REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Meeting of the Associate Faculty Committee
Eureka: 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, SS 201 (Board Room)
Crescent City: 883 W. Washington Blvd. Room DN6
Thursday, May 2, 2013
3:00 p.m.
MINUTES
1. Call To Order – 3:12
2. Introductions and Public Comment: Participants are invited to make comments
regarding any subject appropriate to the Associate Faculty Committee. - None
3. Approve Thursday, March 21 Meeting Minutes – MOTION:
ROWAN/SCRIVNER move to approve the March 21, 2013 minutes. APPROVED
4. Reports
4.1 Associate Faculty Information/Reminders, Connie Carlson – as the semester
ends it is important to remember to submit your completed flex form. This is an
Education Code requirement and not submitting will result in your final paycheck
being docked 2.4% of your contract. Summer contracts are out, if you have not
signed and returned it yet please do so. Cancellations will be evaluated starting
May 13th for classes that start on May 20th. President Smith met with Associate
Faculty on April 25th, hopefully we can continue these monthly meetings in the fall.
Commencement – associate faculty are invited to participate, you need to contact
Shereen Cockrum if you want to attend and haven’t already RSVP’d. Final
Veteran’s workshop will be Friday, May 3rd at 11:00 in the boardroom. Be sure to
check your CR email periodically – to cleanse and to look for important information
from CR. I always aim to have contracts out at least 6 weeks prior to the start of the
semester. I will be sending out information on Unemployment Insurance on Friday.
4.2 CRF0 Update, Sandra Rowan – last meeting Sandra reported that associate
faculty would be able to vote if they were a dues paying member prior to summer,
but the CRFO constitution defines that associate faculty must have been a dues
paying as of January 2013 (that means they are a member in good standing.) Any
recent additions to the union do not get to vote on the contract. Sandra had hoped
to have an update on the negotiations, but not at this time. To clarify why the
contract is being rushed to be concluded, there was a possibility of the budget still
being in shortfall. Trustee Henry had wanted to show the concessions from both
sides to ACCJC to show that we had made fiscal headway. The other deals with the
bonds for CR, our bond rating is affected by our fiscal stability. CRFO found out
that the State has additional funds available for community colleges and we are
waiting to find out. Voting for the AF positions for CRFO is out now. There is no
AF on the negotiations team, but AF representation is on the negotiation council.
Sandra will be compiling a list of what AF have now vs. previously.
4.2 Academic Senate Update, Jennifer Gardner – tomorrow is the last day to
nominate for the vacant AF academic senate seat. Light content for the meeting
tomorrow. Jennifer has been receiving feedback about the online evaluations for
distance education. If you still have input let her know by email. The ad hoc DE
committee has now been dissolved and a permanent committee has been
established, Jennifer has been appointed to this committee. There are criteria being
recommended for use to determine if faculty/associate faculty can teach an online
course. Driving this is recent ACCJC guidelines that there is evidence that the
institution has guidelines in place to assess faculty members (Jenn has this
information.)
5. Discussion Items
5.1 Distance Education Regular Effective Contact – feedback was received back
and AF seemed happy with it. The new draft was more close to what an AF would
receive in a F2F format.
5.2 CRFO Negotiations –combined previously in the CRFO update.
6. Announcements and Open Forum – 300 4th graders at DN tomorrow
7. Adjournment – 4:02 p.m.
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Next Meeting:
To be scheduled in Fall 2013