Faculty Senate Executive Committee
West Virginia Northern Community College
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Minutes 19 September 1997 |
Present: C. Bonfini-Hotlosz, J. Cisney, T. Craig, T. Danford, M. Grubor, K. Herrignton, R. Jennette, V. Larson, B. Matey, D. Poffenberger, S. Rychlicki, P. Sharma,. C. Stokes (presiding), C. Teaff, A. Thompson.
Excused: G. Pickett, A. Secreto
Guests: M. Bishop, P. Miller, K. Porter, L. Salerno, J. Ullom
Special Guest: Vanessa Hotlosz
C. Stokes called the meeting to order at 2:05 p.m. on Friday, 19 September 1997, in Culinary Arts, Wheeling Regional Campus. Minutes from the August meeting were distributed and approved with minor corrections.
C. Stokes and P. Miller led a discussion of some of the common concerns facing Northern faculty and classified staff. Topics included classified staff grievance procedures, staff representation on a liaison committee to the President, comp time and flex time, Northern committee structure, and administrative evaluations.
The following motion was made, seconded, and unanimously passed by the faculty senate executive committee:
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee recommends that the current faculty liaison committee be expanded to include appropriate classified staff representation, that appropriate subcomittees be established as needed, and that a standing committee slot be established for monthly meetings of the liaison committee with the President.
C. Stokes and P. Miller will draft a joint memorandum to send to the President.
The classified staff council representatives left after this joint discussion.
C. Stokes reported on some of the topics under discussion at the Governance Council. These included: draft policies, applications for grants, position descriptions for major administrators, Series 31, work schedules and posting of jobs, committee structure, continuing education units (CEUs), Policy Bulletin 32, assessment concerns, the strategic plan update, and major administrators' evaluation committee.
Two of these were referred to the Liaison committee for discussion with the President: 1) question of CEUs and academic credit and 2) question of assessment measures in community education settings.
T. Danford distributed a draft motion from the FERC concerning validation of the newly adopted faculty evaluation tool. This discussion also included the question of evaluations for tenured full professors. In a nutshell, the FERC is recommending that ALL faculty be evaluated with the complete tool for the next three evaluation cycles, and that specific data analysis by an external consultant be conducted. In this way, the tool can be validated and refined. The long term goal would be to establish a valid alternative for tenured full professors such that they would complete the entire process only once every three years and use an abbreviated procedure in other years. This motion engendered some heated discussion.
C. Stokes reported that the major administrators' evaluation committee, which is supposed to be designing/recommending forms and procedures for evaluative input from classified staff and faculty, has not yet met. She indicated that she and T. Danford are the faculty representatives and the G. Persinger would be chairing the committee.
C. Stokes indicated that Dick Smith would be attending the Faculty Senate meeting to discuss the TIAA/CREF payment issue.
C. Stokes asked for faculty representatives of the various committees to prepare a brief report for the Senate meeting.
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the executive committee is Friday, 17 October, at 2:00 p.m. in Culinary Arts, HA, Wheeling Regional Campus.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas R. Danford, Professor of Biology
Faculty Senate Secretary