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Meeting Minutes Collin Faculty Council September 21, 2007
I. Call to Order President Cathy Donald-Whitney called to order the rescheduled regular meeting of the CCCCD Faculty Council at 1:20 pm on September 21, 2007 held at CPC in Pike Hall.
II. Roll Call Secretary Mary Weis called the council representative roll A. Absent: None B. Substitutes: Dawn Richardson for Debra St. John
III. Approval of August 2007 Minutes A) Secretary Mary Weis began to read the minutes from August 17th as corrected, revised, and sent back to the representatives on September 20th. B) David Garrison moved to dispense the reading of the minutes and accept the minutes as distributed. A second to the motion was made by Peggy Breedlove. C) Motion passed.
IV Treasurer’s Report Treasurer John Glass sent a report for the Sunshine and Scholarship fund and the amounts were reported by the FC secretary. A) Sunshine fund still has a balance of $184.04 from last year. B) Faculty Scholarship fund has a balance of $932.00. C) Additional monies were collected today to fund the scholarship.
V. VP’s Report VP Paula Miller’s report was given by FC President Cathy Donald-Whitney. A) The Committee on Retention synopsis was sent out via email. The Leadership Team understands that the faculty do not want to go backwards on retention issues. VPAA Thom Chesney is the head of this committee and will be here following the business meeting if you have questions. B) Paula will be collecting money for the faculty scholarship at the end of the meeting.
VI. President’s Report · Synopsis of the Dean of Students Symposium: How self-harm issues impact campus safety? Dr. John Hipple from UNT will provide information on the topic of suicide. He will discuss how to recognize students with suicidal tendencies and provide intervention strategies. Lori Vann, LPC, will describe the different forms of self-injury in which students engage and will help faculty understand how to interact with these students. The symposium is scheduled for Friday, November 2, 2007, 12:00-2:30 in the Event Center, at PRC. Lunch will be served. Initially this forum was designed to address campus safety issues. As summarized above, this symposium will be directed toward counseling and issues related to self -harm in a context that relates to campus safety. · ORP The FC President is working with the Benefits Department of HR. Many faculty members are in ORP and their concerns have been expressed. The FC president met with Dean Wallace to get a sense of the ORP issues. These issues include the lack of vendors; the need to have more carriers with higher yields; and the need to look at the fees charged in relationship to the low yields. In summary, having more vendors to choose from will drive competition and necessitate better offers. Larry has taken over in the benefits department and he is working with Barbara Haroutunian. · SSN or Faculty/Staff ID # Ralph Hall would like feed back about concerns in using SSN at the college. Examples of forms that “require” SSN are professional travel/leave forms and local travel forms. The consensus from the FC reps indicate that faculty are concerned. HR needs to discuss and look into having Faculty IDs. This concern has been voiced previously; SSNs are needed to process payment, but if they could be tied to an ID, the forms would still be easy to track. As a side note, most corporations use employee IDs. Banner implementation may help with this process. · Improving Faculty Evaluation System Webinar A recap was sent out via email by the FC president. This topic relates to the multi-year process and evaluations. COE has recognized lack of consistency on the Dean’s part regarding yearly evaluations and approval for multiyear contracts. The webinar primarily focused on quantifying the evaluation process. Faculty need to be concerned if this is the direction of the administration. Thom Chesney has asked that a task force (Improving Faculty Evaluation Systems Task Force) be formed to study the entire evaluation process. The deans each nominated a faculty member to represent their division or academic area. Thom will select the deans and administrators for this committee. The webinar will be available to this task force and other interested parties. Thom does have extra handouts (a .ppt presentation) that focus on the content. Several of the faculty members who are nominated for this evaluation committee are FC reps. Cathy Donald-Whiney will also be a part of this committee on behalf of the FC. · Adopt a highway An email discussion provided enough interest and good reasons to keep up the program. However, there needs to be better recruitment efforts. PRC will defer this year as to focus the effort on one campus. SCC has a facilitator, David Garrison, to organize the effort with the Committee on Collin Community. Paperwork to renew this effort is pending. There will be a name change for the sign at SCC to remove the word “Senate”. · October FC meeting update. The next FC meeting will be held at 1:15 p.m. on October 19th at CYC to coincide with the President’s luncheon which was rescheduled. The date has been changed on the FC website. · Collin Higher Education Center (CHEC) The CHEC will be located in McKinney with land donated by the city. There will be a small task force that will report the to the FC president to summarize faculty input. The first charge will be to solicit feedback from the faculty at large. One of the FC representatives for each campus will organize forums and meetings to obtain faculty input to address such questions as to what type of courses/programs should be offered. Collin is a partner in the negotiations during this process. Although faculty are expressing concerns about being able to teach, the CHEC discussions are not far enough in the process to address these and like issues. Remember that teaching at the freshman and sophomore levels is still important and the CHEC will give us a system to track into junior and senior level classes. Faculty will also need to look at rigor in the classrooms and our role in the big picture. There are no administrative guidelines currently. The city of McKinney has planned for a four year University. President Cary Israel and Brenda Kihl have been doing some of the research for this project. Brenda will send out questions and specifics for the CHEC task force. Cathy Donald-Whitney will ask for current research from Brenda Kihl. In summary, the FC representatives will collect information in campus forums. Everyone will have input which will then be distilled to one report from the faculty council.
VII. Faculty Scholarship · The name has officially changed to the Faculty Scholarship. · The accounting process has been outlined and sent to the treasurer.
VIII. Committee reports were sent via e-mail, and will be posted on the FC website.
IX. COE and ACC updates: · Council on Excellence - Dan Lipscomb. Dan sent out email regarding the increase in funding for COE and the proper travel procedures. A thank you was sent to the administration for their generosity. The increase in monies was determined based on additional full-time faculty numbers and increases in travel costs. The budget is only guaranteed for this year and requests are handled on a first come first serve basis. Failure to include supporting documentation will result in a delay in funding and possible loss of funds. · All College Council - Dawn Richardson will be the liaison. Mary Jane Tobaben reported on her behalf. Nothing new was discussed at first ACC meeting. Previous discussions included smoking policies and Habitat for Humanity. Next meeting for ACC will be in the following week.
X Announcements: MLK Day · Scheduled for Monday, January 21, 2008. The administration would like more faculty presence at this event. · Collin’s MLK chair is Vernon Hadnot. Amina El-Ashmawy will also serve on the committee. Vernon is co-chairing with the community representative.
XI. Adjourn · Movement to adjourn was made by Amina El-Ashmawy · Second to the motion was made by Wendy Gunderson · Cathy Donald Whitney adjourned the FC meeting at 1:47 pm. · Note: Thom Chesney will address the faculty regarding restructuring after a short break.
Minutes submitted by: Mary Weis
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