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THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PURPOSES OF VERBATIM CITATION. ********************************************* October 4, 2024 Faculty Senate ---Denise Reilly: At this point, what we'd love everybody to do...  welcome this Friday afternoon to our third faculty senate meeting of the year... we do have a packed agenda, and if you can do your thing, senators, which is basically go to the chat... list your name... your, the division that you represent... what your area is... and also, answer to the Icebreaker question. Of course, I just wanted to probably find out if there are any other lovers of Almond Joy out there... [chuckles] not always the most popular one, but when I think of sweet treats for the Fall, I think of Halloween candy,   and I think of the Almond Joys and Mounds that many of... many don't like... and I also think of the fact that  I'm not a big fan of those Laffy Taffy's either... but am a fan of candy corn, by the way... that's another one... that's an interesting one... so, at this point if we do introductions in the chat that would be great. Senators, we have a packed agenda, so I do hope that you had a chance to look over some of the interesting slides that we have... and... and lots of information coming our way... and I want to make sure that we have enough time for that... so, at this point... I want to review a couple norms and expectations that we're looking at here, since our meetings have been quite large lately... I want to make sure that you all know Kelly... she's on the top of my screen right there but she's going to be the timer, so if you see a little icon on her... is it the flag, Kelly... is it the clock? I'm not sure what we're using these days... but you're... free choice... free choice. So, she will post a flag or some type of signal that you have one more minute remaining... and then, at the one minute remain... or when your time is up... she will kindly interrupt you by saying... okay, that's it for time... kind of finish your sentence, or thought, and we'll move on. Other protocols... if you could have your cameras on, that would be great... if you are not in a position to show your face, that's okay... if you could show a picture or something else to represent yourself that would be wonderful... and we do have... we do have a busy agenda today, so let's let's get started. First and foremost... as we reviewed a couple expectations... our September meeting minutes... if we can take a look at that, senators, that's for you only, of course, to approve the minutes... so, I will be looking for, a senator who has reviewed the minutes to go ahead and make a motion for approval... and then we'll look for a second. I also wanted to share... okay, looks like we have a  motion... we have motion to approve... thank you Kelly...   and a second from Michael... if... oh, no... sorry, from Magie... Maggie and Margie... if you are a senator, if you could say, "yay" or "nay" in the chat... that would be great... it's also going to be very important today that you identify yourself as a senator, because we have quite a few things to vote on, so we have to make sure that we have quorum today... for faculty emeritus, for officer elections. We just want to make sure that we have everybody... those of you that are guests... ---Maggie Golston: Denise? ---Denise Reilly: Yes. ---Maggie Golston: We do have a quorum. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you very much... so, for those of you that are new to faculty senate, or you're guests... please don't vote on the items that we have... those are for faculty senators only... and thank you for approval of the minutes. So, thank you Maggie... the minutes are approved... at this point, we will look for requests for agenda modification, first. And I'm looking at my screen, I don't see that... then we'll look for request for executive session. Do we have any requests for executive session? I don't see any hands... I do know that we have requests for open forum... and for faculty engagement... I'm actually going to flipflop the faculty engagement right now... only because... I wanted to share why that's on the agenda... so the open forum will be momentarily. So, request for faculty engagement... I wanted to explain the why and where this came from. Faculty engagement... oftentimes we are... and I say we, as faculty senate officers, are asked if we can nominate fellow senators,   or other faculty to represent a group on a committee... and while Kate Schmidt and I are working diligently, as well as some Administration, on getting together a list of committees that are available for everybody... at this time, the best way to go about that is to put that in the agenda... so, thank you to everybody who's asked for faculty engagement... I've asked, can you write a short blurb? Can you let us know what the time commitment is going to be? What is the ask, and who to contact? And so, at this time for request for faculty engagement... I do not know if Tony Sovak is in the room, but if he is, he is welcome to present on his  faculty engagement for D2L peer-review. Tony are you in here? I know he planned to pop in but I'm not sure he's in here... at the moment, okay. So, that's one request for faculty engagement... and I think it's actually working... to have the request a little bit more formalized because I see Jessica Tinklenberg here, our new executive director of the TLC... and I believe    your last month's faculty requests were filled... you were requesting for faculty to sit on a hiring committee, as well as to be on an Advisory Board... and so, those were filled... and I did also want to share that Jeff... Dr Jeff Thies will be here later... he requested for 2 faculty to represent in the co-curricular... and that was accepted as well. So, we... so, those are filled and now it looks like the request right now is related to D2L peer reviews. So, take a look at the information and contact Tony Sovak if you are interested in that. So, now we have requests for open forum... and I'll wait to see, my trusty senators... see if we have hands up... or if someone just wants to raise their hand... I know we have a few topics that wanted to be... that we wanted to bring up. I see Kimlisa and I saw Margie in here... I wanted to let you know that open forum is basically for anything that you want to share... of course, it's really... the idea of open forum is presenting an idea, a thought, or something that applies to all faculty... oftentimes we get a lot of open forum... open forum requests in the Spring when there's functions and events at the end of the year, that faculty want to highlight or showcase... so, at this point right now, the request for open forum... I received some material from Kimlisa Duchicela and Margie Youngo, who want to talk a little bit about... for just a few minutes... for faculty emeritus... so, are you both in here... and do you have a minute to share what you provided... and that what our next steps are? Thanks Kimlisa. ---Kimlisa Duchicela: Hi... hi, everyone... can you hear me okay? Very quickly, because I know we're crunched... I'm going to share some links in the chat... and those links go out to a very short Google slideshow that explain the changes on a possible draft for the new emeritus that we've talked about last time... in that slideshow, at the very last slide,is a link to the actual rewritten AP... and also a form for you to fill out and give your feedback on what was there... this is very much a draft... and if you could share it with your constituents... that would be wonderful... and if these links don't work, please let me know...   I checked them like 3,000 times... you must be logged  into your Pima Google to access them though. So, take it... take a look let us know your thoughts... we're looking forward to your feedback... and then in June... not in June... I wish it was June... in November, we will take a closer look at it... and any needed changes, any changes in the time frames... or things that you like or dislike... or that should have been added, please let us know... thank you. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Kimlisa... and thank you so much for providing an overview... and also, it's much easier when you can view an AP with the red lines crossed out, and what the changes could potentially be, from what it was before... so, I really appreciate whenever I see AP's like that... Margie, I just wanted to give you a chance, do you have anything to add to what Kim Lisa mention? Because I know both of you were kind of spearheading this along with... ---Margie Youngo: Yeh. ---Denise Reilly: Kate Schmidt as your support... go ahead. ---Margie Youngo: Okay, can you hear me? ---Denise Reilly: We sure can. ---Margie Youngo: Okay... I just want to thank at this point Kimlisa, you and Kate, for making the process that I thought was going to be impossible this year... for making that process go so smoothly... and all the... I followed all the emails and I agreed... and so, there wasn't much for me to add... and then, you'll probably see my version, which was done in a different way than Kimlisa, but I like Kimlisa's style, in which she used the red lines and showed what was, and what could be. And I think this is really a worthwhile project... and my thanks to you all. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Margie... and I did not include that former one, because you had both communicated that this was a cleaner version for everybody to take a look at... do we have any questions about this that need to be brought up related to this... We still have open forum, but related to this? Do I see any? I don't see any hands. Okay, I see something in the chat from Lisa... are you able to speak, Lisa... or are you? ---Lisa Werner: Yeah... I think Zoom is being unkind to me today...  I am so sorry here, right... and I'm... I came in late because I was waiting in line for Zoom, and then it kicked me out and I didn't notice it... and so, I just not sure exactly where we are at... I had a... one thing for open forum... and then there is faculty emeritus, which we may not have come to yet... I apologize. ---Denise Reilly: That's okay... so, we are good to go... we are actually in open forum right now... and Kimlisa and Margie have just given us a little bit of context to why faculty emeritus is being raised right now... so, if you have a concern or question about faculty ermeritus, bring that one up now, first. ---Lisa Werner: Okay... so, my... I don't think my concern belongs here, because what I was going to do is nominate someone for emeritus, and I think we haven't got to that yet, am I correct? ---Denise Reilly: It's in the business section, no worries... that's the business section for later... ---Lisa Werner: Because only my bad... I just hate feeling so flustered like this... anyway now I do have another concern but it's not... I don't want to intrude on theirs. ---Denise Reilly: Just checking Kimlisa, Margie Youngo, and Kate Schmidt... you are the go-tos for faculty emeritus... and then, we will hear back from you... it's already slated on our agenda for November, to have some follow-up... either conversations or figure out where're at with that AP... it is interesting and I'm... thank you for bringing it up Lisa, because we actually vote on 3 current faculty emeritus nominations today, during the business section of our meeting...  Maggie mentioned that we have quorum, so you will get a minute to speak about the person that you nominated... as well as Kelly and myself in faculty emeritus... but that's not till a little bit later... so, thank you for that. So, no other comments on faculty emeritus, or questions... great. Okay, Lisa... you said you had an item for open  form that was not related to faculty emeritus. ---Lisa Werner: Yeah, right... here we go... so, I'm bringing up the email I got from my colleague... and a number of people have expressed things along this line... so, you know, there are... even though, I think... Simple Syllabus is, you know, I personally think it's done a lot of really good things... a lot of faculty are still struggling with this... and for example, they are having difficulties adding things   to Simple Syllabus... there are errors sometimes  in Simple Syllabus that haven't been corrected... and they have sometimes worked with... people are  meant to help them, like the department heads, and the faculty resource people... and getting the help they need is time consuming... or in the end, they're not able to figure it out. And so, you know, that brought up also... at least with this person, the concern of, you know, we spend so much time... our leaders have to spend so much time, approving these syllabi... it's such a huge time chunk... and you know... so, whether or not Simple Syllabus is helping this... or not helping the approval process... and this is from people I've talked to... not necessarily from... but people I represent... that it's, you know... why is it that we need to have our syllabi approved like this?  Because it just takes so many resources... and so, the... and the other kind of add-on to this too, is... so, the college is adding announcements to... in D2L, to students, which is... I think, you know... personally, I think this is a good thing, because there have been times where I've been asked to announce things... and I'm like, wow, that's... if you're asking every single faculty to put out an announcement, that's a lot of time, right... but there are sometimes, I think, that their... the announcements end up including course announcements and things like that... and students are missing stuff... and so, that's also a concern of faculty. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much... so, there's 2 items you brought up at play... and I see there's a couple comments in the chat, as well as, Kate Schmidt may be trying to formalize some of these concerns... I do want to bring up, so the 2 things it sounds like is...   one is Simple Syllabus issues... so, resources along with Simple Syllabus... and then, it sounds like the second issue is global announcements versus course announcements... and I'm sure all of us that teach in D2L, understand that sometimes the global announcements kick out your general announcements...  and then also, sometimes there's specified announcements to specific groups only at the college, that do out your announcements... so, at this time what I'm hoping... and I know, Maggie, you've got your hand up, so we'll we'll go to you next... what I would like is open forum in the future, we don't... we haven't always utilized it to the best extent... but I'm really hoping that whatever we bring up during open Forum, we do have a notetaker, so we do have our fabulous secretary, Maggie, who's taking notes... and then we also have our, you know, minutes from the meeting... the hope is that the faculty over... not faculty, I'm sorry... the administrators that are in here overseeing those areas will take those concerns forward, and kind of get back to us with that... so, as long as the concerns brought up in   open form are global concerns for everybody, not an individual concern about my Simple Syllabus, but this was great... I'd like to keep this flow going  and people bringing up global concerns... so, faculty emeritus being one... and then, Simple Syllabus... and  then, we're going to close it out with Maggie go ahead. ---Maggie Golston: You... really quickly just, um... I brought an issue about notification in Simple Syllabus forward to Kate in early August... which is sort of still on the table, and Kate has offered to start a group... like a subcommittee of senators to discuss this... I'm gonna join it... I hope you'll join me... that would be awesome... and the other thing... I might be Captain Obvious for saying this, but regarding D2L announcements... I have made liberal use this semester of pinning... and I highly recommend that you guys do the same with your course announcements... you can pin whatever's pressing to the top... and no matter what, you know, comes through from PCC... generally your announcement will stay up top. So, I know you all know... but that's just a reminder... thank you. ---Denise Reilly: Oh, I was muted... sorry... thank you so much for a robust open forum... once again, I hope that we continue this... and I hope that as long as faculty concerns are brought forward, and as long as there's administration, which often are joining... or viewing this, and this is of course published to the website, as well as minutes... I'm hoping that the administrators that oversee those areas, or faculty leadership, can take those concerns forward... so, thank you for bringing that up, and thank you for the conversation... at this point, we are doing okay on time... for those concerned about that... we have 1 person not reporting, or not available today, to share their report, but at this point we'll go to... oh, I'm... did I... I asked for executive session... Reed, I'm looking at you... did I check all the boxes? I asked for open forum, executive session... we talked about faculty engagement, so far... so now we'll move on to the report section... I believe that Kate Schmidt, because I've seen her in here... Kate Schmidt is going to take the place of Dolores Duran-Cerda as Dolores is unable to make it today... and that is a lengthy Provost report... take it away Kate.   ---Kate Schmidt: Actually, Dolores... is the... is the Provost report linked In the agenda? When I looked earlier it wasn't. But I'm not going to cover that specifically... she wanted me to cover some particular things... so, the first is making sure that everybody saw the announcement that we are now the... Pima Community College is now a recipient of the Excelencia Seal, which is a... you know, sort of a Good Housekeeping   seal of approval of our intentionality... and  serving this... particularly with Hispanic students.   I think... I've got Morgan, that's tag teaming with me... and he's going to put some links into the chat as we go through these agenda items for Dolores... so, I think he's going to paste in the Excelencia website. He did it... all right... okay... so, let's... go ahead Denise. ---Denise Reilly: Excelencia was added also to the Provost report... sometime... not when I sent the agenda out on Monday night, but sometime this week it was added... so that's also in there. ---Kate Schmidt: Probably... probably after the announcement was made, right... which was earlier this week... I think it was Tuesday that it was a formally announced? So, yes... this is hot off the press... and we've got a press that can change instantly, right. So that... so, it's in the report, that's great... she also wanted to give some feedback about the mock visit that we held at the beginning of September... so, I've got  a... her slides to share, if you will indulge me in that. Are you seeing my screen now? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes we are. ---Kate Schmidt: Great, awesome... okay... so, as you all know we had... we hired mock reviewers... people that are consultants... but also serve as peer reviewers for the HLC to come in and do a mock visit for the HLC, because we are expecting our actual visit in December... so, Dolores has... is... you know, wants to make sure that you understand... this was not the actual HLC, this was something that we engaged in to make sure that we were prepared in December. They were here at the beginning of September... we hired those consultants... we had a draft Assurance Argument that they reviewed... and we have... as I understand... now, submitted our actual Assurance Argument... and we expect the HLC peer reviewers to be here in December... so, the feedback that we got from... from going through this exercise, was very useful for us, right... we had some positive things that... the reviewers thought we had a very comprehensive Assurance Argument... many of the... many people worked on that... many people on this call were on the on the various Criterion committees and have been working on that for more than a year. So, that was a... you know... there were a few tweaks here and there, but the Assurance Argument looked solid. The visit itself, they thought overall was good... and that we had good attendance and participation. There were some challenges, that we have a couple required embedded reports... 1 on dual enrollment and additional locations... and another on the complaint process... I think both of those were a little bit rockier in terms of the sessions that we held... and there are now plans in place to improve both those areas before the visit in December. This is pretty specific... I mean, so that... so we were... oh,  sorry... I don't know that I'm going to be able to go back. Are you all seeing my screen still I got  lost... like Lisa, I got a little lost with... ---Denise Reilly: We're looking at your email I believe now. ---Kate Schmidt: All right, okay. ---Denise Reilly: You're copied and pasted Excellencia... did we lose your? We had your screen previously... we're back. ---Kate Schmidt: Sorry about that let's see if I can get through this quickly. Sorry... I know this is going to probably push me over the 5 minutes, Denise... I might skip... I might skip to the end where she's got the recommendations that are really specific to faculty, so that we don't go over. She wanted to... she wants to make sure that we've got faculty participation when the HLC is here... and I think there's... that's a... that's also making sure that administration, and those that are organizing the visit, are really clear on who should be showing up for which event... I think that... I understood some feedback that we got that was a little bit confusing for people, what they were  supposed to attend... she also want to make sure   everybody understands that the HLC peer reviewers will be setting the agenda, not the college...  so we will be following their agenda and we will do our best to communicate out who needs to be at which session to give feedback... typically there are some open sessions... so, I think at that point we'd make sure those... that it's clear that people should be attending the open sessions. She does want to make sure that we really listen to the questions, to make sure we know what they're asking before we answer and that our answers are... give examples of the things that have changed... that the... that the peer reviewers are less interested in the 5 or 6 year history and more about the things that we have changed, that... where we have made improvements. So, I think this is... this is... she wants to talk about the changes, that... when the... when it's published that we all read the Assurance Argument and the embedded report, so that we've got an idea of what we've submitted to the HLC. If... you know... if you think your area will have some... have a particular session, you might you might reach out to Wendy Weeks and her team to come to a prep session with your team, so that you feel like you're you're informed.   But overall, despite a couple rocky areas, the consultants were really pleased with what they saw as everybody's commitment to the mission... for staff and faculty... and that we're all looking ahead pretty positively... and she had heard this quote... but, but... and wanted it, you know, has been repeating in a few places... this is our one chance to tell our story about the places that we make it... make improvements... and that we need to take advantage of that... that opportunity. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Kate, for that report... I know that I mentioned a few things last time... maybe Maggie had something to add... I mentioned in our last meeting at faculty senate that I believe we had 9 faculty that attended the focused faculty session... but a lot of the questions were... or a lot of the concerns were that, faculty didn't know if they were supposed to get class coverage, if they were teaching a class, to attend that... so, I was... oh, thank you... so, Maggie's going to bring that up...  but I did want to reiterate that I know that those of you teaching in classrooms, this is a really important deal, especially those of you that have programs... that was where I felt like the 9 of us faculty that attended... there weren't as many with the program... and there were a couple questions about program review... those that did attend, that talked about their programs, did a fabulous job... but I know, for the real deal, faculty are going to show up... and I know that it'll be clearly expressed... the modality, whether there's a virtual component or not, and that we have your support to attend over other things that may be happening on those days. And then Maggie, do you want to... ---Maggie Golston: I do. [Denise] continue with that? A couple of things about attendance and HLC... the first is... while I know that they set the agenda, and they're in charge... I do not think it would seem untoward and in fact I think it would seem really student centered, to say that the faculty session in particular needs to be scheduled not at peak teaching time... because we could never find enough subs, right... and never in a million years... [laughs] and as far as the other sessions... there are those of us who teach in person and are willing, right... to represent whatever... like, if I need to go to the AERC session, I'm gonna make sure I'm there, and get a sub... but we need to clarify for the admin. assistant... for the whole flow... how that gets classified... because we shouldn't be taking personal days or sick days. We need to make sure that there's a... if we put HLC as the reason, that there's special dispensation to flow that through... or whatever, right... because otherwise we run into trouble with webtime entry... thank you. ---Kate Schmidt: I think... I think I understand what you're asking me to take back... first is... some real clarity on who should be attending, when, and what we prioritize... or we... and I hear your request, that we're prioritizing what happens in the classroom... so that fac... sessions where faculty should be included, should be not at peak times. And then the second thing is... is looking at if somebody needs to be at a session and needs a sub... that that's... that we built that in and that we're paying the sub without questions... that that's part of a kind of approved substitute. ---Maggie Golston: Right... and also, that we're... and this sounds so picky, until you have the job, right... that department heads know... or that faculty taking that time off, know how to code that on the webtime entry, and on the form, right... because there's a grid and you have to take the day or the hours, off from a certain column, right... we need that. ---Kate Schmidt: I do not have that answer, but I will look into that and make sure that you've got it. ---Maggie Golston: Awesome, thank you. ---Kate Schmidt: The final thing that Dolores wanted to make sure that you all know, is that we've got our first Academic Affairs Forum of the semester next Friday... I think Morgan's already pasted the information that's also come out in the report, and probably in an email... one of the things that we will talk about is... at the October Board meeting, the board approved the Chancellor's goals for this year... his goals, you know, basically start now and end in March... but one of them is, engaging with stakeholders to come up with some tactics around improving communication... one of those stakeholder groups is faculty... and Terry Filipowicz and I are leading that charge to gather... gather a stakeholder group, and get input from all faculty on ways that we can improve communication. So, we'll be talking about that... our sort of kickoff will be at the 10 minutes that we have at the Academic Forum next Friday. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much for that report Kate, we really appreciate it... and I wanted to also acknowledge Terry, and those of you taking on faculty emeritus... and with other concerns and questions you have for bringing those forward... and thank you Morgan, for putting that information in the chat as well, for the academic Affairs Forum. The next report we have is my report, the president report, which I can cut fairly short... I will share my screen... let see if I do this correctly, right... if I share my screen... I just wanted to let you know that these are overarching goals, as faculty senate officers this semester, which is accreditation support... I know that we attended a lot of the mock sessions, if not all of them, for 2 straight days... and we are in the works with whoever will be visiting us. So, I'm sure there are going to be sessions focused with faculty senate. Faculty communication and engagement... and I just want to remind you, with communication and engagement, that we added a link at the bottom of our faculty senate agenda every month... so, if you have any feedback for us relating to anything specific you want to see... it's at the very bottom of the agenda... and then also, engagement... we're trying to structure this a little bit better in terms of engagement, so instead of just getting an email asking... hey, do you have any faculty that might be interested in this? We're actually putting it out there, giving a little description of it, so that faculty can make those decisions... and that we can kind of spread the wealth and have everybody represent different groups with moving the college forward... and then, All Faculty Day's support and recognition... I'm going to stop there for 1 brief second. Kate did we ever send out... have we sent out any communication to faculty yet, in terms of All Faculty Day... or is that coming? ---Kate Schmidt: No... it was... I don't think anything gone out... should be announced today... at the, at the October senate... when is that? ---Denise Reilly: Today... [chuckles] so just going to let you know the cliff notes version is that you will be getting an email, that we will be having All Faculty Day in January... so, it's moved back... this is after collecting a lot of data and information that many of you gave at faculty... from Spring, when we had our session in March instead of in January. So, we have condensed the day to a shorter day... it's still a full work day, but condensed the day... but you will get agenda, details, information about that... forthcoming, probably in the next week... that was just approved by Dolores... so, we'll look forward to that. September was a busy month for me, as president, I tried to represent you in every way, shape, or form... and HLC was where I was at for quite a... quite a... I spent a chunk of time let's just say... and also, with the learning sessions... Listening & Learning With Our Chancellor... so, my highlight I wanted to share with you is... I really appreciate faculty senate... there was a session  for faculty at Downtown Campus... so, those of you that either traveled to Downtown Campus, or work at Downtown Campus that showed up... we had about 24 or 25, I believe, faculty attend... and Chancellor Nasse did a great job of listening to different concerns, whether they were bigger concerns or smaller concerns related to the day-to-day role of faculty... and we really appreciated him having these sessions at the different campuses, and showing up... I appreciated his time and his ear and listening to faculty concerns... and the third thing that I wanted to share here is tackling a committee project with Kate Schmidt, the Provost office...   while it has been an arduous task, I must admit it is actually proving to [chuckle] really move along...   and I asked Kate... Kate, I'm throwing you out here, but... I asked Kate, why did you take this on this year?   Why are you doing this with me? And she said, because you've been asking for it for 3 years...   I've heard you and Rita in these meetings  ask for the same thing over and over again, and I figured at some point, we're just going to have to do it... so, what we're looking to do is create, not just a repository, that's going to come from administration, but to create an actual list of committees that are active at the college... so that faculty that have already had their terms in other committees, and don't know what to join or what to represent... there will actually be a list that has information about the different committees... it will be published somewhere... the Committee Guide Book was recently updated that I saw... so, that has been an arduous process... but also one   that I think is going to prove very beneficial by  whenever we're complete with this process... Kate, if there's anything you want to add to that that I  didn't clarify or articulate, well please do... please   ---Kate Schmidt: I hope it's not distracting but I'm going to paste  our draft inventory in the chat and if people have   comments they can send them to the two of us.... it's a work in progress and this has just been out for a week. ---Denise Reilly: So, it's a big task but it's also one that, you know, Rita has been talking about for years... Kelly has started... [chuckles] we started our own spreadsheet years ago... to try to capture the data and information about what committees are out there. what's being worked upon... and so, it's kind of nice to see that hopefully... not hopefully... this will get accomplished this year. And with that, I will turn it over to my trusty colleague Rita  Lennon, with the governing board report... Rita you're up. ---Rita Lennon: Hi... good afternoon everyone... thanks for being  here with us... I love how many of us are are here,   but also that we're participating... I think that's  a good, you know, it's a right way... in the direction... you know what I'm trying to say... it's Friday... I'm not gonna try and... [chuckles] make that come out any better. Hopefully, I speak a little bit more clearly and articulate a little bit better when I'm in front of the governing board... but I can't say that for sure... you're going to have to go look at our videos... so, I am going to make this really really quick, because really, everything I was going to share with you has already been shared in the Provost report... and that was about the HLC accreditation, the mock visits, and what was coming out of that... so, I'm going to conclude my report thank you so much. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Rita... and we thank you for representing us at all the Governing Board meetings, representing faculty... so, thank you so much for that. We'll move on to the adjunct faculty report, I believe I saw Sean Mendoza... you're in the middle of my screen... Sean, take it away please. ---Sean Mendoza: Thanks very much for that... so, I also noticed too, that a number of things that we talked about in... with the adjunct faculty group is actually going to be on the agenda... so, I don't want to steal anyone's thunder, but I know Jessica and and Dana had a chance to actually visit with us... it was really great to hear from them... and tell us a little bit about some of the initiatives that are going on, that would specifically impact adjunct faculty... also, Patrick and Derek and Kate also shared a couple of things, too... that... with regards to the AERC, what they are doing... and I know that Patrick, Derek, and I are going to be getting together to talk about some of the initiatives, and how we might be able to look at a more targeted approach to what we're going to be doing in the next year or so... so, that's something that we had shared with the group... and that's pretty much it... right to the point... there you go. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Sean... I'm thinking this means that we're all on the same page, if we're all communicating about the same things... and we don't want to... you know, we don't want to... we don't want to give it too much time... but maybe we're over-communicating and I don't think that's a problem... [chuckles] I think that's actually moving in the right direction as that's our Chancellor's third goal... not to over-communicate, but just to increase or improve upon communication... so thank you Sean, for representing adjunct faculty so well. Now, we move on to Makyla Hayes with the PCCEA report... and I believe I saw Makyla in here as well, take it away Makyla. ---Makyla Hays: Hi... so, my internet has been unstable... hopefully, having my camera on is not too much... but I'm not going to share my screen, because I don't think that would go over well with this internet. So, my report today is pretty short... basically there's  2 things that we're keeping an eye on with PCCEA... one of them is the leadership model, and just kind of following up now that it's been in place a little bit... you will probably see something come out actually through the AERC, but we're just interested in as PCCEA in making sure that that model is working as intended... and making sure that people's workload is sustainable and supported. FACT process is another thing that we're keeping an eye on... and I saw some emails going by today... I'm at a math conference sitting in a East Campus Learning Center pod right now... but I stole away for the faculty senate. So, I saw some emails going by and I think things are  getting resolved, but we're just wanting to make sure that basically each of the divisions that are looking at the FACT model are looking at it in a similar way... and accounting for reassign time in a same way... and so, we're just keeping an eye, and it looks like it's hopefully going well. Ongoing work through the AERC... we are still making headway on the hard-to-hire SOP... we've met with the original group that met, I don't even know if it was last year, but we've been meeting and talking about hard-to-hire   since Tina has come on board in HR... and we've  got things settled a little more with the actual policy   of how things are currently being paid... we now have an SOP draft for hard-to-hire and how to determine hard-to-hire areas... so, that's going to be coming out to a larger group soon... keep an eye on your email for information... and then by the end of the semester... hopefully, not at the end of the semester, but by the end of the semester... you should also be getting a survey from the AERC faculty like you did last year... to ensure that we're on track with the priorities that we believe are important... make sure that you tell us if those are important to you, or if we're missing anything  that you want us to advocate for within AERC... if you have something now that you want to make sure is on our plate, please use the AERC comment form that's in my report or email myself or any of your other AERC representatives... we have Maggie Golston, Jen Guajardo, Dawn Majalca, and myself are your faculty Representatives.... so, we are all happy to take forward concerns as well... yeah, it keeps... take a look at our tracker if you are curious what we're working on... we just added another new tab, because why not... but we are now going to be tracking as well... how often we have reviewed the policies that are on the handbook page... and making sure that we do a quick overview and check in every so often... we had a faculty member email and say... hey, it still mentions CDAC... we should probably update that to DFC... so, those types of fixes that aren't really process changes but their name changes to reflect current process... so, we are going to be working on that as well. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much Makyla... and thank you for advocating... thank you for those of you, including yourself, that are on the AERC, representing faculty, and PCCEA, and all the work that you're doing... I know that those trackers... all the different groups meeting together, and moving and pushing things forward are just helpful for all of us... so, we really appreciate that... and hopefully, as we continue our reports, we'll see that there's just a lot of a... [chuckles] a lot of great things happening, that we're all talking about the same things, because I believe FACT is later on in the agenda as well. So, thank you for that... and thank you for continuing to represent us so well. Next we have the TLC Report with Dr. Jessica Tinklenberg, who I mentioned earlier, I believe I saw her in here, so.... ---Jessica Tinklenberg: I'm here. ---Denise Reilly: so Jessica, you're up. ---Jessica Tinklenberg: Thank you... my report will also be super short... I just wanted to share a couple things that we've completed work on... the most important of which is that we've re-envisioned, sort of, the work together of the Teaching & Learning Center... and you can see in our report, our new Mission, Vision, and Values statement links there... I'm really excited, especially about our mission statement, "Empowering Every Educator so Every Learner Can Succeed... I feel like it really mirrors the mission statement of the college... and really offers us an opportunity to be part of that work in a really intentional way... another piece of this is we've  also established an Advisory Board, as Denise said...  we were able to get great volunteers from adjunct faculty, full-time faculty, Deans, other Administrators, and staff... and so that will start... that work will start next week... we'll really be pushing forward that Vision, and we'll be soliciting your input for that... in terms of in-process work, we have finalists coming for a faculty facing instructional designer...   that instructional designer will be working in the TLC, with the TLC team, and really will be focused on helping our faculty become proficient in D2L.. become proficient in the ways that they design courses... working one-on-one with them really, in this faculty facing capacity to make sure that they're the most inclusive, the most supportive, and the most equity-minded educators in those... especially in those online spaces. So, we're super excited about that... those workshops start next week... you should have received an email from us with all those Zoom links... they're half an hour long, so it's not a huge commitment... I hope you can stop by and then, give us your feedback on our candidates... so, they start next Monday at at 9:00 am... we're still accepting AQ applications... preference is given to full-time faculty for that first session, but right now, we just really want to fill that up... so, if you know somebody who might benefit from AQ... and I'm happy to ask... answer any questions you have about that program.   But we'd really love to have a few more people in that... and then, of course... big event coming up the end of the month is the PimaOnline Educators Conference... I'm grateful for the work of Michael and Josie and Reed... and so many others who have made that happen... and I'm excited, because one of the folks that's coming is a woman named Karen Costa... and Karen is a pretty well-known educator for online spaces... and she's going to be talking about sustaining pedagogy... cultural... climate aware pedagogy... and I'm really super excited that she's going to come and talk... and talk about sustainability and climate action with all of us... so, I'm happy to answer any questions, but that's what I wanted to share. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Jessica... I see we got a plethora of balloons from Michael Amick on your comment about the PimaOnline Educators Conference... a few hearts are coming up... but I have actually never seen the balloon... that's that's going to be interesting as we have a meeting in person in December... I don't even know what our reactions are going to be... we're actually going to have a high-flex... if all goes well, fingers crossed... high-flex meeting in December... so, I kind of wonder, you know, if we're not going to have the red balloons showcasing what we're going to do to applaud for people... I don't know what it's like in person anymore... it's been so long... so thank you for that. And our last report that we would have had, which we are kind of just bypassing right now, would be from Jennifer Madrid... she sent me a student affairs report, so it looks like there's a lot of events happening on that list...   but student affairs was not able to, or any of the  representative from student affairs, come to share   about any specific things from that report... so, from that area... I did want to point out something that Makyla said that just to kind of segue us into the business section... especially with the HLC coming... you know, I'm just trying to tie it all together, right... with the HLC coming soon... and with all the communication concerns... and information about what it's going to be like... I did want to let you know, that if you find things on the website such as I found the other night... I was looking for... I was looking for something, and went down a rabbit hole... and what I found was the College Committee Structure Booklet from 2023 listed on there... and a bunch of links were dead... a bunch of things that... protocols that we don't follow... so I followed up... there's a new guide out there now from '24 to '25... the representation in the different groups doesn't have, you know, dates from 2023 anymore in there, expired... it looks clean and updated... so if you find those things, I encourage you to email whatever department that is... I know that David Parker... I found something before... so as our accreditors are coming in and looking at our website and looking at our information to see if it's updated... is it current... is it being well-kept... or are we following those protocols... I encourage you, as Makyla was mentioning early, to kind of make sure that our stuff is accurate, it's up to date, and it's new and representative... so, if you find any of the "404 error found," like I found recently, please let somebody know about it... I know it feels like we're being editors and scrutinizing things, but I'd rather have the correct information out there for our creditors, than noticing dead links and things like that... so, that's the segue for our report section... we now have a robust business section   in this area coming up... and I'm going to trust my  colleague officers... we have Rita, we have Kelly, we have Maggie, and we have Sean here... but we have some voting items to go over... and without any further ado, item number 1 in our business section has to do with elections, so Maggie that would be you. Maybe she stepped away for a second. ---Maggie Golston: Hi, y'all... yes, it is time for the faculty senate officer elections... that is not the president or Board of Governors, but the other offices are up for election... I'm about to paste a ballot into the chat several times... and that's about the long and the short of it... I will be counting... and by the end of the meeting we'll  be able to announce results... so here you go... EUUUU!   ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Maggie... so, senators that are present, or if you are a proxy, please make sure that you complete this task...   we have secretary up for election so Maggie will be finishing out her term in December, but she's not going far...  she's one of the faculty representatives from AERC, so I'm sure we'll be seeing still, lots of Maggie. So, we have 2 people up for secretary, for that position... and then, we have our president-elect and president in that... and then, we also have our vice-president for that... so, we have a couple... Rita, go for it. ---Rita Lennon: Apologies... the link is the edited version... so, give us just 1 second, because we don't want you to change the the data in there... um... oh, well... there's... you know what, maybe it's just mine... [chuckles] I'm going to be quiet now. [chuckles again] ---Maggie Golston: No, because, you know... I'm in the same situation... ---Rita Lennon: This is my link but everyone else seems to be good. ---Brooke Anderson: No, mine is an editor link too. ---Maggie Golston: Okay, hold on... hold on... let me fix it. ---Denise Reilly: One of those bots in here, right. [chuckles] ---Maggie Golston: No, I was having the same problem... I'm not exactly sure... um. ---Rita Lennon: Maybe... there's 7 people who've already voted... maybe they did the one from... ---Maggie Golston: Yeah... I do see that there are 7 people... maybe it's just the officers... I don't know... let's see... try the second link and hopefully it will work... my apologies friends. ---Denise Reilly: Things happen... we appreciate it... we just keep rolling... and we thank you for taking this on Maggie... and as well, for announcing the results at the end of our  meeting today... at this point while we're working on that, we also have, on the side, next... our item number 2 on the agenda... we have Kelly O'Keefe, who's going to talk about... interesting this has already been a topic of conversation today... has been faculty emeritus... Kelly, are you ready? ---Kelly O'Keefe: I'm sure I am, thank you... so, we have 3 nominations that have come to our attention for faculty emeritus... and the first one is someone who I have nominated, and that is Elena Grajeda... and we have linked In the agenda, and I will copy and put this in the chat... documents that would be submitted for each of those faculty emeritus candidates. The second one is Teresa Riel and the third one is Nan Schmidt... so, if you would please take the time to review those submissions for those 3 faculty... and then there is also a ballot on the agenda as well... and I'll post that after all 3 of their nomination forms are posted in the chat box there. We need to make sure that we have 75% of our quorum in order to move these nominations to the ELT. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much, Kelly... senators, while you do your thing, I want to clarify that right now we are under the AP of faculty emeritus as is... it went through in May... and several of us had mentioned that there could be some revisions to that AP... we were told last month by Jeff Silvyn... I almost called him doctor, those of you that remember last meeting... I just throw out honorary doctorates apparently... Jeff Silvyn was in here last month and let us know if there was an AP that needed to be pulled that was not in that exact 3-year cycle, that we could...   so, at this point uh that AP is pulled... but these  3 faculty emeritus meet the qualifications as is, which is 20 years at the college, plus at least 15 of them in a faculty role... and of course there's some recognition... not just being, you know, recognized by the college but there are also some   cool perks to having faculty emeritus status... so, all 3 of these individuals have that option...   but it's up to the faculty senate vote to decide  whether they go to faculty emeritus status, or go to the ELT, I'm sorry... and the ELT makes the final decision... at this point right now, you can go to the website... our PCC website... and you can go to the Governing Board page, and you can see all... a list of faculty emeritus from the past... all the way from, I'm not even sure when, what decade we're talking about here... but you can see those that have been awarded that... that appreciation or status... is there anything that I'm missing team, before we take any questions before that? I know Lisa is gonna speak about her person but is there anything missing about the information about faculty's emeritus?  ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yeah, I just wanted to mention that the document for Nan Schmidt is needing access... so, whoever created that one needs to give all Pima Community College access to that. ---Denise Reilly: Lisa, I think that's you, so we'll let you work on that... at this point... ---Lisa Werner: So, I gave a, I think, a Word document. ---Denise Reilly: Yes... so, you have to change the access in it... instead of... so, if you go into the document, you need to change the document to "anyone with the link has access"... that's what I did for my nomination. ---Lisa Werner: That would be with the Google Docs, but I don't know what to do with the Word, because in the past when I sent this, the faculty senate just downloaded it and gave it access that way... and so, that's how I did it in the.... before... so, I'm not sure what to do here. ---Kelly O'Keefe: I'll take care of it. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Kelly... so at this point while Kelly's taking care of that, I'll speak for less than a minute about Theresa Riel... and then, I will turn it over to Lisa to speak for 1 minute about Nan Schmidt... and then Kelly, to speak about Elena... I can tell you that interesting thing is I've never filled out a faculty emeritus form before, ever... until I became a very involved member of senate 5 years ago, as secretary, then Governing Board... I've read through these, but I've never completed  one before... and the person I completed it for, I have never personally worked with while they were a faculty... so, Theresa Riel retired in 2019 from the college and probably the reason I wasn't near her was that she was at East Campus most of the time, and I had been at Community and Downtown since full-time... and I never worked with her in person, but I met her a year and a half ago when she became our Governing Board chair... and I think I can say safely... Rita, Kelly, myself... we were all at the HLC, and [chuckles] we didn't know if we were allowed to talk to her... we didn't know... it was very scary time... and we weren't sure about talking to her... do we take a picture with her? Don't post it on Facebook... don't tell anyone. She was so welcoming, engaging, and wanted to hear input from faculty, that I expressed to her a concern I had at the time and she said... oh, this is not okay... this is not good... and she had my back... she had my back in... in 2022 when things were a little bit difficult in terms of the faculty structure and some things...   and since then, I've been... she's been a mentor to me... so, she's been great... so, I nominated her, even though she... I did not work with her back in 2019... she's giving back to the college voluntarily during retirement, as Board chair. So, I am impressed... she's one of those educators that, her heart's in it for the right reason.. she's in it for the long hall and she's even doing it voluntarily... so, that's my spiel for Theresa Riel. Lisa would you like to talk about Nan? And then we'll go to Kelly. ---Lisa Werner: Yeah... and apparently there's... I don't think... I still don't think there's access to Nan's documents... so, it's okay, I'm gonna share my screen while I talk here... so, yeah... so, many of you do know Nan because she was around here for such a long time and she was... one of her biggest contributions to the college was with PCCEA, where she had many of leadership roles... and she was highly involved in Meet & Confer and policy... and really, did a lot of things to help shape the college in a way that supports faculty and students. So, she taught in biology and she... her training, which was much more the outdoorsy Environmental Biology/Geology end of things... and so, the courses she submit... she taught... she would develop... they're very highly developed... and she made copious labs and other activities... even involving drawings and diagrams that she created herself... I mean, I counted like 50 different things that she created and shared it with all the faculty... many of these are being used today. She was a course coordinator for courses even before we had a formal DFC level position... we had that at our campus for many years... and she would have this entire package ready to hand to a new adjunct, as sometimes they're hired right before class... and you know... so, they could just take off with this and she even developed... during COVID, she developed labs that were video taped for BIO 156, which is a really, really important course for our 201/202 sequence, and that she could just hand off to anybody and she did...  and then, I think, the last thing I want to say is... she also worked for BIO 156, which again is our introductory course in our anatomy... physiology sequence for Allied Health and it's probably the largest course of all biology... anyway, she was course coordinator for that... and in her time in that, she developed a common lab manual... and again, this whole shell to share with everybody, and there's way, way, way more... I only scratched the surface... she had brought field trips down to the Sea of Cortez and so forth and so on... and I know my time's up. ---Denise Reilly: Did want to let you know, Lisa, we did fix the link. ---Lisa Werner: Perfect, thank you so much. ---Denise Reilly: No problem this was a a lengthy application and thank you for sharing a little bit about Nan and your work with her, or her work here at the college... Kelly, are you available to speak about Elena? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes. ---Denise Reilly: You are, thank you... and thank you for doing the... [chuckle] doing the hard work here. ---Kelly O'Keefe: That's okay... Lisa, I think you're still sharing your screen though... there we go. So, Elena Grajeda was a full-time faculty and department head for the World Languages Department for many, many years... she taught at Pima for over 30 years... she basically developed Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 as OER courses... she has done numerous projects for the former PimaOnline divis... division, excuse me...   not only for World Languages, but for all departments... on a personal note, she was my mentor when I first became department head, and helped me develop my leadership skills... and really helped me with all the processes that were needed as a department head, and full-time faculty working, within faculty senate as well. She also was very heavily involved with the Teach, Build, Lead Series... which, if you're not familiar with that, are training courses that were offered by PimaOnline... are still offered through, I believe, it's the TLC now...  correct me if I'm wrong on that... but they are...  they are courses that us as educators can take  in order to learn more about online teaching, and really up the quality, which has over and over again, proven to be worthwhile. So, during time... during the time that Elena worked at Pima, she has really transformed many areas that have helped the college as an organization as a whole... there is, like the other candidates, way more that I haven't touched on, and I hope you are able to take a minute to read what I've  written about her... I did receive assistance from faculty   that worked for Elena directly in her department as though, because I have not... but I worked with her on a different level, so, there are more specifics in that written submission... so, if you could do that, that'd be great... and if you have any other questions about whether Elena qualifies for faculty emeritus or not, I'm happy to help with that . ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much Kelly... looks like we've heard from all 3 of us that were nominators for the 3 individuals. Hopefully, I sent the agenda out Monday night, but hopefully, other than the 1 document that we fixed... hopefully you've been able to read a little bit about each of the candidates, if not now... and we will share those results again at... by the end of our meeting. Any questions about... well, never had a meeting with so much faculty emeritus involved... I do do want to share that right now as the AP is written with faculty emeritus, we would be voting twice a year, faculty... and this is in our charter as well... but we would be voting in... once in the Fall and once in the Spring... in that case, if you have anyone to nominate right now... after this meeting, we will send the the nominations forward that are... you know, that reach quorum... we will send it to the ELT office for final approval... the deadline for that is November 1st. So... and in our charter, April 1st is our spring deadline, so our March meeting, we will be also doing the same thing. I know a few of you have emailed me and have emailed the officer team... if you know of someone retiring, or that has already retired, and that you want to nominate, that would be something that you would do in the Spring as well... so, it happens twice a year, and as... I'm not sure who it was that mentioned earlier, I apologize... but someone had mentioned... it does not have to be right after they retire, it can be a few years later... it can be... so, it's not something that's urgent, but it is something that the AP is being looked at right now... so, thank you so much for your participation in that... and those of you that nominated... at this point right now, we're moving on to our next agenda item... and I have seen Dana, because [chuckles] you know, I've got a pumpkin background and I'm thinking about candy corn and Almond Joy... but Dana is at the beach right now... at this point Dana, I think you're not really at the beach, but I want to be there soon... so, Dana Drake Rosenstein is going to talk to us for a few minutes about Learning Communities. ---Dana Rosenstein: Thanks for that... yeah, I was a... it's a... somewhere I've been and kind of of trying to remind myself, over and over, that that's where I'd like to be... so, I'm going to share my screen... so, I am the faculty fellow... put my slides show on... so, I'm the faculty fellow for Learning Communities, which is under the TLC... and what we're doing at this moment is recruiting for faculty to join the Learning Communities for Spring and also for Fall 2025. So, first to say, there's 2 info sessions through the TLC... next Wednesday and Friday... and so, there's a... this link here is the Zoom link... but I'll also show you a link that has all the kind of more detailed information, about not only the Learning Communities but also those meetings. So, if you aren't familiar with Learning Communities, they are a high impact learning practice... and one of the things that's really important for us at Pima... and one of the things that we wrote Into the SOP as we were moving forward with this program... is that they are especially known to be successful for women and STEM... and also for Hispanic serving institutions. So, this is something that's really important to us, and part of our mission statement. So, this is one of the reasons why we've worked so hard to have the Learning Communities in the program be successful. So, if you want... if you're not familiar with what they are, then it's 2 different courses taught by 2 different faculty, and they come from different disciplines, so the goal  is that you are able to integrate your coursework,   or your curriculum... so that students are able to see how these disparate curriculum or disparate syllabi can show how integrated actually, academia can be... and how learning can be... that you can learn from the same topics from all different ways... what I have here is pictures of the Learning Community that is running right now. Patrick Moore... I saw him here earlier... this is his Learning Community... so, it's General Technical Math, as well as Building ConstructionTechnology... so, they do things... for example, in the math class, they learned how to do the calculations for a cube... and in Patrick's class, in the Building Construction Technology, they made the cubes.   But both Jose Maria Menendez, who's one of the instructors, and Patrick, were in the classroom at the same time...   so the goal is that you're taking students through this education process together.  The courses are, uh... there we go... one of the important parts of the pedagogy of Learning Communities  is that the students are the same... so, no other student can register in a Learning Community... they... the peer group has to be... has to be the same for both courses. This is one of the other Learning Communities that we run... it's... LIS is a class on social media... so, for example... in the writing course, the students are working  on, for example, a rhetoric essay... but in the...   and in the Library Science course... in the social media course... they're writing about the rhetoric of social media, right... the way language is around social media... so, it's really compelling to put these different types of stories... academic stories together. So, this is a list of things that are one of the... through academic literature, through literature, and education,   that we know make Learning Communities  successful, especially things like peer support...   so, I've said that the students have to register in both courses... nobody else can register in. So, they create a peer group, a peer support group, that's very robust. And I've talked to some students from previous Learning Communities... they say they go for coffee in between the 2 classes... things like that... so, that's really important... as well  as it being unique... so, we really hope that part of the success of Learning Communities is student retention... also part of our mission statement at Pima... our goals right now... so that we're hoping this makes students a bit more excited about the different ways you can learn. For us... for faculty, it's inspiring to collaborate with somebody, who you perhaps never met before... to think about your curriculum in a different way... think about how you can integrate these curriculum. The other part is professional development... so, we have a summer workshop where the faculty are... we get together and talk about things like team teaching, if you're not familiar with that kind of pedagogy... so, we make sure that everybody had the tools they need to be... to have a successful Learning Community... as well as your pay... so, you are paid in the semester where you're planning your Learning Community, as well as in this semester when you teach... and the pay for the teaching semester is dependent on the 3 different modalities we have for Learning Communities, and how integrated the courses are... so, there's 3 different levels for that... you're paid per credit by your tier... your current tier. So, if you are looking forward to thinking about your course in a different way, meeting somebody new, and working with them together to put a Learning Community together... if team teaching is kind of exciting for you... then one of the important things about working with us is that we're planning again for Spring and Fall... and so, you... for spring courses, you'd be working to plan your class in November, December... starting in January... and then, in the... over the Summer... for working in Fall... so, what we have for you is, on this last slide... and also, Denise put in the... on the agenda under the Learning Community's agenda item, all of these links... so, here's the info sessions... and this is a document here... let me see if I can show them to you. So, this is a form that you can self-identify as somebody who's interested in teaching in a Learning Community... and so, that is linked there... as well as this, which is the information form, which has a lot of details about not only Pima's Learning Communities in specific... but also about Learning Communities in general... you'll also find the link here for the info sessions... and when we have the info sessions, I'll update, obviously, our recordings   from last year, but they're there for you as well. My contact details are here, so if you have any questions, I'll be here through the meeting... and also of course, email me. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much Dana, for all this information... I saw a couple comments in the chat, and then I see a hand up from Maggie...   Maggie do you have a question for Dana? ---Maggie Golston: I do... I love this... I have been reading about it for a lot of years, for First Gen cohorts... there are First Gen dorms, I think it's at the University of Tennessee... this has a lot of power and I think it's wonderful... I was just wondering about a couple of things that are related... one is, we sort  of have some expertise at least in my discipline  as support courses for IBEST and... which  is also a cohort... it's also a Learning Community...  it's just a particular kind of Learning Community...  and my other question is... is the focus, particularly on DevEd or, because I teach, for example... I teach the Honors Writing Composition Class, and I've often wondered what it would be like to pair with someone on another GenEd? So, those are my two questions. ---Dana Rosenstein: Yeah... so, in terms of IBEST and things like that... so, there's 2 stories... 1 is that, if we were able to expand this program beyond my... sort of, my role as faculty fellow and kind of paid at that level... so, we have a lot of ideas we wanted to work in with dual enrollment and all kinds of ways to recruit students early... specifically related to retention... so... so that's one part of the IBEST story... and if we could work through those, kind of, goals... their Learning Community program goals... then we'll get there in the future... the other part about Dev Ed is... actually we, partly... part of the story with Learning Communities is that the faculty self-identify.. so, we work with any faculty who's interested in teaching at any level... we've had 102... writing 102's... we've had anthropology courses that are already writing intensive... and students are quite far in their... in their Journey at Pima... so, it's not at all about what courses they are... it's about who's willing to teach them and find a way to, kind of, get excited about the curriculum and match with someone. So, you might... if, for any of you who are interested in this... if you know somebody in a different discipline and you want to be colleagues, then you can definitely self-identify that way otherwise, when the interest form is due on October 18, and once we have them all, we'll sit down... Jessica, Jeff, and I... and put people together... see how they can work... one of my jobs in particular is helping the faculty integrate their curricula... so, if they're sort of feeling like wow, you've taken me in economics and put me with geography... then how can that work? And that's my expertise... so is making inter-disciplinarity work... so, it's not that you're sort of left to your own... but again, to answer the question more specifically, if you self-identify, we will find something for you. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Dana... I don't want to... I don't want to extend this any longer, even though this was a great topic, and some of you seem very enthused and engaged by it... I just do wonder... I've been in one of those Learning Community groups before... in fact I thought it was so great, I was working, it was a STU class, it was going to be a writing class, and another... there were 3 of us working together... we had a concept of wellness... we were so excited about it... and then, we didn't have any students signed up for the cour... classes... so, I guess my question would be, for the future is what is being done on our... like, registration, advising... like that side of the house, so that students know about it, because it was great to put all the information together and develop curriculum, but when the class doesn't go, you know, and there's not students... and there wasn't even one student in the class... it was just not there, so, I guess my curiosity would be, what is being done on that end of the house, so that these initiatives can be driven instead of just halted. ---Dana Rosenstein: Yeah... so, I mean, that's really important... one of the things that... so, Denise self-identified early, early on... to be kind of a... almost a... I wouldn't say guinea pig exactly... but a forerunner of our program here... and so, one of the things that is actually in... generally in the education literature in the pedagogy of learning communities, is a student support course... so, we learned very quickly after that very first, kind of, planning period that our students aren't able to register for 3 courses that are linked, right... so, this is the challenge is that the STU course meant that, not only were the students required to register in both academic courses, but also the STU course... so, we've taken that out, and we'll see in the future how many... how that could possibly work in the future... but relatedly, one of the challenges about recruitment is first year students, because they are registering over the summer... nobody can register unless they've taken an orientation course... if you're not familiar with Connect U... so, students can take the course, the orientation, on August 10... and then we'll never reach them in terms of recruitment, but one of the things that we've done... and again, learning over these last 4 years now, almost 5, is ways to get to those students... so one of the things that I've done over these past summers is kind of cold emailed 3,000 students who have placed into Writing 101S, for example... or have finished Writing 101, moving into 102, for a learning community that had a writing 102... so, that's one of the ways that we're recruiting... and so, we've had much more success in recruiting this... the last 2 years, than we did in that original 2019, 2020 cohort of... or program of, learning communities. So, yeah... so, that was definitely a huge challenge for us from the very beginning... but we've... every semester we've learned how to work through those difficulties. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much and thank you it sounds like, if you read the chat... I noticed that Patrick had an experience that he shared, and it was a positive one... so maybe, once they start... once  they start becoming the norm, it's not going to be so unique... and it would be more common place  that a student has heard of... and once they get past the barrier, a challenge of being able to register for the courses together, like co-requisites, right...   don't we... I mean some students have to register  co-requisites together... so, I know it's possible   out there to do that... so, thank you so much for sharing that information... and luckily our reports were short, so, we're still good on time right now,  and we will move on to our next section... I believe Jeff is our caller... I feel like I'm on a talk show or something... okay, caller... go ahead... but I believe Dr. Jeff Thies has a few minutes to talk to us  about AGEC as a certificate, because he messaged me earlier  to say, I'm 3412, or something like that... Jeff, are you here caller? ---Jeff Thies: Yes, I am... can you hear me. [unknown noise] ---Denise Reilly: We can see you too. [chuckles] ---Jeff Thies: Longtime fan... ---Denise Reilly: Go ahead. ---Jeff Thies: first time caller. ---Denise Reilly: Go for it, thank you. ---Jeff Thies: Yeah, absolutely... so hopefully... well welcome, good afternoon faculty, thanks for giving me a little bit of time on your agenda this afternoon... hopefully you had an opportunity to read through the slides that Denise sent out on Monday, that were pertaining to the AGEC... the big question is, as we move forward we know that the AGEC A, B, and S are going away as part of the AGEC redesign... that doesn't mean AGEC is going away, that just the 3 different variations are going away... so, we have to... as those are currently identified by the college as certificates, we have to deactivate those with HLC... and as part of the AGEC redesign... the question then becomes, when we have our new one AGEC, which Michael Parker and a lot of faculty probably on this call... have been a part of the redesign efforts at Pima, regarding that new AGEC... the question is, do we go through the hoops to call it a certificate again? And all indications are that it is not a certificate by any definition that we have... the state does not reference it as a certificate... it's a bulk... it's a bank of courses that fulfills the AGEC, which is the Arizona Gen Ed curriculum... so, there's nothing certificate about it from the state... and financial aid doesn't recognize it as a program of study, even though we call it a certificate... and the biggest piece is, the registrar's office already certifies, which is part of the transition challenge, right... with the term is it a certificate? No the register's office certifies to the university that a student has met the AGEC criteria,...and so, nothing will change from the student and the transcript perspective,   if we do not call the new AGEC a certificate... you think about what we do call certificates at the college... we have certificates in Welding, Aviation, Culinary, HIT and a lot of other great areas... this particular one doesn't fit, you know, the standard certificate, direct to employment definition... it does not go away from the students perspective they still have the ability to complete the AGEC criteria and  have that transferred to 3 universities, that's not at stake here...  the only 2 challenges we have that we can work through is... reestablishing what our data says... are completers and it's not that we can't count AGEC completers as completers... it just has to do with where we're reporting that, and what the definitions are that the external group is looking for... and the other piece is, currently our catalog and our website,   kind of, sometimes use the term certificate, and sometimes don't... so either way, we have to clean that up. So, those things will happen regardless... this is really just to bring it to your attention and ask for feedback... you can give me some feedback now or just feel free to email it to me through our Pima emails system... and I will be taking that information, having future conversations with the Provost leadership team... the executive leadership team... I have a meeting meeting with the board chair and the Chancellor again next week about this particular topic... so, in a nutshell... AGEC A, B, & S are disappearing and thus as certificates we have to deactivate them... the question is... when we activate the new AGEC, will start in Fall of '26, should we call it a certificate and bring with that terminology, some of the pros and cons that a certificate brings to our space in higher education? So, I am on my phone, I don't know if you can see me or not Denise... but if people are raising their hands... ---Denise Reilly: Oh, I can see you. ---Jeff Thies: I can't see hands being raised... so if you have questions... ---Denise Reilly: that's okay, that's... ---Jeff Thies: help me out. ---Denise Reilly: that's my job as the... you're the caller, you know, the caller in, so... ---Jeff Thies: [chuckles] Yeah. ---Denise Reilly: I just appreciate that you're a big fan of our show here. ---Jeff Thies: Yes. ---Denise Reilly: I want to say thank you for the clarity in slides, not just yourself, but everybody who's presented so far today, It is very clear what the ask is... and the kind of, the rationale  and reasoning for this... do I have any... I don't hands currently, but do I... do I have anyone that has a question for Jeff? It seems pretty clear at this point from your information that something is happening, it's already changing, and it would take a lot of work to move those back to certificate status... and we already have certificates ...it seems like we're functioning with the AGEC as is, as that block. So, it does seem logical to get rid of that, but I also am not necessarily on the fly thinking of every other element   or variable that may need to be considered... do I have any hands up? I see something in the chat.   No I don't... not related to... ---Margie Youngo: Denise? ---Denise Reilly: Yeah. ---Margie Youngo: Denise, this is Margie... I'd like to ask Jeff... is this certificate a number of credit hours... is it 60 credit hours? Then the student might as well go ahead for the associates. ---Denise Reilly: So Margie, I think I can answer, but first you have to be a fan of the show... [Margie and Jeff laughing] ---Denise Reilly: if you're going to call in... but I think I can answer that the block is 35 credits, right Jeff... 35 or 36... I'm looking at Morgan and Jeff here. ---Jeff Thies: yeah... when we move... when we move to the new one, it'll be between 32 and 35... the new setup provides some flexibility for students that might be in a STEM program that need more 4-credit courses... but essentially it's a 32 to 35 credit block of classes... and I'm glad Margie asked the question, because one of the things we talked about earlier at staff council, which is national data... always shows that students that complete  their degree with us, have a much higher level of   probability of completing their bachelor's degree at the University... as opposed to those that leave early. And technically, if you leave with the AGEC,  that's a good thing... that's a milestone... but it's not the same as leaving with that AA, that ABUS, or the AS... so, appreciate that conversation   and hopefully we answered your question, ---Margie Youngo: Yes. ---Denise Reilly: Yes, thank you Margie... and I might be hiring Morgan in the near future, as he's been very diligent in the chat, with lots of links and information and answers, just like the senate officers... with some additional information. Last question... Lisa, do you have a question about this? ---Lisa Werner: Yes... I'm still not clear on why we wouldn't give the AGEC as a certificate... is that because we hope that more people will then go on for the AS or, you know, AA... which we always want? ---Denise Reilly: Sounds like it's not being considered the title certificate, but it is still a block of curriculum that needs to be completed for a student... ---Lisa Werner: All right, and that's the job... but I think before, it was... if someone had, you know, when they... their transcript, it would say on the transcript, as a certificate, that they finished AGEC, right? ---Maggie Golston: I think... ---Lisa Werner: and they would go through educa... when they went through graduation, it would say they finished AGEC. ---Maggie Golston: If I might step In Lisa... I think this has to do with other things that certificates do, and they have to do it direct to employment stuff. In other words, unlike getting a certificate in Welding... we cannot in good conscience guarantee that someone who gets an AGEC will have a direct employment track like that... so, I mean... that's what I gathered from being on the committee... it's like, however... it's kind of like shrimp scampi in so far as AGEC does stand for General Education Certificate, right... ---Jeff Thies: Curriculum... the C is Curriculum. ---Maggie Golston: Oh, I'm sorry... curriculum, ---Jeff Thies: Yup. ---Maggie Golston: my bad... but I mean... ---Jeff Thies: Understood. ---Maggie Golston: it will function the way it's always functioned but it's not... it's just not a certificate, which in transfer does not really pertain. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Maggie for clarifying. ---Maggie Golston: I mean location, I think... Jeff, do you want to confirm? ---Jeff Thies: Yeah, you're correct. ---Denise Reilly: Correct, that's correct... so, I would advise, because we were ahead and now we're getting behind, I would advise now, Lisa to take a look at the slides, talk to your constituents about it... and Jeff, it looks like the next steps are that you are going to return back to us, and let us know from executive... the executive team or at some point we will need to either take a vote or something in the future related to this, or you're just telling us. [chuckles] ---Jeff Thies: Yeah... the direction the college goes in the future will be decided by the board and ELT, but we want your feedback and input on when that... if and when that decision is made, what can we do to make sure we mitigate any challenges that we may not be seeing... but there has been a lot of vetting of this over the last academic year... so, it's just coming to fruition because the AGEC A, B, & S do have to be decertified, because they are currently certificates, and they are going away, regardless of what we do moving forward... so, this is the natural next step. ---Denise Reilly: Okay, well thank you so much Jeff... ---Jeff Thies: Absolutely. ---Denise Reilly: We look forward to your communication in the future and... thank you for calling in. ---Jeff Thies: Yes. have a great weekend everyone. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you... so next on our agenda we have the FACT committee... I believe that Kate Schmidt you're here... but I can I can drive if you want to talk, if that works. ---Kate Schmidt: Sure, that sounds great and I think we've our our Vanna White in Morgan and if Morgan's got the list he can paste the... the... those who served on the FACT group or continue  to serve on the gra... on the FACT group in the chat... some... I know some of you are here on this call  today... so, I'm waiting to see the... there we go... Denise and I co-chaired this... what the current version of FACT, which was, you know, when it was originally conceived of as the Faculty Allocation Collaborative Team, I think that's what FACT stood for... but we started meeting last year in the '23, '24 academic year as a group to to look at how are we making faculty allocation decisions? This is not the the actual hiring decision but the allocation decision, knowing that the directive we've gotten for a few years now is... we are not going to add any PCN's for faculty positions... but we are also are not going to close any... so, it's really a reallocation of existing PCN,s that's a position control number a line in the budget for a particular position. We got together to try to create a very transparent process for the... how those decisions were... those reallocation decisions were made... we spent a lot of time in this group talking about this vision of developing something that would look like a dashboard that there would be data that would get updated a couple times a year... about every single discipline, so that we could kind of see where... that we were very transparent about where every...   every discipline stood in terms of their... the number of faculty they had... and their students in enrollments. So we, throughout the spring and actually, with the help of Michael Parker, who joined us in mid spring, came up with kind of a formula that then we gave to STAR, and STAR developed a tool that may eventually we're hoping eventually, does become more like a dashboard, but is currently sitting as a spreadsheet. So, that tool... they came back to us in July with the draft of the tool... with the information that we'd give them... given them.   Michael, as the Vice-Provost, shared that tool as a draft with the Deans in July and then when we, the group came back in the Fall, we met September 6th to try to figure out how we were going to proceed for this year. So, the recommendations from that group in September were that all full-time faculty would would be able to see it... see the tool and give some feedback and be familiar with it... that the times for the Dean and divisions to submit requests for hires for next year, would be pushed back 2 weeks... so, that's already been pushed back, so that today is that due date, that they... that we look at some additional data points recognizing that the spreadsheet yields particular numbers... but there other... there's other context to the need of for faculty in an individual division... and then we did agree that we would continue to meet... that we would look at how decisions were made out of the Provos office and make... make continuing recommendations moving forward. Lisa, I see your hand up... I know you were on the committee... did you have a question or a comment to add? ---Lisa Werner: No, my hand is like, accidentally still up. ---Kate Schmidt: Okay... I'm on... so, the current... the current process  is there was a meeting with the Deans in September... today is the date for divisions to submit  their requests for any new faculty to the Provost... by the week of the 21st... in 2 weeks, the office  of the Provost will communicate any decisions back   to the divisions and to senate... and then, in the week of October 27th, any of those approved positions would work through faculty qualifications and start the hiring process... and again, this is the hiring process for Fall '25 we've also proposed... we've also proposed sort of a second wave of that same process to happen in December and January... recognizing that we often have additional vacancies or known vacancies through retirements, that we learn about early in the Spring... our desire is always to actually have a... the national search that we do, so that we're... so that we are not filling positions with provisional faculty but that we can do the search and we believe that if we have notification by January there... that's enough time to fill that position through a regular  search in the Fall... the recommendation from the group  on other data that we needed to... that we needed to make sure that we were considering,   is the number of faculty and release time... you know, we... when we were working in the spring, we didn't have a great idea we didn't have the final leadership structure... so, we didn't have... we didn't have numbers or anything we could add in to that equation from the leadership structure... wwe wanted... people were concerned about where they... you know, that evidence of either frequent or failed recruitments would be evidence of the difficulty to fill positions... some description of the Adjunct Faculty Workforce ...and then student needs and fill rates... and then, any other data that's specific to that discipline... so, I think earlier Makyla, who also served on the committee mentioned that there were some emails flying around just today... the email discussion was that even though we had put on the worksheet to include information about release time, we wanted to make it very clear that that release time should be actually part of the formula that the number of hours that somebody... a division has in release time needs to be subtracted from what their actual faculty is, so that we're taking that into account in an actual formula, not just the qualitative or narrative about the leadership structure or additional release time... because many divisions have people in release time doing other kinds of service for the college, it's not leadership. So, that's where we are with the process... we're... I'm sort of excited about this... I mean it seems like it... having a single   tool as a place to start some conversation... does meet that need of us having transparency and our ability to talk about needs, you know, and compare ourselves... our own divisions to other divisions... we still have work to do, but I think we will... this group will continue to meet and kind of refine the process and refine what data we could use and... as we move through hiring processes. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much Kate... I really appreciate... the group was a very robust group in terms of the amount of work that we did, and it was pretty diverse in terms of programs, general ed... we were looking at all different factors... we met so often last year... so, it was very neat to see this really come to fruition with a tool... the only thing that I would probably really, really want to mention, and this was in an email, and this was shared out widely... but still sometimes, you know, [chuckle] you just look at something and think uh-oh, there's a tool and I'm in the red or the green or the yellow or whatever the color was... this was a starting conversation, so this wasn't taken into account... for example, we heard a lot of different faculty in every different division... has some specific criteria like, limits to the number of students in certain classes, based on   accreditation, external accreditation... based on just so many other factors... safety, tools, space in a classroom. So, there are other considerations that the division needs to take into account, where this is more general information... what I do like about the tool is it actually has some projections there... so, what... it's looking at 1 or 2 years ahead of projection of where the direction is going based on data that we've collected... so, we're not just, every semester wondering... are we going to hire... are we not going to hire... when are we going to find out about this? It's kind of, a little bit going back to what it was years ago when, I think it was All College Day that we'd get a list... was it All College Day or All Faculty... a list of eligible faculty positions, and we've kind of gone away from that quite a bit   to where it's been very nebulous... what I like about this tool is that you can look at all the different divisions to see where they're at... so, there isn't... it's very transparent... any questions from this group? I know it's a... I know it's been shared out, I know people have looked at it, we're still in processes, but I'm hoping... ---Kate Schmidt: Just one more thing that's not so much about the tool, but just a reminder that we are using the... we're using attrition... meaning that we are only filling positions that are vacant, or will be vacated through retirement or resignation... so, what the tool may indicate that you... that your area would need, you know, need more faculty, but it's really going to be compared to to other divisions because we have a limited number, and I think it's right around 20, that we expect to be able to make decisions about for the Fall of '25. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Kate... and like I said, the great news is that we can continue to refine and develop and look at this tool, but it's very apparent in different divisions... who knows, maybe it can be used in different areas of the college not just with faculty in the future... so... ---Kate Schmidt: I see Molly's question about the guts of it, and that's actually on one of the the slides and it was also in the email... the description of that formula unless you're talking, Molly, about the predict... the predictive analytics about the future, because that's... that does come from STAR, and we can... you know, I see Dennis has made an observation, but we can have STAR kind of report out on that, how they're doing those future projections. ---Mollie Minke: That would be great, I'm more interested in how good of a predictor model it is... and what aspects and variables are being brought into that prediction. ---Denise Reilly: So, we can continue on with this conversation, maybe potentially after we, you know, we have the deadlines set already for the different divisions and Deans... but I think we're happy to continue this conversation next month with any updates about where we're at in different areas... and potentially come back and answer a question like that about specifically...   because star gave us the tool, but I not sure  that we understand every detail of what their   predictive analytics was based off of at this point... so, okay... at this point we're going to move to...  and we're back pretty much on time... we're  going to move to Michael Parker's presentation...   and he's going to talk about the AGEC redesign... Dr., and this is a doctor... so, Dr. Michael Parker go ahead. We can see you sharing something, but we cannot hear you are you talking, Michael? ---Michael Parker: I am... and I've done some bizarro thing... okay... I'm not going to share my screen and have you look at strange stuff, but there is a link to a a slideshow in the agenda... I gave a presentation earlier today dedicated just to this... the next steps in the AGEC redesign, in the course review... and I'll go from memory what's on the slideshow... again, whenever I tried to do it, like it froze up or something... there we go, thank you so much Rita... oh, next slide please...   So. I think I've spoken about this in other places before, but last Spring and early into the Summer, members of the general education committee reviewed our existing course bank of general education courses, against the criteria that the AGEC transfer steering committee adopted last September. Whenever we did, we looked exclusively at course learning outcomes and performance objectives... no other element of the the course outline did we consider... and we focused just on the existing courses that had a pretty self-evident home within the new categories and I've given you sort of a translation there of of how we did that. There is a new category that we did not look at, but we will be seeking solic... will be soliciting submissions from the faculty for this new Institutions of the Americas category... next slide please. And there are a couple of things that you do... we've got... I've distributed, on All College Day, this general education course review results... it's a spreadsheet that shows where you're at... any of the courses... and on All College Day, I also shared folders with the Deans, who had courses that didn't make it... so that... that both did make it and didn't make it... so that you could see everything that was scored in a particular way... that was for Arts and Humanities, Social Behavioral Sciences, and I'm not talking divisions now, I'm talking about distribution categories... Arts and Humanities, Social Behavioral Sciences, and Natural Sciences... next slide please. And green... if you see anything on that spreadsheet that  is highlighted in green you don't need to do a thing,   you're in... and the course is in... so, needn't  do anything about those... next slide please. In other cases they are yellow and red... and at first I thought that yellow and red would be much more distinct... they're not... and what that means is that, we couldn't definitively say that the course learning outcomes of performance objectives qualified a particular course for a distribution category based on the AGEC criteria... it might have been that you were really close to the threshold, which is defined differently for different categories, 3 or 4 typically... or sometimes every criteria... or that we couldn't agree on which would be the qualifying course learning outcome to fit you in there... or in the case of red, it could just be that maybe you just had one and you were way far away. It's kind of subjective, but in general, in my mind, red is farther away from qualifying than is yellow... but I don't want you to think that if you have something color-coded red, you can't participate in the review process, or to discourage you from participating in the review process that we're undertaking this Fall... and what that is is a mass approval process   that is going to work outside of Curriculog...  next slide please. And what you'll do... and I sent some instructions via the Provost email... I think it was last week, or maybe the week before, I'm not sure... but what you'll do is, you'll... if you want to avail yourself of this mass approval process, you will complete one of the spreadsheets, and each one of those spreadsheets, you're given instructions... you would populate one of the columns with your course learning outcomes and then you would just go through and Mark an X where you think that course learning outcome demonstrates that you meet a particular criteria within the distribution category... there's also a form associate... a Google form associated with each of the distribution  categories, where you would upload that spreadsheet...  and unlike the scoring that the general education committee did, you can expand the evidence that you used to demonstrate that you belong in that category by other elements of the course outline... so, you should be able to to link any one of those and see what they are... and that is for this mass approval process... next slide please. Oop, that's just continuation... [chuckles] next one please. Now, if you and your disciplined colleagues look at one of these courses and say... you know what... unless we modify this course outline, and by course  outline, I was corrected earlier today, I don't know "corrected," but it was... it seemed my reference is ambiguous... when I say course outline, I'm talking about that document associated with a course that includes both the close and the content in the description... all of that kind of stuff... if you conclude that there is no way that you would qualify for a category that you currently are in, but you would like to be included in that category... you can't use the mass approval  process, because you'll have to alter your course outline  in order to meet it... in that case it's just going to be a normal modified course proposal in Curriculog... and I'm telling you right now if you do that, it's going to be reviewed by the College Curriculum Council... and that group pays very close attention to the verbs in course learning outcomes, so I advise you to have a single verb, and that that single verb in your course... in your course learning outcome, yeah... in your course learning outcome, be the highest one that a student will engage in... so, if you've got something like describe and evaluate, just make it evaluate... and we can give you... I'll give you other pointers, to you on  that one, if you have anything... but that's less to do with the Gen Ed review, than it is, what the things that the College Curriculum Council pays attention to... but if you do a course modification you're going to have to run that gauntlet... so, next slide please. And what I've given... uh... one... uh... uh... ---Kelly O'Keefe: Sorry Dr. Parker ---Michael Parker: Yeah. ---Kelly O'Keefe: [chuckles] We're running out of time, so if you could just finish up, that'd be great... thank you. ---Michael Parker: Okay... that's it... I just wanted to make clear, you could take a look... I'll also be sending out a video of my presentation earlier. If you would go to the very next to last slide please... no, wait, one... up, hey, one... okay... could you advance one please? I just want to thank the people who participated  in the course review, it was a Herculean task and they spent some time over the summer doing it and a lot of time during the Spring... if you see anybody on this list, tip your hat to them, shake their hand, they did a great service for College...   that's the most important thing among all of these  slides... so, thanks everybody on here... and that's it   ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much Dr. Parker... we have a lot of big, big things coming down the way. Yep Kelly, I don't know what those hearts are going to look like in person in December. My faculty senate officers will be happy that I had a built-in cushion of time... so, our last unless I'm incorrect, our last item on the agenda is Division Spotlight... am I missing anything... I think I'm correct... so, our division Spotlight, I just want to give a little bit of context to this, I believe Greg, I believe we're going to have some some folks from Adult Basic Education College and Career... I think I said that right this time... and then also from Applied Technology... we also do have some election results, so I'm going to go first with Maggie, who just posted in there... do you have any election results for us before we turn it over to Division Spotlight? Don't worry, I have the built-in... the built-in time... go ahead Maggie. ---Maggie Golston: I'll be fast, I sure do... returning to office will be Denise Riley, our president... and our Board of Governors rep, Rita Lennon... our president elect is Kelly O'Keefe... our new vice-president is Dennis Just,,, and our new secretary, Rosanne Couston. So, congratulations to all... I will still be a senator, so I'll still be around I just won't be your official secretary, thanks so much. ---Denise Reilly: All right... congratulations everyone that's continuing on and serving... and in December we'll have a kind of half-shift of this group, anyhow for January... so, thank you so much for that... Kelly do you have any news before we go to Division Spotlight and our faculty emeritus... did our senators do their thing with quorum... and do we have any moving forward to the ELT for final, final, final approval? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes... and I posted it in the chat... we do have all  3 candidates that should be moving forward to ELT now... ---Denise Reilly: Hey, congratulations... thank you so much  senators... heavy lift today, with a lot of voting... so, thank you, thank you all... the Division Spotlight,  I just want to share where this kind of stemmed from... as Governing Board representative... and now Rita has that role right now... I was used to hearing about the Mission Moments from Pima... and I thought it was always interesting because I learned something about an area of the college I had no idea was going on...   every time there was a Board meeting and they had a section called Mission Moment... and one of the things our officer team has talked about in the past was that we don't always know what's going on beyond our silo, or our own division... so, it would be nice and it would be great, actually, for us to be aware... so that we can help students figure out what other programs they might be interested in if a student comes to us and asks us about other programs. So, we have taken each month of the year that we have a meeting and we have designated that month for a specific division... the smaller divisions are grouped together... last month we  started with Business and IT... thank you to Jim Craig and his team for coming... now we have Adult Basic Education with, I think we're starting with Stefanie... and then we also have Applied Tech, and we have a few different people... so, Adult Basic Education, you've got 5 minutes, and then Applied Tech, you have 10 minutes... is our... is Amanda... I'm sorry... I'm looking for Lori... I'm looking for Stefanie... are you guys here? ---Stefanie Basij: I'm here. ---Denise Reilly: Awesome, go for it. ---Stefanie Basij: I'm going to share our screen and get going... I'm also accompanied by my colleague, Mary Mercado, who's also present. So, my name is Stefanie Basij and I am an instructional manager, former full-time teacher, and our faculty senator for Adult Basic Education... we have been in existence, Adult Basic Education, in Pima County since 1969... we are here to serve Pima County, to help increase basic skills, prepare individuals to obtain their high school equivalency diploma,   improve English language skills, increase civic  involvement, and increase our transition from   College and Career... this is the breakdown of  the programs that we have within ABECC... we have our high school equivalency diploma preparation, sometimes in popular media referred to as GED Prep, it is actually a high school equivalency diploma... we also offer English language for speakers of other languages... we have a robust refugee education program, and we also have Career Training in college transitions, along with citizenship education... we served last year 3,371 students as our division... and an important fact to know about Pima County is that there are 70,000 people in Pima County without high school diplomas... so, a lot of work out there to help serve   our community... we do this through intentionally  creating career pathways through our programming...   we are under the Workforce Development division,  and we are bringing together Workforce Partners,   investing in student services, linking those  items together and those opportunities together,   to create integrated models that align multiple  goals, and serve our students in a variety of ways...  we meet our students in all modalities we offer  in-person virtual High Flex Asynchronous classes.   We're located at the Downtown Campus, El Pueblo Liberty Learning Center, El Rio Learning Center, 29th Coalition Center. We offer daytime and evening classes... here's just a visual of where we're located... if you've not been to one of our Learning Centers, we're close to some of our campus locations and have spaces for our students to come in person. As I mentioned, we have our high school equivalency diploma classes... this is the opportunity to assist students in focusing on   math and reading and writing skills, that helps them to pass the GED subject area test to obtain their HSE diploma... but we're also doing this in an IET model an Integrated Education Technology... this is our approach to providing Adult Education and Literacy, while simultaneously providing Workforce Preparation and Workforce Training... and we do that in our ABE classes, Adult Basic Education classes, and our ESO, English For Speakers of Other Languages classes. So, the classes at the 60, all the way up to the 72 level, have an IET component where students are learning about career contextualized to a certain sector, paired with free integrated career trainings... so, things like OSHA 10, IC3, CPR first aid trainings... and those are connected to career sectors that build towards programs that we have within the college... like our IBEST programs. ---Mary Mercado: Hi everybody, I'll go ahead and take over for Stefanie here, my name is Mary Mercado, and I'm a director over teaching and learning for our ABECC program... we just wanted to share a little bit about our IBEST programs... if you don't know about them, they're Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training... so basically you can earn a training certificate, while preparing for the GED test, and improving your academic skills... we enjoy... oops... did you want to go back Stefanie? Sorry...  [chuckles] we enjoy the extra support of the integrated learning... more so... basically, there's a faculty member and an adult basic education teacher working collaboratively to get the student a certificate, within... it's normally within a year. And so, it's been pretty popular... we have a national program, or a national model in our program... and so, a lot of other programs around the nation are asking us to speak, and asking us to share how we got this started. You can go ahead and go to the next slide Stefanie. As Stefanie mentioned, we have our English language classes, where they develop... where students develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in English... we have beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels... and our Advanced levels are also our IET levels... kind of what Stefanie spoke about a little bit ago... a student can earn a CPR certificate, their OSHA 10 cert... or there's a couple of other areas that... I feel like I'm running out of time, so I'm trying to go a little bit faster here... go ahead and go to the next slide Stefanie. As Stefanie mentioned, we have a robust refugee education program... we had 801 students come through our program last year... and this program is for newly arrived adult refugees, who have been here less than 5 years... and students learn subject such as English, reading, numeracy, civics, and digital literacy. And then, here's a quick visual on a pathway of where students can start off... they can start off on an Onramp class, and move through either our ESOL program or straight to our ABE/IET and then transition into the college. So, thank you everybody. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much... wow... and thank you for keep keeping it to that time, I hope that many of you enjoyed the presentation. Just, coming up... just so you know, I've already emailed the different divisions that we'll be sharing... next month will be Arts paired with CRSS... and December will be Communications by itself because it's such a large division. So, thank you for sharing that information... everything should be in the agenda... so, if you want to look through the slides on your own, or contact Stefanie or Mary for anything... thank you so much, both of you, for coming... now without any further ado, I'm going to throw it over to Greg Wilson... Dean Wilson, who is here, and also some of our own... I think John Gerard is presenting... and Adrian Snellgrove for our Applied Technology division... go for it. ---Greg Wilson: Thank you Denise... and thanks for this opportunity to present on our programs... is that slide coming through okay? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes, it is. ---Denise Reilly: It is. ---Greg Wilson: All right... thank you... so, yeah... as Denise mentioned, I'm going to pass it off to faculty senate members John Gerard, department head of BCT, and Adrian Snellgrove, from Aviation... and did want to acknowledge Sarah Kirchoff, who is our new department head for Automation and Robotics... as well as Chuck Wacker, faculty senator, who was also on. If you don't know these are the programs that are within the Applied Technology division... automation, robotics, all the way through Welding... all of them are based at the Downtown Campus, except for Aviation Technology,   which has its own Center, right by the airport... if you've ever been right by Desert Diamond  Casino.  Also want to acknowledge that we are creating, in partnership with industry, an Optics pathway, which right now we partner with the workforce team, to offer that as non-credit. Just a quick overview of our numbers... the last  3 years we've been up pretty significantly...   part of that is due to increased capacity with the new facilities... but we've got good dual enrollment partnerships, we've offered fast tracks in partnership with Workforce, we've offered IBEST, and expect to do more of that in the future. And I did put an asterisk next to Building and Construction, because you can see their increase is slightly smaller... but I'm not going to steal John's thunder... but these pictures kind of foreshadow a little bit... that's a current picture that John took, I think, last night... so, if you look to the right that's the old building that we moved out of   and there's the conceptual idea for what's coming, but John will share more about that... and since Sarah couldn't join us, I'm quickly going to share a little bit about AIT, again, known as Automation and Robotics... it's a great program... that's a  picture of Sarah actually with one of our students... we are hosting an open house for Automation/Robotics. ---Rita Lennon: Greg, I'm so sorry, I'm gonna interrupt you for a second... I had received a message to ask... asking to present... so, I'm presenting for you... sounds like you're presenting as well... so, I'm gonna stop presenting so that you can present... and I'm so sorry to interrupt your presentation. ---Greg Wilson: No, no... thanks for... but everyone can see the slides okay? ---Rita Lennon: They're seeing my slides, so I think I'm going to stop presenting, so that you can present. ---Greg Wilson: Oh, gotcha. And of course I can't see. ---Denise Reilly: We can see your slides. ---Rita Lennon: You're good to go. ---Greg Wilson: Okay. ---Denise Reilly: You're good. ---Greg Wilson: Yeah. So, that's Sarah in the background... one of the things I want to point out, in addition to the open house... we have difficulty hiring for a lot of programs, just because folks do so well in Industry... so, this open house, we are running in partnership with the workforce team... Denise, who you may know is director of Employer Engagement and Career Services and Apprenticeship, is helping us out... so, we're hoping to draw some folks... we'll give tours, as we always do, but automation is basically, training students to become part of smart manufacturing in many different areas... one thing you should know is that we are part of the ReadyTechGo initiative... years ago Maricopa Central Arizona College  we built aligned manufacturing programs... Governor Hobbs has just put some money through the ACA to  Rebrand that, so that youngsters in the area know...   hey. you don't have to go through a program and  then leave out of state... with all the semiconductor   companies coming in... the battery companies coming in... this is a real career option,   where students can get a great job career pathway staying in the state. Stackable credentials for AIT... and I'm going to pass it off  to Adrian, Aviation faculty, and Yvette Rodriguez is   also with him, coordinator at the Aviation program. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much Greg for sharing... and by the way, next week is the Chancellor event... so, the Welcome Chancellor event is in one of those fancy buildings up there... so, if you want to check it out, go there. Adrian, are you with us? ---Adrian Snellgrove: Yes, can you hear me? ---Denise Reilly: Yup... you're great. ---Adrian Snellgrove: All right, fantastic... as Greg mentioned, thank you... accompanied by Yvette Rodriguez, our program adviser, here for the students. So, I'd like to take a few minutes to try to talk to you about Aviation... so we are actually one of the most respected dynamic in the country... we're poised to expand to meet the skyrocketing job growth here in Southern Arizona. If you weren't aware, there's a lot of Aviation  with Davis-Monthan Air Base here... there's many employers such as Mitsubishi, Bombardier, ASCENT, and Evergreen... so, there's a lot of of potential   for our students to move on to, not just here, locally, around Tucson... but nationwide, and even worldwide, once that graduate... so we're actually located in our own designated hanger space down here,  next to Desert Diamond Casino... we are part  of the Center of Excellence for Applied Technology.   We are the only Aviation repair maintenance  training program in Arizona that does work   and training on commercial, regional, and general  aviation aircraft... that's not to say that there   aren't other programs that are similar to ours... but we, I believe, shine well above the rest of them.  So, our core program is to train our  students to obtain their FAA certification...   so, we are recognized by the FAA to provide this  training... so, they take 3 semesters, take...   which is 25 courses... a total of 79 credit hours... and they can get their degree or certificate in that training... so. that's broken down into General Airframe and Power Plant certification... and we also offer that in day and evening schedules. We have a national reputation for excellence... and our graduates are in high demand by employers. Just in the last couple of years, wages have gone up... up to 20... have gone up 20%... just in the last couple years since our expansion here... and so, we've doubled our enrollment... and it's a great  way to generate payroll revenue... not just here locally for our statewide economy, but also giving our our students the opportunity to move on, after about 18 months of training, to make a really good wage... next slide... and so, as I mentioned, they have the degree or certificate pathway... not just for Airframe and Power Plant, which is our core certificate... but we also offer Advanced Structural Repair, which is for sheet metal and composites... we're in our first semester of teaching this newly revamped curriculum... we have an Avionics Technician certificate, which we are going to start this Spring... we also are in our second year  running with a cohort for non-destructive testing... and that's going to be available for NDT certificate... and even up to a Level 2 DI Penetrant certificate as well... we also offer a non-credit course for our... mostly are for veterans, or for people with experience to come in and they can take a airframe and power plant preparation course. In the future, within the next 5 years, we are looking at expanding into opening up a UAV program for training on that, as well as pilot training... so, our current  enrollment, we have about 180 students, between our day... ---Denise Reilly: I'm going to interrupt, real quick, Adrian... I'm sorry... no, we love the slides... we have them included there... but I think there was one more person presenting... luckily, like I said, the built-in cushion we had... ---Adrian Snellgrove: Okay. ---Denise Reilly: But we will be, you know, the only other thing we have left is adjourning, because we did do our celebratory thank you so much for... ---Adrian Snellgrove: Great... I was trying to go as fast as possible but thank you for your time. ---Denise Reilly: it's a short time frame but it's great to Spotlight... John, are you here? ---John Gerard: I am... can you guys hear me? ---Denise Reilly: We can. ---John Gerard: All right... so, I'll go real quick, keep everyone to the time... you guys have the slides if you need them... so, just... the Building and Construction Technology department is made up of multiple programs... so, we have HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, Carpentry, and Woodworking... the big thing right now for us is, we're just beginning the process of remodeling the ST West building, which was basically the original building that held Automotive, Welding, Machining, and BCT...   it's about a 25,000 sq ft space, so we're going to be moving from 2500 sq ft into that 25,000 sq ft remodel.   We recently got a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Ed, so that's going to help support putting brand new technology in that space... but the biggest thing I want to point out was just... and we've seen it throughout the day is our partnerships that we have with other programs in the college... we have that learning community with GTM 105/BCT 105... we partner with the IBEST program in adult basic education... we have a lot of partnerships with Workforce Development... whether it's apprenticeships, Pima FastTrack, or the prison program, which is for the incarcerated student education. And then, we have lots of partnerships... outward looking with Habitat for Humanity, Gospel Rescue Mission, the tribes here in the local community. So, just one of those things that we're very thankful to be a part of... and then, the slide is showing just the different degree and certificate options that we currently have. so that's it ---Denise Reilly: Thank you John. So, thank you Applied Tech... thank you Dean Wilson, John, Adrian... you know, everyone that's presented today... it seems like everyone's encouraged, excited, and learning about different areas of the college that we may not be as aware of. So, next month I look forward to CRSS and Arts... and then, Communications in December... do we have... all this stuff should be included in the agenda... do we have a motion to adjourn? [chuckles] Do I hear it or do I... I see something in the chat... oh, yes... okay... motion, second... and I think we are probably all going to be in favor of adjourning at this 3:02 time frame. Hey, you know that it's a good meeting when 39 are  still in attendance... [chuckles] a few minutes after. Thank you to everybody who presented... thank you to those of you that hosted things in the chat for us... thank you Kate Schmidt for taking stuff forward to administration... thank you to everyone for presenting... have a wonderful October... hope to see you next week at the Chancellor welcome, or at the Faculty Affairs Forum next Friday. So, hope to see... and thank you so much senators... especially the officer team, for rocking it today... have a great weekend everyone.