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Academic
goals set
by Senate
By DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
Enhancing the role of part-time
faculty on campus is one of the pri¬
mary goals the Faculty Senate has
outlined as institutional goals and
objectives for the 1997-98 academic
year.
Approved unanimously during
last Monday’s meeting, the Senate
lists “providing more work space for
part-time faculty” and “expanded
and enhanced orientation and
mentoring” as key steps toward inte¬
gration of full and part-time staff.
Other items aimed at pulling part-
timers into the fold are. coordinated
syllabi and teaching , as well as the
availability of additional voice and
e-mail. A problem did arise, how¬
ever, over the coordinated syllabi
and instruction.
Senate secretary Jean Volckmann
was concerned that coordinating syl¬
labi would be difficult because she
wasn’t sure that “our part-timers are
even receiving course outlines.”
“The word ‘coordinate’ allows
freedom,” argued Maryann Mayer,
student services representative. Other
senate members agreed with Mayer’s,
statement.
“Some teachers have different
styles,” Volckmann added. She con¬
ceded that the faculty “must coordi¬
nate syllabi,” to assure instructional
continuity. The Senate agreed.
Among other items noted as goals
and objectives included developing
an educational master plan to guide
and coordinate curriculum, facili¬
ties, marketing, budget, technology,
staff development and hiring.
The Senate will form a commit¬
tee to assess community and college
needs as well as identifying fiscal,
Please see SENATE page 6
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AS Board approves
Fernandez as new
exec, vice president
■Frank Fernandez eventually chosen to take
over the office of executive vice president after
board rejects Ben Bushnell’s first choice.
By YUSEF ROBB
Courier Staff Writer
Frank Fernandez, vice president
of academic affairs, ascended to the
position of executive vice president
Tuesday by a unanimous vote of the
Associated Students Board.
His selection was not AS presi¬
dent Ben Bushnell’s first choice.
The first choice for the job was
James Pickett, who was suggested
by Bushnell during the March 25 AS
Board meeting.
But when it came time to approve
Pickett on Tuesday, the board failed
to second the motion, thus killing
Pickett’s bid for the post.
The position has been vacant since
Bushnell ascended to the presidency
due to Forrest Poindexter’s resigna¬
tion.
Bushnell stated on March 25 that
had considered two other people for
the position, Vanessa Schultz and
Fernandezbefore making his choice.
Pickett said that he was “inter¬
ested in serving the board and its
students” and that he understood stu¬
dent needs.
He also said that he would like to
see the Board have more contact
with the students and vice versa.
If appointed, Pickett would also
have served as the president of the
Inter Club Council, per the AS Con¬
stitution.
But he was not familiar with the
ICC and indicated this in his re¬
sponse to Catherine Hazelton’s ques¬
tions.
He did state that he would find out
the clubs’ needs and “support them
in their activities.”
He also said that he would help
the organization in “getting other
people involved in the clubs.”
At Tuesday’s meeting, Bushnell
responded to questions regarding
his choice by stating “I have thought
very hard about this and that is why
I came to James Pickett.”
But board members cited a need
to have an executive vice president
that has “shown an effort in student
government” and that has knowl¬
edge of the Inter Club Council and
parliamentary' procedure.
Schultz's name was then brought
up as a choice.
“She is excellent,” Bushnell said.
“I think she would be just as good as
Pickett.”
But, after the Board cited the
traditional order of succession, which
has the vice president of academic
affairs as third in line for the presi¬
dency, Fernandez spoke up.
“I could resolve this very easily,”
he said. “I have the experience; I
have the ability.”
When the Bqard questioned his
ability to handle the duties of vice
president of academic affairs and
executive vice president, he replied,
“Don’t worry about it, I’ll take it on.”
The audience broke into applause
after the vote confirmed Fernandez
for the position.
Bushnell has been handling the
job of ICC president himself, keep¬
ing the duties of executive vice presi¬
dent after he became AS president.
The move will leave the Board
will all of it’s positions effectively
filled, with only the position of aca¬
demic affairs remaining formally
open.
Students unhappy with text
publish their own supplement
By JULIE DRAKE
Courier Staff Writer
Pacing the islands of books in the
bookstore, class schedule in hand,
you walk over to the social sciences
area and find the required textbook
for political science taught by Dr.
Joel Reid. The text is “We the
People.”
The 750-page tome is a hefty
package with page after page of in¬
comprehensible political science jar¬
gon. You wonder how you will ever
sift through the excess to get to the
important information.
Reid has used that textbook for
several y'ears to educate his students
on the concepts of political science.
He chose the book for its college-
level approach to the material de¬
spite the di fficulty it presents to some
students.
However, students have con¬
fronted him about the text’s difficult
style and have often asked for help in
comprehending it.
To alleviate these problems, he
recommended they consider how to
help themselves understand it and
was delighted and surprised when
his students came back to him sug¬
gesting a supplement to the text¬
book. He suggested they write one
and discussed with them how to go
about it.
The students narrowed the focus
of the textbook for the study-guide,
simplified the concepts and created a
vocabulary' and chapter summaries
This month the fifth edition of the
student-produced guide, titled “In
Other Words.. .A Study Guide to
Accompany We the People,” will be
published by W. W. Norton & Com¬
pany. The guide will
accompany the fifth
edition of the text¬
book.
Desiree Norris,
who coordinated the
project and typed ev¬
erything on com¬
puter disk, worked , , _ . .
with Carole Darnold Dr- Joei Reid
and Reid to produce a guide that
would help students discern the im¬
portant information.
Norris first became involved with
the project after finding typographi¬
cal and grammatical errors in the
first edition. She reworked a chapter
from the guide as a class project.
Impressed by her work, Reid asked
if she would do the second edition of
the study guide. Norris soon found
herself working on the third and
fourth editions for later printings of
the textbook.
“ Sometimes it ’ s hard to tell what ’ s
important and what’s not. The study
guide boils it down to what mat¬
tered,” Norris said.
In 1994 the authors of the text
were sent a copy of the study guide
and they loved it. Author Theodore
Lowi came to PCC eager to meet
with Reid and his students and lec¬
ture on political science. In 1995, he
asked Reid and his students to write
a student guide for the fifth edition of
"We the People.”
The publication is unprecedented
in the community college system.
There has never been an instance
where a student-produced project was
published for distribution nation¬
wide.
“All of this was a labor of love. It
was a great experience to see stu¬
dents and a professor working closely
together on a project to benefit the
students,” said Reid. He met with the
students to check their progress,
assign work and offer encourage¬
ment to continue.
Reid, who has taught at PCC for
29 of his 3 8 years as an educator, was
the first black dean in the history' of
the college.
As dean of community services
for 1 0 years, he was heavily involved
in working with adults in continuing
education. He continues to be im¬
mersed in the community as a coun¬
selor and works with youth groups.
“Dr. Reid did all of the checking
up on us to make sure that we were
still going strong. He was very moti¬
vational” Norris said. He negotiated
the contract with the publishing house
and was liaison between the pub¬
lisher and the students.
Faculty demands measures
against Black and Mollica
By RACHEL URANGA
Courier Staff Writer
Despite the announced retire¬
ment of Patricia Mollica, dean of
human resources, the Faculty Sen¬
ate Board insisted the college take
action on the allegations that she
and another top official violated
hiring practices and meddled in
faculty matters.
The Faculty Senate Monday
called upon Superintendent Presi¬
dent James Kossler to devise a
plan of “corrective action” within
30 days to resolve the allegations
of misconduct against Mollica and
Joyce Black, vice president of in¬
struction.
If the president fails to take
action or if his measures do not
meet the approval of the Faculty
Senate, the board threatened to
initiate a vote of no confidence
against the two.
As of Tuesday, Kossler said he
was still awaiting official notice
of the request.
“A great deal of study of the
issues needs to be done before I
can decide whether to act on them.”
said Kossler.
He also said that to properly
address the allegations, he would
have to speak with the original
sources of the charges. Thus far
they have remained anonymous.
The request for action was
prompted by a faculty-wide survey,
the results of which were presented
during Monday’s meeting by the
Board of Inquiry, the committee that
launched the investigation into the
allegations.
The survey, which was generated
at the request of the the Faculty
Senate Board, asked respondents
what if any action should be taken
against the administrators.
Half of the 350 faculty polled
responded to the survey and of those,
slightly over 25 percent, believed
the entire faculty should have a vote
of no confidence for both adminis¬
trators.
80 percent of respondents said
that they wanted something done,
with 20 percent asking for “no fur¬
ther action.”
More than 75 percent of the re¬
spondents felt the allegations war¬
ranted a pursuit of further action, but
responses varied widely as to who
should have the authority to carry
out these actions.
A vote of no confidence would
effectively determine the level of
faith the faculty has in the adminis¬
trators ’ competency to carry out their
duties.
As for a resolution, Robert
McLean, co-chair of the Board of
Inquiry, suggested that separat¬
ing the. affirmative action office
from the office of human re¬
sources could be one step the
president might take in correcting
the problem.
The Board of Inquiry indicated
that its primary concern was the
power the position Black and
Mollica wielded on the hiring
committee.
“The complaints are not about
a person. They are about a set of
behaviors that seem to coalesce
around a person,” said board
member Jean Volckmann. “When
Mollica leaves her position, these
problems will continue.”
The allegations first appeared
last year after the Board of In¬
quiry, which is comprised of union
representatives and the executive
committee of the Faculty Senate,
made public the findings of its
confidential investigation into
faculty complaints against the ad¬
ministrators.
Citing 32 alleged violations of
school policy, the board unsuc¬
cessfully recommended a vote of
no confidence to the Faculty Sen¬
ate.
The Board of Inquiry’s failure
to identify sources compelled fac¬
ulty members to back down from
the vote.
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