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Welcome to our October 2 Faculty Senate meeting at the end of a very interesting and long week. Thank you for being here. Thank you to our senators and guests for joining us. We have a pretty hearty agenda today, as you'll see. So we'll do our best to stay on time. Please click on the sign-in sheet, everyone, senators, administrators, guests. Please just go ahead and sign in. I'd also like to thank administrators for being here. When I think of guests, administrators, I was not including you intentionally. Please go ahead and sign that. For introductions, go ahead and write your name in the chat, and if you could please -- and also do this when you sign in, if you are a proxy for anyone, please note that in both the chat and also in the sign-in form. So if you already submitted it and you are a proxy, you can go ahead and submit it again and write your name and then proxy next to your name. Or write the person that you're proxying for next to your name. We had one open-forum item from Michael Tulino. Is it open forum or short announcements, Michael? >> MICHAEL TULINO: Short announcement I guess would be more appropriate. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Okay. Then we can get it done at the beginning. Is there a call for an executive session? Okay. So agenda modifications, there were a few, shifting items around that turned out didn't need to be in one place and placed in another, but nothing major. So we can move along then to the first item for our short announcements, which is academic freedom with Kate Schmidt. This is a draft that back long, long ago when we were meeting in the Amethyst Room this item came up and we offered feedback and the BP has not progressed through the review process yet, but Kate will provide more information. >> KATE SCHMIDT: So it is about to progress through the review process. It is with legal now. It is expected to be on the November board agenda for the first reading. That means it will come back to the employee groups, including staff council and senate ideally for the November meeting. That's where it would be officially on your agenda. It will open for the 21-day comment period around October 26th. So you may remember last fall you put forward a group of names. Ted Roush and I worked with Kimlisa Duchicela, Maggie Goldstein, Mary C, Curt M, Karie Meyers was still on senate, and Ken Scott to create that draft, and we came back to senate with reports a couple of times. I think at the February meeting Ken presented the current draft. So it will be back on your agenda next month presumably. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you. Does anyone have questions for Kate? Well, if anyone, after reacquainting yourself with that draft, if you have any comments remaining, please e-mail them to Kate. >> KATE SCHMIDT: I actually would encourage you to wait until the 21-day review period, because it's out of my hands now. I would make sure those formal comments get into that, through that formal process. I can't make any more changes to it myself. So certainly e-mail me if you have questions. I can help clarify things. But once it comes out on that 21-day review period, make sure you're making your comments there. Because those have to, by policy, are formally responded to and may or may not be incorporated into it. There is one more thing. Very first time we met, which I think was October, we had Seth Shippee come and give us an overview of what academic freedom was, the history, where it intersects with the 1st Amendment and freedom of speech, and he has offered to do that for anyone who is interested, some background on that. We scheduled two sessions, so I can paste the link to that information in the chat if people are interested. I think the information about that will go out in Pima News and in the provost's report and that kind of thing. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you, Kate. Next item on our agenda is a request for a volunteer for the assessment of college climate for the diversity, equity, and inclusion team with Hilda Ladner. I believe Hilda is here. >> HILDA LADNER: I am here. Thank you. So we are putting together a rather large team to look at the climate for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the college. The team will work with others throughout the college to select an external consultant to work with us on doing a very comprehensive assessment of the college from facilities to curriculum to services, policies, all sorts of things, and help us to create some strategies going forward to address any concerns that might come up related to climate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. So I'm looking for one or two faculty members to serve on that committee, and the work would really span this entire academic year. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Would you like us to call for a volunteer now, or two volunteers now, or should volunteers e-mail you? >> HILDA LADNER: It is up to you. I'm not sure what your process typically is, if you all need to decide who goes forward and represents the faculty. I just want to make sure there is faculty representation on this team. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: We don't really have a particular process for most situations involving volunteers, but -- and it's not restricted I'm sensing to faculty senators but actually to all faculty? Correct? >> HILDA LADNER: Correct. So if you would want people to contact me and if there are many, then we might go through a process to see who is most available at the times we might meet, or make sure that we have representation at different areas of the college, as well. So not everybody is not coming from the same discipline. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: When does this work begin? >> HILDA LADNER: Very soon. We hope to have a meeting in the next week or so of the whole team to receive the charge and begin some of the work. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Okay. So please, if anyone here is interested, please contact Hilda and if you can think of anyone, think of all your constituents, let them know and please ask them, any particular ones you feel might be interested or right for this committee, please recommend that they contact Hilda. Thank you very much. >> HILDA LADNER: Thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: So the next item here is, two items here related to the TLC. The first one came about after or during a meeting between Faculty Senate officers and administration about two weeks ago. I guess somewhat randomly we got off on this path where we ended up talking about the value of having cross-discipline connections, how there is a lot of, not a lot of knowledge from one division to the other, for example, you know, PTE or other areas, just feeling like it would be valuable to have an opportunity to establish some connections to have a better sense of what's going on in different divisions and areas. What's happening in culinary or cybersecurity or, you know, with the centers for excellence. So we came up with this idea of having TLC microsessions, they might be full, I don't think that's decided yet, of cross-discipline connections or conversations. That's not the official title. This is kind of a brainstorm between Mays and Kate and myself, and I have a little bit of a description that I'll provide in just a moment. Just bear with me. Here it is. The TLC will be facilitating a series of faculty discussions to highlight innovation in teaching and learning across disciplines. The goal of this initiative is to transcend disciplinary boundaries so we may gain a stronger contextual knowledge of our college community and the various pathways our students are pursuing. Look out for that on the TLC calendar, and I'll provide an update at our next Faculty Senate meeting in November. The other item for the TLC is Mays asked me to share this video, how to apply for a sabbatical. There is a code for it that you'll need to use, and it's I believe about a 35- to 40-minute presentation. Anyone preparing for a sabbatical, this would be a very valuable video to watch, provided by Dr. Van Zant, co-chair of the sabbatical committee. Be aware of that resource and share it with your constituents. This is my last opportunity to communicate to you the key voting deadlines, because believe it or not, the next time we meet when we meet in November, the November 3rd election will have already passed. Yes. So a lot to think about in terms of now and then. So there are two deadlines I would recommend that you communicate to anyone, including your students, as long as you don't -- you can communicate this to your students as long as you don't advocate that people vote a certain way. You can just let them know of the voting deadlines. Registration to vote is on Monday, October 5. Then election day is November 3rd. We posted a global announcement for the registration deadline and I'll submit a request for another global announcement for the November 3rd deadline. Please pass that information along to your constituents. I'm just going to try to do this very briefly, but last time we had an item here about a Zoom request, about Menti and Zoom and providing the best resources for faculty. We know that faculty now have the opportunity to have full access to Zoom. And as for Menti, a lot of, based on the survey only about a third of the people who responded showed that they had an awareness of what Menti is. I thought I would provide a brief, very brief demonstration that all of you here are welcome to participate in. So I'm inviting not just faculty senators, but the guests, including administrators, to participate. What you'll have to do is if you're at the computer, you will have to -- you'll have to open up a separate web page and go to menti.com and use the code 738789. Go to menti.com and use the code 738789. And you can see that right on this screen right here. You might have to look close, I'm not sure. So you can also pull this up on your cellphone or on a tablet. It just has to be a separate window. You should see this question. >> KEN SCOTT: So voting is closed right now. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: All right. What about right now? Thank you, Ken. >> KEN SCOTT: Perfect. Thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: So you should see this question. What does the Pima Community College logo represent? You can see, if you're looking at the screen, we are seeing what everybody thinks. (Laughter.) We have a no one knows pulling out ahead. We have a crosscut of a saguaro not far behind. No one knows is pulling farther ahead. A cactus bloom is now tied with a crosscut of a saguaro. No one is picking the united order of educators. One person just did. Yay. No one has picked a neuron. It looks like no one knows is pulling out ahead. So I'm going to show the correct -- voting is now -- you can still vote, but I'm going to close it. If you missed out on that question, don't worry, there is one more. The correct answer, which is highlighted, is no one knows. I asked Lisa Brodsky, I was curious, what does the logo represent? I thought it was something very deep and meaningful entrenched in Pima's history of the years. No one knows. (Laughter.) There is speculation that it is the crosscut of a saguaro. Little bit of trivia to take with you into the weekend. So the next question is what do you miss most about the Amethyst Room? If you're new to Faculty Senate, we met in the Amethyst Room before the pandemic hit, but I'm sure you're familiar with the Amethyst Room for some other reason. I will open the voting, and here's a chance to share most of what you miss about the Amethyst Room. Snacks, space, seeing colleagues. Seeing colleagues not in little grids, right? I'm seeing food is the most favorite choice. Snacks and food. Getting smaller. Someone doesn't miss anything. I'm surprised no one has -- yes, the AC, I was going to say, I'm surprised no one has commented on the very cold Amethyst Room. Big screen. All right. So thank you for participating in this. There is obviously no right answer here. But you can see -- I just wanted to give you a couple-minute demonstration of what Menti can allow you to do. Super easy. This was free. I created this with a free account, but in order to add additional questions, I'd have to pay and upgrade my account. You can see how this could be a fun tool to use in your virtual classes and when communicating synchronously to go through various quizzes. It's really fun. So the provost, when we spoke several weeks ago, was interested in knowing how many faculty are interested in having access to the enterprise version which would allow you access to many, many more tools. So if you are interested, just go ahead and type what you think in the chat and then we can pass that information along to the provost to show interest. That concludes our short announcements. We will move along to business. No, let's go back, because I remember Michael Tulino has one more short announcement. You are a co-host, so you should be able to share your screen. >> MICHAEL TULINO: Thank you, Josie. I apologize ahead of time. I have a much less interactive presentation. But I wanted to let you know, and I did display this to staff council this morning, to go hand in hand with the work that we have been doing to add preferred name to various places in MyPima for students. Shortly we will be standing up a web page that describes the use of chosen or preferred names. The gist of it will be describing to students in what places their preferred name will display and what places we need to retain their official legal name. This is not yet published on the web, but it will be under student policies, I believe, once we get some additional feedback, but I wanted you to know and be aware that it is coming soon. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you, Michael. Are there any questions for Michael or for any of the short announcements? So lots of positive feedback in the chat. >> KEN SCOTT: I did have a quick question. Are the students going to be able to put in their own nickname, or can we put the nickname in for them? >> MICHAEL TULINO: Thank you. For the time being it's something they will need to visit a student affairs official to make a change, but in the near future, and I can't tell you what near is, but there will be technology for them to do it themselves on MyPima but we're not quite there yet. Once we get to that point, it won't need any human interaction. We in the registrar's office will monitor any new preferred first names coming in for appropriateness. >> KEN SCOTT: Yeah, I was kind of worried about that. Okay. Cool. Thank you very much. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you, Michael. So moving right along, our first item here is approval of the September minutes. We will vote through chat, and only the faculty senators need to vote on the minutes. So if you are in favor of approving these minutes, just type yes. If you're not -- or yay. Type no or nay or abstain. I think we've gone past quorum with all the yeses, so we will consider the minutes to be approved. We will move along to the next business item, and I'm pleased and excited to let you know we have a special guest here today, Meg Files. And as any of you know, Meg retired several years ago, and Meg received emeritus status honors through the senate. We submitted a nomination and it went through, and so Meg received that a year or two ago. Meg, it's such a pleasure to have you here. Meg is here to nominate Roger Irwin for emeritus status. Attached to your agenda you'll see a statement that five people, including Meg, also Pam Barnes Walter, Dave Gallagher, Patricia Davis, and Phil Lopes created this statement together. Hopefully everyone had a chance to read that before today, otherwise you can take a look at it now and there is a voting form right to the right. I will turn it over to Meg to say any words that she would like to express. >> SPEAKER: Thanks, Josie. Thanks for having me. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Faculty Senate. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: We miss you. >> SPEAKER: I'm here today to nominate Roger Irwin for emeritus status. I'm following through on his -- his colleagues and I are following through on what our long-term English department faculty member, Nancy Wall, had initiated before her death. So quick little summary, you've got details. Roger taught at Pima from 1970 to 1998. He was chair of the West Campus behavioral sciences department. During his 28-year career at Pima he taught 412 classes, including philosophy, religion, sociology, and psychology, to over 10,000 students. He was named outstanding faculty member of the year and also given the outstanding teacher award by the board. Roger was president of Faculty Senate for eight years, president of PCCEA, chair of professional development committee, member of the president's advisory board, and so much more. So with my written nomination, I have included a list of Roger's significant contributions to Pima. His colleague, Dave Gallagher, who signed this nomination, as well, had an office next door to Roger's, and he offered this assessment: I will tell you and everyone else that Roger was one of the most creative, sensitive, and compassionate teachers available to students. Students filled his classes and appreciated him greatly. So thank you for considering Roger Irwin for emeritus status. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you so much, Meg, for putting the nomination forward and there is lots of comments in the chat from senators, guests, administrators, saying how much we miss you. From there what we will do is we will go to the voting, and so go ahead and submit the voting form, and we'll share results after our next agenda item. If you can do two things as you submit your vote, please do that, and then also kind of pay attention to what happens next. If you hit abstain, that functions the same as no. So you're basically voting no if you vote abstain. The options are either yes, no, and abstain, but abstain equals no. So the next -- we will come back to the results in a minute, but moving on, we have another vote to take here, and this is for officer elections part 2. As you remember, we had our regular elections back in September, and we had two spots that remained to be filled. Those spots include the ACC rep and also secretary. So I sent out an e-mail to solicit nominations again. We have two nominations for ACC rep and none for secretary. Anthony is our current secretary, and Anthony is not here, and so on Anthony's behalf, I can say that the secretary job is probably it's very minimal of a commitment at this point, largely because of the provost's generous support in providing a note taker. Danette Valencia is here today taking notes which we are so grateful for. That was the major job of the secretary in the past. But now that we have support for that, the major responsibilities would be like tabulating vote results, which I will do today because Anthony is not here. Letting us know if we've reached quorum, so things like that. You also have the -- you get to be on the officer's e-mail list, so you get lots of extra e-mails from me that I know everybody would just love to have (smiling.) I'm trying to sell the position. I hope that someone is interested. If you are interested, can you let us know now? Unmute yourself and say, yes, I'd love to be secretary for Faculty Senate? So this is the time we are supposed to be silent for an uncomfortable amount of time until someone just can't stand the silence anymore and they step forward. Here we go. Can throw in some Red Vines or Twizzlers. >> KEN SCOTT: I tell you what, if I don't have to take notes that I have to share with people, then I'll take on the other duties >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Ken, thank you. So Ken Scott has broken the silence. Thank you, Ken. So we can type Ken's name into the form when you fill it out. Anyone else? I will just give three more seconds to make sure that in case anyone else wants to step forward you have a chance. Yes, Ken does already has a position. He's sergeant at arms and logistics officer, but those two positions can be combined. Denise Riley says I'm happy to help if needed. Denise, are you saying you would be secretary? Okay. Denise has stepped forward to be secretary. Ken, are you still interested? That's seconded. >> KEN SCOTT: Well, you know, my heart was really into it, you know. No, I will step down then. By all means. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: I don't want to pressure if you want to be secretary. I just wanted to let you know that -- >> KEN SCOTT: No, I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I just didn't want to have to write a bunch of notes. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Tal seconded the nomination, so we can go ahead and place Denise -- you can type Denise's name. You have the opportunity to type anyone's name. Go ahead and just vote for who you'd like, clicking on this form, and just faculty senators vote. Okay. While you're taking care of that, I'm going to find the results from the -- let me stop sharing. Find the results from the emeritus vote and we'll see how that turned out. I'll share my screen. As you can see, we have majority, over 96% of everyone voted yes. So James Irwin has passed the approval endorsement of Faculty Senate and we will then pass that nomination forward to the chancellor's cabinet, and that honors would be awarded next fall. >> SPEAKER: Can I interrupt you for a second? To correct the name? It's Roger Irwin. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Oh, I'm sorry. >> SPEAKER: I just don't want James whoever he is to get nominated. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Anyone here who intended to vote for someone named James as a result of a human error, can you let us know, or can we agree as a Faculty Senate to go forward recognizing with the clerical that some human somewhere made? >> KEN SCOTT: That was clearly his nickname and we have a new box where you're allowed to put nicknames in. (Laughter.) >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Good save. Okay. Go forward. I'm having the official word to go forward. Thank you so much, Meg. This is happy news, nice news to celebrate. Thank you bringing Roger's nomination to us, and I hope that Roger will be happy to know that we are endorsing the emeritus status. >> SPEAKER: Thank you. Thank you, all. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Are you leaving us now or are you going to stick around? >> SPEAKER: Well, you know, as much as I'd like to stay, I think I'll say good-bye. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you so much for being here and we do miss you, and you're welcome back at any time. >> SPEAKER: Thank you. I miss you all. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Okay. Moving right along, our next item is the chancellor's goals. So this item came about when we had our last admin meeting a couple weeks ago between officers and administrators. We were talking about the goals because they came up in the Governing Board meeting, and the provost recommended that we actually discuss these goals and have an opportunity to acquaint Faculty Senate with these goals at our next meeting. So we arranged that, and the goals, I'm sure the presenters will discuss this, but the goals have, as the chancellor says, the stool has three legs. One of them is academics, one is support services, and then one is facilities. So we have the provost and we have Dr. Dor� for services and then we have David Bea for facilities. So I'm sharing the presentation that the provost provided to me, and I'll just turn it over to our administrators. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Thank you, Josie. So I'll go ahead and kick it off. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm sorry I can't see your wonderful faces, but the Internet is down in my neighborhood, so I'm calling in. Thank you, Josie, for sharing the screen and displaying our presentation for today. Yes, just as Josie said, this came up at the last Faculty Senate and administration meeting, and so we wanted to share with you what the goals are. This is something that's done every year, and the chancellor -- this is a way for us to know what the chancellor's goals are and what he would like for the college to focus on for the year, what is the work that we need to be doing for the year. This is approved by the Governing Board, and on September 9, these goals were approved. As you can see, there are three goals, and we have three goal owners. So as the chief academic officer, I'm in charge of the academics. David Dor� with student support. David Bea with operations. So I'll go ahead and start speaking, and then I will pass it on to David Dor� and then he'll pass it on to David Bea. So this has been an incredible year, as we know, with COVID and our stress on making sure that our students have access and that everything is equitable to them. In keeping that in perspective and what we have been doing, what you all have been doing in retaining and engaging our students, there are several things that we are focusing on for the year. Also, the impact that COVID has had on the community and the future of work and our community as workers, too. So there are about 170,000 low-wage workers in Pima County, and so we are the perfect institution to upskill and reskill these workers. We need to prepare them for jobs that don't exist quite yet or just to get them to feed with the technology that is being embedded in jobs right now. Also with COVID we have seen a decline in enrollment. This is not just Pima College or the State of Arizona. This is nationwide, and we have been looking at the numbers of declines and various institutions not only community colleges but universities, and they range from 10% decline to even a 30%. So we are hovering over 15% which is not bad with all the disruptions that's happened, with students, and even employees not having access to technology when this first happened. But the college has really put a focus on making sure that both our employees, faculty, staff, and students have the right tools that they need to be successful. So all of this is we are keeping in mind. And thank you for, as faculty, for your role in helping to retain and engage our students through your classes, because, you know, the enrollment effort is not on administration or student affairs, let's say. It's all of our responsibility. And you, too. Because you're the ones that see the students more often than any of us. So thank you for making special efforts to engage our students and be in touch with them, creating a sense of belonging environment as they are struggling with life and with the new responsibilities that they have. So we appreciate that. So I will go ahead and talk about the first goal in academics, which is the letter A, 1A1, and it says transform academic offerings to position the college for a vibrant and relevant future. I'm going to unpack these words, and if you have any questions at the end, please don't hesitate to ask. So we have heard the chancellor, and I have said it too and many people have said about relevant future, what does that mean? That means that we have to look and make sure that our students are prepared for the current and future of the work environment. That means technology, that means all kinds of things. I think I have talked to you before about perhaps an employee who's at the grocery store and given an iPad to take inventory, well, if they don't know how to use an iPad, how are they going to take inventory as requested? This is all different jobs, different levels, different classifications, so we want to make sure our programs and our classes are relevant and our students are prepared once they either transfer or go on and get a job. So that includes reviewing the progress on our educational master plan, and I believe the consultant SmithGroup met with Faculty Senate officers, and I know they have met with the deans individually, they have met with the campus vice presidents, and so now we are going to be holding meetings with SmithGroup and various administrators, for example, the campus VPs, the deans, let's see, David Dor�, facilities representation, IT representation, academics, Dr. Lamata Mitchell, myself, Morgan. This is because we want to make sure that everything is aligned for the centers of excellence. That goes on to the next part, overhaul those programs that will be located in the centers of excellence. So you remember a couple of years ago, we had these centers of excellence summits where we invited panelists from business and industry where we had faculty and students involved in listening, and our partners in business and industry, talking about what they are looking for. So that means we need to tweak or programs, our curriculum, and using the master plan as a vehicle for that for the centers of excellence. So we need to make sure that everything is aligned and the instructional component, facilities component, IT, operations, so workforce, too. So all of that has to be incorporated as we think about the centers of excellence and the education master plan. This includes our IBEST programs. We need to take a look at them and make sure we can make them increase even, offer more embedded programs such as the success of IBEST. So we are very pleased about this progress. You can see in the slide at the bottom who the subgoal owners are. Dr. Lamata Mitchell is the lead and point of contact for this particular goal, but she has a team of Dr. Phillips, Michael Amick, Ian Roark and Laurie Kierstead-Joseph. So they are all working together and then working with the deans and faculty department heads, everybody trickles down, but they are the goal owners to help this be accomplished. Then let's look at, continuing here the same slide, building a visionary future for academics that optimizes program offerings and how classes are offered while also refocusing the role of faculty. So we are looking because of COVID now we are in virtual instruction and online instruction, so that has required us to upskill some faculty, particularly adjunct faculty who may were using part of D2L but not the full capacity of D2L. So I understand there were about 400 faculty this summer to take the TEACH class to make sure they are acclimated and have the tools needed to conduct a class using D2L. I know there were some questions about refocusing the roles of faculty. That is part of it, and making sure that everyone has the tools they need and have the professional development that they need in order to teach successful virtual or online class. So the teaching and learning center and PimaOnline continue to collaborate in that effort. Then they are also doing their own concepts of workshops for professional development. This also means digital literacy. Not only our faculty we need to make sure and staff and administrators, everybody, have a good knowledge base of digital literacy but our students too. In order for our students to learn about digital literacy and make sure they have those skills, we all have to make sure that we are up to speed with all of the technology and what we need to teach them. Also, I know faculty, you all have been talking about including Hyflex classrooms as a modality, and that's becoming more and more popular. We are hearing that across the country. Of classrooms being developed for Hyflex. Making sure that we still keep with the social distancing, because we really don't know how long we are going to be in this mode. Most likely -- I would say definitely for the spring and perhaps for the fall. We don't know yet about the fall. But in any case, all of these components are part of the goal 1A and that includes looking at faculty as the HLC sees faculty. All faculty. Everyone who is instructing a class is considered a faculty member. Currently we have the classifications of staff instructor, adjunct faculty, faculty, but you know our students, they don't really know who is an adjunct faculty, who is a full-time faculty. They just know that the person standing in front of the classroom or in Zoom or Google Meets, they are the ones that are sharing the knowledge and expertise they have with them, with the students. So with Morgan's group that he's going to be talking about after this presentation on the instructional structure realignment, is going to be looking at that, too. So we're all teachers, we are all educators, and so we are going to be looking through the lens of the HLC as faculty are concerned. So that completes that particular slide. Question? >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: There is a four-minute warning. So we allotted 15 minutes. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Oh, boy. Sorry. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Sorry. I just want to alert you and you are on the phone and aren't able to see the chat. We only have about three or four minutes left. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: This I think was the most important slide of mine. I will kind of zip through. Thank you for the warning. I can't even see the slides. I happened to have printed out mine so I'm good to go. Next is academics goal 1b, enhance student success through the continual work of pathways task force to ensure alignment with the current technology infrastructure, so that means looking at DegreeWorks and making sure that that is integrated well with pathways. Dr. Lamata Mitchell is the subgoal owner there too. I think I mentioned this at the last meeting over the summer there was a task force that I put together that assessed where we are at with guided pathways and that it there are some gaps that are being addressed right now, and then we are making that seamless transition for integration of DegreeWorks mostly. So the next one, academics, and this is goal 1c. Identify and implement strategies that address equity issues impacting PCC students and employees to include a comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion climate assessment. That's what Hilda was just talking to you about earlier in the meeting of requesting some volunteers, faculty to join this group, this team that will be doing this comprehensive climate assessment, along with a third party. Also, the breaking student barriers task force that launched last Friday, and some of you are in that particular task force. It's comprised of faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community members. And we have three co-chairs. We have Dr. Irene Robles-Lopez as administrative co-chair. Dr. Mays Imad as faculty co-chair. Jackie Allen, staff co-chair. And then it was suggested we have a student co-chair so we will be identifying a student probably from student senate. We will see how that works. But I think that will be great to have such a broad representation in the leadership. So that group will be looking at policies, curriculum, instructional materials, et cetera. So we are very excited about the launch of that particular task force. Next one in academics is D -- how many minutes? >> KEN SCOTT: We are out of time. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: What? No, oh, my gosh. Josie, can I pass it on to David Dor� and to Dave Bea? >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Would you like to sum up? I think there are just a couple more slides here. Yeah, only one or two. Just quickly, we have the academics and engaging with seniors and then the final one? >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Yes. Then the last one is marketing, PCC offerings in alignment with academic priorities. PimaOnline, there is a campaign to market that heavily. So with that, let's go on to goal 2 quickly. David Dor�, I'm sorry I took so much time. >> DR. DOR�: That's all right. Do you want us to go over? I want to be -- would you like us to take a minute to do this or -- >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Well, I so appreciate both you and David Bea being here. I believe Faculty Senate is probably most interested in the academics portion but I would still like to hear -- I think we'd all still like to hear from you just a quick summary of your area, and I know there is at least one question and one recommendation in the chat. Please, go ahead. >> DR. DOR�: I'll take about a minute or so then. As you can see in the goal 2 student support, there are some subgoals there. First is to enhance student support services through a focus on a human-centric approach constructed around this digital culture, the future of work, and most importantly the needs of our students. Dolores already mentioned breaking student barriers task force which will really help inform how we transform support services. Particularly around the digital piece. The next subgoal is around our optimizing physical spaces. Really to include an assessment of the progress on the facilities master plan and then an evaluation of the distribution of the centers of excellence across physical locations. I can provide some written updates of the incredible work that's going on on the campuses. Then thirdly, the real focus of workforce development transformation innovation is really integrating workforce development more into each of the divisions, and so that, you know, the divisions are really places where all of this innovation is taking place. Then finally, the final goal, is around the implementation of the college's community engagement, and we have Joi Stirrup who is now the director of external relations under Lisa Brodsky, and she will be working very closely with the campus vice presidents to really make sure that we are everywhere out there in the community. So that is a real brief one. I will turn it over to Dr. Bea. >> DR. DAVID BEA: Good afternoon, everyone. I think I can do mine in less than a minute. Just to give an overarching theme of the operational side of the chancellor's goals, it's really about ensuring that operational success of the institution and then planning and preparing for the future. There are a number of components, principal among them are things that you are familiar with already, which is the budget development, impacts of expenditure limitation, our proposition that's going to the voters in a month. Then workforce transformation, which is not only identifying what the size and needs are for our staff, faculty, and employees, and then ensuring that we are giving them the training to be successful in their jobs. Institutional compliance continues to be a priority for the institution. The remainder is basically really focusing on the long-term plans of the institution, making sure that we've got a good idea, develop a good, strong vision for the future, and then have a good integrative planning process to make sure we get from here to there. That might have been more than a minute but it was probably pretty close. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: It was very close. So we have time, maybe about three minutes, the goal here was just to provide an overview of the chancellor's goals, what they are, how they work, what the purpose is, and what the three pillars of those goals are, student support, academics, operations, so we appreciate you all being here to share that information with us and prepare these slides. Matej, I know you had a question. Would you like to unmute yourself and ask it? I think it was more towards the provost. The provost wouldn't be able to see the chat. >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: Hello, everyone. I think the question more or less got addressed. It was that last part of goal 1A, and what exactly we mean by refocusing the role of the faculty. I heard about professional development, digital literacy skills, things like that. That makes sense. But in terms of our role, is the focus, should there be a different focus or -- I was just confused on that. Thank you. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: So, yeah, exactly what you said is what I was trying to convey. So because of COVID and because of us going into the virtual instruction world, that has been, there has been a refocus on faculty in making sure that they have the right tools, the right professional development, and looking at how we can better engage with our students. Because I have heard reports from superintendents in high schools, they have lost students. They don't know where they are. They're not coming to class virtually online or the ones that have come back in person a couple days a week, they don't know where they are. So it does take a refocus on the role of faculty in helping these students not only in instruction but in other ways, too. They need to see that we are there to support them in every aspect that we can feasibly do it. So that is what the refocusing of the role of faculty means. I hope that helps. >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: Thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: We have a comment from Hernan. Maybe the college should be in charge of training students in basic technology as part of their orientation? Maybe a two-week remedial course so they learn how to send an e-mail with an attachment. Otherwise this will take instructors a lot of time away from instruction. So I don't know if anyone would like to respond to that, but that is a comment that was made in the chat from Hernan. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: That's a good point, Hernan. David Dor�, I don't know if you would like to address that as part of new student orientation. >> DR. DOR�: I think you're spot-on, Hernan, that a basic level of digital literacy is really required to function at Pima, and so I think we are certainly looking at how best to ensure that students have the basic, you know, minimum level of digital literacy. One is to put those, some of those in the STU courses, student success courses, because that's such a component to their success. So we are very much looking into that. Thank you for bringing that up. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you. Really good suggestion. Ken has a quick comment. >> KEN SCOTT: So I attended the annual ATF meeting this morning for Arizona transfers, and one of the things that one of the other colleges is doing to meet the demand of their customers, students, they are putting together a bunch of smaller certificates, stackable, so that students get those short-term attaboys, being able to put something on the r�sum�. It ties into workforce, too. Maybe people just need to come in and just get certified on how to use Microsoft or maybe they just need to come in and learn how to, I don't know, just do one type of thing and get certified. I think especially right now students need those short-term attaboys to feel good and feel positive that maybe if we could go somewhere in that direction, I realize that's very aggressive, but if we could do something like that, I think that would help. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: That's a good point, and actually we are going in that direction. We are looking at micropathways and microcredentials. Yeah. Specifically like in manufacturing, construction, logistics, EMT, IT. We have the Google certification, et cetera. So, yeah, we are definitely going in that direction, as well. Thank you for bringing that up. >> DR. DOR�: I would just echo, Ken, you're spot on. Certainly our CTE workforce curriculum, architecture, we are really building those stackable credentials into the degree programs. >> KEN SCOTT: And at that college, their certs take one year. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Right. No, that's good. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you. We are several minutes overtime, but do we have any last -- we can take one last question? I haven't seen any in the chat, so if you could just unmute yourself if you have a final question or comment, and we can always, if there are elements of these goals you'd like to discuss further, we can bring those forward into a future Faculty Senate meeting. Hopefully you have a much better overview of the chancellor's goals. >> SPEAKER: I just have a quick question. I have some concerns. I have had problems with disabled students trying to help them with some of these technological skills. I'm just wondering, is the college doing anything to reach disabled students more effectively? Sort of prepare them for these classes? >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: That's a very good question. We are. And the ADR office is, program specialists are available to our students. We are making sure that everything that we use as tools for technology are compliant with ADA. So, for example, we try not to use as much Zoom, because I don't think it has the captions function that Google Meets does. We have to be careful with what classes are offered or what tools are used to make sure that these kinds of functions are available. And ADR is under Dr. Dor�, student affairs. David, I don't know -- >> DR. DOR�: I think you have really hit on something else that I think COVID has really shown the challenges. It has been incredibly challenging to serve our disabled students in this technology environment. But we are working very, very hard to make sure that they not only that we have people helping them with the tools but then that we are actually ensuring that these courses and all of our services are accessible. That has been -- we had that challenge even All College Day with some of our faculty and staff, if something's not working, that means then that our disabled students or employees can't even participate. But we are certainly highly focused on our disabled students. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: I agree. Irene Robles-Lopez noted in the chat that ADR is actively working with those students by providing various services. I know ADR has been very on top of this. >> DR. DOR�: Yeah, and when you look at the economic disadvantages and then our disabled -- you start tackling on, there is certainly a divide there. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you. I think that was important to highlight. So we will move along, but like I said, if there are any specific aspects of this or if this, if looking at the chancellor's goals sparks something in your mind that we might want to discuss in more detail in a future senate meeting, please let me know, and then we can bring it back. The next item -- so the voting for the ACC rep and the secretary, something I'm not quite sure what happened there, but we got about 30 responses for one and then 18 for the other. So I don't know if people voted for one and not the other, but that's not quite quorum, so we're going to have to do it again. So I cleared the results and we'll just go back again to the officers election form. And also, I realized that I should have given Brandy Randolph and James Sheldon a chance to introduce themselves to those who may be unfamiliar with them and share a little bit about their interests and background related to Pima and the ACC rep. So with that, Brandy, do you mind unmuting yourself and maybe saying a few words? >> SPEAKER: Not at all. I still have a class here at the East Campus, so I wanted to make sure everybody was doing what they should be doing. I'm Brandy Randolph, been the director of the EMT program since 2005, faculty senator for I want to say it's been six or seven years. Enjoy the opportunity to come together. And as I was reading in the AP about what the ACC does, it's just that collaborative approach and making the informed decisions for everyone. I don't want to go over my time, so there you go, Josie. Just got to make sure I get me back door locked up here in a second. Excuse the mask but I have students coming through. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you so much for your statement and for your interest. The ACC that Brandy referenced is one of the requirements of this position is to meet with the ACC on a monthly or two-times-a-month basis, and that's the All College Council. It's comprised of administrators and students and faculty. Brooke Anderson, our Governing Board rep, is also on that committee. We had another, James Sheldon, would you mind just saying a few words? >> SPEAKER: Sure. Let me start by introducing myself since I know I haven't met a lot of you yet. My name is James Sheldon. It's my third year teaching here. I teach mathematics for PimaOnline and Downtown Campus. I'm doing my Ph.D. in teacher education at the University of Arizona. I have worked a lot with senates at other schools, and so when the opportunity to run for the senate came up this year, I was really excited to do that this year. It's my first year here on the Pima senate. I'm looking to get more involved and like sort of kind of jump right in feet first and help out any way I can, and I think this would be a great way for me to like help bring the senate's voice to a wider audience. Thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you very much, James. Just remind everyone of your area again? >> SPEAKER: So I teach mathematics and I'm representing education and biomedical sciences on the senate. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: So from there, we want to make sure every senator -- administrators and guests, please don't vote. If you're a senator, please use that voting form so we can have a quorum vote. So I'll give us a few minutes. Scott has had to leave for another meeting, so I'll function as the unofficial timekeeper. We can all look again at the progress on this ice sculpture as we wait for the votes. There has been some substantial melting of ice since we started about an hour and 10 minutes ago, I'd say. While you're meditating on that, I'm going to check our responses. We have 20, so we still need -- Tal, what's quorum? Tal, would you mind unmuting yourself? >> TAL SUTTON: I'm trying to see how many we have -- how many are present. I can't see that. I see -- okay. Some of those are guests. Let me look up the roster real quick. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Okay. While we're doing that, I will just move along and we'll come back, but please, again, we're only showing -- and officers, if you're here, officers vote too. If you're an officer, please vote. Show your voice. Exercise your voice. Cast your vote. I'll move along to the next item. Then we'll come back and take another look at those votes. Extending registration deadlines, we talked about this at the last meeting. It was a pretty substantial agenda item. What we talked about was that this idea that was sort of brought forward again by Kimlisa Duchicela that we might -- we switched to on-time registration in about 2013, 2014, as a result of extensive work done with the task force comprised and initiated by Faculty Senate, but also had administrators and others on it. It was a very long process to find research and data necessary to make the decision to switch to late registration or to switch away from late registration to on-time registration. Kimlisa was part of that original committee and that initial push and suggested that we revisit that, because times have changed so much. We're in a pandemic. It's more difficult. Our students are among the most disenfranchised in terms of this pandemic, most affected. So what can we do? Would it be helpful for them to have an extra few days? So we brought our conversation with our meeting with administrators a couple weeks ago, administrative leadership, and we just kind of let the administrative leadership know that there was a discussion among faculty senators and generally overall people supported investigating this possibility of going to late enrollment maybe by just one or two days, not seven like in the past, for at least this spring just to see if that's helpful for students, if they find as much success as they do when they register on time. So at this point what's going to happen is that we are going to meet, a few of us are going to meet, the provost and I think Michael Tulino and several others, some officers, and are going to meet and discuss whether this, first of all, whether this is possible, whether it's logical, and whether we can fast track something like this in a smart way for the spring. You know, normally we don't make decisions like this without a lot of data and evidence behind, but we really can't find relevant data right now because what data can find about on-time registration during a pandemic? So we are going to do our best and I'll return to this item in November. We'll see where we are with it. But in the meantime, are there any questions that I can address? If you wouldn't mind speaking up, that would be great. Okay, great. We have 26 responses to our vote, which I believe is quorum. Tal, would you be able to confirm that? I believe -- I'm pretty sure that is, but we just need someone to confirm it. >> TAL SUTTON: 22 is quorum. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: We are at 26. Thank you, for all of you who voted. I'm going to share -- I'll just -- so we have 76.9, if you're able to see my screen, 76.9 for Brandy Randolph, and then 19.2 for James. 3.8 abstained. Tal, is that enough? >> TAL SUTTON: Yes. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Yes, it is. Brandy Randolph will serve as the ACC rep. Secretary is Denise Riley, but just spelled many different ways. That's why Denise is showing up so many different times here. There is one for the individual who was nominated, which I assume was Denise. Thank you very much. We look forward to the two of you joining us starting in the spring, and thank you, James, very much for stepping forward and showing your interest. Please, there is still opportunities to be involved and especially in the future, I would encourage you. Thank you very much. We'd love to have you involved, too. So moving forward, I don't think there were any questions about on-time registration. We just have a few items for the president's report, and then I'm ready to turn it over to our final reports. >> BROOKE ANDERSON: Briefly, but isn't Morgan supposed to report? Feel like we skipped his bullet. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you, Brooke. Yes, you're right. Dr. Phillips has asked to present after we had the chancellor's goals presentation. Dr. Phillips, would you like to speak? >> MORGAN PHILLIPS: Thank you, Josie. I just wanted to give a brief update on what's happening as far as our instructional redesign process. The chancellor's goals, we had a question this morning that helped us think a little bit about strategic planning and the chancellor's goals. Strategic planning is looking in the longer term where we're going. The chancellor's goals are the operational things that are happening right now. So the first piece, just want to make sure everybody understands the leadership team I'm working with is working on the long term what will the future structure look like for instructional activities at Pima? So this is not a process that's going to be done this semester. It won't even be something that's completed this year. What we are looking at right now is a general structure that will be able to be shared with the class and comp process, there is a committee that will be working with that group to flesh out some of the particulars and through class and comp eventually this will evolve into whatever our future state is going to be. But the group I have right now, our primary function is to collect input and give feedback. So that's going to be happening through a sequence of meetings with divisions with different areas of the college, with electronic communication so everyone gets a chance to participate how they would like to in this. So the first piece of our process is identifying the critical (indiscernible) that we think need to be part of an instructional structure as far as what kind of work do we need to get done, what kind of things should we be including when we're looking at roles and responsibilities. We have a meeting scheduled between October 5 and October 15th with 16 different instruction connected divisions in the college for them to have an opportunity to provide input. These are like focus group meetings. So it's going to be very open to give people the opportunity to share what they think are the important activities that we should be involved in, or any of the individuals who aren't able to participate, we have two options. If they still want to do input at the end of that time frame on October 15 at 10:00 in the morning, we will be doing another session for anyone that wasn't able to do one of the others, makeup session, so people can participate in that. And then the other piece is once all of this is done we will be collecting all of this input that we've gotten from those sessions developing a document that details everything that we have found out, and that will be shared and individuals will be given the opportunity to provide feedback. So really, you have the option to decide how you want to participate. These meetings are set for people to talk about what should be in the document, and then once we have the document we will share it and give you an opportunity to suggest additions or changes to the document. I know some people prefer to have something to talk to, and other people don't want to look at the thing. They want to talk before the document exists. So you can choose whichever flavor you want to for that. These meetings will involve anyone in the instructional areas, so that would include adjunct faculty members, staff instructors, individuals working labs. We are really looking at the whole instructional process for our students, and we want to make sure and include all of that information. At the end of this semester, what we hope to be able to have from all of our input and feedback sessions is a general structure to be able to share with the class and comp group that would then pick up with that and they will continue on with it in the spring. I will stop there and give you a chance to ask any questions if you have questions. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: All those messages have gone out to divisions about those division meetings, right? >> MORGAN PHILLIPS: The division dean should be chairing that meeting -- the division dean should be sharing the information about the meetings with their divisions. One of the things we hope is since we're in this electronic COVID environment we actually may have the ability to have more participation compared to normal because of the fact that everyone is kind of flexing their time anyway. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: And your audio is cutting in and out, so I think probably the best thing to do is to have, if people have questions, they can e-mail you, right? >> MORGAN PHILLIPS: Sure. I'd love to have the e-mails from anyone. If you can even send me like a Google Meet invitation and I'll sit and chat with you if you want to. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Sounds good. We'll see you at those division meetings too and that's another opportunity to participate in this. >> MORGAN PHILLIPS: This is just a first round. We'll probably have three or four rounds of these meetings and feedback cycles before the term is over. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you very much. Thank you. >> MORGAN PHILLIPS: Thank you, Josie. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: So we just have a few presidents items and then we will move on to our reports. So the first one is that that on November 6, our next Faculty Senate meeting we have opportunity to ask questions for the chancellor. So the chancellor is going to be visiting us again for the first 15 minutes, and the chancellor always appreciates it if I can send some questions or specific topics that we'd like the chancellor to talk about. So please send those to me and we can send those along to the chancellor. We want to just make the time with the chancellor is most meaningful as possible. You may not know that right away. November 6 is a long time from now. It's after the election. There may be new things to talk about by that time. I'm guessing there probably will be. Don't need to do this right away. I'll remind you of that as the time gets closer. Systemic justice action committee is continue to go meet. Our focus right now we have previewed our charge which I shared with you last meeting, and we are working on syllabi. So we are brainstorming syllabi statements as possible options for people to add to their syllabi, like wellness statements, land acknowledgements, and other possible statements that you might want to include. We will provide an update on that for you later. This final item related to curriculum concerns is related to some concerns several faculty members expressed to me about the loss or retirement of Jenny Conway and what was going to happen to curriculum because people appreciated Jenny so much because Jenny is a walking encyclopedia of curriculum knowledge and history for this college. So I discussed those concerns with the provost. We met and the provost reassured, asked me to reassure everyone that the goal is to switch from a more curriculum driven approach to a faculty driven approach with curriculum that lately it's been more curriculum driven. So that's the ultimate goal, but it's unclear at this point what the best path is to move it that way. Is it to find a director, is it to find a lead? So Dr. Mitchell is overseeing the area right now, but that's just considered a temporary thing. Dr. Mitchell, after kind of seeing how everything works, will offer any suggestions or kind of a plan that might make more sense to make the curriculum work the most meaningful and effective and efficient for everyone. I'm hoping, Provost, that I summed up our meeting correctly and if not please feel free to chime in right now. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: You did. Thank you for explaining that. As Josie mentioned, be we do want to make sure that this is switched more to faculty driving curriculum and the curriculum be more of a support. Yeah, exactly. You said it the way we talked about. So thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you for taking the time to meet and providing that reassurance to everyone. We look forward to seeing how that curriculum department takes shape. So we will continue to keep everyone informed as we hear more about it. I'm sure we will all hear more about it through e-mail and other ways moving forward. So that's all I wanted to share. Any questions for me before we move along to our report section? All right. I don't think there are. I did want, for those of you not checking chat, I wanted to alert you to something David Arellano posted that says for you that have any questions about student accommodations and how we can better implement accommodation in a class, please reach out to Ken Hosto, director of ADR. We have done a lot of work supporting students around technology, publisher content, captioning/CART services, et cetera, this semester. Thank you, David, for sharing that. You can look to the chat for Ken Hosto's e-mail address. Let's go ahead and move to our first report. This is what I like to call the seventh inning stretch, the point in our meeting where we are about at the seventh inning but we have two innings left to go. If you need to stretch, please free to do so. I will pull up the Governing Board report that Brooke prepared and turn it over to Brooke. >> BROOKE ANDERSON: Thank you, Josie. So I have shared the report with you, and I'm sure you can read through it and just see the business that we have shared with the board. The report was submitted earlier this week and just as a reminder, the board meeting is this Wednesday. They have changed the board meeting to earlier in the day, although on my calendar I have it as 5:30. Josie or anyone else, are we back to 5:30 next week on Wednesday? >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Brooke, I think that's what they decided to do, to move it back to 5:30. >> BROOKE ANDERSON: Great. Yeah, 5:30, board meeting, please attend if you're interested in hearing from the board. So instead of going over the report that I have shared that you can read, I actually just wanted to share with you a few things from the board meeting last month and encourage you to watch the board meeting if you had not already watched it. In particular, I just want to highlight some of the administrative reports that are useful for faculty to be aware of. David Dor� covered the COVID updates, so that's a useful thing to be aware of and what the college is doing with COVID. Dolores covered guided pathways and where we are with that. Then Ian Roark discussed our public/private partnerships and one of those in particular is Unmudl. I highly encourage you to watch that portion of the board meeting, because it was a rather passionate and long debate and discussion Ian presented, but then the board members particularly Maria had quite a few questions for him. So I think it's useful just to be aware of what was happening at the board meeting in relation to that particular item. Yeah, those are -- oh, Nic covered demographics which was very useful. We heard a little bit about that today. That's useful for faculty to be aware of, how or demographics are changing and how that relates to some of the things administrators were sharing with us today about the chancellor's goals and the direction of the college and why we might be doing some of the things we are with Ian Roark and those partnerships. Finally, David Arellano gave an enrollment management update as well that is very informative and useful to know about. Those were kind of some of the highlights. Also remember, I know this is a harder time and it's even, you know, we get so many e-mails, it can be a little overwhelming especially when we're not really interacting at all in person, but do remember please if there is any notable accomplishments that you would like to share with the board, please send them to me, and I'm happy to include them on the board report. Then, yeah, I don't know if there is any discussions, but that's it for me today. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Any questions for or Governing Board rep? Related to the Unmudl item, we did discuss Unmudl with administrative leadership at our meeting a couple weeks ago, and we have a little bit of additional information, so if anyone -- I'd urge you to watch the Governing Board meeting, and if you have more questions about things like we learned that the goal is to get this up and running in about November/December, and Ian Roark provided a presentation for, was there to answer questions at the meeting. So if you have questions about what Unmudl is or you want to become less muddled about Unmudl, then please feel free to reach out. I don't think there is any questions, so I think we're ready to move ahead with the PCCEA report. I'll turn it over to you, Matej. >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: Hello, everybody. Hopefully we're not too muddled here (smiling.) I'm Matej Boguszak, and I serve at president of PCCEA. I wanted to thank you, I wasn't able to attend last month, but thank you for supporting the Principles for Pima. I think we got a pretty good reception from the board and feedback from three board members. We also had a follow-up meeting with the chancellor that was very productive I think just to kind of discuss the principles and how we saw them. It really seemed like we broadly all agree, although it always comes down to the details and interpretation, so I think, you know -- well, thank you for your support. I think this was a worthwhile effort and we will continue advocating based on these principles in upcoming sessions. The chancellor also emphasized that despite all the recent focus on tech and trade and CTE, that he is committed to Pima continuing being a comprehensive college with liberal arts education and transfer and adult ed and all of that. As an example, one of the details, where it always gets sticky is we saw that academic freedom board policy going out for 21-day comment, and so I think we had asked in the spring at some point about this. The current policy that used to be in the FPPS specifies that the faculty selects textbooks, for example, department faculty selects textbooks, and I'm still not seeing that anywhere in there. So just wondering, you know, it's these kind of details that can matter. Mark Hanna, who is the board member for District 1, which is the Foothills and Oro Valley and parts of Marana is not running for re-election. Mark has been a really active board member, and I have really appreciated him on the board. He's been a key vote in a number of important decisions. Two candidates you might have heard are running for his seat, and there is a forum sponsored by the student senate on Monday at 5:30, this coming Monday. You can search for Libby's e-mail, it has a YouTube link in there. Given all the changes and challenges at the college, the stakes are sky high here. So I would encourage everybody to attend the forum. Please inform yourselves about the election. Let your friends know and vote. This is all the way down the ballot. And PCCEA had excellent meetings with both candidates, so please keep an eye on this. I just wanted to follow up a little bit on what Vice Chancellor Morgan Phillips said. (Frozen video)...transformation leadership team, today was referred to as realignment, maybe not to freak anybody out too much, but we have been talking about transformations. We are to develop some recommendation for how to best structure just all this kind of instructional work that goes on at the college, like what faculty do, also staff instructors do and advisors, although I don't think advisors are included in this, but the sort of instructional related type work. Then this is to inform, as you heard, the class and comp study that's already underway. I know this sounds scary, shaking out the carpet, examining people's jobs, transformation kind of implies there is something fundamentally wrong with us, if we need to transform. And especially given some of the discussions we have had last year, and what has happened to the counselors, for example, that can be a little, make us feel a little uneasy. All I can say though at this point is this study is happening. Let's do it right and is participate from the start and make the best of it, right? The group had about three to four meetings already. (Frozen video)...working and I heard quite specific interests in how to structure the salaries of these new instructional positions. So these are all be long, critical conversations and they need to happen in the appropriate forum at a later stage. So in the AERC, Meet and Confer, some in Faculty Senate when we talk about performance indicators or of success for faculty. And other committees like faculty evaluation comes to mind. This group will not be making decisions on the details, is my understanding, but we also must not hamstring this future work of other groups by setting up positions or parameters that just sort of predetermine certain outcomes. So to make any effective recommendation, this group really needs your input, right? So the team will be throughout the semester, as Morgan said, will be gathering early input and then we will try to kind of compile it together, and then send out some documents for your feedback to make sure that we've got all that input correctly and if anything is missing. So we have backed way up with the group, and now this first stage which makes sense to me is just to make an inventory of sorts of the type of work that goes on in each division and what else might be needed so that we can really support our students. It's critical to have a clear understanding, right, of what goes on in each area if we're thinking about creating a different instructional type positions or different kind of structure. I don't really know. But we have to know what's the type of work we do, what is really important we do, what do people like value and think is important for student success, what should we maybe be doing more of, less of, what are we not doing, what do we wish we did? So speaking for myself (frozen video)...so there is no need to panic yet or anything and we'll know if the train starts going off the rails soon enough, and we'll speak up, you know. So please participate and give it an honest effort. If it fails, it won't be on the faculty for a lack of trying. I think this is pretty much the main thing. We met with HR a couple of times to follow up on some late payments for overloads and other sort of individual concerns faculty have brought to PCCEA. Then AERC elections should be coming up soon. (Frozen video.) >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Matej? Your audio cut out. >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: At which point? >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: AERC elections are coming up soon. >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: So we have been working with Aubrey on an e-mail. I know I have announced this once before but it just hasn't happened yet. It's been out of my hands. But the elections, you should get a nomination form over the next few weeks for terms starting in January. Any questions, anybody? >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Would you mind speaking up or sending it through the chat? You were here earlier when Kate was talking about that BP, correct, academic freedom BP? >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: Yeah, I just kind of opened it up and we moved on really quickly, but I had remembered that question about textbooks and materials and things like that. So just wondering if that's (frozen video). >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: I don't know if you want to respond to that, Kate? I don't see any other questions, so we can move ahead to our provost's report >> KATE SCHMIDT: I'm not exactly sure what the question is, but I think the understanding is the difference between what FPPS had as a definition of academic freedom and what AAUP defines as academic freedom, which is what we had as the charge for that group. So that issue of instructional materials may be something that needs to be addressed during the 21-day comment period. >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: Sounds good. Thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Any questions? Hour and 43 minutes, it's a long time to be staring at your screen, right? We have one more report, and that will bring us closer to our finish line for this meeting. We have our provost's report, and I'm going to bring it up, sharing my screen so you can see it, and then I will turn it over to our who he was who is without Internet connection. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Actually it just came up but I'm afraid to log off the phone and then get on the Internet and lose you again. I'm just staying on the phone for now. So here we are again. My report, I'll just highlight some things for you, just a reminder I'm starting my virtual office hours on Friday the 9th and they are for an hour at a time with 10-minute appointments. So I think the October 9 one is booked now or pretty much booked, but if it is, and you'd like to talk to me, please sign up for one of the other dates and times. It's for 10 minutes. That way I can see more people who have questions or suggestions or concerns they would like for me to talk to you about. So I'm looking forward to seeing you there if you like. This is for everybody at the college, anybody who would like to speak to me. Then on the next page we have leadership changes and academics, so I had sent an e-mail back on September 21, and it went to all faculty, including I think I copied the deans and campus vice presidents and ELT, as well. Some people asked, why didn't do a Pima All? Well, actually, I had thought of that, but then we had our meeting with the Faculty Senate officers and administration, and it's true, I mean, you're all being bombarded with tons of e-mails, so sometimes they get missed. We were thinking maybe if it came directly from your supervisor that's something that would call attention to you to make sure you read. So that's what I did. But basically just to reiterate some of the changes, Dr. Morgan Phillips, he's been the vice chancellor for academic excellence, but apparently some folks were not aware that he was also serving as acting campus vice president at the Downtown Campus until we do the internal search, which I think has been posted or will be soon. Then Brian Stewart, as you know, is no longer dean of education of biomedical sciences. He's campus vice president of Northwest so that means we needed to make sure the areas under him were taken care of, so we put education under the dean of humanities and social sciences, Michael Parker, and biomedical sciences to health professions division under the former dean there. That leads us to Joe Gaw, former dean of health professions who decided to take a job somewhere else in another organization, and that was back on the 13th. And because this division is so large and really, really impacted by accreditation requirements and standards, I felt we needed to put somebody right away. So I did a direct appointment for an acting dean for the health professions and this is Yolanda M who has been with the college several years and knows all of the programs backwards and forwards. Because it is such a large division, I wanted to see how this would work as a pilot as acting associate dean, so I appointed Karen T to that position. I don't know if that's going to continue once we do the national search for the dean position. But we'll see. We'll see how that works. Then we had changes with Julian Easter, who is now working with academic planning, and he'll continue being part of the provost's office and he will continue reporting to Morgan Phillips, but he'll be working more on the planning aspect, planning structures and developing outcomes and metrics and reports and collaboration with Nic's team and working with Morgan, as well. Dr. Lamata Mitchell has been overseeing curriculum, and the whole college-wide initiative of pathways as well as the divisions and the division deans and indirectly faculty, as well. So her role is more associate provost now that Bruce has moved over to the chancellor. I just wanted to reiterate these changes so you're all aware. Then we also have a section from now on for the adjunct faculty fellow, Lisa S, and the group is launching with TLC and adjunct faculty collective, so for an hour there will be a virtual meeting to address and brainstorm on professional development ideas and goals and how they can better support adjunct faculty as a whole. There will be a soft launch with library course reserve textbooks, so students will be able to use a scanner for 15 minutes at a time. They will set up an appointment for a requested textbook from the course reserves collection. That's good that they will have that opportunity. I believe that started back in September, September 4. Then your vote is your voice, we discovered there is a typo. General election is November 3, not the 4th, so we will correct that before we send that out on Monday. Then for the faculty services and resource centers, there is an academic technology team. Really getting up to speed with all the different Google Suites and products to make sure that we provide the best support for our adjunct faculty and faculty as a whole who need that. Then going on to page 4, I think Josie had already mentioned this earlier in the meeting about sabbatical proposals, so that's coming up. The applications for the proposals will be due on Monday, October 19. These are for folks who are eligible to apply for their first sabbatical after completing five years of full-time service to the college. There is some information, some resources, and deadlines that you can take a look at at your leisure. Also, the professional development sabbatical standing committee is looking for nominations for faculty representatives, particularly in applied technology, workforce development, continuing ed, business and information technology. So please, if you're interested, please let them know. Then something that I had announced at All College Day was the Striving for Excellence Teaching Award, so in collaboration with the teaching and learning center, we are working on distributing striving for excellence in teaching awards to 10 faculty teaching staff, it could be staff instructors, part-time faculty, full-time faculty, to those who demonstrated exceptional dedication to improving teaching and learning at the college, especially during these difficult times that we find ourselves in. So each recipient will receive $100, and this is courtesy of the Pima Foundation. So we are very grateful for their generosity. We hope this will be an annual generous gift that the Foundation will be providing us. You will have your name engraved on the plaque in my office. Those nominations are for November 16. You can nominate a colleague or yourself. Go ahead and click the link there for more information, details. Testing and placement updates, we have some updates regarding in-person services, virtual services, Proctor U, I know that's more in demand now because of our virtual instruction, so you can take a look at those details on your own. The learning center updates, we are happy to see that it's getting busier as the semester progresses, and you can see the breakdown there. There have been 1,500 sessions, 615 students, embedded classes, ASL lab sessions, and even paper dropoffs. It shows that students aware of the learning center support, and we just need to keep on encouraging them to access this kind of support. Also Pima tutors, they are available for one-on-one appointments by calling the number there or e-mailing, even dropping off a tutoring request. They are available to help our students. I will go ahead and move on to page 7. October 4 through 10 is Tutor Appreciation Week. We really value our tutors because they really help our students in gaining or accomplishing their goals and completing their courses. So we are very grateful for their role with the student success. If you'd like to hopefully encourage you to send an e-mail to Ed Gallagher thanking the tutors with their work with our students. There is going to be through the library a workshop or I guess a webinar or speaker and it's called Understanding Systemic Oppression. That will be on the 16th of October. This is looking at how some groups of people are being treated differently from others on a daily basis. Trying to decipher why this happens and what systems are intentionally, implicitly there to benefit at the expense of others. I think that would be a very interesting conversation, be and so I encourage you to participate in that. We have our embedded librarians also. And there are some information literacy sessions for our students, which I think will help to bring that sense of belonging for our students in this virtual environment. Reminder about D2L Brightspace, there is going to be a purge. So anything, any content older than the fall of 2017 will be removed on November 4. I did send out an e-mail before on that, so if you have any questions, please call the number there or refer to my e-mail. Then I wanted to congratulate the Adult Basic Education for College and Career unit. They have done an outstanding job, been receiving recognition nationally and statewide, so they were one of four programs to be nationally recognized for IBEST program, for recognition, advancing innovation in adult education project. That's fabulous. Then the Arizona Department of Education, they recognize them as excelling program for adult basic and adult secondary education for the year 2018 and '19. There were several lifelong learning awards, student of the year, rookie of the year, volunteer of the year, and lifetime achievement awards. So they are really getting recognized for all the fabulous work that they have done, and we are very grateful for them. Lastly, I wanted to remind you all that there is going to be on the 9th of October the Asian-Pacific Islander Desi American Town Hall, and that will be with the chancellor. It will be a wonderful opportunity for our internal community as well as the Tucson local community to share experiences of those who are of Asian-Pacific Islander or South Asian heritage backgrounds. As we know, during this COVID crisis there has been some misinformation and misrepresentation of Asian-Americans, so it's important that we talk about and bring them out to the open so we can dismantle that kind of perspective. With that, I'll ask if there are any questions about the report. I hope you'll come see me during my office hours. >> SPEAKER: This is Carolyn S. I am part of the dental hygiene department, dental studies. I just wanted to thank you so much for putting Karen T in her position. She's been terrific, and so has Yolanda. It's quite a change for us to go from Brian and then to Joe and then to nothing, and your pilot is working great. I just wanted to give you that feedback. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Thank you. I appreciate that, because we weren't sure if we should put this in place, so we thought we'd give it a shot. And I'm glad it's working, because I know you have been through a lot of transitions and you need some stability and some support along with being a larger division. So I appreciate the feedback. >> SPEAKER: You're welcome. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: I don't see any questions from the comments. Would anyone else like to -- we do have a minute or so, two minutes. Is there anything anyone would like more information on from the report? >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: If I could mention one more thing, I have been visiting the division meetings along with the chancellor and David Dor�, and Dr. Mitchell. They have been just wonderful. We started with the math division and then we have gone to the communication division and the arts division where faculty have shared share creative and innovative teaching strategies and what they are doing to help students with their retention and engagement. I just want to congratulate everyone that has participated in this. It's just so inspiring. I really want to thank you. You have been throw so much with COVID and scrambling to get things ready for our students. Your dedication and commitment to our students is evident and you're going above and beyond. I really appreciate it. I'm looking forward to the other division meetings. Thank you. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: Thank you very much. It's nice to have administrative leadership at our division meeting. It was a week ago. >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: That's right. Yeah. >> JOSIE MILLIKEN: All right. So I believe we have reached the end of our agenda. The ice is still melting. If you look at resources below, you'll see the TLC calendar, if anyone an hour from now feels like you need a big exhale after this very long week, please join me for exhale Fridays, which the TLC is offering which I will lead us through some breathing and a little bit of moving and stretching, some yoga just to find a nice, quiet, calm transition into the weekend. Click on the link, and I hope you join me at 4:00 p.m. With that, I think all we're missing right now is -- already got one. So, Joe, this might be the first time we ever get out a minute early. Second from Tal. Everyone in favor type yes or -- a third from James. Everyone in favor type yes or yay. Anyone opposed and want to stay here and watch the ice with me a little bit longer, say no. Insane. Looks like we are all in agreement that it's time to adjourn. One minute early. 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