********************************************* 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. ********************************************* August 21, 2026 Faculty Senate ---Kelly O'Keefe: Hello. Are you tired? Is it time to go home? [laughs]. Well, luckily today's... typically we will have a 1-hour meeting for All College Day and the agenda is pretty short... so, we might get out early. Yes... so, let's cheer for that, right... [laughs] all right, we're going to do just a quick start with our chancellor, Dr. Nasse, because he has some more important things to do, right? Yeah... okay. So, we're going to start with him... and then we'll do the introductions going around... okay. ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see everyone. I hope you enjoyed All College Day this morning... I thought it was a lot of fun. Just want to, of course, say welcome back. Yes, I'm headed off to actually a meeting with the governor... try to get us some money. So, that's important... we'll try... [chuckles] we'll see.... but, yeah, thank you for everything, of course, that you do in this year. Obviously I talked a little bit today about the strategic priorities... as did our provost, Dr. Roark, kind of talk about some of the things... and all I could say is... thank the Senate... I think we're at a great place in terms of collaboration... and um... and I just want to deepen that... I was thinking about it before coming into the room today. You know, we are going to need the Senate... we are going to need faculty really to lead... as we, you know, try to achieve some of those strategic priorities. And so I'm eager this year, you know, I know I'll be very intentionally engaging with Kelly and Dennis, and with many of you, frequently to talk... relying on your expert... expertise on how we do this. I certainly don't know how to do it. [chuckling] You are much more... have much more expertise in the content, in the delivery, and the facilitation of learning for our students. And so we'll be relying heavily on you to help us lead... and so we got to figure that out. and I've already started talking with the Provost and our... and Dr. Bea about compensating at scale, right... for extra work... for you, that will be in that space as we undergo some of these big changes. So, looking forward to working... really excited about launching this... the new roadmap for resilient strategic plan... and excited for this coming year and really looking forward to lots of productive collaboration. Okay, that's it for me. Happy weekend... finally Friday. Do I pass it down? ---Kelly O'Keefe: We're going to start... ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Okay. ---Kelly O'Keefe: [unintelligible] ---Dr. Ian Roark: Oh, we are... oh, do you want me to do my report now? ---Kelly O'Keefe: No, just go ahead and pass it around. ---Dr. Ian Roark: Just my name and then the report later. All right. Good afternoon everybody. I have more to say later on and you've heard me talk a bit already... so, I'm going to pass it over to Emily. ---Emily Halvorson-Otts: Good afternoon. Emily Halvorson-Otts, acting  Vice Provost of Academic Affairs... and I'm a guest. ---Amanda Abens: Good afternoon. Amanda Abens, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Workforce Development... a guest. ---Michael Tulino: Hello, Michael Tulino, registrar... guest. ---Elyse Gayda: Hi, Elyse Gayda, program director, MLT and  Phlebotomy... guest. ---Rita Lennon: Hi, Rita Lennon, Clinical Research Studies. I'm not a guest... [chuckles] senator. ---Trish Cubs: Good afternoon. My name is Trish Cubs and I'm program director for Medical Assistant. and I don't know if I'm a guest or... ---Rita Lennon: You're a senator. [chuckles] ---Trish Cubs: I'm a senator. Okay. Thank you. ---Sarah Robinson: I'm Sa... hello everyone... welcome back. I'm Sarah Robinson. I'm a faculty senator and I represent Education and Student Success. ---Eric Winkleblack: Hi, my name is Eric Winkleblack and I represent Technology, Aviation. ---Paulina Vega: Hello everyone, Paulina Vega. I'm representing Public Safety. ---Gwen Schwartz: Hi, I'm Gwen Schwartz. I teach in the Writing Department and I'm also the faculty fellow for 8-Week Initiative. ---Brooke Anderson: Hello, Brooke Anderson, PCCEA Acting President. ---Elliot Mead: Hi everyone, Elliot Mead, Writing faculty and Communication senator. ---Dana Montrey: Hello, I'm Dana Montrey... I am an HIT adjunct professor guest. ---Josie Milliken: Josie Milliken, proud former faculty senator and faculty senate president... and current executive director of Digital Learning and AI. ---Jen Switzer: I'm Jen Switzer, representing Math... my first year as senator. ---Dionne Billick: I'm Dionne Billick. I'm the Acting Dean of Health Professions and a guest. ---Aaron Kostko: Hello, I'm Aaron Kostko. I'm Philosophy faculty and  representative for Humanities and Social Sciences. ---Cynthia Howe: Hi, I'm Cynthia Howe and I am Faculty Intensive Academic ESL and representing Communications division. ---Aubrey Conover: Good afternoon everyone, Aubrey Conover,  Vice Chancellor for our Campus Operations... Gayle.   ---Gayle Bell: Hi all... Gayle Bell, program manager collegewide initiatives in the Strategy, Analytics, and Research Department... and I'm here as a guest. ---Nic Richmond: Hi everybody... I'm Nic Richmond, I'm from Strategy, Analytics, and Research... I'm a guest as well. ---Michael Nolan: Michael Nolan, Visual Arts Senator. ---Stacy Cousins: Stacy Cousins, Nursing senator. ---Greg Loumeau: Greg Loumeau, Digital Arts senator. ---Robin Mayer: Robin Mayer, full-time staff instructor with Adult Basic Education for college and career and first time senator. ---Emily Besich: Emily Besich for the Library. ---Mayra Cortes: Mayra Cortes-Torres, Communication senator. ---Liz Rangel Arriola: Liz Rangel Arriola, PimaOnline, senator. ---Maggie Golston: Maggie Golston, English and Humanities faculty, Communication senator. ---Christina Schemp: Christina Schemp... I'm with nursing and I'm a senator. ---Nikki Robinson: Nikki Robinson with Nursing as a faculty senator. ---Alex Armstrong: Alex Armstrong... Life Sciences senator. ---Jeff Thies: Good afternoon. Jeff Thies, Vice Provost for Academic Operations... guest. ---Caroline Torres: Caroline Torres... Math and a senator. ---Ally Stacey: Ally Stacey, senator for Math. ---Yvonne Sandoval: Yvonne Sandoval, first senator Math. ---Todd Canale: Good afternoon. Todd Canale, Dean of Public Safety and a guest. ---Allison Landy: Hello, Allison Landy, Dean of Education and Student Success, and I am also a guest. ---Makyla Hays: Hey everybody, Makyla Hays, director of Online Student Success and I'm a guest. ---Chien Han: I'm Chien Han... I'm the faculty in Physics. ---Dennis Just: Hi everyone, I'm Dennis Just, Science  senator and faculty senate President-elect. ---Sarah Abbott: I'm Sarah Abbott... I'm the Governing Board representative and department head for AIT. ---Jane Hall: Good afternoon, I'm Jane Hall... I'm the faculty senate Secretary and the rep for Business and IT. ---Vivian Knight: Good afternoon, I am Vivian Knight... I am the Vice President of faculty senate, representing Business and IT division. And if you have a moment, please remember to submit your attendance. Thank you. And the agenda is on the calendar invite now, in case you didn't know. [chuckles] ---Kelly O'Keefe: So, I am Kelly O'Keefe and I am, of course, the faculty senate president... and I am also the department head for Health Information Technology and I'm serving as a senator for Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning. And so, the next on our agenda, I just wanted to... oh, John, we're gonna call you out. [chuckles] ---John Gerard: John Gerard, faculty senator Applied Technology. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Excellent... thank you. So, just as a note... you'll notice that we don't have our name tents... okay. There's been a lot of changes with senators coming and going and changes in divisions. So, we're getting new ones, and hopefully we'll have those by October, because that's our next in-person Senate meeting. So, next on the list is to review our May minutes...  and I believe, yep, Dennis has those up for us. If anyone had time before... to review them before this meeting... we'll go ahead and take a motion. Sarah motions... and then a second?  Rita Lennon seconds. Thank you. And all in approval say aye and raise your hand. ---Majority of Senators: Aye. ---Kelly O'Keefe: All wanting modifications? Okay... no hands and no "nos"... okay. So, unanimously the May minutes have passed. Thank you everyone. Do we have any requests for agenda modification? Okay. How about requests for executive session? [chuckles] We're really going to go short today. I love it. So, request for open forum? Okay. And you'll notice that we still have a link there for requests for faculty engagement. This link in the top part of our agenda is for, if you have any questions for the Chancellor or for the Provost, to be asked and answered at our next faculty senate meeting.   So, if you have any questions about the 8-week  initiative or course redevelopment or whatever... whatever the case may be, and you want to ask  it, go ahead and submit it to that Google form   and we'll make sure that they get it before the next faculty senate meeting so they can address it  at that time, okay? And we already have the Chancellor report, so I'm going to pass it over to our Provost. ---Dr. Ian Roark: All right. Thank you, Kelly... and one thing I do want to point out real quick is the slight name change on our faculty senate President's name on the agenda... so, let's congrat... for those that are not aware, right... she is now Dr. Kelly Grim O'Keefe... and was married on July 4th. Let's give a congratulations to Kelly. [applause] I will always remember Kelly's anniversary because it's the same as my spouse and me... I'm also a July 4th... where my spouse and I celebrated 28 years. So... but congratulations, Kelly... and I know that... you know... I hope you don't mind me calling that out,   but we have people... why is Grim there? She's not Grim... she is Grim O'Keefe. All right. Yeah, so All College Day, right? I feel like... I agree with the Chancellor... it was great energy in the room. It was great to hear about all of the different things from the campuses. It was great to hear from Dr. Nasse a lot of the fun things... and so yeah, it's been it's been a great day... you know, even after this morning's festivities... I got to go to lunch with the Chancellor. We felt sorry for Aubrey, so we brought him with us. No, just kidding, Dr. Conover. But we had a really great, you know, debrief, I think, on All College... on All College Day and the morning festivities. And good job, Aubrey, to you and your team and those that report up through you to Nina. So, let's give them a round of applause to Aubrey [applause] and his leadership on that... that went really well. And I really did talk about, you know, the Academic Affairs and Workforce Development goals that... that cascade upwards to the Chancellor's goals that he talked about, as well as our strategic plan priorities. This report is sort of the same report that we do every month and it comes out of a larger report that all of my direct reports and their direct reports and their direct reports fill out... so, it's a rather large report by the time it's filled out every other month. But just sort of... what are the key things we've been up to outside of just the regular workflow... right? So, a couple of things to highlight on here... so, prepared for the Serving All Learners By Design Summit. There was an initiative that had been going on under our prior strategic plan, under the leadership of Dr. Nic Richmond, meaning the whole strategic plan not this particular initiative... but the initiative called No Wrong Door, right... and made some progress on that, but really work... Academic Affairs, Student Experience, Recruiting & Marketing, and IT, and some other areas came together to map out what a new intake model would look like, where we could integrate all of those different enrollment funnels into potentially one singular enrollment funnel, where applicable and possible. So, that includes for dual enrollment learners, for Adult Education learners, credit seeking learners, and those seeking noncredit Workforce training. How can we ensure that we unify those services for all of those populations. So, there's a work group that will be working on that as a part of, you know, one of the Cabinet goals through... throughout the semester... and then a follow-up summit... so, that's what that's in reference to. Always get to represent the college at different things and was asked by D2L, the company that over, you know... is our vendor for Brightspace... to go to their executive leadership summit and... and talk about what we're doing at Pima Community College, right. and so, that's just a testament to all of you, right... and the whole team... that like, we get invited to go into those spaces because of the work that's being done on a daily basis by our teams here at the college... so, thank you for your leadership in moving innovation forward at Pima Community College so that we can spread the good word. And then the same thing at the NC3 leadership summit. If you want to learn more about NC3, talk to John Gerard to my left because he is a master certified NC3 instructor and one of their superheroes in that organization. Give it up for John. [applause] The third bullet... it may seem sort of like, why is that there? So, I got to meet, you know, with the sheriff himself, Sheriff Nanos, who you may have heard in the news   pulled back $200,000 for Pima Community College's Adult Basic Education Program, serving people who are in the county jail. We have been working in partnership with Pima County, who reallocated that amount of money, and the office of the Sheriff, to reinstate the funding for that program. Currently, there's enough reserves where we have not had any interruption in services and there will be an agenda item going forward at the Pima County Supervisor's Office next month, in partnership with the Sheriff, to restore that program to... and so that there's no more lack of service. This is sort of like a daily thing I didn't know about... that when the chancellor decides to go on vacation, and he does need a vacation... he wanted to unplug for a little bit... so, I was responsible for quote... signature authority and general responsibility for the college, and I thought, well, it's summer... it's June... nothing's going to happen... I'll be... this will be easy peasy. And we had a lot of things that came up, that unfortunately, I did have to interrupt his vacation on a couple of occasions to talk about those things... but it was a good learning experience for me... for the team, for my team. And the next thing was the recruitments, right... there's a lot, you know, when I was acting Provost we merged leadership teams of Workforce Development and the Provos Leadership team... changed some roles... and now we have some other folks, including now, of course, Dean Allison Landy... Dr. Landy, who's in the room, who's new... Dionne Billick in her acting role. Let's give them a round of applause. [applause] Am I missing anybody else that we need to... and Dionne you've already been a team member for about 3 years I think... so, welcome to your new role but you've been at the college... but Dr. Landy again welcome to Pima... it's been great already talking with you. And then... about the recruitments, I will say, I do have permission from our acting Vice Provost to talk about the timeline... we're not going to do 2 Dean recruitments at the same time. So, in the fall, we are going to do the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences national search. That should be posting anytime soon... like really, any time. And then, we are likely to post the Dean of Health Professions in January, so that we have staggered searches... just so everybody's aware on those. And of course, we do have the VPAA recruitment, and I'm leading that search myself... and then we also have right now, because of the national funding environment related to adult education... in case you weren't aware, the federal government has threatened to eliminate all adult basic education funding for the whole entire country. We are... we are in the fight there. We're working with our represent... representatives in Washington. It looks like there's going to be a continuing resolution and no agreement on the budget, which means for those in federal policy world, there's going to be a CR - Continuing Resolution, which means the existing budget rolls over, which means we will have most likely adult basic education funding for another year to a year and a half. Once we know in January what's happening on the Hill with respect to the balance of power and the budget priorities of a potentially new Congress, we will then potentially post for our Assistant Vice Chancellor for Adult Basic Education for College & Career (ABECC). And then that last one, from over the summer... and again, Nic, congratulations and thank you for your leadership on working with the whole cabinet on setting the Chancellor's goals and finalizing those and then working with each one of us on Cabinet to to finalize our goals... and she's the the lead of that whole entire process as an outgrowth of strategic planning. So, let's let's give it up for Nic... thank you Nic. [applause] But we do spend... it's not like I write my goals in an afternoon and submit it to you... it's more... it's a lot of process that we go through to get to those goals. So, that's a little bit about what we've been up to or what I've been up to individually, of course. Welcome back again... I'm so excited about all of  the things that we'll be working on this year, right... there's a lot of things that are change initiatives, but I think that, given our current outcomes, right, and what the Chancellor said... if we keep doing things the way that we're doing, then we're going to have the outcomes we currently have... and our learners deserve the very best in terms of their experience and outcomes here at Pima Community College. And it's an honor to work for the public and serve in that capacity and look forward to working with all of you accordingly. The Chancellor was right... you know, we are going to be co-partners in a lot of these initiatives, including 8-weeks, and I'm excited to work with the faculty senate officers... I think they're all just great people but also in these roles I think that they've demonstrated strong academic and faculty leadership... and it's really amazing to see how the faculty senate has really come together with our team in advancing many of these initiatives... so, thank you. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay, great... thank you Dr. Roark... so, we'll go ahead and move down to the president's report. If you're able to open that up and look at it, we have quite  a few links... so, if you don't have it open now, I encourage you to kind of look at that later  and make sure that you click on those links   and look further into what's being reported on. Faculty input, of course, is being requested for the naming of the 8-Week Initiative and the Google form link is on there. So, if you could submit any ideas that you might have through that Google form, that would be great. Feedback and suggestions will be accepted until the 28th by 5... and then, we as the faculty senate will receive all the submissions and select our favorite 8. ---Lisa: [words cut off] ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yes, Lisa, we can all hear you. [chuckles] So, what we're going to do is... get all of the submissions that are sent in on that Google form. We, as a Senate, will review them and select our top 8. then we will start the selection from there... and then, we will make sure that the voting closes on the 8th of September by 5. And once the winner has been determined through that voting process, we're going to go ahead and be the ones that get to announce it. So, that'll be kind of fun. The faculty senate... or, feedback from the 16-week designation request form must be completed by September 9th to be considered for the... at least the first phase of that 16-week designation request. And the designation forms should be completed by October 1st... and 16-week designation request form to be submitted by the discipline leader or the department head or academic faculty director... [chuckles] whatever our titles are... but those who are in charge, or in programs, and areas of the college. So it won't be something that all faculty will need to do... It'll just be something that the department heads talk to their faculty about and then submit. The review committee decisions will be made by approximately December 15th... and there's wiggle room between all of that depending on how things are running... okay. Next we're going to jump to the governance and faculty leadership... work group members for the faculty senate charter revision still include myself, Rita Lennon, Dr. Elliot Mead, Sarah Robinson, and Sean Mendoza. And we are working through this fall semester... we hope to have our first revision by probably October, I imagine. And then, one thing I wanted to bring forward to all the senators for your opinions and feedback, is the changing of officer terms within faculty senate... traditionally what we've done is... the Governing Board rep and the adjunct faculty rep, both serve a 2-year term and the rest of the officers serve 1-year terms. So, it has been suggested that maybe it would be better for the rest of the officers to also have 2-year terms, because once they kind of get into the flow of the position,  then they're done and someone else has to learn. So, that's something I'd ask for you to think  about... think of about how that would affect not just the people in those positions, but also  affect us as a faculty senate altogether. So, that's something that I've kind of mapped out in the report. If you could look at that and let me know what you think about that. Let's see... go to the Discipline Faculty Committee... Dr. Roark approved the new DFC handbook on June 21st... and we will have a presentation this semester, but until then please connect with your Academic Dean and or faculty leader to review the appendices for your discipline. Leadership structure audit is still in conversation... we don't know any more about that but it's something that's continuing to be looked at... and we aim as a senate to be part of that... because this structure effectively supports, of course, all of our goals as faculty, as well as the college's goals altogether. AP/BP accountability... just as a reminder, we will typically have AP's and BP's to review. Some of you attending today as brand new senators probably are unaware, but what we'll do is we'll post the AP's and BP's that are up for review from the Senate on the faculty senate D2L site. If you're not already part of that, you can find it by clicking on "discover" in D2L and just looking for where it says faculty senate. That D2L site has a lot of information... we'll have the agendas in there, minutes... any announcements that come up, I will post in the announcements area just as if you were, you know, receiving announcements as a student. And I also click the button where it emails it to you as well. So, I apologize if it's double duty, but we really want to make sure communication is effective and that everyone is getting what they need. The College Leadership Council has actively been preparing the college for potential emergencies and bolstering Campus safety and security. As you heard this morning from our Chancellor, it's one of his priorities to make sure that we're all safe... and I know that's a concern of ours as well, especially when we're on Campus. So, the last part of this area is the Faculty Accreditation Fellow position... that is a position that has just recently been posted. If you are interested in applying for  the Faculty Accreditation Fellow position,   the link is on the report and I encourage you to do so... it will close on September 11th... correct, Gayle? Okay.    So, that's something that is imperative, that we have a faculty member a part of that team... so, please consider it.  If you're too busy to do something like that, think of maybe someone in your area that would be a really good fit for that... okay. Technology and compliance reminders. Just in light of some new federal mandates, the LMS materials must ensure compliance of course with accessibility and any accommodations that are needed by your students. So, make sure that you're staying on top of that within your courses and your areas. And I believe... I put this on the report with a caveat that I might have to change it,  [chuckle] but I believe that the date for the compliance of the changes is December 26. Dr. Roark, can you confirm that? Do you know? I know it changed... ---Dr. Ian Roark: [off mic]  December. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay... so, December this year. ---Dr. Ian Roark: Yes. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay... so, just make sure that you... [unintelligible voice] ---Dr. Ian Roark: Right. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Correct... yeah, okay. So, for the college, our deadline is December this year. So, just make sure that whatever courses you're teaching and/or whatever courses you have in your area are... I think we're looking at the report to make sure that the report is a certain amount, right? The Ally report, right? So, make sure you talk with your dean... make sure you know exactly what you're looking for... and let us know if you have any questions about that... we can always help out too. And just a quick look ahead... of course, we put All College Day on there in our first meeting, but I would like for you to mark your calendars for September 18th... that is our fall Data Day. And so, if you haven't marked your calendars yet, please make sure you do... that's really important that we attend Data Days. And then for SENSE reporting... we are surveying our first-time students... and Gail Bell is here to give us... oh, I'm sorry... Dr. Richmond is going to give us a brief overview of what that SENSE reporting and survey is, in just a few minutes. But we... it'll start being sent in mid-September... so, if you're teaching an introduction class and you have a lot of first-time college students, make sure that you really enforce that that survey, when they receive it, it needs to be done... because we actually pay them to do the survey for us... so, it's funding that we're using to get that information. So, if the students aren't completing it, we're paying for nothing, right... so, make sure we do that. And then, last on my report, I just want to make sure that we do an applause for Dan Pinard. And I'm sorry to call you out without telling you, but yeah, let's go ahead and give him a round of applause. [applause] For those of you who don't know, Dan has been up since what 4... ---Dan Pinard: [off mic] 4:30 ---Kelly O'Keefe: 4:30... this morning doing things for All College Day and that's amazing... and then he volunteered to come here and help us. So, thank you so much, Dan. We really, really appreciate you. Okay. And next, we will get a brief report  from our governing board rep, Sarah Abbott. Or did she leave? [Unknown voice, unintelligible] ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay. Are you going to do it, or... ---Dennis Just: No... I figured... we've got a new written report, which is our faculty senate Governing Board report for this week. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay... wonderful... so, that's linked on the agenda... so, we'll go ahead and just let you to look at that on your own. We also have a written TLC report... so, make sure you read that as well. And I'd like to open it up really briefly for a conversation amidst the Senate here, about the officer term length, okay. I know I just brought it up and so you  haven't really had time to stew over it, but any first impressions about what that means for us as a Senate and whether you feel like it's a good move...    because those of us on the charter revision are hoping to, kind of, make those changes as we go... and... and so, if we got your input in real time, it would be a lot easier. So, anyone have any thoughts they would like to share? I'll come with the mic. Okay, Alex. ---Alex Armstrong: So, I do think it would be more useful to hear  from from you guys and from past leadership...   but in terms of the department head leadership structure, it has taken everyone quite a lot of time to get on board... and as soon as you feel like you've absolutely got it, then it's it's time to reassess. And so, my first blush would be that, as long as that seems consistent with your thinking, the longer term limit makes a good deal of sense. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Anyone else? Elliot. And thank you so much for that. [laughter] That's what friends are for. ---Elliot Mead: I'm just going to echo Alex... I'd love to hear what you guys up there have to say. I will think that... just from my experience being on like, academic standing committees, right... where I think we have that 2-year leadership, it does make it really easy to like bring on someone and get them like, settled in, and offloaded without having, you know, kind of whiplash. So, I mean, unless you guys experience differently, I would advocate for it, simply to help onboard and off route people. Nope? I'll keep talking so Kelly can... [chuckles] ---Kelly O'Keefe: Yeah... yes. ---Brooke Anderson: Yeah, I can speak to it as a... as a former officer  of the pres... of the faculty senate... and you know, I started in the Governing Board role, which was a 2-year role... and it did help a lot, to actually be in that position for 2 years and then it...  I really felt acculturated to move into a Vice President role. and so, I do think a 2-year term would be would be a good thing to add to the charter for the officers. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you.  ---Brooke Anderson: Thank you. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Any... oh, good... a past president, right... [chuckles] there you go. ---Rita Lennon: Well, I was looking at Josie going... Josie, you should talk too. So, as a past president, just to give you a little history lesson here... I stepped in, or was voted in, when Josie went into her acting dean role. So, it was supposed to be from December... or September to December... and then was voted in 2 more times. And I'll tell you what... those first 2 months, I had no idea what I was doing... I was just like, I'm just need to get a meeting done. And then the second, you know, that 1 year... I felt like I was really starting to get my bearings. And if I had to end then, I think it would have been, you know, a little sad... [chuckling] because I was just finally starting to get an understanding about what the presidency role was. So, I do think that 2 years for for all officers... and having served 2 different roles, 3 different roles... as secretary as well... so, I think that all of them could definitely use 2 years for sure. ---Brooke Anderson: Just real quick too, if you notice the history... often times people do serve, they end up being... running again... and serving as president for more than 1 year to begin with. We have people that have, you know, served 3, 4 years in our past history. So, you know, it just makes sense to to extend the term. ---Unknown Speaker: So, I'm just curious, are there any concerns  about recruitment if a term were longer? ---Kelly O'Keefe: [laugh] ---Rita Lennon: Um, we've always had trouble with recruitment to be really honest with you. It's not like there's 5 people beating down the doors trying to be the President and the Vice President or something.   We're usually begging people to fill our spots...  so, I don't think it would be any harder. [off mic] It could be. ---Kelly O'Keefe: That's a fair point. [chuckles] Okay... anyone else have any opinions? Now, I know Alex had mentioned that she would like to hear from the officers... but Dr. Roark, did you want to say something? ---Dr. Ian Roark: Can I say something? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Absolutely. ---Dr. Ian Roark: I am not a senator, of course, but yeah, I... from my perspective I think members on the Provos Leadership team... you know, we want to continue to partner more, as you know, in terms of co-leading with the senate on academic initiatives... and I recall, when Rita was 2 years and then also Denise was 2 years... it takes time for us, right... to... we know, of course, many of our faculty senate colleagues... but when they're in this capacity... and then, learning about like, how to work with them in their officer roles... I think it just... it takes time and, you know, frankly...    I feel like I'm just now getting into a great cadence with Dr. O'Keefe for example,   in our one-on-ones... and then, with the group, with our monthly meetings, it's like and then there's going to be new people   again, very quickly... and it's almost like you start all over just getting to know each other again,  before you can really start working on the substantive things.   ---Kelly O'Keefe: Do either of you? No. Do you have any opinion? ---Jane Hall: Thanks Kelly. I think I just want to echo that as well.  I mean, just coming up on a year, I mean,   just there's that learning curve, right...  and just when you're getting comfortable and knowing the position. And so, I think 2 years is a nice balance of being onboarding and then knowing your position and really being able to focus on the work. ---Vivian Knight: Yeah, I want to echo everything that has been  said. Not that I'm advocating to extend my term  because our term will be end in December  and so we are looking forward for the new   faculty senate leadership to be able to better  serve the college and serve our faculty members.   Yes, I mean 1 year is really... the time that we need to learn to do our job. So, thank you.  ---Kelly O'Keefe: Any other comments before we move on? Okay. Now, you'll notice on the President's report, the example I put on there is starting with the next term in January for the next President as Dennis. However, we as a Senate can choose to extend my presidency   and their positions 1 extra year, if that's what we would like, instead of having me as 1 year and I could be the first 2-year, officially... [chuckles]. from our charter, or we can start with the next president that you've elected to come in. So, that's something I would like to really have you think about and we can go ahead and vote on that in September, okay. Any questions? Okay. Next we have Dr. Gwen Schwartz... and yup, there you are. [chuckles] Come on up. And Dr. Schwartz is going to go over the 8-week initiative... and correct me if I'm wrong, but you are our 8-week faculty fellow? Wonderful. Here you go. ---Gwen Schwartz: And I'm not going to go over the initiative. That would take months. [laughs] I'm just here to introduce myself today and to give you a few pieces of information. I will be at faculty senate monthly moving forward to provide updates. We have this year, 13 project teams working on various aspects of the initiative... and so when I get updates from them, I will share them out to the faculty senate. It's a really important piece of our work, to be communicating both ways. What's happening? What needs to happen?  What have we forgotten, or not thought about yet? So, there are a lot of pieces in play right now... lots of people have all kinds of questions... and we have some ways to address that. So, we can go again... that's just who I am. we have a form, it's called "ask a question"... [chuckles] and we really just wanted to have a cloud space for questions coming in,   so that we can be more intentional about saving and addressing them... because it's really easy in a meeting or a forum to hear questions and then not have a really systematic way of answering them.    So, this will help with that, I hope... it'll go into a spreadsheet,   and I'm going to be in charge of the faculty  collaboration and communication project... and so, one of the things that my team will be working  on is figuring out how to address all these questions, no matter what they are... obviously we won't have all the answers right away, but we'll try to parse them out to people who can answer them from a more informed perspective... so, that'll be open... open-ended for the time being. It is open now, so you can ask a question if you have one. It's one question at a time for submission... just for our purposes, that'll make it easy for us to be able to be responsive. And then once a month, we'll take some of those questions that we found answers to and we'll bring those back to this meeting to give you some answers... and if we get a ton of questions at a time, obviously I won't be able to answer   all of them all at once... but it will be a  start. We're also developing some FAQs. There's a whole bunch of research happening. People are talking and I encourage us to keep talking to one another.   Somebody, you know, is teaching an 8-week class. Somebody, you know, does not think it can be done. So, there's a real diverse perspective on this campus, all of our campuses... and we need to start sharing our knowledge. So, that's who I am... and that's what I've got. Also, the naming contest Kelly mentioned earlier... that's the last... this went into effect today. We had a table at All College Day and we got 32 names suggested right on the spot... so far, the form has also accepted a whole bunch of ideas... [chuckles] and so that'll stay open for a week... and if you have ideas, we would love to hear them. Thanks so much. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you, Gwen. Okay... and last, but certainly not least, on our agenda  is Dr. Richmond to report about the SENSE Survey. ---Nic Richmond: Thank you very much... and it's tempting to say like, there's 15 minutes left, I'm going to go really slow.    I'm going to tell you all the details, but I'm not. I promise this will be a very short update. But because I'm feeling very paranoid about something, a random aside first. It was very bizarre. It was very nice, but it felt a little bizarre when the chancellor mentioned me and thanked me for my work this morning and I wasn't in the room... I was hiding behind the curtain. I was backstage helping make sure somebody won the raffle prize... and I think, I feel so uncomfortable... everyone thinks I'm not there, but I'm behind a curtain. Hello. Anyway, that's my point of paranoia today. But to the point... so, this semester we're administering the SENSE survey... this is a survey of entering student engagement, and this is part of a suite of engagement surveys that we've completed in the last couple years. It's a really, really important one. It's developed by a company outside the institution and it provides benchmark data for us.   So it provides a very wealthy set of information  we can use to try and help improve the experience   of new students to the institution. As the name  suggests, new students... it's not class-based and   it doesn't go to all students... so, we're trying to  get the survey to a very specific set of students   and we don't have an easy way to get to them beyond email. So, we tried administering this last fall and our response rate was really pretty low. So happily, they gave us the opportunity to try again, at no additional cost, to try and improve our response rate. So, my ask is... can faculty, if you wouldn't mind, please mention this to your students in your classes. We're not asking for class time. We're not asking to come and administer the survey in your classes... we're just asking that you please mention it, so your new students are aware that this is going on. The link will be sent directly to them... and to support this... couple of weeks into the semester,   we'll send out an email to faculty that will provide a list of all CRNs, and it will let you know the proportion of new students in each CRN... so you can take a look. If you have one new student, if you mention it to them, great. If you're teaching a class that's like 75% new students,   please, please, please mention it to the class.  And that will hopefully give you information to help you know if it's kind of like, worth putting a couple minutes into doing that. Now, if you have a mass of new students and you would like to have someone come administer the survey in your class,   we're happy to do that... but that's voluntary... please reach out to Gayle Bell if you're interested in doing that. I stress... we are not asking for any class time... we just really need your help. When we administered SENSE, which is the whole student body survey from the same suite, faculty totally stepped up... we had an awesome response rate and it was great. So, we are asking for your help again, so we can do the same thing here. And again,  it's a survey that gives us benchmark data. It's really valuable to help us support that early experience for our new students. And we know that's a critical point, right... to help support their success at the college. And as a final note for students who do complete it, they will go into a drawing where they can win a... I think it's $330 now... I have to check with Marcy, but the Pima Foundation is giving some educational cost certificates out to some of the participating students... so they potentially get something out of it as well. And with that, thank you very much... and thank you in advance for your help. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay, so I caught my mistake because... [chuckles] Dr. Richman was so clear about it... this is the SENSE report and the other one is the CCSSE, correct? This is SENSE... all the students are CCSSE. Okay. So, I just want to make sure that I was clear and if anyone else was unclear, because I was calling it something wrong. [laughs] And we have no more on the agenda, everybody. How about an extra 12 minutes of your day? All right. [Thank you from audience] Thank you all so much for coming today... and we are adjourned.