********************************************* DISCLAIMER: THIS FILE WAS PRODUCED FOR COMMUNICATION ACCESS AS AN ADA ACCOMMODATION AND IS PRETTY CLOSE TO 100% VERBATIM. THIS IS AN EDITED FILE BUT MAY CONTAIN SOME ERRORS. THIS IS NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT, IT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED, PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. THIS FILE SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED IN ANY FORM (WRITTEN OR ELECTRONIC) AS A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OR POSTED TO ANY WEBSITE OR PUBLIC FORUM OR SHARED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE HIRING PARTY. THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PURPOSES OF VERBATIM CITATION. ********************************************* January 13, 2023 Faculty Senate ---Rita Lennon: Good morning everyone, welcome to All  Faculty Day 2023 spring semester. This time we're just getting to, you know... say hello to everyone... if you want to open your mic and say hello, we've got this cute little thing going in the background, of introducing all of our furry animals, figured... we're always introducing our animals during our meetings, our virtual meetings... so, why not put them on display like this. Dolores did you want to say good morning? ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Yes, welcome everyone... good morning... Happy New Year... feliz año nuevo... welcome to 2023... and to the beginning of the spring semester. We're really excited that you're here.. and we  originally were hoping to meet in person, but because of the situation currently right now, we wanted to be... make sure that we're all safe, as we prepare for the beginning of the semester... but we're really happy that you've joined us, and we want to make sure that you have enough time to... in the afternoon to prepare for the semester... but welcome... and we'll soon be getting started. ---Rita Lennon: So, as you are logging in, please make sure that  you sign in... the sign-in sheet will be shared in chat several times throughout the meeting just to make sure... and one of the good things about signing in...   first of all, we know that you are here... but also that we are giving away 10 gift cards throughout the morning... and all of those who sign in will be randomly selected... well, I shouldn't say it that way... you'll be randomized to be selected if you sign in [chuckles]. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Maybe some of you acquired some furry friends  over the break... some new family members. ---Rita Lennon: Yeah, that's a good point, did anyone get a  gift over the holiday of a new furry animal? ---Mariana Carreras: Our family adopted one from the Humane Society   ---Rita Lennon: Aaah. ---Mariana Carreras: Yes... so, he's... ---Rita Lennon: A dog... dog or cat... or... ---Mariana Carreras: A little dog... a little dog and we named him Buddy ---Rita Lennon: Aaah... ---Mariana Carreras: Too early for pictures but he's adorable ---Rita Lennon: Aaah. [giggles] So, I see some new people coming into the meeting... welcome... during this time we're just chatting...   you know, this would be the time that we were having breakfast... if we were in person with each other,  and just getting to see everyone... please feel free to open up your mic and talk... or you can have conversations in chat... however you feel comfortable we'll start at 9:00. ---Julie Tarr: Hey, does anybody know what it is with cats and  boxes? I'm sure somebody did some kind of research   on why cats like to be in boxes... anybody know? I don't. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: That's a good question I don't know. [second voice] No clue... [Rita:] anyone? ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Boxes and paper bags I think. ---Michael Rohrer: It's a security thing so that they can hide... for safety. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Oh. ---Michael Rohrer: And funny enough, if you mark your floor with a box of tape, some cats will actually stay in it until you grab them. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: that's interesting ---Melissa Laliberte Bouey: Hey, Julie... are we gonna see your cuties  on here... or did I miss them already? ---Julie Tarr: I didn't... I didn't send anything in... sorry. ---Melissa Laliberte Bouey: That's okay... I just love  them in their Halloween hats. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Makyla, I saw what you put in  the chat... so when did you adopt him?  ---Makyla Hays: We got him when he was a little over 1. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: And he's now 10. ---Makyla Hays: And he's now 10... he acts like a puppy except for he sleeps a lot more... but when he is going, he is a puppy. [giggles] ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Aaah... sweet. ---Makyla Hays: Best dog ever... we love him ---Makyla Hays: We have a superhero theme for most of ours  if you if you didn't catch that one... we have...   we have crypto the Superdome and then  Dash and Violet from The Incredibles...   and then we inherited a little one, but she's black...  so, her code name is Black Panther. [giggling] ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: I love it ---Unknown: We just adopted a little kitten 10 weeks ago and  she likes to hide in the laundry basket.  ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Oh, there you go. ---Unknown: So, has that dark place to go up and hide... and climbs out of a hole in the side when you... when you come around... so, it's kind of funny. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: That is cute. ---Kate Schmidt: Dolores and Rita? ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Yes. ---Kate Schmidt: I think I heard you say we were starting at 9:00, but the welcomes were scheduled to start at 8:30. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: That's what I thought. ---Rita Lennon: Oh, I apologize. Well then, let's do it, shall we... let's do it. Even several run-throughs and we still... so, we go ahead and stop sharing my screen All right, let's see what happens. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: We're having too much fun with our pets. ---Rita Lennon: Our animals... I know... but this way I get to see you all again, so that's wonderful... hello everyone. So, we have our... well, let me just welcome you once again to all faculty day 2023. My name is Rita Lennon... I'm the president of the faculty senate, and my co-host is... ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Yes, that's me, Dolores Duran-Cerda... and welcome again... welcome to the new year and the new spring semester. It's an exciting time, I was telling somebody earlier that I remember the first day of classes, even after so many years of teaching... I'd always get butterflies... and so it's an exciting time for me, and so I live through you... all of you... but we're excited to get the the ball rolling for the semester. And so, thank you for joining us this morning, we have lots to do, and talk about, and share... and then, we'll leave you alone, so you can get ready for the rest... for the beginning of the semester... so, back to Rita. ---Rita Lennon: Very good well the first message we have a welcome message from our Chancellor, Lee Lambert... so, we'll go ahead and play that recording. ---Lee Lambert: Well, happy New Years everybody and welcome back to the start of a new calendar year, 2023... as well as to the start of spring 2023... we're entering into  the new year in a very strong healthy position as a college. First and foremost, enrollment is looking very positive as we begin the spring term. Also, as you know we entered fall term last year with enrollment up as well... as well as our dual enrollment up significantly... but another exciting set of things are happening as we move into the new year... and that is... the college again, is up for 3 Bellwether Awards... our Pima fast tracks, our teachers Ed post certification program, and our STU courses have all garnered national attention for the Innovation that Pima has brought to our community, and across the state and across the country, in support of the success of our students. So, I'm just so excited... but also, let me just say a few words about our students... and it's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that many of our students... over 70% of our students are part-time. As we think of our work, we need to think about how we continue to support the success of such a large portion of our enrollment, which is our part-time students... also, many of our students are housing, food, and income insecure... so, maintaining our vigilance and sensitivity to their realities will be a growing importance... but also knowing that we continue to be responsive... the work that each of you have done around open educational resources have saved our students well over 7 million dollars on a go forward basis. We're doing all of that at a time of great upheaval in the higher education space. Like no other time in the history of the country, are we facing low birth rates... or I should say declining birth rates, We're also unfortunately, still in an unenviable position as a state where Pima and Maricopa community colleges still receive no operational funding... and then, the disruption that the technology continues to to wreak on our on our economy. I was really forcing us to continue to stay vigilant and adapting to a changing landscape. So, as we take all of these things together, Pima is well positioned to continue to be a leader, not only here in Southern Arizona, across the State of Arizona, but across the United States. We are one of the standards for community colleges and I'm so proud of each and every one of you for being part of this... and that I look forward to working with you as we  move through this New Year... again Happy New Year. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: So, we thank the chancellor for his message... his welcoming message... and we have many things to look forward to... and I also wanted to mention that the Chancellor was recently recognized by the greater Tucson leadership group... as the man of the year... and there will be a celebration for that... I think it's later this month or next month... so, coming up soon. So, we're very happy about tha... and so now, it is my  pleasure to introduce our beloved Dr David Doré. This is kind of a bittersweet moment for me,  to introduce my colleague and and friend to...  Dr. Doré has accepted a position in Virginia to be the chancellor for the Virginia's community college system, which is an incredible honor and outstanding opportunity for him, but it's... but it's also a loss for Pima, and a loss for me personally... and so... but I do want to wish him the best best of luck and I know he will always remain tied and connected to to Tucson... and to Pima... so with that, I'd like to pass it on to Dr David Doré. ---Dr. David Doré: Thank you Dolores... and good morning everyone... and welcome to 2023 spring semester. You know, I wanted to just really welcome each of you... this is... I think this is an exciting time... you know, the chancellor talked about, in his welcome, about enrollment... but one of the things I wanted to emphasize is... enrollment, if we if we look at our enrollment increases disaggregated... our enrollment is up significantly by those populations that were most hit by COVID... and that's really exciting... and again, I'm sure that through the day you'll see some of those numbers... and you know, as I reflect on how you have all responded over these last couple of years, which have been so difficult... you know, I think the the level of compassion and Innovation and flexibility I think... it has really been inspiring... and I just want to say... you know... what you do in the classroom is really that's the heart of everything we do at the college and you know, our student affairs, our academic support, all of our campus leadership... we're really here to support ultimately what you do in the classroom... and I've said this before, but I want to say this publicly, that this is... this has been the most Innovative faculty that I have ever worked with... and you know... the chancellor mention those Bellwethers... I mean, to be a finalist... and these are all our faculty, right... to be a finalist in all 3 categories of Bellwether just demonstrates the incredible innovation of this faculty... so, as Dolores said... this is certainly going to be a  Bittersweet... you know Bittersweet semester for me...   so, I'm going to cherish my last time here... I'm looking at Rita, who's your academic senate president... Rita was one of the first people that I met when I came to the Northwest Campus back in 2014... and you know, I got to really know many of you... Rita I miss our days in the G building, and so forth... but... so anyway, I just want to wish you a really wonderful semester, and like I say... I'm hoping I'll get a chance to visit with  each of you before I depart... thank you Dolores. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Thank you Dr Doré... thank you. ---Rita Lennon: Now, I have to try and speak with a lump in my throat, because when I read this this message it was... Oh... I was so happy for you, of course, Dr Doré... but very, very sad for us... and Virginia is so lucky to have you coming. So, all right... moving on so I don't start crying on screen here... [laughing] our next message is from our Provost, Dolores Duran-Cerda. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Thank you Rita... so, I am going to share my screen... I practiced yesterday, so let's see if it works now. Are you able to see this, where it says All Faculty Day Academics Update?  ---Rita Lennon: Looks great. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Yes... okay, perfect... thank you... well, once again, Welcome to our All Faculty Day gathering. We're excited to have you here, and I hope... I wish you the best for the beginning of the spring semester... it's hard to believe that fall has already come and gone and now we're in the second part of the academic Year... and just to reiterate what Dr Doré said... the faculty... I mean for me it's an honor to be serving as your provost... I come from faculty, as Dr Doré did too... and you do amazing work... and I remember all the hours of grading and preparing and the nervousness at the beginning of the semester, making sure everything is in place for our students... and in various modalities... but you truly are the heart and soul of this institution... and you have demonstrated resilience, hope, Innovation, optimism, kindness ,and support of each other... and to us, as administrators... and I wanted to thank you for that, as we begin this new semester. So, what I'd like to do today in the minutes I have... I'm trying to share and there we go... this is what I'll be going over these next few minutes... just a review of the mission in our institutional targets, and kind of an update on the institutional targets... the behaviors that are part of the mission fulfillment framework...   the Chancellor's goals that are related to academics, so as you know the Chancellor's goals has 3 parts... one is academics that I oversee... another portion is on student affairs and workforce... and that's... and the centers of excellence, and that's under Dr. Doré... and then the operations of the college, that's under Dr Bea. But I will be focusing on the academics portion with you today Then I'll go into... the almost finalized draft of the Provost goals, which are based on the Chancellor's goals... but a little more in detail... and then some academics initiatives that I'd like to share with all of you... where I will need your feedback and input... and at separate other gatherings aside from this one... but you can start thinking... I'd like to plant the seed for that. So, just as a reminder of what our mission is...  empower every learner, every day, for every goal. And as I mentioned I wanted to give you a status update on our institutional targets. so, there are 2 of them... the first one is, increase completer counts to 6,000 by 2024... and the second one is, double the completer counts of Hispanic or Latino, American Indian and Alaska native... and black or African-American Learners by 2024-2025... this isn't an aggressive and ambitious goal but we are progressing in this. So, they're stated in the Strategic plan... they're part of that in our annual goals... so, for the first target is the update... in 2021-2022 we had 3,103 completers... and our goal was 3,800 completers... so, we're incrementally getting closer.   For target 2... for Hispanic Latino the population... the goal was 1,493 and we had 1,372 completers... for American Indian and Alaska natives, that population... the goal was 95 and we had 60 completers... and then for black [loud distorted sound] or African-American... for the [more loud sounds] student population there... the goal was 168 and we had 110 completers. So, as you see, we have some work to do, but these are encouraging data... information. So, here is part of the mission fulfillment framework... as you know, we have the purpose, vision, mission, and behaviors. and I just wanted to re-share this with all of you, and I've shared that with the Deans as well, so they may be going over the behaviors... and we'll be sharing it periodically throughout the semester in different venues as well... so, you can see the acronym here... along choices... so, you can... I won't read all of them, but you can see... so, the first one is commit to equity and social justice... oops... Can you still see my presentation? I'm seeing something else. ---Unknown: Yeah... we can't. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Okay... I don't know what happened... but let's... let me see... ---Raymond Ryder: Someone... someone else is trying to share screen. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Okay... so, I'm going to stop the other screen sharing...  and I will... now I can't find that... here's mine... and I'll go back... okay... how's that? Can you see it now? ---Kate Schmidt: Yep. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Okay, great... so, going back to behaviors... these are also in the strategic plan... and just so you know... it didn't relate so much to faculty, but all staff and administrators were evaluated on these behaviors as part of our annual evaluation cycle... they're not  part of the faculty evaluation specifically,   but I wanted to urge you to touch on these as  appropriate, as you do your own self-reflections. I'll go to the next slide if it'll let me. Okay... so, here we go... Chancellor's goals... and as I mentioned, there are 3 parts, but I'm going to focus on academics, which I oversee. So, the first one, as you can see... develop a transformation plan for GenEd/transfer education, to ensure future increased completion and transfer success, and to support the Achieve60 Pima County institutional targets that I had mentioned earlier... [sneeze] so, I wanted to provide you this brief overview of each of the goals... and just so you know there are leads for each of these sub-goals... for example, goal 1... the co-leads are Dr Michael Parker and Dr Josie Milliken... and so, they are overseeing that  part... with many others working... collaborating on it...   but they are leading this effort... and I'm meeting with them on a regular basis, along with some other colleagues, on a bi-weekly basis, to ensure... with, this is with all of the goals to ensure that we're on top of things... that we have... that they have the support that they need in order to accomplish this... because this is pretty intense... and it's also an opportunity for us to identify any gaps that we need to focus and work on. And I had shared this at this last board meeting on Wednesday more in detail... but what I'm just going to focus on is the first one as I said... the GenEd refresh and AJEC reimagining. So, I'm sure you're aware that the reason why we're doing the GenEd refresh and AJEC reimagining... is based on a decision in February of 2021 from ABOR, the Arizona Board of Regents, they updated their policy regarding the purpose and philosophy of GenEd... and of course that impacts the community colleges... and so, that's why we're doing our own refresh... and also, the AJEC... that impacts the AJEC. So basically, the ABOR policy for GenEd focuses on preparing students to pursue careers or Advanced study... and to take their place in our republic and the world... I'm quoting... also to provide the foundational cognitive and behavioral skills necessary to adapt quickly to change. And part of the guiding principles of the AJEC  reimagining, is that students need to understand   why they're taking GenEd... the Gen. Ed curriculum... and how it will benefit them... because if maybe some of them do understand the importance of taking GenEd and why they're doing it, but if we were to ask students, they would not... not all of  them will really have that understanding as to why.  And they need to understand the connections between the fields of knowledge.  So anyway, that's part of it... and also I wanted to share the second bullet, which is that Pima College was selected to participate in the American Association of colleges and universities 2023 Institute on e-portfolios... and the e-portfoliers enable our students to electronically collect their work over time... and integrate it as that... what they're learning in and outside of the classroom... they can share it with their instructors, with advisors, and also, even potential and current employers. And also we're working on implementing work-based learning through an equity lens... and Dean, Michael Parker, is working with Vice-Chancellor, Ian Rourke, on on this piece as well. and then you can see the timeline and next steps So, these are my goals... Provost goals... that have  been revised... there have been various iterations...   but the Chancellor's goals were updated too... so, I kind of focused on reflecting that. So, you can see this... and I've shared this with the dean's too... they'd like to share it at your Division and DFC meetings later today. But there... so, I'm responsible for all the Chancellor's goals in academics... in addition, these are what I'd like to focus on too... and this is where I'd like for your help in collaboration on it. So, the first one is accelerate and all-in commitment to continuous Improvement... and data driven decision making towards student- centered excellence, which we do, we already do... but we'd like to focus on increasing productive grade rates... so, increasing A's, B's, and C's, while maintaining academic rigor of course and quality... also, scheduling and increasing the completion through a DEI lens... also, we're developing a university transfer plan. Number 3... conduct program review to examine degree success and relevance to the current ... future labor market in the needs of Pima County and Santa Cruz County. And this one, number 4... I'd like... I think you will have much more collaboration with this... all of us together working   on it for number 4... continue a multi-faceted evaluation of academic efficiencies resulting from program review to focus on efficiencies in course scheduling, academic leadership structure, and faculty staffing. So last semester, some of us were invited to to listen, as a listening session from the senate study session that focused on working conditions, and issues that you had concerns... and I took that to heart... and so, we are re-examining the entire academic faculty leadership structure and we're working on a group... comprising a group with faculty and leadership... so, you will hear more details about that, but I just wanted you to know that we heard you, we understand your concerns, and we want to address them through this group, that's going to be starting this semester... so, that was a quick update on that. Then, you can see goal 5... recommend practices and policies to prepare learners for civically engaged citizen in our society... and developing skills ability and voice necessary to engage at the local, state, national, and global levels. And then, of course, to finalize our DEI strategic plan, incorporating data to help inform decision making... and then finally, develop evidence practices  with excellence in education to intentionally   serve Latino students, while serving all students. so that's a brief overview of the draft goals... Provost goals... and I'm in the process of assigning that to particular leads... and then, you all will be invited to help participate in this. So, for academic initiatives more of the... more specific...this is what I'd like your help on and the first is, course efficiencies, such as fill rates and transferability... we're working closely with the Provost at the University of Arizona, the vice-Provost at ASU, and the Provost at NAU... so, we're strengthening those ties and making sure that our transferability is smooth and our students can seamlessly go from Pima College to one of the state universities. And as I mentioned, we're going to revisit the whole structure for academic leadership and you'll get more information about that. And then finally, we're going to be looking at staffing needs through the FACT process, which stands for faculty allocation collaboration team... and that'll start in mid-March... and of course, faculty will be involved in that as well... and there are various ways that you can communicate with me, but I want to strengthen that communication... we've been meeting with faculty senate officers on a regular basis... a monthly basis. We also meet with the AERC faculty on a regular basis... I hold office hours... virtual office hours... and now that we're back a little more in person, hybrid... so, I'll be at the campuses again this semester... and you can either come see me in person or join through,  virtually... and my Café Con Leche with the Provost   and Kate Schmidt accompanies me to these meetings and we talk... and you can pop in... you don't have to schedule an appointment, just pop in and share any ideas... or if you have any questions or concerns...   but also, these kinds of forums, gatherings, where I can update you on things and get your feedback... I'd like to hold... this is the first time we're doing this Academic Affairs Forum... so, I have these dates here...  and this way, I can keep you aside from my emails and Provost newsletters and, like I said, office hours and things... this is more of a global way of reaching out to you... to touch base with you... and updates on these initiatives through academic affairs... and so, we have these dates, so please mark your calendars, because I do need your your input and feedback, as we work on these very important goals for the college and for our community... and especially for our students. So... with that, I'm going to thank you again, and express my gratitude... and the hope that I have and the optimism that I have for this spring semester for all of us to work together... and just to congratulate you on the outstanding  work you've done and the resilience that you have... and your leadership that you bring to Pima  Community College... it's an honor to work with you... I love faculty, I come from faculty... always in my heart, faculty... and I'm wishing you the best of luck for this spring semester. So... thank you very much, and I will pass it back to Rita. ---Rita Lennon: Very good... thank you so much... I'm looking  forward to those academic affair meetings...  I think that's going to be a really helpful way for all of us to get together and hear what's going on... and be able to give... ask questions and give feedback... so, thank you. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: You're very welcome. ---Rita Lennon: Yeah... so, the next thing we have on the agenda is actually a little bit different... We have faculty Senate meetings held every All College Day and All Faculty Day... of course All College Day, if you're new to the college... All College Days are fall semester, where all of us get together... all staff, faculty, administration... All Faculty Day is every spring semester and that's what we're doing today. So, instead of us all, senate... all the senators, getting together at the end of the day, we decided that we would... since we have a captive audience... that we would ask you to participate... and this is going to be somewhat of a listening session, where we hear from faculty about specific items... and we'll get to that in a moment... but before we start that, I would like to introduce my... so I... if... I did introduce myself before, but I'll introduce myself once more... I'm currently the faculty senate president... but we also have Brooke Anderson, who is going to be coming in at the end of my term and her... so, she's the president-elect. So Brooke, I'd like you to go ahead and say good morning to everyone. ---Brooke Anderson: Good morning everyone... welcome back to the spring semester, and to the start of a new year... and I'm really looking forward to serving the faculty and the college in this new role as president-elect... and really working closely with Rita to represent you and have your voices be heard... so, thank you Rita. ---Rita Lennon: Absolutely, thank you... so, we do have a couple of things that we would like to share with you first before we start opening our ears and listening to what you have to tell us... so, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen... hopefully everyone will be able to see it... we good? ---Brooke Anderson: Yes. ---Rita Lennon: Okay, thank you... all right, so what we would like to do is to have an introduction to all of your Senator officers... and then to all the senators... so, we'll start off with meeting your Senate officers first. So first, we have President and past- president... is myself, Rita Lennon... president-elect and our ACC rep... ACC stands for All College Council... is Brooke Anderson, Brandi Wright is our newly elected vice-  president, our secretary is Kelly O'Keef,  our Board of Governor rep is Denise Riley, our adjunct BOG rep. and our committee... adjunct committee chair is Sean Mendoza, and our sergeant of arms and Logistics is Lisa Werner and she's newly elected to that role as well. If I didn't say it Brandi is also newly elected... Brooke. ---Brooke Anderson: Thank you... yes... and I dropped a link to the chat, so that... in the chat... so that you can see...   you can always look this information up on our website as well... where you will see officers and our senators listed, including their email addresses... so, if you ever want to reach out to a senator with any feedback or comments or questions, you can do so... or to an officer... so, our first senators I'd like to introduce are from Adult Education... we have Stephanie Basij and Margaret Youngo... and then we also have in the Arts division, Raymond Ryder and Mano Sotelo this year. ---Rita Lennon: And in Applied Technology we have John Gerard,  Charles Wacker, Adrian Snellgrove, and Manny Carrillo. ---Brooke Anderson: In Business Information Systems and Hospitality... oops, can you go back? ---Rita Lennon: Sorry... oh my gosh, I didn't... ---Brooke Anderson: Oh wait, no... go ahead and... you just said those ones, right. ---Rita Lennon: I did... so what I didn't... I'm so sorry what I didn't do was, I didn't add the the correct senators... so, my apologies for everyone who's in Business Information and Hospitality... I was making changes... so, we will get that... I will come back to Business Information and Hospitality... my apologies.   ---Brooke Anderson: Okay. ---Rita Lennon: So, why don't you go ahead and do Communications. ---Brooke Anderson: Communications... all right... so, I am a Brooke Anderson... I'm coming from the communications area... and then we have Cynthia Howe, April Burge, Maggie Golston, Mayra Cortez-Torres, and Carmen Beaudry as our senators. ---Rita Lennon: Very good... so sorry about that... Health Professions... we have Rita Lennon, Rollin Medcalf, Carolyn Sotelo, Katy Challenger, and Stacy Cousins. ---Brooke Anderson: And for our Library Representatives we  have Joe Brewer and Roseanne Couston... we have in PimaOnline department  head representative Kelly O'Keefe...  and in Workforce Development we have Brandi  Randolph or Wright Randolph and Xavier Seguara. ---Rita Lennon: In mathematics we have Tal Sutton, Diane Lussier... Matej Buzeda... oh, gosh, I always mess up your name Matej, I'm sorry... Boguszak, Joanna Wilson, and James Sheldon...  nothing like live TV right [giggles] live recording. ---Brooke Anderson: And in Sciences we have Corey Leonetti,  Dennis Just, Lisa Werner, and Beverly Everson. ---Rita Lennon: In social Sciences, Humanities, and Education we have Tiffany Young, Sarah Grace, Sarah Jansen, and Beverly Everson And that is it for our senators I promise you, we will do the announcement for Business, IT, and Hospitality... I'm so sorry that I messed that up... it was a late night let me just put it that way. So, for our... I'm going to stop sharing here... and for our listening session, we actually have a Jamboard that we're going to share in chat... yep, it is the danger of copy and paste, Tal, you're right... [laughs] I'm duplicating your screen. So, I will definitely add that... I'm getting some messages about of... you know, who those are... and I promise you I'll get to that, but we have a Jamboard for our listening session... I've asked some of the other officers to paste the chat... the link into chat... I realize that some of you may not have worked  in Jamboard before and that's perfectly okay.  If you will share your information in chat, we will still gather it that way... okay... but we would prefer it all be collected in one bucket... so, if you could, jump over to Jamboard and answer the questions along with us We'd appreciate it... however, our backup will be for chat as well. Okay... so, looks like there's some that are not  getting access... so, if you are not logged into   your Pima College account, then you won't be able to see it... so I'm going to go ahead and just move it over to "anyone who has the link"... so hopefully that will work. Now, if you refresh, you should be able to see it. So, the first question is a funny question now, as things are chugging along... and that is... how are we doing with communication? [laughs] So, as a whole, what we would like to know is... ---Unknown: Hey Rita... 347 00:39:07,141 --> 00:39:09,215 Rita, yeah. ---Denise Reilly: We're getting messages that there's too many folks in there. ---Rita Lennon: Yes, sorry. okay. ---Denise Reilly: before you keep going. ---Rita Lennon: Oh, I appreciate that... okay... so, if you're getting that message, please just go ahead and write your information in chat... that's perfectly fine. We have people who are taking notes... and Kelly, I'm not going to ask you to like, you know, feverishly take notes for everything, but... yeah... so, if you are getting a message that you can't get into the Jamboard, that's perfectly okay... we'll go ahead and take your information by chat... we just want your information... that's basically what it is, okay... so... ---Unknown: Rita can you share your Jamboard? Can you share your screen with the jamboard so we can see it? ---Rita Lennon: Absolutely, I can do that for sure... let me open that. There we go... okay... so, if you're not able to see  the Jamboard or get into the Jamboard that's okay... go ahead and add your information to chat...  you can also email it to me if you want to, I'm... you know I just want to get your information,  it's basically the most important thing. So, the first question that I would ask is... how are we doing with communication? And this can be for both senate, you know, those are  emails that you receive from me on a monthly basis about the upcoming meeting and anything that's of importance that you need to know about before the meeting... but also, from your individual senators that we just introduced... are you hearing from us too often... are you not  hearing from us enough... or is it just right? And if you haven't... if you're not familiar with Jamboard, you can grab from the list over here on the side... you can grab a sticky note and paste it onto, you know, right into it and paste it...and it will save or you can freestyle text it if you want to... if you grab it, it's going to go on top of someone else's, so you kind of have to move it across the board... it's kind of like a cork board that way. ---Unknown: Rita? ---Rita Lennon: Yes. ---Unknown: Pardon me it's you only 373 ---Rita Lennon: Um, yeah... ---Unknown: I just changed it. ---Rita Lennon: Okay... thank you. First day of class, that's what this is feeling like. So, we'll give it a couple of more seconds to have you add your information there... either, like I said... if you're in Jamboard, please  go ahead and add it there... or put it in chat. ---Unknown: I still can only see view only. ---Rita Lennon: You might need to refresh your screen. [unintelligible talking in the background] ---Brooke Anderson: I think someone has their mic on and may not  realize that we're hearing a side conversation. ---Rita Lennon: [giggling] Thank you Brooke... very good. Thank you... so, getting some  "just rights" or "fairly wells". "communication is better than it used to be right now"... "okay"... "just right." So, part of our responsibility is that we are communicating with you... I mean honestly, the information that we're presenting to our administration, needs to come from you...  it needs to have your input... it can't just be, you know, a few faculty members view that is being presented to the administration... so, the only way that we can do that is by hearing from you... that's why we are trying new things, like the study sessions, to get more information from you. But also, that's why Brooke and I thought, you know, we need to reintroduce... we do this every every year but... we need to reintroduce our senators, so that you know where to find your senator, how to reach out to them... so that, if you're noticing anything, that you can also reach out to them, and get that information to them... ---Brooke Anderson: And then I would love to share as well... sorry Rita... but... that, that link I shared, I can drop it again in the chat, to our website... has our charter on it... and so you can review that to also see exactly... what is the purpose of the faculty Senate? What are uh faculty Senator supposed to do? And what are the communication channels and  common practices that the faculty senate uses? And so everybody knows you may already know this,  but last semester we started a revision of our charter... and I did just send an email out to all of our senators, reminding them that, "you want to provide feedback please"... I... last semester I said... "by this meeting"... but I know everybody's busy over the break... and that last month of the semester is pretty crazy... so, as long as you provide us feedback on the charter, senators, by the end of next week... then that'll give us time to incorporate any of your ideas into the revision... and then we will be holding an executive session at the February meeting to approve it... and then the process there is... if, in the executive session, the senators approve the agenda... then in the March meeting, we can put it in the business section to actually put it to a vote to approve. So, we are in the process of revising that charter... so, all faculty... this feedback you're providing us today is useful for that... and you are also welcome to review that charter and provide feedback to your senators, to provide for us as well. So, let us know, you know, how are we functioning? Especially when it comes to communication. What ideas do you have for how we could do a better job... what do you feel like we are doing really well... and should continue to do. This is all really useful feedback for the faculty senate... thanks Rita. ---Rita Lennon: Yeah, thank you... okay... so, as we're still gathering some information on this question, I'm going to go ahead and advance to the second question... so, if you're in Jamboard and you're new to it... for the 27 people who are in the Jamboard... just go up here to the next frame, and we have a new question for you.   If you don't advance up here on your own, you're still going to be answering on the first screen... so, just know that. So, have you attended senate meetings in the past? Are you attending them now? And if you're not attending them, we would like to know why? So, couple questions there I know... have  you attended senate meetings in the past? Do you now? And if you're not attending them, or  have never attended them, we'd like to know why? And as you're entering that information on  your sticky... I would like to let you know   that our Senate meetings are always held...  they've historically been held this way... every first Friday of the month... from 1:00 in the afternoon to 3:00.   They are open meetings... that means everyone's welcome... we do have, you know, quite a process that we follow. So, we go over some reports... that's new information that invited guests have been... are bringing to us We have a business section and that's where we are making formal votes or making formal decisions. We can move into executive session and that's where just the senate and the senate officers are meeting, you know, in a closed room section... and that's not recording... and then also, on  the website I wanted to share with you... [loud voice] [giggles] someone has their mic open... I hope that wasn't from the information I'm sharing, but you know... who knows. [laughs]. if you are not speaking right now, if you could go ahead and mute your screen, that would be great. If you don't know already, you can go to the website, where all of our senate... senators are listed...  and you can see all of our meeting minutes, our agendas, and our recordings... and each recording also has a transcript, in case you want to read through it instead of watch it. ---Brooke Anderson: Yeah and I'm seeing some comments come in that are really useful, that the faculty Senate would love more feedback on... about meetings on the... faculty senate business, not necessarily being all that relevant for adjuncts... or for certain disciplines... so, something that I'm particularly interested in is... how could faculty senate be more relevant for faculty?  If you have ideas about, you know... how that  would be the case, that would be great... you know, we have some vacant senate seats in some of the areas... and I suspect that some of those vacant   seats are in those areas where the senate may be...  is not as relevant... doesn't seem as relevant to those areas as it does to other areas... and so, feedback on that... what we could do to make the faculty senate more relevant for our adjunct faculty... more relevant for our division areas that currently don't feel like the faculty senate really serves so much, would be very helpful for us. ---Rita Lennon: Mmmm, indeed... right, especially because we're representing you... and we are bringing forth your perspective, and your concerns. So, you know, if we're not hearing from you, there's no way to receive that information... then there's really no way for us to get that message forward and work out the problems...  so, we don't want to just bring a problem forward we want to also work on the solution... that's the whole idea of the shared governance I'm so happy that we're getting a lot of information here... we'll go ahead and move forward to our third question. So again, if you are in Jamboard... if you're 1 of the 30 people in Jamboard, you're just going to go ahead and advance to the next frame   if you don't do that on your own, then you're going to be... oh, that one looks empty, so we'll go to the fourth page... my apologies... there's an empty third page... so, please advance to the fourth screen. All right... so, the question is... in a perfect Pima  world, how would the faculty senate function? This is a very broad question we realize, but  we wanted to leave it broad, Brooke and I, so that we could get as much information as possible... and so, I'm actually gonna be hopeful and I'm gonna make this smaller, so we have more room for all of your ideas. ---Unknown: If I got back in, I don't have  any sound. ---Rita Lennon: We can hear you... [giggles] it was just quiet for a moment. ---Brooke Anderson: There's lots of great comments coming in in the chat... I really appreciate that. ---Rita Lennon: Do you want to highlight some of them? I don't have my chat box open so I can't see. ---Brooke Anderson: Yeah, yeah... well, it's funny, the dream... there's definitely some dreams of, you know... all views being heard and valued, right? Yes, that's the... I think the faculty senate sort of embodies the democratic ideals, right... but making democratic ideals a reality is a big challenge, right... so, other comments... faculty would initiate any and all changes... and initiate policy adjustments... have it be more, you know, I've seen some comments about it... it's too top down...   so, having it be more, you know, bottom up... where  again, faculty are really leading changes, policy...   these are the ideals of the senate... but the reality of that is... a lot of the times it's very top down, right. So, how do we change that? And then also, you know... I'm seeing comments about how it... the faculty senate is an academic structure, and not all of our areas are... really fit into that academic structure, right... you can't get a PhD, someone said, in plumbing... and so, it's not really very useful... the faculty senate isn't really very useful   for people that are serving our students in areas where the goal isn't to go on for Bachelor's Degrees and Master's Degrees and PHDs... and so how do we balance that? You know, what would... I think what that brings up an interesting question that would the structure look like for the more technical side of the house? Do we need a subgroup for example, that really focused on the technical side of the house... and  where's the... where's the meeting ground, right? How could maybe, the faculty senate serve in such a way where we could really take those liberal arts, and be channeling them in ways that don't seem counter to the goals of the workforce side of the house, right... but where are the meeting grounds... and how can we focus more on that in faculty senate? Is some of the things I'm thinking about as I see some of the comments coming in. ---Rita Lennon: Fantastic, yeah... and I'm sorry, while you were sharing... highlighting those that are coming in chat, I went back and looked at question 2 and question 1... and there's still some more information that we are gathering... so, thank you so much for continuing to add information or your thoughts to all of those. I think we'll go ahead and move forward then... please continue giving us your ideas of how faculty senate could function better... and I... real quick before we move on... I wanted to say that, you know, it's not...  one of the things that I see here is that, it's  not just a function of faculty, it... you know... it really does need to be a holistic perspective  of how we function more... more efficiently... so, I appreciate that... you're right, it does mean... you know, we all need to work harder on how faculty senate functions... and it... how we're viewed... thank you... all right.... so, moving forward. Finished... obviously it was a late night... [chuckles] I'm so sorry... so, we're going to move on to um the sixth slide here. So, please go ahead and move past number 5, because it's the same question. [chuckles] Number 6 is... do you have any recommendations for future study sessions? So, those of you who are not aware... we have implemented about for the last... well, the entire academic year, last year, We started doing some study sessions... and so, they're outside of the meeting... our regular senate meeting... where we come together on a specific topic... it really is specific to faculty... and when I say faculty and when all of the officers say faculty, we mean all faculty... we mean staff instructors, adjunct faculty, full-time faculty... we're not looking at it in silo... we're not looking at it in different groups... so, it's a place for all instructors to come together and to provide their concerns or questions, get feedback, whatever, on a specific topic... so, we have some that are already scheduled for this semester, but we're looking at more topics that you would like us to know about, or to talk about, in those study sessions. and again those study sessions are scheduled on Fridays... they're usually around the same time as a regular meeting would be scheduled... usually a little bit less time... so, it's usually 1 to 3 for a regularly scheduled senate meeting... our study sessions might be like 2... 2 to... I'm sorry, 12 to 2... so, do you have any recommendations for future study sessions? ---Brooke Anderson: I'm seeing faculty leadership coming  in... as a request of a study session...   you know, getting into more specific  elements of revising that structure. ---Rita Lennon: So, the first one that was on Jamboard that said... I would love to have a study session on more  specific elements of revising the structure.  Whoever wrote that one, could you just add a little bit more to that like, what structure are you talking about? Is the senate structure... is it the college structure? ---Unknown: Rita, that was actually put in the chat and  I copied it and put it on the Jamboard for us. ---Rita Lennon: I see, okay. ---Unknown: I believe that was Nan Schmidt. ---Rita Lennon: Okay... not to out you Nan... but could you show us a little bit more information on that? ---Unknown: Well, it's on... it's on the chat, so. ---Rita Lennon: Right... good point. ---Brooke Anderson: It's just clarifying faculty leadership structure in the chat. ---Rita Lennon: Okay... I'm gonna go ahead and add that here. ---Brooke Anderson: And Julia asked... when does the transition to the new president occur? So, Rita is acting president this year and officers change every January... and so, the president-elect, the position I'm in, becomes president the following year... and so, January 2024 is when that will happen. I think that's what the question...  I hope that answered your question. And I see discussion of scheduling processes for disciplines coming in as an idea... yeah... oh good, Julia. ---Rita Lennon: There's some great ideas here... to co-host a study session with a strategic planning committee, that's wonderful. ---Brooke Anderson: Yeah, that's a great idea. ---Rita Lennon: I think that would be a great idea... the tricky part is that the strategic planning committee is... you know... well... um... I think that's how... [giggles] if I can see that picture. Tal don't... doesn't the strategic planning  committee work in advance of like several years? So, that would be a challenge, because if we're looking at something for say... to happen this semester for example... it would probably be for like 2025 that we're talking about... is that correct? The changes. ---Tal Sutton: Yeah.. I was just thinking of it as like a longer term thing that... if people are talking about structural changes... you know, this is a big institution... they go slow... so, sometimes we do need that longer perspective. ---Rita Lennon: Right, that's a good point... okay, thank you... just wanted to clarify that ---Brooke Anderson: And then, I'm seeing... workload of adjunct faculty, plus compensation for the workload coming in... and several people reinforcing that scheduling again, would be a good topic for a study session, that faculty would like to talk about. ---Makyla Hays: Can I add something? ---Brooke Anderson: In small programs, that's small programs too... did someone want to say something? ---Makyla Hays: Sorry, yeah... it's just me Makyla... I'm... just want to kind of clarify that AERC is really where workload, not necessarily... it's like working conditions and compensation, as well as workload, that's really more of a policy AERC decision, whereas the academic side of the house and things that impact your curriculum and some of those loading things are kind of in both areas... I think it might be good to do a co-hosted  session... so that any of the concerns that are brought forward that really do overlap, both groups can hear, that there's good representation   from everybody in them... and then we can take it  up in the appropriate shared governance group. So, I guess I'm offering an AERC co-host session. ---Rita Lennon: Yay... [chuckles] ---Brooke Anderson: That would be awesome, yeah. ---Rita Lennon: Awesome, yup. Okay... well, we'll go ahead and continue to ask you to share your thoughts here... either in chat, or put them in Jamboard... and we'll move on to our last... kind of a very open-ended question... any comments... any thoughts... anything here... any questions you have... please, feel free to leave them here, and we will answer them... or get the question to whomever would be able to best answer it. ---Ed Arriaga: Rita? ---Rita Lennon: Yes. ---Ed Arriaga: Ed Arriaga East Campus. ---Rita Lennon: Hi, Ed. ---Ed Arriaga: Hi... so far, I appreciate all the information that's been shared and the work that you all have done has been incredible... so, congratulations to you... I'm just a little concerned... I think that we need to sit down and hear from the board. We have 3 new board members... 2 returning... they are the leadership of the college... they determine the direction and the policies that are going to be implemented, yet we haven't discussed that... I felt... I think that we should hear from them, and maybe have a study session with them, to tell us what they see... and how they believe this college will proceed  in the future... everything you're talking about and has been said today is very appropriate and it affects all of us... however the bottom line is... that board directs everything... they're the ones that give the information to the chancellor... and et cetera, et cetera... when can we sit down... I don't need... in a virtual meeting with board members to hear from them either collectively or individually   on how they see this college, where they see  it going, and how they expect to get there.  I just think it's an important piece of who we are... we're going to be in this business collectively and collaboratively, don't you think we should hear from the leadership? ---Rita Lennon: Thank you for your input... yep... so, I've added  that thought to the Jamboard... thank you for that... and just to let you know in case you're not aware... one of our officers is the representative.... we actually have 2 officers who are the representatives for the board of governing... or the Board of Governors... We have Denise Riley, who is the full-time faculty Board of Governors rep... and then we also have Sean Mendoza, who is our adjunct rep. So, we do have the opportunity to share our view with them in the way of a report during their monthly meeting. Where we have lost... you know, that complete circle is... they're no longer attending our meetings...   so they are not hearing our perspective... or we're  not being... we're not able to hear the conversation...   you know, fluidly... so, they're getting the data like a month after sometimes, our meetings have happened. So, that's been a troublesome issue that we're trying to work out... in an ideal world, we would have all of our governing meetings first... and then they would be presented to the Board of Governors, you know, like following... but that's not always the case... sometimes our meetings happen before... sometimes our meetings happen after. So, thank you for that information... anyone else? ---Brooke Anderson: And then Patrick asked a really good question in the chat about, you know... again, what are the distinctions? At our follow-up session with AERC should help a great deal with this too... and again, if you read our charter, you'll see the purpose of the faculty senate defined... and it... and, you know... and that's one of the things that is tricky... they can get really blurry... those lines... but like Makyla was saying, you know, PCCEA has a specific purpose that really is more about working conditions... AERC is more about policy revisions... faculty senate is more about faculty leadership. in curriculum and academics and instruction...  and you know, like I like to say all the time,   faculty working conditions are student learning conditions and so, there's a lot of overlap between the groups... but there are also some things that are, you know, much more specifically useful for faculty senate to focus on... for AERC to focus on... for PCCEA to focus on... and what's important to know too, is that all of these groups... faculty senate, AERC, PCCEA... we have public meetings... and so, that is... they're not just reserved for the people that are serving as senators or serving as representatives... but they are meetings that you can attend that you can provide feedback... they are meant to be representative of the faculty. And so, just because you're not a representative doesn't mean your voice isn't important. And, and, Rita... I see a couple of hands did you want to... ---Rita Lennon: Oh... yeah... I'm sorry... I'm not able to see those, so please. ---Brooke Anderson: Oh, okay... yeah... Denise has had her hand up. ---Rita Lennon: [chuckles] My apologies... please go ahead Denise. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Edward for that... for that question... Rita's probably laughing, as I've been messaging her in the chat ...where's my report time? So, I'm your Board of Governors representative, and there is a lot of news... or there are a lot of updates going on with that... so, if there is time at the end of this session, I'm happy to give a 5 minute report from the meeting that just occurred Wednesday... and give you a very great, kind of overall scheme, of where I see things going... and how I think there will be 2-way communication... but this is a whole fresh start and a whole different ball game now with 3 new members... so, thank you Edward, for bringing that up.. and if there is time at the end of this meeting, and Rita will allow it, I'm happy to share the report that I have ready, thanks. ---Ed Arriaga: Thank you. ---Rita Lennon: yeah, actually... I know that there's a couple more hands, so I just want to real quickly say that this is not our general meeting... usually what we do is... we have a very structured agenda, and we follow that agenda... and part... the beginning of every meeting, we have reports from several different areas... the Board of Governors being one of them... so... well, the rep... so Denise, after we answer these questions... the hands, you know... the hands that are raised...then we'll go ahead and go to you... sound good? I'll take that as a yes... I can't [chuckles]... so, all right... so, ---Denise Reilly: Oh... sorry, thumbs up, yes. ---Rita Lennon: Okay, great... so, who else has their hand raised? Brook, why don't you just go ahead and man that? ---Brooke Anderson: Sure, Makyla has her hand up. ---Makyla Hays: I think it's just me... so, I just wanted to give a quick answer to Ed, a little bit... and I think Denise will go further into it... but just kind of as a general structure, because there's a lot  of people here, and I want to make sure that I answer it while everybody's listening and interested in it... there's a lot of different policies and policy levels at the college... so, the board sets board policy... and the board policy is very high level... and gives like, overall purpose and direction for where the college wants to go...   then there's administrative policy that goes under that, so each board policy can have administrative policies that administration sets... there is administration policy review... we do get feedback in input opportunities on those things... and a lot of those AP's come through faculty senate or the all-college council or AERC. So, if they are working conditions and compensation related, they go to AERC... if they're academic curriculum decisions they go through senate... and if they are more... just like college structure... they go to all-college council. So, there's... there's... and they're defined with I believe within the AP, which representative group is supposed to give that input.  And then, there's also standard operating procedures that are held by different bodies, to help Define the AP's. What AERC does is man the handbook with working conditions and your responsibilities... and how you're compensated for the things that you do... how you can... code of conduct, that type of stuff... and then the academic side of the house... senate kind of determines scheduling, how do you schedule... how do you do these things... what are the priorities... and how do you work with those things? so there's definitely overlap between all of them, but they're supposed to be somewhat clearly defined... and I think what's happened over the last few years is we've lost some of those definitions. So, I think that would be a great study session to kind of talk through how do these all work? And what is the appropriate role of the governing board within these conversations? The other thing I just wanted to quickly say is... if more than 2 Board of Governors are in attendance somewhere... it has to be noticed as an open meeting... and so, it would have to kind of be scheduled... because if 3 Board of Governors came to a faculty senate meeting at one time, then we would be in violation of open meeting law... so, it has to be scheduled out... and we have to ensure that there's not more than 2 of them at once... but their job is to kind of manage the chancellor and the vision of the college in the overall direction. So, while it's helpful for them to hear from us... a lot of the decisions that we're making at this level isn't necessarily the same detail level that they're working on. So, I think it still would be helpful... I just wanted to give a little bit of that overview hopefully that helps ---Ed Arriaga: Thank you. ---Rita Lennon: That's very helpful, thank you... okay. ---Brooke Anderson: And just in case... can I quickly just ask... I don't have the link super handy... but if someone has the sign-in sheet handy, could we drop that again, now that we're a ways into our meeting? So, people can sign in if they haven't yet... to send us a reminder sign in faculty. ---Rita Lennon: And even if you haven't signed in yet... if you've been in the meeting and you haven't signed in yet... please do... because we have 10 gift cards that we are going to be selecting throughout the morning. We want to make sure that you have an opportunity to win one of those very wonderful gifts. Okay... well, I think that we'll still be collecting information, either through chat... if you're on Jamboard please add that... if you can't get to either one of them... great... email me, rlennon1@pima.edu... but why don't we go ahead and turn it over to Denise for her board of governing report and then we can move on to our next section of the agenda.   ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Rita... and thank you so much Makyla,  for sharing the kind of overall structure and the commitments and the responsibilities of the Board as a whole, for the whole College, not just in terms of academics, but how it kind of lays out the structure of how involved or how not involved   the Board of Governors needs to be, with any kind of decision making at the college, which has actually been an issue for some time... so, I'm your board of governing representative, Denise Riley... I'm in the CRSS division, or College Readiness and Student  Success... so, the board meets on a monthly basis,   and those of you that have been paying attention  know that we had 3 new board seats filled... and I'm taking a look at my notes, because I took a lot of notes from this last board meeting... and I was following along with things that make me  go "hmm" with this meeting. So, after a very short and shaky start, I can confidently say I think the Board will be a valuable group resource or body moving forward. Our board chair... the board chair that was elected by the group is Teresa Riel, so she is in charge of the board... and the vice-chair was voted as Wade McLean... Wade was one that I think was the former superintendent of the Marana Unified School District... and he was the one that was appointed after Cat Ripley left. So, those are our 2 kind of, leads in the group... so, what I noticed in the meeting was there's new leadership, new roles, and a lot of new questions... the next new member was Greg Taylor, I believe he comes from the medical side... maybe medical administrative side of things... and he had a lot of great questions for the reports that were there. So, I have a feeling that this is going to be a much... well, it is going to be a much different year... but what I noticed is, there was a willingness to learn from all the members of the board... and I'm talking about returning and new ones... there was a variety of experience among the board members with different levels of leadership, in different areas, which was pretty diverse... and some were focused more on education workforce but they had a willingness to learn and work together, and I appreciated that. There were some great things... the mission moment  focused on the U of A STEM Bridge Grant, which was nice to see... so, every Board meeting has a mission moment and there's something highlighted about the college, and that really focused on Dean Emily Halvorson and a STEM program that is in its last years at Pima Community College... so, that was a great highlight of the meeting... one thing that... one thing that the Board had some discrepancy on and they had a lot of discussion at the very end of the meeting... but they were able to politely and respectfully   talk with each other... they were talking about Board logistics, Board items, open meetings, bylaws...  so, they have a willingness to re-evaluate all those things and a willingness to have open board meetings again... and what I mean by open, which that was discussed at length, was a willingness for the public to come in and watch the Board meetings, which had been... last year the Board chair and the Board members had kind of disagreed on whether they wanted to   have open meetings or not... so, I have a feeling that... I titled this.. it's pretty funny, I title everything   with big bold words... of the year of data... I have a feeling that this group really wants to see hard solid data from the college... they asked where we get our data from... they asked what we benchmarked... and so, I really appreciated that it's not just going to be presentations, presentations, presentations... and kind of conflict based on these presentations... but I think there's going to be some deeper questions being asked about how the data is being gathered, and where the direction of things are going... but I think this Board is willing to listen first and find out how things are operating   before they come in and make any changes... in fact they were hesitant to even make any changes right at the very beginning of the meeting,  related to things that had transpired last year. So, I call it the year of data... and one thing  that I will say... I always go with these quotes,   but here's what I call the "Good, Bad, and the Ugly"  of the meeting or what I see moving forward... the good is there's some momentum and change coming  and I really appreciate the momentum and the change   in a forward positive direction... the bad is that it's going to take time for this board to acclimate... what I did here is... the chancellor spoke about a retreat this next week... so, there must be some type of Board retreat among administration or executive leadership of the college and the Board members. So, I think that, it's just going to take time... all the Board members are new... some don't know the operational procedures... and some are still learning the operational procedures... and so, I think it's going to take time to acclimate... and for them to really know their role... the ugly, and this has got to stop, from my perspective as the board representative for faculty... the ugly is that, during public comments... so, in every Board of Governors meeting, there's a chance for anyone in the public to make a comment up to 5 minutes... and Makayla, your PCCEA and AERC representative, puts in a public comment at every single meeting... and you have to request that in advance... but any member of the public can speak for... Makyla can correct me, it's either 3 or 5... I think it's 3 minutes total...   even though some tend to go over that amount of time and during this public comment... I... for the last year and a half, it has been a tit-for-tat show... and I just feel like we get enough of that in our political spectrum as is, this kind of mudslinging competition... and so, this public comment session has been for the chancellor, against the chancellor, in support of the Board members, against the Board members... it... it... the community members are being brought in to take sides, and it's just really ugly... it's really ugly... and I'd like to see it stop... because as I said... if we're saying that we're diverse and we respect equity... and we respect everybody's opinions... the public comment has gotten to be ugly, and it's just... I'd like to see it stop... and unfortunately in this last meeting there was still a little bit of that left over... but I would like to see in the future, that mud slinging to end... I just don't think it has a place and it serves a place here...   and there's people coming from the workforce supporting Pima... there's members of the community not supporting Pima... and I would just like to see everyone work together... and I think the chancellor has alluded to that in the meeting... and I think the Board members are open to it... but that's the ugly that I'd like to see stop... but otherwise we have some good momentum... it's going to take some time... and hopefully, we can see a good year to come. and I'm so glad that... I'm not sure who the... who it was that brought this up in the first place with the board, but yes, things come down from the board... and I can say that it has been a very less tenuous year... with board members and disagreements... and some leaving in the middle of the term... and so now, I do think, you know, leadership comes down from the top and it has to be both ways, the leadership has to respect the executive administration of the college and the executive administration has to respect the questions that come from the Board... it's got to be a 2-way street. So anyways, as it comes down to academics, I can tell you that, you know, we have had board members in the past come to faculty senate meetings... and I did, in my report, and you can always watch my reports, and you can watch the whole meeting. In my report, invite the members to come to any faculty senate meeting should they want to come... and so I've invited that...   I've extended the arm and I will continue to represent all of you by sharing the overall general gist of what's going on with academics... and you can also... usually at our monthly meetings, Rita attaches my board report... so, it's about 4 to 5 pages every time... and it kind of highlights everything that's going on in a very summative fashion... but also it has links to the reports that everybody shares at our meetings.. like the Provost report... the PCCEA report. So anyways, I'm happy to post that in the chat for those of you that are interested in reading more about that... maybe you'll start reading it regularly if I post here today... so, thank you Rita... I appreciate the time that you've given me to share with that and I think you thank you guys for all the questions related to that. ---Rita Lennon: Thank you... okay... well, we have just a couple more minutes is there ...we'll we can open this up to   everyone on the call... we have 300 people here... so, would anybody like to take the last couple of minutes, and just ask a question or share anything that you would like to? And yes, I agree with Patrick...  excellent report Denise. [chuckles] ---Brooke Anderson: And I see that we had an announcement of some winners... and people might be missing that in the chat... so, Diane, would you mind... it looks like we have 4 people so far... would you mind announcing those in case people miss their names? ---Diane Miller: Sure... of course, my pleasure... good morning everyone. Congratulations Jeremy Covell, Eric Saphir, Emily Whittington, and Jay Deaver. And stay tuned for the rest of the morning...  we'll draw the rest. ---Rita Lennon: Fantastic... thank you. Anything else anyone wants to bring up? ---Kate Schmidt: Yeah... one of... one other quick thing... we had understood that our max was 500... it turns out people are unable to get in when we hit 300, so we're working on getting the YouTube link out... if anybody is hearing from people who are locked out. We will be... we are... we will also  be streaming on on YouTube. ---Rita Lennon: Thank you... okay... so, there was  someone who just texted me Okay, good. Any other final moments... or final  thoughts, questions, comments? All right... well, if yo can see our background All Faculty Day... you too could have this for the rest of the day if you like... I'm going to ask someone who has the link to go ahead and place it into chat... you can make it your background as well. All right... well, we'll go ahead and and close 5 minutes early, no big deal... [chuckles] and we'll be going into a break now... our next discussion will be at 11... is that correct? You know what I don't have those... I don't have it in front of me, let me take a double... ---Unknown: [voice 1] 10:15. [voice 2] 10:15. ---Rita Lennon: I'm all saying 11... that would be the end of our meeting... [laughs] let's do 10:15... how about that... our AERC faculty listening session begins at 10:15... please go ahead and get some coffee, take a bio break, and we'll see you then. I wanted to take a moment to highlight before we  get back to the real meeting... but we missed a couple... it was all my fault... I missed a couple of senators when we were introducing them during the senate portion... so for Business Information Systems and Hospitality we have Mike Pickell and we have Sean Mendoza... and for College Readiness and Student Success we have Denise Riley and Jody Richardson Delgado... ---Brooke Anderson: and then Rita, I wanted to throw in there too, Karla Lombana is also a faculty senator for Workforce. ---Rita Lennon: Thank you... she's not on our website yet, okay... I'll make sure... or can you make sure that she gets added to our website? Or did I just miss her? I might have missed her. ---Kate Schmidt: So, Rita and everybody... we do have the overflow room in YouTube... but I would urge the 10 faculty that are there to try to join the Zoom. I put the zoom Link in the chat... in the YouTube... there's room now, here in the Zoom meeting. ---Rita Lennon: Okay... thank you. All right... well, without further ado... Dolores, do you want to... okay, yeah. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Well, welcome back everybody, I hope you got your coffee and were able to chat with folks during the break. So, our next item on the agenda is to have an AERC listening session... and I just wanted to say... I really appreciated the faculty Senate listening session... lots of great ideas... and, you know, Denise mentioned the year of data...   I totally agree... I think this is going to be a year of data... and the composition of the board is diverse and it's different...  and I'm really hopeful about it and they asked really insightful questions... so... and it's... a lot of it was data related... and so, I think I can say that we can follow that up with academic affairs being also, the year of data. So, we'll all have to dip our toes deep into the data waters as we measure our... the important work that we all do at the college. So, okay... so, next we have our AERC faculty listening session. I'm really grateful that we have both senate and AERC here today... these 2 groups who share governance... they really play an important role in ensuring that the faculty voice is at the forefront and is heard... so, thank you for all of your work and in sharing all of your perspectives. And I also wanted to mention that there is an expectation from the HLC that faculty have   the responsibility for academic matters, including  substantial participation in curricular oversight.   And at Pima, this work happens through the faculty groups such as senate and the DFC's and divisions that you'll be having later today   and AERC, the all employee representative council, a representative group established through Pima's Board policy... and it includes all employee groups... and your representatives, faculty, dedicate a lot of time, a substantial amount of time,  to provide insight and input on policies and  procedures that impact working conditions and wages.  So, I'm really grateful for Makyla's work and Leadership and I'm going to pass it on to her so she can talk about the work that she's... they're currently working on, thank you. ---Makyla Hays: Thank you Dolores... I'm gonna start actually with... right before I go into the AERC I'm going to take a second and explain PCCEA. So, the first thing I'm going to do is... I'm going to put a link in the chat to a Google form... and this Google form is kind of, how I'm going to collect your feedback. I will email this to all faculty and probably to Rita... or if... I don't know how you're doing this... if somebody wants to add that to the website... basically, there's a link to my slideshow in that form and I will leave it open.. so the questions kind of go along with my slideshow and you can put all your comments in there, and I will collect your feedback... that way and we will go through it as AERC faculty... so, I will email it out as well... just so that you have this... I'm going to share my screen really quick... like, too many things open here... I think I've got it. [chuckles] Okay... so, the first thing I want to do is highlight what PCCEA is... and then I will move into the AERC section.   PCCEA is our full-time faculty association... we're the Board recognized group through Board policy 1.25... representing full-time faculty members at Pima Community College. We advocate for faculty during meet and confer,  which is an interest-based negotiation process   with administration addressing compensation and  working conditions... you heard me talk about that   a little bit in the senate session if you were able to get in the meeting. We also address individual concerns... assisted navigating policy for faculty, and sometimes administrators as well...  and then we propose changes to improve it. We do advocate for all faculty, regardless of whether or not that faculty member is a member of PCCEA or not. All of our advocacy on policy affects all faculty... and we don't ask if you ask us to attend as a play advisors... or give you advice on anything... we don't even ask if you're a member, typically... so, just so you know, that if you're not a paid member you still have us as a resource... we all benefit though, from these working conditions, and anything... anybody that is a member, does help support that work that we do. Our officers, so that you're aware of who  you can reach out to... myself, I'm your president...   and my vice-president is April Burge... secretary,  Nan Schmidt... and treasurer, Melissa Laliberte-Bouey.   We have expanded our representation... we used to only have campus reps... we currently don't have a rep for Desert Vista, so if you are a member of PCCEA and want to fill these roles, email me... but we have... Downtown is Matej Boguszak, East is Mana Kariman, Northwest is Erin Eichelberger, she's also our Pima online rep., and West is Kyley Segers... we've expanded to also have division reps, since the college has moved to more of a division model... we wanted to make sure that we were hearing from everybody even if our campus reps were not in all the divisions... and as you can see, we have several vacant spots... so, again if you're a member in one of those areas and you want to fill one of these roles, please reach out to me. Fine Arts, we have Nancy Spaulding... Business and Tech is Mana... Communications is Liz Rangel Arriola... Mathematics is James Sheldon... Sciences is Nan... Education Humanities and Social Sciences is Kimlisa Duchicela... and then we need people for Applied Tech, Health Professions, Libraries, and Workforce Development.   So, if you want to rep your area and you find  you're not on this list, please let me know. We also have an Elections Coordinator in Julia Fiello and a Data Analysis &Webmaster in Matej Boguszak,   which is super helpful for me... so again, these are all linked in my slideshow, that is in the form that I just put in the chat... if you want to go back and reference this later... so, what do we do as PCCEA.. what is our role versus the role of AERC? So, this is still PCCEA... we advocate at several levels... so, we advocate that the administrative level on issues that relate to workplace conditions and compensation... one way we do this is through the AERC... we do have 1 appointed seat from PCCEA...   but we also could reach out to administrators as needed to work on that advocacy. We also work on working conditions at the board level as appropriate per policy... and I provide updates periodically to  faculty members... I try to do that monthly. We also advocate for individual faculty members and/or administrators with policy interpretations as needed... we do that a lot through email, virtual meetings, face-to-face meetings... but if there's a policy question, we'd love to help you answer it, or find the answer for you. We provide support for individual faculty members as employee advisors in disciplinary meetings, challenging meetings as requested... I do want to note that anyone can serve as an employee advisor... this is a role PCCEA has historically done... and we have a lot of well-trained people in that area. And one thing that I find helpful as a PCCEA member, is the legal backing that I get as a member... and so, that gives me that backing as well in the employee advisors and I have reached resources in that way, if I'm assisting someone who's a member. I gather feedback from faculty as a whole to bring to whoever... whichever administrator is appropriate... we do this through AERC representation... again, the president is a non-voting faculty Senate member... we're trying to kind of bridge that communication and like we talked about earlier, there's a lot of overlap... and we try to survey faculty members over email. How can we make sure that we're being represented? We track trends and budgets... hiring processes... compensation... we're supported by Arizona Education Association, the National Education Association, and we have the benefit of those Statewide and National organizations to figure out what the trends are within education... so, that's a really big resource for me and for the other PCCEA leaders.  And as I said, we do have legal support for members with working conditions concerns...  there's also educator liability insurance coverage and NEA offers a complimentary life insurance coverage... you do have to go in and name a beneficiary to access that... if you're a member and haven't done that, you might want to. So, those are some of the big things that we do for PCCEA... pretty much everything that I just listed, except for the legal is available to those who are not members... so, we're here for you if you need us... we have helped adjunct faculty as well, but we are charged with representation for full-time faculty... the adjunct faculty.. your adjunct faculty reps are through... I'm gonna space on the name... Sean Mendoza is adjunct faculty representative group, I believe, not representative... but he... ahhh... does somebody want to help me with the name of that... once a month Friday meeting... [chuckles] hi... Okay... put it in the chat if you know it... but Sean is the contact for adjunct faculty, if you need help... and then he can reach out to me if he needs it as well. Okay... they're also represented through faculty senate... so, with that, I am going to switch over to AERC for the rest of our hour that we're here... but I wanted to give you this distinction that PCCEA exists to do all of those things... and one of our representative ways that we represent faculty and advocate within the college is through the AERC. I'm presenting, not because I'm PCCEA president, but because I'm actually AERC co-chair... So, I was elected by the AERC as the AERC co-chair... and I'm now going to switch roles and present as your AERC co-chair for the rest of the meeting. So, our representatives for AERC were elected...  just half of them were elected just this past month... so, I'm your AERC co-chair, I am math faculty, and I was... I'm sitting in the appointed PCCEA seat as well. Matej Boguszak is math faculty... and was elected during the last cycle... and Jennifer Guajardo and James Sheldon, also math faculty... just were elected by all faculty to serve on the next 2-year term cycle... so, they are... well, Jen actually got reelected... so, she's your new rep, but she also served before... and James is returning to us... he served as an adjunct faculty representative, and is now a full-time faculty... and is serving in a full-time representative role. You'll notice there's a lot of math faculty here, so it is really important when we send out an AERC survey, that you answer those things, so that we can make sure that your opinions are represented. We will do our best to research and get those things, but by nature of where we serve... for the most part in our regular jobs... we are going to be limited on what we understand about all the areas... so, please make sure you're responding to our surveys as we send those out... and then our... we have an alternate, Nan Schmidt... she is biology faculty and brings in some extra outside math perspective as well... and so, that is a great resource for us... and she's been amazing... you do have 2 adjunct faculty representatives... Lynn Maners, who teaches anthropology and geography, and she's going to share the adjunct faculty projects at the end of the presentation for me... and Patrick Moore is our newly elected adjunct rep in Building and Construction Technology... so, we welcome him... and he already jumped in and I'm excited to have you on the team... so, I will say every one of these people helped me put together this presentation and gave me input... so, while I am the one speaking, this is not just me... this is a shared effort.  So, the first thing I want to do... I'm not going to read this all to you and... but it is a screenshot of our resolution tracker. These are clickable links in the file... I'm gonna... once again, I'm gonna put the form in the chat for you... if you open up the presentation, you can actually click on these underlyined green links and it will take you to the actual file. This resolution tracker... I just want to show you that we're working for you. These are all of our different resolution teams that we have going on... this is a fairly new system for us, we started this year. On the far left column... these are again clickable links within the document that will open up the meeting notes, who is on each of those teams, and what the concerns are that they're addressing... if you are interested, please go in and explore. We're representing you... you are welcome to go in and look... and you can see who's on the team, so you know who to reach out to.   So, each of these resolution teams is addressing  a policy or working towards addressing a policy. So, the policies that are being addressed are listed  in column B... you can click on that and see what   the suggested changes are at the moment... again, if they are not... if they're still in discussion, that doesn't mean it's final... but you can take a look... you can also see who the point person is... so, if you want to just quickly look and ask somebody that is listed here, you know who exactly to represent... that person is in charge with representing... like they go to the group, they run the group, they schedule the meetings, and then they come back to the AERC as a whole and report out what we are doing. In order to ensure that anything we voted on stays as is... once something has been moved past in discussions, you're no longer going to see the track changes on the policy... so, we have a PDF of the the track changes that you can go in and see what the proposed changes are that have been voted on by the AERC... and so, those are listed in column F... you can then track when we've approved it, where it's at in the process, and go... if you go to... you fill out... that's right, I'm on Francisco... and you click on the AERC resolution tracker, that should open up what I have... if not, email me and I will update that link after I'm done talking [laughs]. So... this is our tracker... feel free to go in at any time during the semester, if you're curious about what we're doing... you can kind of check in with us, and check up on us if you'd like... if there's a if there is a project that's being worked on, and you want to make sure that your group is represented, because it's affecting you... and you want to volunteer... email one of us, please... I would love to have your input and invite each of those resolution teams meeting, to give your input to us. And you are always welcome at our AERC meetings. The other thing that we have is on the third page of the resolution tracker, for anyone who's interested... we've created a workflow of how we actually go about changing policy through the AERC. I'm not going to go through all of these, but it again... it has, what we do... what the responsible parties are... Jeanette and Gail obviously have a huge portion of this... and I don't know that I could do any of this without them. Where you will get input is... as resolution teams are meeting, you may be invited to join one... and then after changes are made... if they are substantial or change the content... and aren't just an edit of like... "the" to "an"... or something minor that doesn't actually change it... it's more of a grammar fix. But if it's a substantial change, we would be going out for a 21 day comment... and you would have your feedback opportunities at that point. So, those are the 2 big portions where you would see those happen... the goal is to then update you on what those changes are as they change... so, if you're ever curious about what we are doing... again, that is all in the tracker... and you have access. So, one of the things that can kind of model how we are going through these AERC processes, is a discussion on AP 1.2501... this is the AP that... so again, there's a structure here, where there's the board policy that sets the board's goal, which BP 1.25 defines the representative groups and basically gives the intention for administration and faculty and staff to work together... the co-chair is Aubrey Conover, and he's here, so thank you Aubry. And Kate is the other administrative representative... and so, the AP then goes into further detail about the board policy... so, this is what defines... what is a resolution team... how do we meet... what are the responsibilities... and what are we supposed to be addressing... and how does that process work? Last year, as you know, there was a bit of concern or confusion around where that process should land... so, what we did was form a resolution team, and bring in Jeff Silvyn to help us work through the AP to more clearly define that language, so that future confusion could be avoided... we clearly defined a compensation-based meet and confer... we added language about role in budget development... we're working on a timeline to make that something we can Implement... we're adding clarification about what happens after we've had our discussions... and what the expectations of documenting those discussions are... we're building a lot of that off of what we've done for the last couple years to try to, you know, streamline it and make it continue going forward... so, this is kind of our guiding process... this is the AP that guides what we do, but we also were able to give input into that administrative policy. Once we're finished with it, it still is going to go through the AP process and come out for 21 day comment. So, we are part of the shared governance input of the AP process. So, I'm talking fast because I want to make  sure I can listen to all of you [laughs]. But I need to let you know, what it is we're even doing first... so, one thing that you all might be interested in is our full-time faculty salary structure... we have been meeting with administration to discuss concerns this past fall from the class and comp structure  that was put in place over this past summer. One thing is... we discovered that we had a  difference in understanding of the placement cap. .. in the past at Pima... basically, once you're on a step, that is your step... and you move forward...   if there's step advancements you move up one step... and you move up one step... so, a lot of you are capped at step 12... and being paid above that, and there was, you know, some concern that it was going to take you a long time to reach that...  and what I've kind of discovered is... rather than... um... Francisco, as to your question, I'll get back to it... I'm sorry... rather than a hard stop one-time placement, what it really is, is like a math advance... math advancement up to step 12... if that cap was lifted, everybody would kind of be replaced with... within wherever their experience should allow them to be... to whatever the new lifted cap is... so, as we progress forward... let's say we're on 12 now... if we had budget to go all the way up to step 15, then steps 13, 14, and 15 would be populated with the experience levels that were needed there... so, as budget allows the hope is that that cap would go away... and that we would be able to progress all the way through step 20... with the years of experience that you have been awarded so far. and so, we're working on language to really identify that... but it took a bit of time for us to even understand it , to be able to put language to it... so, that's what we've been working on this past fall... there was a concern brought to us. Yes... the question was... is it predicted  that future budget will allow for that? That is the hope... I don't know how many years it will  take to get up to 20... but Dr. Bea is talking about   doing a 3-year budget plan, to make sure that there are advancements for faculty. So, let's see... meet and confirm... since I  stopped I'm going to go ahead and answer this...   meet and confer as we used to know it, is different  now... but there is still an opportunity for faculty   to meet and discuss policy changes, working  conditions, and compensations. So, there is still that policy-based meet and confer discussion...  the words meet and confer are still there   So, we're working to better define that, to make  sure the conversations happen in the way that...   that we all can understand what they're doing... there was a concern brought about prior work credit... so basically, people who were within the new hiring  range, feeling that people were placed above them,   that were coming in with possibly less experience...  so, HR is working on that and I have not heard back   from the appeals yet... but if you're within the  hiring range, I believe you are being looked at. Okay... so, in addition to all of that, there were 2 outstanding issues that did not get addressed during the class & comp study, that the AERC has formed teams on and have started meeting... and when I say that, I mean, we've met like once, maybe twice... and we kind of started a plan moving forward... what I've done here is, put what those 2 areas are... so, one of them is horizontal movement, meaning credit  for something other than graduate credit hours.   Those certifications in certain areas, especially for those areas that don't have graduate credits afford into them... like, we talked about plumbing earlier... so, maybe there's a certification that has a significant amount of time and adds a lot of value to the instructor... especially if it's a work requirement for being hired... and should we honor that... and what compensation should be awarded with that? So, there's a group here that is working on that... and you can see the members of that group... if your group is not represented and you feel like you need to be... and you are able... send me or Aubry an email, and we will make sure you get involved. The other area is... hard to hire areas... and this is the areas like nursing, where we just have a really big shortage of people available to hire... and so, it might be that the salary in the field is just so much better than the salary at Pima that we can't even attract people here... and so, we are working on what do we do with that... what are the criteria needed to define a hard to hire area and what do we do to address the hiring issue... to be able to honor those people whose experience and value to the college, and keep our faculty here... but also, make sure we can recruit... and so, there is... there's the representation that we currently have... if you are not represented, please make sure that somebody in your group can come to our division... one thing I don't see, that I know... Harmon, not... I don't know if that... no, I don't think that's the same comment...  but I know there's Carmen Cueva, who has talked  about Building and Construction Technology... I don't see someone from your area... you may want to send someone to this particular committee, to make sure your voices are heard.. we're obviously  going to be reaching out, but if somebody was in the room,  I think that would be super helpful... so, if you don't see your area represented, please reach out to myself or Aubry, and we will see if you know make sure we can try to get you in there and get your input heard. That was the main thing I wanted to say about this... again, this is linked in my slide... so, if you want to go back and see what areas there are, you can click through. The feedback form I have and I've already gone through a ton of them... I'm sorry, I meant to talk about this... I have questions on each of these slides... so, if you think of something now or later, type in your question, your feedback... or volunteer through that slide as well... Yay, Carmen... thank you... I was hoping for you... because I know you... and I have spoken about it, and you have a lot of passion and knowledge in that area... so, I'll make sure I write you down.   All right... so, I'm going to preface this part with saying... this is extremely preliminary...   we haven't even heard back from our proposal... but I decided to go ahead and share it with you, what faculty have proposed to the administration  is a faculty salary adjustment... and why we did that.  Again, we haven't heard back, it could change  greatly, but the reason I'm sharing it now is  I want to know if we're on the right track for what  you hope to see... if faculty email me today and say...   this is horrible, why are you asking for this? We  can back off before we get too far down the road.  So, I'm doing this not to tell you what it's going to be... but to tell you what we're starting to look at.   I hope that makes complete sense and I've  couched it enough... this is nowhere near final... but this is a first attempt to address some  of the concerns we heard after the summer started. So, things that we were looking at at adjusting...  after the schedules came out we realized that   faculty had a 20-step schedule to get to the  top... with 2.25 increases, which sounded fine...   and then we saw the staff bands that had more of a 16... they don't have steps, but they have a percentage increase that allows you to get 16 percentage increases to the top. And so, we thought, you know... we should probably try to make this a little bit more aligned to where there's maybe back to 16 for faculty and a closer percentage to what staff get each year for the increase. And then, we heard a lot of concern about the missing Masters plus 60 column... and it exaggerated the jump from having a master's degree to having a doctorate degree. When you looked at the graph of salaries the doctorate degree looked way off compared to everything else. So, what we've done is looked into a new 16-step  schedule, with a 2.9 percent increase... this has been done with very few faculty input... and I'm getting your input now... let me know if I am off base... that's what I'm asking for today... so, there is a spot in the folder for you to be able to give your input on what you're seeing. And again, I have not heard back from administration, if this is possible... if it's not, I'll come back and tell you why... and what we're gonna do. So, the first thing I want to know is... 16 versus 20... is this okay? Do you refer 20, or do you prefer 16? Here's what we've heard about both... the 16, it's a shorter time to reach the top... so, you have larger yearly increases... and once you're at the top, you would likely only get COLA or market adjustment rates... but you would be at the top sooner... So, is it more important for you to have a larger increase sooner and then stay at the top... or do you want a longer time of increases throughout your career? I'm trying to hurry because I only have 30 minutes. [chuckles] So, .this is the schedule... it is very detailed... but, take a... what I wanted to show you was, that it starts where we start now... it ends where we end now... it is 16 steps instead of 20,.. so, we've highlighted where the market rates were. The red bold in Step 10 is where the current cap is... and then step 6 would be... going back to step six of hiring, because we would lessen the number of steps. Dennis, the numerical advantage to take longer would be that you would have longer... you would have raises longer... so, those are... the top might want that, possibly... because you might be stuck for longer in your career, if you stay for more than 16, 17 years. So, just a heads up... so, that's why I'm asking... I... we also changed the percentage increase between columns to an 8% rate, because staff get a 7 1/2% raise when they move up a level... and so, that felt a little bit closer than the percentages that were in the old system. I want to just give you a quick snapshot  of what that would look like on a graph... to the left is what we're currently have...  the gray bar is the range of market rate... the blue is where we used to be, in average... on average... within those ranges, and the green is where we now... faculty averages are currently placed. And this, I wanted to show you as the added Masters plus 60... and you can see it's a little bit more of a linear raise through the levels... so, we're trying to address some of those issues. Okay, uh... Terry, yes... yes ,we've met once. Okay... that's all I'm going to say about the faculty hiring process, I am happy to answer individual questions about it... or sorry... the salary schedule... I read the wrong words... but I'm happy to talk more about it, if you want to talk to me one-on-one,   but I wanted to give you a peek at what we had  proposed as consideration as a starting place...   and get your feedback if there's some major issue. Okay... faculty hiring process... this is something that we have looked into and worked through... I wanted to highlight it as something that went really well. The Provost office was looking at the hiring process, which is not a policy that's posted... it used to be in the faculty personnel policy... I can't think of the word, FPPS, whatever the S is... it used to be in that... and then when we redid the handbooks, that was moved under the Provost office... but they still brought it to us, the AP... and talked through the standard operating procedure and what do we need... and what are the interests in? It was a really collaborative process... senate was involved as well... and there was... our input was thought of as part of that process...  we had some goals to update the language, to honor faculty's timeline concerns, to identify when provisional faculty are needed, to work with some selection advisory committee clarification that had come out through email... and put that in the AP and the process. So, that's coming out as a 21 day comment soon. Okay... moving past that... and again, you can click through "see our notes" and you can actually see the proposed language through those links that I have linked in there... there are conversations started on faculty workload... once again, I'm showing you who's on the team, so that  if your group's not represented you can email me... and that's the big reason I'm showing you this. So, we have formed a resolution team to address workload concerns because that really does fall really pretty clearly under AERC purview. We were at the faculty senate listening session... or study session... we took notes we heard those concerns. The leadership reassign time is going to be addressed through the Provost this semester... but there are other workload concerns that were brought up, that we are wanting to address through the general responsibilities policy. John there is... it's a lot of it is because we are the reps... that was who was voted in... and we have a large division, and so, the leadership responsibilities are spread out in our division... and it frees us up to do this type of work... but please know, we want to represent your views...  it's not that we're trying to hoard it all for math.   So, I have listed here some concerns that  we've identified already, that we want to address... and we have those members listed already... if your group's not represented please come back and clarify. Carmen... the step you are currently on... I can go back to if I have time, but I will... I will get back to that because it is a big one. I'm going to once again put the link in the chat for the Google form of feedback... and my link is at the top for the presentation . Hi again Maggie... we would love to have some representation... so please, please, please volunteer. If you are available, and once... and are interested... we want you to be on the team. So, it's not that we are gatekeeping math... this is the only ones we've allowed... we just are the only ones who have stepped forward so far... so, please come forward. Can someone take note of Maggie, please... that she's volunteering for that? [chuckles] So, okay... I'm gonna now pass this over for a couple minutes to Lynn, who will present what the adjunct faculty have been working on through AERC. I don't know how to mute myself. ---Unknown: By controls it away... ---Makyla Hays: I think I've just... I'll just stop talking... go ahead Lynn. ---Lynn Maners: I don't think I can control that document that I'm seeing on the screen... to move on to the next one for example.  ---Makyla Hays: Do you want to talk through this one first? ---Lynn Maners: I certainly can... okay, these are the things the adjunct faculty have a responsibility for...   resolution teamwork, focused on  faculty general responsibility policy...   identifying what expectations where full-time faculty and adjunct faculty or full-time faculty only, separate... when those are separated clearly... reviewing the adjunct faculty guidebook to ensure alignment... discuss appropriate response times to balance the time commitment of adjunct faculty and needs of students... we've also lately been discussing how much time should be spent on things like syllabus prep, and how that should be compensated if the class is canceled after you've done the syllabus work... and the last one is to discuss how much adjunct faculty should be available for students outside scheduled class times. Okay... all right, last year our big lift was establishing the adjunct faculty tier system. We've established a system of how many hours you have to work for Pima and then the hours of training that you have to do. We cleared up the, what got you into tier 2? That was the training and the time. We have not yet really talked about the tier 3... this would be one in which you you have to apply... and there's some kind of system of accepting that you should move into tier 3. Once you're into tier 2 by the way, you can't drop out... so, you won't drop out if you take a semester off, all right. Okay... professional development... this  was really great for a lot of adjunct faculty...   that we have the funds, so that we can also apply for those... I know a few people who've done that. I'm expecting to apply for that myself... since I have an invitation to go to Iceland and do a little field work. All right, is there another slide? Okay, syllabus and course prep... we kind of covered this a little bit before... we said, Sarah sent out a... Jansen, our former person on the... on this little group... sent out a survey... and we got a fairly wide range of how much time people spend on the... on syllabus prep... I think the range was like 4 to 10 hours... but some people were wildly over the 10... and we'll be talking about this in the spring. Okay... so, what communications  would be helpful for you? Do you have a working condition or compensation issue best address through a policy lens?   ---Makyla Hays: So, this is widely to everyone... adjunct  faculty or faculty... full-time faculty.   One thing I want to know is... what would you like to hear from AERC... how would you like us to communicate with you? When and what? Basically, just give me all your thoughts on that. And then, if you have an issue that you feel like  isn't being addressed and if I could, let's see...   I think I'm going to take like 2 seconds and address... I think it was Carmen's question, about how you're placed on the salary schedule currently... there was a placement when you were hired, within the step system... up through step 6... unless you were hired this past year, you were placed through step 8. So, you were placed in that same step there where you were originally... so, if you're placed on step 3 when you were hired, they looked at your cur... their step 3, and then they counted how many years you've been at Pima teaching... and you got 1 step for each of those years... that  being said, if it went over 12, you were placed at step 12, because it was that dampening  cap that we talked about earlier. If you were being paid more than what your step says you should, you are put on a placeholder of step 0...   and you are... you got a minimum of $2,000 over last year's contract for that value... and then next year, when the cap lifts that will be reevaluated, to see if you will be placed on the new step, because that's now more than what you would be making... or if you would be... to continue to be on step 0 and paid at the current rate... so, your rate will... your rate of pay will not go down. Again, this all depends on what we do with all of the things that we're working on for the compensation... but that's how you were placed this year... so, your hiring step plus 1 year for every year of service. Carmen, if you were here for over 20 years, you are probably on step 0... and you probably got $2,000 more than your last year's salary. And that's what I know... we are working to try to lift that, but it's a budget constraint issue at the moment. April... that is the goal, is to lift the cap each year... we don't know what the cap will be next year... yet... it is confusing... it's taken us a bit  of time to figure out the system... so, I hope I'm explaining it in a way that's new to you.. and maybe a little bit more clear. Patrick... I see you have a question. ---Patrick Moore: Makyla are you getting all of the feedback you'd like from teachers when you have these new policy changes... and you put them up for comment? Are you getting  involvement from the faculty to answer those? ---Makyla Hays: We got a decent amount of feedback... usually from the people who it will affect the most. And that's typically through the 21 day comment... but I also try to email out our faculty and put it through senate as well, to try to make that notification... but, yeah, I think we've gotten a decent amount of faculty involvement... I think it will be helpful as we go forward to get even more... but faculty have been pretty involved, which is nice. So, hopefully that answers your question.   So, Nancy... there is horizontal movement for  professional experience currently being considered... or, um... if it was considered in your  hiring range, that is still being considered. So, Carmen... I do understand your concern there...  and this was... I will say this is something that   was kind of just implemented in terms of that cap... as the governing board put the salary schedules into place... and so, it was presented as a budget restriction because the staff was also getting quite a bit of their adjustments... and there was only a limited budget of what could be done... we haven't heard about what that budget lift would be in the next round. So, that will be coming as soon as we know what what's going on. [chuckles]  And we definitely want to make sure that we try to honor the experience and the length of time that faculty starts here. So... we'll do what we can... [chuckles] So, those with a terminal degree... also please again, look into our horizontal movement resolution team... our credit beyond graduate hours... because that's what they're looking into, is... are there certifications that you need, or that bring value to you and your students, that the college should honor? And if you have things of that information, but you can't volunteer for the team... send me your information... I'll do what I can to reach back out to you get more information, and I'll bring that to the group. Let's see... but I've heard that the ratio decision of 50 to 1 is being looked at with the new fact process, possibly... or it's not... maybe not that ratio, but that there are other ratios that are going to be drawn into that conversation, with like adjunct faculty and full-time faculty ratios... as well as teaching... what's being taught in the area and things like that.   So, there's going to be wider considerations I believe, when it... when they look into who's... to what to fund for next year, I don't know... Dolores, if if you want to speak to any of that piece... about when that discussion is going to take place ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: That will... I think I put that in my PowerPoint, that we're going to be starting the conversations this semester... and I think having more results in mid-March... and Kate, I know you're on the line, if you'd like to elaborate a little bit more...   since you're closely tied to it. ---Kate Schmidt: So, the question is specifically about the 50 to 1 ratio? ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: And then conversations... when that's going to be starting. ---Kate Schmidt: Right... so, we... so, we're looking at at starting that fact process mid-March... and certainly that... you know... that has been our guiding principle, was that... or one of the guiding principles was the 50 full-time student equivalent to 1 full-time faculty... I don't... I have not heard that there are conversations to revisit that... but certainly that can be part of the conversation when the group convenes. ---Makyla Hays: Awesome, thank you... I'm sorry, I'm just  trying to catch up to what was going on... I saw the question about, will steps correspond to the actual salary? That is the long-term goal... and I'm hoping shorter rather than longer, but... like, what I've been told is, the budget will be  looked at to see how much that cap can be raised.   Of course, the things that impact that is... what  is going to be the financial impact of whatever   the hard to hire area comes into play, whatever  the horizontal movement comes into play, what the market adjustment is going to be, which basically is like an old lift to the salary... and... and then, if we move to a 16 step versus a 20 step... what is the financial impact of that? So, there's a lot of things kind of playing into the raising of the cap issue, that... it's a balancing act, and we're trying not to let the plates drop and we're trying to make sure everybody is taking care of...  especially those that were left out of decisions last year. Denise, they're... the staff ratio at PCC, as far as I know, is 12 to 1 currently, if that's... if I'm remembering correctly from Dave Bea's November presentation... it used to be 20 to 1 and it has dropped to 12 to 1 in recent years... and that was something that he  said... maybe out of balance as well. Not sure what the plan is to deal with that at this point but they're numbers... so... [chuckles] 12 full-time equivalent students, to one full-time staff. And let's see... please make sure that  you... oops... let me get the correct link. Link... that's fun... I need to... I will email you the link to the document   I copied the presentation document... now I no longer have my link for my Google form...   so, I will email out the Google form... and it,  again, it has my presentation linked in it... and I would love to continue to hear these conversations  and these questions... if you can't get to them today...   and I will do my best to bring those... like, we will look through these as AERC faculty...   and bring them, full-time or adjunct faculty, back to the AERC to see where we can plug things in. If you volunteered, I will probably be reaching out to you within the next week or so... maybe 2 weeks, depending on how full first week of classes go... and letting you know when our next meetings are, for the divisions you've volunteered for. Thank you Kelly... [laughs] and so, yeah... it looks like Diane's posted 3 more people in the chat that have won gift cards... so, Doris Lovata, Cori Leonetti, and John Gerard... so, congrats to you for winning those gift cards.   But, yeah... please reach out to any of your AERC  representatives if you have any policy related questions... especially those of the things we're already working on, or if you see something that you want addressed, but you don't see a group that's working on it... we... you can either use the AERC form, which is the best way to do that... or you can email one of your representatives, and we can bring that forward with you... for you... and so, we... you know... we want to make sure that we address concerns as they arise, that's the benefit of AERC, is that we can form a resolution team, pretty much twice a month, and try to get some of these things worked on. Please also note that there are some major projects going on... and you only have 4, and an alternate, full-time reps,   and 2 adjunct faculty reps... so, we are spread quite thin, and we are mostly from math... so, please make sure that if you have a time to volunteer for one of these resolution teams, to bring your perspective, that is much needed... we would very much value your input... and we will make sure that we can do that. Things might move a little bit slower, as we have many, many large projects... but we are trying really hard to get these through as quickly and well thought out as possible. I think I just saw a question... what did I see? Raymond... the info on what step you're at the moment...   you should probably... you could probably find that on your contract that you signed this summer... or in MyPima, I believe you can look up faculty contracts in the... in there as well... you can also email ES... or sorry, HR... and ask them, but they are still working on appeals for a lot of staff... and maybe not... I don't know how quickly they'll  be able to get back to you on that question. So, Jay... I have one, in fact... if you link into the  salary schedule... the faculty salary structure page...   there are links to other documents... and one of them is a multi-tab proposal that I submitted,   and it has that information on it, if you want to dive into that a little bit more. I went to a little bit of a deep dive on that  proposal, trying to compare a bunch of stuff... so, I tried to simplify for today's presentation... and  again, I just want to clarify... this has just been emailed...  we have not even received feedback other than, we walked Dr Bea through it at one meeting... and he needs... then he was going to go think about it... and we have not had another meeting... and I don't know how much he's been able to go look into it... so, super preliminary... and very limited eyes on it. So, I'm looking for your feedback to make sure I'm  on the right track with what I'm proposing for you. And I'm not promising that anybody is going  to get this... [laughs] just want your feedback.  Okay... it looks like there's a few more gift card recipients... so, congrats Tal Sutton, Jonathan Mount, and Mayra Cortes-Torres... and I believe that is all 10 gift cards. Awesome... I see I already have about 16 responses on our form... so, continue to send those in.   I will look at them next week... we have our next AERC meeting on the 27th... you are always welcome to come... I believe in the weekly PCCEA update that goes out at the beginning of the week, with like, the calendar invite... I believe there's an AERC link on there... but if you ever want to attend, you are welcome to attend as a guest... we would love to have you... if you have something you want to bring to us, you're welcome to come.   Let us know ahead of time that you want to, you know, present something and we will try to put you on this... on the agenda...  or you can give us kind of like, a public comment at the beginning... but I would love to set aside time for your concern, if it's something you want to bring to the large group. All right... any other last minute questions for me... I think we have 5 minutes left... and I just want to make sure that I don't leave anyone hanging. [chuckles] No... all right... your reps are working super hard for you and I'm going to put them back up on the screen here. So, our emails... and Matej, thank you... I was actually going to just ask if someone would do that... our emails and contact information are on the AERC website, along with some of the things that we are working on, and the form to submit issues... so, Matej just put that link in the website... and Rita, do you want to answer the question about where to find the department meeting links? Because I don't know. ---Rita Lennon: Yeah... no, yeah... absolutely, we actually have someone who will be posting that information to us just in here in a moment   ---Kate Schmidt: Yeah... I'm looking for it, but it's also on the agenda that was posted several times... but it should be posted momentarily. ---Rita Lennon: Awesome. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Excellent... so, I think Rita, does this conclude the virtual portion before we break out to the department and division, DFC meetings? ---Rita Lennon: That is correct, this is it... I wish we had music to play. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: I know... [laughs] well before we go, Rita... I want to  thank you for your leadership as well... and the officers of the faculty senate, and our representatives... everybody here... you've done outstanding work and really  bringing in the perspectives of faculty... thank you Makyla and your team as well... and the adjunct  faculty, Sean Mendoza, in leading those efforts too...  we're a collective... collaborative team... and also, thank you to Aubry Conover and Kate Schmidt,   for being the administrative reps for AERC... so, thank you and have a wonderful day... that I wish I could see you in person and chat with you and catch up a little bit... but I'll be doing that throughout the semester... and maybe we'll be seeing you very, very soon. So good luck and Happy New Year. ---Rita Lennon: Happy New Year... and Dolores, thank you for your leadership, we appreciate you always wanting to be collaborative with us. So, all right... happy semester start everyone, woooh. ---Unknown: [unintelligible] ---Rita Lennon: Bye ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Bah bye.