I. Call to Order/Roll Call

The meeting was called to order by President Dianne McKay at 2:00 p.m.

Senators	A	P	Senators	A	P
Akers-Martin (X 2844)Comm		X	Hudak (Ext. 2879) CommSvc		X
Burtch (Ext.2852) AAS		X	Jackins (Ext. 3420) Math		X
Costanza (Ext. 3414) ESL		X	Kleppinger (Ext.3224) CServ		X
DeMarco (Ext. 3337) Tech		X	McGee (Ext. 3143) Stud Dev		X
Flolo (Ext.3309) AAS		X	McKay (Ext. 3418) Pres.		X
Grams (Sub/Moyers) SocSci		X	Moyers (Ext. 3404) Soc Sci		X
Hill (Ext. 3366) CATA	X		Patton (Ext. 2806) Comm		X

Division Chair Council	A	P	Division Chair Council	A	P
Jim Burrell (Natural Science)		X	Jim Delongchamp (CATA)		X
Lee Callaway (VP/Instruction)		X	Steve Dinger (Comm Services)		X
Alan Chandler (Social Science)			Jody Hacker (ESL)		X
Teri Chiang (Math)		X	Jane Patton (Communications)		X
Win-Shin Chiang (Library Dir)		X	Peter Xiques (Technology)		X
Don Cordero (Student Dev.)	X

II. Order of the Agenda

No changes were made to today's order of the agenda.

III. Oral Communication from the Public

There was no oral communication from the public at today's meeting.

IV. Joint Meeting with the DCC to Review Applications for New Faculty Hires

Each Senator and Division Chair received a packet of proposals submitted for new faculty positions earlier in the week. President McKay established the ground rules and procedure for today's meeting as follows:

A. No presentations or speeches were to be made. The data provided by each proposer presents each case.

B. The process is as follows:

1) The Senators and Division Chairs will review each position application.

2) Questions and answers will be allowed with brief discussions as needed.

3) Each person will categorize each position in one of three categories:

a. Position is needed now and should be ranked.

b. Position is probably needed but suggest department submit in the future.

c. Position does not seem to be warranted at this time.

4) The results will be tallied and reported.

5) The group will collectively determine the next step for each position (should it be ranked or discarded for this year?).

Prior to beginning the above process, Lee Callaway and Dianne explained how the number of positions for each college was determined and the number for Mission College.

1. Three new positions for Mission are the result of the college's growth.

2. In addition, the following vacant positions will be allocated but not necessarily to the original department: Counseling (to replace Laurie Collins), Drafting (to replace Duane Overby), ESL (to replace Pat Hudak), and Engineering (to replace Charlotte Behm).

3. Finally, other positions approved last year but not successfully hired will be filled.

Lee also advised that the questions regarding the Music position (Christy Coobatis) and the funding stream for the LATC position (Amelia Akers-Martin) must be resolved in order to determine exactly how many open faculty positions we will be able to fill. A brief discussion ensued on both the Music position and the LATC position. The following motion was passed with one abstention (M/S/P - McKay/Jackins):

"that the Music position be moved into the open category, leaving it as the eighth position pending the official resignation of the current holder of the position and rank all proposed positions into eight spots."

The following motion was passed unanimously (M/S/U -Toppel/Hudak):

"that the LATC position delete the number of open positions by one and that Amelia Akers-Martin's position be placed into Fund 10."

The above resulted in a total of six positions to be filled with an additional position pending.

The group then moved through the steps of the above process, reviewing and discussing submitted applications for the following thirteen faculty positions:

Athletics ESL (Two Positions)

Business (Two Positions) Health Occupations (Two Positions)

Counseling Library

Engineering/Physics Music

English Sociology/Anthropology

It was determined that the following ten positions are needed now and should be ranked for hiring priority. These positions are: Athletics, Business #1, Business #2, Counselor, Engineering/Physics, ESL #1, Health #1(Nursing), Health #2 (Psych. Tech.), Music, and Sociology. The Division Chairs will meet with their individual Senators to discuss ranking of these positions. The DCC will then rank the positions at its next meeting, Monday, November 2, 1999, to which the MC Academic Senate members are invited, and then the ranked list will be brought to the MC Academic Senate on November 11th for approval.

Everyone expressed appreciation for the process as completed today.

V. The meeting was adjourned at 4:15 p.m. (M/S/U - Toppel/Kleppinger). These minutes are respectfully submitted by Grace Hazán, Academic Senate Secretary.