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Metropolitan Community College

Academic Senate Minutes

May 15, 2008

Hossein Bahmaie, President (LV)

Gloria Maxwell, President-Elect (PV)

Cheryl Winter, Vice-President (BR)

Michele McGeeney, Past President (MW) 

|Blue River |Longview |  Maple Woods |Penn Valley |

|Don Miller |Kurt Canow |  Mark Lidman |Greg Sanford |

|Ben Wolfe ’08 |Carl Priesendorf ’08 |  Gary May ’08 |Monica Johnston ’08 |

|Shari Harden ’10 |Elliott Schimmel ’08 |  Paul Long ’08 |Sandra Landuyt ’08 |

| |Priscilla Jackson-Evans’08 |  Mary Ann Blitt ’09 |L.M. McCloud ’08 |

|  |Connie Flick-Hruska ’09 |  Barbara Cooke ’09 |Greg Mitchell ’09 |

|  |Pat Sparks ’09 | Jim Murray ’10 |Brian Chasteen ’09 |

|  |John Church ’10 |  Gary May ’08 |Lyle Gibson ’10 |

|  |Tammy May ’10 |  |Will Hodgkinson ’10 |

|  | |  |Hema Udupa ’10 |

|BTC | |  | |

|Becky Breit ’10 | | | |

 

 

Minutes The minutes of the April 18, 2008 meeting were approved.

Old Business   

No Old Business was discussed.

President’s Report 

Chancellor’s Cabinet: The meeting was spent discussing security. At this time, Penn Valley will not have armed guards..

Senate Committee Reports (complete minutes online)

A. Academic Affairs – Jim Murray: The committee forwarded a new faculty evaluation form for online courses. The senate requested changes and approved the questions as amended.

B. Curriculum – Paul Long:  The Senate recommends approval of the following proposals.

MATH 23 – Basic Mathematics/Lab; change in number

MATH 43 – Intro Co-Laboratory Algebra; change in number

BIOL 214 – Principles of Genetics; new course

AAS in Apparel and Textiles – Design and Production Development; revisions

AAS in Apparel and Textiles – Merchandising and Marketing; revisions

CDCG 217 – Literature for Children; change in prerequisite, outcomes

INTE 270 – Instrumentation and Process Controls; new course

B. Elections – Mark Lidman: Penn Valley elected new senators Kim Wilcox, Lisa Spaulding, Maureen Kennedy. Greg Sanford was elected Faculty Association president. Blue River re-elected senator Ben Wolfe and Faculty Association president Don Miller. Maple Woods elected Jessica Helperin Faculty Association president and new senator Stephanie Zerkel-Humbert. Connie Flick-Hruska was elected president of the Longview Faculty Association. Elliot Schimmel was re-elected to the senate and new senators Candice Baldwin, Anne Nienheuser and Sharon Hamsa were elected. The committee has not met. The Academic Senate wishes to thank Paul Long for his excellent service as chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee, and wishes he would continue to support academics in the future.

C. Technology – Greg Sanford: The senate voted to support the following online teaching training requirements.

The Distance Education Committee proposes that Internet/Hybrid Faculty trained prior to the implementation of Quality Matters (Spring 2006 semester) will have until January 1, 2010 to complete the necessary Quality Matters training, and until January 1, 2012 to participate in a Quality Matters review of one of their courses. Failure to meet these deadlines will result in their no longer being eligible to teach online or hybrid courses.

D. PRP – Gloria Maxwell:

3.05010 – Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and 7.30020 – Discrimination have been revised and will go to the board May 15 in spite of continuing questions about the use of the word “birth” in the passage, which Sanford identified as a Reconstruction era use of the word to mean “condition of birth.”

3.35020 DR – Evaluation of Employees is being revised with special attention to probationary faculty evaluations.

E. Professional Development – Mary Ann Blitt: The committee met with the Salary Committee and will meet with the Professional Development Advisory Group.

F. Salary – Hossein Bahmaie:

1. There is no limit on the number of summer courses faculty may teach. The senate approved the following resolution:

The faculty senate would like to remind all MCC personnel that the salary code should be scrupulously followed and, thus, that no individual may impose caps to summer load.

2. Contracts sent to non-teaching faculty included new wording identifying them as “non-teaching faculty,” wording imposed by Vice Chancellor Tunis after discussion with attorney Gene Sands but without discussion with faculty, HR or Chancellor Snyder. The senate approved the following resolution.

“The Faculty Senate wishes to clarify that any change in wording of faculty contracts must be amended with the approval of the Senate Salary Committee and full Senate.”

3. Bahmaie and Reinhard Weglarz visited Johnson County Community College and Kansas City, Kansas Community College to learn about adjunct faculty compensation. Both institutions offer full tuition reimbursement. All part-time faculty at JCCC are paid more than at MCC – some much more – and some faculty at KCKCC are paid more than at MCC.

New Business 

The Academic Senate wishes to recognize the remarkable work that Hossein Bahmaie has performed as president of the Academic Senate. His energy and perspicacity have been invaluable to the faculty.

Campus Reports

Pen Valley’s visit from the chancellor was exciting. Meetings on other campuses were uneventful.

Next meeting:

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