Faculty Senate

 

West Virginia Northern Community College

 

Minutes:  3 February 2006

 

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Present: S. Beck, F. Binkley, D. Board, C. Cornforth, C. Dale, T. Danford, C. Eastham, D. Folger, D. Goeddel, M. Goldstein, M. Grubor, D. Hans, C. Harbert, K. Herrington, L. Ingram, C. Kefauver, J. Keyser, N. Krupinski, A. Kuca, J. Lewis, R. Lucki, R. Malek, D. Poffenberger, R. Pusz, T. Ramsey, J. Remias, C. Riter, D. Roth, S. Rychlicki, B. Sisarcik, W. Slider, J. Tully, A. Vavra, M. Watson

 

Excused:  F. DeCaria, S. Hooff, S. Huggins, M. Marlin, D. Roth, C. Teaff, J. Van Fossen, G. Winland

 

Absent:  K. Atkins, D. Bartley, R. Berry, F. Binkley, T. Craig, M. Davis, K. Freeman, D. Jones, L. Miller, M. O'Brien, C. Rogerson, P. Sharma, L. Shelek, C. Stokes

 

Guests:  Dr. Martin Olshinsky

 

The meeting was called to order by President Rick Pusz at 2:30 pm in the B&O auditorium.

 

Dr. Martin Olshinsky’s report

 

·         Merit Policy:  Still working on it. 

o       Understands the need for equity. 

o       Also looking at cost of living, number of years at rank. 

o       Still need to be compliant with the state, must be careful about “across the board” raises. 

o       Will probably take at least 2 years to get the whole system in balance.  Need to do this without penalizing anyone in the process.  For the second year, looking at what will be a good %. 

o       Will probably have something to look at by the end of the month. 

o       Will be asking the committee to come to a meeting before the document goes out to the faculty at large. 

o       Thinks merit should be “meritorious” and folks may be more comfortable once we see the whole salary package. 

·         Merit Review Committee

o       Chief Academic Officer and 1 other administrator plus 5 faculty members elected by the senate.

o       Faculty members elected must represent all campuses and all divisions, ie. There must be someone from each campus and each division.

·         Question:  Is $50/yr service still open for discussion in the state?  Yes

·         Rumors that merit might be bonus and not part of base pay.  The history is that it was part of the base.  President’s opinion is that merit would be bonus but that there would be other cost of living and base adjustments.

·         Question:  Are there multi-year term contracts in the state?  No, just 1 year term contracts.

 

 

2:50 Back to general Faculty Senate session

 

 

I.                   Merit Review Committee volunteers:

 

Frank DeCaria representing Humanities and Social Sciences, Weirton

Lisa Ingram representing Health Sciences, Wheeling

Kathy Herrington representing Humanities and Social Sciences, New Martinsville

Connie Dale representing Science, Math and Technology, Wheeling

Chris Kefauver representing Business, CIT, and Culinary Arts, Wheeling

 

II.                Fall 2006 Schedule: Currently with division chairs.

 

III.             Developing a process/standards for release time

 

·         Currently release time is ad hoc

·         Want to develop standards and guidelines

·         Motion:  Faculty Senate President will have 3 credits release time per semester.

Seconded and passed unanimously.

 

IV.             Faculty representation on President’s Council:  Faculty Senate President will serve as the faculty representation.

 

V.                Faculty representation at meeting with the Legislature:  February 15th, 9am to 2pm.  Interested persons should contact Rick Pusz.

 

 

VI.            Assessment Update

Comment:  The leaders are the division chairs.  Marian Grubor reported on what the Business, CIT, and Culinary Arts division is doing.

 

VII.        Pat Stroud request:  Pat Stroud would like to attend faculty senate meetings.  Discussion ended with opinion that she would be welcome to bring something to the agenda of a faculty senate meeting and come to that meeting.

 

VIII.    Parking:  There is discussion taking place on monitoring of parking areas, student fees, etc.  They are looking at the state policy and will send an email when appropriate.  Comments should be emailed to Larry Bandi.

 

IX.             Committee Reports

 

Committee reports were presented by Tom Danford for the Board of Governors, and for the Academic Affairs Committee (Kathy Herrington), Budget Committee (Tony Vavra), and Assessment Committee (Rick Pusz)

 

X.                New Catalog:  the program advisory committee suggested that their titles, positions, and organizations be listed in the catalog.  Debbie emailed the program directors for the data.

 

XI.             December minutes were approved.

 

Meeting adjourned at 3:30pm.