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THE SENATE STANDARD – ISSUE 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Faculty Colleagues,<\/p>\n Please read below to catch up on issues from this week at ACC.<\/p>\n FIRST CALL FOR AGENDA ITEMS – 11\/8\/19 Senate Meeting \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>noon to 2pm HLC 2101 \u2013 The agenda for our next Senate meeting is in development. If you have items, please submit them to\u00a0mpatters@austincc.edu<\/a>\u00a0or your campus senator now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Review and comment on campus master planning [DUE \u2013 November 1, 2019] \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>At our most recent Senate meeting, Mike Midgley shared some details about the campus master planning process. He would like faculty to\u00a0review the grid<\/a>\u00a0he is working on to outline which courses \/ degree plans will be housed at each campus. Examine the grid, and then send your comments \/ concerns to\u00a0midgley@austincc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n FROM ASAC (Academic and Student Affairs Council) \u2013 DUE \u2013 Sunday, October 27, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n MANY new policy changes were discussed and approved at the 10\/4 meeting. This means that the items are now open for COMMENT. If you are concerned about any of the issues below, please comment before the deadline. More details can be found on the\u00a0ASAC\u00a0<\/a>page. Scroll down and open the “items under review” menu, then click on \u201csubmit comment\u201d to add your comments. You can also share concerns with your senate representatives on the ASAC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Counseling Faculty Update \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>On October 8, there was a meeting between Student Affairs Administrators and Counseling Faculty. Some concerns were raised as a result of that meeting, and Senate leadership has now received responses to those concerns. Please read below for details.<\/p>\n Concern over caseload for Clinical Counselors<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Are clinicians seeing too many students? Might they be overloaded?<\/p>\n Concern about the ability to switch from one counselor position to another<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Can (for example) Completion Counselors apply to become Clinical Counselors if Clinical positions open up?<\/p>\n Completion Counselors would like to meet with Success Coaches<\/strong>\u00a0so they can learn from each other with the goal of serving students in the best ways possible. Can there be a joint meeting?<\/p>\n Administration collected notes during the meeting. They will be distributing those soon, and will include a \u201csave the date\u201d for the SWOT when the notes are shared. Counseling faculty, please keep your eyes peeled for that email.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Testing Center Hours<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Do you use the testing centers? If you do, please use\u00a0THIS LINK<\/a>\u00a0to give students the most up to date hours for each testing center. Share the link widely with students to ensure they know when they can take tests on each campus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks for your attention, and good luck during your midterm season!<\/p>\n Best,<\/p>\n ++missi patterson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE SENATE STANDARD – ISSUE 8 Dear Faculty Colleagues, Please read below to catch up on issues from this week at ACC. Senate Meetings FIRST CALL FOR AGENDA ITEMS – 11\/8\/19 Senate Meeting \u2013\u00a0noon to 2pm HLC 2101 \u2013 The agenda for…Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/facultysenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Senate Meetings<\/h2>\n
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