Members Present:Ron Brooker, Tom Butler, Muriel Coil, Renee Cornell, Marilyn Cristiano, Janet Downey, Kurt Hill, Hank Mancini, Jane Marks, Scott Massey, Donna Mosher, John Nelson, Nino Pascolati, Roberto Ribas.

Members Absent: Maria Barillas.

Guests Present: none.

1. Call To Order/Approval of Agenda.

The Senate meeting was called to order at 2:30 PM by John Nelson in Room E 194. The agenda was approved as written.

The minutes of both May 2000 meetings were unanimously approved without amendment.

Treasurer:

Ron Brooker reported that as of August 31, 2000 the balance in the PVCC Faculty Association checking account is $146.20 and the savings account balance is $9,428.28, with a combined balance of $9,574.48. Of the combined balance, the Scholarship Fund balance is $3,859.18. Thus, there remains available $5,715.30.

Checks numbered 392 and 393, were for the scholarship theatre event, in the amounts of $275.00 (tickets) and $207.00 (refreshments).

Secretary:

Tom Butler reported that he redesigned the PVCC Faculty Association web pages. He also requested that anyone preparing a report for Senate meetings provide him with an electronic form of the report (disk or, preferably, e-mail) so he can copy it into the minutes.

President-Elect:

Jane Marks reported that at the Aug. 29, 2000, Faculty Executive Council (FEC) meeting Linda Larson, Co-Chair of the Meet and Confer Team, reported on results of the Professional Growth Survey conducted in June. Two areas of concern to faculty that emerged from the survey results are increased credit hours for non-academic work and horizontal advancement for doctoral faculty. The rationale behind these questions has to do with providing the incentive to continue professional development.

When individual campus presidents gave reports on their campuses, we learned that Estrella Mountain paid for the search for their campus' new Dean of Instruction. Their involvement apparently resulted in an applicant pool of ninety applicants to select candidates from.

President:
President's Cabinet
John Nelson reported:

1. Gina reviewed the purpose and composition of the President's Cabinet:

Composed of all Deans and Associate Deans, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, and Faculty Senate President.

One - Two meetings a month. The 2nd and 4th Thursdays. 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Purpose: To discuss issues of importance to PVCC involving MCCD and PVCC Community. Members provide a synopsis of various issues to help in decision-making. Sources are various campus committee meetings, district involvement, etc. Each member is responsible for keeping committee members informed of current issues in their respective areas.

2. Gina presented the PVCC Interim Organizational Chart for 2000-2001. She noted that Bob Bendotti will assume the DI responsibilities with the help of the two associate deans, Cathy Hart and Mary Lou Mosley. Paul Dale and Bob Bendotti will share the Administrative Dean responsibilities. Gina will continue to provide her full support to the faculty and students.

3. The Cabinet as a whole discussed the following issues:

--Competition for students--Glendale CC., ASU West, Scottsdale CC., Happy Valley CC center.

--Paradise Valley Community College's niche and service to students.

--Student Retention

--Some of the Strategic Questions

--Began to think about solutions for these issues.

Other:

4. Strategic Planning--item under New Business

5. Making final touches to the PVCC Faculty Committee and Project team document. Also, the following Senate Committees are in place: Travel, Staffing, and Professional Rights and Responsibilities.

Tom Butler will continue to serve on the Professional Growth Committee--Fees and Summer Projects.

John appointed Kurt Hill, this past summer, to the Professional Growth Committee--Sabbaticals and Salary Advancement.

6. John met with Dr. Kranitz on the Search Committee for a new Dean of Instruction. Will report under New Business.

7. On June 13, 2000, the District Governing Board voted to raise the primary property taxes by the two percent limit permitted by the state constitution and statute. The Board always goes for the highest allowed increase. This does not necessarily mean that a home owner's portion would increase by two percent, since the amount for each piece of property is determined by the whole. If a large industry comes in during the same year, it may receive a bigger share of the tax burden.

Ed Contreras and Don Campbell announced, at the Governing Board Meeting of August 22, 2000, that they have filed petitions to run again for their Board position. Both are running unopposed.

Faculty Development:

No report.

Professional Growth:

Tom Butler reported that at the last Faculty Professional Growth There was some discussion of the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Faculty and Executive Council and Administration that provides for 3 hours of reassigned time per year per FPG representative. Previously, some reps got no reassigned time from their college, some got 3 hours, and some got 6 hours per year. Now, some Deans of Instruction are saying that their college will no longer fund 3 hours reassigned time, since the FEC is doing it, and all colleges should be equal (at only 3 hours reassigned time per year total). At least one FPG rep will resign his post if not given six hours reassigned time per year. One suggestion is that Deans of Instruction should be approached with an equity issue: if each college funds three hours and the FEC funds three hours, then their is an equitable sharing of the cost of this position that benefits both the individual college and district faculty as a whole.

It was reported that FPG is now under the auspices of the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI), which faculty believe to be a good thing.

Staffing Committee:

Donna Mosher reported that Division Chairs will be meeting 9/29 with the Staffing Committee to recommend specific positions.

Travel Committee:

Marilyn Cristiano reported that the Travel Guidelines are available on the Faculty Association web pages and that the contents of the document are now hyper linked for rapid location.

1. The PVCC Faculty Travel Committee has set the limit on the maximum amount faculty may be funded from the Faculty Travel Funds for this academic year to be $700.00. This is an increase of $100.00 over last year's $600.00. The Committee came to this decision based upon the following:

a. The PVCC Faculty Travel Committee budget has increased to $19,164 from $18,547.

b. We have 79 eligible travelers.

c. Cost of travel has gone up.

d. We had 29 faculty travel last academic year. The previous two years we had 22 faculty travel.

e. Last year, we had $2,779.00 left over at the end of the spring semester to distribute to travelers who expended personal funds to cover travel expenses over the $600.00 funded.

(1) Six faculty requested reimbursement around the $100.00 mark.

(2) The total number of faculty requests came to $4,634.62, which put us $1,855.62 short of fully funding all travelers. Dr. Stahl gave the committee the extra $1,855.62 to fully fund everyone.

f. Sandy McDill concurred with the change to the $700.00 limit.

The Committee reasoned that we will have less faculty out of pocket if we set the maximum at $700.00, and we should still have dollars left over at the end of the semester.

2. The PVCC Faculty Travel Committee has decided to use for this academic year last year's formula for distributing any remaining funds that may be in the budget after the spring deadline for requesting travel funds.

Formula for Distributing Remaining Travel Funds (2000-2001):

Dollar value of funds left over divided by the dollar value of additional funds requested = percent of each additional fund request to be funded.

For example:

$1,000.00 in travel funds remaining

$2,000.00 in additional travel fund requests

$1000.00 divided by $2,000.00 = %50.00.

Therefore, 50% of each request for funds would be funded.

Approval/Staffing and Professional Rights and Responsibilities: Committees

John Nelson presented the following recommended appointments to the staffing committee, which the Senate unanimously approved:

Donna Mosher, Alan Tongret, Steve Nicoloff, Maria Barillas, Muriel Coil, Cindy Shoenhair.

John Nelson presented the following recommended appointments to the Professional Rights and Responsibilities committee, which the Senate unanimously approved:

Marilyn Cristiano, Joyce Janiga, Umar Sharif, Surrendra Gangadean.

PVCC Faculty Scholarship

Two awards of $500.00 each will be made this year, to make up for the failure to award one last year. John Nelson asked the Senate to review the application and process for discussion next month.

Chat Room/Faculty Executive Council

John Nelson reported that there has been some interest in setting up a "chat room" via MEMO for employees, in response to the complaints that the MEMO system is sometimes used for socio-political or philosophical debates by employees. The chancellor will support it if there is employee interest.

Strategic Planning Update:Review Committee Restructuring Process and
Restructuring of PVCC Strategic Planning Council

John Nelson reported that there has been a proposal to change the membership of the Budget Review Committee (BRC). The proposed committee membership would include three different categories: a) three voting, standing members, b) six voting, rotating members and c) five nonvoting advisory members. John was asked to solicit from Bob Bendotti a rationale for the proposed change. John asked that Senators study the proposed changes and MEMO him with their recommendations he should take to the next Strategic Planning Meeting.

Presidential Screening Committee: Selection of Faculty Members

After reviewing and considering the letters of intent from all faculty who expressed a desire to serve on this committee, the Senate recommended that John Nelson communicate the Senate's desire to reduce the size of the search committee by deleting one student member, one community member and the Governing Board member.

Senators ranked by secret ballot the names of the faculty applicants, considering among other things communication skills and diversity of representation of academic divisions. The five who received the highest rankings will be forwarded to the chancellor for selection of three to serve on the committee and two to serve as alternates. A motion to not recommend the position of an adjunct faculty to serve on this committee was unanimously approved.

The Senate also agreed to recommend that Annette Ward (CGCC president) serve on the committee, because she is a college president familiar with the needs of a college of our "birth order" and size.

Search Committee for Dean of Instruction

The Senate recommended that the search process start as soon as possible, with a call for applications advertised by January, and interviews in the Spring with the current President to make the final decision.

Recognition of Dean Fred Stahl

An ad hoc committee of five, Tom Butler, Jan Downey, Jane Marks, Donna Mosher and John Nelson, volunteered to develop a plan and recommendations for honoring Dean Stahl's contribution to PVCC.

Paul Dale has asked the Senate to survey faculty on whether they would prefer the next graduation to be held on or off campus. There was consensus that Senators would prefer the graduation ceremony be held off campus at North Canyon High School, as it was this past May.

Abby Hemingway has agreed to be PVCC's Reporter to "Peerpoint," the District Faculty newsletter.

Early Submission of high school seniors' grades--Ron Brooker

Course Refunds of Difficult Courses--Kurt Hill

Visit by Rosemary Kesler, President of the Faculty Association

The meeting was adjourned by unanimous consent at 4:35 P.M.

Postponed until next month's meeting

Minutes respectfully submitted by Thomas Butler, Senate Secretary.