College Council Meeting Minutes December 8, 2006 ELB 130

College Council Meeting Minutes
December 8, 2006
ELB 130
Attendees: Dave Buonora (Vice Chair, Admin), Doug Arseneault (Student, SGA VP),
Simone Breuninger (P/T), Melissa Cahill (P/T), Sandra Clausen (Student),
Judy Darling (Support), Erin Eitemiller (Support), Patty Grim (Support),
Roger Hartman (Faculty), Sharon Heckler (P/T), Elizabeth Kudirka
(Student), Sung Lee (Admin), Missy Mattey (Admin), John Siebs (Faculty),
Erin Yun (President’s Team Liason).
The meeting was called to order by Dave Buonora at 1:35 pm.
Policies and procedures from the November College Council meeting were reviewed.
Erin pointed out that in the General Guidelines for Use of Facilities procedure (70.01.01),
all references to “rental” of college space had been changed to “facility use”. Because
county funds were used in college building construction, the college is not allowed by the
county to profit from use of building space. “Rental” implies profit, so term was replaced
with the more neutral “facility use fee”. Regardless of the label, fees charged by the
college for facility use have never covered housekeeping costs incurred.
1. Approve/recommend changes to the following policies and procedures
63.01E Stalking & Harassment Policy
A further modified policy was handed out at the meeting as the result of changes
suggested by Lynn Coleman. Lynn had discussed the policy with Security Chief
Charles Mays. Charles suggested including the State of Maryland definition of
harassment in the policy and that was done.
Approved unanimously with one technical change.
10.16 Semester Schedule
This procedure formalizes a policy that had been informal. It caps the number of
credit hours a student may register for at 18 unless approved by the VPAA. Only in
very extraordinary circumstances will approval be given for a load in excess of 21
credit hours. A student had requested to register for a 28 hour load for the coming
spring semester which prompted the policy formalization.
Approved unanimously.
Dave Buonora initiated a general discussion of College Council attendance. Low
attendance at the November meeting resulted in a lack of a quorum (quorum defined as
more than 50% of the appointed voting members.) One change that will be put into place

for all subsequent meetings will be a requirement to RSVP when the meeting notice is
sent out via email. Sung suggested that we could make additional use of electronic
communication. Generally felt that electronic communication couldn’t substitute for
face-to-face interaction.
Meeting adjourned at 2:13 pm.