BCAHE Faculty Meeting

25 February 2015

Agenda

• Election Update• CBA Implementation Update• FT Faculty Promotion Process• Legislative Update• Reinventing Governance Update• Complaint/Grievance Processes• Adjunct Issues• WSU Overture Update/Discussion

Election Update

• Balloting closes tomorrow 3 PM• Total participation on par with past experience• Encouragement of colleagues is timely

CBA Implementation Update

• Adjunct promotion process in progress• FT promotion process (almost) agreed

FT Promotion Process

Legislative Update

• Budget context and McCleary funding imperative put higher education funding in question;

• Three bills deserve particular attention;

HB 1863

• Requires trustees to provide step increases or increments to full and part-time faculty as they are negotiated in local agreements. Step increases awarded by a board may exceed compensation provided by the legislature.

• Total amounts provided to academic employees shall not exceed 1.2 percent of the full-time and part-time faculty salary base for each college.

HB 1893

• Requires each community and technical college to post the ending fund balances for all non-state, non-appropriated funds and accounts from the previous fiscal year on their web sites within 30 days of fiscal closing.

SB 5954

• Caps CTC lower division annual operating fee rate to not exceed 6 % of the state’s average wage (which in 2013= $52,375). The upper division operating fee (applied baccalaureate programs) limit would be 10% of the state’s average annual wage. The state and regional (including Evergreen) universities are limited to 14% and 10% respectively.

• Prescribes legislative appropriation at least equal to total state funds appropriated in 2013-15 biennium and the reduction in revenue from undergraduate tuition operating fees received for the 2015-17 fiscal biennium … adjusted for inflation.

Reinventing Governance Update

• Task force meeting regularly• Faculty reps

o Doug Browno Jason Fullero BJ Unti

• Goal is report by end of Winter Quarter• Report to identify issues to be addressed and appropriate

design parameters, illustrated by concrete models• Next step is broader discussion and design built on

foundation of RGTF report

BC Governance System should:

Reinventing Governance Update

• Weighing relative needs for and roles of single-constituency elements (e.g. faculty senate, professional staff senate, …) vs cross-constituency elements (e.g. All College Council).

Complaint & Grievance Processes

• Gripe vs. Complaint vs. Grievance• Bellevue College Complaint Policies

o 1440 Prevention of Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation

o 1440P Discrimination Complaint Resolution Procedures

o 1450 Complaint Policyo 1450P General Complaint Resolution Procedures

Adjunct Issues

• Hiring/class assignment processeso Current CBA: promotion/annual contract optionso Next: development of best practice guidelines

• Divisional policies on section cancellation and per capita compensationo Current CBA: requires consent of instructoro Next: development of best practice guidelines

• Divisional policies on PD fund access & distributiono Current CBA: requires quarterly communication to all facultyo Next: “incitement” of more informed discussion

WSU Overture

• BC/WSU Working Group formed• Regular meetings; next on 2/27

BC Team

o Russ Beardo Ata Karimo Aaron Hilliardo Gita Bangerao Doug Brown

WSU Team

• Provost• VP External Affairs & Gov’t Relations• VP, WSU Global Campus• Chancellor, WSU Vancouver• Interim Director of Enrollment Management

Perspective

• Identify clear reasons to move forward• Increase value to students and communities;• Enhance affordable access & broadening

opportunities• Build on strengths of each institution• Predict / address / mitigate stresses & adverse

impacts of change

January Discussion Feedback

• HopesoMaintain & develop BC mission & role;oHybrid institution, eg. 2+2 w/ WSU hereoServe growing regional population lacking

sufficient baccalaureate access

Categorical Fears

• Decreased focus on BC & WSU missions, defeating chance of fertile hybrid;

• Neglect to partner with a more appropriate partner;

• Irreversibility of decision;• Neglect to ask: “How big is too big?

Implementation Fears

• Impact on current Dev Ed program currently supported through SBCTC;

• More growth without adequate resources;• Moving too fast• Increased workload quarter to semester• Aggravation of current space shortages

Governance Fears

• Partnership will defeat faculty voice in decisions re: baccalaureate programs

• Revision of tenure & post-tenure standards• Prospect of WSU faculty displacing BC faculty• Drift to a two-tiered faculty based on lower- or

upper-division teaching

Curent BC Conservation

• Open access / ABE, ELI, ESL• Open enrollment & student engagement• BC control of curriculum• Prof/tech programs• Current balance of power within disciplines

New BC Developments

• More baccalaureate opportunities• More faculty autonomy in upper-division

teaching• More BC physical space