A.  APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES:

The Wednesday, January 8, 2003 meeting minutes were approved as corrected

B.  ACTIONS ITEMS:

Curriculum Review and Evaluation Committee - Dean Larson reported:

The minutes and recommendations from the January 28, 2003 meeting were approved.

The minutes and recommendations from the February 4, 2003 meeting were approved.

Other - Dr. Hyde announced Assistant Professor Sally Hoppstetter as the interim chair
of the Psychology Department until Mr. Tom Billimek returns from active duty.

Mr. Manuel Cerda from Human Resources will begin attending Council meetings.  Mrs.
Carolyn Haisler will also be attending.

C.  INFORMATION ITEMS AND REPORTS

Competency Committee - No report

Employee Development  - Professor Gary Smith reported:

All were reminded about tuition assistance availability for full time faculty.  March 27 is
the deadline for applying.

District funding of employee development has been safeguarded by Dr. Martinez.

Dr. Charlotte Wolf announced that there were 23 Faculty Innovation Grant proposals
submitted from SAC.  All colleges review the proposals.  Recipients will be notified.

There will be preliminary course reviews for new Internet courses on Feb 25 and 26.

Department Chairs need to check the IIC web site for certified Internet course instructors
and developers.  There are several individuals that are scheduled to teach who still
need to be certified.

Institutional Effectiveness Steering Committee - Dr. Hoy reported:

The committee met on February 3rd.  The Texas School Performance Review  is
continuing.  Consultants are coming back to individuals with follow up questions.  There
will be a preliminary report available in March which will be reviewed by the ACCD.  The
final report will be in June.

We have received information that a report is due to the THECB on evaluation of our
core curriculum.  Dean Hyde reported there is an inactive committee in place but to
date the THECB has not identified what needs to be reviewed.  This committee can be
reactivated.  Dr. Hoy added Mr. David Mrizek and Dean B.J. Larson to the committee.

Mr. Steven Villarreal will be attending meetings representing adjunct faculty.

Accreditation Report - Dr. Johnnie Rosenauer reported:

He has presented an overview of the reaffirmation process to Staff Council.  The Texas
School Performance Review web model we developed is being used as a framework
for the process of reporting our compliance to SACS.  He is meeting with Dr. JoCarol
Fabianke, currently a vice president at Northwest Vista College, who was co-chair of the
self study committee for the 1995 reaffirmation, and Dr. Dorothy Haecker from Palo Alto
College, who was the chair of their recent self study, to discuss their experiences.

Withdrawal Date

This item was added to the agenda by Dr. Zeigler as a result of his visits to
departments.  There are those who feel the date is too late in the semester.  He will
establish a committee to evaluate the issue to bring recommendations or discussion
items back to the Council.

Also as a result of discussion with departments he requested a study of number of
students who attended SAC in the 70's and the number today and the number of full
time faculty then and now.  The study shows that between the 70's and now the number
of students and full time faculty has remained relatively constant.  The number of
sections being taught has climbed to where it takes the equivalent of 134 FTE faculty to
teach the increase number of sections.

Smoking Policy

Dr. Zeigler said another issue that came up is smoking on campus.  He proposed that
we have a smoke free campus.  He asked the group if there was approval for him to
explore the possibility of establishing the smoke free environment with some areas
designated on campus where smoking can occur.  There was concurrence to this
suggestion.

Faculty Senate - Senate Chair Professor Bill Richardson reported:

At a special meeting on January 22 a proposal was passed that established a process
of providing salary increases for those faculty who have fallen off the salary schedule.
The proposal states that the salary of those off the scale will be increased by at least
the level of increase of the last step in a class.  This proposal has been approved by the
other Senates.  This proposal will be presented to the Board sometime in March.

The Senate is looking at a proposal to improve parking for faculty and staff on the north
side of campus.

The Promotion Appeals Committee election ended today.  There will be a run off
election two weeks from today.

The Survey of Administrators is due back in two weeks.  The District Services Survey
will be out on March 1 and due back at the end of the month.

The transition management proposal (early retirement plan) status was presented by
Dr. Johnnie Rosenauer.  The findings of the District wide survey were presented to
Interim Chancellor Dr. Ernest Martinez.  There are 300 individuals at SAC who would
be eligible.  Two thirds of those at SAC who responded would take advantage of the
proposal within the three years.  Most would retire in the third year.

At the present time there is no clear conclusion as to whether an early retirement
package would save the district money.

Chairs Council - Professor Alex Bernal reported:

Chairs are counting sections with an eye to reduce the number of sections for Flex II,
the Maymester, and summer sessions.  A comparison between what made last year
and what is being offered this year is being developed.  After this evaluation the fall
schedule will be reviewed.

The District Chairs Council will meet on February 19.

Mr. Bernal welcomed Mr. Manuel Cerda to the meeting.  He asked about the status of
the packets for faculty positions that had closed on February 6.  He is hoping the
packets will be to the departments by February 15.  He asked why Human Resources
need to go through all the applications when the departments can do the job.  Mr.
Cerda responded that at present it is a District procedure that HR do the initial
screening.  Mr. Bernal suggested that we need to see if the policy can be changed.  It
would make HR's job easier.

Student Services Council - Dr. Jim Lucchelli reported:

A survey is being conducted on why students drop classes.

The Graduation Plus program is working with 400 students who have completed 60
hours or more.

The Young Women's / Young Men's Conference is coming up on February 22.
$140,000 in scholarships will be distribute on that day.  To date 348 scholarship
applications have been received with 450 currently signed up to attend the conference.
600 are expected to be attending on the day of the conference.  More volunteers are
needed to assist during the conference.  Contact the Women's Center if you are
interested in assisting.

Yesterday we entertained the San Antonio Educational Partnership leadership team.
From 2002 to the current year we have distributed $360,000 in scholarships to students
associated with this program.

Our ROTC program is becoming more active.  The program has been in place since
1997 when an agreement was signed with St. Mary's University.  Recently the Army
provided a significant amount of money to the program.  There is now office space for
ROTC on campus.  All the equipment has been supplied by the Army.

Staff Council - Staff Council President Cynthia Price reported:

Mr. Paul Sanchez, from the English Department, is the employee of the month.

A Bookfest is being co-sponsored with Service Learning.

Spring educational scholarship applications are being accepted up to March 3rd.

Student Government -

Dr. Zeigler reported on a survey the Student Government conducted.  The executive
summary was presented to Dr. Zeigler.  He will pull a group together to work with
student government to see if there is some action that can be taken on some of the
issues.  One of the results of the survey was a desire by students to have instructor
pass/fail and retention rates posted on the web.  He has told Student Government that
instructors pass/fail and retention rates will not be posted on the web because of the
complexity of the issues and, additionally, it is not an accurate indicator of quality.  He
has encourage faculty to put their personal syllabi with course expectations on the web.
 He will distribute copies of the results of the survey to members of the Council.

Enrollment Management - No report

Budget Update - Dr. Zeigler reported:

For the current budget year the District's allocation from the state is going to be reduced
$4.8 million.  Our share was $1.8 million and, working with faculty and staff leadership,
Deans, Directors and Coordinators, we developed a plan.  There was a subsequent
meeting and the Budget Office proposed that most of the shortfall district wide could be
covered with lapsed salary.  As a result SAC backing off the plan a bit.   We can back
off the budget restrictions but we still we need to have some savings so it can be used
either for covering a shortfall at the end of this fiscal year or provide some money to roll
over to next year since it looks as if there will be a 10 million reduction in state
appropriations.

Deans' Reports -

Dean Larson announced that story on the electronics robotics program aired on
channel 12 news last night.

She also reported we received the report of the Institutional Effectiveness desk audit
from the THECB.  We received only five recommendations.  She will get in touch with
people about working on the response.  A copy of the report is on the web.

Dean Cook announced that USAA closed its library and donated $100,000 of books to
our library.  The librarians will cull through the collection and provide the other libraries
in the District the opportunity to the books we don't want.

Dean Ruben Flores reported on a booth set up at the TACHE conference in Austin that
provided information on positions available at SAC.  We received some very good
responses from those who stopped by the booth.

Dean Hyde asked that chairs let her know the status of high tech purchases.

FY03 Planning - Professor David Mrizek reported:

The process of updating data related to division and department/unit specific measures
has been launched via Email notification and posting of specific instructions on the
Web.  Units are asked to develop action plans addressing issues needing improvement
based on evaluation of current and historical data and standards set by the units,
departments, or other entities.  The deadline for completing the process is mid July.

Extra effort should be made so there is 100% participation in the activity since this is a
critical part of our reaffirmation compliance report which has to be submitted to the
Southern Association in 2005.

Title V - Ms. Emma Mendiola reported:

The annual performance report has been completed and submitted.  We either met or
exceeded the program outcomes.

Learning Communities activity ended the semester with four cohorts.  Three were
developmental and one was a core curriculum cohort.

About seventy student completed the semester as a part of a Learning Community.
Results from cohort two were highlighted.  Students in this developmental cohort
achieved an overall 2.85 GPA compared to 1.75 GPA for those in other developmental
math classes.    Students in this developmental cohort achieved an overall 2.75 GPA
compared to 1.28 GPA in developmental reading.  Overall the cum GPA was 2.33
compared to 1.93 GPA for other students.  The retention rate was 92.7%.  95% of the
student who participated said it made difference.  The number of cohorts this spring has
nearly doubled.  On Thursday March 13 and Friday March 14 visitors from out of state
will be making a site visit as a follow up to a conference recently attended.

Alumni - Mrs. Roe Hoopes reported:

The association has increased it's categories for those students who are eligible for
scholarships next year.  Included are part time students and students in need.

The golf tournament is March 30.  All are encouraged to participate.  Proceeds from the
tournament go to scholarships.

Other:

Summer Class Schedule: Summer class schedule will be downloaded tomorrow night.

SAC Professors Judge Science Fair:  Dean Hyde announce that Davis Middle School
had a science fair where three professors from the Biology Department served as
judges.  Mr. Roland DuBay, District Institutional Advancement Director,  provided
scholarships for the winners of the competition.

Connections Grant Received:  Dr. Helen Vera of the Women's Center announced the
awarding of a $341,000 Self-Sufficiency Grant from the Texas Workforce Commission
for the Connections Program.

Two Plus Two With Texas Tech: There was a signing ceremony for a two plus two
agreement with Texas Tech and SAC for students in our Architecture Program.

CCSSE Survey to be Administered:  Dr. Zeigler announced that we will once again be
involved in the Community College Survey of Student Engagement.  This survey, which
was administered last Spring, provides information on our students and their
experiences here at SAC.  The information from the survey here at SAC is aggregated
with surveys being conducted at other community colleges across the country.  The
results of last year's survey have been summarize in a report from CCSSE which is
available on the Web.  The results of last year's survey plus this year's will enable
CCSSE to establish national norms and benchmarks by which we can measure
ourselves.  The Office of Institutional Effectiveness will again be administering the
survey.  Instructors are asked to cooperate with this college wide activity which will take
place in classes right after Spring Break.  Mrs. Sonia Valdez is our college coordinator.

Reverse Graduation:  Dr. Thomas Hoy announced a new concept of awarding reverse
transcript graduation.  This opportunity is for those students who attended SAC and are
interested in receiving a degree from SAC after graduation from a four school. They
forward a copy of their transcript and are award the degree.

Image campaign: Dr. Zeigler reported that as a follow up on what has been done to
this point we will highlight programs on the campuses.  The image campaign is
coordinated out of our Public Relations Office by Dr. John Hammond.