MCC Faculty Senate Unapproved Minutes

Meeting-B

LB145 (aka Community Room)

DATE: May 1, 2003

Senate Web Site: http://www.mesacc.edu/organizations/employee/facultysenate/

Members Present:

Charles Lewis, President

Lyn Dutson, Zone 1

Phil Waclawski, Treasurer, Zone 2

Barry Vaughan, Zone 3

Harold Cranswick, Zone 5

Maureen Zimmerman, Zone 6

Naomi Story, Zone 7

David Nachman, Zone 8

Erin Rawson (Member at Large)

Philip Carrillo (Member at Large)

Greg Pratt (Member at Large)

Ann Stine (Member at Large)

Mehrzad Khorsandi (Member at Large)

Members Absent:

John Seims, Zone 4

Chuck Horn (49% Representative)

Mona Scott (Member at Large)

Guests:

Nicole Villa Cerveny

Janice Reilly

I. Call to Order: President Charles Lewis called the meeting to order

at 4:33 PM.

II. Additions to the Agenda: See Old Business

III. Approval of Minutes: It was moved unanimously to postpone this until the next meeting.

IV. Election of Officers: Charles presented the names of nominees.

A. President-elect: Janice Reilly was voted unanimously as President-elect.

B. Treasurer-elect: Erin Rawson was voted unanimously as Treasurer-elect.

C. Secretary: David Nachman was voted unanimously as Secretary.

V. Old Business:

A. Library Advisory as Faculty Senate Committee: Motion was passed unanimously to table this until the Fall.

B. Senate Rezoning: It was moved and seconded that Red Mountain

Campus be represented with a Faculty Senate At-Large Member with

the current vacancy. Discussion:

1. Does a senate at-large member represent a particular location

Location constituency?

2. This past year many Red Mountain campus issues were brought up

through the current structure with second-hand knowledge.

3. This requires a constitutional amendment. Can it be considered

Through a presidential recommendation rather than a constitutional change? Charles would be amenable.

4. Nicole Cerveny stated that faculty have discussed this topic at the Red Mountain campus. They stated that the at-large person can represent both campuses and college as a whole.

5. Is Red Mountain a satellite or site? Are we really one college-two campuses. Red Mountain is a special case and needs special attention, unlike Country Club and Brown or Downtown Mesa.

6. At-large member represents the entire college.

Motion was withdrawn with approval from the person who seconded it because it appears to be in conflict with the constitution. Charles will send out a call for the at-large vacancy. It was also concluded that senate rezoning needs to be discussed further.

C. FEC Representatives: Charles reported that the FEC members were willing to serve one more year. They are Charles, Barry, Janice, Saundra Minckley, and Naomi. The slate was approved with one abstention.

VI. New Business:

A. Typist for secretary: Discussion was held about approving funds to

hire a typist for the secretary. This will be voted and discussed further

at the next meeting.

B. ITAC Status: ITAC (Information Technology Advisory Committee)

Report and Recommendations have not addressed by the administration while we still have IT issues. Ron Bleed who announced his active retirement is scheduled to come to MCC to assist on technology issues. Since ITAC is still on hold, it was recommended that the Senate Officers work with Ron. Officers said they would around in the summer to meet with Ron.

C. 1-800 connection: The 1-800 access was discontinued and this will impact faculty over the summer. This will be brought back as old business at the next meeting.

VII. Information and Announcements:

A. Presidentπs Report: Charles asked the zone representatives to identify 1-2 strategic issues that the Senate can get on the agenda. He stated that the issues could be ones addressed jointly with the Department Chair Association. He would like to be proactive in pursing the faculty agenda rather than reactive.

B. Constitution Review: Charles would like to form a committee to review, reorganize, and polish the Constitution for the Senate to vote on and discuss in the Fall. Volunteers to work with Charles: Lyn, Janice, Ann, Mehrzad, Phil W., Harold, and Naomi.

C. Presidentπs Remarks: Charles stated his enthusiasm in representing the Faculty and the senate.

VIII. Senator Reports:

Members at Large

A. Phil Carrillo (Member at Large): No report

B. Mona Scott (Member at Large): Not present

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. Greg Pratt (Member at Large): No report

G. ________________(Member at Large)

Zone Representatives

A. Zone 1: Art/Foreign Languages/Reading/Speech Communication/Theatre Arts (Lyn Dutson): No report

B. Zone 2: Business (Phil Waclawski): No report

C. Zone 3: English/Philosophy (Barry Vaughan): No report

D. Zone 4: Math/Music (John Seims): Not present

E. Zone 5: Cultural, Social Science/Psychology (Harold Cranswick): No report

F. Zone 6: Technology & Design/Family/Consumer Science/Mortuary Science/Phys. Ed. (Maureen Zimmerman): Maureen asked about what does one bring to the body. One of the issues that came from her constituency was on Distance Learning concerns. She was encouraged to bring up that topic and any issues or complaints from her zone.