EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

Friday, October 3, 2003

Ka Lama 102, 8:30 a.m.

PRESENT: Kate Acks, Eric Acquero, Pat Adams, Scott Broadbent, Kathryn Fletcher, Steve George, Marge Kelm, Robyn Klein, Beverly Lashley, Diane Meyer, Karen Muraoka, Wallette Pellegrino, Suzette Robinson, Alvin Tagomori, David Tamanaha, Clyde Sakamoto, flo wiger

Excused: Marvin Tengan

Budget Updates and Commitment to Spring Schedule

• The systems office is evaluating the redistribution of resources. MCC’s $212,000 will be reviewed. Dave McClain and Sam Callejo noted that the system is supporting $325,000 of commitments to Native Hawaiian and West Oahu programs to meet WASC requirements. We could receive up to 90-95% of the $212,000.

• David distributed copies of MCC’s priorities for restored funds.

$2,600 was added to the Professional Technology request to support a casual hire in the Business Lab.

Professional Communities request has been increased to $51,148.

Request for Nursing was reduced to $9,859.

Kate Acks and Kathryn Fletcher will review requests for the Administration of Justice offerings to avoid duplication.

· University Center revenue sharing will be discussed at the next meeting.

Committee members were asked to finalize their requests for the next meeting. Those areas that required an immediate response were given the go ahead. flo wiger is meeting with Debbie Nakama to look at the $7,000 allocation for a student assistant.

GPA Policy

Each campus is different because of Distance Education. This difference is causing problems for students. Deans of Instruction got together six months ago to formulate a new policy (3.6 gpa, 6 credits or more, no N’s, F’s, I’s). The policy was sent out to unit chairs for review. There are problems with the policy; we need to revisit it. A decision will be made shortly. Suzette will send out the policy again.

Contract Renewal Workshop

Two contract renewal workshops for tenured track probationary people have been scheduled for October 3. The sessions will be taped for anyone interested in seeing them.

Documents are due internally on November 3^rd.

It was agreed as a system that people must be notified by November 15 if a decision is made that they will not be renewed. They will have one semester and another year before they are terminated.

For temporary, non-tenured faculty, the tentative scheduled deadline is October 31^st.

Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan team leaders meeting will be held at 11:00 a.m., October 3, 2003.

ABIT

The final draft for ABIT was forwarded to Lily Owyang. Dan Kruse, David Grooms, Suzette Robinson, and BK Griesemer will be looking at the document and then it will be sent forward. We will need approval from both the Jr. and Sr. Commissions.

Plans are for three courses to be offered next Fall with differentiated tuitions. We will be looking at the West Oahu model.

Report of Chancellors’ Meeting

• The President’s priority in the supplemental budget will continue to be faculty salaries. Some of the CC’s requests are to address the 5/4 reduction workload supported by lecturers. A collective bargaining meeting is being scheduled shortly.
• MCC’s capital improvement priority (Student Center building) is still #7 on the CC’s priority list.
• Dave Lassner will be forming a systemwide i.d. committee. Students are making it a high priority to have one i.d. for all uses; library, cafeteria meal plan, business lab, etc. It was noted that faculty have also raised this issue. Marge was encouraged to have Academic Senate present this issue formally as the students did.

Banner Update

• John Morton will be getting together with Chancellors to see what our contribution for Banner will be. They will be discussing positions needed, how workload will be affected for people working on banner, and how things will change on each campus as a result of banner becoming a more centralized process. Alvin will be reconvening the Banner committee made up of the front line people. The committee will be meeting every other week to talk about how to respond. MCC would like to have a banner person on our campus.
• Student Enrollment Management system is going to be activated in January. Three days of training will be provided.

Campus Classroom Food Policy

• A committee to discuss the restriction food in classrooms needs to be formed. Need tables outside so students can eat outside or come to Ka Lama 102 to eat. Weekend classes seem to be the problem. Need to discuss with OCET. More “no eating” signs should be posted in all classrooms.

• flo will develop an agenda to meet with custodial staff. She will also discuss this with the units to come up with some perspective from entire campus.

Other Items

• Job Fair: Wednesday, October 15, outside of Pa`ina.

The next Executive Committee meeting is scheduled for November 7, 2003 in Ka Lama 102.

<<BACK