December 2016 Update on Chancellors Faculty Fellows and Performance Pay

Chancellor May has responded to the recommendations submitted by the task forces assembled to make recommendations for improvement to the Chancellors Faculty Fellows program and Performance Pay Initiative program. Each of these two task forces has benefited from the vigorous and robust participation of both faculty and instructional leaders.

You may read Dr. May's response to the recommendations for the Chancellors Faculty Fellows program in the PDF document at this link. To give time to develop policy language and budget processes to implement the recommendations with which Dr. May agrees, the Chancellors Faculty Fellows program is on pause for this year's faculty hiring cycle (new faculty to start Fall 2017). The program, with the accepted recommendations in place, is then expected to be reactivated during Fall 2017 for faculty hires to begin in Fall 2018.

Chancellor May also has accepted all of the recommendations from the Performance Pay Incentive task force. According to Dr. May, "we will move forward to announce the 2^nd year (spring 2017) of the pilot (with proposals due on January 23, 2017), followed closely by the call for projects to be considered for action during 2017-2018 (with proposals due on March 1, 2017)." You may review the newly revised Chancellors Authorized Operating Procedure for PPI, the Employee Desktop Guide on PPI, the PPI proposal form, and the PPI evaluation form. 

The Faculty Council thanks all of the faculty and instructional leaders who have worked hard on these task forces to refine these programs.

Update on Chancellor’s Faculty Fellows Task Force

The Chancellors Faculty Fellows Task Force met Oct. 31 to review all of the feedback received regarding the program, to discuss the revisions proposed, and to prepare a formal recommendation to send to Dr. May for review. 

The Task Force concentrated its efforts on crafting recommendations regarding only the recruitment and hiring processes for Chancellor’s Faculty Fellows; a review of the Boot Camp and Mentoring curriculum will take place in the spring of 2017. 

The feedback the Task Force received, in two separate installments, can be seen in this document (from Oct. 9) and this document (from Oct. 30). The formal recommendations are in this document; the cover letter to the Chancellor is here. 

Chancellors Faculty Fellows Task Force offers proposed program revisions for feedback

Colleagues,

The Chancellors Faculty Fellows Task Force met Oct. 17 to prepare a document that reflected the various comments, concerns, and suggestions that faculty and instructional leaders submitted to improve the Chancellors Faculty Fellows program.

Please thoroughly read the most recent recommendations document available at this link, (and this Board policy document, this description of the Chancellors Faculty Fellows program as it existed in its pilot year, and this credentialing matrix) and submit your comments, questions, and suggestions, via this online feedback form, between Oct. 24 and 28. Your comments do not require a login, and remain anonymous.

The Task Force will meet again Oct. 31 to consider feedback received between Oct. 24 and 28, and will prepare a revised set of recommendations for co-chairs Dr. Jose Adames (El Centro College president) and Matt Hinckley (Eastfield faculty/DCCFA president) to present to Chancellor's Staff on Nov. 7. Other members of the Chancellors Faculty Fellows Task Force are Phillip Ortiz (EFC), Johnnie Bellamy (EFC), Mary Mallard (CVC), Lori Doddy (MVC), Jessie Yearwood (ECC), Beth Stall (ECC), Matthew Henry (RLC), Martha Hogan (RLC), Czarina Reyes (BHC), and Sharon Blackman (DO).

Update on Chancellor’s Faculty Fellows Task Force

The Chancellor’s Faculty Fellows Task Force (CFFTF) has begun its work of reviewing the Fellows initiative in order to make recommendations for systemic change and improvements. The CFFTF is being co-chaired by Jose Adames and Matt Hinckley. CFFTF members are: Sharon Blackman, Jessie Yearwood, Beth Stall, Martha Hogan, Bethany Pereira, Johnnie Bellamy, Phillip Ortiz, Lori Doddy, and Matthew Henry.

The first meeting was held on September 29, 2016.  The CFFTF is specifically charged with the following:

·         To review the pilot year’s procedures and timeline, and make recommendations for systemic improvements in the 2016-2017 program.

·         To identify barriers to hiring and make recommendations to diminish those barriers for Fellows’ candidates.

·         To review “boot camp” curriculum and make recommendations for improvement.

All of the documents distributed at the meeting are available in this folder. This includes the charges to the group, a process document, a form for mentors, and a lengthy Q&A document created last spring to respond to the many questions about the Fellows program raised by faculty last fall and spring (2015-16).

At the meeting, members were informed that Talent Central has decided that this initiative will continue this academic year and that the pool for new applicants will open in November, 2016. As of now, per the charges, the Chancellor’s Fellows program will be open to those who “have no full-time higher education teaching experience.”

The CFFTF members discussed various concerns, among them the rational for the program, its parameters and eligibility criteria, and the ways in which we might define “diversity.” As a first step, we all agreed to solicit feedback from each of the seven colleges. Each member of the CFFTF is to gather feedback in the form of questions, concerns, and suggestions for improvement.

To gather this information, we are using a simple Google form, which you can access at this link: https://goo.gl/forms/h8AIJYVbG9Z7cyIz2

There is no login, so your comments will remain anonymous.  You can fill out as much of the form as you care to—one, two, or all three sections.  Please complete this before Friday, October 7th.

The next meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, October 17th. The CFFTF will then produce a draft document with recommendations that will be shared electronically with district stakeholders from October 18-21 (as a virtual “town hall” via Google).

A final meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, October 31st. The intent is to craft a final recommendations document for presentation to the Chancellors Staff at its meeting on November 7th.