Notes from the Senate Faculty Meeting of September 27, 2000 scheduled to commence at 2:30 PM Meeting began at 2:33 PM
Welcome
Dr. Nealon apologized for the lateness of the first meeting this semester due to his involvement in an excessive number of beginning of semester meetings.
After Gool Castleberry raised a point of order involving Senator Philip
Raue sending someone to attend this meeting in his place as an observer
(this person would/did not participate in any voting, but only act as an observer for Mr Raue), and then Gool requested that she be heard at the beginning of the meeting about the establishment of a "Super Senate" committee which would include the Faculty Senate Presidents of all ACCD colleges.
The meeting progressed to a discussion of Consideration of Meeting Times.
Consideration of Meeting Times.
It was proposed that the regular monthly meeting time for the Senate be set as the last Wednesday of the month at 2:30 PM except for such times as Thanksgiving week.
This proposal was passed with 11 senators voting FOR and 1 senator voting NO.
President's Report
The President's Report was given by Dr. Nealon
A. Academic Affairs (attended Monday, September 25, 2000)
1. Evaluations
2. Loading - Equated with Full time and Adjunct
3. Fall Flex Schedule
4. Spring Schedule
5. Chair Workshop, Faculty Workshop, and Adjunct Workshops
6. Northeast Campus -
B. Presidents Cabinet (attended Tuesday, September 26, 2000)
C. College Counsel (attended Thursday, September 21, 2000)
1. Enrollment Update - 8,380 - up 3%
2. Update of Northeast Learning Center
3. United Way/Foundation Drive - Wallace Goodlow will be the campus
coordinator this year
4. Budget Update - Received $ 25 million but 10% is being withheld.
What is it being used for?
5. New HUD Grant - Construction Trades people got a grant for $350,000 to renovate the Apache Courts as "field training".
D. Discussion of Faculty Evaluation of Administrators
What is the purpose?
What will it be used for?
Is it worth the trouble?
Why bother?
E. Chancellor's Lunch Meeting
Dr. Nealon attended a lunch with Dr. Ramsey along with the presidents of NVC, PAC and SAC Faculty Senates. The meeting went well.
F. ACCD Board Meeting
1. Salary Review Committee
a. Approval of Faculty/Staff Salary Increases
- increase will be 1 % per year for the next 5 years
- committee is still active
G. TCCTA Leadership Conference
They are going to discuss topics of concern to Texas Community Colleges, i.e. money, funding, cash, grants, etc. The meeting is in Austin, October 13-14, 2000. Are there travel funds? No sure answer.
Whoever goes is expected to commute to and from Austin for the meeting, which begins Friday evening, October 13 and continues on Saturday,
October 14, 2000. Dr. Nealon can't attend because he will be out of the country. He asked for names of possible attendees to go with the SPC President to be submitted to him by Friday, 29 September 2000. Various names were submitted.
H. Policy/Faculty Handbook
Same committee that is supposed to review the Tenure and Promotion
Guidelines is supposed to work on this. Hasn't been a lot of interest in it, since it is not followed in most cases. It is in conflict with
District and SPC local policies. This committee was appointed to try
to put the handbook in synch with those other tomes of salutory
neglect.
I. Tenure/Promotions
Committee: Cindy Turner is Chair, members are Emily, Ed, David,
Larry, Jim and Gloria
Since the written rules are not followed, this committee will attempt to codify local practice and align it with ACCD policies.
J. Faculty Award Guidelines
There don't seem to be any local guidelines for the Piper Award, NISOD,
etc., nor any set schedule or criteria. Dr. Nealon stated that he had
gotten several last minute calls to "send some names in" for these awards. Most of these available awards require copious documentation as part of the nomination packet.
K. Web Site (Van Lopez)
Mr. Lopez is working on a web site similar to the one SAC maintains for
the faculty senate. He requested some assistance in assembling information to post on the Web.
L. Faculty Workstations
64 have been finalized. There was rejoicing throughout the land, since Dr. Nealon is going to get one at long last.
Old Business
Nothing old was brought up.
New Business
Signage Near Watson FAC
Senator said that the second row parking places in the WFAC lot
were painted with "Staff/Faculty", but there is still a sign that says
'Student Parking' in the lot. His Chairman has called Chief Terry Hoffmann repeatedly but to no avail.
Campus Police claims the sign is a Maintenance issue, and Maintenance says it is a Campus Police issue. It was suggested that an evening laboratory be held in conjunction with the HUD students*, where they remove the sign as a lab activity.
(* See Item C.5. above)
Intellectual Property.
Dee Joseph requested the faculty senate adopt a position on Intellectual Property. She was given a copy of the SAC policy, which is at least a step toward addressing this matter. Her Department Chair has told Dee that she must give all her Internet course materials to some adjunct to teach from.
The District Policy to this point can be summed up as "if you create it, the District owns it, since you work for the District".
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Attitude on Northeast Campus.
Was suggested that Northeast Campus would be yet another drain on the
on-campus population. Enrollment is already impacted by NVC, UTSA-downtown, and the PAC-A&M agreements.
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Combined Graduation with NVC/PAC/SAC
President Runnels has proposed to have graduations in May/August/December with the other schools.
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Adjunct Representation in the Senate
According to the Constitution, 2 representatives from Applied Sciences and
2 from Arts and Sciences may be chosen from the Adjunct Faculty. This is to
be studied, as the full time people only had 25% participation in the last election.
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Attempt to Adjust Teaching Loads for Full Time and Tenure Track Faculty
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Adjournment was at 3:46 PM