Faculty Senate Meeting
January 8, 2001
Minutes

Attendees: Richard Wheet, Ed Price, Debi Cisneros, Homer Jones, Theresa Holmberg, Joyce Petter, Jeff Looper, Bob Larsen, Barbara Lease, Greg Poston, Ben Matus, Tracy Marshall, Anriuddh Hathi, Ginger Carney (substitute for Gwenn Kelly), Manny Avila, Nancy Gidden, Martin Knudsen, Troy Slayden, Terry Ehrhardt, David Junek, Garry Sigler, Ronald Neuman, Frank Gentry, Ruth Gray, Nick Pocock (DDT), Lee Hilliard (DDT).

Richard Wheet, President of the Faculty Senate, called the meeting to order. Elton Stuckly was the Guest speaker.

Guest Speaker:  Elton Stuckly, Dean of Instruction

Elton spoke to the Faculty Senate on the Compensation Plan. The current compensation plan has not been revised since 1984. Elton thanked Richard Wheet, Ed Price, and Barbara Lease for attending the Harlingen Faculty Compensation and Ranking meeting with him. The compensation plan may be implemented by March 1, 2001. This plan is a good starting point. Elton would like each Senator take the plan to their departments for input and bring back ant concerns to the Faculty Senate. The Faculty Senate would then go over any of the changes. President's Council would then meet with Systems, at the end of February, for approval.

Committee Reports

Richard asked for any Committee Reports.

• Committee for State Agency vs. College - No Report
• Committee on Committees (Jeff Looper) - Employee Parking Ticket Resolution Committee needs 3 people to volunteer for this committee. Will get names and give to Richard for appointment.

President's Council Meeting

Richard reported on the President's Council Meeting.

• COP's, the evaluations are still in process.
• Campus facility master plan can get copies of this if wanted.
• Financial; all purchasing must be in by June 1st
• Student Government: There is a plan for playground areas, parking spaces for SGA officers, peepholes possibly in campus housing.
• Attendance verification forms for Financial Aid have been discontinued.
• Class record form: System wanted to keep them but Elton says why keep something on a form that is out of date. Judy Purshe indicated that there should be better instructions for the spring semester.
• Hiring procedures for part time faculty still under review. Dr. Ellis and Elton Stuckly would like to see a one-page contract, which specifies classes and times. At this point the contract has 7 different forms to be filled out for part time faculty. With talking to the dean of instruction at MCC, Elton says that they have a one-page contract.
• 2001 Calendar: If there is anything that the Faculty would like to see on the 2001 calendar it needs to be in to Jan Osborne by January 22nd.

Faculty Compensation and Ranking Proposal

Overview (Richard Wheet)

Richard gave an overview of the Faculty Ranking/Compensation Meeting (January 4-5, in Harlingen). TSTC has never had a consistent. This compensation plan is not just for the Waco campus. It includes all the TSTC campuses. The decisions that are made will be for the whole System. There were 3 faculty representatives from each campus (total of 12) plus Deans.

Faculty Evaluation (Ed Price)

The beginning document was same evaluation that that the Waco campus has been using. Changes to add numbering system on the scale (0,1,2). Environmental issues on the student survey have been deleted. Do you want upward evaluations? Ed took a quick vote to see how everyone felt about this and most did think it is a good idea. Senators back to the faculty to see how they feel and the Faculty Senate will vote on it at the next faculty senate meeting. There will be 3 tiers of evaluations; supervisor, classroom observation, and peer evaluation. There will be a Developmental Plan for each faculty member. Faculty will work with the department chair to come up with a developmental plan that would best work with each faculty member. Faculty will have control over your developmental plan.

Faculty Compensation (Barbara Lease)

Establishing first a base salary by departments, from starting to top range. The base salary which is set by the market.

Compensation

-Base job description assumptions

Teaching (75%), committee, placement, recruitment, advising, course development

-Performance based pay

Classroom performance (75% of activities), professional development (25% of time), projects; grant work, publications, seminars, and etc.

Plans approved by department and dean, total contribution to institutions.

-Other factors approved for "plan"

Differential, base salaries and dept. Differentials revised annually, longevity pay (phased in), tuition reimbursement (? Personal (internal/external, family TSTC only) multi-year contracts (can only go 2 years), Leveraged buying perks- referred to HR.

-Degrees/Rank (base %^)

• AAS 2.5%
• BA 5.0%
• MASTER 5.0%
• PHD 7.0%

Certificate Payments (one time payment) and the entire faculty will be able to approve.

For Example:

Hours to complete industry pays** TSTC pays*

• 40-159 $500 $250
• 160-249 $1000 $500
• >250 $1500 $750

**TSTC pays for test

*TSTC pays for course & test

Performance based on calculation proposal. This is based on the evaluation received and salary range. For example if you get a 0 or 1, you would receive nothing. If you get a 2 and you are at the bottom of the salary range then you would receive 6%, middle 4%, and top 2%. Say you get a 4, which is excellent, bottom 10%, middle 8%, and top 6%. This is so that everyone is brought closer in the same range.

Faculty Ranking (Richard Wheet)

This is to add to salary and the compensation plan. Must have a degree relevant to the program that you are teaching. There are 5 rankings;

• Instructor = Associates
• Senior Instructor = 2 years past probation
• Master Instructor = 4 years past probation + senior instructor + bachelors degree
• Assistant Professor= 6 years past probation + master instructor + masters degree
• Professor= 9 years past probation + assistant professor + doctorate degree2 Optional Tracks

Two Tracks for attainment of Ranking:

• Performance of selected activities, with "expected/good/average" performance evaluations + development
• Progress toward/attainment of degrees

Development Categories I-IV

• I. Evaluations
• II. Instructional Innovation
• III. Institutional Advancement
• IV. Professional Development

There will be a list with examples for each of these categories.

A system will be in place to grandfather instructors into new ranking system based on their current rank, degree and years at TSTC. All current ranks will automatically be grandfathered. If there is an existing proposal letter for faculty ranking, it will be honored.