[Speaker 1] (0:00 - 2:40)
I'd like to call this meeting to order at 3.15 and we'll start with the approval of minutes. So you were sent the minutes from our last meeting. Can I get a motion to approve?

I see Joe Giannakos, second Dana Woods. All in favor? Raise your hand.

All opposed? Okay, motion carries. Minutes are approved.

And then we move on to the reports of our officers and standing committees. So I'll start with my report first. You know I like to start with good things.

I think it's a very good thing that today is our first meeting of the Faculty Assembly in compliance with Senate Bill 37. So there are a couple of changes. It has been so much work.

Actually, I do feel like cheering. And I especially want to thank Joe Giannakos and Karen Guthmiller and William Walker. They have met with me at least once a week all year to get our documents in order and do the things we need to do.

And it's been tough. So I appreciate that and I'm glad that we can meet together. A couple of changes because of compliance.

These meetings are audio recorded and the audio recording will go on to our webpage. Our webpage is lee.edu slash groups slash faculty dash assembly. So if you ever miss a meeting, that's where you can find the audio recording and also the agenda for the next meeting.

And just keep that in mind as you make comments. If there's a comment that you want to make that you aren't comfortable having on a mic, then write it down on a piece of paper and I can read it for you. Other than that, the other good thing that I have is I just want to say a lot of us were surprised by Dr. V's resignation, but my heart has really been warmed by several faculty members who either publicly or they've reached out to me privately to get Dr. V's email just to let her know that she was appreciated. You know, so we don't know the circumstances of why she resigned, but it made me feel really good to be part of a group that can acknowledge people for the good things that they have done. So I appreciate that. And she was a supporter of Faculty Assembly, so I'm grateful for that.

All right, Interim VP. Francisca? Oh, she's here.

Oh, sorry.

[Speaker 15] (2:40 - 2:58)
Okay, my only report today is I'm still looking for candidates for the Faculty Assembly officers, a student secretary, and vice president. I do have some candidates for the president, which is good, right? And then as far as my duties also, I invited Emily Haas to give us a report on student government.

[Speaker 11] (3:01 - 4:07)
Hi, everyone. So my name is Emily Haas. I'm the new coordinator of student engagement and recreation, and I'm taking over as advisor for the Student Government Association, and we have elections happening right now.

So you can nominate students, or you can encourage them to nominate themselves. And I would greatly appreciate if you spread the word to your students and your classes about student government, and just told them that it is a thing, I promise, and that elections are happening now. So if they want to help make changes for students here at Lee, they should get involved.

I do not have business cards with me right now, but I have some elections flyers that have the nominations QR code on them, which I'll leave at on the table outside. It does have my email on it in case you have any questions. Yeah, I'm really excited about SGA, and excited about really elevating their presence and their impact next year.

So I hope that you encourage them. Yeah, are there any questions? Thank you so much.

Great to meet all of you. Thank you for your time.

[Speaker 1] (4:07 - 4:49)
Thank you. All right, next up we have Interim Professional Standards and Responsibilities Officer Karen en route. Okay, now this is a mistake on the agenda, so we do need to remove this.

I had copied an old agenda, but actually the grievance chair, Chanel, she will be moving into our trust, which is something we'll talk about at a meeting directly after this meeting. So we'll save that report. Interim Benefits, Laura Capson.

Interim Professional Development, Joe.

[Speaker 10] (4:51 - 5:55)
Just to give everyone an update, we still have some funds available. There was an inadvertent backlog. There were some outlook issues with regard to the EEC, so we think we've got that resolved now.

Everything that has been submitted has now, it has budget transfers approved, so if you've not yet gotten a confirmation request from the EEC, reach out to Anita Francis, myself, and Teresa Letier, and we'll make sure we can expedite it. Beyond that, if you've got anything for the summer, of course, remember there's a 30-day window in advance of any travel. Please make certain that your submissions go through the EEC route because we do need access to all of the supporting documents for the Faculty Assembly Committee to review the request.

We are the only game in town in terms of travel funding. All other funding was zeroed out. I am going to make a purposeful request to Dr. Norris is that we look at increasing the allotment up to $25,000 to $30,000, which is where it was pre-pandemic, and the reason being is that way we can then increase from $900 maybe to $1,250 for the allotments for travel. Right now, we are so far behind the times. That was, I think, what it was when I came here in 2006, so there's not been an appreciable increase, so that's it.

[Speaker 1] (5:58 - 6:04)
Going back a step, Karen, do you have a report? So this is for professional standards and responsibilities.

[Speaker 3] (6:14 - 7:15)
Okay, so at the February 19th board meeting, the major focus that I usually provide is the resignations or retirements. Annette Ferguson then at that time resigned. She's up in the Dallas area and has actually got another job.

Rosemary Kaufman will be, I guess you'd say, retiring, and she's going to be doing that in August, but that was on the board agenda. Then new positions, we have a couple of dual credit people. One would be Breanna Carter.

She's an advisor for dual credit, and the other one was Janay Colon. I hope I said that right, advisor for shared dual credit. So those were the main points of either someone retiring, leaving, or then hiring.

Anyone have any questions?

[Speaker 1] (7:16 - 7:26)
All right, thank you. Next, we have Shameka Phipps with honors and recognition.

[Speaker 4] (7:29 - 9:49)
All right, so I wanted to give an update on our efforts in terms of the honors and recognition committee. So last semester, as you all know, we raised $250, and then faculty assembly matched our efforts. So we were able to donate $500 to the Student Resource and Advocacy Center.

It was reported that the CERAC Center was able to give out over 22,000 pounds of food, and we were able to support 605 students. What was also shared with me was some messages of gratitude from some students, and I'll just take some time to read it. It says, I just wanted to love that Lee College and the resources are available here, and that without them, I don't know what I would do.

Thank you all for everything that you do. I would give back when I can. I thought that was very touching, so we inspire other students to give back as well.

I wanted to say how grateful and thankful I am for what staff and donors do for the students at Lee College. The community is bright and shining because of what you contribute. And the last comment was, thank you.

Every action you do is appreciated. No good work goes unnoticed. So I was very touched and moved by those comments, and so as a committee, we wanted to continue to build on to this momentum and continue to support our students outside of the classroom.

So the committee discussed an initiative that we would continue to support students by helping them with graduation-related expenses. In 2025, for the commencement year, 270 students had graduation-related expenses, such as purchasing graduation caps, gowns, tassels. And so as a committee, we are asking the Faculty Assembly to commit to this charge by supporting the Recognition Committee by committing $500 to support students for graduation commencement.

These funds would be donated to the CERAC Center, and they will be primarily responsible for handling the logistics of the distribution of the funds to the student. And they will also report back to the chair of the Honors Committee to let them know how those efforts were utilized. So that's our update at this time.

[Speaker 1] (9:54 - 10:36)
Would you like us to take a vote on the proposal? Okay, so yes, William? Well, what we would need to do is approve asking the trust for funds.

So as Faculty Assembly, we will take a vote to decide to support $500 funding for student graduation expenses, like caps and gowns. Can I get a motion? I saw Chanel Cook.

And a second? Second, Steven Saunders. Any questions or discussion?

What's the total projected deed need?

[Speaker 4] (10:39 - 11:16)
At this time, we know that 270 students asked for a combination of things. And so a rough estimate of some of the things that were requested, cap and gowns, the cap gown and the tassel is $36.99. If you want to do the cap gown, tassel, and the graduation stole is $74.99. The stoles itself is $39.55. The tassels are $5.70, and the cap only is $6.95. So we just got the data in terms of the things that were requested, not how many students were requesting them.

[Speaker 1] (11:18 - 11:32)
So we'd be pledging $500 to be used for any of those things as the SHREC has students come in for help. Okay, any other discussion or questions? Any other discussion?

[Speaker 17] (11:32 - 11:42)
I have a question. So when you take the funds, do you order them as the students need? Because I know the gowns are different sizes, students are different sizes, and is there a time?

[Speaker 4] (11:45 - 12:36)
Okay, all right. So what will happen is the student, let me back up and talk about the marketing efforts first. So what will happen is that SHREC will send out an email to students letting them know that these funds will be available.

We would also want faculty to share this out to students as well. They would go to SHREC, and then SHREC will conduct their normal process in terms of how they determine if students can receive like emergency aid or transportation. And then they would give the student a gift card to then be used for the merch store.

All the graduation related items will be done through the merch store, so they will be able to do that. And in terms of deadline, I know that today in the Navigator News, the, I think the communication went out for opening of taking graduation items today.

[Speaker 1] (12:40 - 13:17)
But on our part, we would just be sending $500 to SHREC, and that's it. Okay, any other discussion? Any other discussion?

Any other discussion? Okay, all in favor of supporting the SHREC for graduation? All opposed?

Okay, so the motion carries. We'll take this to the trust and get those funds. Let's see, we're moving on to unfinished business with an update on the Excellence in Education Award by Ed Korzetz.

[Speaker 12] (13:19 - 13:33)
Not much, the recipients have been chosen. The plaques and medallions are being produced. I just need a check from the treasurer.

Other than that, moving ahead.

[Speaker 1] (13:34 - 13:39)
And so we'll announce those recipients in April at the April meeting?

[Speaker 18] (13:41 - 13:41)
Okay.

[Speaker 1] (13:43 - 14:31)
All right, the next order of business under unfinished business is the load proposal update. Dr. Norris wasn't able to attend, but she did email me to let me know that they're working on the budget for fiscal year 27, and interim president Atkins is supportive of our load proposal, but it will depend on funding. So we'll get back to you with more information on that as it comes.

Jennifer, do you have anything for the Adjunct Pay Committee update? No report. How about we have the Public Student Evaluations Committee update with Jessica Thompson-Vaya?

No report. And then we have a non-teaching faculty hours update by Will Mayer. Okay.

[Speaker 14] (14:34 - 14:58)
Thank you, that helps. So we're kind of at a standstill right now with the resignation of Dr. Villanueva. We wanted to go for the board.

We had the necessary votes from the non-teaching faculty and from the Faculty Assembly. So we're not sure quite what to do right now to approach the interim president with this or to give them a little bit more time to settle. That's kind of where we're at with this right now, but we're still definitely want to move forward with it.

[Speaker 2] (15:01 - 15:08)
So Dr. Norris either has or will take it to cabinet, and then she'll get back with you about the decision.

[Speaker 14] (15:08 - 15:09)
Thank you very much.

[Speaker 1] (15:10 - 15:15)
Thank you. All right, Faculty Trust update with Karen Guthmiller.

[Speaker 3] (15:18 - 19:34)
Thank you. Today I think is a very relevant day for us to present to you a document that we have been working on arduously for a long period of time. I can't tell you how much I have admired and appreciated the efforts of Georgianne, Joe, and Will working together to try and create something that protects our funds that also can be not threatened by Senate Bill 37.

This document has been reviewed by one or two or three attorneys, and we actually met before spring break with an attorney to go through line by line some of the concerns and some of the verbiage, some of the ways to create this document for you. And time and time again Georgianne made all those changes, and I can't thank her enough because there was so much that really had to be said the right way. And so this document I think is ready for you to read.

We have tried to be very thoughtful to have these positions that are in this trust are parallel to the Lee College Assembly Constitution. They have different functions that separate them from any type of connection to Senate Bill 37. So this is important for you to recognize that it's a separate constitution, or I'd say in bylaws, that will have power over the funds that we have.

And that's been the biggest concern. We don't want any conflict of where our funds are and where they could be then absorbed by the administration. So that in the spirit of what we've done has defined what the roles are of those people that are serving on it.

And so I want you to read it carefully. I don't want to go through it line by line, but I think you need to take the time to review it, talk to your colleagues, because we'd like to bring it back in April and vote on it, approve it, so that we can move forward with two documents that we have worked on that we can say now we are ready to go forward in a new direction with new roles. So I'm open to any of your questions you might have.

I know that Joe wrote the first draft of all this, and we have just kept building on it and reflecting on things that the attorneys told us that would be good to consider. It's been a long process, but I have some such regard for these people, for how committed we were to create a document for you, for when we're gone, we're not here, that you are protected. So what Georgianne's saying is that because this will be a separate group, we need you to stay if you're interested, to then give us input on this other document.

These will be two separate entities, so we have to then have this meeting, and then dismiss it, and then reconvene for this discussion. So they will be working in collaboration. We think that we've got something that's very functional, but you need to understand this is a different process that would be a meeting after a regular faculty assembly meetings.

[Speaker 16] (19:35 - 19:41)
It's separate. Yeah, thank you, Karen.

[Speaker 1] (19:42 - 19:57)
Okay, next we have update on the applied bachelor's degrees. So Chanel Cook had a committee and y'all did some fast work and some really good work.

[Speaker 5] (19:58 - 22:18)
Okay, so we were able to submit to Dr. Walters three plans, and so I didn't think to bring it with me, sorry. So upon further conversation with Dr. Walters, it was kind of this idea that if we created like an umbrella type degree, then we could have more specific disciplines within that degree. And so I know that one of them is business related.

So we talked about a BAS in business management, and so that would have things like accounting, leadership, and management, and maybe healthcare administration if that is something that we're able to eventually get, so we can start with this umbrella and then we can add additional legs to that later. And so we made that recommendation, another for an applied science, a bachelor of applied science and information technology that would do things like cybersecurity, which is a program that we're growing, and computer maintenance and networking. And then the third one being a bachelor's of applied science in industrial operations management, that would include things like logistics and supply chain, safety management, operations management.

And then we kind of gone back and forth. We know that CAD is one, we're just not sure whether that would fall under the technology one or the industrial management side. So we've got that as an option, and then we're still waiting further kind of feedback from Dr. Walters. And then we also kind of proposed the idea of in the future, looking at something in a public service leadership type thing, so thinking more education, social work, addiction counseling, those programs that we do have, but that maybe the numbers are not quite right yet. And so we put that in as like a potential fourth kind of for us to look forward to that being something that we would want to do. Again, so this was submitted to Dr. Walters by whatever that Friday was before, whenever it was due. And so we haven't had any feedback yet, but that's where we are.

[Speaker 1] (22:21 - 22:59)
Thank you so much. All right. On to new business.

Francisca said a little bit earlier, but we will have officer nominations for the April election. Is there anything else you want to say about that? Okay.

Okay. So yes, please send Francisca an email or see her after this meeting if you're interested in running for president, vice president, and secretary of faculty assembly. And we'll have the election at our next meeting.

All right. Next up, we have discussion of LMS plans with Teresa, Latier, and Karen. Okay.

[Speaker 3] (23:00 - 24:30)
She went up there for a reason. So, well, we know that there's a lot of anticipation about what's going to happen when we are moving forward. And so that is being considered right now.

There's a lot of discussion between IT and Dr. Norris and the EEC as to different ways to move forward with different ways to get this to happen. I think you're going to have some options. And so without really giving you, I'm teasing you maybe, I'm giving you some information to know that there are conversations going on.

I think we should be looking at something starting to happen even in April. So we want to get going and there are different ways to approach it that makes sense. And so we're going to have probably some options.

So that's what we're trying to clarify and work IT and their people are working with the instructional designers and us to provide you these opportunities. So I can only tell you it's just being hammered out. That's one of the first things that Teresa and I did on Monday.

We came and met with Dr. Norris and said, what are we doing? You know, we're back from spring break. We're going to have a lot of questions.

And so we know there's, we don't want to make you anxious is the word that was used by our president. We have a little anxiety. We're trying to approach it from what makes sense.

[Speaker 16] (24:31 - 24:39)
Anybody have any questions? Did I tease you enough? You'll know more later.

[Speaker 3] (24:47 - 25:33)
We're trying to find ways to expedite ways that you can be moving into Ultra. And so there's a lot of different things. And I really think that, first of all, we have amazing instructional designers and they're very familiar with Ultra.

And we are working with Paula and Janice to try and find ways to give you opportunities. We have some power users in here. We have some that are moderate.

We have some of you that we're going to tote you along because you use it as less as you can, but we got to find ways to get you from point A to point B. So we want to make it sensible. And Laura might have something to add because I know you, I don't know if you've had these conversations with anybody.

We were just, that's all I'm sharing is what Dr. Norris told us.

[Speaker 1] (25:40 - 25:42)
Is the Ultra course going to be offered still?

[Speaker 16] (25:44 - 25:53)
Yes. That is the intent.

[Speaker 3] (25:53 - 26:08)
That is the intent that by fall, that's why we're working hard to get these going as soon as we can. Because in some cases people that are using Ultra have only done one course and they have other courses that need to be converted.

[Speaker 5] (26:09 - 26:29)
We were also told in instructional council that during convocation week there will be open labs and that there will be less required professional development that week to allow for faculty to get the final touches put in place for their Ultra during convocation week in the fall. So just FYI.

[Speaker 3] (26:29 - 26:35)
That's what we're doing. We're setting up labs that the instructional designers will be available. Thank you for providing that.

[Speaker 16] (26:42 - 26:42)
Okay.

[Speaker 1] (26:44 - 28:02)
I had forwarded the faculty an email from Paula Lee on Tuesday, March 17th. So check your email if you haven't read that. She emphasizes that after summer 2026, everything will switch to Ultra course view.

There will not be any courses running in original in fall 2026. Faculty can see the courses and copy content over, but they cannot make changes to an original course. We're trying to avoid having any incompletes in original to deal with after summer 2026.

Training will occur in summer 2026. More than likely there will also be some training in the fall. And then John, you had asked about ShareStream at a meeting long ago.

And so she addressed that too. That ShareStream is our streaming platform. Okay.

Yes, you're right. We're currently still using ShareStream. Paula will resume the search for a new platform and hope to have a selection in time for the budget.

The new platform would have more features, et cetera. So maybe that wasn't good news after all for you. Sorry.

Any other questions or comments about the LMS update?

[Speaker 2] (28:07 - 28:59)
So I just wanted everyone to know that I was tasked with meeting with each of the LMS vendors and sharing the faculty evaluations with them. I have personally met with Canvas and with D2L. And tomorrow I have a meeting with John Michael from Blackboard.

He is very interested in knowing the good, the bad, and the ugly. And I plan to share the comments because so many of the comments were, I want to stay with Blackboard, but I hate this, that, and the other thing. And so I think it's really important that Blackboard hear the criticisms that faculty have.

And also they want to know y'all's concerns. So I am planning to share that with him tomorrow.

[Speaker 13] (29:03 - 29:29)
Thank you. Oh, Javier shared an email this morning saying there are still openings for the ultra training that's going on right now. It started this week and it ends at the end of next month.

And so there's still accepting people. I started with changing one class, like I got one of my classes and, you know, I learned that one and then I moved on slowly to do the others. I think it helps to work with the real class.

[Speaker 1] (29:32 - 30:42)
Any other questions or comments? Okay, moving on to grading reports slash attendance reports. Is Kyra here?

So I can speak to this a little bit. In English, we were made aware of some grade reports that have been run that sort of instructors end up on this list if they have, I think, more than 30 things that need to be graded in the gradebook. So any of us, if we assigned something yesterday and we have more than 30 students, we would be on that list.

And so Kyra and others were wanting to just discuss how whoever runs that report might change the query, because it's not about the number of things you have to grade. That correlates with the number of students you have. The issue is if you have a number of things that need to be graded and they're older than two weeks old, because in our handbook, it says we should return things within two weeks.

So does anyone have any update on the query?

[Speaker 2] (30:44 - 32:51)
So actually, Chanel had talked to me about this before spring break. And while I was at Achieving the Dream, I emailed back and forth with Janice about the report, because she's the one that creates, Janice Gilbert creates the report. We can set the number at any number, and she can set it graduated based on the number of students, because I have 28 students in my sociology class.

At any given time, I could have 60 things, right, if I have an assignment back to back. But we did talk about this in instructional council on Monday. It's really more looking at if you have 10 students and there's 100 things ungraded, right, that's a concern.

Or how much is the length of time? The report is run at the end of each month, and so it's taking a snap, a 30-day snapshot of what's ungraded at the time that the report is run. It's really more about looking at the report and understanding what it's saying than, oh, you have 20 English students, and you have 30 ungraded things, and that's only been for the last week.

It's more, you really have to dig in and look, like, and what I suggested to the chairs was to really look at the report before having conversations that could be interpreted in a way that, whatever. And I know the attendance, I saw the attendance report, and this is also something that, so Dr. Davis and I have been charged with distributing the grade reports and the attendance reports. We know those reports are not very accurate.

I say in my email to the chairs that I address, you know, take this with a grain of salt. We're not trying to say anyone's in trouble. Just make sure that, remind people, don't forget to do your attendance.

That's all that's about. I don't know if this helps or not.

[Speaker 1] (32:53 - 32:55)
Any questions or comments in the back?

[Speaker 6] (32:56 - 33:17)
Yes, so I think we did get one from, I remember seeing one, it says U or C. What does that mean on the grade report? It's like a column.

I don't, I didn't see the top. I don't know, maybe, maybe ungraded or completed or maybe, okay.

[Speaker 2] (33:18 - 33:57)
I'm not sure. Okay. I mean, the way the report is divided is, I believe, ultra just sole individual courses, then ultra merged courses, then classic individual courses, and then classic merged courses.

So obviously, if you're looking at a merged course and there's 150 students in that merged course and there's 155 ungraded or 150 ungraded things, that makes sense, right? Unless it's been three weeks. But I don't know what, I'd have to go look at the report to see what you're talking about for the U and the C.

Sorry.

[Speaker 6] (33:57 - 34:06)
Does it make a difference if there's several instructors on the Blackboard shell as far as the report?

[Speaker 2] (34:06 - 34:07)
No, I don't think so.

[Speaker 6] (34:08 - 34:09)
Thank you.

[Speaker 12] (34:13 - 34:46)
Am I on the list? My question, to be on this list, you have to have more than 30 ungraded assignments, so per class. So if you have one class of 30 students and they just submitted their paper, but you hit that one month due, then I'll have 30 ungraded assignments.

Yes. And I'm on the list then.

[Speaker 2] (34:49 - 35:10)
The report also shows how much time faculty are spending in the gradebook each month. That is a column in the report, so for those people who have auto-graded things, it's going to show that you were in the gradebook maybe a minute, which is probably not a great thing since we're trying to not be a correspondence course.

[Speaker 1] (35:13 - 35:15)
Any other questions or comments?

[Speaker 9] (35:19 - 35:47)
I just have two little technical questions as far as the attendance. So, for example, I know when we do the attendance reports, like days like MLK holiday, we still have to go. Even though we know campus is closed, we still have to report attendance for those.

Yeah, we still, I got notices from our chair saying we still had to report that it was a holiday. That's why we weren't on attendance for that day. Do you know if that applies to spring break then too?

[Speaker 16] (36:09 - 36:10)
Yes.

[Speaker 9] (36:10 - 36:54)
Yes, there is. And that was going to be my second question because on days, yeah, so whenever you do report like for MLK, you have to go and say that no, that students were not there, but there's a drop-down menu for you to give the reason why they were not there. And there's, yes, transportation issues, they were sick, they had court, they, you know, it was excused.

There's all sorts of different things on there. So you have to say no, and then you say holiday. All right.

Second thing, is there any chance of doing like a select all on that drop-down? Because you literally have to go every single student. Great.

[Speaker 1] (36:55 - 37:13)
Okay, thank you for that. Any other questions or comments on the attendance or grade reports? Okay, so now Dr. Lorelaine Worley is here for, in place of interim president Atkin. So thank you, Dr. Lorelaine Worley.

[Speaker 2] (37:14 - 38:45)
Y'all are doing a great job. No, the only update I have is apparently at the cabinet meeting yesterday, Mr. Atkin rolled out a new way of looking at the budgets. And so I will, they are planning, and this is something that'll be done at the cabinet level.

So it's not something you have to really hugely worry about, although I will be talking to each of the chairs so they have an understanding. You're out. But at Dr. Norris's level, she will have to have a mission statement for academic affairs. And then Dr. Davis and I will each have a mission statement, one for technical and one for academic. And then we will be connecting, or they will be connecting KPIs from the strategic plan, from vision 2028. So if you haven't reviewed vision 2028 in a while, you might want to just look at it.

We think the big asks for the upcoming budget from academic affairs will either be people or equipment. We don't, and so in that way, we'll have to look at justifications based on tying it to the strategic plan and outcomes that are listed in the strategic plan.

[Speaker 16] (38:47 - 38:48)
That's it. Any questions?

[Speaker 8] (38:54 - 39:45)
So I had some faculty come and ask this question. So if you can answer that. It's dealing with the policy that says that we have to be available after the semester.

I think we started talking about it in the fall, right? So they were told by their chair that they had to be available during spring break because eight weeks ended. And so the end of the semester was during spring break.

And so even though the college was closed, they were told by their chair that they had to be available. And so there were some trips that they did not because they wouldn't be available. And I thought that was strange.

[Speaker 2] (39:47 - 40:02)
I'm not aware of that for spring break. I'm aware of the after the fall and spring, right? That's all I'm aware of, but we can check into it, but I'm definitely not aware of that requirement.

[Speaker 8] (40:03 - 40:13)
I'll talk to you specifically about it, but because it says, does it say fall and spring or does it say semester? Because they were taking it at the end of the eight week. That's the end of that semester.

[Speaker 2] (40:13 - 40:20)
Eight weeks is a session. Ah, okay. So that would be an eight week session as opposed to a spring semester.

[Speaker 8] (40:20 - 40:22)
Okay. That makes sense.

[Speaker 2] (40:22 - 40:23)
Yes. And a fall semester.

[Speaker 8] (40:23 - 40:35)
Okay. No, that makes sense. Does that make sense?

Okay. Absolutely. My second question with budget, did, are they, have they said anything about travel, monies coming back in?

[Speaker 2] (40:35 - 40:42)
Are we talking, what are we talking about? International domestic or professional development?

[Speaker 8] (40:42 - 40:47)
Professional development and probably international if I'm curious.

[Speaker 2] (40:47 - 42:36)
So I have had some conversations with Dr. Norris about around two different things, domestic travel and international ed is we believe that it will take a year to get international ed. We want a year of planning and, and have one trip a year. So probably in FY28, we hope to have an international education trip.

Okay. As far as domestic travel, she is going to ask for some of that domestic travel that honors and SBS previously took. As far as professional development, it's still staying categorized by cabinet member.

And so I don't know if there'll be an increase or not, but I think if you, if you are trying to make a case for increased professional development funds, tie it to the strategic plan. I have a handout that I'm going to get out to the chairs that talks about, here's this KPI. It's a leading indicator or it's a lagging indicator.

And of course you can make a case if you have something that's a leading indicator, you need additional blah, blah, blah, because you want to continue to lead. You can also make the case if it's a lagging indicator, you can tell I'm a researcher. If it's a lagging indicator, this is lagging because we don't have enough blah, blah, blah.

And so we need more, right? Does that make sense?

[Speaker 16] (42:39 - 42:40)
Okay. Anything else?

[Speaker 1] (42:45 - 42:56)
I noticed on the agenda for the board meeting on Thursday night, consideration of approval of the college's organizational restructure, which I thought was already approved at the last board meeting.

[Speaker 16] (42:59 - 43:10)
I don't know. It was under new business. Okay.

I believe it's something that they've added in.

[Speaker 3] (43:10 - 43:20)
It doesn't change anything that currently is in. There was just a concern, something that needed to be re-added into it. So that's what I understand.

[Speaker 1] (43:22 - 43:35)
Thank you. Any other questions? Okay.

Then we're moving on to announcements. And I know we have a couple back here, probably one for CAC and one for honors day, I would guess.

[Speaker 6] (43:37 - 44:45)
All right. Hi, I'm Alexa Ramirez. Some of you may know me.

I am the CAC chair. So the curriculum committee. In the fall coming of 2026, we will be needing or looking for any volunteers for secretary position.

Some of the members already are aware, but if there is any division chairs here that would like to either nominate or have your new faculties that are coming on board, dedicate some faculty service to us, that would be great. You can shoot me an email and hopefully we can kind of get that rolling. I would like to, in the upcoming meeting, which is in April, kind of start, get that rolling.

That way we can get them trained and familiarize and learning the different process. That way they're good to go for the fall. I don't want someone to just jump in and just be kind of thrown into the sharks like many of us are.

So I'm available if you need me. Alexa Ramirez, thank you for letting me have the floor for this moment. I appreciate y'all.

[Speaker 7] (44:48 - 46:29)
Hey everybody. Thank you first for submitting nominations either for disciplinary honors day awards, presidential honors day awards, or for hall of fame. Really grateful for that.

And we have a good, we have a good robust list of all the people that are going to get awards. So the next, the next thing for you all to be aware of is that if you did nominate someone who was chosen for an award in your individual division, we will make it part of your mission in the next few weeks to make sure that student gets their invitation. We'll be giving invitations to the individual divisions who will pass those on to you.

But every year it seems there's like a few students that don't get their invite for one or another reason. And we call them because they have an RSVP and they're like, what? I got an award.

So just make sure it gets to them if you are the person that nominated. I also, I sent this out via email, refreshed the calendar invite with some new information today. And a few additional faculty responded.

So just make sure you look at your email. I'll continue to update that calendar invite slash resend that calendar invite with updates. But it will take place April 15th from 3 to 5 PM.

We generally ask faculty to be there 10 to 15 minutes early in your regalia so you can meet backstage because there's a little processional at the beginning of the event. Are there any questions for me about honors day?

[Speaker 16] (46:32 - 46:33)
Okay.

[Speaker 1] (46:33 - 46:37)
Well then I'll be glad to see you all there. Any other announcements?

[Speaker 2] (46:42 - 47:07)
The college is also working on a master facilities plan and different people are, have been brought in as the working group. But if you have some burning issue or thought about what the college needs, I am on that working group and I'd be more than happy to bring forward information from the faculty.

[Speaker 1] (47:10 - 47:23)
Any other announcements? Okay. Well, don't get excited when I say this because I need you to stick around.

But this meeting is now adjourned. Okay. Now this is a meeting of the Lee College Trust.