Minutes of the Meeting
October 26, 2015
Submitted by Paul Tumarkin, Secretary
Mark Napier convened the meeting at 3:05pm.
He introduced himself and reviewed the agenda, and announced that the executive
committee would meet before the end of the meeting.
Guest Speaker: Mary Beth Tucker, Director of the Office of Institutional
Equity
Tucker spoke to the group about the Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and
Sexual Misconduct (see attached presentation, AAU Press Briefing FINAL.PPTX). This
was part of the AAU's survey. The Office contracted with an outside firm to write the
survey.
Update: External/Internal committees: Mark Trommer, Policy Committee
Chair, and Sara Knepper, APAC Vice Chair
Goal of these committees is to give people multiple opportunities to get involved in
efforts across campus. Internally, APAC has about six committees open to anyone
who wants to participate. These opportunities are ongoing.
APAC also has representatives participating on a range of external committees.
These are university committees that have requested an APAC representative, or
where APAC has requested representation. APAC is in the process of identifying
which committees are currently meeting, when they meet, who the APAC
representatives are, and where APAC has open opportunities to engage. Mark
Trommer presented the list of committees (see attached list).
The goal is for all members to be part of at least one committee and contribute in
some way other than just coming to meetings, and bringing back info to the rest of
APAC. Process for representative list maintenance is in discussion/development, so
the group is talking about implementing a nomination and election process, and
possibly putting that into our bylaws. The policy committee is also examining
soliciting representatives. It was noted that all of these committees should have
responsibility to report back to an APAC leader, likely to be the vice chair, but that
has yet to be decided. The group has drafted a form to track meeting reporting,
currently in review. The goal is to bring that to the exec committee in the next
couple of months to be finalized and approved for implementation.
Napier thanked the policy committee for their work on solidifying committee strategy
and getting it back on track. He also reported that the shared governance group
now meets with Cabinet.
The report from the Faculty Senate meeting on October 5 was presented as the
following notes:
Health plan coverage = denial for trans-gender faculty coverage. Not allowed
in current plan, and while highly supported by all it is prohibitively expensive.
University is investigating.
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Brian Seastone, UAPD – body cameras will be issued to all officers, currently
in testing.
Eileen Klein, President, Arizona Board of Regents: Described the Enterprise
model which includes the 3 universities and her. This model provides a
unique way of looking at University expenditures as investments in Arizona.
Faculty Executive Committee – October 19:
University searching for a new Diversity person (CDO)
- Raji left University in December
- this person will have SPFI funds and an assistant
NTT (non-tenure track) Ad-Hoc committee sending out a survey
- considering 3-year employment = faculty membership (Chapter 3)
Bylaws Ratification Process: Trommer reported that we are getting to the end of
the process. We are in the phase where all APs are voting on the proposed revisions
to the bylaws. If you haven't voted or if you know other APs who haven’t voted, ask
them to do so.
Proposed revisions and explanations are on the website. APAC needs 200 more votes
to ratify the bylaws, and we currently have ~70 votes.
Gallilee-Belfer suggested that every APAC member gets a message that they can
forward on to their contacts. All agreed that this should be done asap; the note
should also include a request to submit applications for Professional Development
scholarships.
It was noted that there seems to be some confusion as to how the two newsletters
are distributed, so we need to make sure that the above communications goes out to
ALL APs.
The APAC Holiday Party: Napier informed the group that this year’s fiesta will be
at Gentle Bens on December 14. Details and invitations will be forthcoming.
Formal Recognition of APs: Napier commented that getting more UA community
recognition for the contributions of APs is essential to our efforts, and encouraged
the group to nominate fellow APs or themselves for Creative Teaching Awards,
Koffler Prizes and other similar opportunities. APAC will share more information
about these opportunities when available.
The Eugene Sanders Award for Shared Governance: APAC be opening
recommendations for nominations for this award, which is given in April. This year,
APAC will select two winners as the group skipped last year.
Ad hoc committee to look at promotion and highlighting of APs:
Linda Breci reported that the executive committee agreed to create a group to
explore assessing current state of AP avenues to career advancement. Sample goals
might be to produce recommendations and improve career advancement
opportunities.
Committee will form soon; Breci will send a message to all of APAC and schedule a
first meeting. The plan is to meet once this year, then dive in in 2016. Details to
come on how this group will form and work.
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Meeting was adjourned at 4:15 PM.
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