COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY LEADERS’ COALITION
MEETING MINUTES
JANUARY 22, 2000
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Emma Brombin (President), Daytona Beach CC
Martha Campbell (Vice-President/Treasurer), St. Petersburg Junior College
Carol Blakeman (Secretary), Central Florida CC
Barbara Burrows, (Parliamentarian), Santa Fe CC
Robin Boggs, Brevard CC
Kate LeGrand, Broward CC
Tom Green, Broward CC
Glenna Morelock, Central Florida CC
Tessie Bond, Florida CC at Jacksonville
Jean Riddle, Florida CC at Jacksonville
Sheri Carder, Lake City CC
Ana Ciereszko, Miami-Dade CC
Maria Mari, Miami-Dade CC
Julia Polk, Okaloosa-Walton CC
Steve Lodle, Santa Fe CC
Jack Motta, Santa Fe CC
GUESTS: Dr. Paul Tyree, President of Santa Fe Community College
Mike Murtha, aide to Senator Kirkpatrick
Dr. Tyree welcomed CCFLC to the campus and answered questions from members regarding
mostly current legislative issues. Dr. Tyree presented CCFLC members with Santa Fe Community
College bags.
Guest Presentation:
Mike Murtha, aide to Senator Kirkpatrick, talked about how well the community colleges overall
have performed in relation to budget issues. He encouraged the representatives from the
community colleges to help candidates in their campaigns and/or initial candidacy to gain support
for their ideas, etc. He also suggested to look for who has the power, be very clear in one’s
approach to legislators and explain who you are, what your motivations, interests, and wants are
in one paragraph. He encouraged organizations to invite prospective candidates to an interview
session and then not let them forget you once they are elected. Mr. Murtha answered questions
from the membership.
Routine Business:
Call to Order and Quorum Call - There are 10 voting representatives (Brevard CC, Broward CC,
CFCC, DBCC, FCCJ, LCCC, MDCC, OWCC, SPJC, SFCC)
Approval of Minutes - Typographical corrections made to the minutes. Motion made to accept the
minutes of the last meeting, seconded, and approved.
Approval of Agenda - Motion made to follow the agenda, seconded, and approved by the
representatives.
Institutional Updates:
Ana Ciereszko reported for MDCC. Negotiations are taking place with administration, and many
of the negotiations are now positive. Miami-Dade will have a contract ratification vote in
approximately 2 weeks. She reports they still have no faculty governance.
Kate LeGrand reported for Broward CC. She states students are allowed to start courses 2
weeks after classes have started. The faculty would like smaller class sizes. Broward CC also
awards an adjunct professor of the year, and this is through Faculty Senate. She reports faculty is
trying to increase their presence by doing things such as capitalizing the word faculty in contracts
and have an icon on the webpage for names of faculty. Tom Green reported on the phase in of a
3-year contract. Faculty have decreased their work days and some contracts end at the beginning
of May this year. Faculty can teach 9 hrs each summer semester and receive adjunct pay.
Faculty would like to see flexibility of teaching terms, such as teaching winter and summer terms
instead of fall term. The faculty organization has filed an unfair labor practice based on the
teaching calendar. Broward CC is revisiting faculty evaluations. They are developing a charter
high school.
Robin Boggs reported for Brevard CC. The faculty and administration are negotiating and going
back to the table on Wednesday. Brevard CC has implemented a VIP status (merit pay) for faculty
- 35% of faculty can qualify for VIP status and the increased pay is added to their base which
continues throughout their employment and affects retirement therefore.
Julia Polk reported for Okaloosa-Walton CC. The charter high school is going to go through. The
School Board in the town is also going to have their own charter school, and the School Board is
using Troy State College from Alabama to help with their charter school. The plan is to bookend
Troy State College with faculty from the local school system. There are now bad feelings between
the faculty at the community college and faculty at the local school system. SACS accreditation is
also coming up with the visitation being next year.
Martha Campbell reported for SPJC. The Board of Trustees stated faculty are underpaid and
mandated to the President of St. Pete JC to do a comparison of faculty salaries. The report
showed faculty salaries were in the upper half but not upper quartile. The report looked at eight
community colleges similar in size to SPJC, and SPJC was among the lowest. The faculty then
received a 4% raise following an earlier raise of 4% for this year. The Board was not satisfied.
The Board wants the salary of the faculty to be among the top 3 in the state. $1.65 million had to
be found from other budget allocations to accommodate for the faculty raises. Faculty and
administration looked at intellectual property rights. If a faculty member develops a course with
college money and the courseware is sold, the faculty member receives 50% of proceeds and
royalties. Full time faculty have the right to teach a course the faculty member has developed for
three consecutive semesters. If the faculty member leaves the college except for retirement,
royalties would cease. SPJC has an electronic campus. Martha states USF has brought a
campus to St. Petersburg which is competing for their students. The President of SPJC got a $5
million grant and is brokering a center for other colleges to offer BA’s and graduate degrees.
SPJC also received another grant to develop 140 online courses. Faculty voted to end late
registration and will take to the President. Martha was asked to post on the listserve and tally
results about what is happening at the other Florida community colleges in regards to
policies/procedures on distance learning including agreements and contracts with a deadline of
Feb 15.
Tessie Bond reported for FCCJ. FCCJ has a responsive governance model. The President has
been at FCCJ for two years now and is responsive to faculty issues. Issues that faculty are
addressing are about compensation packages, class schedules, class sizes, and adjuncts. There
are two task forces looking at adjunct salary and contracts and the orientation process for
incorporating adjuncts into campus life. FCCJ will perform an equity study for full-time faculty and
also look at the evaluation process for administrators. The Faculty Senate has a web page with
links to other committees, councils, etc.
Sherri Carder reported for LCCC. There is no faculty group at LCCC and SACS is coming for
their visitation. Faculty have been warned about what to say and encouraged to wear name tags.
LCCC is under new management: There is a new Board of Trustees, new logo, new colors for the
school, and faculty is retiring in droves. Thirteen out of 51 are new faculty members. Salaries for
new faculty start at $23,000. The big faculty issue concerns not getting the COLA raise if one has
a doctorate degree, since the range is topped out. Another big issue is a one-time reward with
further education for career employees. There has been a decline in the enrollment since 1990:
It is now at 30%. LCCC is trying to establish an E-campus. For students who do not have
computers nor internet access, there are three computer labs on campus that would allow the
student access to the website. There is a Management Council, but it does not have any faculty
members.
Barbara Burrows reported for SFCC. SACS is coming, and faculty are represented on the
committees for the SACS visit. Things at SFCC are pretty good.
Glenna Morelock reported for CFCC. A task force of faculty established roles and responsibility
for faculty. Also, a new evaluation system will be derived from what this committee comes up with
and it is possible that it will be tied in with incentive pay. The faculty have gone on record as being
opposed to incentive pay. The new Board of Trustees hears from the new President, but the
President is faculty sensitive. He attends Faculty Senate meetings once a month and responds to
issues brought up at these meetings. Issues the Faculty Senate want addressed include faculty
salaries, number of adjuncts and adjunct pay, and sick leave. The President took the goals to
improve faculty salaries and increase the number of full-time faculty to the Board of Trustees, and
has approved them. The President would like to have mini-retreat with Faculty Senate and
Administration next month. An adjunct committee has just been formed and is headed by the VP
for Instruction and mainly faculty. CFCC has a moratorium on developing new online courses until
the committee developing policies and procedures regarding online courses has had a chance to
produce its findings. Currently, the student enrollment for an online course is capped at 20.
Emma Brombin reported for DBCC. The new President, Dr. Kent Sharples, is from South
Carolina and has been on the job only six months, but he appears sincere and sensitive to faculty
concerns. DBCC has had a shake up of its governance system: There is now a Planning
Council, composed of 50% faculty and 50% administrators, which looks to the needs of the
college through recommendations from specific committees reflecting the make up of the college.
SACS is coming for their visitation in two years. Faculty summer pay is being studied; now faculty
is paid one summer term at the prorated contract salary, and the other summer term at the
adjunct rate, which is considerably lower. Faculty would like both terms to be prorated. The
College Council had approved an evaluation system for administrators and it was performed last
year. Now, the new Planning Council is revisiting the evaluation instrument before it will be
administered again fearing it might be punitive. Morale of our college community seems to be
edging its way up again. The President invited staff and faculty to an open house at his home over
Christmas. Quite a novel approach for DBCC! Furthermore, as there has been no opportunity for
advancement within the college in the past, the President is promoting such mobility. His plans
include leadership conferences, shadowing and mentoring. Every year twenty people will go
through this process. Emma had a meeting with Dr. Sharples to present him with information
about CCFLC.
Steve Lodle reported he was elected Treasurer of the Faculty Commission of FACC and hopes he
will be commission chair in a couple of years. He would like to push CCFLC’s position papers to
that commission and would also like the FACC commission chair to have access to the
memberships’ e-mail addresses for faster communication.
Reports of Coalition Officers
Emma Brombin reported that she has been trying to get the legislative liaisons organized and in
contact with the legislators. Has tried to contact all 28 community colleges but still needs some
help on that. She deposited the money from last meeting into the DBCC Credit Union ($215.00
two hundred and fifteen dollars) and the account has earned $1.91 in interest.
Martha Campbell had no report.
Carol Blakeman reported some people contacted about need for room or offer for rooms.
Web master - Steve Lodle reports over 5000 hits a month to the CCFLC website at:
http://inst.santafe.cc.fl.us/~ccflc Our CCFLC webpage is being linked by many other
organizations’ web sites. One can also access the 28 community colleges from the SBCC web
site at: www.dcc.firn.edu/college/collmap.htm
Everyone is invited to visit the CCFLC webpage and communicate any errors, discrepancies with
the links or offer suggestions for improvement to Steve at: steve.lodle@santafe.cc.fl.us
Legislative Liaison Coordinator - Emma reported that Ronda Ryder-Allison will have to resign due
to health reasons. She asked Ronda if she could find someone from TCC who would do take her
place and she will let us know. Tom Green reported the legislative program adopted by UFF
Senate on Oct 99 and presented a copy of the legislative program and important legislative dates.
The two teachers’ union groups are merging and will be representing 100,000 members. UFF
presented a “Friend of Education” award to a legislator and recommends for this organization to
do the same thing. Encourage membership to participate in legislative caucuses.
Listserve Administrator - Emma reported for Karen Wetz who was unable to attend but sent an
updated listserv mailing list to pass out for corrections.
Discussion of Position Paper Draft on Bright Futures Program - Discussed position paper.
Questions raised and discussed. Amendments made and approved. Barbara will make the
recommended changes to the paper and bring back tomorrow for final approval.
Discussion of Position Paper Draft on Part-time Faculty - Discussed position paper. Changes
made. Barbara will make the recommended changes to the paper and bring back tomorrow for
further discussion and approval.
Respectfully submitted,
Carol A. Blakeman
Secretary CCFLC
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY LEADERS’ COALITION
MEETING MINUTES
JANUARY 23, 2000
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Emma Brombin (President), Daytona Beach CC
Martha Campbell (Vice-President), St. Petersburg Junior College
Carol Blakeman (Secretary), Central Florida CC
Barbara Burrows (Parliamentarian), Santa Fe CC
Robin Boggs, Brevard CC
Kate LeGrand, Broward CC
Tessie Bond, Florida CC at Jacksonville
Jean Riddle, Florida CC at Jacksonville
Sheri Carder, Lake City CC
Ana Ciereszko, Miami-Dade CC
Maria Mari, Miami-Dade CC
Julia Polk, Okaloosa-Walton CC
Steve Lodle, Santa Fe CC
Jack Motta, Santa Fe CC
Final approval of position papers
Florida Academic/Bright Futures Scholarship Program - Barbara has made the recommended
changes to the paper. Reviewed. Motion made to accept with the changes, seconded,
discussion ensued and unanimously approved. Barbara retyped the paper with the changes and
passed it out to members present.
Part-time Faculty - Barbara has made the recommended changes to the paper. Reviewed and
discussed paper. Motion made to accept with the changes, seconded, and unanimously
approved. Barbara retyped the paper with the changes and passed it out to members present.
Emma asked everyone to take these papers back to their respective faculty
senates/councils/associations etc. for an endorsement of the papers in their entirety and to e-mail
her when the position papers have passed.
Reports on Delegation Hearing Presentations:
Emma showed the packet she prepared for each member of her political delegation. In a clear
plastic envelope, she placed a personalized letter, the front page of the CCFLC Constitution and
Bylaws (the preamble and purpose), and chose three CCFLC position papers (shared
governance, continuing contracts/tenure, and distance learning) and sealed it with the assigned
legislative liaison’s business card. One may choose any of the position papers according to the
particular interests of the legislator, as long as the format is consistent and standardized. These
packets were personally presented to each legislator by the CCFLC/DBCC legislative liaisons
assigned to them at the delegation hearing in her community. While Emma was announcing each
of the Legislative Liaisons by their name, they would walk up, shake the legislators’ hand and
present him or her with the packet of information. This choreographed presentation was quite
effective. The delegation list for each Florida county may be found at www.leg.state.fl.us One of
the members suggested to link that address to ours. Emma will send out the address on the
listserve. She has a list of colleges that have established liaisons. The new legislative liaison can
e-mail either the CCFLC representative at each college or the legislative liaisons at each college.
Emma will notify the membership when a legislative liaison has been appointed.
Academic instruction innovation proposal, a plan for the new millenium:
Emma would like CCFLC to research and study the possibility of devising a new educational
system in which learning be the constant and time be the variable. Considering the low college
readiness of our students today and society’s need to have a truly competent work-force, the
emphasis on learning would allow the student who needs more “time on task” to achieve the level
of competency needed to perform a task. Emma discussed the educational system in Europe
versus the US and the concept and mission of community colleges. Tessie discussed using such
a system in the 1970’s and the problems associated with it. Maria also discussed this system
from a student’s perspective, since she was a student when such a system was used. Emma
suggests to “think out of the box” and envision no grades or GPA: students would exhibit
competency. Jean discussed that her president is interested in this and will be having a class at
FCCJ next term. Kate also talked about students not caring about the grade. Ana suggested
Emma write a paper about a charter community college to include what education is to us, what
education should be, and what education can be.
Steve Lodle distributed The One Florida Plan: A community College Perspective written by the
President of Pensacola Junior College. Steve would like everyone to read it.
Barbara discussed the papers she had passed out to everyone yesterday. Barbara talked about
the Adequacy Challenge. Discussion ensued.
Reaching and including colleges that do not belong to CCFLC:
Emma listed the status of each of the 28 community colleges with reference to CCFLC , their level
of participation on listserv discussions, correspondence and meeting attendance. Efforts were
made to reach out to those colleges that have no faculty representation and willingness to
continue to do so was reaffirmed. Present members were enlisted to make personal contact with
faculty they know at these campuses and see how we may be able to help.
Location of next meeting:
Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Sept 23 - 24, 2000
CCFLC and state recognition/sanction/funding:
Emma will investigate how to obtain funding. Joe Lang, Chair of the State Board of Community
Colleges was suggested.
Emma requests that the person posing the question on the listserve please summarize the results
and send them to the listserv.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Carol A. Blakeman
CCFLC Secretary