Members Present:   Kevin Arps, Tom Butler, Muriel Coil, Renee Cornell, Marilyn Cristiano, Hank Mancini, Jane Marks, Janet Downey, Terry Grygiel, John Nelson, Roberto Ribas, Scott Massey, Maria Barillas.

Guests Present:  Willie Minor, Jeanne Franco, Donna Mosher, Larry Burgess, Joyce Janiga, Richard Vaughn.
 

Members Absent:   Ron Brooker, Fred Wieck, Jim Rubin.

1.   Address by Dr. Willie Minor, President of MCCCD Faculty Association.

Dr Minor stressed the importance of preserving the RFP. He pointed out that the RFP not only serves as the basis for the benefits that we receive as faculty, but also for our receiving appointive status after a period of probation. He emphasized that we do not need and should not seek the protection of the administration on matters that affect us. As an example of an attempt to erode the RFP, Dr. Minor pointed to the Governing Board's decision to exclude faculty from the search committee for the new chancellor. He noted that this is in direct contradiction to page 7 of the RFP. The board is doing this because a state legislative bill gives governing boards the right to hire chancellors. Dr. Minor has asked Mike Napier, the Faculty Association's lawyer, to see whether or not this bill supersedes the RFP.

Dr . Minor encouraged communication with members of the Governing Board. He expressed the hope that representatives from each campus would attend board meetings and talk about what is happening at their campus and in their classrooms. Dr. Minor also pointed out that two Governing Board seats would be up for reelection in 2001: those of Dr. Campbell and Mr. Contreras. He urged faculty to start thinking about that election now.

Dr. Minor reported that Janice Comer would be the chair of the meet and confer committee. He also indicated that on October 29 - 30, AAUP would be attending the District Committee B meeting to discuss community college issues. He also cited other district committees: a committee to study part time faculty issues, a committee to consider concurrent and dual enrollment, and a committee to consider distance learning and how this might impact us.
 

The Senate meeting was called to order at 3:05 PM by Tom Butler.

The agenda was approved as written, with the addition of two items under New Business: a get well gift for Spencer Johnson and auto accidents on 32nd Street.
 

The May 6, 1999 minutes were approved as written.

Enrollment Management- Scott Massey
Scott reported that the EM Team first meeting will be next Friday and that the Noel Levitz Survey would be given every two years.

Faculty Development- Ned Minor
No report.

Staffing Committee- Donna Mosher
Cindy Schoenhair will be the new chair of the Staffing Committee. Fred Stahl will soon be issuing full time faculty request forms to division chairs. The first meeting of the Staffing Committee is on September 13.

Professional Growth-Carmen deMiguel
No report.

Technology Coordinating Team-Jeanne Franco
The Technology Coordinating Team has created, and plans to present for approval to the Strategic Planning Council on September 10, two documents.

1. The Role of PVCC’s Technology Coordinating Team 1999/2000
2. Annual Technology Planning Process

These two documents represent many hours of rethinking how we coordinate requests for new technology on this campus. In our deliberations we realized that what we needed was a body that looks at technology from a holistic viewpoint and makes the connections between division and department requests so that as many requests as possible are supported and funded with the scarce resources available to us. The Technology Coordinating Team asks that after reviewing these documents, faculty direct any suggestion and feedback to Jeanne Franco, Chair of TCT.

Jeanne also pointed out that the TCT would like to have one additional faculty member join the group. Selection of TCT members is based on skill sets and this year the TCT needs a faculty member who is currently using technology in their classroom. If you are interested in serving on TCT and you have the above expertise, please contact Jeanne.

Legislative Committee- Tom Butler.
No report.

Treasurer's Report - Ron Brooker
Ron reported that the combined balance in the association checking and savings accounts is $8,062.72.  Of the total dollars in the account, the Scholarship Fund contains 3,391.85,  345.60 is owed to Restaura, and $4,325.27 is unencumbered in the Association General Fund.  The Treasurer's Report was approved as written.

Secretary's Report - Terry Grygiel
No report.

President-Elect's Report- John Nelson
No report.

President's Report - Tom Butler

Items from Dr. Kranitz' President's Cabinet Meeting of 8/26/99:

Fred Stahl said that the impetus for becoming a learning college was moving forward on 4 fronts: technology, Fine Arts, Occupational and International. Each area will form groups to develop a 3-5 year plan. There may be some limited reassigned time for faculty who participate in the initial development. We want to be able to deliver instruction through a variety of methods: traditional classroom, OE-OE, compressed schedule, distance learning, WEB based courses.

Gary Mueller, a former student who gave the student address at last Spring's graduation is a student intern this semester with Howard Greenlee in Public Relations.

Spencer Johnson will be recuperating at home until mid-November, and Joanne Caufield is in charge of Financial Aid in his absence.

Rick Conchos, formerly head of Advisement, has been appointed to replace Raul Monreal, who resigned recently, as the Director of Special Services. Maggie Cullop will now head Advisement. The IPC (photocopying department) is now under the charge of Dean Bob Bendotti.

Dr. Kranitz reported that the college presidents recently had a retreat on dual enrollment and concluded that there should be a standardization of procedures across all campuses to insure quality and eliminate/reduce competition among campuses for the high school FTSE, and to have a single inter-governmental financial agreement between all high schools in a district and the colleges that serve them. Each high school district might enter into its own custom intergovernmental agreement with MCCCD. The Chancellor's Executive Council (CEC) will consider proposed models on December 1.

Report from District Faculty Executive Council meetings:

Dr. Waechter, Vice Chancellor for Human Relations, has proposed that adjunct faculty be given one hour of non-accumulating sick leave for each credit hour of instruction, effective immediately. The Faculty Executive Council decided to suggest that the implementation of this be postponed until various objections could be discussed.

District Faculty will be given the opportunity to set and conduct the agenda for the November Strategic Conversation with the Governing Board. Tom Butler has suggested that several faculty from PVCC present and conduct a Learning Communities experience for the Board. The Faculty Executive Council will decide on the agenda.

The new Peoplesoft computer accounting for the District will not accept a "zero" (0) as a starting point for placement on the salary schedule, thus, the steps on the salary schedule have been renumbered starting with "one" (1).

The FEC will have to decide how to allocate $45,000.00 in funds between all campuses for reassigned time for Faculty Evaluation Plan reps.

District faculty have received an additional $120,000.00 in professional growth funds for this year. It was decided that $40,000.00 would go toward sabbaticals and $80,000.00 toward travel and projects, since the latter category is always underfunded.

Dual/Concurrent Enrollment- John Nelson
John gave the following report to the faculty senate.

1. Since I am the Evening Supervisor for the Humanities Division, Fred Stahl requested that I attend several meetings with Bob Bendotti, Jack Sexton, and himself to discuss the possibility of offering a dual enrollment English 101 class at ParadiseValley High School this fall.

2. As of late June we were at a seeming impasse between Paradise Valley High School's demand that they use their instructor to teach the class and our Humanities Division having some control over the selection of the instructor.

3. Fred Stahl called a meeting of former PVCC Senate Presidents and myself to seek further advice. At this meeting Fred also presented the idea of using a learning community to facilitate Paradise Valley High School's English instructor as she teaches this class.

Considering Fred's proposal and due to the fact that offering this class is only a pilot project for this year, everyone at this meeting agreed to move ahead and offer the one dual enrollment English 101 class in the fall and one English 102 class in the spring.

4. Terms of the learning community are as follows:

--Renee Cornell has accepted the responsibility of meeting with Jamie Pickering , Paradise Valley High School's teacher, and collaborating with her on course design and essential issues of teaching college English 101.

--Rene receives three hours of reassigned time for her responsibilities.

--Jamie has an M.A. with twenty-five years of teaching experience, and she is community college certified.

--I have personally observed that Jamie has faithfully attended the opening All-Employee meeting, the holistic grading seminar, the on-line tutoring orientation for English instructors, and the Wednesday evening adjunct faculty meeting.

5. Renee continues to meet with Jamie on a weekly basis.

6. Fred Stahl filed a detailed report to Tom Butler on this process on August 26, 1999.

M-Building noise and other issues - Tom Butler
Tom reported that insulation is being installed on an ongoing basis. Concerns were raised regarding the increased temperature of the classrooms and the heat shields installed on air conditioning outlets to help shield the noise from other rooms.

Scholarship Fund raiser at theater events- Jeanne Franco
In an effort to continue to support the Faculty Scholarship Fund, Jeanne Franco proposed that the Senate sponsor an intermission refreshment table at all major performances of PVCC’s Theatre Group. This would entail faculty volunteering to stock and sell cookies and drinks during intermission for four evenings per theatre production with the proceeds of the sale going to the Faculty Scholarship Fund.

Marilyn Cristiano moved that a committee be formed to investigate the possibility of selling refreshments at performances of PVCC’s Theatre Group. Maria Barillas seconded the motion. The motion was passed. Jeanne Franco agreed to serve as chair of that committee.

Senate Goals 1999-2000- Tom Butler
Tom tabled consideration of senate goals until the next meeting.

Spencer Johnson- Renee Cornell
Renee made a motion that we buy a get well plant for Spencer Johnson, with the cost not to exceed $50. Marilyn seconded the motion. The motion passed.

Auto accidents on 32nd Street- Jane Marks
Jane raised concerns regarding the need for a stoplight at the 32nd Street exit. Tom indicated that he would find out about the prospects for getting a stoplight put in.

Senate Goals 1999-2000.
Parking.
Faculty Association enrollments.
The role of past Faculty Senate presidents.
Other items as needed.

 
See the Faculty Senate president's report regarding additional funding for professional growth.
 

The meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted by
  Terry Grygiel
  Senate Secretary

PVCC - Faculty Senate Minutes for September 2, 1999
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