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Minutes Faculty Council
Meeting February
17 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. East 3-113 Present: Ray Enger, Deidre Holmes DuBois Sue Matthews, Terry Long, Dan Gutierrez, Geoff Fortunato, Michael Shugg, Joan
Alexander, Chris Borglum, Amy Bosley,
Rose Watson, Kathleen Perri, Debbie Garrison,
George Dow, Tim Williams, Suzette Dohany, Marie
McClendon Action Items Approval of January
Minutes Minutes approved with corrections. Adjunct Prof. Dev.
Advisory Committee Appointments There is a list of fourteen people for this
committee. We only need two people. The question is how to decide who to
place. This is an ad hoc committee from Tracy Edwards,
chaired by David Hosman. Later on, the Faculty
Council may have its own committee to look at this. A
motion was made to accept Mailin Barlow (West,
English) and Debbie Garrison (Math,
East), with the rationale that math and English are areas with many adjuncts.
Motion carried. Institutional
Effectiveness Proposal We have the draft proposal before us. If we
accept it, it will be sent out tomorrow to all faculty for comments/concerns
to made within a week. The comments will be shared, and if needed, the task
force would look at the comment more closely. This plan is now defined to be a plan only for
2006-2008 academic years. After that, it may be same or different. The IE
committee did not want to lock in to something too long term just yet. Dr. Shugart said that he would like the SASE administered
more than once every three years. The committee proposed that this start in 2006
after compensation plan so far has been implemented. Also, the committee
added information on committee roster rotation. Motion: Accept proposal and send it out. Motion
carried. Our practice in full campus voting has been two days.
How about March 15th and 16th? Everyone is okay with
these dates. So we will do this. Professional Development Proposal We have the draft proposal before us. If we
accept it, it will be sent out tomorrow to all faculty for comments/concerns
to made within a week. The comments will then be shared. If needed, task
force would look at the comments more closely. Again, this is not slated to be put in place until
first compensation plan has been phased in. George presented the report along with a list of
recommendations for future work/issues. Right now we are focusing on the
plan. Take the list of recommendations back to your campus senates for
feedback. Motion: Accept the plan and send it out. Motion carried. Motion: form the PDIOC mentioned in recommendation list.
Comment: wait until plan approved. Motion did not carry. Our practice in full campus voting has been two days.
How about March 15th and 16th? Everyone is okay with
these dates. So we will do this. Endowed Chairs
Selection Committee/Task Force Recruitment This issue came to Chris this morning. We are going to
be asked at the March meeting to supply 8 people to the committee (3 from
East, 3 from West, 1 from Osceola, 1 from So each campus should have list for March meeting. In
a separate committee which we will form, we will look at the endowed chairs
and their function. We need to decide on the format/makeup of the Task force.
Are there any ideas or thoughts? We might want input of the senates. Also it
would be nice to have input of current endowed chairs. Motion: the Faculty Council should form a committee to
look at the long term effectiveness of the endowed chairs. Motion carried. Remember that the Task Force will not be appointing
chairs. Perhaps it is better to have a diversity of disciplines than
particular numbers from each campus. Motion: A college-wide all call for people from
disciplines to apply to the task force. They will be asked to provide a two
to three sentence paragraph for support. Motion carried. Chris will make the
all call tomorrow. Guests: Nick Bekas and
Will Johnson Work Team for Labs and The state is starting to initiate a level two review of prep courses.
One of the key parts will be labs. At this point, we are just trying to find
out what are the best practices elsewhere. In the future, there is no move to
make everyone adopt the same practices here. They are looking for faculty to be involved in the process. The draft
sent out did not list faculty as stakeholders, but that has been corrected. Question: will budget support recommendations eventually made? That
answer is not known at that time. IAC a week from Monday will be hard hitting
the lab fee items. They feel that it will better benefit learning and budget. Dr. Shugart has said in the past he is
willing to do almost anything to help with the prep Math problem. At this point, people are looking at what works. The rest will be
figured out later. Discussion Items Nominations for CWFA VP/President-Elect At the next meeting we will be looking at a slate of candidates. At the
meeting on the 17th we will decide on the slate. Remember that it
is a three-year commitment. Budget Shortfall—Next Steps from President We need to recover $850,000 approximately. So they are asking VPs,
Provosts, etc. to find money in their budgets that can be reasonably held
back. Basically, they want to recover any non-essential monies to help cover
the shortfall. This summer, the president is calling for 10% FTE growth from 2003-4.
This would bring our numbers to a little less than what they were in the
02-03 summer. The president would like to meet with Faculty Council to further
discuss these steps. There are four possible days: March 8th, 9th,
28th or 29th at 2:30. March 8th amazingly
seemed to fit everyone’s schedule, so the Council will meet with Dr. Shugart on that date, site TBD. Chris will send us his notes from Monday’s extended executive council
meeting. Anything you would like him to ask, email him by Monday at 8 am. Draft Expectations of Faculty Representatives Chris took a first shot at drafting these guidelines. Discussion suggested that the document
could be made less blunt. Chris will integrate Council suggestions and
re-send by March 11; the hope is to make this an action item for the March 17
meeting, so the document can be used after that. Information
Items GPA Calculation Tracy Edwards asked CC colleagues from around the state if they
include grades in developmental/prep. classes in
their cumulative GPA calculation (as Student IDs Students who create IDs go through training and are supervised. They
also have Banner access in order to make IDs. They sign a document
promising adherence to work guidelines.
Joyce Romano is open to suggestions for improving this process. The college eventually may develop smart cards. This is likely 3-5
years down the road. Chris informed
Mike Bosley and Joyce Romano that faculty would
have to be involved in the development of such cards. East Campus reps reiterated that one of their main problems with the
insistence on the use of VIDs at the testing center
is that testing center personnel won’t allow faculty members to walk a
student down to the center and vouch for him/her to take a test. Reps from other campi
made it clear that that is not a problem for them. Thus, Chris suggested that this is an East
Campus Senate issue, but the Council expressed willingness to support East in
that discussion. Use of SS #s in HR Documents In response to a concern from faculty at the January meeting about
the use of SS#s in HR documents, Joe Livingston
wrote that HR is already working on using an Oracle ID# instead of the SS# on
documents. This will be in place soon. Time Blocks for 05-06 East Campus had a discussion at its Feb. 10 senate meeting about the
proposed time blocks and got strong support for Plan A. The other campuses didn’t cover this in
their meetings. Chris asked for folks
to take the plans back to their constituents and send him any feedback ASAP
to take to the Calendar and Scheduling Committee. Campus Reports East Issues: They will continue working on the
VID issue. The other issues have been talked about today. Osceola Osceola is discussing issues relating to
the classification of lab time for prep. classes. West West Senate had a question about retirement
benefits and a request for clarification for retiring professors to better
understand how to maximize their retirement benefits. Also, many retiring
professors would like to keep their Dr. Shugart
talked with them about Primus, and will be redefining the term to better fit
his discussion with the West Senate. Nothing to report except for change in Provosts. Adjournment Meeting
adjourned at 4:55 pm. Next Meeting:
March 17, West 6-202 |