SCCFT Local 1950
Executive Board Meeting
March 28, 2011
Room 9201
Present:
President
1st Vice President
2nd Vice President
3rd Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Immediate Past President, Ex Officio
Advising and Counseling Representative
Automotive Representative
Business Representative
Health Occupations Representative
Humanities Representative
Equity and Social Justice Representative
Library/Media Representative
Math/Science Representative
Physical Education Representative
Social Sciences Representative
King County Labor Council Representative
King County Labor Council Representative
King County Labor Council Representative
King County Labor Council Representative
King County Labor Council Representative
Gary Parks
Amy Kinsel
Rachel David
Bonnie Frunz
Juliet Lovejoy
(Unfilled position)
Alison Leahy
Doug Reid
Tom Moran
Steven Bogart
Louise Lindenmeyer
Peter Sparks
Tim Payne
(Unfilled position)
(Unfilled position)
(Unfilled position)
Meeting commenced at 3:05 pm.
Minutes and Agenda:
The March 14th minutes were approved as amended with two abstentions. (Motion made by
Rachel, seconded by Tom.) The E-Board consented to proceed with the given agenda.
Officer Reports:
President: Gary noted that there was good faculty turnout at the March 16th BOT meeting and
that the March 17th rally in Olympia was successful with a large turnout as well. There was
discussion over whether the union should send a message concerning the BOT meeting to faculty
or possibly to the administration.
Math 80 was added as Item 3 of the agenda.
1st Vice President: Amy reported that at UW, Extension lecturers have voted to organize under
AFT. She also reported the following state legislative news: 1) The House is still considering
granting the online WA Governor's University official WA state status, which raises questions
about transferring credits. 2) The House Committee has published a bill for automatic salary
increments at Two-Year Colleges. 3) There is a current bill to create a common statewide
student ID number. 4) A name change for Lake Washington Technical College has been
approved. It will be named the Lake Washington Institute of Technology. 5) WSU is taking
over the University Center at EVCC.
2nd Vice President: Rachel had nothing to report at this time.
3rd Vice President: Bonnie had nothing to report at this time.
Humanities: Doug reported that he received an e-mail from a faculty member outlining their
discontent about the administration's creation of the Math 80 online course. He also commented
that morale is low in the Humanities division.
Library/Media: Tom had nothing to report at this time.
Physical Education: Louise had nothing to report at this time.
Math/Science: Steve had nothing to report at this time.
Health Occupations: Alison had nothing to report at this time.
Social Sciences: Peter had nothing to report at this time.
MLKCLC: Tim had nothing to report at this time.
JUMC: Bonnie reported that the administration agreed to lower the specified fill rate for class
cancellation to 60% rather than 75% and to use this rate 10 classified work days before the
quarter begins instead of 10 faculty contract days. This fill rate particularly affects associate
faculty because it is used in creating the letter of intent. It is not clear when this change will go
into effect.
Math 80:
During finals week of winter quarter, the math department was informed that the administration
was piloting a course during spring quarter. The course was created by Blackboard and would
be staffed/taught by an organization outside of Shoreline. Science division dean Susan Hoyne
was listed as the instructor of record. Labor law specifies that such a course would have had to
be negotiated to impasse. Faculty have the right to negotiate the effects of such a decision. The
administration has pulled the class for spring, after a written request was made by the union to do
so. The administration has requested that this issue be brought up in JUMC, and is still
interested in having this class run with the possibility of hiring the outside organization’s staff
member as an SCC employee. Amy noted that Blackboard is running similar pilots at other
colleges in the country.
Tim questioned whether the college can give the MCO for a course to a company, which is what
had occurred in this situation. Gary will ask Nancy Kennedy or a lawyer.
Tim reported that the Dean of the Social Sciences division has resigned and that the
administration will most likely not hire a new dean and will reorganize the divisions. The Social
Sciences division is meeting with John tomorrow to discuss the situation.
Steve reported that the Math Department chair has met with John Backes to discuss the Math 080
situation and that there will be another meeting between John and the Math Department. The
purpose of the meeting is to give John an opportunity to contextualize the decisions that were
made and to apologize for how it was handled.
Elections Committee Update:
Gary will make a call on the faculty listserve for volunteers to serve on the Elections Committee.
Those interested in serving should contact Gary or Juliet.
Gary presented the numbers of representatives from each division given the calculated data:
Humanities – 3 representatives, Math/Science – 2 reps, Social Sciences – 2 reps, HO/PE – 3 reps
Currently, 9 faculty are unassigned to divisions. Steve moved to assign these faculty members to
be represented by the Math/Science representatives. Rachel seconded. This would change the
number of Math/Science representatives to 3. There was discussion about whether other
divisions were a better choice. Steve and Rachel withdrew the motion. The data will be checked
over once more and the decision will be made via e-mail this week.
Negotiations Update and Strategy Discussion:
Nancy Kennedy, Leslie Potter-Henderson, DuValle Daniel, Karen Kreutzer, Diane Clifford, and
Molly Morse joined the E-Board meeting. Juliet moved to go into executive session. Bonnie
seconded. Tim made a friendly amendment to allow Nancy Kennedy to stay in the room during
executive session. Juliet and Bonnie accepted the friendly amendment. The motion was
approved unanimously. Bonnie moved to exit executive session. Amy seconded. The motion
was approved unanimously.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:46.
Motion made by Amy, seconded by Juliet.