The meeting was called to order at 3:10 P.M. by Hank Mancini.

Members Present:Kevin Arps, Tom Butler, Carmen DeMiguel, Paul Cornell, Jan Downey, Hank Mancini, Ed Lutz, Scott Massey, Patti Marsh, Patri Mays, Steve Nicoloff, David Rubi, Sue Van Boven

Members Absent: Donna Mosher, Shelle Witten

Guest: Marilyn Cristiano, Travel Committee Chair; Abby Hemingway, Kurt Hill, Joyce Janiga, Shawn Reese, Eileen Shiff, Sonia Valle

The agenda was unanimously approved with the elimination of IV. Campus Committee Report A. Faculty Development.

The minutes of November 7, 2002 were unanimously approved, with two changes.

3. Officers' Reports

A. Treasurer--Sue VanBoven

Treasurer's Report for November, 2002: Checking Account:  Desert Schools Federal Credit Union Date                Transaction                                                               Amount 11/01/02       Beginning balance                                                   $  68.45 11/05/02       CK# 433- Senate Minutes, Oct., 2002                       -25.00 11/14/02       transfer from savings                                              +400.00 11/21/02       CK# 434- Senate Minutes, Oct. 25 , 2002                 -25.00                                                                                                               ________ 11/30/02       Ending balance                                                        $   418.45                                                                                                             ====== Savings Account:  Desert Schools Federal Credit Union Date                Transaction                                                               Amount 11/01/02       Beginning Balance                                                  $ 12,778.55 11/14/02       transfer to checking                                                    -400.00                                                                                                             ________ 11/30/02       Ending balance                                                       $12,378.55                                                                                                             ======= Encumbered Funds – Scholarships 11/01/02       Beginning Balance                                                   $  4,376.37      no activity                                                     11/30/02                                                                                           $  4,376.37                                                                                                                              ======= Available Funds Combined balances – checking and savings                              $ 12,797.00 Less:  Scholarship Fund                                                                    - 4,376.37 Available funds                                                                               $   8,420.63                                                                                                             ======== We received a rebate check from the MCCCD Faculty Association for $2,075.00, which is not reflected in the November report. It was a rebate on Association dues. Sue Van Boven 12/5/2002

The Senate voted unanimously to accept the Treasurer's Report.

B. Secretary--Tom Butler

No report.

C. President Elect--Scott Massey

• Members of the Faculty Executive Council were advised that, since faculty could not use their work e-mail for political purposes, they should send their private e-mail addresses to their local senate presidents if they wish to be informed of partisan political initiatives.
• The FEC is advertising to secure the services of a PR firm to help promote faculty perspective on district issues.
• It was expressed at the FEC meeting that a number of faculty were upset with what they perceived to be a biased wording in the recent safety officer survey regarding arming safety officers.
• Medical benefits will cost more and offer less next year.
• Faculty member Alan Hoffa addressed the Governing Board and said that a 10-minute presentation is not sufficient for faculty inclusion in the budget decision making process regarding salary issues. He wants faculty participation and the Meet and Confer process to be a priority for the Board and administration.

D. President--Hank Mancini

President’s Report To The Senate 12/5/02 Conversation With Mrs. Linda Rosenthal A conversation occurred between Mrs. Rosenthal, Marilyn Cristiano, Jeanne Franco and myself. Mrs. Rosenthal was concerned that faculty had not supported her campaign for reelection to the Governing Board. I discussed the district’s lack of fiscal responsibility. The size of the district’s budget compared to the 10 campus budgets was reviewed. Also, the addition of a Vice Chancellor and the Chancellor’s 6.5% raise were discussed. We informed Mrs. Rosenthal that there is a perception that she does not support faculty. The meeting lasted one hour and we agreed to meet again. Chairs’ Monthly Meeting [As decided by the Deans' Team]there will only be one Learning Week at the beginning of the Fall 2003. The E&OL committee reviewed the two week format. With the two week format the contact hours for our students were minimally acceptable within the required number of contact hours. PVCC has established itself as a learning-centered college and by returning to the one Learning Week format, PVCC would increase the contact hours with our students. It was determined that this was important and so, the E&OL sessions will be limited to one week. Additional sessions will be held during the Fall semester. Some sessions of general interest will be conducted in all faculty meetings called by the Administration. PVCC’s Fall 2003 semester will now begin at the same time as the other MCCD colleges. Laurel Smith discussed the QualA System. This system will store the names of all qualified adjunct faculty across the district. Once qualified, adjunct faculty can be entered into the system by any Division or Department Chair. The system will serve as a clearing house for adjuncts. The Administration is considering printing only one class schedule. The cost to print the present schedule is $ 8-10K per printing. PVCC presently has two printings per semester. Due to limited budget funds it was determined that significant savings can be realized with single printing per semester. Also, the number of print copies will be reduced. [Patti Marsh observed that Continuing Ed.'s schedule of classes is included in the college schedule, and that PVCC is the only campus that subsidizes Continuing Ed. in that way.] The insurance subcommittee met with ASRS. We discussed the present coverage currently offered by them. They stated that improved coverage will be available in 2004. As you know your ASRS contributions will increase next year. Additionally, a meeting was held to determine what options the committee might pursue to obtain reasonably priced, adequate insurance coverage for of including early retirees with the present employees insurance group. To cover the inclusion of the retiree group would result in a rate increase of between $400 - 600 for each employee. We are meeting with ASRS this week to determine what options we can pursue. Additional comments: The FEC will begin meeting with the Chancellor on an every-other month basis. Hank met with President Kranitz and told her that while faculty are not against the proposed Bond, they are not yet ready to support it.

A. Professional Growth--Tom Butler

Tom reported that District-wide, requests for reimbursement for conference fees are down. However, requests for salary advancement and clock hours for conferences and courses are up.

B. Staffing Committee

Peter Thiel, Chair, will come to the next Senate meeting to give a report.

C. Travel Committee--Marilyn Cristiano

PVCC Faculty Travel Committee End of Fall Semester 2002 Summary Report *Please note:  The data in this report is based upon Marilyn Cristiano's records and her consultations with the PVCC fiscal office and PVCC and MCCCD personnel. 1.   Starting budget:       District Funds:  $19,992.00       Additional District Funds:  $3,772.00       Total District Funds:  $23,764.00       College Funds:  $4,000.00       Total:  $27,764.00 2.   Seventeen faculty members to date have been approved for funds (two faculty have been approved for two separate requests) encumbering approximately $11,839.25. 3.   Remaining budget is  $11,924.75 plus $4,000.00 (if needed) for a total of       $15,924.75. 4.   To date, faculty are "out of pocket" for travel expenses approximately $4,546.95. 5.   Last year at this time (2001-2002), seven faculty had been approved for travel funds encumbering $4,573.50 leaving $22,581.50 in a $27,155.00 budget (this budget included $4,000.00 from college funds and an additional $4,140.00 from the district).  The year before that at this time (2000-2001), thirteen faculty members had been approved for travel funds encumbering $8,228.36 leaving $10,935.64 in a $19,164.00 budget.

D. SAAAC-Tom Butler

At the December Division Chairs' meeting Tom distributed an assessment activity timeline for Divisions to follow, and an end-of-semester Division Assessment Progress Report, which each Division will file.

There will be three assessement-related sessions offered during January Learning Week:

• A session on writing good learning outcome statements, chaired by Larry Burgess.
• A session on evaluating the results of the English 101 Final Paper assessment done two summers ago, with the objective of recommending either changes in the scoring rubric or changes in instructional emphases. Designed primarily for the English adjuncts who teach ENG 101. Chaired by Tom Butler
• A 5-hour session on Friday, January 17, with Janice Denton, Professor of Chemistry at Raymond Walters College, U. of Cincinnati. Participants will learn how to write scoring guides, or Primary Trait Analyses that can be used as the bases for both grading class work and assessing student performance. All faculty are urged to attend.

E. HLC Self-study team--Rick Vaughn

Hank communicated some comments from Rick, who was not present at the meeting:

• Co-chairs for subcommittees for the Self-study team have been nominated for approval by the Deans' Team, after which those names will be forwarded to President Kranitz for her approval; then, those approved nominees will be asked to voluntarily serve.
• See Rick Vaughn for sample goals for the Self-study.
• Rick will begin reporting regularly to the Senate in February.

A. Reassigned Time/Overload - Scott Massey

Senators and faculty are asked to review the "Considerations" listed below and send comments about them to Scott, who will communicate them to Dean Bendotti.

B. Academic Restructuring -- Patti Marsh

One plan has been adopted. Patti says the vigorous discussion that resulted from faculty proposals for different restructuring plans has been a good, healthy process.

The Senate unanimously approved the proposed Academic Restructuring Plan and recommended it be put to the entire faculty for a majority approval vote.

The proposed Academic Restructuring Plan may be viewed at: http://www2.pvc.maricopa.edu/senate/proposedAcadRestrPlan.html

C. Faculty Scholarship -- Sue Van Boven

• After reviewing the mixed results of a survey of faculty, the Senate unanimously voted to open the Faculty Association Scholarship to all declared majors.
• The Senate voted 6-5 to restrict the Faculty Association Scholarship to student use of the funds only at PVCC.
• A subcommittee of Sue VanBoven, Jan Downey, Ed Lutz and Paul Cornell will review scholarship criteria, fundraising and advertising options, and report back to the Senate.
• A suggestion by Sue to roll PVCC Faculty Association savings account dividends into the scholarship fund was tabled.

A. Active Retirement Program--Hank Mancini

After much discussion, the Senate unanimously resolved to recommend to the administration that the Active Retirement Program, which directly supports effective teaching and learning, not be phased out or terminated for faculty, and that new active retiree faculty be replaced only by adjunct faculty until they have fully retired; and that the positions for Jack Sexton and Steve Platte not be filled for one year and the salary monies thus saved be used to offset the cost of the Active Retirement Program.

Additionally, the Senate unanimously resolved to recommend to the administration that the college not fill any Board-approved new positions for faculty and other policy groups for one year, and that the money saved be used to support the continuance of the Active Retirement Program.

Several senators commented that it is difficult to make good recommendations for budget cuts without sufficient time to study the actual proposed budget.

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Senate is February 6, 2003

The meeting was adjourned at 5:33 P.M.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Thomas Butler.