PVCC FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
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Presentation by Dr. Kranitz - Dr. Kranitz addressed the Senate to express her appreciation of faculty and staff support in her new appointment as Interim President of PVCC for 1999/2000.  She expressed that she is honored to have been given a chance to serve the college as President for the coming year.  She said that she will be announcing soon who will take over as Interim Dean of Administrative Services, and she expressed that she is looking forward to working with all of us in the coming year.
 
Student Development Philosophy - Shirley Green expressed the interest of Student Services to revisit the current philosophy statement for student development.   Given our new student-centered focus, it is felt that it is time to reevaluate the statement for the purpose of change/confirmation.  Shirley requested the participation in this process of two or three faculty members.  If you are interested in assisting with this project, please let Steve know.

PVCC's Athletic Program - Cindy Shoenhair updated the Senate on the newest athletic programs at PVCC.  An Academic Tracking Process has been implemented to identify college athletes who are not performing up to par academically.  Students having difficulties are then given academic support information and given the opportunity to improve their academic standing before it is too late.  Cindy reported that the athletic programs have generated 100 FTSE from athletes for the fall and spring semesters this academic year.  Cindy also explained that the funds that support our athletic programs come from a special district fund and not from other PVCC budgets.  Next year PVCC will begin men's soccer, and in the future baseball and softball are planned.
 

Members Present:   Kevin Arps, Ron Brooker, Larry Burgess, Tom Butler, Muriel Coil, Renee Cornell, Marilyn Cristiano, Jeanne Franco, Hank Mancini, Jane Marks, Carmen Marquez, Steve Platte, Gary Quick,  Lois Roma-Deeley, Fred Wieck.

Guests: Terry Grygiel, Cindy Shoenhair, Abby Hemingway, Scott Massey, Jack Sexton, Casey Durante, Richard Vaughn

Members Absent:   None
 
1.   Call To Order/Approval of Agenda

The Senate meeting was called to order at 3:25 pm by Steve Platte.

The Faculty Association Scholarship was added to "New Business."
The agenda was approved as revised.
 

The following changes to the minutes were identified:
Under "Old Business," "Boiler Plate Curricula," the names of Renee Cornell, Jane Marks and Tom Butler are to be removed as subcommittee members who met with Advisement.

The 3/4/99 minutes were approved as revised.

Recruitment Coordinating Team - Fred Wieck
Fred reported that Junior Parent Night was very successful serving 80 participants.  Also, Mary Ann Auten organized a Computing Careers Night with a panel discussion which served more than 120 participants.  Several other recruiting activities are come up in the near future.

Enrollment Management - Bob Bendotti
No Report

 Employee Development - Bob Bendotti
No Report

Staffing Committee - Hank Mancini
The Senate was reminded that the Senate President-elect will be appointing next year's membership to the Staffing Committee within the next month.  Each Senate Division Rep was asked to help the President-elect identify interested individuals in each division.

Professional Growth - John Nelson
Steve announced that he still has not identified our professional growth representatives for next year.  If you are interested in serving in this capacity, please let Steve know immediately.
 

Technology Coordinating Team - Terry Grygiel
Terry presented a draft of the "PVCC Information Technology Policy."   Each senator was asked to share a copy of the draft with their division members, and Terry requested that feedback/comments/concerns regarding the policy be sent to him via a-1 by April 15th.

Legislative Committee - Steve Platte

Important bills in the legislature are SB1396, the Whistle-blower bill, and HB2014, the retirement window bill. The Whistle-blower bill has been tabled until next session.  In the meantime the interested parties (faculty, legislators, and administrators) are working on a compromise. The retirement bill has passed the House but is stalled in the senate. The legislature is currently hung up on passing the budget, which currently has no new money for community colleges beyond the proposal from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.  The faculty legislative committee is lobbying for increased funding for community colleges. The budget will probably be passed in the next few days.

Follow the progress of these bills by pointing your browser to http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/bills.htm and searching by the bill number.

Treasurer's Report - Larry Burgess
Larry reported that the combined balance in the association checking and savings accounts is $8,152.90.  Of the total dollars in the account, $1,151.35 was added to the Faculty Association Scholarship Fund as a result of the scholarship fundraiser and an additional $25 was also added to the fund by donation.  The total value in the Scholarship Fund is now $3,341.85,  and $4,811.05 is  left in unencumbered Association General Funds.  The Treasurer's Report was approved as written.

Secretary's Report - Jeanne Franco
No report.

President-Elect's Report- Tom Butler
Tom reported that the motion to offer membership to OYO faculty was defeated at the District Association FEC.  The major issue defeating the motion was the fear that offering membership to OYO faulty would legitimize the possibility of future employment for OYO faculty.

President's Report - Steve Platte
Meet and Confer: Negotiations are continuing on most of the proposals.  An update on the process should be available soon.

Faculty Association Dues: Dues for next year will remain constant at $225.  Some senates wanted a reduction in dues for first and second year faculty as an incentive to join the association.  It was suggested that individual senates could offer reduced dues to new faculty under a "sponsorship" program.

Professional Growth: The FEC and Faculty Professional Growth Committee (FPGC) are working on ways of improving communication and acting on recommendations in a clear and timely fashion.

Dual Enrollment: FEC is drafting a position statement on dual enrollment to be presented to the State Board of Directors for Community Colleges at its April 16 meeting at PVCC.  One concern was that the proposed State Board rules lack the requirement that all students enrolled in dual enrollment courses be registered for college credit.  The final wording of the FEC statement is unclear at this point.  Interested faculty are urged to express their views to their FEC representatives and to attend the State Board meeting on April 16.

OYO Membership: The FEC defeated the proposal to allow OYO membership in the Faculty Association.
 

PVCC President's Cabinet:
President Cardenas has been appointed interim Chancellor for one year beginning July 1, 1999.  He will return to PVCC as President after that.

Dean Kranitz has been appointed acting President for one year starting July 1, 1999.

An Acting Dean of Administrative Services will be appointed soon.

The second annual President's Retreat was held on March 26. The theme was "Transforming PVCC to being a more learning-centered college."  Nearly half of those attending were faculty members.
 
 

Duplicating/IPC - Steve Platte
The new copy machine expected by duplicating has not arrived.  Duplicating is now offering (informally) "Express Duplicating" between 8 and 10 a.m., and again between 4 and 6 p.m.  If faculty wants more duplicating budget monies to filter to individual divisions, faculty/divisions will need to lobby the administration.

Dual/Concurrent Enrollment - Steve Platte
  After discussion, it was moved that "The PVCC Faculty Senate recommends that PVCC should implement a one-year, concurrent/dual enrollment pilot program following the "Concurrent Enrollment Guidelines" and stipulating that departments will have a choice as to whether and to what extent they will participate."  The motion was passed unanimously.  Steve will relay our resolution to the administration.
Steve thanked Abby and Joyce for their excellent presentations at the Dual/Concurrent Enrollment meeting last week.
 

Faculty Hiring Procedures - Steve Platte
This item was tabled until the May senate meeting.

Chair & Senate Elections - Steve Platte
The are no division chair elections this year because we are in the second year of our three-year election cycle.

The procedures and timeline for the Senate elections was presented and approved.

The Senate appointed the following faculty to serve as the Nomination/Election Committee:  Tom Butler, Chair; Jane Marks, Lois Roma-Deely and Ron Brooker.

Since Division Senators are appointed by their respective divisions, current Division Senators were asked to notify Steve by April 9th with the names of the new Division Senators for next year.
 

Diversity Enrichment Training - Fred Wieck

Fred reported that the District will be offering diversity training to all PVCC employees in four workshops tentatively scheduled for April 20th and 28th, May 4th and 18th from 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in B208.  Prior to these workshops, the PVCC Diversity Committee will sponsor a one and one-half hour pre-training workshop for Administrators, Student Service Managers, Division Chairs and other selected individuals on April 13th to promote interest and momentum to the districts effort.  Steve encourages faculty involvement in the district training.
 

Interim College President - Steve Platte

As a result of the appointment of an Interim College President, it was decided that the RFP needs clarification regarding faculty input in the hiring/appointing of college administrators.  Steve will bring this topic up to the Faculty Executive Council for clarification of 2.11.3 of the RFP as that language appears ambiguous.  Steve will also investigate how other campuses handle administrative appointments/promotions and to determine if there should be a change in the language of the RFP to cover contingencies.
 

Faculty Association Scholarship - Jeanne Franco
Jeanne reported that the scholarship fundraising event produced an additional $1,150, bring the total of the scholarship fund to a little over $3,300.  She informed the Senate that it was time to make the necessary arrangements with the Financial Office to offer our scholarship for next fall.  After discussion, it was moved that the criteria for the 1999/2000 Faculty Association Scholarship should remain the same as last year with one, $600 scholarship offered.  The motion passed unanimously.  The Scholarship Committee of Carmen Marquez, Kevin Arps and Steve Platte was formed, and Carmen agreed to make the necessary arrangements with the Financial Aid Office to announce the scholarship.
 

Best Wishes - Steve Platte
It was agreed that the Senate will send cards/flowers/gifts as appropriate to the following individuals:
Walt Thielen - get well
Dr. Cardenas - congratulatory
Dr. Kranitz - congratulatory

Carmen Marquez agreed to arrange for these gestures on behalf of the senate.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:25 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted by
  Jeanne Franco
  Senate Secretary