Meeting & Agendas

Formal written proposals for an extension exemption status for the departments listed below were reviewed. The Deans for the requesting departments presented clarifying information for each of the requests. Those departments that were granted an extension from using eStaffing for purposes of staffing adjunct faculty to ACC course sections will require an annual statement from the Department Chair and Dean certifying the qualifying conditions under which the exemption was granted have not changed. Health Sciences Departments Granted an Extension of Exemption Status: Associate Degree Nursing Dental Hygiene Emergency Medical Services Professions Medical Laboratory Technology Occupational Therapy Assistant Pharmacy Technician Physical Therapy Assistant Radiology Sonography Surgical Technology Vocational Nursing Recommended for disapproval from exemption status: Personal Fitness Trainer 2 Health Sciences Departments total were removed from exemption status: Health Information Technology Personal Fitness Trainer Applied Technology/Workforce Departments Granted an Extension of Exemption Status: Building Construction Technology Commercial Music Fire Protection, Technology/ACC Fire Academy Jewelry Music Welding 5 Departments were removed from exemption status: American Sign Language Interpreter Training Auto Body Repair Human Services Heating, Air Conditioning, & Refrigeration Radio, Television, & Film Business Studies Department Granted an Extension of Exemption Status: Office Administration The eStaffing Committee will update the eStaffing Exemption Request forms that were submitted, and send them to Mike Midgley for his signature. There was also unanimous consent within the Committee that all departments not granted an exemption should use eStaffing, effective immediately. The next semester set for eStaffing is the Summer 2012. Summer 2012 eStaffing begins in January, 2012.

A proposal to change Administrative Rule 4.06.002 (\'\'Staffing of Adjunct Faculty\'\') was presented. The proposal seeks to further define \'\'Senior\'\' status as one in which the instructor has 10 semesters or more (with no more than two counted in each academic year) in the same discipline. As this relates to eStaffing, the proposal eliminates the category \'\'MSTA Exception\'\', and replaces that category, which has the highest order priority within eStaffing with \'\'MSTA Senior\'\'. The practical ramifications of the change is that the first priority group staffed within eStaffing would be the larger \'\'MSTA Senior\'\' population. The MSTA (non-Senior) population would be second in order. Senior designation for Phase 2 Adjuncts would have no effect. All Adjunct instructors (at the Phase 2 level) would continue to be processed as the last group in random order. The eStaffing agreed to forward the recommendation to Mike Midgley for discussion at a future ACAC meeting.

Glen gave an update on the demo of the eStaffing system performed for the AFA Officers and the President\'s Leadership Team at a meeting on November 21, 2011. The demo focused on the Department Chairs\' tasks in assigning sections and how the random ordering of sections works in conjunction with adjunct faculty section preferences.