********************************************* DISCLAIMER: THIS FILE WAS PRODUCED FOR COMMUNICATION ACCESS AS AN ADA ACCOMMODATION AND IS PRETTY CLOSE TO 100% VERBATIM. THIS IS AN EDITED FILE BUT MAY CONTAIN SOME ERRORS. THIS IS NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT, IT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED, PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. THIS FILE SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED IN ANY FORM (WRITTEN OR ELECTRONIC) AS A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OR POSTED TO ANY WEBSITE OR PUBLIC FORUM OR SHARED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE HIRING PARTY. THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PURPOSES OF VERBATIM CITATION. ********************************************* September 6, 2024 Faculty Senate ---Denise Reilly: So, welcome everyone... if we could go ahead and get our meeting started. So, it is September 6th... please do welcome and introductions in the chat... my Icebreaker question for you is... what do you look forward to in Fall? I thought I'd let you know that Fall technically starts on September 22nd... I don't think it feels like that today as we're still, I think, 104 today... something like that... but what do you look forward to in Fall in general? So, that's the icebreaker question... while you're answering the icebreaker and putting in your information I think I'm sure the sign-in sheet is going to be placed in the chat as well... and then, in addition to the sign-in sheet... you can go ahead and start reviewing the August meeting minutes. I'm going to take a second and shut the door here... I'm at the Northwest Campus in a conference room. But thank you for bringing that up Diane... I realized that... [chuckles] I'm glad that everything's okay. I think I saw an email or a text or something that said everything is good now... so, I'm happy to hear that there was messaging sent out about that. So, thank you all so much... I'll be looking for my trusty colleagues, as I figure out how to use this in a big space by myself... when we have some approval of minutes, we will get going with that... thank you so much... I see that the agenda was put in the chat... and probably the sign-in sheet as well... by the awesome team. ---Maggie Golston: So, we do have a quorum everybody. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you  Maggie... so, that looks like we have a quorum... so, we're waiting for anyone to approve the minutes... or make a motion at least to approve the minutes... and then we are going to vote in the chat... correct me if I'm wrong Maggie... [chuckles] perfect. Okay... so, it looks like we have a motion to approve by Sarah Robinson... so, we're looking... thank you so much senators, for putting your vote in the chat... and don't forget to fill out if you are a   proxy for someone in the sign-in sheet... so, while  we're taking care of that... give Maggie a minute or 2,  to kind of look at the chat... and in the meantime, do we have any requests for agenda modification? ---Margarita Youngo: Hello, this is Margarita Youngo. ---Denise Reilly: Hello, Margarita... do you have a request for agenda modification? ---Margarita Youngo: Yes... I would like to request an agenda modification today to explore the possibility of revisiting, and a review of the professor emeritus status, AP 5.15.01, and I regret that I missed the AP back in May. ---Denise Reilly: Okay... so, we do have, in our business section, item number 2... is to look at AP's and BP's, which I think Jeff Silvyn is here to talk about those ones... so, is your request to add that in, and maybe ask a question about that specific AP? ---Margarita Youngo: Yes. ---Denise Reilly: Okay... okay... yes. ---Margarita Youngo: And then, get some insight on how we proceed to make one change on the 8th... and how we should go about it. ---Denise Reilly: Okay... I think that would be okay... Jeff Silvyn, you're in here correct? I believe I saw you in here a minute ago. So, just to give Jeff a heads up that we can maybe take a look, or pull AP 5.15... you said it was? ---Margarita Youngo: Yes. ---Denise Reilly: Okay... maybe to pull 5.15 from May, to maybe add it to that for now, or see what our options are... is that what you're asking? ---Margarita Youngo: Yeah. ---Denise Reilly: Okay, thank you. ---Kimlisa Duchicela: I also have an AP 3.101, I think it is... it's the alternative certification... also that went through the... that... in that big huge May group... there's a couple of little things in there as well. ---Denise Reilly: Okay... so, 3.101 AP as well. ---Kimlisa Duchicela: Yeah. ---Denise Reilly: Okay... so, I think that would be okay... Rita, you're going to have to tell me if I'm doing this incorrectly... [chuckles] but I think that would be okay, especially because we have the AP's and BP's... and we're giving, kind of Jeff, and any other administrators that might be overseeing those units, a little bit of a heads up that we have a couple questions about AP's and BP's from May... there was a batch of 39, so I will be honest and say.... that was a very large group... so, we can do that... okay... and then, do we have any requests for executive session? Okay... I hear no request for executive session, just the agenda modification... and Maggie, do we have an answer about our minutes? Okay... looks like I saw the thumbs up from Maggie, so thank you all senators. So, just a reminder... as we get to the next section of our agenda, that kind of norms expectations... I think we have talked about it before, but you know, if you can have your cameras on... if you're not comfortable having your cameras on the whole time, at least a picture to take your spot... but thank you so much for being present and active with us today, we have a packed agenda... and I wanted to start with an item that I added before our report section... and I wanted to do a little bit of an explanation of this item added before that section . We oftentimes and you know, I've... there's always historical context to everything, right... but we oftentimes get calls for faculty senators or just for nominations for faculty to join certain groups... sometimes it's a work group... sometimes it's a committee... and so, I wanted to standardize that or formalize that a little bit more... and so, when we have requests for... I just called it on this agenda, faculty engagement... so, if you can see, before our report section, we have a couple items there for you to take a look at... at this point right now it looks like there's a co-curricular learning looking for 2 faculty... for right now because we don't have this completely flushed out... sometimes we have numerous requests for faculty... sometimes we have very few or none at all... so, for now, if you are interested... and it looks like on that co-curricular learning... if someone wants to share the screen you can to fellow senate officers... but the co-curricular learning is one of those, where Jeff Thies looks like the sponsoring unit... and he's requesting for 2 faculty to join that. It's pretty well laid out... kind of shows... shows what the expectations are... and then, I also put an attachment in for ID hiring committee and TLC advisory. So, an instructional designer is going to be hired in the TLC, so they are looking for somebody to join that   hiring committee, I think it's 2 on there...  and then also the TLC advisory. So, those are just a couple of things... if you are interested in joining those groups... if we have an abundance of Interest... so, you know, so many people want to join that... then it'll probably get kicked back to the faculty senate officers to maybe narrow down the search... but if we don't get enough volunteers to join those typical committees, what we can do is, we can add this to next month's agenda and see... or do another call out... but Jeff are you in the meeting right now to speak to co-curricular for just a minute... or Jessica Tinklenberg, to speak to exactly what you're looking for? ---Jessica Tinklenberg: I'm here but if Jeff wants to go first, I certainly defer. ---Denise Reilly: Go ahead Jessica... you're already on screen. ---Jessica Tinklenberg: All right... cool... so, thanks for considering this opportunity... these opportunities... the Teaching and Learning Center is shifting to thinking strategically longterm, and about sustainability in terms of the future of the Teaching and Learning Center and support for faculty  development. And so, part of that is this hiring of this Instructional Designer... this person will be housed in the TLC and will be faculty facing... so, their job really will be to work with faculty, with departments and programs across all modalities... to really serve as a pedagogical expert in support of faculty using D2L and other online tools... but again, across modalities... that search has  just closed, and it was closed on Tuesday the 3rd...   and we got 26 applications... so now, we need some faculty to round out our committee of 5, to help us with making sure that we're bringing in the right person that can meet the needs of of our faculty... and we're looking for diversity... and that in terms of CTE, non CTE, and members from across the campuses. So, that's the one thing the Advisory Board is really focused on this... our attempt to be more intentional, structural, and to really make sure that we're doing the work of longterm assessment of our effectiveness and so, we're needing maybe 4 to 6 faculty, both full-time and adjunct, to participate in that... and a senator, if a senator is available, would be also lovely... and I'm happy to answer any questions... and I'll put my email in the chat, if you have  questions you want to just refer to me directly. ---Denise Reilly: So, if anyone wants to join either of those groups, for Jessica. Is Jeff Thies here? If he's not, I think he's going to be in here later to speak to us on AP or BP. So, anyways... his information is shared there... thank you Jessica... I appreciate that. Okay, moving on to the next section... we'll go on to FS officer goals right there... So, I think if I can figure out how to share my screen... [chuckles] if I can... actually, will 1 one of my senate officers... I'm really having fun over over here in this different space here. Can one of you share by chance the bold blue print that says, on the agenda that says, FS officer goals? Oh... there we see it... okay, thank you... I think of exiting... okay, so our group determined... what are our goals for this semester? And we fully are aware that our team will shift just a little bit... potentially coming in the spring... so, we're looking at goals for just this semester right now... and so, our group decided and this is our group of governet Board... sorry, Governing Board rep Rita Lennon... this is Vice President, Kelly O'Keefe... secretary, Maggie Golston... and so, our group decided that what we need to look forward to this semester, and I put it in red... is HLC accreditation support, many of you I saw at the meetings yesterday and today... all the open forums, as well as some of the other invited meetings... so, one of our goals is to offer accreditation support... we're pretty heavily involved in things of the college... so, I think we're good representatives for faculty... the second one would be faculty communication and engagement... potentially Rita could speak more to this if you want... but one of the things that we thought about was that... a lot of times we come to these meetings, and we get a lot of information from the different departments and different groups at the college... however there isn't always a chance for that 2-way engagement... so, to hear from you guys about what you want to talk about, what you want to know about... so, one of our ways of doing that is...   we're going to focus and emphasize as one of our goals, to increase our communication and engagement.   So, one of the things I added to the agenda, for example, was request for faculty engagement, so that we're aware of what faculty wanted or needed for different groups... and then, I wanted to highlight one other thing that kind of supports that... at the very bottom of our agenda, after you see the faculty senate charter that... or charter not charger... sorry, I'm thinking about football... just joking... the faculty senate charter at the bottom... that always always has a link... and then the faculty senate website... we also added a faculty senator engagement exchange... so, we are going to ask you... this is going to be a standing, you know, link that's in every single meeting... but what we are going to ask senators is to give us any feedback... if there's a specific topic that you want to see being discussed or talked about, that can be in there... and so, that's another way that we're looking at 2-way engagement or exchange... and then the third goal that we have is, All Faculty Day support and recognition... so, we talked about last year, one of our goals was to in... in... is to really Implement some kind of faculty award system... something that doesn't come through faculty senate... something that's institutionalized that doesn't rely on, you know, an initiative coming and going... and so, we don't really have any way to acknowledge faculty, other than through outside entities and different groups in the community... or through associations and affiliations... so, we will support All Faculty Day... the Provost unit is in charge of sponsoring that and making sure to, you know, fill that day up with important information... but we will support and kind of drive that initiative... and also, root to recognize all faculty. The other thing to let you know is, I believe this is coming from Dolores... but Dr. Duran-Cerda, as Provost will be conducting some type of survey soon, to figure out if all faculty day is going to be in January or a different time... and so, that's something we're looking for. So, those are our officer team goals... team do you have anything to add? Other than you are awesome for sharing that... okay... so, moving on from that, we will go to the Provost report... and I think I did see. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: I'm here. ---Denise Reilly: Oh, perfect... okay. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Yes. Thank you Denise... hi everyone, I hope you're smoothly back into the semester... as this is our first, I think official senate meeting of the semester, prior to... or after All College Day. So, I'll be brief... Denise and I have been talking about, you know, what I can share, as part of the Provost report... so obviously, we have the newsletter that comes out after faculty senate, usually on Monday... so, I won't go into that... but you can read it at your leisure... but one thing that Denise brought up is... because there have been some changes in the Provost area, that I share an org chart... an updated org chart... so, you will see that as part of my report... I'm going to try to share... I don't know if I have share privileges, but I will try here... so, here... can you see this? okay... great, thank you... so, this is... we... it's a work in progress, but I think this clarifies... so, for example... as Provost, I'm there and then Karyza, who reports to... is my executive assistant... and Ariana, who's an admin. coordinator, reports to her... you can see on the other side, Dr. Vanessa Arellano, who's our director of Provost initiatives and assistant to the Provost... she's been working very hard with the accreditation, the assurance argument, everything related to HLC... but you also see a dotted line to Wendy Weeks, because Dr Arellano is also working on assessment, and she has Yvonne Perez and Dom reporting to her... and then you see my other direct reports... acting Vice-Provost Michael Parker, Dr. Morgan Phillips, Michael Amick, Kate Schmidt, and Wendy Weeks... and then you can see... I didn't put all of the people, but most of the... I guess the first level of employees under them... so, you can understand where things are... so, this includes changes, for example... with PimaOnline and also Library Services, and other things, a Teaching and Learning Center. So, I hope this kind of helps clarify things, and as you can see... as I understand there was some confusion about PimaOnline... is that going away? Absolutely not... this is now more of an integrated process, where we have PimaOnline and working together within the Provost office... we always have... but just... you, so you can see the different changes... and you see Josie there... as well as Tom Tenney, Linda Cordier and Andre Bernal... and then some other folks, who have moved to the Teaching and Learning Center. So, that's more of a visual... I will share now another piece that's more of a descriptive view... okay, let's see. Okay... so, this document shows, like I said, more of in a... in a listing of who the... the direct reports are under the office of the Provost... and then, the specific areas... so, you  can see... under the Vice-Provost we have Academic Deans, the Library Services, LMS, and e-Learning Quality, and Scheduling... under Academic Excellence:  Partnerships, Dual Enrollment, Santa Cruz Center... Faculty Affairs and Development: Open Education Resources, Faculty Qualifications and Hiring, and the Teaching and Learning Center... under CQI, Curriculum Quality Improvement: you can see all the different components there... and Distance Education: Center of Learning Technology, PimaOnline Partnerships & Operations, and Online Grant and Online Student Success... and then, this is more specific... who are the people under each of my direct reports? So, I hope this gives you... this is helpful information with  the various changes... and those that haven't changed... just an under... common understanding of who's where, and if you have any questions, you can reach out to them directly. Now, this is a work in progress so what I'd like to do also, is have under each name, a brief description of what their duties and responsibilities are... so, we're working on that... so, that'll be version 2.0 regarding these documents. But I'll open it up for any questions that you may have up to this point... and then, I have something else to share. Any questions about the org chart... is this helpful? ---Denise Reilly: I don't see any questions but I really appreciate this, this is something that I've asked for, only because we've had so many restructuring and reorganizations in numerous different departments across the college... that at least if we understand the Provost office and kind of  academics and instruction at least we can start here. So, I appreciate this very much... thank you so much, for the visual and kind of seeing what all falls under this side of the house, at least. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Absolutely. ---Denise Reilly: I can share whatever... I don't see any... I don't see anything in the chat or any hands raised... so... ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Okay. ---Denise Reilly: if you want to share something else. ---Dolores Duran-Cerda: Yes, yes... I just wanted to share... I wanted to actually thank you all for this mock visit that we just completed... we had 2 days, or a day and a half, started yesterday, and they were... the sessions were really well attended... so, thank you for participating faculty... thank you very much for participating and especially with the Criterion 3 and 4... and I know there was a faculty session...   so, just so you know... if you didn't see me around, it's not because I didn't want to be there... but they, the Consultants... because I had all  scheduled, that I would be at every single session...   but the Consultants really requested that  both the Chancellor and I kind of step aside...   because when the real thing happens in December,  we're not going to be involved in the sessions... so, we wanted you to feel comfortable to say what you  wanted to say... and so, if you didn't see me that's,   and the chancellor, that's why... but we had an exit session with the consultants and they were very positive... they were just really impressed... not only by the Assurance Argument, but all of you... faculty, staff, administrators... so gracious... and really... they talked about the passion and the dedication to Pima College that everybody demonstrated... in speaking and everything with the visit... so they're very happy about that... and I just... if you can... if we can get more faculty to participate, that would be awesome for December... because we need your voice... we need, especially with Criterion 3 and 4, that's all instruction... so, they want to hear from you all... so, if you can help me and Denise, you can help too... maybe we can think of some strategies of how we can involve more faculty in these sessions overall... that would be just wonderful because you're the heart and soul of the college... so, thank you...  and so... yes, thank you Makyla, mark off December 9th and 10th on your calendars... excellent... and you'll be receiving invites too. But, just so you know also... the agenda for the actual visit in December is not created by us... by Pima College... that's the HLC team that's coming... so, they work in coordination with us, but they tell us... oh, we want to meet with   faculty senate officers... or we want to meet with  students... or we want to meet... or a specific area.... so just... so, you're aware, and you can tell your colleagues, and any community members, that we don't have a control  over that... but soon, I think probably in mid November, we'll have a clear idea of what the agenda and schedule will be like... so, we'll let you know... so, yeah... so, that's basically what I wanted to share Denise, unless there are questions. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much. I really... no, just the org chart is really, really helpful... it's a great visual that we can hold on to... and those faculty senators here... please share widely  with your constituents... I did get, for reals this time... I did get access to the list serves... so, I will continue to send out the agenda to the all faculty list serve, the adjunct faculty list serve, and the staff list serve... so, it all got worked out this last week... so, please share though, in your division meetings or department meetings, this information coming through... thank you so much... okay... I think we're on my report time, so I think I've got this figured out here, to share... so, let's... let's see if I can do this everyone... [chuckles] it's always scary... okay... so, these are the president... oh, sorry... is this the wrong thing? No... president report... nope, this is my report... sorry, can't read my own [chuckles] my typing. So, told you about our officer team goals, these are 1, 2, and 3... always going to be at the top... so, you know, [chuckles] just seeing it over and over again might stick... and I like to share highlights... if I go back... this is going to go back too far, hopefully it won't hurt... but last semester I put down basically, a log of everything that I did for faculty senate... this is not for... I'm the co-chair of the fact committee... that has nothing to do with my role as faculty senator... that's just in my own... in my own committee responsibilities... but these are all the different things that occur throughout the year... so, my hope Is that... if this is a running log   for the next president, and kind of expectations... so, I usually put down some highlights from the   things that were done... so, August... I know why I'm  tired now, in September... because these are all the   things that were done in August that are related  to representing you as faculty... and I know that   my officer colleagues attended a lot of this stuff  as well... and so I really appreciate the the support,  we're not even at September to talk about the stuff in September... but my highlights here would be   meet and greet with the Chancellor... I think I saw  that Dr. Nasse just put something in the chat... so, we were able to meet as faculty senators... Rita,  Kelly, Myself, and Makyla... with Dr. Nasse in his first   couple days at the college, which was awesome...  hearing about the things that he wants to know   about at the college from a faculty perspective...  the things that are going really well, and the things that maybe we could improve upon... and then, the August faculty senate meeting, we talked about... I loved talking with my colleagues about, how  do we get better attendance and engagement? And so, it came out that we decided to develop some new things like mentioning the added link at the bottom... to hear from you guys... and to kind of put the call out for all administrators or anyone that's looking for committee members to kind of spell it out on a... in a document... so that we can refer back to it... and then, Division Spotlight... so, the Division Spotlight... it's in our agenda this month, but the thought behind this is just that... we will, as a group we have, I think, 8 or 9 meetings... so, without the the shorter meetings that are 1 hour on All Faculty Day and All College Day...   and that, we want to hear from divisions... we want to hear from you... what are some great things going on in your area... and so, oftentimes we don't get a chance to collaborate with other divisions or departments, to find out what exactly is going on... and so, we feel the more we're informed, to hear about what's going on with different divisions, the more we're able to help students who say... hey, I might not be in the right program of study... or what can I do with this? And so today, we're going to feature the Business and IT Department... or the Business Department... and that was just the first group, because it's such a large group... and we looked at... the officers and myself looked at the different divisions, and we will pair the small ones together... so, for example Adult Basic Education, Library, my division of CRSS... because we are the smaller ones... so, we'll hear from them this time... and that concludes my report... for anyone, this is attached here... so, you're more than welcome to ask questions in the chat... otherwise we can move on to the next report, which is my fabulous colleague and past-President, Rita Lennon, who's now the Governing Board rep... and I will stop sharing... thank you. ---Rita Lennon: Hello everyone... I'll pull up mine now, and just wanted to let you know that, following in the shoes of Elliot, who was giving our report for the TLC... and now Denise, who's given her report the same way... I have started sharing... I will start sharing the Governing Report the same way, so that everyone can just go back and reference... you know, when you need something to look at... you don't have anything to do... you can always go and watch our governing board meetings... they're always so interesting... we did have a couple... they did have a couple meetings during the summer, while we were um off session, off contract... that I would like to share with you... the first one was in June, on June 12th... and that was a regularly scheduled meeting... and something else I wanted to share with you, as I'll also make sure I have the link there for you, but if you subscribe in YouTube for the PCC stream... sorry, PCCTV stream, you can also watch them there...   the 3 most important things that were part of that meeting were the property tax and levy that was approved... there were a few comments from the Board members about, either why they did approve it, or why they didn't... the budget was also approved for the 2425, and that was unanimously... and also enrollment in the federal aid changes were discussed, especially the impact that the changes had to students and their perseverance in getting aid, which is wonderful. Also, June 27th, there was a special meeting in which they did a wonderful thing of... they approved the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey Nasse... we're all excited about that... and also with a 3-year contract...   and he began August 5th... and every time I hear him, you know, in a meeting or something, he always is sure to say how many like, real days he's been here... [chuckles] so, I love that... I appreciate that. Also, they approved project of the State of Arizona... and I know you can read this so I won't say it, but a special project that... for tracking data... they did not meet in July 2024... they met again in August 30th... and this was for the appr... to approve the the Chancellor's goals and the strategic plan... so, those are all there... they meet again in September... on September 11th. so, of course, my report to them was already due... that was due this week... yet, we hadn't yet met, so this is always kind of a conundrum of... well, what am I going to report on... so, I just gave them a report of our first All College Day meeting, and just what that was about... so, our report for this meeting will go into our next meeting... and even though we have the report for... that's written... I will have 3 key topics that we talked about in this meeting... to share within the Governing board... and with that, concludes my report... thanks so much. ---Denise Reilly: Rita... and thank you, especially for representing us so well at the Governing Board meetings... and keeping us abreast of everything going on with  the meetings... and now that I finally figured out   how to really use this... [chuckles] this computer here right now... I see so many lovely faces and I even see  a Governing Board chair with us... I don't know about  other Governing Board members but I just want to say   thank you... we really appreciate the Governing Board support that we have... it was something that's been highlighted and mentioned in the last couple of HLC forums that we've heard... so, thank you for being here... and thank you again Rita. So, going on to our next report, we have the adjunct faculty report... but before we go to Sean... is Sean in here? I believe he's in here... I just do want to say that it seems like everybody really looks forward to the cooler weather... pumpkins, football season, and everything else outdoors is what everybody's looking forward to... but I thought it was especially cool, Sean, that you mentioned hanging out with kids... so, take it away Sean. ---Sean Mendoza: Outstanding... hopefully you can see my screen...  so, the main focus that we had this... today... because we had our meeting today, was... the  chancellor came by to visit adjunct faculty... I have to say that a lot of adjunct faculty really  did appreciate him coming by... I mean as a... as a former adjunct faculty, I mean we're... we're totally connected... we all feel connected to adjunct faculty... and I think the adjunct faculty really did appreciate that... also, there were a number of different topics that came up... one of the things that also came up in the session was that there's going to be a listening and learning session... it's going to be happening at the District Office on October 8th, thank you, Kate, for getting that posted and squared away. There were also a number of things too, that came up... we talked about some of the challenges that might might be facing adjunct faculty... now, the chancellor talked about that... also the relationship between Pima and the University of Arizona. Also, there was a... quite a bit of discussion about expanding  dual enroll... oh, the expanding... was some question about   dual enrollment expanding that... and there was also some interest in how we might be able to better communicate the value of the Associates Degree that we have here at Pima... because there is certainly... when it comes to... there are some groups that are out there that students, who want to see, you know... what is... what does that associates   degree mean when it comes to things like  future employment, pay... that kind of thing.   Also, we talked... also, other things that we talked about too is... the AERC Reps had a chance to talk about some of the things that were... that were occurring... and again, you can take a look... again, I don't want to give away the... don't want to give away the movie, but it is... it's all there... like I said, the video is posted... I have... I have the date, time, sta... I have the time stamps for the video, if you want to take a look at those... we are more than happy to do so... and I just want just say again... thank you Chancellor, for coming by to visit adjunct faculty this month.   And that ends my report. ---Denise Reilly: A detailed report... and I'm looking back at the data I received from Kate Schmidt in the Provost office... and I think 751 adjunct faculty, scheduled to teach classes this Fall semester... that's a huge number. [chuckles] So, when we look at 280 full-time faculty, we definitely keep abreast of our adjunct faculty, who are really pulling up the workload there for us here... so, thank you so much for your representation. And moving on... for our next report, we have... [chuckles] we call her the spreadsheet queen... she's gotten quite the reputation. So, we have Makyla Hayes for the PCCEA report. ---Makyla Hays: Thanks Denise... I just wanted to mention really quick, I... why are there like 20 things to share... okay, got it... [chuckles] I was trying to share my report and it tried to share my whole computer... So, it was Maggie that attended the meeting with the Chancellor, with the rest of the officers. My words are stuck in... after the HLC stuff... I feel like my brains mush after this morning but the AERC faculty are going to be meeting with the Chancellor on Monday, and Maggie will be attending that also as an AERC faculty... so, Maggie gets double... double time with that. ---Maggie Golston: Also, Don. ---Makyla Hays: Yes... and we also have Don... and Jen Guajardo is going to try to make it if her classes don't overlap... but she has been invited. So, you have... your representatives are definitely going to meet and share what's going on... so, other ways that we are involved... the HLC mock visit was this morning and yesterday... and we'll be kind of tracking that... working along with it, preparing for the accreditation in December...and then, there's going to be a PCCEA general faculty meeting in September at the Downtown Campus... I still need to reserve a room... I've been a little HLC focused on this one but I will  get that out to you in the coming week or so um so   that you can make sure it's on your calendar but  we're looking to go from 2:30 to 4:30 our goal for   this meeting is just to get to to meet everybody  because there's some people that have been hired   that we haven't really had a chance to get to know...  and hear from you about what's going on in your areas,   and how we can support you best... as part of the roll with AER... with PCCEA... too many acronyms today...  we also represent you in AERC... so, I have a couple links here for overview of policy at Pima...  as well as a link to the tracker, so you can see what all we're working on... but the biggest thing that's coming up is... we have actually been making headway on the hard-to-hire SOP, standard operating procedure, that's what that stands  for... on the hard-to-hire SOP, I've worked with   Tina and Kate and Michelle and Janet... it's basically a bunch of people, who are very knowledgeable in that area... and I think we've come up with a decent process... and now, we're going to go to the AERC faculty and staff to discuss that... and then, we're going to open it back up to the group that had expressed interest last year... so, if you were on that group we didn't forget you, we just hadn't made very much progress... and we're going to bring you back into the conversation before it goes out generally to everybody for review. So, look for that invite in the coming month or so... maybe 2... but we will be doing that probably before the end of October... because we want to get this in place as soon as possible. So, that is what we're doing... and you are always welcome to join us at our AERC meetings... we have kind of a public comment section at the beginning... or you can email any of your representatives to put something on the agenda for us to discuss... I think that is it for me. ---Denise Reilly: Going now with items of interest but also for sharing all the ongoing AERC work... so, thank you so much, it's much appreciated, all your support there... and moving on, we have our TLC report... and we saw Dr. Jessica Tinklenberg earlier... so, she's back... maybe? [chuckles] ---Jessica Tinklenberg: I'm trying... I'm... ---Denise Reilly: Oh, there it goes... yay. [laughs] ---Jessica Tinklenberg: Good news... yes... this is the very first time I've ever been able to share my screen on Zoom... so, hooray for me, it's a great day. I just wanted to share with you all a couple updates... so, some completed work Adjunct Faculty Institute, and Teaching Strategies Workshop... both really well attended... and I want to thank all my colleagues across  the college, who both participated and helped facilitate those sessions... amazing time... ACUE will be returning for some short courses, rather than the year long course that we had last year... and the first cohort opportunity will be in October... and you'll be able to see... ACUE is a National Organization that supports teaching development, as well... so, we're happy to to be partnering with them... and then, the PimaOnline Educators Conference... once again, a very collective endeavor with our colleagues from multiple parts of the college... but we do have a schedule, and we have our keynote speaker identified... her name is Karen Costa... Karen Costa is an amazing online educator... and interested in climate advocacy and climate action... and so, we're really looking forward to her keynote. We continue to work on Fall Workshop Series... on some key core principles of teaching and learning that align with a lot of the work being done, both in online and hybrid and face-to-face courses. As I mentioned, the instructional designer application closed this Tuesday... and then a call is out... and I will put it in the chat after I finish speaking, for faculty fellows... the faculty fellows structure will be a little bit different,   in that we're... instead of hiring individual  fellows to do all the work in a given area, we're actually hiring teams of 3 in 5 areas... those areas are Outcomes & Assessment, Generative AI, Undergraduate Research, Care Equity & Servingness, and Climate Action & Sustainability...   and those folks will be working together to support faculty engagement in those areas, lead workshops,   do collaborative work in the curriculum, and obviously an assessment of the effectiveness in those areas. So, I'll put that... it's open for 2 more weeks... and then, as I mentioned, work will be done on a strategic planning and assessment work and I covet your support in being a part of that  work, even if you're not on our advisory committee,   which I mentioned earlier... I'm happy to answer any questions, but that's my report for this month. ---Denise Reilly: This really looks great... all the different work that you're doing, and you've been here, what... a few weeks? [chuckles]   A few weeks on the job... and yes... there is apple picking, but it's further down south... I think I saw that in the chat, which the chat has been quite chatty, for a meeting I would say... I do appreciate, it looks like there's a lot of listening/learning sessions in there... Makyla talked about having a space at Downtown Campus with the date reserved for listening to faculty... so, I appreciate that everybody's collectively going to the chat and putting information in there... but thank you so much Jessica... it looks like we have some deadlines looming and that we have some work coming up,  and some cool things coming up... so, thank you so much for that. And then, we're going to our student affairs report with... do we have our Dean of Students, Jennifer Madrid with us... yes? ---Jennifer Madrid: Yes, I'm here. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you, Jen. ---Jennifer Madrid: Yeah... let me see... I am putting the document in the chat but I... so everyone should have access... but I also wanted to share my screen... so, do you see my update? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes, we do. ---Jennifer Madrid: Okay, perfect... thank you... so, I wanted to start off with student affairs update, there's a lot going on right now. Welcome everybody back from your break... and I hope that your Fall semester is off to a good start... I wanted to report out on Fall Super Saturdays... so, we had Super Saturday events at Downtown Campus from 9:00 to 1:00   on all 4 Saturdays of August... and we served a total of 1,430... oop... 1,043 students within those 4 Saturdays... actually, I'm sorry... the day... our Fall Forward event from April is also in there... so, those 5 registration events for Fall captured that many students... so, we had  representation from other areas of the college   but financial aid and academic advising was  seeing students, both by appointment and walk-in.   Then I also wanted to share Career Coach... so, we did Implement a new tool for students in July... it was the Go Live... and I've linked the Career Coach web page... and then also, the Career Coach flyer... because I'm asking everyone to please share  the information with their students... and basically, this is an online tool for students, staff... you can all go through it and play around and get used to it, but it's a front-facing career and academic exploration site... and basically a student would go in take an assessment... there's 2 different assessments that they can take... either a 6 question one or a 60 question, more thorough assessment... but at the end of that, it'll match a student with career interest... also, match them with the program here at Pima, that they can pursue with that degree... I mean with that career... and then, it also links to job postings   either in our county or within our state... and gives wage information and all that... so, it's a great tool... all of our advisors... we do have 2 career counselors... but all of our advisors have been trained to use this tool... so, it's really something that anybody can use with the student... so, please share and walk through it with students if you're talking to them about careers. Peak Enrollment and Advising... our enrollment advisers and program advisers and counselors have been really busy getting students into classes, helping with educational plans, and we recently increased our appointments, to make sure that we have availability for students... we've expanded our walk-in services at Downtown Campus and West Campus, particularly the cla... the week that we started the semester to make sure that we're serving all students... we have our virtual call back... just wanted to remind everyone where a student can place their information in our system   and have an adviser call them back... and then, we also have our 24/7 call center that can help outside of our working hours. So, we've got lots of ways that students can get connected. The next item is our PCC BAT information... so, this is information for... from our conduct team. So, we... some of you may remember last semest... past semesters actually...we've had the BAT training for... really all areas of the institution... and we're modifying that training... so, we'll actually have a session a little later on this fall semester, and then again in the spring... but I did want to include the reporting links for Conduct, Title 9, and Students of Concern... in case you see any type behavioral issues or anything that needs to be addressed. There's also information in the document that has tips on classroom management... so maybe, you know, trying to go that route before it escalates to anything that the conduct team would need to address. Next, we have student engagement... so, I always put the link for PIma Engage because that platform has all things...   events... anything with clubs... or anything going  on at the institution... so, please stay engaged there,   there's something going on, at least multiple items  a day, we have a Resource Fair coming... or actually,   that just passed yesterday... our Resource Fair at West Campus... we have a Fall Student Involvement Fair... and that's where students can learn about clubs... we have Deaf Awareness Week coming up... and some screenings of movies going on there... we have Career Cafe coming up... I know I'm running out of time...   sorry, so I'll get through this quick... our Hispanic Heritage events, Wellness Wednesdays,   our Cultivating Excellencia Workshops for First  Gen students... we have Popcorn With the Program... and then again, a Deaf Awareness Panel at the end  of the month... the last thing I wanted to share is that   we are in need of volunteers to present at our Emerging Leader Student Summit that is hosted by student life... we get lots of students out to do that... and so, we haven't received as many proposals as we would like... so please, if you're interested in submitting a proposal to present at this conference we would really greatly appreciate it. So, there's the... there's a rubric, and how to submit your proposal... and that deadline is September 23rd... so, thank you. ---Denise Reilly: [chuckles] in student affairs... so, it's much appreciated to hear about the new tools, and the ways that   we're trying to increase student enrollment, by being as available as possible... so, thank you for that. At this time right now, I'm going to... I learned this from you, Theresa Riel, point of privilege... so I'm going to take a moment because I didn't share this in my report... as you know, these days hadn't happened... so, I wanted to say that, I saw many of you... thank you so much for coming to the HLC mock visit in the last 2 days... I attended every Open Forum as well as all the   invited forums, with the exception of the student panel, because the student panel was supposed to be students only, so I didn't attend that one... so, as I represent you, I just want you to know what I noticed through all of these... if there are some areas of concern, I noted which ones we probably want to focus and emphasize in the next few months, before our visit in December... and by the way, I want to say, I was really proud hearing about all the different things going on, and all the people sharing... these are not criticisms, these are just areas that I think are going to be highlighted. One for faculty, we didn't have as many faculty yesterday in the session, those of you that represent programs... there were a lot of questions about program review, you know, the every 3-year cycle... how is it for you? What improvements have been made? And we just didn't have as many faculty, you know... I teach more in the general education area... we didn't have as many faculty with program review that could have spoken to the specific... so, when the real... [chuckles] when the real visit comes... when the real visitors come... it would be nice to have those of you representing, especially with longevity, in some programs... that have seen some enhancements by doing program review that's something to note... I do think there was an emphasis on co-curricular... the emphasis on co-curricular was... how are we measuring the co-curricular... what is our definition of co-curricular... and kind of, the alignment with GELO? that was something that was brought up as well, but not as many would... were able to speak to... was the 5 General Education Learning Outcomes... and then, probably, the last thing that I noticed today... ODR and the Complaint Process still looks like we've got some things to work on... and so, hopefully, today... after hearing from those departments, it sounds like maybe some more communication could come out this semester.   And I actually had said, you know, publicly... it would be a good ide,a maybe in our next meeting, October meeting, to hear from that department... so that, at least between now and December, we have kind of a better idea of how complaints... the difference between between a complaint and a grievance... what's formal, what's not? What are our processes? And so, those were the things that I noticed that there seemed to be either a lack of clear examples or explanations collectively over the last 2 days...so hopefully, that's helpful to those of you that weren't able to attend all the sessions... or just kind of want to know what areas, maybe, we need to work on, just... at least in the next few months to move that. The next point of privilege... I just want to say thank you Dr. Nasse, for your streak... so, we're 2 in a row now... and I also noticed that your office looks a little... [chuckles] looks a little bit more decorated than it did last month... I was remembering, we had the storm in August... and so, it was really loud... and I could tell that you had an office, but I couldn't tell where you were at... because of that. ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Actually, Brian Stewart's office... I'm stealing his office. ---Denise Reilly: Oh... okay... [laughs] no. ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: So, I can't take any credit for that, but thanks. ---Denise Reilly: Oh, goodness gracious... well, here I was, you know, oh wow he's done a lot in two weeks. [Dr. Lasse laughs] ---Denise Reilly: So, I do want to give the floor to you because we have a few extra minutes... so, if we could take, you know... Kelly, you're doing a great job... I love having a VP that's on top of it with time, even though she's under the weather, she's still on top of it... so if you'd like to take the next 5 minutes before we move on to the business section... if there's anything you would like to share... anything at all... I give you the floor. ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Oh, thank you so much... and it's great being here... yeah, 2 in a row... so we'll see. But yeah... I think I would just echo what our Provost Dolores Duran-Certa... what you shared first. Thank you for all the faculty who participated in the HLC... I thought it was great to go through some of that, learn from them... and we'll get a more formal report from them, but you know, appreciate the feedback that we got from faculty and to your point, yes... we are going to need all... a lot of faculty engagement for the real deal in December, of course... and so, whatever we can do to support that, we're excited about... and in our... and I see in the chat... I think Kate posted it there... you know the Listening and Learning... you know, my first 100 days... the Listening and Learning sessions continue... and they've been great... I've been talking with students... I've been talking with faculty, staff, community members... and it's really been wonderful... so, we have some scheduled dates on the Campuses... so please, you know, come out... encourage your colleagues to come out... I want to hear... as you heard from Sean, I was able to get with the adjunct a little bit today... and that was outstanding, you know, it's a great learning experience for me, and has been really, really helpful... so, thank you for all that.  We're continuing to, you know... I'm continuing to learn and see opportunities... and just so many great things happening at the college... so, I can just say, I'm so proud to be part of this community... the more I learn, the more I am impressed and proud to be associated with all things Pima Community College... so, please do come out... and if you see me walk around, I've been in all the Campuses and all the centers, please approach me, and I'd love to sit down and talk with faculty. So, a happy Friday everybody... it's been a good week. ---Denise Reilly: Your continued Listening and Learning sessions and possible classroom visits and just... ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Yeah... because we're trying to line something up for your class actually... so, and I would love that, for all... for all faculty... I'd be thrilled to come and visit with a class... that would be a great opportunity. So, please reach out to my office... I'd love to do that. ---Denise Reilly: And I appreciate that you mentioned you're an in-person person... so, we appreciate that you're kind of getting out... [chuckles] and getting your feet wet, so to say... even though hopefully, the storms are over... getting your feet wet and kind of learning about the different Campuses, and all the different things going on... I know that I was just at... I'm at Northwest today and I walked into... I was looking for a water bottle, or water fountain fill up, and I realized... oh there is no cafeteria or like food area anymore... so, there's a lot of changes even for people like myself that's... that have been here for a while... so, just thank you so much for your involvement, your desire to be in faculty senate... and kind of learn about all the great things going on... and yes... thank you, Kate, for putting in all that information in the chat. Okay... so, at this point right now we have quite a few items  in our business section, and I want to start out with... let's take a look... Kelly O'Keefe, are you ready to go over senate or elections coming up? And just like that. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes, uh... so, as I mentioned last week, the Vice-President is, in part, responsible for elections with faculty senate... and that is coming up here... so, we are going to go by the even-year faculty senator elections, according to divisions or units at the college... Applied Technology, Arts, Business IT, Health Professions, Math, and Sciences... and PimaOnline, there is an update to that... we will be  continuing to have a distance education faculty senator,  that is a member of the distance education  committee... more on that to come... and just as a reminder to Academic Deans and Academic Divisions... faculty center voting happens within your division...    that's not an election that happens at faculty senate... nominations are not taken by faculty senate... that happens all within your academic division... so, if you are in an area that is going through elections this year, then you will need to... at your division meeting... take care of that at this time... so, we also have... I want to make sure that, you know, those who are interested in becoming a faculty senator... you can communicate that with your Academic Dean... and that will happen next month... and then, the... I'm sorry, the word has escaped me... [chuckles] your term... excuse me... will start actually in January, 2025. So next, we have the faculty senate officer positions  that are up for election the President, President elect, the Vice-President, and the Secretary, are all positions that we will need nominations for.  The one stipulation is that you must be a  faculty senator in order to be an officer... so, if you are interested in becoming an officer, and you are currently serving as a senator, then you can put your own name into the ring... if you know  someone in your area that you feel would serve as   a wonderful officer for the faculty senate, please talk to them first... and then, you can nominate them as well. So, here is the nomination form... this presentation is linked to our agenda... and you can click on this Google nomination form as soon as you know who you'd like to nominate, or if you want to nominate yourself... and the voting for these officer positions will take place at our next faculty senate meeting, which is October 4th... those positions for new officers, or continuing officer positions, will be starting in Spring of 2025... and I believe that is it for this part of my presentation. ---Denise Reilly: Questions and thank you, Rita... I noticed you put that in the chat as well... do we have any questions from anyone regarding officer positions? Okay... or regular elections... okay... all right, we're moving on down... and feel like I'm on a game show or something... but we have reached 60 participants in the meeting, which is actually, probably a record... from last month was 64-65... so, we have a lot of interest in our meetings... so, thank you, much appreciated... moving on down we have some... [chuckles]  some excitement here going on... Jeff Silvyn, are you here? The excitement was just because we had some other AP's that were talked about during the Open Forum, to kind of bring our agenda modification... so I'm hoping that Jeff can answer to that, or maybe some other administrators can answer to that... Jeff are you here by chance? ---Jeff Silvyn: I am... good afternoon everyone. ---Denise Reilly: Hi Jeff... so Dr. Silvyn, thank you so much for coming... you have... well, the time, 15 minutes, to kind of go over any AP's or BP's in our folder or answer any questions from faculty senators that have had this group, or this batch, of AP's and BP's. ---Jeff Silvyn: Thanks Denise... and I had no illusions that when you talked about excitement, you were not really talking about me. First, I guess... just a... whatever, technical clarification,  so... so, I don't have a PhD... so, save the doctor for   people who... who have earned a much harder, longer degree to get, than mine. So, let me... I did hear the... I was on earlier and I did hear that there... it sounded like there were a couple of faculty senators, who had some feedback or ideas about some AP... honorary doctorate, sure ... who had some additional feedback or suggestions for AP's that have already gone through the process and been posted. So, my thought about the way to handle that is... please submit those ideas to the sponsoring unit person that you have a contact with... so, for example... one of them, I think it was 3.0101... or someone... somewhere in the 3-series... so, that's out of the Provost office... so, if you share those thoughts with like, Kate Schmidt, for example... and you're welcome to copy me on it... that'll help remind me to kind of keep in the loop, and make sure things are moving along. And my understanding, actually, I think, with respect to one of them... that Kate and Maggie were already talking... and were planning to reach out to people, who had some additional comments... the other one had to do with faculty emeritus, which I believe is a 5-series... that's... HR's the sponsoring unit... so, those comments would be really helpful to send to Tina... but I might also suggest copying Kate and me again on those, so we can kind of all coordinate. As a general matter... if people have ideas, kind of, after the the formal review has already been completed... we welcome those ideas if they are not substantive... hey, you missed this grammatical error... or you got this name wrong... or it's something that doesn't really change what the AP does... we certainly would take a look at that   and make a correction, particularly if it's like a clerical correction. If it's something substantive, it's going to change what the AP does... it changes someone's rights under the AP, or roles or responsibilities... I would call that a substantive change... and we're... then a decision needs to be made about   whether it's important enough that we're going to reopen the cycle and go through this again... or whether it needs to wait until a later date... somewhere within the window of when we would do the review. So, that's just general thoughts about it... so, it kind of depends on what it is, and how significant it is. If it's a really substantive change, right,,, we're not going to make that without going through a comment process again... if it's not super critical and it can wait... we might defer it to a bit later... because as you all know, we have a number of AP's and BP's that we still need to get through... not too many, we're in the home stretch... but we're going to want to finish that first. Regarding the several AP's and BP's that are out for comment now... happy, if you have questions, to try and address those. There are some members of the academic leadership team, who are on the call, who fortunately are here... because some of them will probably know more about the background of this than I do. The one other comment I'll make... and then, let's see if there's any comments or questions is... you will see there are 2 listed as interim... that's because the Department of Education has made some significant changes to Title 9... that's the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination and harassment, bias in higher education. there's been a lot of legal battles over this... but for us, the August 1 deadline was still in effect, where we had to update our procedures in order to comply with the new standards... and so, we were not able to follow the regular process, just because of the timing, right... so this came out in April... there was a lot of disagreement dispute about whether they were going to go into effect... they were... we had an August 1 deadline. So, these are interim... we are now going through... we will go through the more formal... more comprehensive collaborative process, so that we can get input and we'll make changes if we need to... but we needed to get something posted by August 1 to make sure if we were reviewed by Department of Education that we didn't have a problem. Okay, looks... so I see... ---Denise Reilly: Then, I just... no I just wanted to say I appreciate you walking us through, kind of the process... and telling us that we're in the home stretch... [chuckles] but I appreciate you explaining, you know, the difference between, you know, a more significant change or substantial change versus just a... just, something small that you see... and so, at this point I've seen Kimlisa's hand up... so, Kimlisa, go ahead and ask your question. You're just muted Kimlisa... can you hear me? ---Kimlisa Duchicela: Sorry... too much technology... so, Jeff, this one actually is a statement... AP 3.46.07, on pregnancy and Title 9... and Denise, this actually goes to you too... there's some  specific language that the faculty senate recommended that included the words: pregnancy and illnesses... all in the same statement... for suggested language for the syllabus, that I think will get us in trouble with this particular AP and I think it needs to be looked at... I sent it off to the title 9 office, but I never really heard back from the director... although I did hear from, I think Susan Dobbins (Diane Deskin)... I heard from somebody... but somebody was out of town, it was summer... so, you might want to take a look at that one.   The... I was wondering if the AP that  specifically chang... gets rid of the cloud servers, is being replaced by... if 10.02.09 is being... is being replaced by 9.01.11, just out of curiosity... because there doesn't seem to be a lot of indication on that and I'm the one that had the thing... and I have talked to Kate ad nauseam on... poor Kate... she's like, I'm tired of hearing from you on this... on that AP, on... on the qualifications and alternative qualifications... I really feel like that one really got kind of lost in the shuffle when all of those AP's hit us in May...   I would really, strongly suggest... and I know we have  to get things done, when we have to get things done...   but if there are such faculty specific AP's... not to bury them in, you know, 39 other AP's by accident I'm sure...  because we have run into  problems with it... and we have to vote on them in order to use them... and there's a few things in there that are details that really need to be refined,   and I will work with Kate on it, and send my comments through there. And then, the other one is that emeritus one that Margie had talked about... again, yes... HR does that... but I think that's a conversation that really needs to take  place within faculty senate because all of these AP's just get pushed through, and we really need  some people to go over these... especially the ones   that are coming out of the 3 area that really need to be looked at more deeply by faculty and faculty leadership, because, you know, they miss things... I'm... you know, I've gone through that one with the fine tooth pin... the... what is it 3.01.01... and you know, there are some things... so, my point on that is that, if there is a way to somehow not do this anymore,   it would be great... because I'm more than... I read them... but that, you know, in May, going into finals... it's so hard to do for all of us... and I know we're up against timelines... but those ones really should be revisited... that's my point. ---Jeff Silvyn: So, thanks for the ideas with respect to the AP on pregnancy related conditions... and the syllabus. Would it be too much trouble to ask for you to forward whatever that email was to me? Because then, I'll go talk to the title 9 director and just touch base and see what's going on with that... but it would help if I had that before... ---Kimlisa Duchicela: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely when I read it ---Jeff Silvyn: Okay, thank you... really helpful. ---Kimlisa Duchicela: when I read it, you know, because that language came up before Title 9 changed... but it has changed... and I think that there are some... there's a gap in there that should probably be addressed, to put it... and so, I will... I don't know if Margie got on... she had a comment about the emeritus, but I will send that to you   in just a couple seconds, so watch your email. ---Jeff Silvyn: Yep, that'd be really helpful, thanks. ---Kimlisa Duchicela: Mm-hmm. ---Jeff Silvyn: And I guess... just a thought about the... I guess, what I'd call the bigger issue here, right... which is the timing and opportunity for input and all that... so, no question, we need to work on a better process and timing, so that the work gets spread out more and not so condensed around external deadlines, like in this case HLC accreditation... so, yeah... I appreciate that's an issue that we need to figure out how to do better next time around, so, there's been some conversation about that... we're also looking at a software tool that would allow us to automate some of this, because right now we're using multiple tools... and it's really clunky... and there's too much manual labor involved... so, I absolutely agree with you... we need to come up  with a better system for this... and that certainly... when the dust settles from this, it seems like part of the debrief of this process is... one of those is...   yep, we have to come up with a better way to do this, so that the work gets spread out, people have more time... it doesn't feel so potentially rushed or kind of overwhelming... so that, it feels better and more opportunity for collaboration in the future... so, ab... absolutely... point well taken. ---Kimlisa Duchicela: Thank you, thank you very much. ---Denise Reilly: thank you Kimlisa... thank you Jeff... and I see Maggie's hand up. ---Maggie Golston: Hi... Jeff, if you could clarify... I'm looking at the very first one in this batch, 1 point... I'm sorry, 1.05.03... and I'm in section 1... 1.4... and it looks as though PCCEA  has been struck from inclusion as an appropriate group and replaced by AERC... and if you could just speak to that... where did that change come from... what's it motivated by, etcetera? ---Jeff Silvyn: So, the... it's mostly just about trying to make the list consistent... so, if you look at the rest of the list, it's all different governance groups, which is what was added into the list, which was not there before...  which seemed like a really bad oversight, was All  Employee Representative Council... which is the   sort of formal governance group, right... so, PCCEA has  membership in all... the All Employee Representative Council, but the group that actually meets on a regular basis with HR to look at this and provide input is AERC. So, partly was done to just bring the language more consistent with our actual policy structure... if we were going to keep in one employee representative group, then I suppose the additional change it would have to be made is, we ought to include... we could include AFSCME and ACES... but there's also sensitivity to... oh, someone, yeah... let's see if... I don't know if I can share this. ---Maggie Golston: It's 1.05.03. ---Jeff Silvyn: Hold on... let's see... no, that's not going to work. Yeah the issue that I'm having is whether I can share... doesn't look like I can share my screen. ---Denise Reilly: Maggie? ---Kelly O'Keefe: I'll go ahead and share it [multiple voices] All righty...okay ---Kelly O'Keefe: Are you seeing it okay now? ---Jeff Silvyn: All right... so, if you scroll down... [Rita unintelligible] ---Jeff Silvyn: it's like a page or 2... keep going... there you go.. oh, oh, stop... right in the middle. So, the change was, like I said, was really just to list... make it consistent and list all the governance groups we could list all of the... I mean, either way, it's not really a substantive change, it's just those are just listed as examples, right... because also... ---Maggie Golston: I understand I just don't see this as like... there's nothing that says we couldn't add those groups right? Instead there was a choice that felt like it was excluding what we faculty see as a very important group... constituent group of the college... and that didn't seem... I didn't understand the motivation. ---Jeff Silvyn: The other issue here... we're always trying to figure out... we're staying on the right side of the line, right... so... and the line, I mean is... we do recognize employee representative groups formally... and that they have a... a valuable role in some of the decision-making and collaboration processes that happen around the college the line we're trying to walk is recognizing that, and on the other hand, not doing things that seems like we're favoring them disproportionately for employees, who choose not to belong to those groups, right... because that seems to be an area of sensitivity in our legislature...  so, yeah... I suppose we could add all the groups in there... I mean, it wasn't, like I said... the intent was really just to make sure we were capturing, for sure, all the governance groups... because we hadn't done that. ---Maggie Golston: Is there a reason to believe that the legislature would note that? That the legislature... ---Jeff Silvyn: Is there a reason to believe that... no. I'm just saying it's one of the things we're always balancing is how do we recognize the system, respect the groups we have, and not do something that's going to cause an issue for us, right... sometimes it's better to fly under the radar. ---Makyla Hays: Jeff I'm not sure if you could see my hand was raised... this is Makyla... with the screen sharing happening... I understand the motivation to kind of go with the general... I'm struggling for words today... I'm so sorry. [chuckles] the general groups... the shared governance groups, that... I should know that word... so, I completely approve with the... the All Employee Representative Council being added... I also somewhat understand the disparity of calling out PCCEA and not the other groups... if you're worried about the PCCEA part, I guess because it starts off with "when appropriate" and it's really talking about perspective advice and council rather than decision-making, I would request that we keep in employee representative groups... that way, if something were to change with one of those representative groups... ACES, AFSCME, or PCCEA... it would still be covered... and it's still a... when appropriate... council type role, because there is stuff that we do for the college that's not, you know, the specific AERC role that we play in the formal process. ---Jeff Silvyn: So, I mean... I think, that's... I think what you just suggested, is a really helpful suggestion... I think that's a good idea... so, I'm happy to go talk with... to figure out who the... sort of sponsoring areas are... anyway, I'm happy to take that suggestion back... I think it's a really good one. ---Denise Reilly: Kimlisa, Makyla, Maggie... and I noticed  that Matej had put some things in the chat... do you want to speak to that Matej... or ask the question verbally... orally? ---Matej Boguszak: Sure... I'd be happy to... thanks for taking the hot seat, Jeff... for this particular AP... I'm just wondering... do we really need so much detail in the AP's? Seems like these admin positions tend to change a lot... and particularly with our new Chancellor coming in... is that something that was discussed... or was it just kind of a quick update? ---Jeff Silvyn: So, it's a bit of a quick update to reflect the more current organizational structure... although the observation you make is quite accurate... that it does change from time to time... part of the reason for this, to list specific administrator positions or offices, is to be clear that there is a delegation of authority from the chancellor to that area to make certain types of decisions, right... so, for example, kind of parallel to this... the board delegated to the chancellor signature authority for certain types of agreements, right... certain types of agreements... and certain agreements based on dollar amount... the chancellor in turn... there's an AP where the chancellor in turn, delegates some of that authority to other people... so, the reason to do this is for that, right... so, someone knows they have the authority to make this decision... someone else doesn't... so, that's the reason here... to your... I guess I'll call it the broader point... that's another one of those fine lines, right, we're always trying to walk... what's the right level of detail to be in a Board policy, an AP, or a standard operating procedure? Because, depending on what level you put it at, depends who makes the decision about the final language, how much authority that particular policy or whatever has, how much process is involved in inputting... and we're balancing that against, what's the right level so that we can make... when things come up, they're are not considered really significant changes... we can make them more expeditiously. So, there is that kind of bigger issue in the background that's... it's going to be a never ending lesson for trying to figure out  I think, exactly where that is... I also would say that's probably some... that's a broader topic that's worth revisiting, along with the review process, is seeing, is there a way to better clarify that... so that there's a better and more broadly   held understanding of what type of policy in the  biggest sense of the word, belongs at what level. ---Denise Reilly: Rita has a question. ---Rita Lennon: I know that we've been given the flag, so I know we're out of time, but if I may... if we have a second for me to ask one more question, or at least to add one more comment, I would like to do so... this has to do with AP 3.46.07... I have the same concerns... we definitely, in most of our... in all of our AP's and BP's... historically, we had never named employees   in the AP or BP... and yet we have 2 employees in this one... when I raised this concern before, it was mentioned that, it is required by Title 9, to identify the employee... I understand identifying the department or unit, but the employee seems a little too invasive... and I fear, because we often are are behind schedule on reviewing our APS and BPS, I know we're all going to make a better effort to do that better... [chuckles] better effort to do that better... anyway, in the future, maybe this won't be an issue, but if we're out of compliance with our AP or BP, because there's an employee, who's named in the AP or BP, and they are no longer here... we're going to be out of compliance with Title 9... and do we really want to run that risk, or can we just call it a unit or a department that's overseeing these areas?  I know that was more than a second, I apologize. ---Denise Reilly: You have an answer to that Jeff, or no? ---Jeff Silvyn: Oh, no... well, I mean... it's a good question I need to go back and look at the rule and see whether we actually name a person. If that... I just don't remember off the top of my head... if that is the rule, then what you're identifying is...   the importance that we have a system in place  to make sure we make those changes, right... so that's like... that's a minor change... it's not going to go through review process. if it's Joe Smith one day, and Sally Sanchez the next day...  we're just going to make that change... if we have to. ---Denise Reilly: Okay, thank you... and then Matej, you have your hand up again... I know we're close to out of time, but go ahead. ---Matej Boguszak: Thank you... yeah, I had several more questions but I'll send those in with the 21 Day comment... the 2.03.01... the version that's in the folder is only an image, it doesn't have the document... so, I went to check on the draft policy page and that version doesn't seem to have to track changes... this is the Discrimination Harassment 74 page interim one, so it seems pretty important... but are there supposed to be? I mean, I'm assuming there were changes...   would you be able to post a correct version? ---Jeff Silvyn: Yeah, let me see what I can do about that... mostly there were 2 whole sections that were just taken out and replaced, that dealt with Title 9, right... so, I think it's 13 and 14, but let me... I'm happy to go see if we can find a version that would make it clear that that's what happened... so, we kept as much as  we could and pretty much just replace the sections   that needed to be changed because of Title 9. ---Matej Boguszak: Thank you. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Jeff... and as [chuckles] Matej mentioned, thank you for taking the hot seat and if you... if there's anything specific that you want to send out to faculty senate related to these BP's talked about today, by next Friday... I send out... Maggie collects notes or takes notes from these meetings... so, I send out the notes... so, if that, you know, if that's helpful for me to send that out with the notes from this meeting... any additional information from you I'm happy to do that. ---Jeff Silvyn: [clears throat] Great, thank you. ---Margarita Youngo: Of course... Denise? ---Denise Reilly: Go ahead Margie. ---Margarita Youngo: Yeah... Jeff, I have one more question, is... why does this  have to go through HR? Emeritus is a non-paid status... so, I don't see why we're going to have to go that pathway... I think, as Kimlisa stated, it should be in the faculty senate... and then, after we come up with a committee, or with a request, we would then send it to you and Kate... and that's fine... but I think that... I feel that we're being sidetracked by saying... well, this is an HR thing and it has to go to so-and-so in HR... and then just keep us, me and Kate, in the loop... I think defeats the whole idea of representing our faculty members at senate. ---Jeff Silvyn: So, let me clarify... HR is just the sponsoring unit... this AP does provide for faculty senate to be able... I mean, wherever it goes, it's going to have a mechanism to have faculty senate provide input on a decision like that because it's obviously about faculty... why is it housed in HR? It's cons... I mean, it's been treated as a personnel type policy and HR is the owner of personnel type policies... and so, they're the sponsoring unit... but by sponsoring unit, I don't mean that that means they don't have to get input from appropriate stakeholder groups, like in this case, faculty senate.   So, hopefully that clarifies... so, what I meant was simply... that means HR is responsible to make sure it's updated to collect input when it's time to undertake it for review, etc... they have that coordinating and ultimately lead responsibility... it doesn't mean they have the sole responsibility to make all the decisions... if that helps clarify it all... but I guess to your point... I think to your point... we certainly could take a look at the question of whether there should be a   different sponsoring unit, like the Provost office or somewhere else. ---Margarita Youngo: Thank you. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you... so, Jeff... to just kind of close... closing the loop is what we've been talking about last 2 days... but to close the loop on this for, as far as that faculty emeritus one... and I apologize to everybody here, because in May we did have 39 of them and this is one that I would have... had I paid more attention... and I remember thinking, what were we doing the first week of May... oh, a Faculty Leadership Model... and people were replying for department heads, and all the different things... there wasn't a lot going on in May, right... but if in the future, something like this happens, and I know that this is going to be rectified post this HLC visit... if there is an AP or BP that's kind of glaring to a few faculty members, can it be pulled before that 3 years, is... and what's the procedure to do that? If that is, is it just pulled from the sponsoring unit, or is it just something that we have to communicate with you... or is it just, once the 3 years are up, that's it? ---Jeff Silvyn: So, good question... so, the 3 years is the outside time within which we're supposed to review it, right... so, it can absolutely be looked at sooner... and sometimes things change where we absolutely have to review it sooner... I mean title 9 would be a good example, this happened before, where the Department of Education changes the rules... we have to go look at our related policy...  so, if at any point during the 3-year window   a policy or procedure came to the attention of faculty, and you decided... you know, this... there's an issue here... we really should make a substantive change... then that should trigger a discussion between faculty senate and the sponsoring unit... it's probably going to be the Provost office... to talk about that... hey, we've identified this issue... let's have a conversation about that... and if there's agreement... you know, this is really important, we don't want to wait 3 years... maybe it's only a year out... no problem... then we're going to go through the process that we just have... but do it sooner rather than later... so, that makes sense... so, that's why we get back to this issue of... how important is it? Is it important enough that  everyone says... you know what, we should do it now...   or we should do it next year, we don't want to  wait... that's fine, absolutely fine... it's within the   parameters of the process we have, right... the 3 years is the outside... if something comes up, and you think it's that important, absolutely raise it... and then, we should have a conversation about what are we going to do about it and when. ---Denise Reilly: Okay, thank you so much... and just heads up, those of you who are interested in the faculty emeritus, which I think Dennis pulled up for us... I think the concern from many faculty that I've heard over the last semester, and possibly Rita heard before, was the 20-year commitment to the college, as well as 15 years as faculty... and I think that's some faculty are concerned... okay, who works at the same place for 20 years, as much anymore or for also, kind of, you know, the idea that 15 of them have to be faculty, many in this room wouldn't qualify for that... so, the idea is... do we question, you know... does it have to be that prestigious with that amount of time or not? So, that's what's going to probably come up in conversations... so, just FYI, for those of you probably wondering... why are we considering this? So, thank you for your time, Jeff... I don't know what other kind of applause or  something to give you, but thank you for answering all those questions... that was really appreciated. ---Jeff Silvyn: Yes, glad to. ---Denise Reilly: Next... oh... absolutely. Our next item on the business section of the agenda... we have 2 more items... one of them is the division spotlight, which I think I'm going to go ahead and let Jim... Dr., did I get  the doctor right on this one? [chuckles] Jim Craig explain... I believe... I believe so... I'm not just throwing out honorary ones anymore here... but I think is going to share... and some individuals, in Business, IT, Hospitality Leadership... I'm just going to tell you a little bit about what great things are going on in their division... and then, next month we'll hear from a different division... and we'll make sure that everybody's represented by the end, by May... go for it. ---Jim Craig: Thank you Denise... and welcome everybody... good afternoon and happy Friday... it's an honor to be here among you. I'm also privileged to be able to introduce 3 specific programs within a very large division that I oversee... and 3 amazing academic leaders that... you may know them in one sense, but in another sense you don't... and I really wanted to to focus in on this... as you may know, the Business, IT, Hospitality Leadership... that's the short name for the division... but we have a lot of programs and 2 Centers of Excellence... the Center of Excellence for IT and Cyber, and the Hospitality Leadership Center of Excellence... and you probably heard a lot about many of those things, and some great successes... and 10 of the top 20 programs in the entire College are within this division... so, we've got a lot of great things going on... a lot of innovations... a lot of of entrepreneurship and other great student successes to talk about but today I want talk about some programs that you may not have heard as much about... and yet, they're amazing programs with tremendous growth... and great student success... and that's, number one: Health Information Technology... now you all know Kelly O'Keefe, because she is... [chuckles] your vice-president, but what you may not know about her is that she's the department head over all of Health Information Technology... Kelly's been an amazing leader throughout the college as you all know... not just in faculty senate, but on the many committees and strategic planning areas that she's been to... she's also an amazing leader in her academic area... she's redeveloped curriculum... she's brought in some amazing faculty,   both full-time and adjunct... and is just a true  leader in every sense of the academic word. So, I'm going to cut my talk short a little bit here and  I want to go right to Kelly and let her tell you   a little bit about HIT and what an amazing program is... Kelly, go ahead. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Well, if I wasn't already red from my fever, Jim... I sure am blushing. [Jim laughing] ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you for that wonderful introduction... as Jim mentioned, I am the department head for Health Information Technology, and there are a number of different positions that students can attain after earning either the certificate or the associates degree, which are both credit programs... the first one is the Medical Billing and Coding Certificate... now that sounds like it would be very specific, and in one way it is... but there are many other positions that can be earned by those who have this certificate... not just a biller or a coder, but also working in  Accounts Receivable and Payable, a Claims Analyst, Insurance Specialists, and Denial Coordinators... all are imperative positions with an HIT and HIM... with the Health Information Technology Associates Degree the... they are able to get Electronic Health Record specialist positions also known as Medical Record Specialists... they can work in Risk Assessment as a claims auditor... a Utilization Review, Case Management, Quality Assurance... I mean the list goes on... I'll let you read it on your own. So, we won't read exactly what's on this slide here, but as you can see, there's so much opportunity in this area. There are actually 4 programs within the HIT discipline right  now... the first 2 are non-credit... they are FastTrack courses and we have a third inline as, getting developed, or going to be developed next year... the first one is the Certified Electronic Health Record Specialist... now, this class does prepare students for the credentialing exam with the National Health Career Association... it's fully online, as our all of our programs... and it takes about 4 months... but many of our students are finishing quite a bit faster... so, as you can see with it being an online program, they can work ahead and complete this program as fast as they would like. It does prepare them for that... what they refer to as a CEHRS exam... and they also earn prior learning assessment credit for a HIT 100 and HIT 150, which is a total of 5 credit hours, if they decide that they want to go to the credit side of the college. Also, we have the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist, the CBCS course... it's also non-credit FastTrack... and it has the same setup as the first one mentioned and they receive PLA credit for this class as well but for HIT 112.   So, if one of the students is a bundle student, and they take both of these FastTrack courses, they're going to... if they choose to come to the credit side, have about 8 credit hours towards their certificate or associates degree. Now, the Medical Billing and Coding Certificate and the Associates of Applied Science is... are both credit programs... and they prepare students for a higher level of a credential exam, that includes the Certified Coding Specialist, that's offered through Pima... and the Certified Professional Coder exam, which is offered through the AAPC... and the certificate is 100% stackable into the Associates of Applied Science. So, all students that complete the certificate, that want to get the degree, also are already halfway there... so, that's one of the benefits for our students... of course, the certificate is designed to be completed within 2 semesters full time... and the associates degree is complete... designed to be completed within 4 semesters. Here are just some enrollment stats that we're a little proud of... the CEHRS course it has to date 44 enrolled... and the CBCS has 25 enrolled... and the Medical Billing and Coding Certificate right now, in this semester, has 190 headcount... and then the headcount for the associates program has 153... that's not to say that's our enrollment though, right... so, our enrollment is 883 as of today... we have 45 sections this semester... and enrollment in our programs have increased over 70% in the last 2 years... so, we're very proud of our program... and if anyone has any questions, please let me know... I'm happy to help with students... these are 2 of our star students students, just recently... I wanted to highlight Webster Rose, who was our commencement speaker for 2022 graduation... and he graduated with honors in the Associates of Applied Science program... and Stacy Williams was the recipient of a scholarship... and was also a graduate with honors in our Associate of Applied Science with Health Information Technology. And we'll go back to Jim real quick. ---Jim Craig: It's amazing... so, if any of you are wondering how to grow your programs please talk to Kelly, because she knows how to do it, and she's an expert at it, and it shows... so, thank you Kelly... great work in everything you do. The next program that I wanted to highlight is actually our Accounting program... and you know, most people know we have an Accounting program but what is it really... and who's the leader behind this program? Randle Brookshier is an amazing department head, he has a huge background in history and accounting and auditing at a very high business level... so, we've got somebody who understands the industry... understands the discipline in a very deep way and what employers are looking for... and  he's taken that knowledge and that experience   and applied it to the curriculum... applied it to the program... applied it to how he recruits faculty...   and he's just done such an amazing job of that... in addition, Randall has really innovated the design of the courses, the curriculum, in very interesting ways... hopefully, he'll get a chance to talk a little bit about that too... but he's also a tremendous leader throughout the College... he's been a leader in our day-to-day summits... and has really led our division in showing how to stand up and do data projects in Track-It... and go for continuous Improvement in a meaningful way... so, without further ado... Randall, please tell us a little bit about accounting. ---Randal Brookshier: Well... okay, I hope you can hear me... and if you can see me, I'm blushing pretty hard... so, yeah... accounting... yeah...   in big meetings like this, everybody knows we have accounting because when they want to pull up a report  or do something... oh, here the first one, let's go take a look at it, accounting... well okay.   We have a large number of students... we have over 900 students a year... about 950 that enrolled in 2 classes: Financial Accounting 211 and Managerial Accounting 212, because those are the transfer courses...   those are the ones that transfer to, you know... Eller College, ASU, NAU... but we also have our own accounting program... our own 2-year degree... and it's really what I like about the job and the college... because it's really an excellent program and it was excellent before I got here... so, we have  2 certificates we have a Bookkeeping certificate, which is you know 31 credits, fully stackable into  the AAS... we also have an Enrolled Agent certificate,   it's really kind of... I would tack it on as a certificate after I got the AAS... I think you make really good money if you do that, but it can stand alone... we have second career professionals... I've got retired attorneys... I've even got some retired CPA's, who have given up their CPA license, taking our Enrolled Agent certificate as a way to get the IRS credential... if you want to represent clients before the IRS, you need to be a CPA, an attorney, or an enrolled agent. so, we offer the preparation for that EA exam as part of  our program... and that's if a student makes it that far,   they've got really good earning potential... so, we have those 2 certificates, we also have our Associates with 2 Pathways: a Bookkeeping pathway and a Tax pathway... with that Bookkeeping pathway you can actually earn another credential, it's a Nationally Recognized Certified Bookkeeper credential, and then, with the Tax pathway, you can earn that Enrolled Agent credential. So, excellent... Kelly, if you want to move on the next... so, our students... yeah, not as big as Kelly's program, but they... you know... who are students? They're really close fit to our overall demographics, typically... maybe just a teeny bit older... and maybe just slightly more female... but really, if you looked at Pima College's demographics, and ours, they're real close, in that certificate program, that first year bookkeeping certificate program... about 40 enrolled... about 135 enrolled in the AAS... our completers? Almost everybody that enters that bookkeeping program, finishes it... almost, it's very high completion... a little less but we're working on it... on the AAS we're we're really going to get that number up over the next couple years. So, most of our students have jobs already... by the time they leave this program, they're either in the program upskilling for a job where they're at... they already have an accounting job, but they don't have the skills for it... so, they're trying to make sure they can keep that job, or progress at the, you know, at the employer that they're at... or they get jobs after they get that Bookkeeping certificate...  they stay on in the associates program, and they just keep  the job they got after the Bookkeeping certificate... or we have really good connections, as Jim was saying, with the local employers, with my colleagues out in the profession... I know most of the major accounting and tax firms in town... and we have pretty good uptake of our students for internships... and then pretty good conversion of those students into full-time jobs afterwards... so, we're really lucky that way... and I got a couple more minutes here, I'm going to talk about... Kelly if you move on... you know, we don't have those big  flashy things... and, like they do in cyber security... or you know all that stuff, but we're really working to improve... we're really working to stay relevant. Our profession, the accounting profession... you might hear... people have said... why are you training people to be tax preparers... that's going to be gone in five years? You know, artificial intelligence will handle that or chat bots will handle it. Why are you training people to do bookkeeping, that's going to go away? And yes, there is a threat there, I don't think it's it's going to go away... but the artwork you see here is from a module we're teaching in our Accounting 270... the topics class... and Kelly if you run there next... move  the, yeah... so we roll out this course Accounting 270...   it's our way to be nimble, right... we have to restructure our curriculum... we have our Advisory Group telling us, your students are missing X... your students are missing Data Analytics and Tableau and how to do Excel... your students may be missing other things... so, we use this class, and if you roll it forward, here's the look at what's in here... Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI... students actually have to use Generative AI to complete a module in the class... and then, Big Data and Data Analytics... it's about 35, 40% of the course is Data Analytics in Excel, Data Analytics in Tableau, and then using those data analytics in a later module to do a fraud investigation... along with some cyber security for accountants. So, these are what's in there... I put those double asterisks there as a reminder to myself... the University of Arizona   has just rolled out a Business Analytics major in Eller College... one one of those classes... one of the sophomore level classes, is a class that probably has about 25% of what's in here... and we think that we can take that class... ACC 270, is this class... we think we can take probably what's in this class, and with some help from some other groups like... we need some Python Programming and some R... we think within a year or so we could stand up another transfer class to the U of A... and we would love it if eventually we could change the architecture of our program to put Business Analytics   right into our Associates... so, we're always going to move forward... and yeah, that's it... back to you Jim. ---Jim Craig: Thank you Randall... so again, you might think accounting is static, but as you can see, there's a tremendous amount of innovation in curriculum design, and keeping the program and the courses relevant for our students... and for the industry they go into... so thank you, Randall... so, everybody likes puppies and kitties, but you may not know about a very challenging curriculum we have... and an amazingly successful program... ---Margarita Youngo: [unintelligible] He's still here... oh ---Jim Craig: and that, oh, hi... and that's our Vet Tech program... ---Margarita Youngo: [not muted] it went good... it went good. ---Jim Craig: [laughs] Karla... Dr, Karla Lombana is a veterinarian and an experienced business person, she owned her own practice in the local community here and is an expert with everything Veterinary... Veterinary Science and Veterinary Technology... she's a tremendous leader... her team respects her and loves her so much, because she respects them and gives them the support they need to succeed... so,  without further ado... Karla, please tell us about Vet Tech. ---Karla Lombana: Thanks Jim... hopefully everybody can hear me...  all right, nodding, so that's good. So, yes... I wanted to start off because there tends to be a lot of confusion sometimes amongst the community...   and sometimes even within the College... of what a Vet Tech actually is... it's not necessarily s pathway   to becoming a Veterinarian... it is a Veterinary nurse, but just like in human medicine,  I know we've got some Health Care Professionals here... on here... our Veterinary nurses do just about everything for our doctors... so, they're anesthetists, they're critical care nurses, phlebotomist, dental hygienist, surgical assistants, and generally the superheroes within the practice... the techs really do everything, and the doctors really don't do all that much... but moving on to the next slide... there is a tremendous industry need right now, so the nationwide projections   from the BLS say that Vet Tech employment is slated to increase by 19% nationwide over the next decade... but that need in Southern Arizona is is even more vital because the clinics that I go into and visit, just cannot keep straight... trained staff... a lot of that comes from a surge of new pet ownership... particular during COVID... but also there's just this new focus on animal welfare... more households are pet friendly and ultimately what that means is... our graduates are incredibly desirable, with literally every single graduate from the classes that... in... since I've been with the program, have either had employment or had offers that they, you know, either were negotiating with   at graduation... most actually end up working through the program... and I'll talk about that next, in the next slide.   So, our program is AVMA accredited, so that's the accrediting body that certifies, not just the Tech schools, but Veterinary programs... it's a 2-year associates degree... our students get really strong mentorship from our faculty... our faculty, adjuncts, and staff are very diverse, and very well connected throughout the community... and I'm really, really proud of all of their involvement... I also really try to make sure that our students have a lot of community opportunities outside of the classroom... and try and make sure that each student gets individual attention with the elements that they want to work on... and  they have a little bit more time to be able to do that   since we've switched to more of a hybrid educational platform... so, we can go to the next slide. So, what that looks like now is that... hold on... my supervisor's here... one moment everyone... so, what that looks like is that, rather than  having student's butts in seats all week long, like the program was before... we've transitioned to doing it hybrid model... so, students are in lab for hands-on classes... we're utilizing community resources like the Humane Society... but a lot of that didactic work is pushed online or virtually... allowing flexibility for our students, but also for employers within the community, to be able to hire these students part-time, while they're in school... and obviously that really tends to cinch their learning and makes our students even more desirable. It also really helps to maintain the affordability of our program by utilizing those community resources... and that's something that I'm probably the very most proud of... I think nationwide, our program is one of the most affordable ones, with only... with out-of-pocket cost being between 7 and 9 thousand for the entire associates degree... whereas a lot of the private colleges are between 40 and 50, or even higher, which is outrageous... so, next slide. Again, I just love that we've been able to network within the community... so, these are our students at the Humane Society, practicing their hands-on skills... our first-year students do most of their nursing care skills directly at the Humane Society, rather than just in the kennels on campus now... and again, it's really crucial that we meet those students where they are, and understand those limitations... but also, try and support the community... yeah... ---Karla's "Supervisor": Bottle. ---Karla Lombana: She wants my water bottle now... she just takes all my stuff... anyhow, okay. ---Denise Reilly: he's a... [laughs, unintelligible] the room. ---Karla Lombana: she's very demanding... finally, I'm so excited to talk about our new stackable certificate... our Veterinary Service Specialist Certificate because that is going to offer opportunities for individuals within the community, who want to work within the veterinary community, but don't necessarily want to be nurses or doctors, right... not everybody wants the blood and guts. I do, but most my students do, right... but not everyone does... people want to be receptionists or support staff or help in other ways... and so this certificate was designed with that in mind... but also, on the shoulders of the community needs that has just been really spearheaded over the last few years that I've been with Partners. So, if you guys know of anyone who's like... yeah, I really want to get my foot in the door within a veterinary clinic... this certificate is for them... it's a 16 credit certificate that does stack into our existing associates degree... but has more of a customer service emphasis... helping to train that new generation of customer service representatives   within the community... and I think that's it for me... other than a clever meme of a cat. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you Karla... thank you Kelly... thank you Randall... but what I want to say is that, you know, you can all do those reactions... and I love the chat... who's been very, very chatty today... I'd like to do a collective thank you to the Business and IT Department for being the first ones to share in our division spotlight... so, if you guys wouldn't mind giving them some reactions... some Kudos, whatever kind of thing you can do... that would be much appreciated there. ---Jim Craig: And I just wanted to say... Denise, thank you for the opportunity to kick off this segment... and as all of you can see now, I literally have the best job at all... in all of Pima... I'm sorry, Chancellor Nasse, but it's really my job... because I get to serve as Dean over these great, great academic leaders, so I got the best job... I got the best job, so. ---Denise Reilly: We so appreciate, so appreciate... and also, if you wouldn't mind... I know Kelly, you'll do this, but those slides... we can add them to the agenda, so that they're sent out next week in our notes for everybody... and I just want to share that, we just went from the start of the alphabet, but because Adult Basic Ed, Applied Tech... some of those are the smaller divisions... so, we'll be combining them... so, hopefully you like this new segment part of faulty senate... if you don't you can always put it on the faculty and senator engagement exchange, and tell me you don't like   but I learned a lot from even my colleagues that I thought I knew about those programs, but I learned a lot more... so, thank you for that so much...  look forward to next month... either Adult Basic Ed,   Library, CRSS, or Applied Tech being approached...  we did not tell Jim who to highlight, what to highlight... it's kind of up to your, up to your division... so, at this point right now, we're moving on to... Antony... Dr. Tony Sovak... I don't think I'm giving you an honorary... I'm pretty sure you have it... but would like to talk to us about the D2L peer review... and because you have a shorter time frame and we cut some of that off... I just want to let you know, Tony, that next month we can add, you know, some time to our agenda next month to have this... because I know, this is kind of an ongoing thing that's supposed to be implemented this year... at least by what I read. So, are you in here Tony? ---Tony Sovak: Yeah... I'm here, sure... thank you... yes... Hello... oh. ---Denise Reilly: And I apologize for cutting the time. so I just want to let you know. ---Tony Sovak: that's okay... I'll refrain from giving any Robert Frost's quotes today... and I'll save them for the next time. I do want to thank you for making some time, I know I requested last minute... hopefully by now, many of you are familiar with the D2L peer review... the Provost sent out an email a few weeks ago... I met with department heads in early August at their meeting to discuss it... I worked with some folks over the summer to refine it... and sent an email in July... but it is quite new, and it is still open for faculty feedbook... feedback and input... and that's part of the reason I'm here today... to let you know that... if you aren't familiar with it, I think one of the best things we can do is get you familiar with it. So, this D2L peer review guide is a living document... it goes over the what... the why... the how, of the process overall...   and all of the goals that are in it... a great place to start is at the bottom under documents resources... there's a workshop recording, I'm sorry... from my meeting with department heads on August 13th... and I think what I would say is, you know... we were under a lot of pressure with the new Faculty Leadership Model, to think about how, you know... if we wanted to scale the quality review processes that PimaOnline had been doing... you know, and we had this opportunity to kind of scale them in a way that was relevant for all disciplines... and could impact student success in a positive way throughout the institution and in hybrid, face-to-face, virtual... like all modalities... and so, coupled with the improvements that we had made with the NavBar, with Simple Syllabus, with trying to take some of these design items and make it so that faculty didn't have to spend a lot of time looking for whether or not a particular widget was in a particular place... but what were the things that we'd ask faculty leaders to look for? And so, I would say... up here under D2L peer review, over the "what is it?" Is a great place to start but just prior to that, the quality assurance framework includes the D2L peer review... but there are other aspects that you'll hear more about, like the QR spot checks, though that is a check that's going to look for some design items, but it's not something that faculty will need to check themselves... but it is something that the quality specialists, which are the student workers from my office, will be able to do for us... and then there's another one, called The Faculty Engagement Dashboard, which is probably something else we should talk about at some point... but I just wanted to bring some attention to that... for... I'd like to... get to... have some opportunity to answer questions but I would point out that all of the divisions do have a rep on the distance education committee, which is led by the Dean of distance education... I think that's a great place to send your feedback and your questions... however this document's open for comments... and my door is always open, if you have concerns or questions... or want to you know deep dive into this... I'm happy to do that, outside of this particular meeting... but we do have a few minutes... and so, if anyone had any questions while I'm here... I'm happy to field them. And I would also say, don't feel like you have to... it's been 2 hours, I know what it is to be in 2 hours of a faculty senate meeting... and I'm happy to not be in a hot seat the way that Jeff Silvyn was... so, I could be in the hot seat next month, that's fine. ---Denise Reilly: The only question I have Tony is I'm wondering  when will these meetings start taking place? Or is there... is that already kind of set up? These distance education meetings... and how will the information...   ---Tony Sovak: Right. ---Denise Reilly: be conveyed to the rest of the faculty? ---Tony Sovak: We had one meeting on Wednesday... and I think the next... I think right now they're scheduled once a month for a couple of hours I thought you were going to say the timeline of the peer review that's in here, so I moved to that slide... but those meetings are happening I think once a month... and they are doing a lot of business, so we can always have a separate subgroup or something... or work group... that makes... if it makes sense to get faculty input on this process... I do think that part of it will be, we'll be asking for a lot of feedback throughout... and the important... I think the important part is like... that I like to say is, you know... just because this is what we're doing this year   doesn't mean we have to do this forever... but we never really fully articulated what our goals for the use of the LMS and all modality was... and I think this is trying to do that... so, we do have the option to, kind of, make changes as we're flying the plane I guess... um, uh... anyway. ---Denise Reilly: Matej, you had a question... I know you like to put it in the chat, but can you just say... [laughs] can you just ask? ---Matej Boguszak: Sure, I'm just verifying... that email that came out about this... I wasn't really sure what, you know... what the gist of it is? x So, this is called a peer review, but it's really something the department heads do... and they review the courses, or some of the courses, I assume, in their departments, right? ---Tony Sovak: Correct... we are asking department heads to do the peer review... I know that there's some... we I've been asked this a lot... it's like well, if it's a peer, why is it department head... I'm asking department heads to take up the perspective of a peer when they do it, and not as a supervisor... but I do think the department heads are probably best situated to initiate and to have the awareness of how to...  in the organization structure, to do this. If it's something... and in it, if you read, you know... we're looking within two years to get every faculty reviewed for these goals and be able to provide support where it's needed to meet them.  And we may find, in 2 years time, we have different goals... or we might want to look for some other thing and so, it can evolve or within 2 years, it may become a legit peer review, and not faculty department head work... but just to start with, this is sort of, taking the place of those course readiness and mid session checks that used to be the bread and butter of Pima. ---Denise Reilly: Thank you so much. ---Tony Sovak: That makes sense... any. ---Matej Boguszak: And is this somehow linked... or is there a thought that this could be linked in the future with the annual evaluation of faculty? ---Tony Sovak: That's been brought up a couple times... and I think the answer is... I'm open to discussing it... but since that's not really, you know... I didn't want to get hung up on making it that before we could set these goals and get started on... on training on, you know... in the areas where we need the training, to make sure that we could get   dates and calendars, grades and grade books, and announcements, in all the classes... that kind of thing. Yeah, I did this. ---Matej Boguszak: Seems like a larger conversation with other groups, right... ---Tony Sovak: It's... yeah, it's a bigger conversation and I'm not opposed to having it, just to see if it makes sense. ---Denise Reilly: Well... let's have... thank you so much, Tony... thank you, Matej, for your questions, and everybody else for your questions. Let's go ahead and have... Tony, we'll have you back... maybe you and Josie... it sounds like it's a dual effort there...   have back next month for just a Q&A once we dive into this actual document... [chuckles] after the, ---Tony Sovak: All right. ---Denise Reilly: you know, the whole 2 weeks of school we've been in...  but we can dive into it and have you back... so, at this point right now we're done with our agenda... so, we are looking for a motion to adjourn the meeting... motion to adjourn, and then, you know, everybody second. All in favor... second, yeah... okay... yes, please... okay, got you, got you. [laughs] It's 3:00 still... okay, okay... we're fine... so anyways, everybody have a great rest of the weekend. The meeting is adjourned... have an awesome third week of classes... bye all.