame to lose International Hall building that is centrally located on campus to highlight international education. Can’t we move related programs into the empty spaces to keep and better utilize this building. Question: No academic departments will be moved this summer? Ans: Can’t guarantee that. Question: Disruption in Library space for activities; waiting for cubicle removal with Stevenson Hall repopulation; timeline? Ans: No plan to continue to use Library as surge space. CFA asking for meet and confer before any move. Ans, Monir: Will not circumvent protocol but not sure meet and confer needed. Moranski: will follow faculty contract.
3. Vice President/Admin & Finance - (M. Ahmed)
- Building Emergency Lockout. Stevenson has newest hard/software – inside door button that can override and lock from inside and can only be opened from outside by person with security access / can be opened from inside with normal door handle. Other buildings with electronic locks are waiting for software update to do the same thing as Stevenson. Rest of older buildings with normal doors will over time be updated with electronic locks.
- Cloud storage of electronic documents has redundancy with system-wide and another on-campus system. Transition plan of system-wide plan. Looking at transition and ways to save money.
4. Vice President for Student Affairs – (G. Jones)
- CAPS and Health Center are able to accept all students asking for service. They are looking at certification to allow them to write letters of recommendation for gender-affirming medication / surgery.
- For first time in 3 years, held “Ticket to Education” event, which is for current or former foster youth.
5. Vice-President of Associated Students – (V. Sanchez)
- JUMP events / April is Disability Awareness Month
https://as.sonoma.edu/events/jump-presents-movie-screening-ft-peanut-butter-falcon
https://as.sonoma.edu/events/jump-presents-guest-speaker-panel-special-olympics-norcal
https://as.sonoma.edu/events/jump-presents-volunteer-special-olympics-basketball-clinic
6. Statewide Senators - (E. Newman, R. Senghas)
- Last Plenary Session of academic year coming up: work on CalGETC and Title IX Report.
- Start to reorganize next fall to be more proactive versus reactive on new legislation.
7. Staff Representative – (K. Sims)
- The next staff council meeting will be Tuesday, April 18, at 1:00 PM. There will be a preview of upcoming opportunities to serve on University committees and Staff Council followed by a report from the AMP Steering Committee by Staff Representative Hope Ortiz.
8. CFA Chapter President – (N. Reyes)
- Statewide CFA is contesting the Consultant Salary Report submitted to the Board of Trustees which shows CSU salaries are comparable to universities in other states. Also indicated no difference in salary related to gender or race within the CSU. No access to raw data has been offered.
Good of the Order
- Fridays at 4 will resume on April 14th in Overlook.
- “The Mitzvah-Project,” this Monday, 4/10 1:00 p.m. in 101 Ives/Warren Auditorium! This is an educational theater piece exploring the nature of prejudice through the interconnected lives of a Polish-Jewish Auschwitz survivor and a half-Jewish Nazi officer during the Holocaust. Performance, lecture, and discussion about the need for social inclusion and justice, and active antiracism. Supported by the HUB and other sponsors.
Submitted by ERFSA Senator Steven V. Winter