Meeting called to order at 2:35 p.m. by Dr. Nealon, Faculty Senate President.

Minutes approved as read with correction submitted by Emily Staats regarding District Student Affairs Council.

$1387 in budgeted account, $60.15 in the agency account. Emily indicated there was an outstanding expense to post; travel funds for a Faculty Senate member's expenses at TCCTA Conference. She indicated this would be posted as soon as paperwork is submitted.

Dee Joseph indicated the elections committee needs assistance in manning the ballot box. She distributed a sign up sheet for volunteers.

She requested clarification regarding names of eligible electorate and names from a previously distributed list identifying current faculty senate members and members whose terms are at their end. Discussion held to clarify names of eligible faculty.

Monday (4/2/01) is the day to vote for the constitution. Dee will send an email to SPCAll with Constitution Amendments for a vote.

Emily reported the committee has been meeting regularly and have completed revising up through tenure section of the faculty handbook. The committee is addressing the promotion section now. She indicated the promotion section in regards to Arts & Sciences is pretty much cut and dry, the difficulty arises from the Applied Science & Technology side of the house. The Committee has decided to meet with Dr. Carnes for clarification. A meeting is scheduled for April 10, 2001.

Emily announced that after much searching, she has tracked down a copy of the faculty handbook and the adjunct faculty handbook on disk. She indicated she put in an order to district central supply to get blank disks to provide a copy of these documents to each committee member. Tim questioned if this would cost the Senate anything. Emily responded by saying each disk would cost about 30 cents each. Emily reported ordering 3 boxes of 10 disks.

Emily brought up considerations regarding the distribution of the faculty handbook.

Emily reminded everyone that money that we have in the account for the faculty senate could be used for printing, if the need should arise. She indicated there was a faculty senate account number for printing purposes. (Faculty Senate members should clear use for copying through Emily.)

Question regarding distribution of handbook lead to comment by Joe Whitson, that distribution of handbook should be done by administration as they hire faculty. Tim indicated he would talk to Dr. Runnels about this issue.

April 16, 2001 is the deadline for the Piper Award. Reception will be held after the Piper Award Recipient is announced.

Tim reported that the naming of the Faculty Excellence Award Recipient will not be occur at graduation this year. Instead, it will be announced at the Fall Convocation.

Bill Fuller commented on the picture taking process. He indicated forms need to be completed for this to occur. He will forward the necessary paperwork to Lester Hall for completion of the forms to have pictures taken for Faculty Senate historical purposes. Bill informed the group that the forms needed to be submitted 2 - 3 weeks in advance.

Tim reported that Dr. Ramsey was in favor of one parking permit per faculty member, in an effort to alleviate some of the parking problems that have been previously mentioned. Tim will follow up on this with Dr. Runnels.

Committee established to address this issue. Committee members include Dee Joseph (to Chair the Committee), Ed Beaty, Tim Nealon, and Philip Raue. Tim will take results of survey to Dr. Runnels.

Emily reported the Council is meeting tomorrow (3/29/01). Topic for discussion is scheduled to be continuous enrollment. Emily reported she received information from the registrar's office regarding registration. Tim reported having worked with Dr. Tatum on developing committee's to work on (1) Late Registration (2) Reinstatement, and (3) The College Catalog. David Burleson, Nicole Cade, and Laurie Humberson were identified as members. Tim reported that he had suggested to Dr. Tatum to combine Late Registration & Reinstatement and that she agreed.

Discussed Jen Osborne being asked to be the liaison for the Faculty Senate.

Larry Duron identified Connie Weber from the SPC Nursing Program in Seguin as being interested in serving on the Committee. Ken given Connie's name and email address for Jen to contact.

Discussed possibility of Jen reporting to Faculty Senate as information develops.

Larry announced that faculty was being sought to serve as resources for Dr. Byrd on issues dealing with teaching loads, intellectual property rights, and policies when it comes to distance learning. Joe Whitson, and Dee Joseph identified as resources as well as Diane Bellinger. Luis Lopez also mentioned as a possibility. Larry suggested Luis contact Dr. Briggs to see what Committee he had been assigned to and question the possibility of his being assigned to the Academic Affairs Sub-Committee, of which Larry is the Chair. Dee to present this information to Luis Lopez.

Emily provided an overview of the Committee and what had occurred at the first meeting on March 23, 2001.

Phil Raue questioned if there would be a united front by all the district colleges in establishing the distance learning policies.

Emily reported she did not have this information. She indicated our position is advisory at this time. She identified the Higher Education Coordinating Board's definition of distance education as being all courses that are not offered at the SPC main campus and SW campus.

Larry indicated some of the issues to be addressed required coordination/collaboration with other ACCD Colleges VP's of Academic Affairs.

Tim reported he co-signed his name on a letter to North West Vista along with the other ACCD Campus' Faculty Senate President's and Dr. Ramsey, requesting them to form a Faculty Senate. Larry reported having sent a copy of the SPC Faculty Senate Constitution to NW Vista at the request of a faculty member there a while back.

Bill Fuller indicated he has gathered Faculty Senate information from approximately the past 5 years.

He motioned that Faculty Senate establish a historical record of the faculty senate using funds from the Senate to purchase binders and dividers to set up the records to be archived.

Emily requested Bill to stop by her office and look at a supply catalog to identify the supplies necessary to begin the process.

Bill further discussed that he had identified a process in the information he has reviewed whereby the Faculty Senate President and the Recording Secretary formally sign off on a copy of the minutes, making them an official historical document of the Faculty Senate. Bill is to follow up on this and begin the process again.

Bill reported he has also identified that there was a narrative of Faculty Senate activity that was written up at the end of each semester. The Historian (Bill) was identified as the person to complete this document.