Academic Leadership Team
May 26, 2020
1:00 pm
Via Zoom
Members Present: Gayle Arries, Tiffany Blackwell, Jackie Blakley, Tim Bowen, Ahmad Chaudhry, Rick Cothran, Galen DeHay, Mark Dougherty, Mandy Elmore, Adam Ghiloni, Scott Harvey, Glenn Hellenga, Gabe Hollingsworth, Linda Jameison, Tasheka Johnson, Marci Leake, Tom Lawrence, Bryan Manuel, Chris Marino, Jeremy McCracken, Sarah Shumpert, Luke VanWingerden
Members Absent: Jenni Creamer, Mary Orem
Other Attendees: Cara Hamilton, Jenn Hulehan, Kristen Karasek, Ken Kopera, Tracy Wactor
Length of Meeting: 1.5 hours
The minutes of the May 12, 2020 meeting were approved as presented.
FTE Prioritization
Galen gave a brief overview. The state legislature will return in September to pick up the state budget The state currently has a surplus, but it is being spent down. Our service area counties are creating their budgets, and it appears they will approve our requests. While we do not know the tuition and fees revenue, based on Tri-County’s financial stability and known factors, it is prudent to move forward with this prioritization. Once final budgets are in place, we can move forward quickly with any new hires.
Galen reviewed the criteria, and asked for any additional criteria. Hearing none, he moved forward with the prioritization. The requests were ranked based on high, medium, and low need. Rick Cothran withdrew the CCE request.
Each FTE request was presented by its requestor, and the members of the group asked questions. Cara Hamilton noted that, in the current environment and considering long-term need, she considered requests from the Business Affairs units to be mediums. After the presentations and discussions, the group voted as noted below.
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FTE for FY21 |
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Name/Dept. |
High |
Medium |
Low |
Total |
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Videographer |
9 |
14 |
3 |
26 |
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Mathematics |
25 |
1 |
0 |
26 |
|
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Economics |
10 |
16 |
0 |
26 |
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|
Fiscal Technician |
0 |
20 |
6 |
26 |
|
|
Project Coordinator |
2 |
19 |
5 |
26 |
|
|
Bridge to Clemson Asst. Dir. |
13 |
12 |
1 |
26 |
|
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Easley Campus Director |
6 |
16 |
4 |
26 |
|
|
Automotive instructor |
18 |
8 |
0 |
26 |
|
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MAP instructor |
12 |
12 |
2 |
26 |
|
|
IT App. Delivery and BI |
0 |
19 |
7 |
26 |
|
|
IT Ops & Info security |
8 |
16 |
1 |
25 |
|
|
AD Coor. E-learning
consultant |
5 |
15 |
6 |
26 |
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High
Priorities
- Mathematics instructor
- Automotive technology instructor
- Bridge to Clemson Asst. Dir
- MAP instructor
The college will use these rankings when making decisions about new hires and will re-assess the possibility of additional new hires when the budget is known. Marci Leake will request FTE slots from the system office.
Announcements
Chris Marino:
· Reported that a survey will go out early next
week. It is a pulse check to gather
basic feedback to identify emergent issues.
May conduct this survey several times during a term.
· Noted that Lisa Saxon and Mary Johnston did an
outstanding job in the last evaluation cycle (graduate survey) which came in at
80.4%
· The grade distribution for the spring was about the same as last year. D and F grades flipped with W grades. Chris did not have the data on how many withdrew after we moved to e-learning.
Ahmad Chaudhry:
· Reported that things are going well in the Health Education Division. The programs in the Health Professions department have very good graduation and job placement rates.
Kristen Karasek:
· Reported that we have 1,056 Bridge deposits to date.
Linda Jameison:
· Reported that the Service Animal policy/procedure, and Student Code and Student Grievance procedures have been approved by the System Office. The group will review these at the next ALT meeting. The catalog has been updated with these policies/procedures and with the COVID19 safety procedure.
Recorded By:
Anne
Bryan
Next Meeting: Tuesday,
June 9 @ 1:00, via Zoom
