Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

Present – Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Peggy Codding, Peter Cokkinias, Beth Denisch, Rich Grudzinski, Danny Harrington, Jonathan Holland, Teodros Kiros, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, David Scott, and Will Silvio.

1. Danny made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Rich seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
2. Jackson did the ice bucket challenge yesterday in front of 1140 the video will be on YouTube soon and we will post a link.
3. Management has agreed to bargain the Master’s Program that is starting in the fall of 2015 on the Boston campus. The process will begin as soon as we can work out the specifics of the team, time, and the location. 
4. We discussed the upcoming bargain at length. We are targeting Thursdays at 6 pm for the time slot to bargain with management.

Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

Present – Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Peggy Codding, Peter Cokkinias, Beth Denisch, Marti Epstein, Rich Grudzinski, Danny Harrington, Jonathan Holland, Teodros Kiros, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, Will Silvio and Jeri Sykes.

1. Danny made a motion to accept the minutes as amended from the previous meeting. Jonathan seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
    
2. Master’s Program on Boston Campus. Peggy has information regarding Florida State University and their weighting of a Master’s Program both by contact hours and office hours. Many other colleges throughout the nation have adopted their approach. Peter contacted BU, BoCo, NYU, and Longy, looked at their programs and how they have put them together and he shared that information. We will be collating all info provided by both Peggy and Peter in preparation for our meetings with management.
   
   One major difference in comparison with other colleges, our courses are often twcredits whereas at other institutions the same courses are three, which equals an excessive workload for our faculty. We need to address this as we go forward with the Master’s Program. 
    
3. We discussed tuition reimbursement and the graduate program; the college may want our faculty to get terminal degrees and the college should pay for our faculty to complete them.
    
4. We discussed the sexual assault policy. HR has put together a new document that we will be reviewing.
    
5. Jackson will be fulfilling the Ice-Bucket Challenge by Roger Brown on Wednesday 10/08/14 at 2:30 pm in front of 1140.

Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

Present – Dennis Cecere, Peggy Codding, Peter Cokkinias, Marti Epstein, Danny Harrington, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, David Scott, and Will Silvio.

1. Wendy made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Danny seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
    
2. We discussed blind students in the writing division, scores, and adjusting materials for the students. The attitude of the college has been to place the onus on the faculty member and say good luck. There needs to be a policy for how faculty are compensated for the additional materials and time that are needed for these students. Jackson will discuss the specifics with the department chair as a start. We also will bring this up at the next management meeting.
    
3. Management has agreed to talk with the Union over the Master’s Program starting on the Boston campus in the fall of 2015. Jackson has spoken with a person in Valencia regarding the way they are running that program. We discussed the specifics or lack of. 
   
   Any faculty teaching on the Boston campus will fall under our contract. If management is not willing to work amicably we will file an injunction to prevent the program to start in a timely manner. 
   
   MSCA – http://mscaunion.org/DGCE_2012/DGCE_2012-2014.pdf 
   
   Information from other local grad programs is a great resource for comparison.