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Meeting Minutes Collin Faculty Council December 7, 2007
I. Call to Order President Cathy Donald-Whitney called to order the regular meeting of the CCCCD Faculty Council at 1:23 pm on December 7th, 2007 held in F148, The Shawnee Room, at PRC.
II. Roll Call Vice President Paula Miller called the Council representative roll A) Absent: none B) Substitutes: none
III. Approval of September 2007 Minutes A) Secretary Mary Weis began to read the November FC meeting minutes. B) Peggy Breedlove moved to dispense the reading of the minutes and accept the minutes as distributed. A second to the motion was made by Debra St. John. C) Motion passed. D) One opposition by David Garrison.
IV Treasurer’s Report A) $40.00 has been collected since the last meeting. B) There are additional monies to deposit into the Faculty Scholarship account and approximately $210 will be transferred. C) The Adopt-a-Highway project expenses totaled $120 and monies came out of the sunshine fund. Costs included $80.00 for the SCC signage changes and $40.00 for renewal which total to $120.00. David Garrison submitted the receipts which are on file.
V. VP’s Report The Leadership Team [LT] was scheduled to meet about projects that involve the faculty’s role in advising as well as retention issues. At the October LT meeting, BIET proposed an advising pilot project that was tabled. The LT was supposed to discuss this project at their November meeting, but it was not on the agenda. This faculty advising proposal calls for BIET faculty to volunteer to advise students who have completed 20 + hours of the core curriculum and have declared a major. FC discussion continued and concerns were expressed that this proposal should come through the FC since it has potential to be a model for other divisions. Other concerns voiced reflected past negotiations with the administration and an assurance that faculty would not have to do general advising during or sit at registration. The initial committee for student success was led by the VPAA and this committee now has three subcommittees. There has always been FC representation for the subcommittee discussing the role of faculty in advising. Several proposals were addressed from that subcommittee. The math pilot proposal is in progress and involves assessment of students prior to placing them in the various math courses. The BIET original proposal for faculty advising came from a faculty member in Economics. Since the LT did not have the BIET proposal on their November agenda, Thom Chesney has asked BIET to come up with a more specific plan that could possibly be implemented in fall 2008 for BIET faculty only. Currently, the professional advisors would still need to handle general undeclared major students. The administration has stated that faculty will have some role in advising as there is research that shows that faculty advising can improve retention. Summary: The current pilot for faculty advising is not approved. BIET is coming up with a revised proposal for this subcommittee. The FC needs to see and review this proposal prior to sending it to the Leadership Team. Request: The FC needs to have a representative member or members of the LT to come to a FC meeting to provided clarification and answer questions. While a meeting with LT members is being organized, the FC president will talk to the VPAA about faculty advising concerns. The student success group originally had faculty chosen by the VPAA to participate. We had FC representation at the first meeting where the role of faculty advising was discussed. Last year, the past FC president was appointed to the subcommittee. The current FC president then appointed the FC-VP to go to the meetings, represent the Council, and keep the Council informed. Continued FC representation and input is needed as part of the shared governance procedures, especially if it affects a change in faculty’s role.
VI. President’s Report · Library Books: Bobby Long in the LRC found a 2004 memo addressed to faculty regarding old or unused books. A FC representative reported that these library books could be sold, but faculty would need to have some type of plan. Three plans were put forth to the LT and all were rejected. One example of a proposed book plan was to sell discarded books and put money in scholarship fund. The plan was rejected because there was not a place to store books until the sale. Any proposal can not create extra work for the LRC, can not involve long term storage, and the money can not be donated to a scholarship fund since tax payers money was used to buy the books originally. The money received from the sale of old or unused library books would have to go back to the school’s general fund. Request: Please fill out the library survey to make it known that throwing books away is still an issue. The FC president is waiting on updates from CPC LRC and the SCC provost. In 2004 there were 8,000 books thrown away. Other suggestions from the council would be to sell the books on line. However, storing the books until the sale still remains an issue. · LRC policy regarding checking out materials for research was addressed in November meeting. The suggestion is to renew for a second 8 weeks after the first 8 weeks which should enable faculty to have the materials available for the duration of a long semester. · January 11th FC meeting will be at the SCC Conference Center, DE, at 1:15 pm. There will be a dean’s panel in an open forum style so please think about concerns the FC would like addressed. · A hyperlink to Sen. Florence Shapiro’s report has been posted on the FC website This report deals with the plans to restore the budget for health care. · Collin Higher Education Center [CHEC]: The meeting synopsis was sent to the faculty. The three campuses responses to the discussion questions were sent the administration. The faculty CHEC task force is waiting on community survey results and possibly other discussion questions from the administration. · Academic Planning Team [APT] will have a meeting in January and the FC president will attend as an invited guest. FC questions and concerns will be brought forth for discussion. · Academic Dishonesty. A roundtable on “best practices” will be held during professional development week. Discussion will cover the role of the Dean of Students in determining college sanctions after adjudication and a verdict of academic dishonesty and the choices that the faculty have for possible academic sanctions. · Lateral Transfer status. This is being discussed with the deans so that some general guidelines are in place that all divisions can follow. Each division area can add specifics. Students should still be able to do a lateral transfer if their job hours change. Documentation of work changes may or may not be required, as decided per division. · FC Executive team met with Dr. Israel regarding the strategic planning on restructuring. There will be a need to reassign duties since Belinda Newman is leaving her PRC Provost position. There is a strong need for administrators to understand their current role and do their job. Currently, there is not a job opening posted for PRC provost position. The VPAA will be over the PRC campus until the end of the year. · Academic Freedom paper. The committee made minor revisions that were sent out to the faculty. Motion by Kyle Wilkison: To adopt this report as an official resolution of the faculty council. Clarification: Is it a resolution or a position? Further clarification of how a resolution is structured was given. The document could be rewritten in this form, if the committee wishes it to be a resolution. Other choices for this document would be a position paper which is a formal response on a given issue. A position paper format is fine with the committee. Motion revised by Kyle Wilkison: To adopt this committee report as a position paper of the council. Second to the motion was made by Donna G White. Discussion: The SCC computer science faculty members feel that the third part of this paper could possibly be taken as a negative connotation of technology. The FC is not apposed to using technology, but a variety of choices should be in place. Other reports from the campuses: The Communications and Humanities group accepts; PRC feedback indicated a favorable response; Developmental Education is in favor; and other representatives indicated a favorable response from faculty. Call to question by Donna G. White Vote: All in favor: 17 out of 18 voting FC representative members were in favor. Opposed: 1 FC representative. Motion passed. Position paper will be reformatted and posted on the FC website.
VII. Committee reports: Please send a synopsis to post on the FC website.
Committee on College Policy: Co-chairs: Barbara Lusk & Mary Milford
Committee on Faculty Council Procedures and Nominations Co-chairs: David Garrison & Loren Miller Nothing to report. The committee will be meeting in January.
Committee on Teaching and
Learning:
Chair:
Sonja Andrus
Committee on Technology:
Chair:
George Jackson
Committee on the Collin
Community:
Co-Chairs:
John Glass & Donna White The ballot results are waiting to be tallied so that the committee can focus on these projects in the spring. The Funds for Feet project raised over $1,000. Currently, there is a project in the works for volunteer opportunities between the city of Plano, Collin service learning programs, and the FC committee on Collin community.
Committee
on Academic Freedom:
Chair:
Kyle Wilkison
VIII. COE and ACC updates: · Council on Excellence - Dan Lipscomb. No new news. See Dan if you have COE questions.
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All College
Council - Dawn Richardson. b) The city codes are being reviewed as they will impact any changes that might be made to the current smoking policy.
IX. Announcements and New Business · The MLK Power Breakfast is scheduled for Monday, January 21, 2008. The administration would like more faculty presence at this event. Collin’s MLK committee is co-chaired by Vernon Hadnot and a committee representative. Amina El-Ashmawy also serves on the committee. Please encourage your students and colleagues to attend. · A bioterrorism presentation is planned for April at CPC. · Do you wish that your students could write better papers? There will be a faculty-centered workshop on Jan 10th in the PRC event center, 1-5 pm. · The December Board meeting will be 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 18th at CYC. · New Business: There is a request from the Humanities division to not have FC meetings that conflict with their student presentations at the end of the semester.
X. Adjourn · Movement to adjourn was made by Amina El-Ashmawy · Second to the motion was made by Wendy Gunderson · Motion passed. · Cathy Donald Whitney adjourned the FC meeting at 2:30pm. · One opposition by David Garrison.
Minutes submitted by: Mary Weis
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