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December 15 Meeting Minutes

12-15-2021

93 Members in attendance

  1. Welcome Emily Brown 
    1. Vaccine exemption request denials are not grievable 
    2. Member exemption denied; state reports that there is no recourse 
    3.  December 19th last date for vaccine 
    4. Second dose by 19th 
    5. Concerned about adjuncts lack of information: sending messaging 
    6. Members should reach out to adjuncts to make sure they know about the deadline 
  2. Concerns at the administrative level regarding timely answering of student emails.
    1. Admin is concerned about timely interactions with students; “regular sustained interaction”  
    2. How to track? 
    3. Department of Ed can review at any time; if they find faculty not responsive, can penalize college 
    4. Member comment: are we serving customer or helping students?   
  3. DCE Bargaining Update (5 minutes) 
    1. Catherine Adamowitz:  
    2. Committee met last Friday; should be expecting a tentative agreement to be acted on by members at beginning of next year  
    3. Any back pay go back to Sept 2020 
    4. Member question: What will contract add to distance learning agreement? 
    5. Unsure—no new material can be added at this point 
  4. MACER Issues (10 Minutes)
    1. What-If Scenarios 
    2. Distance Ed Modalities 
      1. MCCC maintains that faculty should be paid for development for each modality 
      2. Autumn Alden recommends that faculty not advance dynamic form when denied for payment for other modalities 
      3. Please forward rejections to union executive board
  5. Dual Enrollment Contract Notifications
    1. Union asked that deans provide a contract to any faculty who agrees to teach the course 
    2. Way to head off any miscommunication between outside entity and faculty member (like OER, who will be in the course, etc.) 
  6. Increase in DCE adjunct faculty
    1. Catherine Adamowitz: deans are advertising for more adjunct faculty while quite a few adjuncts are not being offered sections 
    2. Meeting scheduled after last day of classes 
    3. Questions about spring professional day 
    4. Three business days to submit final grades  
  7. Telework: Professional Staff (40 Minutes) 

    1. Survey went out last week; 45 members responded  
    2. Was application considered or used? 
    3. Lack of transparency (also brought to senate)  
    4. Seems predetermined 
    5. Problems with dates; dates weren’t suggested  
    6. Amy Marden attended statewide meeting; seems that BR only CC in state that had a predetermined schedule 
    7. Policy should be individually  
    8. Some staff from different department form SSEM were asked to go back and revise their form and resign, agreeing to the predetermined times (buckets); seems like they were forced to re-sign 
    9. Supervisors do not seem to be on board with telework  
    10. Member Question/comment: students are requesting 90% virtual requests for meetings. Can this be tracked? Executive board can use all the data it can get. 
    11. Offering hybrid approach to meet students needs already 
    12. Member: Prof staff has been more productive with hybrid schedule (example can review more files at home) 
    13. Admin wants to offer everyone the same, but not equitable 
    14. Member Question: Is there a reason why admin insisting on in-person services? Data? 
    15. Member Concern: walk in appointments; how is the vaccine policy going to be enforced for these students?  
    16. Member: Students are used to the new norm: can do everything from home; we will have to adjust; face to face meetings-students don’t show  
    17. Some areas must offer in-person, but others do not. How is that equitable?  
  8. Reminders
    1. Town Hall on Covid tomorrow @ 2:30pm on Zoom 
    2. Chapter Elections this spring