FULL-TIME FACULTY SENATE
MINUTES of March 3, 2006
HBC—Room 301 Time 1:00-3:30 p.m.
ADOPT MEETING AGENDA:
Agenda adopted.
APPROVE MINUTES for 2/10/06:
Minutes approved.
REPORTS:
READING AND STUDY SKILLS SURVEY
Senator Julie Wauchope urged the Senate to encourage faculty participation in an online
survey which will be available after Spring Break. The purpose of the survey is to help
increase alignment between skills taught in college-level classes and those taught in
developmental class.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Senate President Al Purcell provided the Senate with contact information to make available to
faculty who would like to take part in the campaign to annex San Marcos:
Albert Sierra – Co-Chair
ACC San Marcos – Yes
1201 Thorpe Lane
San Marcos TX 78666
President Purcell informed the Senate that as a result of the last officers’ meeting:
 ACC President Steve Kinslow will attend today’s meeting to talk about the Servant
Leadership Program.
 OIE will provide more statistical review for program reviews in the future.
 The Institutional Planning Committee will seek more faculty input, earlier, next year.
 The faculty overload rule will be discussed later in this meeting.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY
Senate President Elect Linda Welsh announced that the next professional development day
would take place on June 9th. Faculty can send ideas for workshops to the Professional
Development Office.
Q & A WITH ALLEN KAPLAN:
ACC Trustee Allen Kaplan thanked the Senate for inviting him and thanked the full-time faculty for
their contribution and for making ACC a great experience for students.
Question: Where are we in the presidential search process?
Answer: President Kinslow has a 2-year contract. Since the Trustees are happy with Kinslow,
there is not much interest in restarting the search process.
Q: What does the Trustee policy on academic freedom, D.2, mean?
A: It was expanded under President Fonte, but not sure why.
Q: What is the outlook on annexation?
A: The PAC that worked on the tax increase, The Friends of ACC, has expanded to work on
annexations. In San Marcos it might be difficult because ACC is not as well-known and
well-respected there. We’re trying to get the message out and change from a K-12
perspective to pre-K-16. At the February 2nd public hearing most who spoke were
positive about annexation.
Q: Why don’t ACC students get a discount on Microsoft products like UT and TX State
students? ACC pays full price. Can the Foundation help pay for this?
A: The Foundation is looking at paying for texts and technology, so it might be feasible for
them to pay for discounts as well. Even though tuition is a bargain at ACC, when you
add in books and technology it often ends up to be more expensive.
Q: Can we also expand child care?
A: Non-profit organizations have made suggestions about this. They came up with 18 things
the college needs to do. The tax windfall will help.
Q: Why doesn’t the Foundation do more, like get the large local companies to contribute?
A: The Foundation has gotten off to a much slower start than expected and hasn’t been good
at selling the importance of a community college to the community. They need to get
beyond scholarships to facilities and equipment.
Trustee Kaplan encouraged faculty to contact him with any other questions or concerns at
<ahktrust@austinrr.com> or <allenkaplan.com>.
AR OVERLOADS & FACULTY ADVISING:
President Purcell distributed copies of amendments to the administrative rules for discussion.
The amendments included:
 A definition for “good evaluative standing” as an overall rating of good or better on evaluation
summary forms (4.03.004)
 A change in maximum workload for F/T faculty from 10 to 11 (4.03.004, 3)
 A change allowing F/T faculty to schedule a second overload prior to adjunct scheduling
(4.03.004, 3), (4.06.002, 1.3)
 A change in normal F/T teaching load for Summer from 6 to 5-6, and a change in maximum
overload for Fall and Spring from 5 to 6, for Summer from 10 to 11 (4.03.004, 6 A, B)
The Senate approved the amendments.
President Purcell also distributed, for later discussion, a draft of the administrative rule regarding
F/T faculty advising. The rule states that faculty will be available for advising students with
declared majors who have completed TSI. It also states that advising sessions will take place
before the 2nd semester of enrollment and before completion of the last 15 credit hours of a
transfer plan.
INTERNATIONAL OFFICE:
The Director of the International Program, Frank Slauto, requested that the Senate support a
plan to charge students a $1-$4 fee to help pay for study abroad scholarships. 100% of the
money would go towards scholarships for faculty-initiated, college-credit projects. Student Life
backs the plan, and polls showed the general student body is amenable to the plan too.
The Senate voted to support the plan.
SPAM SITUATION:
Bill Carter, the AVP for Information Technology, returned to the Senate for a follow up on SPAM.
He reemphasized the wide prevalence of SPAM and ACC’s consequential vulnerability to
viruses. A sub-committee is being formed to consider new products that filter SPAM and scan
for blacklisted senders and non-persons as our present program, SPAM Assassin, does. If
each faculty member spends one minute a day deleting SPAM, it could cost ACC over $2000 a
week. He doesn’t foresee a solution before late summer.
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PRESIDENT KINSLOW ON SERVANT LEADERSHIP:
ACC President Steve Kinslow addressed the Senate in response to the Senate’s resolution
supporting making Servant-Leadership training optional. He pointed out that the 7-hour training
sessions are required only for supervisors. He informed the Senate that additional workshops
would be available in the future, as well as a web page dedicated to Servant-Leadership, and
that upward evaluations would be changed to reflect the principles of Servant-Leadership.
Concern was expressed that this was an indoctrination in a value system that violates academic
freedom and threatens employees’ careers. Also, that this is at odds with SACS principles.
President Kinslow replied that academic freedom applies to course decisions, not to supervisory
decisions.
Concern was also expressed about the lack of shared government in this decision and the
inadvisability of changing rules in the middle of a semester. President Kinslow replied that he
had shared information about Servant-Leadership with all employee organizations before
implementation.
President Kinslow concluded by saying that 90% of employees did the training before the words
“not optional” had to be added, and that the evaluations were overwhelmingly positive. He
encouraged the Senate to communicate with him in the future before making resolutions.
REORGANIZATION PHASE II:
Senator Constance Elko asked the Senate to pass a resolution stating that departments will
have the power to make decisions that will affect them.
The Senate agreed that as much as possible, the decisions that impact a department should be
made by that department, the process should be kept flexible, and autonomy should be granted
to the department. A resolution, at this stage of the reorganization, was considered not be
necessary. Instead, President Purcell will report the Senate’s stand on the issue at the officers’
meeting.
COMPENSATION:
The Chairperson of the Compensation Committee, John Cise, informed the Senate that even
though the tax base has gone up, the percent change in F/T faculty salaries has gone down. He
reminded the Senate that F/T faculty salaries are 13.11% below leadership even though we’ve
tried for 3 years to attain a leadership position. The current plan proposes 6.5% increases in
salaries over each of the next 3 years.
President Purcell adjourned the meeting.
Substitutes: Regina Swearengin for Robyn Richter, Maxine Montgomery for David Lydic, John
Maynard for Patti Singleton
Absent: Paul Duffy, Daisy Diaz-Alemany, Andres Tijerina, Leslie Navarro
Visitors: Devorah Feldman, Tobin Quereau
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