MCC Faculty Senate Unapproved Minutes
CTL Conference Room
DATE: January 23, 2003
Senate Web Site: http://www.mesacc.edu/organizations/employee/facultysenate/
Members Present:
Barry Vaughan, President
Charles Lewis, President-elect
Naomi Story, Secretary
John Zikopoulos, Treasurer
Lyn Dutson, Zone 1
Sam Martinez, Zone 3
Harold Cranswick, Zone 5
Naomi Story, Zone 7
John Zikopoulos, Zone 8
Philip Carrillo (Member at Large)
Mona Scott (Member at Large)
Ann Stine (Member at Large)
Greg Pratt (Member at Large)
Erin Rawson (Member at Large)
Mehrzad Khorsandi (Member at Large)
David Nachman (Member at Large)
Members Absent:
Phil Waclawski, Zone 2
Danene Richardson, Zone 4
Jack Hinze, Zone 6
Guestsı Presentations:
A. Sonia Moreno-Filan, Marcy Snitzer, Mary Jordan, and Lora Lassitter gave a presentation on the Office of Institutional Advancement. They covered the four categories of service and support they provide the college: Alumni and Communication, graphic design, Marketing and Media Relations, and Public Relations and Special Events. Each person described and gave examples of their areas of responsibility. For example,
Alumni and Communications: Marcy stated that the college has
established an alumni board. A question was asked about the
Boardıs function and she said that the alumni could provide
advocacy and mentoring for our students. Marcy also gave
examples of the MCC Snapshots and the Chairs piece that were
published. She stated that her area was responsible for ³MCCıs
connecting with the internal and external communities.²
Graphic Design: Mary Jordan described her area as providing full-service
design support services: concept to print. She also was the ³graphic design police² for the college so that whatever literature we produced was consistent with our collegeıs image. Question
was asked about whether they would pay for printing. The
response was that her office would work with giving the
department ideas for graphic design, but the department would
have to pay for the printing and publication.
Marketing and Media Relations: Sonia described this function as
helping to increase enrollment and promoting our collegeıs
programs, services, and identity. This area is also responsible
for producing the college catalog and supporting various
departmentsı publication needs such as the Office of Research
and Planning. Sonia stated that Lyn Milner as a 49%er does the
media relations aspects for the college. An example was the recent
insert in the Arizona Republic that educated the community of
our various programs and services.
Public Relations and Special Events: Lora Lassitter supports the collegeıs
Numerous events and activities, Examples included: America
Reads play production, homecoming events, ground breaking
And the districtıs Listening Session.
General questions and answers:
Q: Does the college work with KJZZ?
A: Not really; there appears to be minimal promotion of the college
other than general public service announcements of special
events.
Q: Who makes the decision for the publication of the Wintersession and
other Schedules of Classes? Students are not distinguishing Red
Mountain (RM) with Southern/Dobson campus so theyıre not
on the right campus for classes.
A: The Dean of Instruction is working the Fall 03 Schedule on
and Linda Evans. IA is basically responsible to the cover or
look, not the inside content. Youıll need to bring this to the
DIıs attention.
Q: Are students involved in giving feedback about the contents and
the usability of the schedule?
A: You may want to tell the chairs and DI about issues related to
scheduleıs content design.
A comment was made about the accuracy of the map in the back of the
Catalog.
Q: How is IA aligned with the collegeıs strategic mission and goals?
Have your measured IA efficacy in terms of enrollment and
dollars invested?
A: Weıve set priorities and would like to hire a research group
to do focus groups.
Then, the IA staff gave the senators a piece of pie to exemplify
their brochure theme.
Dean Etter stated that the Stateıs deficit would not affect us as much as it will the universities. He anticipates that FTSE gain incentives can help us cover our contribution to the deficit. He also stated that FAC (Financial
Advisory Council), of which he is a member, and Executive Vice Chancellor, Rufus Glasper have been wrestling with the budget issues
for next year.
Question was asked about whether weıd got 5% back for growth incentive on the overall state allocation. Dean Etter stated that $49 MIL was returned. Another question was whether there was legal recourse
about getting the full allocation from the State for the MCCCD. Dean
Etter responded that there is a difference between legislation and appropriation, but Dr. Glasper and Debra Thompson would know the full story behind that.
Dean Etter suggested that C-8 of the budget report was good to review
about how we budget and spend, how district funds are classified, and it shows our budget in comparison with the other colleges. C-11 gives a comparison of this and last yearıs budget by specific codes. C-15 provides information on FTE by college between this and last year. He stated that this is the ³bible² for the number faculty and other personnel lines. Library should have old copies of the previous Adopted Budgets.
General discussion followed. Highlights included questions on how positions are funded, the possibility of the 90/10 formula for full-time vs. part-time faculty ratio like SCC or GCC, the actual number of full-time faculty lines and how they are funded with Fund 1 (operational) or 301 funds, and the flexibility of moving funds within and across categories. Dean Etter stated that funds can be moved within categories fairly easily, but it is difficult to move funds across categories because district approval is required. For example, to move within the various personnel categories (above the line) is not difficult, but to go from other categories like supplies or capital outlay (below the line) to personnel is not easy.
A specific request for information and analysis related to faculty staffing numbers and funds was made and Dean Etter stated that there should be not problem providing the Senate with them.
I. Call to Order: President Vaughan called the meeting to order after the guest presentations at 4:45 PM.
II. Additions and Deletions to Agenda:
None
IV. Treasurer's Report: None
V. Committee and Project Reports: None
VI. Old Business:
A question was asked about MCCıs process for FIPP candidate selection. Barry was asked to write a formal memo about MCCıs process to give departments veto power.
VII. New Business: None
VIII. Information and Announcements:
A. President's Report:
1. Zone representativesı election-April 20. Barry will send out an alert that election for zone reps is forthcoming.
2. Innovative Projects. Barry stated that the President has agreed to extend the Innovative Projects Grants next year for $100,000. Barry will call a meeting to roll out the process. He stated that the funds come from park lot and other rentals.
3. Faculty Recruitment Commission/FIPP subcommittee. Although the topic will be further discussed at the next meeting, Barry shared that he cannot attend the Commission meeting because of a teaching conflict. He has asked Charles to attend in his place.
4. Faculty social planning. Topic rolled to the next meeting.
5. Spring Senate/DCA Meeting. Topic rolled to the next meeting.
6. Downtown campus. There is a feasibility study on the possibility of creating a downtown campus. More will be shared at the next meeting.
7. NCA Self-Study kick-off. Topic rolled to the next meeting.
B. President-Elect's Report:
1. FEC Update: All-faculty Convocation, Instructional Councils, and Meet and Confer. Topics rolled to the next meeting. However, a comment was made about the change of the convocation being less faculty-driven.
2. SOP Manual: Topic rolled to the next meeting, but Charles wants to encourage people to submit procedures.
3. Proposed regular meeting with administration/DCA: Topic rolled to the next meeting.
C. Chair Liaison Report (Harold Cranswick):
Harold stated the first DCA meeting would be held the first Monday of
February. One of the topics will be a proposal for a new final exam
schedule.
D. Board Report (Barry Vaughan):
None
E. 49% Representative Report:
A question was asked about Chuck Hornıs status as the 49%
Representation. Barry will follow up.
F. Legislative Liaison Report (Phil Carrillo or Erin Rawson): Report
rolled until next meeting
IX. Senator Reports:
Members at Large
A. Phil Carrillo (Member at Large) No report
B. Mona Scott (Member at Large) No report
C. Erin Rawson (Member at Large) No Report
D. Ann Stine (Member at Large) No Report
E. Mehrzad Khorsandi (Member at Large) No Report
F. David Nachman (Member at Large) No Report
G. Greg Pratt (Member at Large) No Report
Zone Representatives
A. Zone 1: Art/Foreign Languages/Reading/Speech Communication/Theatre
Arts (Lyn Dutson):
An issue was brought to Lynıs attention from a student who reported
taking a 4-hour exam starting at 5:00 AM. She will get more information
about the faculty member and situation and refer the same to Harold.
B. Zone 2: Business (Phil
Waclawski): Not report
C. Zone 3: English/Philosophy (Sam Martinez): No report
D. Zone 4: Math/Music (Danene Richardson): Not report
E. Zone 5: Cultural, Social Science/Psychology (Harold
Cranswick): No report
F. Zone 6: Technology &
Design/Family/Consumer Science/Mortuary Science/Phys. Ed. (Jack Hinze): Not
report
G. Zone 7: CTL/Counseling/Library/Nursing (Naomi Story): A question was
Brought to her attention by a zone member on the status of the Meet and Confer negotiation. It was stated that the Team is still in negotiation.
H. Zone 8: Life, Physical Science (John Zikopoulos): No report
XI. Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 5:15 PM
Respectfully submitted by,
Naomi O. Story
MCC Faculty Senate Secretary