Approved Faculty Senate Minutes

8/31/2000

I. Call to Order

A. A quorum being present, President Reed called the Senate to order

at 2:32 in the Student Council Chamber.

Present: President Jim Reed; Vice President Carmela Arnoldt; Senators

Larry Bohlender, Jim Daugherty, Paul DePippo, Gay Garesche, Patricia

Hofer, Robert Hubbard, Phil Moloso, David Raffaelle, Jack Rose, Jeanne

Saint-Amour, Kirt Shineman, Bill Stewart; and Councilor-at-large Linda

Smith.

Absent: Renee Barstack (Note that two Senators had resigned: Ernest

Escobedo, Jack Haughn.)

Guests: Including, but not limited to, Lyle Walcott, Mary Leskovsky, Ann

Caylor, William A. Hagey, Reina Hall, Larry Backs, Ruth Callahan, James

Abraham, Diana Abel.

B. Student Interim Report: William Hagey, President, Associated

Student Government, and Reina Hall, past-Vice President of ASG,

expressed a desire to communicate more effectively with students. They

distributed pamphlets for faculty to share with students to provide

students with telephone numbers and email addresses with which students

can contact ASG members.

C. Motion to approve the agenda as amended. (Seconded) PASSED

unanimously.

D. Moloso moved to approve the minutes. (Rose seconded) Discussion

followed concerning the amount of Senate discussion included in the

minutes. Resolved that Secretary Garesche would use her discretion

concerning the amount of discussion to include, understanding that the

Senate may, at its discretion, excise material in the amendment

process. APPROVED as amended unanimously. Resolved that Senate

President would prepare an Executive Summary to be distributed among the

faculty immediately after Senate meetings. (To include dates of

upcoming events).

E. Treasurer's Report: Balance as of 8/31/2000, $13,156.68. Moloso

moved approval of replenishment of President's Discretionary Fund.

(DePippo seconded). PASSED unanimously.

F. President's Report:

1. Reed reported that, following an inquiry by a

faculty member, he inquired as to why the Paul Pair award had not been

awarded. Following the inquiry, it has been announced that Marla

Dinchak-DeSoto is this year's recipient.

2. Graduation - Reed commended the Faculty Address by Bruce

Thomas. Reed indicated that there were faculty complaints that among

the platform guests, the degrees of the administrators were included

after their names, but not so for faculty. This was the result of a

mistake and will not happen again.

3. Campus climate - Reed received a written submission alleging

discrimination in promotions and hirings at GCC. The submission

suggested no diversity among this year's faculty hires. A comment was

made by a guest refuting this allegation. Senators commented that the

Senate is not the correct body to deal with this issue. Reed went on

to explain that the document was submitted to the administration and had

been distributed to him for his information. He wanted to report it to

the Senate, as this issue had come up at the last Senate meeting.

4. Faculty should be receiving their contract statements in the

mail.

5. Reed is participating in a couple of administrative reviews.

6. a)Reed and Arnoldt lunched recently with the Chancellor and

the Faculty Executive Council. b)The FEC will be joining the MCCCD Board

for

a retreat on 10/3/2000. c)Reed and Arnoldt did have dessert with the

NCA Team on the Sunday the Team arrived.

7. Reed is still gathering information on how MCC did its campus

climate study. He did mention that Larry Christiansen, President of

MCC, has given the MCC Senate $200,000 for faculty professional

development

from Entrepreneurial Revenue; i.e., from car shows and carnivals, etc.

at the campus.

8. Reed agreed to get a written response from the administration

to the Senate's request that there be no permanent department seats on

standing campus committees.

9. Reed reported that he sat on the hiring committee that

selected Chuck Jeffrey to replace Christine Hall during her OYO at

District.

II. Old Business

A. NCA Focus Team visit:

1. Discussion began concerning a recommendation by the NCA Focus

Team that GCC establish a Code of Ethics for all its employees. Moloso

sent an AAUP version of some recommended language by email to

the Senate. Reed and Arnoldt reported that Helen Backer attended the

8/22/2000 Faculty Executive Council meeting. She said that the District

has begun work to create a district-wide Code of Ethics. The first step

in

the process will be a survey of MCCCD employees and students, which will

be mailed shortly.

DePippo moved that no action on a code of ethics be taken by the Senate

until we have an opportunity to review the District's proposed

language. (Daugherty seconded) PASSED unanimously.

2. Garesche raised the fact that the NCA Team recommended that

the college president and leaders of the Faculty Senate meet regularly

to discuss issues. However, at the all-employee meeting, President

Pollack appeared to suggest that all employees, faculty included, should

bring their issues and concerns to their PEC representatives, and that

this appeared to circumvent the Senate as the

constitutionally-identified representative of the faculty. At Reed's

urging Garesche moved that the Senate offer to meet with the

administration at regular intervals to discuss issues and to improve

communication, and that these meetings will be open to all faculty.

(Seconded) After discussion concerning what days might be best, etc.,

Smith called the question. PASSED unanimously.

3. The issue of doing a campus climate study was raised. Reed

indicated that it would be discussed under another item on the agenda.

B.Committee assignments: (See Attachment 2). Reed had solicited

faculty to place their

names on a ballot from which the faculty at-large would select members

of campus committees. Garesché read exerpts from the GCC Senate

Constitution, Article XIX Sections 2,3,4, and 5 to the effect that

membership of committees shall be reconfirmed or modified by the Senate

prior to October of each academic year. Reed distributed the results of

the balloting.

It was mentioned that approximately one third of the faculty voted.

Reed indicated that one chair complained that almost none of his

department had a chance to vote. Reed conceded that the turnaround time

was short.

Garesche asked the Senate to consider her for the Budget Committee.

She explained that she has been a member of three out of the last four

years, but that she is also a member of the NCA Fiscal Resources

Subcommittee. As the only member of the Fiscal Resources Subcommittee

that has ever been on the Budget Committee, she thought it would be

helpful to continue on the Budget Committee as a liaison to the Fiscal

Resources Subcommittee. It was resolved to consider the Budget

Committee slate separately and to consider Garesche and Milliner for

that committee. PASSED unanimously. Arnoldt commented that she "felt

as if I've been had".

Discussion proceeded on the rest of the slate. Discussion revolved

around the CRC and the fact that the Senators were seeing the balloting

results for the first time. Corrections were made to the results shown

for the Staffing Committee. Motion to accept the rest of the slate as

presented. PASSED. Yeas: All except one abstention, Garesche.

C. Faculty Mentoring: Arnoldt contended that every year the Senate

says

that it will provide orientation for new faculty and never follows

through. She commented that new faculty need encouragement and

support. While she was not offering a specific proposal at this time,

she suggested that the Senate attempt to coordinate a program with the

Faculty and Staff Development Committee. Larry Backs, a member of that

committee, explained that the other faculty members of that committee,

Anne Dudley and Holly Beene, are away from campus this semester due to a

sabbatical and an assignment at District, respectively, but that he

would be willing help with such a program. Moloso moved that the Senate

establish a committee to investigate and possibly implement a program

for mentoring new faculty, involving Carmela Arnoldt and the Faculty and

Employee Development Committee. Because of the large number of new

faculty this semester there is urgency in developing such a program.

(Seconded Garesche) Moloso asked that he be allowed to help. Larry

Backs thought it possible that there was some money available for such a

program. PASSED unanimously.

Moloso suggested that he again prepare lists of faculty that will be

randomly assigned to each Senator to enhance communication between the

faculty and the Senate. Smith mentioned that she never did hear from

the faculty assigned to her. Garesche said she really enjoyed her

visits with her assigned faculty. Reed asked Garesche to share the

memos she used to establish communication.

D. Cats - Moloso indicated that all is well with the cats. There

are two at the Math building and two at the agriculture building. The

group that was going to move into the former Math faculty building and

who wanted the cats removed will not be moving in there. Another group

that does not mind the cats will be moving in. Randy Kimmins would

appear to be one of those moving in.

E. Campus Forum: Arnoldt moved to establish a campus "coffee hour"

for faculty to drop in and talk about issues/concerns on a monthly

basis. (Seconded Moloso) Senators could volunteer to attend. Perhaps

alternate Thursdays in the Faculty dining room. Reed thought that the

cafeteria company could be prevailed upon to provide coffee and

refreshments. PASSED unanimously.

F.&G. Recruitment and Communication with Faculty: Two initiatives

from the last Senate meeting were recalled;

1. A Fall Fling is scheduled for Friday, October 13th.

2. An all-faculty meeting about Dual Enrollment is scheduled for

Thursday, September 21st. Discussion took place concerning the format.

Shineman recommended a debate-type format. Garesche suggested an

information-disseminating format. Suggested possible presenters: Lucy

Flaaten, Richard Shortridge, Garesche on Dual Enrollment Quality

Committee and proposed legislation and Reed on Dual Enrollment Finance

Committee. Reed suggested inviting Vernon Smith from RIO. Alberto

Sanchez was

suggested to give an administrative perspective.

Question was asked as to the purpose of the meeting. Garesche

suggested that this is a topic on which there seems to be general

agreement among GCC faculty. Could be an issue faculty could rally

around. Furthermore, if a faculty position statement seems possible, it

would be useful in discussions with the external community.

H. Last Year's Grievance: Garesche explained that last year the

Senate filed a grievance when the administration appeared to neglect to

ask President Reed to identify faculty members to sit on two MAT hiring

committees, as required by the RFP (Residential Faculty Policies).

Following the last Senate meeting of the spring, Alberto Sanchez's

written response to the grievance was distributed by Reed to the

Senate. In it Sanchez repeated an argument that President Pollack

included in her response to the Senate's letter addressed to the

Chancellor and Board the previous winter. She explains that she

interprets the RFP differently than the faculty to mean that only dean

positions or higher require the Senate president to appoint faculty

members to the hiring committee.

The Senate noted that while Sanchez repeated President Pollack's

argument in his response to the grievance, he also indicated his

intention to continue to ask the Senate president to appoint faculty to

all MAT hiring committees. The Senate resolved to drop the matter on

that assurance.

III. New Business

A. Resignations: Reed informed the Senate that two Senators have

resigned from the Senate, Jack Haughn at the very end of the spring

semester and Ernie Escobedo during the week of accountability.

Discussion proceeded concerning whether a new election needed to be

called. Moloso moved that the Senate affirm last spring's Nominating

Committee to conduct an election for the two current vacancies.

(Seconded Smith) PASSED unanimously.

B. Meetings with administration: Covered above.

C. Firearms and College Safety: Reed explained that the question of

whether campus safety officers should be allowed to carry firearms on

campuses is being discussed by the Faculty Executive Council and the

District administration. Reed reminded us of Eileen Johnston's comments

during the all-faculty meeting concerning the difficulties involved in

recruiting safety officers who won't be allowed to carry a firearm.

Senator Rose explained thoroughly his participation ten years ago in the

design of the current plan under which officers do not carry weapons.

Some part of the intent was to not supplant the local police.

He pointed out that despite raising salaries to competitive levels,

recruitment is still difficult. GCC did manage to recruit a third

officer, in addition to Johnston and Palok, but has since lost the

officer to ASUW.

He would like to see safety officers able to carry their service

revolvers now. Circumstances have changed over the last ten years. The

colleges carry a heavy liability associated with sending safety

officiers into emergency situations without one of their most important

pieces of equipment. He also addressed the limitations of less lethal

weapon options.

The Senate decided not to vote on a position with respect to this

issue, as several Senators had left by that time. It was suggested that

this would make a good topic for one of the Faculty Coffee Hours.

IV. Information (items were taken out of order)

C. Resolution by Daugherty: (see attachment below) Daugherty

explained that the current Senate Constitution allows for referenda on

faculty issues. He is proposing a resolution that would state the

Senate's intention to put Senate actions that may affect the faculty or

campus-at-large to a referendum.

Discussion proceeded. Garesche suggested that if a GCC faculty

position on dual enrollment is forthcoming, that it should definitely be

put to a referendum. She further commented that it would have been nice

to have put the Senate's letter to the Board through this process of

approval by the faculty. Resolved to move the resolution to New

Business

at the next Senate meeting.

A. Book Order Problems: Smith explained that the manager of textbook

orders at the campus bookstore had taken it upon himself to order a

study guide of which she doesn't approve for her classes. She expressed

her concern to Dean Elsner who has written a letter to the bookstore

manager. No response has been received, as yet.

Garesche complained that the campus bookstore is marking up her

textbook nearly 40%. Others commented that students need to go to the

off-campus bookstores.

B. AAUP Conference: As a member of the faculty Meet & Confer team,

Jim Daugherty attended the summer AAUP conference at Kent State Univ.

He attended the arbitration sessions, and reported that he was given

passwords that allowed him to access very useful salary data for

colleges and universities across the country.

Furthermore, AAUP is so anxious to keep MCCCD faculty as members of

the

AAUP, that they paid for Daugherty's airfare and accommodation. MCCCD

represents a very substantial portion of the AAUP's Arizona membership.

D. Peerpoint: Arnoldt explained that she has agreed to be editor of

the Peerpoint this year. However, she does not intend to write all the

articles. She is seeking the names of faculty on each campus who will

gather faculty submissions from their campus. She requested article

ideas and articles for submission from GCC faculty. Some ideas include

Meet & Confer, Indemnification, campus security and guns

and a faculty code of ethics.

VI. Meeting adjourned at 4:50 p.m. Next meeting to be September 28th,

2000. The location is not likely to be in the Student Council

Chambers. It will be announced later.

Respectfully submitted,

Gay Garesche

Attachment I

A RESOLUTION OF THE

GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY SENATE

WHEREAS there exists a perception among many of our faculty that they

have not been adequately informed of Senate actions and activities, and

WHEREAS there exists a perception among many of our faculty that some of

the actions and activities of the Senate have not reflected the position

of the majority of our faculty, then let it be

RESOLVED that the Glendale Community College Faculty Senate states its

intention to put to a referendum of the faculty any action or actions

hitherto approved by the Senate that may significantly affect the

faculty or the campus-at-large.

N.B. GCC faculty Senate constitution states: Article XXIII. Referenda.

Section 1. The Senate may request the administrative head of the college

to call a general faculty, meeting for consideration of matters of

general faculty interest.

Section 2. The Senate may request the advice of the general faculty

through written ballots or other communications.

Section 3. Any matter considered by the Senate must be referred to the

faculty for a secret ballot on petition of ten percent of the total

faculty or on demand of one-third of the Senators.

Section 4. A general faculty meeting shall be called by the President of

the Senate upon presentation to him/her of a petition of ten percent of

the faculty. The President shall call the meeting within three days of

the receipt of the petition.

Respectfully submitted as a information item at the August 31, 2000

meeting by Jim Daugherty. Please place this item as a new business item

on the agenda for the next meeting of the Senate.

Attachment 2

Budget Development Committee

Reed, Milliner, Garesché

Instruction Subcommittee of the Budget Committee

Reed, Corley, Pell, Siefer

Student Services Subcommittee of the Budget Committee

Dwyer, Leskovsky, Romo

College-wide Services Subcommittee of the Budget Committee

Celestian, Smelser, Terasaki

CRC

Abraham, Bohlender

Travel (Professional Growth)

Backs, Bowker, Diaz, High, Joraanstad, Reeder

Staffing Committee

Reed, Camp, Dwyer, Garcia, Moloso, Rees, Cost

Professional Growth

Bednorz, Kiermayr