Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Thursday, October 2, 2003, 1:30p.m., NTB #404

 

Meeting was called to order at 1:30pm

1.          Electorate concerns:

Member of the electorate voiced concern over last Newsflash article on the step increase.  He felt that the wording should have been more hypothetical actual.

2.          Approval & Correction of Minutes

Minor errors in last month’s minutes were corrected.  Minutes were approved by vote.

3.Treasurer’s Report

The balance remains at $1500.

4.Old Business:

A.        Constitution Committee- No Report.  Senate asked committee to meet to work on issues of the constitution like the ballot election issues and the promotion appeals committee

B.         Faculty Development Committee-Reminded all to nominate professors for the Piper Award

C.         Elections Committee-Announced elections results of Michelle Martinez out of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department.  Seven candidates ran for office.

D.         Professional Concerns Committee- No Report.  Senate asked to follow up with district human resources on policy changes made before faculty input.

E.          Promotion Appeals Committee-Ed Beaty elected as chairperson

-Ad Hoc Committees

F.          Ceremonial Mace Committee-Mace still being worked on.  Dr. Crow is following up on it.

G.         Faculty Handbook Committee-Wants to put the handbook the web and create a search mechanism.

H.         Hospitality Committee-Discussed having a brunch on Spring semester census day.

I.           Resources Committee-tabled until next meeting

J.           SPCFAC Listserv Committee-Listserv needs to add about 35 current faculty members and correct some addresses.

K.         Community Service Committee-Looking into service projects for the senate to do.

L.          Grant Writing Research Committee-met with Richard and Paul about the faculty’s opportunities to apply for grants.

M.       Newsletter Committee-Send articles to Jenny Garland.

N.         Faculty Senate Website-Website transition is updated and will be uploaded.

O.         SLC-Building Bulletin Board Committee- Is investigating how Senate can use the board.

P.          Faculty Workstations Committee-Committee wants to become more balanced because the members are mostly from the Applied Sciences area.

5.New Business:

A.        Election of VP-Fred Bakenhaus won the election for VP

B.         President’s Trip to TCCTA Leaders Conference in Austin will be on October 9th & 10th.

The money to pay for her attendance may come out of the senate’s budget.

C.         Position Papers:

-A cover memo will be attached to the old memo and position paper regarding teaching loads and sent to the College President.

D.         Book Issues-there are 14 members of a committee lead by Dr. Bryd that are dealing with textbooks and issues. The Senate wants more information on it.

E.          Step Increase-SAC Senate decided to also write a position and proposition on the issue to send to the Chancellor.

F.          Class Sizes-tabled

G.         Welcome Letter to new Chancellor will be written and the Chancellor will be invited to faculty brunch.

H.         All of the following items were tabled due to lack of quorum at the tie

      -Faculty window at Registrar’s and Bursar’s offices

      -Cost of color copying

      -Employee Conference Day

Adjourned at 3:30pm

 

 


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Jenny Garland                    Date

Corresponding Secretary

Faculty Senate 2003-2004

Delia P. Joseph                  Date        

President

Faculty Senate 2003-2004