Meeting of
Approved Minutes
(Please note: General interest issues or meetings & notifications are listed below in bold to allow them to be located more easily.)
I.
General
A.
Call to Order: A
quorum being present, President Carmela Arnoldt called the meeting to order at
B. Introduction of Guests – including, but
not limited to, Ruth Callahan, Claire
Englehart, Frank Gonzalez, Walter Kehowski, Mary Jane Onnen and Lyle
Walcott. President Arnoldt informed
Senate that Governing Board Member Scott Crowley was called to work an extra
shift; his visit with Senate today was rescheduled to
C. The
proposed meeting agenda was adopted as amended.
D. The minutes
from the
E. Treasurer Daugherty reported a balance
of $15,681.42 for all accounts.
F. President Arnoldt reported:
·
President Arnoldt informed Senate that a review of the
District MEMO/Web policies was underway.
New versions will require employee group approval, and then will be sent
out to all Maricopa for review.
President Arnoldt encouraged Senators to review the document carefully.
·
President Arnoldt informed Senate that the possibility of
changing MCCD College Safety Dept’s to College Police Dept’s was discussed at
the District level. An initial estimate
of $3.5 million to institute the plan at the 10 campuses was mentioned. Senate discussed the potential ramifications
if MCCD chooses to change College Security (safety officers) to College Police
(police officers). The first vote on
this will likely take place at CEC (the Chancellor’s Executive Committee); FEC
will discuss the issue further.
·
Twelve-month pay option for faculty has been approved to
begin on
·
President Arnoldt requested that should Senators have any
concerns about the method used for choosing PBAC members that they be raised
during today’s meeting. (No issues were later brought up.)
G. FEC (Faculty Executive Council) Report - Vice-President Reed
·
FEC will continue to request terminating the current FIPP
(Faculty in Progress Pilot) program. FEC
and V.C. Solley will review after the entire FIPP Committee meets.
·
Vice-President Reed reported a good turn out and a “lively
discussion” at Dr. Glasper’s speech at the Orpheum Theater on 9/21.
·
Vice-President Reed encouraged Senators to read through the
new Faculty Association brochure that Faculty will receive shortly.
H. Governing Board Report. President Arnoldt reported:
·
GCC’s report to the Board is scheduled for 9/28. President Arnoldt thanked Senate for their
contribution to building the list of topics.
II. Old Business
A. College Plan Review Subcommittee –
Daugherty
·
President Arnoldt reminded Senate that GCC
President Randolph is still reviewing last semester’s College Plan revision.
·
Senator Daugherty informed Senate that the
subcommittee had not yet met, but that they would meet prior to the next Senate
meeting.
·
Senator Daugherty reminded Senate that Dr. Carl
Samuels will be invited to serve on the ad
hoc committee to assist in the process of developing administrative
reviews.
B. EEOC Ruling – FEC Executive-Councilor-At-Large Rodriguez
·
Exec-Councilor-At-Large Rodriguez reported no
new information.
·
President Arnoldt informed Senate that she had
obtained FEC approval to obtain legal advice about the current situation. However, when she contacted Mike Napier (Fac
Assn lawyer), she was informed that he could not discuss the case because he
was already in the process of working with a Phoenix College group whose case
involved events and people at GCC. Thus,
if Senate should request legal counsel, an outside attorney will have to be
hired.
·
President Arnoldt reminded Senate that all
District employees are covered by the indemnity clause that precludes an
individual from being sued for work done as an agent of the District.
·
Senate discussed the EEOC & HLC process
briefly.
·
The
following motion was made and seconded: “Move that Senate move into executive
session following the regular session.”
Motion passed unanimously.
C.
Faculty Committee Service Review - Arnoldt
·
President Arnoldt informed Senate that she had
received a “couple of dozen” responses to the Committee Review questionnaire.
·
President Arnoldt reminded Senate that the
review was taking place because of the noted variety in parameters, schedules,
and accountability among different committees on campus.
·
President Arnoldt suggested that questionnaires
should be returned no later than November 1st and reminded Senate
that additional information about college committees, which would be useful in
filling out the questionnaire, can be found in the Faculty and Staff Handbook.
III.
New Business
A. GCC Faculty Travel Request Processor
- Arnoldt
·
The potential value of having one campus person
handle all travel requests has been discussed.
Some departments already have one person responsible for filing all
travel documents. One person would make
the process more consistent and efficient.
· The following motion was made and seconded: “Move that Senate recommend to the administration that a single person be assigned to the duty of processing travel requests for Faculty in order to improve the efficiency, security, and accountability of the process.” The motion passed unanimously.
B. Faculty Offices - Bohlender
·
As space is at a premium, 49% faculty and
faculty on sabbatical may be asked to share or give up their offices. This
situation has come up recently in a case where someone on sabbatical nearly had
the office appropriated. This situation
was resolved prior to the office being entered, but the issue the question of
Faculty rights with respect to office and office space.
·
District RFP (Residential Faculty Policies)
guarantees “office space,” but not necessarily a private office.
·
Senate discussed the possibility of Faculty
having their office entered/altered while they were on sabbatical and found
this unacceptable. Senators agreed that
Faculty should be contacted and kept informed of office policies and the
possibility or necessity to share offices throughout the process. Senator Bohlender agreed to write a motion
that would state Senate’s position and bring it to Senate’s next meeting.
C. GCC Presidential Search Committee - Arnoldt
·
President Arnoldt informed Senate that Dr.
Glasper has requested a meeting with her regarding the search committee that
will select GCC President Randolph’s replacement.
·
It has been suggested that an external search
firm might be used to augment the search along with the internal Maricopa
committee.
IV.
Information
A.
New Student System - Nelson
·
Senator Nelson expressed concern regarding
recent messages received by Senate from a Faculty member that implied there may
be serious problems with the forthcoming NSS.
·
Senator Daugherty informed Senate that the
concerns had been raised by an incident at another university in which the
system inadvertently excluded a large number of students from the registration
system and caused them to lose their Financial Aid. The developers of the system are aware of the
problem and are working to correct it.
·
Target release date is mid-March. This date has been chosen so that the system
will go on-line between semesters rather than at a key enrollment period. The system will be used to register students
for Summer and Fall 2005.
·
Over-all, confidence is high that the system
will function as expected.
B.
Faculty and Faculty Senate Listening Sessions - Arnoldt
·
President Arnoldt reminded Senators to encourage
all faculty to attend the All Faculty or All Campus discussions on the Campus
Climate report.
·
The dates of the Listening Sessions are as
follows:
·
Meeting with
Faculty Senate: Sept. 30 (Thurs.) 2:30-4:00 p.m. -
Student Lounge
·
Meeting
with ALL Faculty: Oct. 1 (Fri.) 1:00-2:30 p.m. – Student Lounge
·
Meeting
with All Campus: Oct. 6 (Wed.) 2:00-4:00pm
Meeting
was adjourned at 3:45 pm.
Senate
re-convened in Executive Session.
Next meeting of the GCC Faculty will take place at the
regularly scheduled week and time on October 28th @ 2:30pm.