Faculty Senate
FACULTY SENATE MEETING MINUTES
October 17, 2014
Faculty Senate Chair:
John Adlish
Executive Committee member, Curriculum,
Assessment & Programs Committee Chair:
Executive Committee member,
Professional Standards Interim Committee
Chair:
Executive Committee member, Student
Learning Outcomes & Assessment
Committee Chair:
Library Committee Chair:
Part-Time Faculty Issues Committee Chair:
Recognition & Activities Committee Chair:
Senator for Allied Health:
Senator for Allied Health:
Senator for Technical Sciences:
Senator for Technical Sciences:
Senator for At-Large:
Senator for At-Large:
Senator for At-Large:
Senator for At-Large:
Senator for Biology:
Senator for Biology:
Senator for School of Business:
Senator for School of Business:
Senator for Computer Technology:
Senator for Computer Technology:
Senator for English:
Senator for English:
Senator for Humanities:
Senator for Humanities:
Senator for Math:
Senator for Math:
Senator for Physical Science:
Senator for Physical Science:
Senator for History, Political Science & Law:
Senator for Social Sciences:
Senator for Visual & Performing Arts:
Senator for Visual & Performing Arts:
Ron Marston
Executive Committee member, Salary,
Benefits and Budgetary Concerns
Committee Chair:
Steve Bale
Faculty Senate Chair-Elect:
Eddie Burke
Tom Kearns
Erin Frock
Brian Ruf
Jay Jorgenson
Jim Collier
Nancy O’Neal
Robin Griffin
Wade Hampton
Matt Leathan
John Coles
Julie Muhle
Mike Schultz
Tom Kearns
Dan Williams
Cathy House
Julie Armbrecht
Lars Jensen
Dan Loranz
Dan Bouweraerts
Melanie Purdy
Brian Ruf
Dawnne Ernette
Patti Sanford
Tommy Guy
Melanie Purdy
Robert Kirchman
Judy Fredrickson
Tom Cardoza
Shannon McCool
None
Brian Wells
Absent: Nancy O’Neal (her proxy was Robert Kirchman).
Guests: Dr. Jane Nichols, Stephanie Prevost, Dr. Rachel Solemsaas, Rich Olsen.
The meeting was called to order at 12:33 p.m.
Chair Marston: Please be sure to sign in on the sign in sheet (Exhibit A)
Order of Business: Welcome our new Faculty Senate Administrative Assistant Tara Lewis.
Approval of the Meeting Agenda (Exhibit B)
Motion: To approve the meeting agenda for October 17, 2014. as submitted.
Movant: NA
Second: NA
Vote: Passed unanimously
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Approval of Meeting Minutes from Sept. 19, 2014 (Exhibit C)
Motion: To approve the Faculty Senate meeting minutes from Sept 19, 2014 as submitted.. Note: The copies of Minutes
distributed at the Faculty Senate meeting were an incomplete version. The Faculty Senate Minutes sent on Google Docs
and emailed prior to the meeting is the correct copy and should be considered the official minutes.
Movant: NA
Second: NA
Vote: Passed unanimously
President’s Report
President Maria Sheehan
Absent. Yielded time to Vice President – Jane Nichols
Vice President of Academic Affairs’ Report
Vice President Jane Nichols
President Sheehan asked me to convey to you how sorry she is that she could not be here. She is out the remainder
of the month but will be back the 1st of Nov. We look forward to her return.
Tesla Plant UpdateDean Jim New and his faculty are visiting the Tesla Plant and will try to define what the impact might be on
the workforce needs and how the college might respond to those needs. So that is an ongoing conversation
and I will keep you in the loop if there are any decisions or if there are any issues and make sure you get
an update.
Jump StartThe Jump Start program is moving forward and I could not be more pleased.
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We have had a very positive reception from the High School Principals.
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We are working with the schools to see if their juniors and seniors qualify to take college courses and if we
are able to offer them.
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Courses will be predominately online but in a few cases we may offer them either on the High School
Campus or here on our campus at Meadowood or Redfield.
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This is a Pilot Project, a work in progress where we are assessing the demand and assessing our ability to
meet that demand.
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We are very hopeful that it will be a powerful recruiting tool and an enrollment tool for us to increase our
weighted student credit hours.
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The President has set aside resources to support the program.
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We have Retention Specialists and Patty Porter to work with high school students who sign up for our
courses, particularly online courses to give them extra support and help.
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In the Web College (Dean Lokken’s area) we have already committed to hire a Retention Specialist for all
of our online students to work closely with them.
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We will also have some instructional assistance.
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All of the research indicates that if you have a student, particularly a young student taking online courses
you have to hold their hand.
They will be holding their hand.
They will be checking in with the student every week.
They will be noticing if the go online or don’t go online.
They will be giving them assistance and encouragement,
Or getting them to the other resources we have available to help students to try and help keep
them enrolled and to finish.
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The Jump Start Program is going forward depending on our response but most likely will be planning for it
for Fall and Spring of next year as an ongoing program.
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If it proves to be financially successful…when I say financially successful I think you all understand that we
look at the numbers and say how many students are enrolled what is the income to the college, both
through student fees and state support and how does that pencil out.
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We do not begin new programs that do not make sense in terms of our moving forward, and that’s exactly
what we would be doing with that program. If it brings in the revenue, brings in the state support,
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increases our weighted student credit hours, as we get ready for next year than we are going to be
continuing it.
Legislative year coming upNext year is our base year for the 2017 legislative session. I know that seems a long way off but it’s really
not. That will be the year that is critical to us in building more state support for the college and in the
years to come.
StraighterLineI wanted to come to talk with you today about StraighterLine. I read with dismay the email strings but I
understand. I do not in any way halt anyone for being critical of this. I know I had not done a satisfactory
job of beginning it or a satisfactory job of explaining it. I choose not to get involved with the email string
and I find them to be unproductive, in terms of being able to have a conversation. So I am here today to
talk about it and then I want to answer questions.
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The opportunity came to me and the President about 1½ years ago.
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I know and have worked with the founder of that organization; the college has worked with him
before.
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They approached us and asked if we would be interested in partnering with us. For partnering we
would get in return exposure on a national website and the potential ability to recruit nationally.
We want to be able to do more recruitment not only in this area but across the country online.
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This is all online.
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Dean Lokken is here today and I worked with Andy Hughes for over a year and finally decided to
go forward and give this a try.
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We have a clear sense of the adults that we are working with. They are all adults in the workplace,
where the employer is paying for the worker to be able to get instruction and learning.
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After reading your emails I went back to each of the Faculty and areas where of those particular
courses that looked reasonable according to the content. I am now pulling most of those courses
from that list. The primary concern for 5 of those courses was the textbook listed was more than 5
years old. We are pulling those courses. Remember that 80% of the content has to be same.
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There are still some on the list but we are working with StraighterLine to get the website updated.
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I would like to continue the partnership and give it a try. If we find that we get no students or the
students we get are unable to do our work, then we will stop. We don’t know yet. We have not
had a single student who has contacted us yet to my knowledge. If they contact us they go
through our normal admission process and normal review of any work they have had. They have
the ability as any student coming in to take credit by exam. Here the department would be able to
give credit by exam because you have to.
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We will go through that process very carefully and I can give you an update in the Spring if we
have any student who come to us through that pathway.
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Having said that, our latest Tact Four Grant is by mandate from the Department of Labor, has a
process for recognizing ACE Credit.
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I want you to be aware that this may not be the 1st time that we take a serious look at is content
the same.
Q&A:
Q: Dr. Nichols, I had a question about the Fast Track Program. If a Fast Track Student, will they
just be earning TMCC credit or is it a duality situation where they also earn credit toward their high
school graduation?
Dr. Nichols: Are you talking about the StraighterLine?
Q: No, the Fast Track, I’m sorry, Jump Start.
Dr. Nichols: No, this is not related to Fast Track. The dual credit for High School is absolutely just
related to their taking a course that can also count for high school graduation. It is not in any way
related to Fast Track.
Q: I have a question about StraighterLine. I am not really clear on how are we making money if
they are taking courses that they could take here but are just taking at the StraighterLine.
Dr. Nichols: No. The student does not come to us until they have done StraighterLine courses and
then they apply to us basically like a transfer student. StraighterLine does not give college credit.
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It is not an accredited institution. So they come to us with their A certified credits. We take a look
at them and see if we would accept any of them. We treat them like a transfer student. They go
through our own admissions process and from then on, they are only taking our courses. So we
will give no certificate and no degrees that are not our certificates and our degrees, not our
blessing. We’re not making money. We hope we are make money by getting more enrollment on
everything we are doing.
Q: So it’s more that you want that National…
Dr. Nichols: we don’t have any financial relationship with StraighterLine.
Q: But if they’re national, one of the programs you were talking about is the Culinary, right, is that
the one that you are doing that for?
Dr. Nichols: No. The way this came to us is that StraighterLine has a contract with the Culinary
Union in Las Vegas and so they have thousands of students that may be interested in the
opportunity to come to us to get a certificate or degree in some field. We have no culinary course
listed. Culinary is not available exclusively online, but they are culinary workers.
Q: So they’re not actually getting a degree with StraighterLine.
Dr. Nichols: No. It’s up to us. Like we would treat any other student, let’s take a Veteran who
comes out of the military and they say, “Well I have this experience and it’s certified by the Ace,
will you count it for anything?” We make that decision. But we give degrees, they are our
students. It does not change that relationship in anyway.
Q: I just worry about the students. Are they being duped by Straighter Line to take courses with
them and then those courses aren’t really going to count for different things? Will that kind of
mess with our reputation because we are lying to them?
Dr. Nichols: I honor those concerns. I think that I have more confidence quite frankly in what
StraighterLine is doing. I know them. We’ve looked at them carefully. We looked at the number
of colleges and universities that have a relationship with StraighterLine, they are about ½ and ½
proprietary and not proprietary. About 25% are public. There are some community colleges that
are involved besides us and they are reputable good community colleges. If down the road things
change, I would be the first one to want to hear from you and say let’s stop it, but at this point, I
am confident that this is worth giving this a try.
Q: Why would a student want to take a StraighterLine Course?
Dr. Nichols: First of all, the employers paying for it, the employer is giving them time at work to do
it. The employer has an investment in doing it because that upgrades the workers skills. If along
the way they can get a little start on college, than the employer is ever so happy about that.
Q: A student who takes a pre-calculus course, would they still have to take the Accuplacer test or
would they be able to, would we wave that for the student?
Dr. Nichols: We don’t have a pre-calculus or calculus course on the list so it would be up to the
department.
Q: So an algebra course, say algebra one or two, if they take that would they still have to take the
Accuplacer?
Dr. Nichols: Lars, this is a Departmental Decision. That does not change.
Q: Are we in anyway accepting transfer credits from this institution?
Dr. Nichols: In the sense of transfer credits, there are none. What we are doing is looking at
what’s called prior learning and assessment equivalency. This is a fact today. We have a variety of
ways including The American Council in Education that give credit. For example, to Microsoft
Employees who do training and they go in and look at what they’ve learned, they look at the
exams and they may say that this is really the equivalent too. We in general have in our policy, we
have the ability to accept that as equivalent and the BOR has that in their policy and encourages us
to accept that as equivalent.
Q: So who makes that decision?
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Dr. Nichols: It depends. Generally it is made at 4 levels. It generally is made if it’s routing it
would be made by the Registrar, if it is for any required course it would be made by the
department, unless it’s general education. In that case, it is made by Associate Dean of
Assessment Melissa Deadmond, who would make the decision if it was equivalent, and she would
consult with the department if it was a grey area. We need to decide how to deal with this. We will
be getting credit that is certified by ACE and I need the Faculty’s support to be able to go forward
with this and work with this.
Text book Task Force- Will meet this month.
Executive Director of the Foundation Search - has been completed and an offer made. I am not at liberty to
say who but I want to tell you we have had a successful search and the President will be letting you know about
that when she returns.
Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services
Dr Rachel Solemsaas
During the upcoming Winter break, IT is going to be doing what we call a once in ten years major update. We
have scheduled it for when we are closed but there will still be limited computing services from Dec 29- Jan 4th.
We’re sort of off the 25th until the 2nd in terms of the Dandini Campus. We will be sending out an announcement
pretty soon.
Access
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will be available for:
get into Canvas,
Gmail
Google Drive
No access during that week for:
VM through your email
No faxes
no wireless on the Dandini campus
If you use work with your drive like your H drive you won’t be able to access them but we will provide you
some alternatives.
After that’s up and running we should be able to get more bandwidth and all the other upgrades we really need to
continue our services for you and our students.
Q&A:
Chair Marston: Will PeopleSoft be up and running during that block of time? Will student be able to
register during that block of time?
Dr. Solemaas: Yes. PeopleSoft will be up. Admissions will be up. We will make sure of that. Canvas will
be up. Basic google will be up.
So the information we are sending you will tell you what’s available and what’s not available. If there are
issue let us know beforehand so we try and coordinate.
Report of Faculty Senate Chair
Ron Marston
Systems Level changes
Dr Nichols covered quite a few things in my report so I am going to skip those items.
Reminding you all to continue to urge your constituents to get involved in the Standing Committees of the
Senate, either as a member or as a guest.
Committees (Hot List):
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Four Year Degrees
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Summer School Pay
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Dean Evaluations
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Merit Appeals Process
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Revisions to our Annual Plan
Accreditation
Reminder/heads up that we are in the middle of our seven year cycle for Accreditation. Our accreditation is
granted to us by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
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The Year Seven Self-Evaluations Report is done at the end of the accreditation cycle. It’s due next Fall
2015, but it’s big enough that we are starting on it right now.
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You may be asked to be involved in the process in some manner.
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This is very important to our Accreditation and our Self Evaluation is a vitally important part of our
process.
New Software Systems
The college is looking into new software systems in three areas:
1. Student tracking- System Wide CRM Software
2. Tracking of our courses; this will be equivalent to what we are doing now with our Master Course
Outlines in our Academics Database.
3. Catalog creation software that works in conjunction with the course software.
Q&A:
Q: In this an NSHE level thing or is that a TMCC level thing?
Chair Marston: These are TMCC level although the Student Tracking System I think will be NSHE level,
because it would be tracking students for all the Institutions.
Dr Nichols: The system is leading a discussion and encouraging all institutions to adopt a management
system. They are not telling us which one that we have to adopt. They are encouraging us to have the
same one as our Sister Institutions but they are not telling us that we have too.
Q: What does that do differently that PeopleSoft? You said it tracks students. What is this?
Chair Marston: Yes. Would you like to address this Dr. Nichols?
Dr. Nichols: Basically it’s a comprehensive system that would track students from the moment that we
identify a possible prospect like a 7th grader, 8th grader, 9th grader.
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We would track that student all the way through and when the students registers, continue to give
that student more information of all of our degrees and certificates and the workplace opportunities
they might lead to.
It’s a very comprehensive opportunity to give better information for us to work with and for the
students to have.
It is being asked for by our Advising Department and by Admissions and Records because we just
don’t have that kind of system in place.
Q: What is it exactly going to do for us and is it something that’s going to benefit Faculty where we can see
academic records or is it mainly for the Administration?
Dr. Nichols: It is primarily an administrative tool-to track students. If your questions is are there some
ways it can benefit Faculty and tracking students, I don’t know the answer to that, but I will find out.
Chair Marston- I also wanted to mention that the Course tracking software and the Catalog Creation
software I believe are currently being used by UNR. So that’s an institution level decision but, UNR is using
it. So that adds a little bit of weight to the decision in favor of that.
E-learning Initiative
This is still floating out there. Dean Lokken is available to answer questions about the E-learning Initiative.
The sub-committees have not yet published their recommendations. Those will probably be coming out before
the next Faculty Senate Meeting. So I will probably ask him to come back then to give everyone an update
and what those recommendations are and I’m sure you all remember what this about: this is an NSHE level
committee that is looking at how at a state level we can offer standardized gen ed courses and remedial
courses online, and there are a whole host of issues that need to be resolved in order for that to happen
effectively.
Q&A:
Q: Was part of that where if it’s a TMCC student, what they need to get into, to fill their schedule and have
it count as school time still at one institution, is that all part of it too?
Chair Marston: Yes. That is a part of it.
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Part-time Instructor Taskforce
Revision are coming to the Handbook under Title 4, which is deals with Part-time instructors and encouraging
more inclusiveness of the Part-time Faculty in the governance process of the institutions. I will let Part-Time
Faculty Issues Chair Dawnne speak to that because it was a discussion at the Part-time Faculty Committee this
morning.
Intergrate 2
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Indirectly relates to Faculty.
There is a meeting next Wednesday.
This is a huge issue at this time at a System level.
It’s an attempt to standardize, integrate the HR process and finance processes across the NSHE Institutions.
It’s very difficult due to every institution having their own antiquated antediluvian process like we do to keep
track of HR information and etc.
PUR Committee
I have a request: the Program Unit Review Committee, which is the Committee that reviews program unit
reviews. The Chair of that committee is Melissa Deadmon (the Associate Dean of Assessment). The
Committees charter states that they’re supposed to have a co-chair appointed by the Faculty Senate. We have
not had a co-chair since the existence of this committee. Dean Deadmon and I are asking you to either
consider or put the word out to your constituents to consider stepping forward and being the co-chair of the
Program Review Committee. It’s probably not a huge time commitment this semester. They would only have
to meet a couple of times. It may be a little more of a commitment next semester as there are more PUR’s to
look at for that semester. If you do have an interest in that please let me know first.
Comment:
Julie: I was Co-chair of that committee with Lance two years ago and so yeah in the Fall there’s not a lot going
on. In the Spring there are the PUR’s and if you have one coming up it’s really a phenomenal thing to do
because you read everybody’s and you’re at the meetings that present the information and how to put them
together. It’s really a great learning experience. It is quite a time commitment in the Spring for all the
different Program Unit Review Meetings I didn’t go to all of the meetings. I know Dan was heavily involved and
went to a lot of them.
Chair Marston: I think Julie Muhle’s actually on that Committee right now. Alright there you go, any
volunteers?
Report of Faculty Senate Chair-Elect
Dr. John Adlish
There is a vote later on the Consent Agenda and Melanie and I have to abstain because it’s for approval of
travel money and she and I are candidates for.
Administrative Evaluation CommitteeThe Administrative Evaluation Committee is moving along really well.
Dr. Nichols met with us.
The Committee has drafted the policies statement.
Will be sending it to the Administration.
Trying to get it through both Faculty Senate and the President’s Advisory Council by the end of the
semester.
We are looking at doing Administrative Evaluations on the Deans.
We’ve agreed with Dr. Nichols to do the evaluations on the Vice Presidents.
Any Faculty Members interacting with those VP’s will have a chance to have input during those
evaluations as well.
We are still debating over the cycle. Whether it should be every one, two or three
years.
Hoping to bring the policy forward to the Senate at the next meeting Faculty Senate Meeting, not
as a policy but as a statement that either we are in support of or do not support the Administrative
Evaluation.
We’re seeking input and the support of the Administration as well.
History, Political Science and Law SenatorSince I’ve been here, we do not have a Senator from this department. They haven’t had a Senator for
about three years. If you know anyone in History, Political Science and Law that may be interested,
you can twist their arm to come in. I’m going to send the department an email again asking that we
get representation from them. The thing that I don’t want to face is that we make some decisions and
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then those departments call and say that they didn’t have any input in those decisions. An example is
when you pick your activities on the annual plan. We would really like to get them to participate. If
you are friends with any of them, please encourage them to join Faculty Senate as a Senator.
PAC MeetingI usually the report on this. I went to the last meeting. There wasn’t anything that Ron didn’t cover
that I need to report on. I reported on something small in that meeting but the next PAC meeting is
this Monday. I’ll be there.
Consent Agenda (ACTION) (Exhibit D)
Motion: To approve the Consent Agenda sent by email on Tuesday with the changes received today.
information voting on:
Chair Marston: Does anyone want anything pulled or changed from the Consent Agenda?
Review of Agenda
Senator Loranz: I have a small revision to make. On the first page Revisions- should be AST not ASTM.
Chair Bale: On page three of the Consent Agenda under #2 Professional Standards Committee-Sabbatical
Subcommittee Membership: Brian Ruff, Ana Douglas and Nancy O’Neal have all indicated that they are not going to
be serving on the Committee.
Chair Marston: Steve, are you able to replace any of these or do you need to replace any of these?
Chair Bale: Since we had our first meeting this morning we’re not going to replace them.
Chair Marston: Any other deletion or changes to the Consent Agenda? Hearing none I move to approve the
Consent Agenda with said changes.
Movant: Dan Bouweraerts
Second: Tom Cardoza
Vote: Passed unanimously
Abstentions: Two-Melanie Purdy and John Adlish
Committee Reports:
Student Government Association
Stephanie Prevost, SGA President-
Blood drive this month in the Student Center. Oct 28th & 29th.
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The first time we are doing it two days.
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Every previous blood drive we have exceeded our goals and donations. We partnered with United Blood
Services. Faculty are more than welcomed and we really appreciate donations from you as well as
students.
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Education Day – I will be reporting on this more in the future with more detail. There is going to be an
education day at the state legislature on March 2nd, which is a Monday. That includes K-12 and Higher
Education.
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I am planning a rally to get as many schools in the NSHE system as possible to send student
representatives to rally for more state funding towards Higher Education in Nevada.
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We are also planning a Higher Educations Specific day at the State Legislature. It will be on April 14th which
is a Tuesday. Along with the same goal.
Library Committee
Tom Kearns, Chair
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This reflects Septembers and October’s Committee Meeting. We have a great Committee that is really lively
and very inventive, as seen in the functions that we are going to be having.
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In October we’re going to have a Middle East Panel. That will discuss the topic of the Middle East in
Flames. As many as 50 students will be coming. It’s going to be in SIER 108. I encourage everyone of
you to attendand encourage your classes to join.
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The Second Annual Monster Created, Monsters Invented and Monsters Within Panel-Greatly received last
year and was lots of fun. The Professors that took place were truly mad professors. They become really
inventive and they are very informed on hot topics such as Sasquatch and other creepy things. I
encourage you and your students to show up. There is going to be candy and drinks provided.
We’re planning to start featuring some of our local authors that are within our Faculty Group. There will to
be reviews of their books as well as readings.
Our first author is Professor John Trictalane. He is going to be talking about his book “Transformal Living”.
He is Part-time Faculty here.
We will be featuring another Professor in February.
If there are any professors that would like to feature their books, please contact me and I will get you the
Agenda.
Part-Time Faculty Issues Committee
Dawnne Ernette, Chair
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Part-time Faculty of the Month Award•
September: Catherine Brown in the English Department
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October: Arthur Crafics from the Social Sciences Department
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PTI TaskforceWe had a guest speaker, Vice Chancellor Brooke Neilson come to our meeting to discuss the development
and the subsequent edits of the Policy Proposal Title 4. Section 46 pertaining specifically to Part-time
Faculty. It covers issues having to do with employment, working conditions, Professional Development and
Shared Government for example. We had a wonderful opportunity to understand to understand what the
language actually meant and how the edits were changed back and forth quite a bit. There’s been quite a
bit of editing. After a great deal of discussion and questioning we offered some suggestions for some
specific edits to the language as well.
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We passed the resolution to support the document to go forward.
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You will hear about this at the next Senate Meeting?
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Chair Marston: Yes that is absolutely correct. That meeting was today so it will come to this Senate on the
November Agenda for you to vote on as a resolution.
Q&A:
Q: Is this to support the changes to the resolution that’s come through here a million times that we still
haven’t passed with Part-time Faculty actually being part of Senate? Is that tied together or is that
different?
Chair Marston: It’s not directly tied together. If Dawnne Ernette, you don’t mind me answering that. Those
resolutions were to have a voting representative of the Part-time Faculty on the Senate.
This is related to that issue certainly because a big part of this change is about the inclusion of Part-timers
in shared governance. But it’s not specifically about whether or not there would be a voting Part-time Rep
on the Faculty Senate.
Q: It’s separate but this resolutions sounds like the changes in the code really supports that position a little
bit more than in the past.
A: Chair Marston: Yes, I think that would be a fair thing to say. This is a code change that will be up to the
December Board of Regents Meeting. Brook Neilson as Dawnne said was at the meeting this morning and
is graciously considering edits to that draft based on feedback that she received at our meeting this
morning. She has already made edits to the draft, good edits I think based on feedback she got from
WNC’s Faculty Senate a few weeks ago. I just want to say that is a great example and heartening to me of
how NSHE policy actually is formed or can be formed or shaped directly by Faculty input. That policy was
drafted, it was sent to the Academic Leads in the Academic Departments of the Institutions, they made
changes to it and then Faculty’s were able to see it and had some concerns about the language and a lot
of those concerns have been addressed. That’s very positive.
Professional Standards Committee
Eddie Burke, Chair
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Met last Friday, October 10th.
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Academic Calendar (Action Item)The academic calendar for next four years. It has been brought forward by the President’s Office via Kyle
Dalpe. We have discussed it a couple of times. We had some issues with the Winter Sessions but this is the
latest draft with the Winter Sessions all in place. We are asking for approval of this academic calendar.
Chair Marston: This comes to you from the Standing Committee as a Motion to Support. It doesn’t need a
motion or a second. Is there discussion about this Academic Calendar?
Q&A/Discussion:
Q: So many of our Students have children in the WCSD and our Spring Breaks never match up. Are we never
committing to make it that way, to have it alignment with WCSD?
A: It used to. We had a vote to change it to match alignment with UNR.
Chair Marston: That used to be the discussion: did we want it aligned with UNR or do we want to align with
WCSD.
A: We voted to change that because most of our Students cross enroll so the parent issue became secondary.
Q: So someone is checking that every year. Kyle checked that right?
Chair Marston: I can’t say whether that’s been checked or not. I don’t know if Eddie can say.
Chair Burke: I cannot confirm that but it is an alignment that we voted on some time ago.
Chair Marston: The School District has weeks off in the middle of the semester now that they didn’t have
before. There is no way that we can align with them anymore, based on how they’re doing their schedules
now. They have shorter summer terms and breaks in the middle.
Q: The Winter Schedule: The students are getting no break at all. It seems like shifting the beginning out a
few days or the ending in a few days, would be good so that that they have some break.
A: Chair Burke: No, Karen addressed that. It doesn’t necessary mean that the classes have to start that next
day, it’s just those dates are the range and the courses have to be within those dates.
Dr. Nichols: We are doing this because some Faculty in some departments, do want that longer window. If we
don’t list it officially like this then Financial Aid cannot cover those students. So it really is the case that most
classes will not be this long, but we have to list it this way for students to be financial aid eligible.
Q: Is there any foresight on whether this would lead to a change in number of days for faculty, which has been
tied to the Academic Calendar in the past?
A: Chair Burke: Are you asking about the instructions days?
A: Chair Marston: Are you asking if this might lead to an increased number of instruction days?
Q: As I understand it the Faculty Contract is tied to like 171 days taken off of the Academic Calendar. Is this
going to precipitate any change on those numbers of day the Faculty will be required to work?
A: Chair Burke: No, if you look, those numbers are included in there. Those numbers don’t change. The
Winter Session contracts are separate. A Faculty member may or may not take that but it would be a separate
contract for the Spring Contract. They are not required to take those additional contract days.
Q: Is that in policy?
A: Chair Marston- If there were some imputes to change the number of contract days, that that have to be an
entirely new and separate discussion.
Q: You don’t see it as an automatic decision outside of this body?
A: Chair Marston- I don’t see it that way myself.
Q: If you teach a Winter Session, can’t that count as part of your Spring Load?
A: Yes, Winter Session counts as part of the Spring semester. That’s different than Summer School.
Q: It’s an understanding now but a policy in that regard would head off any future discord.
A: Chair Elect Adlish- I think you have a valid point because we’re having some issues with annual plans and if
a Dean looks at that and says “Well, that’s really not part of the time period”, it could potentially be a
problem…I am following you.
Chair Marston- Eddie you still have the floor technically. I am going to let you field the questions.
Q: Lars- Just a comment. This seems to make this program at the goodwill of Faculty. If we are only required
to work, if this counts the Spring semester we are only required to work 171 days. What happens to this whole
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program if no Faculty want to teach this session? This means the Administration has 0 leverage also.
A: Chair Marston-
I think that’s mostly correct.
Dr. Nichols- The contract is the contract. It has the number of days in it and that is all the faculty can be
required to do. For many of the faculty teaching in Winter Session, they want to do it, they like to do it, but
obviously that is their choice. For the regular fulltime faculty and we also have part-time faculty that teach in
Winter Session who are paid part time faculty salaries. John I think your question is – Could the
Administration ever put pressure on regular faculty members to teach in the Winter Session when they don’t
want to. I would say absolutely not, under the contract as its written and the contract we have now. It is an
option; some faculty teaching in Winter Session get an overload for doing that and they choose to do that to
make extra money. But it cannot be required and I think it’s already clear and legal under the contract and
language of the contract for the number of days.
Q: The contract provides not just the number of days but also 30 credit hours. So it would be impossible for an
Administrator to say “You taught these but we’re not going to count these as part of your load.
Dr. Nichols – That’s right.
Q: Perhaps as Faculty we should figure out how important it is to the Administration to have this program
and then exercise some of our leverage to get a better pay or something.
Q: So if you’re teaching the Winter Session and it can count as part of your Spring Load, then are the contracts
geared as just an overload so you’re being paid a normal load but then you would get those credits off of the
Spring load, if you chose to do that. Is that right?
A: Chair Burke- That’s my understanding; we have to ask the Department Chair if we will teach Winter
Session. If you are then the contract is made out for that particular.
Q: Dr. Aldish – So it’s an Overload but then you teach three credits in the Winter Session and you don’t have
to teach the three in the Spring?
A: It’s not an Overload. It’s just a direct transfer.
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Motion to Approve-Academic Calendar
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Movant: NA
Second: NA
Vote: Passed unanimously
Abstentions: None
Merit Appeals ProcessWe are forming a Subcommittee to look at the specifics of this process. I am hoping to have some
recommendations on the November Faculty Senate Meeting.
Audit Policy (Action Item)This came from the VPAA, Dr. Nichols. Dr. Nichols has asked that we consider changing the last day the
student can audit to line up with the last day that a student can withdraw from the course. Currently the last
day to audit is the end of the second week. This is for regular fulltime semester. End of the second week the
student can audit. After that they can’t audit. The policy is to change that date until the same day that the
student can drop the class
Q&A:
Q: Can we eliminate withdraw?
A: Chair Marston - No we cannot eliminate withdraw. Unfortunately that’s not an option for us.
Chair Burke:
Pros The institution will not be penalized if the student takes a W then state funding is affected.
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If they take an audit then the state pays for the student and TMCC will get money for that.
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At this point if they take a W, they can’t stay in the course. They could stay with an audit.
Cons –
Students will just take audits over the summer and take spots of students who really want grades.
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UNR has a policy that students can’t take audits over the summer because students are really
taking the course for credit. So now audits are allowed in some courses without Instructor
approval.
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It could reduce or drop the standard in the classes. Basically you could have many students just
sitting there because there not really committed to the work. They’re doing an audit and not really
going to take it seriously.
Q: I don’t see why students won’t take an audit then. Then students leave their options open if they take
an audit. Why wouldn’t they just take an audit? Why do we need the withdraw?
A: Senator Bouweraerts - The difference is like in our Graphics Communications Programs, audits don’t go
toward the degree. So if they take an audit that’s lovely but they won’t get credit for that course for the
degree and they’ll have to come back and take it again.
Q: For a student that is registered for an audit, what grades can the instructor give that student?
A: Just audit (AU).
Q: So that student can in lieu of withdrawing change to an audit and then not show up anymore?
A: Correct. That’s the worst possible scenario.
Q: What’s our obligation to grade the audit students?
A: There’s no grade, just AU.
Q: So if they are submitting assignments, do we just ignore it?
A: I understand that’s not true, it’s up to the faculty’s discretion as to how they want to do the audit grade.
You could require all assignments or none. It’s up to the Professor’s discretion.
Chair Marston: You can’t enforce that. They will get an AU no matter what they do.
Q: Why would a student choose the second best choice when they can have the best choice?
Chair Marston- It’s a perfectly valid question. If the student has no intention of continuing to show up to
the class then you would expect them to take the W, but if they think they might show up then they might
as well take an audit. It allows them to come back to the class if they want to.
Chair Burke- If the student takes a W, they cannot attend. Legally they’re not allowed to be in the
classroom. But if they take an audit they can still attend. It gives them one more choice.
Dr. Nichols- I would not have brought this to you without working with financial aid and clearing it with
Student Council and student services side of the house. As you can see under point to consider half way
down financial policies will be able to be changed so that an audit is treated as a W. The Director has
indicated that if this policy is passed that this will she will make those changes. Audits have to be included
in attempted credits and just like a “W”, if you’re on financial aid or in Veterans benefits, there are severe
consequences for a W or changing to an audit. Then there will be hold put on the students to not allow
them to do that if they are on Veterans benefits or financial aid.
Q: Can I ask for some clarification on the policy here. The bottom paragraph under change in the audit,
the second sentence says an auditor pays regular fees and at the discretion of the instructor, must meet all
the regular class requirements. What does that mean?
A: Dr. Nichols- That is the current policy. I assume you’ve been living with that and working with that.
That is what your policy says. The only thing that is new policy is what is underlined.
Chair Elect Aldish- Let me jump in here for a second and then as the Parliamentarian I am going to call for
cutting off the discussion in a couple of minutes. I wanted to address that issue Brian raised. Years ago,
that came about because, you are exactly right, it was decided that you would sit down with the student
and say if you are going to take an Audit then, you don’t have to take the test but I expect you to come to
class and do the homework. That was a real discussion that we had. I’m not sure how that goes with the
current thinking. We are going to need to cut off the discussion in a couple of minutes, after Eddie gets
through a couple questions.
Chair Bale- I think there are a lot situations where students may have a medical emergency, may have
economic distress, may take a job so they can’t be here anymore. There are a lot of things that could lead
to a Withdraw. They would look at it and say “There is absolutely no reason they would do an audit
because this has happened and I am not going to be here”.
Yes, I agree that under most circumstances, a student who is having great distress is going to find
themselves in a better situation to take an audit than a withdraw.
Q: Doesn’t it have to do with money? If they withdraw they get a percentage back by a certain time?
A: Yes, the end of the second week.
Chair Marston- But only the first two weeks, then after that there is none.
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Senator Hampton: I move that we allow the Audit as a decision for the student to make.
Chair Marston: There’s already a motion on the floor, which is the approval of this draft as it has come
from the committee. You can’t make a motion but you can call for the vote.
Chair Marston- This is an important issue, and I don’t mind us spending some time on it. We don’t want to
cut off the discussion as long as the discussion is going somewhere. Also, I wanted to give the Senate a
historical context because the Senate has voted on this before and it wasn’t that many years ago. Judy did
you want to make a comment on this?
Judy-I wanted to make one comment. I had never been involved in this before. The thing I find
interesting and I question is what Brian brought up was “Must meet all regular class requirements? If
somebody audits your course, I guess I see them as a guest and if they don’t meet the requirements what
are you going to do?
Chair Marston- That is not a change. That is the way the policy currently is.
Comment Jay- What I’ve seen from students is that if they are in a math class and they know they’re not
going to pass, they could change to an audit. If they remain in the class, with same material and repeat
the class the next time probably with a better outcome. I have also heard from Instructors particularly in a
sign language class that somebody audited and because the class has to move and communicate with each
other at the same pace, the audit doesn’t show up or doesn’t participate and it slow the whole class down.
So you’ve got two different variations. I am generally in favor of it though.
Q: How would students who go through exception to the refund. For catastrophic things that may happen,
they would usually have a W or an F. Could they still go through the exception to the refund policy if they
get an audit?
Chair Marston- I would imagine that if they are attending the class they can’t also get a refund. But, I don’t
know.
Chair Purdy: But see that’s my point though. If you know the reason for someone to request a W, instead
of an A if they want to.
Historical Context
Chair Marston: I want to give you a little historical context on this:
In February 2010, 4 1/2 years ago, this came from our old Academic Standards Committee, which
Steve Bale was the Chair of at the time.
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This Committee voted to move the Audit from what it was back then, which was the 14th week of the
semester, “To move it forward to the middle of the term” and so the Senate voted to move it to the
middle of the term.
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The very next month in March, the Chair of Academic Standards came back to the Senate after having
a conversation with the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services at the time, who was
against that move. At that time, the VPAASS encouraged us to move it to the first week of the
semester.
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Based on this, the Committee and the Senate reversed itself and voted to approve that instead of what
had been approved the month prior. I believe it’s been that since then, for the last 4 years. There was
an interesting discussion about why we chose to move it to the middle of the term and it was similar to
the discussion that we’re having right now.
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It was thought that it would be beneficial to the International Students to be able to stay in the class
after they realized they weren’t going to pass they could stay in the class as an Audit and pass it the
next time.
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There is the same issue with some of the more rigorous courses like math courses where the student
could stay in with an audit, and then pass it next time. These are some of the same issues being
discussed this time.
Q: I know this is the Faculty Senate and we should be advocates for the Faculty but it seems to me that we
can put on our Faculty hats and decide what’s best here, we can put on our Institution hats and look at the
financial incentives and decide what’s best here, we can put on the Student hat and decide what’s best for
students, and we may not come to this same outcome. So I submit that we may need a standard by which
we’re going to make this decision.
Chair Marston- Are you asking me for a response? That’s a very good point.
Q: Which answer should I offer, how should I vote? If I am representing the Faculty?
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Chair Marston - Well this is an action item today and you are representing Faculty here. How inclusive you
want to be with financial issues, students, or administration is completely up to you and your constituents.
Q: Just to explore all of our possibilities, why not make it the week before the semester ends?
A: Chair Marston- I think there are some financial aid issues with that, which is one of the reasons we
pushed it forward to begin with, 4 years ago, because if the student drops out second to last week and
they may owe financial aid money back and we don’t have an opportunity to get that money back, because
the semester’s over and they disappear. I think that was one of the things I read in the discussion of the
last…
Q: Is the motion still on the floor?
A: Chair Marston- Yes the motion is still on the floor.
Q: Call for the vote.
Chair Marston-Jay, would you like the last word?
A: No.
Chair Marston- Does anyone have anything substantial or different to say? Here is your last opportunity.
Q: Sorry, I don’t want to drag this out but I do have a question about programs that go through as a
cohort. If this is not considered a fail by the college, how do the programs that go through princess nursing
or radiology how does that effect the student’s ability to be able to continue in that program seeing how
that particular class would not be offered until a year later.
A: Chair Marston- My guess is that it would be similar circumstance to that student getting a W, in which
they are basically failing the class.
Chair Burke-We did have some nursing and rad. tech people on our Committee and they said that
sometimes the student may have to be removed from the program but they will offer the student, okay
you do that course as an Audit, repeat it and they will consider returning you back into the program at
some point. So that was the advantage for the nursing and the rad. tech students.
Chair Marston: I’m going to take the final word here as point of privilege. I think ultimately for most of our
students this is a benefit. Financially it’s clearly a benefit to the Institution, and as far as how it effects
Faculty it probably depends on the class. That is all I have to say.
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Motion to Approve-Audit Policy
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Movant: NA
Second: NA
Vote: Passed
Apposed: Jim Collier
Abstentions: None
Annual PlanWe are revisiting the Annual Plan Document. So, we hope to have you recommendations on that new
Annual Plan hopefully by December. Some issues being looked at:
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What dates should be on the Annual Plan?
What date does the Annual Plan cover?
Another major concern is summer work. If you do summer work that is not on contract time, but
summer work, is that applicable?
Weighting the various activities - a very, very labor intensive process. Some activities are easy, such
as … I’m a member of a professional organization I pay $35.00 a year, as apposed to … I wrote an
external grant for a million dollars.
We’re going to come back with some recommendations and maybe weight some of those activities
some are worth a lot more than others.
Q&A:
Q: Are you saying it’s a new plan or are you going just revise?
A: Chair Burke- We’re going to revise the plan, the current plan. I hope we’ll have those recommendations
back by the December Faculty Senate Meeting. They have to come through here. Then if there are
changes they have to come back to our committee and then back here. We want this done obviously by
the end the Spring Semester so that it will be applicable for the following year.
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Student EvaluationsThere are a couple of surveys that are going to be started for students:
Students who drop the course. They are going to try and evaluate why did that student drop and try
to get some information from that student.
The second survey will be a Student Satisfaction Survey. After the courses are complete the students
get to fill out a Satisfaction Survey to see what information can be gleaned.
All of your evaluations will be online. There will be no more paper evaluations.
Q&A:
Q: The question I think from Shannon last time was: What’s the last day a student can submit an
evaluation?
A: According to Travis, it’ll be the up until the time that the Instructor inserts a grade. Once the grades
are in for that course then the student cannot make/give an evaluation. That will be the date.
Q: First I talked to Kim who came up with the idea, they used the same keep them in the room idea and
then they have to use their I-phones and do it that way.
Q: I doubt that’s going to satisfy her because I think the score is normally in there right? So, after the final
say the score goes into the, once the instructor includes the score, on Canvas, it will just be like any other
same or any other homework. So, it’s in there. Grades are a separate entity inside the program. So if he’s
done something that triggers that when the grades are put in, that means the students will know their
grade because they know their final score, but they haven’t actually received their grade. So therefore they
can, therefore they can put in there in their evaluation of you when they actually know their final grade.
Chair Burke-I’ll bring that up with Travis. I thought he’d be here today but that’s the information he told
me was once the grades go in the students cannot….
Q: Lars-Right but I think as Faculty we need to get more detail on that and figure out. That’s not
satisfactory in my opinion. That they can enter the grade after the students enter their evaluations after
they know their final grade. That can’t be in our interest.
Chair Burke- The other thing was, there were some issues that some students were added back into
classes after the. No Excuse me. The students didn’t come to class, didn’t show up for class, were
dropped and then for some reason some students are added back in. So we’re trying to find exactly why
that happens.
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Our next meeting is November 14 .
Chair Marston: Thank you Eddie. I will encourage all of you, when Professional Standards is looking at the Annual
Evaluations, to participate in that process. We want as much Faculty input on those changes as we can get.
Salary, Benefits & Budgetary Concerns Committee
Steve Bale, Chair
The committee last met on 10/03/14.
TMCC Summer School PolicyWe’re still talking about the summer school issue. The research and in the findings:
We asked for information from HR on 2013 and 2014 summer school.
We looked at each course by discreet instructor.
We broke out just the faculty who are full-timers, and the normal salary for a fulltime faculty
teaching summer school is 0.1875% of base pay per credit hour.
Our biggest concern has been for those whose pay was discounted because of lack of sufficient
enrollment in the course.
For 2013 we found out there were 15 faculty so effected.
2014 there were 4 or 5 faculty effected.
In 2013, the total financial impact was about $13,500.
In 2014 it was $5,200 out of a total of in excess of half a million dollars.
Our conclusion as a Committee has been that this was insignificant enough that we’re probably going to
bring forward a policy in our next meeting suggesting that the .1875 hold firm unless there is a financial
exigency declared by the college, (such as the college is not making enough money to be able to pay for
summer school). That right now is not an issue.
If you want to come and participate in the discussion, we’ll be meeting again in November and it’s on the
schedule of meetings.
Bylaws Change (Action item at next meeting) –
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Because of the change in the salary schedule, and the elimination of steps, we have done a rewrite of our
Charges.
Those are presented to you as a bylaw change as a first reading.
No vote today. Take a look at those.
Some of the changes are cleanup in language.
Some of those are just to change the focus away from the steps.
Q&A:
Q: Just one typo: 9.9.3 underneath the charges: It says 9.9.3.1 Make recommendations concerning
budgetary changes in the event of a finance exigency or other financial issue. Shouldn’t that be issues?
A: Chair Bale- It could be plural but it doesn’t have to be. It could be. We’ll add an “S”
Chair Marston-I will add that this is a change to the Senate Bylaws, and these are taken very seriously
which is why you have two meetings to think about this. Even though this is just for the Salary and
Benefits Subcommittee, please read through this and please be prepared to have something to say about it
at the next meeting.
Student Learning Outcomes & Assessment (SLOA)
Brian Ruf, Chair
The committee last met on 10/10/14.
First we covered a list of TMCC acronyms. We’re famous for those around here so, we put together a list of
common acronyms that we use and I attached web links to each one of those acronyms for our Committee
Members so that we sling around these acronyms there won’t be as much confusion.
AAS General Education Melanie Purdy gave a presentation on concerns about General Education mapping for AAS Degrees, which
is what we’re concentrating on mostly right now. She was trying to make an effort to bring it back to the
General Education mission statement from TMCC. So we had a discussion on that.
We also viewed outcomes from several MCO’s and one of the things that came to light is that if as far as
Gen Ed courses go, if they become too specific then they’re no longer Gen Ed courses.
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We talked about a couple of different examples- one was a Culinary Class; it’s Gen Ed for Culinary
Students but not Gen Ed for anyone else.
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Also there are several classes in the Nursing Program that are the same way.
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As we look through the AAS Degrees we’ll be looking at these highly specialized Gen Ed Courses to see
if they meet Gen Ed requirements.
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I spoke with Dan Bouweraerts a little this morning regarding what Gen Ed actually means. That will be
coming up at our next meeting.
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If you have an AAS in your program, you might want to think about attending a couple of these
meetings, to voice your opinion or at least hear what we’re working towards.
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We also had a discussion of the worksheets in the course catalog if on the student worksheet it gave
the courses that they can take as Gen Ed requirements for the AAS and then directly beneath that the
Gen Ed requirements for the AA/AS Degrees. When the student enrolls and starts by taking their
degree they will know which credits will transfer and which won’t. Most Gen Ed requirements for the
AA/AS degrees would also work for the AAS degrees. This could eliminate a lot of repetitive course
taking as they continue striving for higher degrees.
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We will have Jim New on November 14th and he will discuss best practices for Gen Ed requirements
that he’s seen while touring several community colleges/campuses around the US.
Our meeting was adjourned at 3:00 pm.
Chair Marston- Can you remind me, is it the SLOA Committee’s goal to have this done for the upcoming
2015 Catalog? The deadline for that is usually Decemberish, at the end of this semester
Chair Ruf: I don’t think we’re going to get the Gen Ed ironed out in 2 months.
Chair Purdy: There’s not really a change to the Gen Ed. Like Brian was saying, it’s math. That’s changing
what SLOA is trying to do and CAP is helping in any way we can in creating the mapping criteria so AA/AS
Gen Ed courses have some foundation in theory. Right now there’s no way to assess that. That’s the goal.
But it doesn’t appear anywhere in the catalog.
Chair Marston: Thank you for reminding me about that. This will affect what ends up qualifying as a Gen Ed
course but that wouldn’t happen until the next go round of the catalog anyway. Thank you.
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Curriculum, Assessment & Programs Committee
Melanie Purdy, Chair
That leads nicely to what we’re doing in CAP. But first thank you Dan Bouweraerts for doing the reports for
last month for CAP.
General Education Outcomes Mapping AA/ASThanks to the Departments that are working really hard and I know Melissa is facilitating a lot of this but,
there’s a lot of work going on with the AA/AS mapping.
Remember SLOA last year created the mapping criteria so all the AA/AS courses are going through that now.
We’ve been really busy in CAP but it’s been great, and had some really good discussion points. Good cleaning
up of your classes.
Dan Loranz made it through months of go around. If you need to ask about the experience, check with him.
Thank you for all the work on that.
This is exactly what’s going to happen with the AAS courses once that mapping criteria gets in place.
We had 20 some submissions of Gen Ed. It’s a lot of work and the Committee’s really working hard.
BAS DegreeLast month we were going to bring a model through that we were hoping would be the foundation for people
wanting to create the Bachelor of Applied Science degree. The bottom line is NSHE tells us what to do, in the
sense that they have curricular requirements that really paralleled the AA/AS degrees. CAP next month will
propose BAS Gen requirements that match NSHE’s.
We’re also going to try and come up with some options/specific criteria on how you could do an AAS to BAS.
CAP’s perspective-we can use Faculty input to create a really useable seamless criteria, and help facilitate
people making that marriage. We will come up with some models to bring forth to Faculty Senate. Can’t
debate what comes through with regard to that BAS. We have to follow the rules.
Recognition and Activities Committee
Erin Frock, Chair
ActivitiesWe seem to have more activities in the Fall than in the Spring:
We have our 4th annual pumpkin decorating contest coming up. I’d like to encourage as many of you have
your departments showcase with a pumpkin.
Monthly Professional RecognitionProfessional of the Month –
Note: Nominations are kept for three months at a time, after which the nomination might need to be
resubmitted. The form is here:
http://www.tmcc.edu/facultysenate/professional-employee-of-the-month/submit-a-nomination/
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In August we recognized Chris Dudash in Access Outreach and Recruitment.
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In September we recognized Anne Witzleben from ESL.
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In October we have someone identified and will be making that award in the next couple of weeks.
I want to encourage all of you, if you have a colleague that you think should receive some recognition to
please submit your form online.
Distinguished Faculty AwardDecember is our deadline for the Distinguished Faculty Award nominations. You will start seeing my harassing
emails about nominations soon. In November I will be handing out nomination forms at our meeting for
submissions. Distinguished Faculty Award Nominations are right around the corner for:
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Service Award
Teacher Award
Annual Holiday Party Annual Holiday Party for Faculty and Staff will be Wednesday December 10th, at 3:00pm in the Student Center.
The Big Guy in red will be there again. Kiddos from the Childcare Center will be seeing him again.
Old Business
None
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New Business
None
Adjournment at 2:17p.m.
*Adjournment time will run no later than 2:30 p.m. unless approved via motion by the Senate.
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