FA Meeting Minutes, 5/11/21

Posted on May 12, 2021 by avieux
  1. Welcome
  2. Treasurer’s Report: Eve Blobaum
  • Eve is transitioning the reports to Dave Krug, the new FA Treasurer
  1. Strategic Planning: Dave Krug
  • See Dave’s email sent out today – it has a lot of details
  • Goals in final form (4 of them) Student success, DEI, employee engagement, community partnerships
  • Working on strategies this summer – faculty off contract will be paid
  • Faculty members on DEI Committee will also join strategic planning DEI strategy development
  • Dave will continue to send out updates on the fa listserv over the summer
  • There will be PDD dates in August with updates
  1. Portfolio committee: Barry Herron
  • Working on blog site, email if you want to add an example
  • Working on adding PDDs – look for those in August
  1. RTC report, masks & distancing guidelines: Michelle Riley
  • See InfoHub announcement that was just sent today
  • Jim is meeting with Dr. McCloud to clarify policy
  • Concern about following CDC guidelines
  1. OLAC and ABC report, 1st day Canvas template: Brett Cooper
  • Heather Seitz on ABC / OLAC / Testing Center
    • All faculty vote was overwhelmingly yes to adopting course definitions put forth by OLAC – 83% in favor
    • Testing center taskforce also still meeting look at options
    • ABC preparing a report for administration on faculty needs for using testing center
  • Brett on OLAC and recommendations on 1st day minimum course content in canvas
    • Admin looking to include minimum course content as part of faculty evaluations (which would need to be negotiated to include in faculty evals)
    • Faculty question how big the problem is / can we just work with the folks that are not doing what is needed / wanted? Can chairs look through their faculty’s canvas sections before the semester begins?
    • Complaints about faculty not having contents in Canvas at start of the semester. Seems to be a smaller number of folks that have this issue.
    • OLAC creating a list of “suggested minimum content” for day 1 of classes. Telling students to contact course instructor first.
  1. Will there ever be FA parties again? Update
  • Probably shouldn’t be encouraging behavior off campus that the FA is trying to prevent on campus
  • Don’t want our first party back to be a dud
  • Waiting until December allows social committee to put together a good party
  • Floating possibly an on-campus collab with administration for a campus party
  • Erring on the side of safety for the first party back
  1. Negotiations Team – report *
  • Reached a tentative agreement on Friday afternoon
    • 3 year agreement to discuss today
    • vote on it is coming up
    • new contract starts July 1st (but summer contracts are based on the last MA)
  • Addendums I and II
    • Getting rid of positions that are no longer part of the bargaining unit; cleaned up titles so they are consistent with what we have; listing all the possible titles and the total number of bargaining unit members; listing positions that will not be part of the bargaining unit once the current holder leaves
  • FA President release time
    • altering language to make the request a formal process with a required written response
  • Peer Review
    • adding language that requires the peer review summative report will be attached to the 3rd year report / evaluation and placed in the HR file
  • Sabbatical Leave presentations
    • revised language so that one gives a presentation organized by the Faculty Development Office
  • Salaries & New Salary Table
    • See New Table Here http://blogs.jccc.edu/fa/files/2021/05/Faculty-Salary-Tables-.pdf
    • Salary study
      • Based on peer institutions
      • Found that top categories are not keeping up with market / are below peers
      • Found that folks with more experience are not at par w other institutions
      • Found that we had too many steps
      • Recommended we go to something with a same percent increase at every level
    • Transitioning to new salary table
      • 21-22 Placement on table is such that no faculty member will have a lower base salary. Placed on new table so your salary is the same or more than it is currently
      • 21-22 Then everyone gets 1.5% increase after step placement in (the average increase is 2.6%)
      • In 2022-23 increase salary table amounts by 1.6% & folks in specialist and doctorate category go up 1-step (to fix the problem noted by the salary study of the inequities between the market rates and what specialist and doctoral categories make at JCCC & it ensures that folks later in their careers also get an increase)
      • In 23-24 all go up 1 level, and salary table amounts go up 0.5%
      • Future steps on scale are negotiated as to whether people “move a step”
      • Moving forward will want to negotiate a full step for everyone for each year
    • Overload pay, adjunct pay
      • Increased by the average 2.6, 2.5 and 2.75 each year, respectively
    • Benefits
      • 50/50 split of benefits costs for group 1
      • Next year the increase is basically $0
      • Don’t know about future years—no way of predicting it
      • Past average has been 4-6%
    • Tuition assistance benefits
      • for faculty who want to take credit courses at other institutions
      • 50% of out of pocket tuition and fees up to $1000 per semester, up to $3000 per year
      • Must be beneficial to college and approved by Dean
      • Must stay at college for 1 year after receiving benefits
    • VERB
      • Admin must tell faculty 12 months in advance if the VERB is going away
      • Creation of Chef Apprentice Coordinator to ensure that culinary faculty have supports for their programs (faculty will still teach the courses and assign grades)
    • Student research projects / faculty supervising student research or working with student researchers
      • will now use special projects funding for independent research and related things that take additional time
    • Parental leave
      • Not much progress made
    • Performance evaluation
      • Deans and supervisors need more training on how to use the form
      • It was communicated to them that they can change the form, but they cannot implement the form without negotiating it with the FA
      • If your dean or supervisor begins to use a new form – TELL THE FA PRESIDENT
    • Workload factors
      • Admin had no interest in changing workload factors this time around
    • 10 and 12-month faculty
      • Not much traction, but the new salary tables did make some adjustments for some of the concerns expressed
    • MFAs in specialist category
      • Other schools place MFAs in same category as JDs – JCCC does not
      • MFA is a terminal degree with a substantial number of graduate credits
      • Admin team was not interested in moving MFAs at this time
      • Door has been opened for future conversations.
  1. Adjournment

 

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