Mesa Community College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

November 18, 2004

 

Member

Telephone Number

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

 

Charles Lewis

461 - 7196

At-Large

X

 

Bruce Peterson

654 - 7722

Zone 1

X

 

Gregg 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

 

Niccole Villa-Cerveny

654 - 7728

At-Large

X

 

Phillip Waclawski

461 - 7468

Zone 2, Treasurer

X

 

 

Guest

Ed Lipinski and DEC Guests

 

Approximately two-thirds of all online classes do not require onsite testing. The remaining one-third of the online classes has utilized the testing center for onsite testing. After investigating other colleges' methods of dealing with this issue, it was discovered that most of the college's provide some sort of onsite testing for their distance learning courses. Ed presented the DEC's recommendation for dealing with the current distance learning education testing issues (included).

 

I.       General

 

          A.      Call to order - 3:05 pm

         

B.      Approval of Agenda - Approved Unanimously

 

          C.      Approval of Senate Minutes - Approved Unanimously

 

II.      Treasurer's Report - Phill Waclawski

 

Phill presented the Treasurer's Report
III.     Old Business

 

A.      Membership - Phillip Waclawski

 

          Phill received 239.5 paid memberships which brings us over 80% for the college.

 

          B.      Faculty Hiring - Janice Reilly/Naomi Story

 

                   The first meeting to review the MCC hiring process has been scheduled.

 

          C.      Distance Learning Testing Recommendation - Ed Lipinski

 

Motion 1 (John Seims) The senate accepts the Distance Education Committee's recommendation and wishes that the recommendation be amended to state that the ěMCC Distance Education Committee and Faculty Senateî in the appropriate places. In addition, the forth bullet will be removed. Furthermore, we ask Janice to present this recommendation to the Dr. Christensen at her next meeting with him.

 

Mesa Community College distance learning students require flexible schedules in their distance learning program and the current testing center is not properly positioned to meet the needs of these students. To be in compliance with the college's vision of being ěresponsive, adaptable, and inclusiveî the members of the MCC Distance Education Committee and the Faculty Senate recommends the following:

 

…      A dedicated, staffed, proctored testing center, which complies with the NCTA Professional Standards and Guidelines for Post-Secondary Test Centers, containing an adequate proctored testing environment to handle current and projected distance learning course offerings.

…      Flexible day, evening, and weekend hours for proctored testing.

…      Availability of online testing equipment (specifically, computer workstations with internet connections), within the above testing center, designed to handle typical distance learning course load requirements.

 

To maintain program quality and the academic integrity of our distance learning courses and to fully serve our students, the Distance Education Committee and Faculty Senate advises implementation of these recommendations by the end of the Spring 2005 semester.

 

Motion 2 (John Seims) The Faculty Senate instructs the DEC to examine the issues surrounding and forward recommendations to the Faculty Senate to improve MCC's support of online, distance education.

 

          D.      Distinguished Faculty Award - Lyn Dutson

 

                   Lynn will meet with the committee to review the applications.

 

          E.      Strategic Conversation with Chairs - Charles Lewis

 

Charles requested an update on the motion (below) to review the full to part-time faculty ratios. Charles asked that Janice and Harold create an appropriate topic for discussion for the strategic conversation.

 

Text of Motion from 10/21/04:  A motion was made to instruct our Senate President to ask the Chair of Chairs to hold a strategic conversation with the Chair Association to discuss the adjunct to full-time faculty ratio. In addition, a strategic conversation will be held in Spring to begin a discussion of the situation and possible solutions.

         

F.      Administration Evaluation - John Seims/Mona Scott

 

John presented the current Administration Evaluation questions. Discussion ensued as to the best method to administer the evaluation and how the data is to be used. The instrument will be finalized and distributed to the senate members via e-mail.

         

          G.      Staffing Recommendations E-Mail - Charles Lewis

 

Charles asked that the motion to distribute the staffing recommendations e-mail, which Janice distributed to the Senate members, be rescinded.  Approved unanimously.

 

IV.     New Business

         

          A.      Arbor Day Recommendation - Harold Cranswick

 

Motion (Harold Cranswick) - Move that the senate appropriate funds to purchase at least one tree per year to be planted on campus each Arbor Day.

 

Charles offered a friendly amendment to add ěand that this resolution be incorporated into the Best Practices Manual.î The motion and friendly amendment were passed unanimously.

 

          B.      Forty-Nine Percent Faculty Representative Voting Rights - Allen Galliart

 

It was clarified that the forty-nine percent faculty representative has full voting rights as per the Faculty Senate constitution.

 

          C.      Faculty Convocation - Janice Reilly

 

The FEC asked if the Faculty Senate would like to contribute funds for door prizes for January's Faculty Convocation. The Faculty Senate is not in favor of contributing funds for this purpose.

 

Faculty members are strongly encouraged to attend the Faculty Convocation in January.

 

          D.      Travel / Professional Growth Funds - Janice Reilly

 

Unused travel money from last year was rolled-over to this year's travel funds. MCC faculty are not utilizing all their allocated travel funds. Kathie May-Updike is willing to look at alternatives to better utilize available funds.

                  

V.      Information

 

          No Additional Information

 

VI.     President's Report

 

The FEC forwarded a letter of no confidence to Linda Rosenthal. Another letter was forwarded to CEC asking that certain (unnamed) college presidents be held accountable for their behavior at the Shared Governance Strategic Conversation.

         

VII.   President Elect's Report

 

The MCC leadership is reviewing the clustering plan in light of the Prop 401 funds and that planning for new buildings is ongoing. Employees should not expect construction of new buildings to begin immediately. There was also a discussion on the past and present utilization of Fund 2 money.

         

VIII.  Committee Report

 

          Ed Lipinski Reported - Report Above    

 

IX.    Zone and At-Large Senate Report

         

Absence of a report means there was no report.

 

Bruce Peterson (Zone 1) - A faculty member has expressed a concern about Workman's Compensation privacy.

 

Nicole (At-Large) - Student Showcase on November 30th - December 2nd  in the Community Room at Red Mountain. Faculty are encouraged to attend.

 

X.      Adjournment - 5:15 pm