Academic Senate 1000 E. Victoria Carson, CA 90747 WH-A420 (310) 243-3312 Academic Senate Meeting Minutes

November 7, 2018/Library, 5th Fl./2:30 – 4:00 PM

Voting Members Present, Benavides Lopez, Bono, Chhetri, Cutrone, Dam, Dixon, Fortner, Grasse, Hirohama, Johnson, Kitching, Krochalk, Macias, McGlynn, Mendoza Diaz, Monty, Naynaha, Nicol, Ospina, Park, Pawar, JPrice, VPrice, Radmacher, Silvanto, Tang, Taylor, Tsuno, YiVoting Members Not Present: Deng, Ernst, Evans, Gray-Shellberg, Heinze Balcazar, Jarrett, Kalayjian, Kulikov, Laurent, Ledesma, Phan, Pong, Sanford, Skiffer, StillVoting Ex-Officio Members Present: Celly, Esposito, Gammage, Joseph, Ortega, Parham, Pinto, Talamante, ThomasVoting Ex-Officio Members Not Present: NormanNon-Voting Ex-Officio Members Present: Brasley, Costino, Goodwin, Hill, O’Donnell, Spagna, WenNon-Voting Ex-Officio Members Not Present: Avila, Davis, Driscoll, Franklin, LaPolt, Manriquez, McNutt, Peyton, Poltorak, Sayed, StewartGuests: E. Cleek, G. Garavito, D. Roberson Simms, L. Wilson

2018-2019 Academic Senate Executive Committee:Laura Talamante – Chair, Kate Esposito – Vice Chair, Justin Gammage – Parliamentarian, Charles Thomas – Secretary, Enrique Ortega – EPC Chair, Katy Pinto – FPC Chair, Kirti Celly and Thomas Norman – Statewide Senators

Recorded and Edited by SEW and the Executive CommitteeMeeting Called to Order: 2:30 PMApproval of Agenda M/S/PApproval of Minutes 10/24/18 M/S/P

Academic Senate Chair Update:Food & Sundry Drive 11/7-11/28: The Academic Senate, Associated Students Incorporated, and the Office of Student Life have coordinated a campus-wide effort to address food insecurity on this campus. Commencing today, we begin with a presentation from Student Affairs at the Academic Senate meeting this afternoon. Hawk McFadzen, Cal Fresh Outreach Coordinator will lay out what resources are currently available to address the needs of students, staff, and faculty who are experiencing food insecurity, what is needed, and initiatives that are being discussed.Convenient Drop-off Locations:Academic Senate Office (WH A420)Associated Students Incorporated office (LSU Rm. 231)Office of Student Life (LSU Rm. 121)College of Arts & Humanities (LIB 5090)College of Business and Public Policy (SBS D325)College of Education (COE 1490)College of Extended & International Education (EE 1300)College of Health, Human Services & Nursing (WH A330H)College of Natural & Behavioral Sciences (LIB 5734)Women's Resource Center (SCC 148)University Advisement Center (WH A220)

Voting: Thanks to the efforts of ASI and the Department of History for registering new voters on campus. Exceptional appreciation goes out to Dr. Donna Nichol, Chair of Africana Studies, the Lambda Rho Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated and Stephen Janes in ASI for their work coordinating the Free Rides to the Polls Initiative. We have received many questions about why CSUDH did not serve as a provisional polling place as it has in the past. Space was unavailable for DH to serve as a provisional polling location during the primaries, so we were not eligible to serve in

that capacity on the day of the elections. David A. Gamboa, Assistant Vice President of External Relations has communicated that he is working on CSUDH becoming a voting center for the 2020 election to make sure that this does not happen again. We will ask him for an update in the spring on progress in this direction and what this will mean in terms of the campus commitments necessary to make this a reality. See SB-540 regarding the establishment of vote centers https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill id=201520160SB450

University Toro Hour Task Force: As promised in EXEC 18-03 University Toro Hour Resolution, Senate is seeking two faculty members (1 TT & NIT) to join the task force being coordinated by ASI "to conduct the research and consultations necessary in Academic Year 2018-2019 to prepare a proposal that balances the university's commitment to fostering co-curricular activities with the scheduling needs of students, academic programs, student success initiatives including timely graduation, and budgetary priorities." ASI initiated the effo11s by passing a Resolution in Support of Establishing a University Toro Hour in 2017-2018.

Ex-Officio ReportsPresident Parham

Internally and externally trying to manage a whole host of issuesTrying to get searches underway and monitor the progress on each of those so that we are moving with deliberate speed

Working with Advancement and External Relations to cultivate investment and interest back towards the campus. Parham said he had a chance to attend a VIP reception to connect with lots of politicos and community folk.

Also we were hosted by the Bakewell family and appreciate what they’ve been able to do Participated in an investiture for the new president of Arcadia University in Pennsylvania. Had the chance to

serve on a panel regarding inclusive excellence in Higher Education. Also delivered remarks during the investiture itself on behalf of Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Visited SDSU which included: o Board of Trustees Retreato Participation in a council of President’s meeting – analysis of projects of where we think we’re going next

yearo Participated in along with eight representatives from Cal State Dominguez Hills in the GI2025

Symposium. The Senate Chair, the Provost as well as others were in attendance. Attended the Women’s Leadership Forum in CSUSM where we celebrated that over 50% of the CSU presidents

are female, under the direction of Chancellor White. Traveled to Washington D.C. and participated in American Association of State Colleges and Universities

(AASCU) annual meeting. Parham said they’ve been trying to get the attention of a couple of major higher education publications. They

were able to arrange for Parham to be interviewed to help us to profile and characterize this campus. One was the Chronicle of Higher Education and the other was Inside Higher Education. Parham thanked the team for helping to set that up.

Campaign for College Opportunity – Parham interviewed with them. They were highlighting two campuses, one community college and one four-year school. Cal State Dominguez Hills was the four-year university. They highlighted what we’ve been doing for transfer students. Another big accolade for the campus.

Parham noted that this evening, 11/07, we were inaugurating the first in the Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series. He said they will do one every semester. This lecture is corresponding with the 50 th anniversary of Tommie Smith’s silent gesture in the Mexico Olympics. But it’s a broader conversation which, Parham said, he wants these distinguished lectures to have. This is not just about hearing facts and data, but rather an opportunity to really interrogate central issues that ought to be topics of critical discourse and analysis. In this case, whether athletics ought to be used as a platform for social justice or whether, as Fox News said, “They should just shut-up and dribble,” as they told LeBron James. All those questions will be talked about tonight. Guests will include Tommie Smith, and President Parham will interview him; followed by a panel discussion, which will include Smith, former Heisman Trophy winner, NFL player and Army All American Reggie Bush, the Women’s UC Riverside Athletic Director Tamica Smith Jones; and others who will talk about the whole athletic platform. Then there will be a question and answer period for the audience to engage in. Parham said he wants Cal State

Dominguez Hills to be the place where those issues of political, economic, and social concern become those topics of critical discourse. Parham said that he is expecting close to 450 people in attendance from all over the region.

Provost Report, Michal E. Spagna Met on 11/5 with Jean Shankweiler, the Vice President of Academic Affairs at El Camino College to continue a

meaningful collaboration with them. They are supporting our S-STEM program and our HSI STEM Scholars program. S-STEM is a project we have through NSF. We’re the 2nd campus in the CSU to participate in such a collaboration to build a STEM pipeline. The premier one was started by Dr. Bonnie Irwin at CSU Monterey Bay.

Vice Provost O’Donnell has been working very closely with the Deans of the colleges on college budget presentations. We have a deck that’s going to be presented at the University Budget Committee on 11/16. Spagna reminded everyone that University Budget Committee is an open meeting and encouraged folks to participate.

The Deans have been charged with making these presentations at the college and department levels. You should be expecting those in the next several weeks.

5-Year Hiring Plans – At the Academic Affairs Council yesterday there was a presentation from the Interim AVP of Faculty Affairs and Development, James Hill. We have drafted procedures, a timeline, and a template for departments and colleges to use. This will be shared at the Senate Executive Committee on 11/14 and the full Academic Senate Meeting on 11/28.

We had a pre-certification meeting with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB). Spagna said he met with Daniel Connolly who is the Dean of the College of Business and Public Administration at Drake University. He indicated to us very positive signs. We’re going to get this done this year. The timeline, we’ll have the official visit in December and the actual awarding will take place in April at a full meeting in Scotland.

Chair Talamante, Hamoud Salhi and Spagna have been having conversations on how we support faculty and students in International Programs. We’ve been talking about topics involving Strategic Plan Goal 1 – Objective 1C, which is growing our international student footprint. It’s also about providing web support and scholarships and faculty support for travel for study abroad efforts. We also met with Rob Goodwin, and alumni and founder of Stone & Compass , a program in Bulgaria that several of our faculty have participated in.

Met with Claudia Peyton, Terry McGlynn and Chandra Khan (remotely) to address the President’s charge to increase research support and creative activity. Spagna said he has charged the team with working with him to put together some drafts of proposals that Spagna would share with Senate to get input. The purpose is to hit into three large buckets. 1. The support we give to graduate and undergraduate students to participate in research 2. Carve out resources for non-tenure faculty to make sure that they get support in creative activity and research. 3. Overall improve service in pre and post awards to make sure that people enjoy the experience of getting grants and being successful in those.

Disruption in Classes: a vendor had come into a class and asked to make a 5 minute announcement. The faculty asked what it was about and the vendor said I’m not going to tell you. Faculty said you’re not coming into my class. They did an investigation and found out the vendor was a paintball vendor. We also found out that he’s not been a vendor that we’ve used. We alerted public safety. If someone comes to try to disrupt your class, stop it immediately and get to public safety. We’re trying to find out how this happened.

Q & ASenator Thomas said he goes to middle schools in Long Beach and noticed in their career centers there is not a pennant from Cal State Dominguez Hills. He said there are other pennants, but none from Dominguez Hills. Thomas said it was then he decided that he would pitch to the President a proposal for Long Beach Unified. Thomas said there are 23 middle schools and 17 high schools. He believed that there may have been a reason that Dominguez Hills pennants are not in those middle schools. He said he will personally take a Dominguez Hills pennant to each school and invite them to come and see the new CSUDH. Thomas said he’s already contacted the Dominguez Hills Bookstore who has indicated if 25 – 150 pennants are purchased, they will offer 25% off. Thomas asked from President Parham for $525.00 to purchase pennants that he will deliver himself. Parham said consider it done and to please reach out to his office with an official email request. He said we’ll find the dollars. Parham said he was with the Provost at El Camino earlier in October working on their strategic partnership, meeting with their president and other folks. Anytime we get go to the community

colleges or schools, particularly at the middle school level to bring the Cal State Dominguez Hills name, it is a worthwhile investment. Thomas and Parham agreed the number of pennants they were discussing was 40. Senator McGlynn referenced the email that had gone out the day before about the Interim Director of Foundation, He wondered if he should read between the lines, does that mean the search for the Executive Director of Foundation has failed three times now? Provost said it is not that we have had a failed search, we’re in the midst of a search now. However, the Interim Director that was in place ended up having to leave the position early so they had to substitute. Goodwin said they expect to finish the current search at the end of the spring semester at the very latest. The current interim director may be a candidate, Goodwin commented, they wouldn’t want to rule that out. Senator Hirohama asked if staff are sitting on any of the search committees and if so how are they appointed? She said specifically, the VP of Administration and Finance search, the AVP for Faculty Affairs & Development, the Chief Officer of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. She said she realizes historically that staff have always been appointed, but she would like to know they are appointed. Is there a process? Hirohama said it’s her opinion that managers may hold onto the appointments because then they can put somebody on there to voice the manager’s opinions or back up the manager’s opinions. Hirohama asked if there could be callouts for staff who would like to serve as opposed to have them appointed, as currently, you don’t know who got appointed and how they got appointed. President Parham responded that it was a great question and the answer is yes. He said they try to make sure that there are representatives not only consistent with the policy but also with the broadest coverage they can find to address the scope of impact that that position will have. Solicitation usually goes out to the faculty in Academic Senate, it usually goes out to students, and for managers it goes out to those individual staff, particularly VPs and other folk, who we then decide to try to put a broad swatch of staff who are in those spaces. There is a broad list of people who are considered with no outcome in mind. Parham expressed that if Hirohama was told that there’s a deliberate attempt to sway staff to be in a place to co-sign off a decision that’s already made, that is untrue. He continued that that would assume we have any power of assumption, which we do not. We don’t know whose going to apply, we simply want staff on those positions as well as faculty and students who can provide us with the broadest coverage that we have. Parham said if there’s a different suggestion she has about ways in which she would like staff to be consulted, other than through their managers, he’s more than glad to consider it. Parham added that he’ll put that weight on his shoulders as he’s the one who wants a list developed to be able to say, yes, let’s go with it. However, given he’s the new kid on the block he’s not familiar with specific people yet. He said what he knows are positions and what they represent and what the scope of impact that position is likely to have and who needs to be a possible candidate for sitting on the committee for a particular position. Senator Celly said she wished to acknowledge what Senator Thomas just said. She too has carried Cal State Dominguez Hills pennants to middle and high schools because they were glaringly absent. She said we might consider extending the numbers to other areas. She said she doesn’t think necessarily that it’s Senator Thomas’ work to do, but it might be good for us to audit a certain geography we may wish to reach. As it relates to Internationalization, she’s delighted to hear about efforts being made by the Provost. She said she has seen the international student population wane and wax in her fifteen years at the university. Now that we have more international students, she hopes that we will make sure we support our international students, celebrate them, and make sure that our students on the ground are learning from students from elsewhere. Certainly, if we are intentional about it, more students can benefit from international students on campus than from the relatively small numbers in study abroad. Celly said Happy Diwali to everyone. She’s sad that there isn’t a celebration of it on campus. She realizes that we cannot celebrate everything, but it has been a tradition on campus, and it’s brought together faculty, staff and students across the university. She believes that it has fallen through the cracks, and we should be mindful when we do the programming that we respect all of our diversity. Senator V. Price asked how have we been using the money that we got from the Chancellor's Office last June? Specifically the $25 million that went to all campuses. Our $3 million was folded into the graduation initiative, and it was meant to hire tenure track faculty. She said she just saw a note from San Luis Obispo from the Provost that says they just got good news; they’re funding 14 lecturer line conversions and 7 brand new tenure track positions with their graduation initiative dollars that were set for tenure density. They’re not sure they can start the search right away, but they’re going to try to do it this year, even though it’s late. We don’t have any announcement, and this is something we would like to know. VP Goodwin said she is happy to address it during the budget presentation; she has some numbers and charts. We are hiring additional faculty. We’re hiring new tenure/tenure track faculty positions; 24 are being launched and 20 of them are being funded from the graduation initiative funding specifically. Price asked if these were added after June? Goodwin said we would not have had any base funding were it not for the graduation initiative. There was no new base funding that the campus received other than compensation increase funding. Price responded we had set aside a number of searches for the spring and that was determined that we were going to go with it and then we got additional funding. From many

other campuses, they added additional faculty. We won $25 million from the Chancellor's Office to increase the number of tenure track, including lecturer-conversion positions. She said she believes there is something missing. Goodwin replied she will go into it further during the presentation and that you’ll see the numbers are what they are relative to the new money we received. Goodwin added that the Provost acknowledged that we were a little late in starting our searches for tenure/tenure-track faculty positions. We actually did wait until after June to make the commitment on tenure/tenure-track faculty hiring in part because we really needed to understand what the budget would be. Talamante added that she had just spoken with Senator Celly about the work of the Non Tenure Track Task Force in moving forward with the Implementation Committee. She asked that we seriously look into how these lines are being converted from non-tenure-track positions to tenure-track positions and pathways.

ASI Report – ASI VP, Daylin Joseph reported that on Election Day, ASI worked with the Lambda Rho Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority to provide free rides to polling places. We had over 20 students sign up and receive a ride to the polling place. She said they also encouraged students who missed voter registration to register at the polls. ASI is working with Dr. Nicol of Africana Studies department and Raul Rubio of the History Department to make a permanent polling place on campus. We’ve just released a survey regarding Spring Fling to determine what artist students would like to see at Spring Fling. We want to make sure that the majority of our students like the artist we choose, so please encourage students to participate in the survey. ASI is still looking into the Affordable Learning Solutions Program. Joseph said she did get to speak in depth with Naomi Moy, and now they’re looking into how to best spread the information. Spagna said he wished to add that with regard to ALS, he’s spoken with VP Manriquez about making a designation for no-cost or low-cost courses, which will give students more choices of what they can look at in terms of selecting coursework.

Senator Bono asked with regard to RSCA support, he plans on applying for it. He asked if there’s been any changes. One of his concerns is that he has plenty of undergraduate students but no more hours in the day. How can faculty be supported to manage that and create a culture. Provost Spagna responded that Senator McGlynn made that very point the other day. How do we put resources into places that can get time for people? We’re in the drawing-board phase right now and information collection. We’re going to seek your input in terms of how we design this and how we can take RSCA and other options to try to increase support. He said the element about time he’s heard from faculty for a while, its registered and part of their thinking.

Senator Thomas noted that he’s purchased lottery tickets and if it wins, all of the money will go to the campus; however, he will control how the money is spent. He announced the numbers, and said we need to save ourselves. He said that next time he will share the same information with the Board of Trustees.

Senator Pinto asked if Senator Joseph could report on IRA, in terms of how many submissions were received and what is the process going to look like going forward. Joseph responded they met a few weeks ago with Vice Provost O’Donnell. So far there were 41 submissions. The deadline was 11/07. They will be meeting soon to review but everyone has all their paperwork filled out. Pinto asked what the composition of the committee is. Joseph replied the Chair is Christian Jackson. She noted that a lot of people think that it is an ASI funded program but it is funded through student dollars but not ASI related dollars. The ASI President is the Chair, Vice Provost O’Donnell is on the committee, Daylin Joseph, the ASI Academic Affairs VP, the EVP of ASI, the ASI Vice President of Finance, the Executive Assistant of ASI and someone from Academic Affairs. Celly asked if there wasn’t a faculty member also serving on IRA? Joseph said there is definitely a faculty member, but at the moment, she could not recall their name.

CFA Report, Daniel Cutrone gave the following report: The CFA is often just thought of as a Union and although it does the work of a union it is much more. Our California Faculty “Association” is a concerned group of educators working as a united family with a central goal of improving the conditions of the students we are charged with the working conditions of its members. The recent pay increase that we are currently receiving is one example. The raises that our faculty has received over the past years are the result of a long and hard fought campaign by our CFA. The current push to insure a list of those that qualify for “Range Elevation” is another example. It must be recognized that Dominguez Hills Chapter represents some of the strongest, most dependable, most inspiring members of our team of

educators at our University. This is demonstrated by the leaders of our CFA who have freely volunteered countless hours to make our university one of the top in shared governance and transparency by listening to the needs of our faculty.

There are however still several issues among our “Faculty” that are distracting from our goal of Shared Governance and Transparency. This is not to take away from the progress we have made, but there still seems to be a sense of disconnect that has resulted in a feeling of isolation that exists on our campus. Perhaps it is the result of the makeup of our faculty or a reflection of our uncertain times we live in. We are all really so immersed with our work and the “extra” commitments that we have taken on that we still continue, for whatever reason, to make efforts to avoid contact with each other. To those who see our work as a ”calling” the fact that we are not making a stronger effort to include all as “True” members of the team has led many to this state of feeling isolated and this has created a loneness and longing to be part of a university community. We all must ask ourselves when was the last time that you thanked our campus custodians and gardeners? When was the last time that you stopped in to say hello and engage in conversation with a fellow college?

As I have been fortunate to see the work done behind the scene that goes unnoticed I have realized the complexity of just the right things falling in place that makes it possible for this university to operate. I would like us consider if we are truly about shared governance and transparency that these goals can only be fulfilled if we continue as well as make a stronger effort to communicate regularly with each other at an all-inclusive level. Let’s begin to recognize the strong points and those around us. There is a need to see the small pieces that make up our university as part of a whole. We must begin to notice and highlight the positive. The use of our DH Email and All Faculty List has proven to be an extremely effect way of communicating. I would like to recommend and encourage us, as a senate and faculty to add to the conversation.

Our CFA would like to remind people that our Chairs should be notifying all faculty, including lecturers, of their department meetings. Also our CFA wants to know what issues are coming up in their department and to communicate them through a department representative. Most importantly our CFA is pushing forward an anti-racism campaign and is planning several events for next semester. Please let us know if you would like to be involved. Finally, please mark your calendars for December 4 from 11:30AM to 1:00PM for our end of semester luncheon.

Senate Parliamentarian Report, Parliamentarian Justin GammageGammage asked the Senate to affirm the three faculty members for the Search Committee for the Faculty Director of Assessment. He asked the Senate’s assistance in getting the word out for the other committees looking for faculty support. Committee Needed Eligibility NomineesSearch Committee: Faculty Director of Assessment

3 Faculty Members T/TT and Lecturer

Carolyn Gardner (LIB)Christ Monty (CAH)Rui Sun (CBAPP)

Search Committee: Dean of Graduate Studies and Research

3 Faculty Members T/TT and Lecturer

Search Committee: Associate Dean of CNBS

1 Faculty Member outside of CNBS

T/TT and Lecturer

University Toro Hour Taskforce 2 Faculty (1 T/TT & 1 Non-TT)

T/TT and Lecturer

Parking and Transportation Services Advisory Committee

2 Faculty Members T/TT and Lecturer

Working Group on Chair Appointments

4 Faculty 1 from each of the following Stateside Colleges: CAH, COE, CBAPP CNBS

Department Chairs

EPC 1 CAH Faculty Member T/TT and Lecturer

Senator Monty said he believed one of the reasons faculty might be hesitant to volunteer for committees is when under meeting schedules it reads “tbd.” Perhaps including the amount of time required to serve, how many meetings will be

required, and when they anticipate that the search will be ending might facilitate the recruitment of faculty. Senator Thomas said the tenure-track density issues we have on this campus are reflected in the difficulty in finding faculty to serve on these committees. Perhaps if we paid non-tenure-track faculty to do this service or we start to admit that we can’t do the things we need to do on this campus. Thomas noted that we need to start being realistic and note the actual hours it takes to participate on these search committees. He said the he is going to start tracking the time he puts into the hours of service he gives because it’s necessary to determine if what is required is actually possible. Senator Celly said to reinforce that point, a third option might be to do an audit of our non-tenure-track faculty, and see who might be eligible for full-time work and make service part of their contract. She said the other point she would like to make relates to chairs who work incredibly hard, that we take an audit of our chairs and their service to see whose doing what in terms of service to the university.

EPC 18-12 Temporary General Education Changes to Area G to Meet Executive Orders 1100EPC Chair Enrique Ortega - Ortega reviewed the changes made based on the feedback given at the previous Senate meeting. There was no discussion and the resolution passed unanimously (35/0/0). Talamante thanked all those involved in coming up with a temporary solution including the Senate, EPC Committee, the GE Chair, the Undergraduate Dean and Senate Exec. It was an effort whereby everyone came together to come up with a viable solution.

PresentationBudget Update (link), VP Administration & Finance, Naomi GoodwinGoodwin began with a review of FY 2018/19 New Operating Fund Revenue & Other Adjustments. She noted that this really speaks to the conversation that they were having earlier regarding funds for Graduation Initiative 2025.

A few points on this slide: - Regarding the $1,041,000 received for enrollment growth, Goodwin said we look to enrollment growth to hire

new faculty positions. The system received $120 million in one-time funds to fund enrollment growth over a four year period. The system allocated a portion of that to campuses, and this is the amount we received.

- There was an allocation targeted to EO1110 implementation of $350,000. - The Black Caucus was influential in securing for campus $1 million in one-time funds for the Mervyn Dymally

Institute. - The $73, 580 for research, scholarly and creative activity is similar in amount each year that we receive, which is

collectively bargained and ear marked for a very specific purpose. - The $6,000,000 received was for the seismic upgrade of Library North. We had requested $9 million.

Goodwin said in addition to state funded resources we always look internally to see what we can do to relocate additional money for other uses. Its goes through a review process of the University Budget Committee and is considered as part of their deliberations.

- Carry forward money both base and onetime – these are centrally monitored funds and come from utility and benefit savings.

- As a result of over-enrollment, we have student tuition and fees. We don’t get the state funding but we do get student tuition and fee revenue that we built into the budget. We are budgeting that as base funding. If enrollment were to decline, this would be an issue for us because we would have built it into the base. We would have allocated it for new positions. The more conservative approach would be to allocate it only as onetime. We’re choosing at this time to allocate it as baseline, but it is something that needs to be looked at further as to whether we continue this as an ongoing practice.

- Regarding the $3,965,956 - this is set aside centrally for those new positions that have been approved to be funded, but it’s taking a while to go through the search process.

Goodwin noted that the 2.29% set aside is a miniscule amount, and we do not hold it as base revenue but instead reallocate one-time revenue on an annual basis to hold the reserve for the campus.

Goodwin noted the approved multi-year commitments, which had been approved by the University Budget Committee and President Hagan. She said the University Budget Committee has been very proactive looking not just at a one-time basis at funding requests but trying to consider thoughtfully how can we program this initiative by making a longer term commitment.

- $1,250,000 for Data Analytics, Application Development and Digital Presence that’s essentially an IT initiative that provides information, data driven, decision making tools through EAB, the Data dashboard, but also in support of the PeopleSoft system and our digital presence relative to our campus website. Goodwin went through each of the base and one-time earmarked allocation for the approved multi-year commitments.

- Deferred Maintenance – four year request for deferred maintenance, that’s $250,000 per year. There’s also a onetime allocation for deferred maintenance of $491,000

- A prior commitment had been made to funding Research Scholarship & Creative Activities. We just found out a few years ago that this was not taken care of on a base line basis. We’ve taken steps to fund that now that now.

Goodwin then spoke to current loans, which, in her opinion the campus is at a point where we should take a very hard look if we want to engage in additional debt financing for programs, initiatives, equipment. Goodwin said when you consider what a small reserve we have, the kinds of loans we have are appropriate, but we shouldn’t go much higher than this.

- Active Learning Classroom – year 3 of 5 repayment of loan- Technology Refresh – year 2 of 4, where everyone, faculty and staff is getting new computers and laptops, rather

than purchasing $2.5 million up front we took a loan. - Science and Innovation – we have a loan for the Group II equipment, which is basically the furniture, etc. that

would go into the building. Campus commitment, year one of four for Innovation Instruction & CBAPP Building of $1,400,000. This would not need to be used if we’re successful in securing funds through fund raising. If it is not needed, it would come back to University Budget Committee to be reallocated.

Additional earmarked allocations for 2019/20 as determined through the University Budget Committee process.

Goodwin described the various 2019/20 allocations. She noted that the $110,000 for the Chemical Hygiene office did come about as a result of the OSHA inspection. She said there is an interim person in place now that is already making an impact. With regard to the President’s Initiatives, this was a practice that began during President Hagan’s tenure. President Hagan used those funds in response to requests he received throughout the year whereby President Parham is looking to rollout programs and identify, fairly quickly, how most of that million will be used. The $825,000 will include things like the pool and the theater as well as the Library North. Goodwin said the Master Plan EIR, the costs have increased beyond where we had hoped they would be. This is one of the things that in order to have an updated Master Plan for the campus, we absolutely must do all of the technical analysis on traffic, on all of the impacts of any kind of growth on the campus, we must go through that process. It is time intensive, these technical experts are expensive, and there are lawyers involved even when reviewing information. Campus operations, similar to other divisions on campus where we have had a base deficit, we had actually looked to move money from centrally monitored kind of programs and initiatives that are funded on a baseline basis. We’ve now allocated the money to the divisions, and we’re funding these programs and initiatives year after year. An example is the university actually pays for use of LSU, so rather than building that into the base year after year, we know it’s an expense year after year of about $120,000, some of this money would go towards that. Another example is we need to make the parking fund whole when we’re inviting guests to come to campus and we’re waiving parking. This essentially goes towards those kinds of costs.

Goodwin then discussed “the hidden costs of our success”.

She explained that in 2018 we are being funded for 10,825 FTEs when in fact our actual FTEs are 12,711. We are 17.4% over enrolled relative to the funding that we receive, which equates to $7.4 million in base funding that we’re not receiving to meet the size of our enrollments. Our campus is having to bear the brunt of that.

As students take more units, that actually generates less revenue to the campus. We’re estimating that we’re not realizing tuition of about $3.7 million as a result of our success. We’re not suggesting that we want students to take less units. This is merely to highlight that there are cost implications to our success.

Goodwin then reviewed the Base Deficit History.

She then discussed the current base deficit status:

Due to a shortened Senate meeting, Chair Talamante requested that Senate attend the following week’s Budget Town Hall where this information would be reviewed in further depth. She said this presentation will be available on the Senate website. Senator Thomas asked if VP Goodwin was open to receiving questions via email to which Goodwin responded yes and that that would be a good idea.

Presentation:Support for Students Experiencing Housing & Food Insecurity Update, Hawk McFadzen, Campus Cal Fresh Coordinator Basic needs findings: The Basic Needs Initiative that came down from the Chancellor's Office found that

Around 42% of students are food insecureAround 13% of students are housing insecure

In response to that McFadzen reported that they started the: Basic Needs Committees

- Food Security- Housing Security- Financial Security- Mental Health- Research- Child Care

She said that we signed up for the subcommittees and are waiting to chair them, but they’re waiting for assignment and then how we’re going to move forward from there. She said they will be replicating the CSU study that was done for our campus to find out what our numbers actually are. There will be bottom up research also that has students identifying their needs so that we’re actually addressing the student needs where they are.

Current Projects- SB 85 Grant – direct funds from the Chancellor's Office of $80,000 to address basic needs on campus. That pays

for things like the Cal Fresh Coordinator position that McFadzen is in to help students sign up for Cal Fresh. It can be used for other things, and they’re researching how it can be best maximized.

- Housing Unit – there is one unit in the dorms that is set aside for students who need temporary housing. The unit is only available for on a two week basis. The demand is there but it is all they’re able to offer at this time.

- Hot Meal Card Program – McFadzen said this program is in a holding pattern until final approval. It will be that any student can get a hold of one hot meal card, a $50 limit per semester. It’s grant money from outside of Dominguez Hills.

- CalFresh Outreach – McFadzen said this is what she’s doing. o EBT and dining - They’re currently working with Campus Dining to get EBT readers on campus so that

students who are getting Food Stamps and Cal Fresh can have the ability to spend that money on campus. Not only will students be able to eat, but it also anywhere from $1 million - $7 million intake for on campus.

o WIC on campus – they’re also looking at accepting WIC coupons on campus and stocking the Grab & Go’s with WIC acceptable food items.

- Food Recovery Networko Dining – taking extra food out of the dining on Friday afternoons and routing it over to housing to serve

students who may not have much to eat over the weekend instead of disposing of it at 2 pm on Friday. o Farm – they’re also looking at produce that is grown on the Urban Farm and routing it over to Student

Housing as well.

- Collecting data to support a full-time Basic Needs program – they’re currently working on pulling together information to support that the Basic Needs program needs full-time support and not the current approach of using a graduate student on a part-time basis that is currently being employed.

- Emergency Grant – last year her senior class raised $14,000 towards the emergency grant program. Any student can apply for an emergency grant, and they can receive up to $1,000, but it has to be an emergency. However, the $14,000 raised likely was gone in a month. She said she appreciates all the staff and faculty who donate a portion of their paycheck to fund the grant because that is how it is funded. Foundation is doing what they can to increase that amount.

Goals- Improve housing solutions/resources- Establish and staff a basic needs program

o Case Management – they’re working so that each person has a case manager to help coordinate all the possible services available. What students need are key people and one department to unify it all because it can be very difficult to manage.

o All county programs- Farmers’ Market – starting January 22, 2019 every Tuesday that will take EBT. They’re doing a market match for

every $10.00 of EBT that students spend, they’ll get $10.00 extra dollars for produce. WIC will also be represented.

- Dining Hall – we’re still pushing for an actual dining hall on campus.- Affordable housing – and pushing for affordable housing as well.

Senator Thomas asked if McFadzen could share those resources, so that those who are active on Social Media could help to promote these things. He said they want to help support students in any way they can. He said he would like to challenge administrators on campus to give part of their paychecks. McFadzen said she will share all of these resources. She said there are many administrators already participating in the program. She said as soon as there is more than just her running the program, she will get the word out to all 16,000 students. Senator Celly said she noticed that overnight parking is no longer permitted. She wondered what has happened to those students who used to sleep in their cars on campus. McFadzen said as of right now we don’t have a formalized program or formalized policy either or against students sleeping on campus. We’re working on making it an acceptable thing to do for students who don’t have any other place to go because sometimes that’s preferable from going from one shelter to the next in a school year. We do have access to the gym so they can shower. The gym opens at 5 am. They’re doing what they can to provide more access but there are legal issues.

Meeting adjourned at 4:00 PM