THE SENATE STANDARD – ISSUE 19
ACC Full-Time Faculty Senate Website
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
The semester is off to a great start! I hope you’ve had the chance to work with wonderful students, faculty colleagues, and staff. There is already a lot going on, and I invite you to learn more by reading this week’s Senate Standard.
Senate Meetings / Minutes / Agendas
1/24/20 Senate Meeting – Minutes and agenda are now posted on the senate website.
2/14/20 Senate Meeting – noon to 2pm HBC 301 – This is the first call for agenda items for our February meeting. Please send items for consideration to me at [email protected] or to your campus senator.
Newsworthy
New Reporting Rules – Starting January 1, there are new rules regarding reporting of sexual assault, harassment, dating violence and stalking. You should have received an email from Charlene Buckley on January 14 entitled “Important Legislative Update”. Please take a moment to review that information to ensure that you are in compliance. You can learn more, and find the form for reporting at www.austincc.edu/compliance.
Parking Grace Period – Ends February 6. Be sure to get a permit before that date!
The Academic Master Planning (AMP) process will continue on February 7 with Area of Study meetings. Learn more about it on the timeline portion of the AMP website. Reach out to your department chair or dean if you want to be a part of your Area of Study team!
Rio Grande Attache Building Cleanout – Due to upcoming construction, this entire building needs to be cleaned out. If you have anything in the building, February 28 is the final deadline to get your things out. Anything left after that date will be disposed of.
Food and Housing Insecurity – Last Fall, ACC participated in a student survey called “The RealCollege Survey”. It investigates many things, but among them, student homelessness and student food insecurity. A full report will be released in February, but for now you should be aware that of our students who responded to the survey, 42% are food insecure, and 53% are housing insecure. In an upcoming Senate Standard, I’ll be sharing some ways we as faculty can help. For now, recognize that when students in class seem sleepy, disengaged, or unprepared, it may be a reaction to these realities rather than anything else we might assume. Keep your eyes peeled for more about the RealCollege Survey and how we can help our students.
Current Action Items (These are reminders for things I’ve already sent out):
Academic and Student Affairs Council (ASAC) items out for comment [due February 3, 2020 – LAST REMINDER!]
The items below are available for review and comment by College employees. These items are posted on the ASAC website. (https://sites.austincc.edu/asac/). Comments may be entered into the related comment form (link to comment form found directly above Items Under Review drop-down menu, and beside each individual item). You can review the email from JoAnn Nunez on January 6 entitled “[ACC Employees] Academic and Student Affairs Council Items Open for Comments” for more details. You may now comment on:
• Proposed Modifications to Certain Processes Related to Dual Credit
• Proposed Institutional Definition of a Student
• Proposed Revisions to Administrative Rule 4.04.021 – Assessment, Placement and Remediation Requirements for ESOL
SCHOLARSHIPS!!! [due April 1, 2020]
As mentioned in the last Standard, the ACC Foundation has ONE APPLICATION for all 700 scholarships they offer our students. Applications are open now, so please let your students know about them. There is help to complete the applications available at every ACCelerator. Students can view THIS PAGE to get the application, and help to apply.
Best,
++missi patterson