April 14, 2025

I. Call to Order

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Welcome

Erik Woodbury welcomed everyone to the first Senate meeting of the last quarter for this academic year. Spring is always the time to reflect and complete all the goals set forth earlier in the year.

Erik reminded representatives to complete their report out.

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Approval of Agenda and Minutes from March 17th, 2025.

Ravjeet Singh moved, Bob Singh seconded to approve both minutes and agenda. No objection. Agenda and minutes approved by unanimous consent.

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Public Comment

La Voz requested updates on students who've had their visas revoked or suspended. An email from President Torres last week mentioned that six De Anza students have lost their visa status. There may be an additional three Foothill students. The college, the district, the union as well as other organizations are looking into ways to support these students. The chancellor has reached out to the Attorney General's office.

Ishmael Tarikh: a part time faculty working group has met with President Torres and interim API Lydia Hearn regarding equitable compensation for part-time faculty serving on shared governance committees. The developments have been very positive.

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II. Consent Calendar

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Consent Calendar: (Attachment)

Hiring Committee, Biology Instructor

• Anita Muthyala-Kandula Dean, BHES
• Jason Bram Faculty, Biology
• Bruce Heyer Faculty, Biology
• Simon Kang’a Faculty, Biology
• Amy Leonard EO Rep *approved by HR

Tenure Review Committee Updates

• Rachel Silveria, Julie Hughes replaces Vernon Gallegos 
• Mark Hamer, Elizabeth Mjelde replaces Josh Losben 

Jayanti Roy moved to approve, Ravjeet Singh seconded. No objection. Consent calendar approved.

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III. Needs and Confirmation

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District and College Needs (Attachment)

Hiring Committee, Vice Chancellor for Strategy, Institutional Effectiveness

Need one faculty representative. Those interested, should fill out the request to serve form on the Senate website.

The Tenure Review Committee Due Process Pool

They will need at least 2 more new members for the 25-26 school year. 

Erik Woodbury noted that serving as an at-large member on tenure committees was one of the most rewarding experiences he had working on a committee on campus. It got him out of his area. He shadowed someone in a hospital which was awesome. He strongly recommended that to anyone who has never done it.

At Large members on Tenure Review committees.

They will need many more faculty at-large members for the new hires.

DDEAC/HRAC

District Diversity & Equity Advisory Committee and Human Resources Advisory Committee: one DA faculty representative needed as soon as possible for the spring quarter to replace Cheryl Balm.

Open House

Volunteers for Open House, April 26. Please sign up to help out in the Village tent or to offer a showcase.  Arts will have watercolor in the Creative Arts Village and singers in the front.

Enrollment Priorities Workgroup (BP/AP 5055)

Faculty representatives to discuss board policy and administrative policies for enrollment priority.

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Confirmations

None

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IV. New & Continuing Business

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Quick Notes:

Sanctuary District Resolution 

Last Monday the board unanimously approved the resolution declaring FHDA a sanctuary district. A lot of hard work went into the drafting and passage of this resolution. A special call out to Shaila  Ramos-Garcia, Cynthia Kaufman, and Matsuko Estrada Nakamatsu. Also thanks to everyone involved in supporting it. There were 2 amendments. First, to clarify a legal reference. Second, to broaden it from undocumented students to all students. Both amendments were accepted unanimously.  

Student Housing Update

Over 30 community members showed up to express concerns about being displaced from their current housing. Some people showed up to support the project and applaud the board for moving forward with it. The board expected to close on the project in July. They will give the current tenants a year to relocate and will provide a consultant to help them identify new places and cover their moving costs. These people have very legitimate concerns about how that will impact them. There were a lot of very emotional comments. 

Call for EAC Equity Action Council award nominations

Reach out to the EAC to nominate students, faculty, and staff.

Listening Project

This Wednesday and Thursday, 9 am to 1 pm, admin 106. The listeners will be there just to listen, not to interrupt or offer advice to anyone who may come to talk and unburden themselves. The goal was to identify topics and trends across campus with regard to the current social and political climate to give the Senate ideas about what to do next.

Elections Update

Nomination due 5/16. Reach out to anyone who would be good in any of the positions and encourage them to run. See last week’s email from Erik for more details

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AB 1705 Resolution (second read)

Resolution on Supporting Student Success and Access in Math and English

Lisa Mesh gave additional backstory to AB 1705 and the resolution to update and reform it. Last December they received a last minute reprieve for them to continue offering pre-transfer level classes in mathematics to certain qualified students for the next two years.

The current plan only applies to students who have failed these classes in the past. It will not apply to high school students or returning students who have been out of school for a long time and may need a refresher.

FACCC has been gathering data and testimonials from students, faculty, and alumni to challenge this law. They are seeking the passage of a resolution that supports AB 1705 Reform.

There are people supporting AB 1705. The challenge would be to advocate reform in a positive and congenial manner instead of being adversarial.

The goal was to update AB 1705 to address student needs. They will need more work to edit the first resolve with specific ideas for modifications to make it more about student success. More feedback and data requested.

Erik will bring this back next week for more discussion and vote. If approved, they will share with Foothill and then to the state chancellor office.

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Priority Registration for MESA students, second read

Follow up on a presentation by MESA in the last meeting requesting the same priority registration status as EOPS (Group 1-A).  Question, feedback, or action

Motion

Veronica Acevedo moved to approve Priority Registration for MESA students. Felisa Vilaubi seconded

Discussion

Some concerns were discussed, and more information was requested, 

There were concerns about its impact on athletes and recruitment. When coaches go out to market their programs and recruit students priority registration is one of their key incentives. Mark Landefeld asked for the number in category 1A and 1B, since PE is in category 2. They would like more data to make an informed decision.

Many people recognized that this is a systemic issue for STEM students. There are not enough classes and they fill up quickly.

Vote

Yes 22, No 2, Abstain 0. Motion passed.

A district-level work group on priority registration has been formed and is working on defining the policy. State does set priority guidelines. There could be local requirements as well. They encouraged those interested to get involved with the district level workgroup

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ASCCC Spring Plenary Resolutions
Packet for Discussion - March 28 to April 10, 2025

President's Summary and Notes: Resolution Guide

The ASCCC Spring Plenary is coming up next week. Please give feedback on the resolutions in next week’s meeting or directly to Erik before the Plenary Resolutions voting. See the link above for the full document. There is also Erik’s summary with notes

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AI Notetakers

This has been tabled several times. Finally, the Senate engaged in a robust discussion on the topic.

Questions

What does AI Notetaking actually mean?

What do we think about this?

In which contexts is currently used? (e.g. AS meetings, district meetings, classroom note taking, etc.)

Should they be implemented in classes or meetings?

Do we need guidelines for this?

Who has ownership of the notes?

Who makes the policy about when and how it is used? 

Who can exercise edit privileges?

How does it impact attention and engagement?

What are the privacy and concerns?

Benefits - take good notes; provides a record, take transcription; it’s a tool being used in many industries/fields

Concerns - ownership; what does it do to student engagement, also privacy and ethical concerns; policy

Bob Singh: AI can determine persona and mood in a meeting; build a profile of a person; also ethical issues; how employers may use it 

Shagun Kaur: AI recognition of regionalism, nuance, accents is still very problematic given the biased models it may be trained on and that presents a disadvantage to accented, international speakers in the room.

So encouraging its use in the classroom may potentially create equity issues especially in discipline like communication where these can directly impact success in the classroom. When you combine it with dialects and vocab specific to gender, race etc. it gets more complicated

James Adams; what are CSU and UC doing?

Shagun Kaur: CSUs and UCs offering it wholesale, are there any plans to follow suit at the CCCs? For example, PlayLab was being explored as an alternative that does not store private data. 

Erik Woodbury asked people to think about it, get feedback from their areas, and bring it back for more discussion in future meetings.

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Good of the Order

Reminder about OERI Regional Meeting at De Anza  Friday, May 16 · 8:30am - 3:30pm

Please review all report outs

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Adjournment

Veronica Acevedo motioned to adjourn, Jayanti Roy seconded, to adjourn, no objection.

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Attendance

In person

Erik Woodbury, Patty Guitron, So Kam Lee

Veronica Avila Acevedo, James Adams, Viviana Alcazar, *Deborah Armstrong, *Sam Bliss, James Capurso, Barbara Dahlke, Umar Douglas, Kevin Glapion, Mark Hamer, Lauren Gordon, Julie Hughes, Rusty Johnson, Cynthia Kaufman, Sherwin Mendoza, Lisa Mesh, Alicia Mullens, Mary Pape, *Victor Pham, Christian Rodriguez, Jayanti Roy, Jesus Ruelas, Lakshmikanta "LK" Sengupta, Ravjeet Singh, Leah Smith, Sukhjit Bob Singh, Ishmael Tarikh, Felisa Vilaubi, Lianna Wong

Online

Mary Donahue, Mark Landefeld, 

Absent

Shagun Kaur, 

*Non-voting members