Glendale Community College Faculty Senate

Meeting of April 25, 2002

Unapproved Minutes

 

 

 

 

I.  General

 

A.        Call to Order:  A quorum being present, President Jim Reed called the meeting to order at 2:35 P.M.  Senators present included: President Jim Reed, (V.P.) President-elect Carmela Arnoldt, and Councilor-at-Large Linda Smith.  Also present were senators: Larry Bohlender (re-elected), Paul DePippo (outgoing) Dianna Dwyer, Robert Hubbard, Pam Nelson, David Rafaelle (outgoing), Carl Samuels, Kurt Shineman, and Bill Stewart as well as in-coming senators: Vice-President-elect John Griggs, Jim Daugherty, Amanda Dunnagan, Cate McNamara, Alicia Ottenberg.

 

B.         Introduction of Guests – including, but not limited to, Joseph Bednorz, David Cost, Tom Foley, Frank Gonzalez, Susan High, Sue Murray, Janet Reckmeyer, and Lyle Walcott.

 

            C.            The proposed meeting agenda was modified and adopted.

 

            D.            The minutes of the March 28th, 2002 meeting were approved.

 

E.         Jim Daugherty reported (for Diana Abel, Treasurer, in absentia) a balance of $15,543.10 for all accounts.

 

            F.            President Reed reported:

·        Several salary appeals have been completed successfully.  He added a big thank you to those involved in the appeals process.

·        Other parts of president’s report fall throughout the rest of the meeting minutes.

 

G.            Governing Board report.  Vice-President/President-Elect Arnoldt reported:

·        PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2002-2034 DISTRICT Budget approved 4-1 (Stein).

·        Legislature may impose 2-4% cuts for 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

II.  Old Business

(Discussed and completed by members of the current standing Senate (new Senators were not included in these votes)

 

            A.            Election Results – Dianna Dwyer

Senator Dianna Dwyer reported completion of a successful Faculty Senate election.  Elected representatives were announced campus-wide by President Jim Reed earlier in the week.  Members of the election committee included:  Senators Dianna Dwyer and Pamela Nelson (as Faculty Senate representatives) and Frank Gonzalez and Karen Conzelman (as non-Senate representatives).

 

B.             Presidential Search Committee – Jim Reed

·        Selection of original 9 faculty representatives was completed by President Jim Reed and Vice-President Carmela Arnoldt on the basis of criteria including gender, ethnicity, experience at GCC, reps of large and small departments, service on campus, etc. 

·        Outgoing Faculty Senate President Jim Reed

·        Incoming Faculty Senate President Carmela Arnoldt

·        Anne Dudley (Math)

·        Fernando Garcia (Electronics)

·        Darlene Goto (Art)

·        David Jenkins (Computer Information Systems)

·        David Rodriguez (Library Media Center)

·        Bruce Thomas (Counseling)

·        Deborah VanMarche (Psychology)

·        Chancellor Gaskin requested including one additional faculty member known to generally disagree with some of President Pollack’s policies.

·        President Reed presented four options to fill the final position.

·        Debate over the suggested representatives culminated in a motion to “nominate Freddie Antilla as the 10th faculty Representative on the Presidential Search Committee.”  Motion was seconded and passed 10-0-2 (Senators Nelson & Shineman abstained).

 

 

Old Business culminated with Outgoing President Reed handing over leadership of the meeting to President-Elect Carmela Arnoldt.  President Arnoldt presented Reed with a “Thank You” card signed by members of the Senate.

 

Departing Senators were thanked for their service and incoming Senators and officers were introduced.  Arnoldt expressed a desire to run orderly meetings and her hope to keep lines of communication open at all levels of Faculty Governance.

 

 

 

III.  New Business

 

            A.            Health Insurance – Dawson/Griggs – Vice-President Griggs reported:

·        1100+ respondents to District insurance survey.

·        Information has been shared some of the information with several members of EBAC. (BCBC is in its last year of its five-year policy with the District.)

·        Proposal to allow MCCCD Early Retirees to remain in the District Sponsored health benefits plan may require the Early Retirees to pay part of their premiums.  This amount would still presumably be less money than current Pacificare premiums and continue to provide better and more continual coverage.

·        Some of the members of the FEC Subcommittee have met with Dr. Phil Randolph (Interim President at GCC as of May 13, 2002) to discuss the faculty’s insurance concerns.  More meetings will be needed.

 

B.            Innovation Center/LMC Proposal – Foley/Rodriguez.  Tom Foley reported:

·        Subcommittee has been formed to investigate the proposal presented by LMC Chair David Rodriguez at the last Senate meeting.

·        Tom Foley was chosen as subcommittee chair.  Other members of the subcommittee include: Dianna Dwyer (LMC), Frank Gonzalez (LMC), Theresa Hilding (Network Services), and David Rodriguez (LMC), as well as Senators Diana Abel, Jim Daugherty and Jeanne Saint-Amour.

·        Objectives include evaluating the proposal that Rodriguez presented, speaking with chairs of each of the groups that would be affected by the proposed shift and discussing additional details of the proposal.  An extensive document details the accomplishments of the current Innovation Center.

·        The GCC HLC/NCA Self-Study is a useful tool in educating Senators on the current organizational structure in Information Systems & Services; an informational link will be forwarded to each Senator.

·        Next meeting of subcommittee to be held during finals week.

·        Senators discussed CTC’s resolution to oppose the reorganization as presently proposed.

·        FYI: LMC has turned in a request for an RFP faculty member (2003-4) to Staffing Committee (this position is independent of reorganization proposal).

 

C.            Presidential Search Committee Endorsement – Arnoldt

It was moved and seconded to endorse the above named faculty representatives to the Presidential Search Committee as described in II. B.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

            D.            Meet & Confer – Daugherty   Jim Daugherty reported:

·        Several TA’ed (Tentatively Agreed) M & C Issues:

·        Change in “Personal Time” language (remove examples).

·        Clarification of Division Chair reassigned time (not specified at the meeting).

·        Change in indemnification language (OK’ed by legal)

·        Change in OYO credit for years of service regarding seniority (beginning Fall 2002, these OYO and OSO contracts will no longer be used to decide seniority, i.e., place in graduation line, sabbatical eligibility, etc.)  OYO/OSO years of service will be used for initial placement on the salary scale.

·        Salary “Proposals” (as forwarded from FEC/ M&C during this past week over MEMO) were discussed.  Question of why 1% VS. steps concept was proposed; Daugherty outlined reasoning for proposal.  Pres. Arnoldt reported 70 (yes – for alternate proposal) VS. 45 (no – opposed alternate proposal) comments received by FEC as of Tues.  4/23.

 

E.            Dues/AAUP – Smith                C@L Linda Smith reported:

·        FEC voted between two options regarding Faculty Association dues and the AAUP National Membership:

1.      Keep dues the same and disassociate with the AAUP

Financial effects include replacing $30K overspent and have $38K left over; following years have had $68K left over.

2.      Raise dues by $70 and keep AAUP Membership

Financial effects include inability to pay back $30K, over-all annual loss of $2700.

·        FEC Voted to discontinue affiliation with AAUP (11 Yea VS.10 Nay).  For the record, Arnoldt voted for #2

·        GCC members split vote (2/2) due to divided campus opinion over losing relationship with national AAUP & their services.

·        Individuals can still choose to be members of AAUP.

·        In a related topic, the Senate debated the merits of Faculty Association lobbyists at the legislature.

 

            F.  EBAC Member & FEC Representatives – Arnoldt

·        Dorothy Sisneros is leaving EBAC; President Arnoldt requested names of a replacement from GCC.

·        FEC Representatives

·        Senate discussed a misunderstanding between Arnoldt and Saint-Amour.

·        Senate agreed to ask Saint-Amour to continue as Faculty Senator and as representative to FEC.

·        If Saint-Amour refuses, Jim Reed will be considered as an alternate FEC representative.

 

G.  Election of Secretary & Treasurer – Arnoldt

·        Senator Nelson elected Secretary.

·        Senator Abel was unanimously acclaimed to continue as Senate Treasurer.

 

IV.  Information

 

            A.            Board Elections – Arnoldt

President Arnoldt informed Senators that both Linda Rosenthal and Gene Eastin would be facing opposition in the upcoming Board elections.

 

            B.            Picnic in the Park – Reed

Picnic to be held in Sahuaro Park on 5/3 from 12:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.

 

            C.            Faculty Association & GCC Constitutions  -- Arnoldt

Please see http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/senate/

To download both the Faculty Association & GCC Faculty Senate Constitutions.  Both new and old Senators should be familiar with the policies and procedures listed therein.  There was discussion regarding the need to update GCC’s Constitution.

 

            D.            Fall Convocation/ Faculty Meeting – Arnoldt

Senators discussed timing of Faculty Meeting with respect to Fall Convocation.  General consensus seemed to be to have the meeting directly following the Convocation as has been done in the past.

 

 

            Issue Bin – To be discussed at future Senate Meetings:

 

·     Faculty will be asked to update contact information when renewing association membership next year (even if using "automatic rollover."); Members will be asked to provide individual [non-campus] e-mail accounts for members RE: contact tree for important faculty/political issues.

·     “Reply all” issue on MEMO and discussion to delete this possibility.

·     Climate Survey:  Faculty are encouraged to review the results (Faculty Report), compiled by Dr. Bruce Merrill and how they can be effectively used for future campus issues.

·     Length of Catalog listings for faculty (standardized presentation and content) – Senate has been advised that space concerns may require limits on the number of items faculty can list in the Catalog.  Faculty are reminded that graduation line order is established by date of District RFP hire and continuous service.

 

MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 4:30 P.M.