Information on Special Convention Day 2 – Thursday, August 19, 3:30 p.m.

Special Convention Day 2 – Thursday, August 19, 3:30 p.m.

Please plan to attend the second session of the 3-day convention tomorrow starting at 3:30 p.m. The agenda and information sheets in the previous blog posts contain all the links to the Zoom meetings each, but to ensure you find it easily, the link for Thursday’s session, it is provided again below.

Thursday’s session is specifically for voting on the Motions to Amend that were presented in Wednesday’s session. For a sample ballot so you know what to expect, you can view the PDF of a sample ballot here.

REMINDER: Thursday is ONLY considering motions to amend the qualified proposals (from blog post on August 3). You can use this link to compare the original versions to the amended versions as proposed in the sample ballot to decide which version should move forward to Friday’s vote.  The Instructions and Information sheet provides an explanation of what we are doing each day so you can keep track.

 

Resumption of the Convention - Thursday, August 19, 3:30 p.m.

• Virtually on Zoom at DCCFA August 18-20, 2021 Convention - Day TWO
• Full Invitation:

Tommy Thompson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: DCCFA August 18-20 Convention - Day TWO

Time: Aug 19, 2021 03:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/91644183080?pwd=Vm5hOThVVG5WdEtheGZjWEVMUm81dz09

 

Meeting ID: 916 4418 3080

Passcode: dccfa2021

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Dial by your location

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        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

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        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

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        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

Meeting ID: 916 4418 3080

Passcode: 505970770

Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adcaGZ9HO1

 

Contact any of these individuals if you have any technical difficulty and they will try to help you:

·         Jennifer Siemantel (CVC) available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by email JSiemantel@dcccd.edu

·         Andrew Tolle (EFC) available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by email AndrewTolle@dcccd.edu

·         Natasha Stracener (MVC) available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday IN PERSON at MVC in H121 (may only be by email on Friday if campus is closed) or by email natashastracener@dccc.edu

Information on the August 18-20 DCCFA Special Convention

Please plan to attend the convention tomorrow. The agenda and information sheet in the previous blog post contain all the links to the Zoom meetings each , but to ensure you find it easily, the link for Wednesday’s session is provided again below.

 

REMINDER: If you would like to submit a motion to amend one of the qualified proposals being considered tomorrow (see blog post on August 3), you must submit that motion through this Microsoft Form for motions to amend after reading the Instructions and Information sheet carefully. We strongly encourage you to submit your motion by 8:00 p.m. this evening, or at least before the convention begins tomorrow so we can get it into the screensharing slides to show during the session.

 

Wednesday, August 18, Convention Day 1, starting at 2:00 p.m.

Opening of the Convention - Wednesday, August 18, 2:00 p.m.

• Live at Commissioners Court, 411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202.
• Virtually on Zoom at: DCCFA August 18-20, 2021 Convention - Day ONE
  
  

Full Invitation:

Tommy Thompson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: DCCFA August 18-20, 2021 Convention - Day ONE

Time: Aug 18, 2021 02:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/93387452287?pwd=bUNLUXlRR2prVTFveCtWQnUvNHhNdz09

 

Meeting ID: 933 8745 2287

Passcode: dccfa2021

One tap mobile

+13462487799,,93387452287#,,,,*188714314# US (Houston)

+16699006833,,93387452287#,,,,*188714314# US (San Jose)

 

Dial by your location

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

Meeting ID: 933 8745 2287

Passcode: 188714314

Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ac3cN6L1Mg

TECHNICAL SUPPORT:

Contact any of these individuals if you have any technical difficulty getting into Zoom or into your Microsoft account for voting, and they will try to help you:

• Bill Hammerschlag (BHC) available Wednesday from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. by email at whammer@dcccd.edu
• Jennifer Siemantel (CVC) available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by email JSiemantel@dcccd.edu
• Andrew Tolle (EFC) available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by email AndrewTolle@dcccd.edu
• Natasha Stracener (MVC) available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday IN PERSON at MVC in H121(may only be by email on Friday if campus is closed) or by email natashastracener@dccc.edu  and phone at (901)-619-5257.

Information on, and Invitation to, Join the DCCFA Special Return Week Convention

Dear faculty,

Thank you all for your patience as we, like everyone, have attempted to navigate a sea of great change at Dallas College while also dealing with a pandemic and worry about the safety and health of ourselves and our loved ones. We hope that this convention will be the start of all faculty moving forward together to ensure the high standards we expect from ourselves as faculty and from Dallas College as an institution focused on student success and transforming lives.  Please join us for this three-day convention in the spirit we offer it – as an attempt to find the best way forward together. 

 

One important thing I want to share is that this convention is officially part of the 2020-2021 membership year, so all existing members may participate and all active members (FT faculty who paid dues for AY 2020-2021) are eligible to vote. You do NOT need to join the DCCFA for this upcoming new year (2021-2022) to participate in this convention or vote.  We hope you will join for the new year, but it is not required to vote this week.

 

This convention is a special convention to finish the business of the prior convention. Our annual convention is scheduled for Friday, November 12.  We are still in an emergency period due to the pandemic, so allowances must be made to ensure that all faculty voices can be heard, even if they are unable to attend a convention in person or stream continuously in the virtual meeting.

 

As such, following up on the May 7, 2021 vote to hold this return week convention with a virtual component, the Council on Friday, August 6, 2021 unanimously passed a motion that considers “presence” at the convention to be met by the act of logging in to vote on the proposed constitutional amendments, proposed bylaws amendments, and proposed resolutions. Therefore, during voting periods, members are not required to be present in the live or virtual meeting to vote if they participate in the voting during the specified times in the Convention agenda using their Microsoft DCCCD accounts.

 

There are two very important files provided with this message, the first is the convention agenda and the second is the information and instructions file that explains the format of the convention, the voting format, and safeguards.  Please review these files very carefully – we will follow them to ensure a productive convention and to ensure that everyone is able to participate in the voting and have time to consider what they are voting for or against. 

 

Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday at 2:00 pm.

Dr. Tommy Thompson
DCCFA President

Faculty Council elects New DCCFA President, Vice President, and Secretary

The Faculty Council met Friday, August 13, 2021, to elect a new President, Vice President, and Secretary of the DCCFA.

Ryan Pettengill had resigned as president of the Mountain View Faculty Association effective August 7, and thus also as President of the DCCFA. The MVCFA elected Margo Silva to succeed him as president of the MVCFA.

Jennifer Hudson Allen has taken a one-semester leave of absence as president of the Brookhaven Faculty Association. BHCFA Vice President Peggy Mason has succeeded her has interim president of the BHCFA.

The DCCFA Faculty Council now consists of:

Brookhaven: Peggy Mason
Cedar Valley: Tommy Thompson
El Centro: Wade Hyde
Eastfield: Matt Hinckley
Mountain View: Margo Silva
North Lake: Keith Baker
Richland: Rolanda Randle

On August 13, the Council elected the following officers:

President: Tommy Thompson
Vice President: Margo Silva
Secretary: Peggy Mason

Keith Baker continues to serve as Treasurer.

In addition, the Council also agreed to re-assign chairs of several of the DCCFA standing committees. The committee chairs are now as follows:

Budget and Finance: Keith Baker
Communications: Peggy Mason
Convention Planning: Rolanda Randle
Instructional Goals and Academic Freedom: Wade Hyde
Membership: Tommy Thompson
Political Information: Matt Hinckley
Welfare and Benefits: Margo Silva

Information on Roundtable Discussions of Proposed Amendments to the DCCFA Constitution and the DCCFA Bylaws, and Proposed Resolutions

This Advance Blog post will be updated as additional roundtable discussions are scheduled.

For more on the full list of submissions and about the convention, see this post on the DCCFA Advance Blog.

Constitutional Amendments 2 and 3, and Bylaws Amendments 4, 5, and 6

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 9:30 - 10:15 a.m.

This roundtable is to allow discussion about Proposed Constitutional Amendments 2 and 3 in this document as well as Proposed ByLaws Amendments 4, 5 and 6 all submitted by Jennifer Baggett, Lamrot Bekele, C. Patrice Lockett, Rolanda Randle and Mary Wood.

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Bylaws Amendment 8, and Resolutions 1-5 and 6-12

Thursday, August 12, 2021 9:00 - 930 a.m.

This roundtable is to allow discussion about Proposed Bylaws Amendment 8, and Proposed Resolutions 1-5 and 6-12, in this document, submitted by various authors who office at the Eastfield campus.

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Constitutional Amendment 4, and Bylaws Amendments 3 and 7, and Resolution 13

Thursday, August 12, 2021 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

This roundtable is to allow discussion about Proposed Constitutional Amendment 4 in this document as well as Proposed ByLaws Amendments 3 and 7, all submitted by Patrick Moore.

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Constitutional Amendment 1, and Proposed Resolution 14

Thursday, August 12, 2021 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

This roundtable is to allow discussion about Proposed Constitutional Amendment 1, and proposed resolution 14 in this document, both submitted by Jennifer Hudson Allen.

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Faculty Council Seeks FT Faculty to Volunteer to Serve on Faculty Evaluation System Task Force

The DCCFA Faculty Council seeks full time Dallas College faculty to serve on a task force charged with reviewing, and recommending revisions to, the Faculty Evaluation System (including, but not limited to, the IAP form).

If you are interested in volunteering to serve on this task force, please complete this brief survey.
Volunteering to serve on the task force does not guarantee that one would be selected to serve.

This survey, which is built with Microsoft Forms, automatically collects respondents’ name and email. Because it is important that a task force include individuals who bring valuable experiences and insights, and bring a balance of representation among Schools, campuses, programs/disciplines, experience as faculty, race/ethnicity and sex/gender, there are a series of questions respondents are asked to answer. If you choose to complete the survey and select “yes” or “maybe” about volunteering to serve on the task force, please answer the questions so that a task force can be sufficiently representative and inclusive.

The survey closes Friday, August 20.

Proposed Amendments to DCCFA Constitution and Bylaws, and Proposed Resolutions, Published for Member Review

Proposed amendments to the DCCFA Constitution and Bylaws, and proposed resolutions, are now published for members to review, in this linked PDF file.

Thanks to Jennifer Hudson Allen for preparing the PDF file after having received all of the proposals.

All proposals were received by the DCCFA Faculty Council sufficiently in advance to be eligible for consideration at the August convention.

Details of the August convention are still to be determined by the Faculty Council. The Faculty Council will meet Friday, August 6. The Council will promulgate plans for the convention as soon as they are available.

This notice having been posted in the Advance Blog, the official publication of the DCCFA, on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, meets the advance notice requirement for all the proposed amendments to the Constitution and the Bylaws to be considered and voted on no earlier than Tuesday, August 17, 2021.

If you have any questions, please contact your campus Faculty Association president.