Faculty
Senate Meeting
Minutes
January 14, 2001
Attendees:
Greg Poston, Steve McNaughton, Ben Matus, Tracy Marshall, Lee Poehls, Ken Tow,
Aniruddh Hathi, Jean Norwood, Bob Larsen, Gwenn Kelly, Stephen Range, Mike
Torres, Brandon Thomas, Steve Betros, Rick Porter, George Reamy, Troy Slayden,
Terry Ehrhardt, David Junek, Garry Sigler, Ronald Neumann, Frank Gentry, Ruth
Gray, Bob Cozby, Dale Bullock, Richard Wheet, Ed Price, Debi Cisneros, Tinker
Clift, Theresa Holmberg, Jeff Looper.
TSTC
System Management meeting all campuses.
No
big change; tuition, fees.
President
Council Meeting (Jan 14)
The
College will have an internal audit next month.
HR
will have a Spanish training course for staff development.
Question
was asked; why are so many classes not making
There
was a change to some COP’s; student travel form, new emergency plan.
Dr
Ellis asked for input into areas for TSTC to invest in or to cut back on.
Ask your department faculty for suggestions and send a brief memo to
Richard before January 22.
Faculty
SSN and info
Faculties
birth date, SSN is available on colleague to everyone with colleague access.
Francette implemented this version into the Dallas community college system and
it was a hot topic in Dallas but
was later removed from their system. She can only do things to a certain limit
but she is willing to come and talk to the senate to let us know what she can do
or is able to do. Moved to invite
her and seconded. Ed will invite her to next meeting. Topic: Change access point
and who can get to it?
Richard
asked which takes precedent; SOS or COP. He was told that an SOS takes precedent
over COP and now the new load document from Dr Grulick which supercedes the
current COP (reason because the COP is old)?
Was told this document supercedes the COP. If there is another new
document that doesn’t match a COP, then would that document take precedent.
How can we know if there are “superseding” documents floating around? Tinker
informed the senate that Dr. Ellis stated 2 years ago that no COP would be done
without faculty approval on this campus! Seems something or someone has changed
that fact.
If
you do not set the class size on the 4th class day the dean and
curriculum coordinator will decide if that class will be cancelled and how
faculty and class schedules will be rearranged. No faculty or chair input.
February
(22) there will be a meeting with all campuses to look at faculty load but no
one from the Waco Faculty Senate was invited. Dr. Grulick and Sam Williams are
representing Waco. Richard is going to ask why the faculty from Waco are not
represented but other campuses are.
Would
like to see no technical or academic faculty just faculty who are all treated
the same. There is no COP for academic or technical. They need to be consistent.
Faculty needs to be involved. DC’s are faculty just like us but they
need to be backed by the faculty senate. Terry
said that their cluster was given the load document (Faculty Productivity
Guidelines) two months ago but were not allowed input at that time. I was
indicated that it was a only a proposed document and not.
Motion
to vote on the document. Seconded
Accept
as written – no votes
Abstain
– no votes
Opposed
- unanimous
Problem
area: there was no input to this document by the faculty and the faculty do not
agree with its contents.
Representatives
from all the faculty senates got together to write these documents with the
purpose of a system-wide standard. Now these documents are going to the
bureaucrats who are interpreting them the way they see fit. The documents were
written with a spirit of intent. Richard will suggest that they put back all the
ifs, ands and/or buts back in the document if they are going to continue to
interpret the way they see fit. An
example is the relevance of a degree toward teaching in a department for
grand-fathered faculty. The degree may be relevant for SACS and to teach the
courses but not relevant for rank.
Ad
Hoc Election Committee (March 15)
There
will be a committee formed to accept nominations for election of new officers
and chairs. Before the next Faculty Senate meeting, be thinking about being on
this nomination committee. The commitee will be responsible for obtaining a list
of nominations; checking nominations to be make sure the nominees are eligible
(full time faculty); and whether the nominee is willing to serve.
By March 22 a list of candidates must be submitted to all faculty. The
second week in April elections will be held for the following September..
Old
business
Financial
Tinker
faculty senate has at this time $4642. There is $500 worth of requisitions out
which leaves us about $4000. The Faculty Senate is given $5000 now, which pays
for faculty to go to the Board of Regents meetings, and operating expenses
New
Business
Committee
for computer consulting firm.
Collegus
will be back at the end of this month to have mass interviews with faculty,
staff, students, and administration. They will spend at least three weeks
compiling all the information. At that point they will return sometime in
February to present to us their findings. At that time, we can choose to go into
a contract with them to spearhead what has been proposed and make
recommendations on a plan to follow through with the plan. They will not be in
charge but will keep an eye out that things are being done as they proposed.
There was a suggestion that the college that they have previously worked with
(Dr. Ellis) be contacted to find out how well they did and if they followed
through with any recommendations and how they worked out.
Nine
Month Contracts
No
one will be forced into 9-month contracts.
There will be an incentive to go 9-month and something for the 12-month
contracts. Mention was made about an incentive of $2000-$3500 for moving to
9-month contracts. They are seeing trouble with state laws, differences in an
exempt and non-exempt employee, and how they would handle these differences.
There was no general faculty or faculty senate input into this proposed
document. Any faculty input was by
selection of the administration
Motion
to adjourn. Seconded.
Meeting Adjourned