Faculty Senate Meeting

Minutes

August 17, 2006

 

Senators Present: 

James Jordan,  Jane Hellinghausen, Lynnette Schillo, Robbie Rogers, Fil Guin (for Melissa Elliot), Tammy Patni, Claudia Philpott, Nichole Jackson, Kay Zeigenbier (for Sandy Graves)

 

Senators Absent:

Sandy Graves, Melissa Elliott, Stan Stallings, Michael Samp, Geoff Schwende

 

Meeting was called to order at 1:30

 

President’s report:

            President Jordon inquired about best meeting times and days for the Senate. Senators agreed on the second Thursday of each month at 1:30. Light snacks will be served.

The OC presidential search continues. The OC Board will continue the selection process after accepting the recommendation of the personnel committee at its meeting on August 22nd.  The personnel committee will be recommending three candidates for the position.  Senators were encouraged to attend the board meeting and to invite constituents to do the same. It is anticipated that the new president will be in place at the first of the New Year.

 

The new VP of Student Services, Dr. David Bauske, will arrive on campus and assume his duties on September 1st.

 

            President Jordan reviewed Senate committee assignments. The Awards committee includes Jackie Sullivan and Nikki Handley and the Curriculum committee includes   Jane Hellinghausen and Michael Samp. James Jordan will chair the Tenure committee and it will include Mike White, Lucinda Hurlbut, Beverly Forsyth, and Brent MacAfee. Tammy Patni will head up the Faculty Retirement committee. Carolyn Peterson and Cindy Casparis are the LRC committee and Stan Stallings will chair the Safety committee. The Web committee consists of Dave Carson, Kathryn Keen, Roger Manning, April Vanecek, Ray Cone, Donna Griffin and James Jordan. The Student Recognition Committee will be chaired by Wayne Johnson.  The Evaluation Committee will be chaired by Mark Jordan.  Some of the committees are still forming and new members will be asked to serve.

 

            President Jordan reported that the Board approved a 5% and one step pay raise for all faculty. Adjunct faculty pay is now $505.00 per semester hour.

 

Finally, the OC Marketing Plan is now available. Senators and constituents are encouraged to review it.

 

 

 

Old Business:

 

            In February, 2006, Cheri Dalton, Media Relations, had discussed with the Senate the possibility of running stories in the Odessa American highlighting instructors at Odessa College similar to the articles ECISD has been running about their teachers.  The project never materialized and at the last meeting of the previous Senate, Senator Nichols asked that the status of the project be investigated.  According to Cheri, this project was placed on hold due to personnel changes in the Media Relations staff, namely the lack of a news writer on staff.  On September 1st, a full time news writer will begin work and this project will be restarted.  The previous Senate suggested that Media Relations send a message to all faculty members and ask them to submit information about themselves and their programs if they wanted to be highlighted in the Odessa American.  Those who provide this information will be randomly selected and their story placed in the OA. 

 

Other:

 

            Parking tickets. Senators agreed that if students were not ticketed for parking in faculty parking, faculty would be persistent with phone calls to campus police.

 

            Dr. Athyala will remain in her capacity as faculty trainer.  Any requests for training should be sent to her. Also, it was reported that a mandatory training session (on Colleague) for chairs will be held this semester due to several changes in the class scheduling system.  This training will be presented by Tracy Hillard.

 

             Tammy Patni reported that the Strategic Master Plan was distributed this week. Senators and constituents are urged to review it.

 

            The Advising Task Force. President Jordan reports that administration has appointed a Task Force to resolve the student advising issue.  Since the issue involves faculty, counseling, financial aid, the registrar, as well as other departments on campus, a task force appeared to be the correct way to address all the issues involved.  The makeup of that task force has been established and the members will be notified by Dr. Bauske, the chairman of that task force, after September 1st.

 

Meeting Adjourned:  2:45 pm

 

 

 

Submitted by:

 

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Jane Hellinghausen