March 9, 2026

Joint Academic Senate Meeting

2:30-4:00 PM

Toyon Room, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

This week’s meeting was a joint senate meeting with Foothill

Dolores Davison, District Academic Senate President, chaired the joint meeting

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Call to Order

(Didn’t apply to this meeting due to joint session)

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Approval of Agenda

(Didn’t apply to this meeting due to joint session)

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Public Comment

(Didn’t apply to this meeting due to joint session)

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Designing the Future of Learning and Society

Joint Senates discussed proposed updates to the district strategic plan.

SECOND DRAFT - Updated Strategic Plan (March 4, 2026)

Presentation on Updated Strategic Plan (2nd Draft)

Gohar Momjian, Vice Chancellor for Strategy, Institutional Effectiveness, presented the updated Strategic Master Plan.

• Overview of timeline and different stakeholders involved during the process. 
• Refreshing the districtwide strategic plan is the natural next step as they
• collaborate towards accomplishing a collective mission and vision.
• Focus on execution of the plan and a strategy to achieve the stated goals
• The draft document of the Strategic Master Plan is 10 pages and intentionally short to get into the habit of implementation and execution. 

The Plan includes five district wide strategic priority priorities:

• Equity by design
• Learning, innovation and liberal arts education
• Digital transformation and AI readiness
• Career pathways & economic opportunities
• Global citizenship & Civic Innovation

These five priorities translated into “Five Wildly Important Goals.” Both colleges will be working toward the same ultimate goals.

Comments and questions from AS members after presentation:

AS members highlighted that one college with two campuses is not the direction faculty would like to pursue in the future.  

More opportunities for seniors to take classes at both campuses. 

Consultation with Equity Offices at both colleges; how equity is perceived; consideration for population experiencing impact, like veterans, the disabled to inform the current Strategic Plan

Goal 2 Learning: Create 5 academic pathways for dual admissions articulation with UC/CSU transfer institutions 

Goal 4 Ensure all CTE programs are aligned with labor market demand

Goal 5 Every student enrolled in Area 4 (CalGETC) will engage in civic and community engagement 

Focus on an iterative process, measuring goals and progress.

The next AS conversation about the current Strategic Plan draft will be at the 4/6 joint meeting. Vice Chancellor Gohar Momjian will return to get feedback and approval for implementation

Committee members have 4 weeks to read and review the plan for further discussion.

Guidelines around RSI and Accessibility on J1B/J1C

RSI Document

Alison Meezan, Nicole Gray explained the Guidelines around RSI and Accessibility on J1B/J1C 

Joint Senates discussed proposed language for guidelines around RSI and Accessibility on the J1B / J1C. 

Having consistent guidelines will be helpful for people serving on tenure committees and doing evaluations. 

RSI Guidance

• Goal: Create a shared understanding of what meets legal standards
• How are instructors being evaluated?
• Help guide the conversation between evaluator and instructor being evaluated
• Has a rubric with guidance

Accessibility Guidance 

• Goal: Shared responsibility between faculty and college
• Guidelines for seven major categories/areas of accessibility (digital accessibility)
• Support faculty with the training and guidance needed to create accessible materials
• Accessibility benefits all learners. Features like captions and heading structure provide greater clarity in a document
• Has a rubric with guidance for “The Big Seven”

Will come back to the senate for another read on April 6. The guidelines need to go through the senates for feedback, and then through FA for negotiation before final approval.

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Good of the Order 

District equivalency

• Discussion of the equivalency process will start this week
• Dolores will be meeting with Chancellor Rose, HR

Conversion from quarters to semesters

• No information available, 
• Being discussed, nothing will happen in the short term
• Who’s pushing for this change? Chancellor’s office, the idea is that semesters would align better at the state level 

Moving to 11-week quarters vs 12 weeks. 

• FA calendar discussion under negotiation
• Explore taking colleges to 11 quarters, 33 weeks for the academic year; more flexibility with breaks, holidays and cultural observance 
• Would be an easier change than a semester conversion
• Will need to add class time during each session to make up for the loss of a week (55 minutes vs 50 minutes)

Statewide academic senate ASCCC spring plenary

• Resolutions will be available soon. To be discussed at the next joint meeting on April 6.

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Adjournment

The joint meeting adjourned. The De Anza Senate continued with their meeting.

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De Anza Academic Senate Meeting

4:00-4:30 PM

Toyon Room, Foothill College

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I. Call to Order

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Welcome

Erik Woodbury chaired this part of the meeting.

Voting Members attending in person and those joining online with their names and meeting locations published on the agenda used the roll call vote link to establish quorum. They also used the same link to approve the agenda, the February 9, 2026 meeting minutes and the consent calendar.

Roll Call Vote (21)

Angela Winch, Angelica Esquivel Moreno, Barbara Dahlke, Doli Bambhania, Jamie Pelusi, Jayanti Roy, Kevin Glapion, Lauren Gordon, Leah Smith, Mark Hamer, Mark Landefeld, Mary Donahue, Mary Pape, Ravjeet Singh, Rusty Johnson, Shagun Kaur, Sherwin Mendoza, So Kam Lee, Umar Douglas, Veronica Acevedo Avila, Viviana Alcazar

Quorum reached

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II. Agenda, Minutes, and Consent Calendar

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Approval of Agenda, Minutes from March 2nd, 2026, and Consent Calendar

Approval of Agenda

Yes, 20 Angela Winch, Angelica Esquivel Moreno, Barbara Dahlke, Doli Bambhania, Jamie Pelusi, Jayanti Roy, Kevin Glapion, Lauren Gordon, Leah Smith, Mark Hamer, Mark Landefeld, Mary Donahue, Mary Pape, Ravjeet Singh, Rusty Johnson, Shagun Kaur, Sherwin Mendoza, So Kam Lee, Umar Douglas, Veronica Acevedo Avila, Viviana Alcazar

Abstain 1: Umar Douglas

Approved.

Approval of Minutes from  March 2nd, 2026

Yes, 20 Angela Winch, Angelica Esquivel Moreno, Barbara Dahlke, Doli Bambhania, Jamie Pelusi, Jayanti Roy, Kevin Glapion, Lauren Gordon, Leah Smith, Mark Hamer, Mark Landefeld, Mary Donahue, Mary Pape, Ravjeet Singh, Rusty Johnson, Shagun Kaur, Sherwin Mendoza, So Kam Lee, Umar Douglas, Veronica Acevedo Avila, Viviana Alcazar

Abstain 1: Umar Douglas

Approved

Approval of Consent Calendar

Yes, 20 Angela Winch, Angelica Esquivel Moreno, Barbara Dahlke, Doli Bambhania, Jamie Pelusi, Jayanti Roy, Kevin Glapion, Lauren Gordon, Leah Smith, Mark Hamer, Mark Landefeld, Mary Donahue, Mary Pape, Ravjeet Singh, Rusty Johnson, Shagun Kaur, Sherwin Mendoza, So Kam Lee, Umar Douglas, Veronica Acevedo Avila, Viviana Alcazar

Abstain 1: Umar Douglas

Approved

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Public Comment

None

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III. Needs and Confirmation

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District and College Needs

• Credit for Prior Learning Liaison
• Academic Freedom District Workgroup
• Faculty Coordinator, VIDA
• Tenure Review Committee [At Large Members]
  Need volunteers for 18 committees!!!

Please apply! 

Use the “Request to Serve” button on the Academic Senate website  lower right hand corner to volunteer. https://www.deanza.edu/gov/academicsenate/index.html

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Confirmations

None

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IV. New & Continuing Business

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Quick Notes:

• CPL Faculty Workgroups

Call from the state for faculty participation in the Credit for Prior Learning workgroups. It will be important to have De Anza, as one of the 3 colleges on the quarter system, to have representation and a voice in this discussion.

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Discipline List Review - Second Read 

Disciplines and FSAs

The committee continued with their review of the list of disciplines and FSAs for all the courses at the college.

• Discipline determines the minimum qualifications for someone to teach a course
• Directly impacts who can teach a course
• Changing the discipline does not require rearticulation 

Representatives should look at the part of the list that corresponds to their departments. They should reach out and double-check the disciplines not in green with their department chairs. 

The Senate will approve the list as stated by April 6. Contact Erik with feedback.

Also let Erik know about any inactive classes that need to be deleted.

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Good of the Order

Congratulations to the new tenured faculty!

The Senate hosted a lunch in their honor.

De Anza new tenured faculty:

Manija Ansari, International Students Program, Enrollment Services

Joe D'Agostino, Physical Education and Athletics

Mark Hamer, Film and Television, Creative Arts

Sunghae Jung, Nursing, Biological, Health, and Environmental Sciences

Caitlin Kepple, Astronomy, PSME

Ivan Kojnok, Automotive Technology, BCAT

Vinh Kha Nguyen, Mathematics, PSME

Flora Payne, Guardian Scholars and NextUp, EOPS

Jamie Pelusi, Pride Center, Equity and Engagement

James Perla-Adams, Library, Online Education and Learning Resources

Rachel Silveria, Film and Television, Creative Arts

Angela Winch, Nursing, PSME

Lianna Wong, Biology, PSME

Zuleyha Yuksek, Physics, PSME

Erik Woodbury encouraged Senate members to attend the reception and ceremony to celebrate the new tenured faculty. This took place shortly after the Senate meeting, 4:30 pm in the district office.

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Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 4:13 pm.

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Attendance

In person

Erik Woodbury,  Shagun Kaur, So Kam Lee

Veronica Avila Acevedo, Viviana Alcazar, Doli Bambhania, Christopher Bradley, Barbara Dahlke, Umar Douglas, Kevin Glapion, Mark Hamer, Rusty Johnson, Mark Landefeld, Sherwin Mendoza, Angelica Esquivel-Moreno, Mary Pape, Angela Winch

Online

Lisa Castro, Mary Donahue, Lauren Gordon, Jamie Pelusi, Ravjeet Singh, Jayanti Roy, Leah Smith

Absent

James Adams, *Deborah Armstrong, Dave Capitolo, James Capurso, Yuri Chang, *Jacob Chen, Dawnis Guevara, Christian Rodriguez, Lakshmikanta "LK" Sengupta, Sukhjit Bob Singh, *Ram Subramaniam

*Non-voting members