Thursday, October 30, 2014

• October 30, 2014: "Workday" coming

Senate Notes from 10/30

Hello All,

Here are notes coming to you from our fifth and first Thursdays.  Rather than send two emails, I thought I would combine notes from the two meetings.  As of late, Roy and I have relatively little to report.  It seems that these meetings have been uncharacteristically slow and so I will just include the highlights.  If you are pressed for time, skip to the very last page and read the section entitled “Most Important ”.

10/30 meeting
Davit came to discuss a new plan to create higher standards for custodial tasks that need to be maintained on campus.  Conclusive evidence that standards would increase were not really presented.  It is not quite yet clear how the plan for improved standards would occur. There was some mention that we need to hire four more people but do not have the budget for this, and so we will be hiring one person.   I am not sure how that results in higher standards being met.  It was also officially noted that John Edwards has been promoted to a higher paying position at ATEP and that Jeff Hurlbut will be taking over his position at IVC.

District IT also made a very long presentation regarding a new system called Workday, which will be some sort of student system.  I honestly almost died of boredom during this part.  It took almost the whole meeting and as far as either Roy or I could tell, there wasn’t much to report back yet. There also is a list of projects that IT is working on listed in Sharepoint in a section labeled “IT.”

Kathy suggested that people consider separating programs out from program reviews.  Currently languages is considering separating their world language divisions into separate language programs.  This would benefit them for hiring.  We also will see Reading separate from English.

There were no cabinet members presentations on 10/30

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