Faculty Senate Officers' meeting of May 30:

• Discussed our commitment to minority hiring to retain students.
• Discussed the importance of timely hiring and the objectives in the Master Plan.
• Submitted changes to the following ARs: Record Management, Faculty Workload, Shared Governance. Faculty Evaluation will be sent back to Academic and Campus Affairs. Others sent back to respective group.
• Our request that extended teaching opportunities be increased 21 and 16, respectfully) met with great resistance.
• Proposition passed--$I 0 million better but still unsure what the state will do.
• May 5th Board meeting: selection/approval of construction contractor for EVC campus; discussed board policy revisions on harassment and duties and resp. presidency.
• ASC, May 14: discussed new AR regarding vouchers-penalize all for a few. Back to the table.
• May 19 work session: discussed architecture for South Austin campus/decided to vote on it at the next meeting
• Faculty Senate special meeting of May 27: refer to attachment Stacey emailed; re: comments pertaining to presidential search process. Discussed a little bit about specifics of qualifications; decided to discuss this as part of the orientation workshop for the search committee.
• Special meeting of May 28: voted to spend $80k for search process; discussed the presidential search process. Will honor our request for earlier date so that we can have faculty representation. Agreed that the consultant will consult, not lead. I misspoke in my comments and clarified to the board, via email, that the college community should decide the composition of the search committee, and not faculty. They were nevertheless ready to work with us on some of our issues-time line was changed to accommodate us; criteria will be discussed at the Monday night meeting.

Presidential Hiring Process
The Senate officers will be involved in all the decision-making process regarding the presidential hiring committee. An ad hoc committee was formed to develop the interview criteria. Committee members: Terry Thomas, chair; Mary Leonard, Dorothy Barnett, and Larry Willoughby.

Faculty Evaluation
Julie Wauchope reported that the college-wide portfolio committee finds the portfolio valuable and effective. The senate asked Julie to take back the following recommendation: Student evaluations and the faculty input forms should be the foundation of faculty evaluations. Any additional requirements could be provided by the faculty member or should be determined by the department.

Improved Communication
The Improved Communication Ad Hoc Committee provided a list of recommendations they gathered to improve the communication between faculty and the Senate. Stacey Thompson, Daniel Traverso, and Larry Willoughby will review the list and decide what can realistically be accomplished, and they promise to keep it simple.

The following recommendation passed.

1. Make the Senate agenda more descriptive by identifying the person bringing the item to the Senate.
2. Senators who attend committee meetings will report back to the Faculty Senate President on what, if anything, is going on in the meetings.
3. Find someone (maybe from IT) to maintain the Faculty Senate web page.

Planning Committee
The following three items were discussed.

1. The honors program should be supported. There is currently an agreement under way that would make it possible for ACC honor students to receive either provisional or full admission to UT based on their grades.
2. Deans should go back to teaching at least one course per semester. They are out of touch with students.
3. Think about reassigning administrators to the classroom.

Counseling Department Update
By the end of June, they will have a department chair. Hurray.

Professional Development Ad Hoc Update
SACS requires ACC to demonstrate a commitment of faculty development. The Senate recommends that instead of requiring twelve hours of faculty development that the requirement be as follows: up to twelve hours as determined by the department. They also recommend throwing out the three-year plan because it is not useful or realistic.

Distance Learning
New wording for distance learning office hours were reviewed. The Senate approved the new wording with the following three changes: change "effectuated by" to "accomplished through"; "supervisor" to "department chair"; and add the word "hours" after "student contact" in the last sentence.

Budget
At the next meeting, there will be someone from the financial aid office to discuss TPEGS.

Salary
To be average, we need an 11.8% pay increase.