Friday, April 29, 2016
CD 142 1:30pm
In attendance:
Meg Allan, Gregg Corley, Stacey Frank, Janet
Fuller, Tom Hiebel, Justin Herndon, Laura McClain, Terri Smith, Lacey Torge
Not in attendance:
Fran Broome, Timeko McFadden, Amy Roberts,
Faculty Guests: Matthew Simon, Debbie Vance (elected to the
next Faculty Senate)
Welcome and Agenda
Tom Hiebel called the meeting to order at 1:30 PM and
introduced the guests and the agenda for the meeting.
Minutes of March 25, 2016
Minutes from the prior meeting were distributed and
approved via electronic vote prior to this meeting and have been posted to eTC.
Guests: Galen Dehay, Senior Vice President; Sharon
Colcolough, Assistant Vice President, Mary Orem; Library Director.
Old
Business
Add/Drop Period.
Data support that add/drop is neutral to student success, consequently faculty
senate does not feel that there is a need to recommend a change to the current
practice. It was discussed however that
due to the volume of “exception processing” after the add/drop period it would
be a good idea for those responsible for the procedure to take another look to
see if procedural changes may be warranted.
Adjunct Compensation
Model. Galen
Dehay and Sharon Colcolough discussed the progress made on designing a
compensation model that would compensate adjuncts using a flat rate model,
while honoring pay for hours worked requirements of the State. They indicated that there are a few
complications that are being worked on, primarily related to labs, and will get
back to the senate when they are able to finalize the model.
Faculty/Staff Parking. Tom Hiebel reported that apparently the
parking plan has not been updated in some time and that the current numbers are
based on a 2003 plan of 310 which was later reduced to 250 spaces to
accommodate parking flow changes. Faculty and staff numbers have increased
since 2003. As a result of Tom’s research, executive staff is creating a
charter to evaluate the parking situation and asked for faculty volunteers to
participate. The following faculty
volunteered to participate; Terri Smith, Stacey Frank and Laura McClain.
Faculty Senate
Elections. The following faculty
were elected to serve for the 2016/2017 term:
Meg Allan, Ann Barnes, Andrea Barnett, Gregg Corley, Justin Herndon,
Laura McClain, Aristide Sechandice, Matthew Simon and Debbie Vance. Stacey Frank was elected as president, Tom
Hiebel will serve in his capacity as past president and Timeko McFadden was
elected as faculty-at-large representative.
New
Business
OER.
Mary Orem presented an emerging alternative to the high cost of textbooks
entitled Open Education Resources (“OER”).
She distributed an informational flyer which included a quote from the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, “Open Education Resources are teaching,
learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and
re-purposing by others.” Mary was
reaching out to faculty who might be interested in exploring the benefits and
value of utilizing this tool in the future.
Interested faculty should contact Mary Orem or Lacey Torge.
Committee Reports
Calendar
Committee. Stacey Frank
reported that the graduation venue may need to change due to booking conflicts
at the Anderson Civic Center. The
committee has also discussed the option of changing graduation dates. No
decisions have been made as yet. Meg
Allan agreed to replace Stacey Frank on the committee during the next faculty
senate term.
Next Meeting
Meg
will distribute invitations once a date has been established.
There being no further
business, the meeting adjourned at 2:58 PM.
Recorded by: Meg Allan, April 29, 2016
