| SPRING 2003 |
A GCC ADJUNCT NEWSLETTER FOR GCC ADJUNCT
FACULTY |
No. 4 |
ADJUNCT
FACULTY ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS - 5/3/2003 - 1:30pm-3:30pm
The Adjunct Faculty Association is
holding its annual elections on Saturday, May 3rd, at Phoenix College from
1:30pm to 3:30pm (Room B-121). I would encourage you to attend this
meeting to learn more about the AFA and to meet in person the people who
jointly represent you at the District level. At this time, there
are still some vacant Board positions that need to be filled and if you
are interested in getting involved, please contact Paula Garner at paulagar@msn.com
for more information.
Our previous campus representatives
for this year were Linda Landrum and Pat Turner. Linda has asked
me to continue in her place on the Board and I have submitted my name as
the candidate for Campus Representative for GCC. If you would like
to run in my place, please let me know and I'll be more than happy to assist
you in this task; regardless of whether or not I serve on the Board, I
plan to continue to attend meetings and provide whatever input I can to
strengthen the role of adjuncts both at GCC and throughout MCCCD as well.
WELCOMING
RECEPTION FOR DR. RANDOLPH - 4/25/2003 - 12:00pm-1:30pm
The GCC Faculty Senate is hosting a
reception this coming Friday, April 25th, to officially welcome Dr. Randolph
as our fourth GCC President. The reception will be held in the lobby
of the Physical Sciences Building from Noon to 1:30pm. If you have
an opportunity to drop by, please do so and show your continuing support
for someone that has made so many recent improvements for adjuncts in such
a short period of time. I'm sure that I speak for all adjuncts at
GCC in proclaiming: "Welcome, Dr. Randolph!"
GCC ADJUNCT
FACULTY ORIENTATIONS
There will not be a Summer Adjunct
Faculty Orientation as originally proposed. While the Administration
was willing to follow through with this, the amount of effort required
to host one of these just isn't justifiable in terms of how many attendees
would actually show up during the summer session. It makes a lot
more sense to focus on having several Fall orientations that would be modeled
on the ones that were held this past January. Since these were preserved
for posterity on videotape, I will inquire about having copies available
for checkout in the Library Media Center for anyone that would like to
benefit from the information presented. As plans for the Fall 2003
orientations become finalized, I will let everyone know the details when
I get them.
FINAL ROSTERS
DUE 5/13/2003 (EVENING) AND 5/16/2003 (DAY)
Final grade rosters will be issued
on May 5th. Grades for evening classes are due May 13th at 7:00pm
while grades for day classes are due May 16th at 3:00pm.
Change from past semesters:
A last date of attendance must be submitted for all F or Z grades in addition
to W and Y grades. This is due to a change in federal financial aid regulations.
GCC CAMPUS
COUNCIL
I would like to suggest the formation
of a "GCC Campus Council" that would meet once a month at GCC to prepare
items to bring before the AFA and to help with the distribution of an AFA
newsletter that I will be proposing should be sent to each campus.
I would think that three people (other than myself) would be needed to
serve as the joint council and would need to meet for an hour or so the
week prior to the monthly AFA meetings. My instinct tells me that
there are quite a few adjuncts out there that already spend most of their
time on campus for one reason or another and it wouldn't require much additional
commitment to serve on the Council. If you would like to be involved
in adjunct activities at the campus level, please let me know.
| Published Every-So-Often By Jim Hamilton |
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