(Draft) Minutes--Faculty Association Meeting of 10/4/2019

 

On-Going Business:

  • Professional Development funding (Travel)—Drew Proctor
    • Faculty has been awarded same travel budget as last year--$33000 total split four ways: JCC Academic, JCC Technical, HCC Academic, HCC Technical. That’s $8250 per group.
  • Faculty Association Account--Donations go to Aaron Warren or any officer, or use PayPal https://paypal.me/pools/c/8hlU2wLe5s
  • Moved and seconded to move Minnie Stevens Piper voting to same time as voting on NISOD. Vote passed. These will be moved to December/January meeting. This will allow plenty of time for Minnie Piper nominee as the application is notably lengthy. Application deadlines run very early in the academic year.
  • BOR meeting—Thank you to Jackie Armstrong, who volunteered to go to the BOR meeting to represent the faculty and to talk about new Cyber Security program developments.
  • Hill College NTCCC Instructional Innovation Conference—Oct 11, 8am -3pm was mentioned as an opportunity to present to or support fellow faculty and Hill College.
  • Updates from faculty on Hill College committees—
    • Load Guidelines Committee in talks with Dr. Kelly moderating. Did research over the summer on other colleges. Recently met for the first time in person.
    • Curriculum Committee—Katy mentioned there is a deadline of about 10 days prior (? This correct, Katy?) to the meeting to get your materials in so the committee has time to review proposals and get up to speed on the issues involved. Meetings take place during “Committee Fridays,” 3rd Friday of the month.
    • Instructional Council had its first official meeting with faculty members present. There are two faculty from academic, two from technical plus the Association President. This meeting introduced everyone, went over the purpose of the council, and went through reports in brief from various committees. There were four curriculum proposals on the table as well—carry over from this summer’s proposals that didn’t make it to vote. Those were brought from Karen Kaiser as coordinator of Behavioral Sciences. Minutes will be sent out from Dr. Kelly.

 

 

New Business:

  • Formation of Committees by the Association discussed. Membership is as follows:
    • Faculty Declaration in Support of Free Speech (a.k.a. Academic Freedom)
      • Bob McAvoy, Steve Hart, Jason Abbott, Otter Day, Brad Stevens
    • Faculty Declaration in Support of Pathways
      • Paula Curbo, Janis Grimland, Darla Whitehead
    • Titles
      • Technical-Dawn Cox, Chris Andry
      • Academic-Joanne Baham, Basima Shaheen
      • Co-Chairs Jenny Corder and Karen Kaiser
    • Salaries/Compensation
      • Technical—Kyle May, Helen Rose
      • Academic—Anthony Ololo, Don Nelson
      • Terry Rigsby—either/or?
      • Chair—To be determined.
      • MOVED & SECONDED TABLE formation/activation of this committee until Load Guidelines committee report comes in.
    • Facilities/Lab Equipment/Office Space
      • Chad Schoen, Paul Bellah—A couple others willing if needed.
      • Work in Progress—Joe Shaughnessy committee for classroom facilities dovetails with Lab Equipment
    • Other Business
      • Role of the Association President as a facilitator of communications. Under discussion:
        • Should the Association President only communicate info from faculty to admin, not from admin to faculty? What kinds of messages should be sent from faculty to admin?
        • Confusion caused by the volume and nature of communications given Dr. Schindler’s leadership style and SACSCOC priority.
        • Admin’s utilization of the Association President to announce what could be viewed as major changes in policy or changes in the enforcement of policy.
        • Protection of the position of President from “running interference.”
        • Discretion involved when making judgment calls related to transparency (protection of sensitive info, reduction of confusion, conflict avoidance)
      • Response to Ad Astra presentation regarding Scheduling, funding for the scheduling contract with Ad Astra—would it be worth it for the money saved in scheduling?
      • Concerns discussed at length regarding overloads/bonus pay and scheduling guideline changes in the works, financial well-being of the college.
    • Adjourn

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