MINUTES OF THE FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING
Date: 10/2/09
Time: 1:33 PM
Location: M 122 Leestown Campus
Present: Laura Williams, Leon Lane, Greg Rickert, Val Zeps, Angie Davis, Barbara Elzey, Greg Feeney, Lori Houghton, James Kolasa, Karen Mayo,
Landrea Miriti, Cheryl Puckett, Tom Rogers, Mark Showalter, Kathy Swango, Nathan Hoskins, Trish Miller, Kelly Hagan, Gil Wheeler, Tim Unruh,
Ryan Kelly, Jim Fenton, Maureen Cropper, Paul Callan, Kaye Black, Yasemin Congleton, Lise Roemmele, Mary Bailey
Ex-Officio: Dr. Augusta Julian, Dr. Dave Hellmich, Dr. Palisa Rushin
Guests: Sandra Carey, Bonnie Nicholson, Bev Drake, Deborah Cox, Becky Harp-Stephens
Submitted by: Greg Rickert, Secretary of the Faculty
Agenda/Issues
Discussion
Action
Approval of Agenda
Motion: Callan – approve agenda; seconded
Motion approved
The Agenda was approved.
Approval of 9/4/2009 minutes
Motion: Congleton – approve minutes; seconded
Motion approved
The Secretary of the Faculty will
post the minutes of the September
2009 meeting in the Faculty
Council Archives
CEO/CAO Report
Dr. Julian stated she had received inquiries from faculty
regarding a process by which faculty who are currently term
status to be transitioned to tenure status; and commented she
had not yet received any information on the ramifications of
the decision of the Board of Regents to rescind its action on
the tenure.
The deadline for allocation requests for $1 million of nonrecurring funds for the Fall semester was October 1.
Remaining funds will be carried over to a second round of
allocation in the Spring semester; the Spring deadline is
February 15.
Requests for recurring funds (i.e. faculty/staff positions) will
Functions of
ALT/Responsibilities/decision making
structure of Faculty Council
Adjunct Pay Periods
be held until the Spring semester so current & upcoming
vacancies can be evaluated.
Dr. Hellmich discussed the functions of the Academic
Leadership Team and referred faculty to the ALT web page
where agendas and minutes of the ALT meeting can be
viewed.
He explained the ALT exists at the pleasure of the President
and has no formal authority per KCTCS policies; the ALT
does not have authoritative power but does have influence.
Debra Cox (Human Resources) was present to respond to
inquiries regarding the long span of time between when
adjuncts begin teaching and when they receive their first
paycheck.
The HR department and Division Office Managers determined
it is best to wait until after class cancellations to begin
processing adjunct contracts; in August 2009, this occurred
shortly after a pay-period deadline, meaning the new contracts
were entered into the system for the next pay period
(beginning Sept. 1); since KCTCS pays 2 weeks in arrears, the
adjuncts do not receive their first pay until the end of
September.
Sandy Carey stated adjuncts are informed both in the adjunct
faculty handbook and when they signed their contracts that
their first paycheck would be received on Sept. 30.
Recharge and membership of
Subcommittee on Policies, Procedures
and Communications
The chair requested the following faculty serve on the
Subcommittee on Policies, Procedures, and Communication:
Angie Davis – English
Brent Eldridge – Chemistry
Lori Houghton – Women’s Studies
Ryan Kelly – Geography
Eileen Kelty - Nursing
Kimberly Ross-Brown – Communications
Rules Report[Karen Mayo]
No current rule changes to present. Proposed rule changes
have been sent to divisions for review and will be on the Rules
Committee agenda for its October meeting.
ASA Committee Report [Tom Rogers]
The Admissions and Academic Standards Committee met on
9/11/09. We reviewed a proposal for the final exam schedule for
both fall and spring semesters. After discussion and editing we
agreed to take the schedule to divisions for review and comment.
The committee also continued discussion regarding the decision by
the KCTCS Board of Regents to limit AAS degrees to 68 hours.
Comments from divisions were brought forward. Of some
significance was the fact that the most vulnerable programs would
be those that are not separately accredited. It was also observed that
the health of general education courses would potentially be affected
since it is likely that programs would chose to reduce program hours
by eliminating general education courses that are not required. An
additional concern expressed revolved around how SACS would
view the BOR decision in the context of the autonomy of the
individual colleges. The committee members agreed to bring up
these issues at division meetings.
CRC Report [James Kolasa]
KCTCS CRC Report
KCTCS Senate Council Report [Angie
Davis]
Faculty Council Objection Process
Policy Change
James Kolasa highlighted items sent forward form the System CRC
meeting.
No Report; the senate council will next meet on October 9.
Motion: Davis – Faculty Council suspend its current policies
regarding the use of ITES for handling objections to actions of
Faculty Councils and adopt the proposed objection process for
handling an objection raised to the 2010-11 Academic Calendar;
The secretary of the faculty
will…
seconded
Motion approved
2010-11 Academic Calendar
 Proposed 2010-2011 Academic


Calendar
Alternate Calendar B
Summary of enrollment impact
data
Motion: Elzey – Faculty council adopt Alternative Calendar B
for the 2010-11 academic year; seconded
Motion: Callan – A roll call vote be used for the prior
motion; seconded
Motion Approved
The Secretary of the Faculty will
notify the Faculty that Alternate
Calendar B was approved on their
behalf and is subject to the
ten(10) day objection period.
Roll Call: Williams – Abstain; Lane – Yes; Rickert – Yes;
Zeps – Yes; Davis – No; Elzey – Yes; Feeney – Yes;
Houghton – Yes; Knowles – Yes; Kolasa – Yes: Mayo – No;
Miriti – Yes; Puckett – No; Rogers – Yes; Showalter – Yes;
Swango – No; Hoskins – No; Miller – No; Hagan – Yes;
Wheeler – No; Unruh – Yes; Kelly – Yes; Fenton – Yes;
Cropper – Yes; Callan – No; Black – Yes; Congleton – Yes;
Roemmele – No; Bailey – No
Count: Yes – 18; No – 10; Abstain - 1
General Issues
Announcements and Adjourn.
The materials posted for objection following the September 4, 2009
meeting passed without objection.
The meeting adjourned at
3:00PM.