Faculty Senate Minutes, Friday, January 27th, 2017, RH 245, 1:00PM
In attendance:
Ann Barnes, Penny Edwards, Stacey Frank, Tonia Faulling, Tom Hiebel, Justin
Herndon, Bill Leverette, Timeko McFadden, Laura McClain, Mary Orem, Mourning
Pace, Richard Reeves, Matthew Simon, Debbie
Vance, Jonathan Warnock, Paula Scales Whitmire, Tom Hiebel, and Julia Seligson
Not in attendance. Meg Allan, Gregg Corley, Ed Eudy, and Renee
Turner
Guests: E.J. Aman, Valbona Cela, Lou Moritz, and Josh
Wrightson
Welcome and Agenda
Stacey Frank called the meeting to order at 1:04 PM.
Minutes of December 8, 2016
Minutes were distributed and approved via electronic
vote prior to this meeting.
Old Business
None discussed.
New Business
Add/Drop Session B – This
session starts at the same time as Session B, and there is an issue with some
possible extra time for the add/drop period.
Stacey will send out information about this electronically.
Bookstore Concerns – It
was reported that ENG 102 and ENG 209 had a shortage of books for the beginning
of the spring semester. Lou Moritz and
Josh Wrightson from the Bookstore were present at the meeting to discuss the
problems with book adoptions for each semester.
A spreadsheet of the current state of the Bookstore was distributed.
They currently have an inventory of approximately $670,000 worth of unsold
books in which a small portion can only be returned to the publishers. They are asking for faculty to be more intentional
about their book adoption numbers. If instructors are telling students not to
buy required books for their class, please communicate this with the Bookstore. Penny Edwards is on a Project Charter for
Digital Inclusive Access for textbooks. If anyone is looking for information
regarding Digital Access, it is recommended to contact Lou Moritz or Penny
Edwards for more information.
TCTC Police Department –
Chief Aman was a guest at this month’s Faculty Senate meeting to give us an
opportunity to meet him and provide an update about the College’s Police
Department. Chief Aman explained his
background in both law enforcement and military service. He has a total of 27 years’ experience in law
enforcement. Additionally, he was in the Marine Corps. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from
Anderson University related to criminal justice. He also graduated from NC State’s Law
Enforcement Executive program with a post-graduate certificate. He believes that educations is an important
role in changing the profession from a job to a career. He has taught at both the TCTC and Anderson
University. He is the Adjunct Professor
of the year for 2015-29016 at Anderson University. Chief Aman explained that the department
would be changing names and functions from Campus Safety to a Campus Police
Department. You will be able to see this through new branding. You will see
officers roaming the halls using a community policing approach. Also, should
you need/ want to have he or any of his officers speak to your classes, they
would be happy to. The next major update was the Emergency Management Plan.
Every Senator was provided with both the EM plan and the Quick Reference
Guide. Each area on campus needs to have
a Quick Reference Guide posted for easy access. A situation that occurred
during a recent tornado in the area, where an instructor was giving an exam and
all electronic devices were turned off rendering the messaging systems
ineffective in communicating to this classroom.
Chief Aman discussed the different methods the College has and took
suggestions of the Senators. The next work in progress is the response of the
Panic buttons. As part of the feedback from the PD session he was involved
with, Chief Aman is now requiring follow-ups no matter if it was an accident or
not. If someone doesn’t get a follow-up
he would like to know. Chief Aman is also
working to acquire AEDs for the campus. This
is currently a statewide problem. A few other items: Parking is a known
problem. There are many discussions about enforcement and new ideas for
security. He is also aware of access to exterior buildings being a current
problem. This is also being discussed. There
is a current project charter looking into using card access for everything from
printing to building access. Chief Aman highly encouraged all Senators to call
1800 whenever they have a problem whether it is with a student, faculty member,
staff member, or even one of his officers.
He also gave out his cell phone number in case he couldn’t be reached at
his office number. Tom Hiebel asked if
everything that is called in or emailed to the Police Department is
tracked. Chief Aman did confirm that
everything is tracked.
Honors Experience – It was
announced that the College has had an Honors Experience for high achieving
students for the past year and a half.
It is currently housed within the Arts and Science Division. It was mostly marketed to Bridge students in
the pilot year of 2015-2016; however they are only here for one year. The College is now focusing on students
within the Arts and Science Division for the Honors Experience. It is on the website under special
programs. Each department has a
representative to answer questions from students or faculty members.
AACC – Penny Edwards updated
Faculty Senate about AACC. There is a
convention that Penny Edwards will be attending in New Orleans. The faculty advisor counsel committee
submitted 2 proposals and both were selected.
Penny will be focusing on bring back a lot of information for all
faculty.
Committee Reports
- Advising Steering Committee Update. Timeko McFadden gave an update for the Advising Steering Committee. On the core faculty competencies it doesn’t list anything about advising. Administration staff decided to change this and add some advising competencies for faculty. There currently are no standards of advising for faculty included in the job description, so a workgroup was formed. The work group meet with Margaret Burdette, and determined the following four competencies: 1. Faculty member establishes communication method to students on how and where advising time is available to student. 2. Faculty member demonstrates respect to student through being prepared for student advising. 3. The faculty leverages the appropriate technology to increase advising effectiveness. 4. Stays current on College and division polices and procedure and available resource for advising. Galen wanted Crystal McLaughlin to use the following steps before moving forward with putting it into the faculty competencies: present it to Faculty Senate, so that faculty is aware. Next, is to allow faculty Focus Groups to review for feedback. After that, decide on an assessment plan and whether it will be institutional or individual. The group of people that was on the team to make these competencies came from different divisions within the College. It is understood that different programs advise differently due to the difference in student enrollment. Crystal McLaughlin would like to have this finished by the end of the Spring Semester and the college to start using it for the Fall 2017 semester. Eventually, it will be put into the FPMS to hold faculty members accountable for student advising. Tom Hiebel wanted to make sure that what is being put into the FPMS system will be measureable. Currently, all items have a way to be measurable to hold the faculty member accountable.
- Academic Leadership Team. Stacey will send out the updated information regarding ALT electronically.
- President’s Advisory Council. Stacey will send out the updated information regarding PAC electronically.
Next Meeting
The next meeting is
tentatively scheduled on Monday, February 20th, 2017 from 3pm to 4:30pm.
With no further business
the meeting was adjourned at 2:56 PM.
Recorded by: Justin Herndon, 1/27/2017
