Faculty Council

Home   Committees   Meetings   Officers   Procedures Manual   Useful Links   Discussion Board

Meeting Minutes

Collin Faculty Council

Meeting Minutes

     May 4th, 2007

 

I.                                                Call to order

President Amina El-Ashmawy called to order the regular meeting of the CCCCD Faculty Council at 1:28 pm on May 4th, 2007 held at the SCC Conference Center Section A-B.

II.                                                Approval of minutes from last meeting

A) Secretary Mary Weis began to read the minutes from the April 13th, 2007 meeting.

B) George Jackson moved to dispense the reading of the minutes and accept the minutes as distributed.  A second to the motion was made by Mary Jane Tobaben

C) Motion passed and the minutes were approved as distributed with 2 members who were opposed.

III.                                                Approval of Treasurer’s report

·        John did not send a report due to his emergency appendectomy surgery this week.

·        Summary: $35.00 collected at the last meeting was added to the sunshine fund.

IV.                                                President’s Report

·        The budget submitted for next year is the same as last year and the request is for $13,800. The incoming FC president will defend this amount at the budget hearings in June.

·        The Academic Freedom distillation from the March round table discussion has been recently received.  This report may be sent back to the committee for further changes and clarification.

·        The Scholarly Community round table discussion was successful. 85 attendees consisting of faculty and administration had a nice dinner and discussion on four questions.  The discussion results have been distilled and will be forwarded to the LT for their meeting on May 14th.  Amina has emailed the VPAA to request permission to attend this meeting to present the results of this discussion.

·        The next board meeting is May 22nd.  An update by the outgoing FC president will be made to the BOT regarding the function of the council and the work of the committees.  There will be a formal presentation of the new FC president to the board and administrators at this meeting.

V.                                                Committee Reports

The committee chairs have been asked to send their end of year reports to Amina. These reports will be placed on the college web site so that the information will be available to the college community and more importantly, available for the incoming council representatives for follow-up and review.

* To those who have served the FC this year a heart felt thank you. To honor your service, each received a 256 MB USB drive labeled with the FC logo and website address.  Thanks to each of you for your work.

o       Mary Milford

o       Barbara Lusk

o       Joan Kennedy

o       Barbara Taylor

o       Mindi Bailey

o       David Garrison

o       John Glass

o       Sonja Andrus

o       Levi Bryant

o       Mike McConachie

o       Loren Miller

o       Donna White

o       Mary Weis

o       In addition, all the people who served on these committees will get a USB drive from the FC president.

VI.                                                Updates

* COE: Dan Lipscomb. Some funds are available due to return of unencumbered funds.  Dan sent out an email regarding the process for applying and how requests will be prioritized by the COE treasurer, Mary Weis.

* ACC: Kemal Moula., Nothing to report as ACC has not had a meeting.

 

VII.                                                New Business

·        Election Results

o       FC President: Cathy Donald Whitney

o       FC VP: Paula Miller

o       Representatives were elected from each of the campuses

§         3 Representatives for CPC

§         5 Representatives for PRC

§         10 Representatives for SCC

o       Additional Officers to be elected from this council are the positions of Secretary and Treasurer.  The nomination process will begin soon.

o       Representative serving staggered terms as follows:

§         Sonja Andrus = 2 year term, CPC

§         Pam Gaiter = 2 year term, CPC

§         Valerie Smith = 2 year term, CPC

§         Tracey Elliott = 1 year term, PRC

§         Wendy Gunderson = 1 year term, PRC

§         John Glass = 2 year term, PRC

§         Jon Hardesty =1 year term, PRC

§         Debra St. John =2 year term, PRC

§         Peggy Breedlove = 1 year term, SCC

§         Amina El-Ashmawy = 1 year term, SCC

§         David Garrison = 2 year term, SCC

§         Dan Lipscomb = 1 year term, SCC

§         Loren Miller = 2 year term, SCC

§         Joanne Stevens = 2 year term, SCC

§         Sam Tullock = 1 year term, SCC

§         Mary Weis = 1 year term , SCC

§         Donna White = 1 year term, SCC

§         Kyle Wilkinson = 2 year term, SCC

The FC would like to say thank you to Amina for her outstanding service as FC president this year.

VIII.                                                Announcements

·        Adopt-a-Highway will meet at the flagpole this afternoon.

·        Please visit the Humanities Exhibit in the SCC atrium.

IX.                                                Adjournment 

George Jackson motioned to adjourn; Second by Mary Milford.

Amina El-Ashmawy adjourned the meeting at 1:48 pm.

Minutes submitted by:  Mary Weis
Preliminary approval of the minutes by: Amina El-Ashmawy
Final approval of the minutes by:

 

Copyright © 2006 Collin County Community College District. All Rights Reserved.