Mesa Community College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

March 3, 2005

Member	Telephone	Representing / Office	Present	Absent
Phil Carrillo	654-7710	At-Large	X
Harold Cranswick	461-7245	Zone 5	X
Lyn Dutson	461-7165	Zone 1, President Elect	X
Allen Galliart	461-7007	Active Retirees Rep	X
Donna Gaudet	461-7929	At-Large	X
James Giles	654-7718	Zone 8	X
Mehrzad Khorsandi	461-7257	At-Large		X
Bruce Peterson	654-7722	Zone 1	X
Greg Pratt	461-7755	At-Large	X
Erin Rawson	461-7529	At-Large	X
Janice Reilly	461-7186	President	X
Mona Scott	461-7155	At-Large	X
Ann Stine	461-7546	Zone 6	X
John Seims	654-7768	Zone 4, Secretary	X
Naomi Story	461-7024	Zone 7	X
Mary Aldridge	461-7361	Zone 3	X
Sally Kroelinger	461-7134	At-Large		X
Phillip Waclawski	461-7468	Zone 2, Treasurer	X

Guest

I. General

A. Call to order

B. Approval of Agenda

C. Approval of Senate Minutes

Approved with changes with two abstentions.

II. Treasurer’s Report – Phill Waclawski

Phill distributed the Treasures report. There is a total of $53,045.05 available as of March 3, 2005. Phill reported that a few faculty members were deleted from the district’s faculty distribution e-mail list and he is working to restore them.

III. Old Business

A. Administration Opinion Survey – Naomi Story, Mary Aldridge, and John Seims

Begin Executive Session: 3:18 pm

End Executive Session: 3:50 pm

B. Distinguished Faculty Award – Greg Pratt

Greg Pratt made the following motions:

1. That the Faculty Senate award Dr. Ann Ewing the first annual DFA in accordance with the previously passed criteria.

2. That the Senate thank Mr. Tim Florschuetz for his contributions to the DFA process in its first year.

3. That the Senate commend Mary Aldridge for her outstanding work in correspondence during this process.

The motions passed unanimously.

The Senate is very proud of the nominees and their efforts to compile the necessary documentation for consideration. Also the DFA subcommittee’s efforts were acknowledged.

C. Senate / DCA Retreat - Lyn Dutson and Janice Reilly

The date for the meeting Thursday, April 14, 2005 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm.

D. Faculty Dialogue Day (FDD) – Janice Reilly

The date of the FDD will be April 28, 2005 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

E. Dr. Glaspar – Janice Reilly

No Information

F. HLC-NCA Faculty Senate Book – Janice Reilly

The notebook is completed and available to the HLC in the resource room. It is not uncommon for the HLC team to interact with the Senate members. There is no date and time set for this, however.

G. Overload Pay – Janice Reilly

Everyone should be receiving overload pay. Janice talked to Ron Etter to determine what the problem is with overload pay. A solution is still being investigated with overload and

Evening supervision.

H. College Plan – Janice Reilly

The College Plan for Department Chair Election and Evaluation is complete and is available on the Faculty Senate website. The approval by the college’s President is pending.

I. Replacement for Charles Lewis – Janice Reilly

Janice recommended that the Senate wait until zone elections. If there is competition for a zone, one of the competing candidates could be considered to fill the At-Large position by the President of Senate for 05-06.

J. Proposal: Outsource the Faculty Survey – Janice Reilly

Motion (Naomi Story) The Faculty Senate should look into the cost of outsourcing the Faculty Administration survey. The committee will be composed of John Seims and Naomi Story. Motion passed unanimously.

Allen suggested that we do the survey on a biannual basis instead of an annual basis. The Senate was supportive of this idea. This will be discussed in future Senate Meetings.

IV. New Business

A. Zone Elections – Phillip Waclawski

The self nomination forms for zone and at-large positions on the first Monday in April.

B. Senate Officer Nominating Committee - Phillip Waclawski

By the first Thursday in March, the Senate President shall appoint Senators to a nominating committee to gather nominations for a slate of candidates for Senate Officer positions for the next academic year. The officer selection committee will be formed for this purpose.

Officer Selection Committee Members: Naomi Story, Mary Aldridge and Phil Carrillo.

The Nominating Committee shall present the list of candidates to the Senate at the first regularly scheduled Senate meeting in April.

C. Community College Image - Phillip Waclawski

Phill expressed his concern over the local universities’ perception of community colleges – particularly those of the President of ASU. He asked for ideas on how to deal with this perception.

Naomi felt that, through her dealings with President Crowe (ASU), she did not get this perception. Erin, in her dealings with the community, does not feel this is the perception of community members. This perception could be a result of the academic competition that is a result of the three-tier legislation that failed and the current baccalaureate legislation. Our previous chancellor (Dr. Fred Gaskin) did not help the district’s relations with ASU.

V. Information

A. Anonymous Wynn Call Letter – Janice Reilly

The Senate is not familiar with who sent this anonymous letters nor is it familiar with the logic behind why or to whom it was distributed. The Senate cannot act on this issue since the person did not identify themselves nor did they make a specific request for action.

Several Senate Members received anonymous letters questioning the qualifications of one of our fellow faculty members. The senate condemns this type of action. There are proper channels for dealing with such grievances.

VI. President’s Report

A. Meet and Confer Update

Janice requested that Naomi ask the Meet and Confer committee for updates. Janice recommends that the Meet and Confer committee should forward updates to the faculty.

B. Baccalaureate Degree Update

The legislation is changing rapidly. Try to stay informed.

C. HR Update

The Courses In Progress and Completed form was approved by FEC and forwarded to HR for use.

D. District IT Update

Janice provided the ITS Organizational Structure that the Vice Chancellor Darrel Huish provided FEC. It was recommended that faculty be allowed to participate further in the district’s IT decision making process.

E. PAC Representative

The PAC would like a representative from each college, selected by the college’s Faculty Senate president, to serve on a PAC advisory board. Janice asked Erin Rawson to serve in this role. She will consider it.

VII. President Elect’s Report

A. Replacement for the Development Advisory Council (DAC)

Lyn asked for a volunteer to replace her on the DAC since she has class at the meeting times. She will forward the meeting schedule and location. Lyn also expressed her concern that the scheduled time of the GEDS (General Education Degrees) meeting may prohibit faculty participation.

VIII. Committee Report

IX. Zone and At-Large Senate Report

Absence of a report means no report was given.

Zone 1 (Bruce Peterson) – The district misplaced all of Robert Decker’s (a Spanish OYO) application material and he was not asked to participate in the interview process. He is pursuing remedies for this situation.

Zone 4 (John Seims) – The mathematics department fells that the current language in the RFP stating that a full-time load of 30 – 32 credit hours is unfair. We would like to see it changed to a fixed thirty.

X. Adjournment – 5:15 pm