2005‑2006 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Fifth Meeting of the 2005‑2006

Faculty Senate

December 1, 2005

3:30 p.m. Room J138

 

Unapproved Official Minutes (Draft)

 

1.  Call to Order:

 

a.   Members Present:  Reyes Medrano, Jim Patterson, Jeff Lace, Paul Cornell, Walt Thielen, Lynn McClelland, Jim Rubin, Beth Ann Newman, Tom Powell, Larry Burgess, Muriel Mulane, David Rubi, Kevin Arps

 

b.   Guests:  (1) Marilyn Cristiano, (2) Kurt Hill

 

3.   Approval of Agenda / Approval of the Nov. 2005 Meeting Minutes

 

4.   Officer Reports:

 

a.   President Reyes Medrano:

 

(1)   No Report (items will be covered in Old Business)

 

b.   President‑Elect Jim Patterson:

 

(1)   Reported that Paul Dale is researching procedures, especially related to compensation, in the case of a flu outbreak.

 

c.   Treasurer Jeff Lace:

 

(1) Announced that $2300 was deposited into the account

       

(2) Treasurer Jeff Lace submitted the following Treasurer’s Report for filing and audit:

 

PVCC Faculty Association Treasurer’s Report 

November  2005

Checking Account:  Desert Schools Federal Credit Union

Date

Transaction

Amount

11/01/05

Beginning Balance

$53.16

11/1/05

11/1/05

 

11/3/05

 

Transfer from savings – operating $

Meeting minutes – September (David Rubi) note check dated 10/10/05

Meeting minutes – Oct, Nov – (Jim Rubin)

200.00

(35.00)

 

(70.00)

 

12/1/05

Ending Balance

148.16

 

 

 

Savings Account:  Desert Schools Federal Credit Union

Date

Transaction

Amount

11/01/05

Beginning Balance

$ 7300.82

11/1/05

11/29/05

11/30/05

Transfer to checking – operating $

Deposit – Faculty association share

Dividend

               (200.00)

               2300.00

                     5.96

 

 

 

11/30/05

Ending balance – Savings account

$9406.78

 

 

11/30/05

 

 

 

Ending balance – 6 month CD (includes interest paid 11/30/05)

 

 

$8282.19

Encumbered Funds – Scholarships

11/1/05

Beginning Balance  

$  2876.67

 

 

 

11/30/05

Ending Balance

$  2,876.67

 

 

 

Available Funds

 

Combined balances – checking, savings, CD     

$17,837.13

 

Less:  Scholarship Fund

$2,876.67

 

Available funds

$14960.46

 

 

 

Jeff Lace, Treasurer 12/1/05

   

 

 

 

d.   Secretary Jim Rubin:

 

(1)   Secretary Jim Rubin had no report.

 

6.   Old Business:

 

a.       Assignment of Faculty to College Committees – RFP is unclear on committee assignment obligation.

 

b.   Reyes announced that FEC is no longer considering changing our grading system to included plusses and minuses.

 

c.   Discussed division chair elections.

      1.     Proposal accepted by Mary Lou Mosely: Elections will take place a semester before new chair takes leadership, so that newly elected chair has a semester as chair-elect, for which he/she will receive three load hour release time for training purposes.

 

      2.     Larry Burgess reported that the Business, Counseling, and Library Divisions each have self-nominated candidates (current chairs). Fine and Performing Arts Division has no self-nominated candidates. The Deadline for self-nomination is Dec. 9, 2005. Ballots will be distributed by mail and voting will occur during Finals Week. In order for their to be a named candidate, the division must have had more than 50% of its members vote.

 

d.   Faculty Scholarship (monies) – Motion carried that faculty scholarship monies for 2005-2006 will be evenly distributed to the 2nd and 3rd ranked applicants to pay for their Spring, 2006 tuition. Money will be credited and only distributed if student registers and does not drop classes. A scholarship committee consisting of Tom Powell, Muriel Mulane, and David Rubi will meet to discuss next year’s procedures.

 

e.   Fory-nine Percent Program Report – Reyes announced that FEC’s President and President-Elect met with Chancellor Glasper but have not reported the results of that meeting.

 

 

 


 

7.   New Business:

 

a.   Door Stops – Jim Patterson announced that in the future, it is likely that all door stops will be removed and replaced with rubber door stops.

 

b.   Graduation Ceremony – Discussed holding the ceremony on campus (with tents or using the soccer field). The senate was split on this move. Another suggestion was to split graduation so the PAC could be utilized. Reyes announced that he will take our split in the Senate and the new suggestion to the Graduation Committee.

 

c.   Discussed Meet and Confer’s process on how proposals are announced to faculty and how proposals can be made. Reyes announced that any faculty can make a proposal by submitting the proposal to the Faculty Senate or Faculty Senate President.

 

d.   OYO – Tom Powell raised concerns that OYO does not count toward the first year of accountability. Confusion over whether or not it does count if faculty completes a FEP.

 

e.   College Plan – Tom Powell recommended that the College Plan be updated more regularly. Reyes announced that a committee will be formed to address this.

 

f.    Notification of students who drop – Tom Powell requested that A & R send notifications to faculty when students drop or withdrawal from a class.

 

g.   Internal/External applicants – Discussion regarding the process by which internal candidates are provided a mandatory interview but are not typically allowed to be forwarded to the President unless there are at least three total candidates for the President to interview. This process often results in faculty being hired by other colleges. Reyes announced that he will discuss this with the President.

 

h.   Per Diem for travel – tabled

 

 

8.   Adjournment:

 

(1)   The Faculty Senate Adjourned at 5:00 p.m.