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Senate President’s Remarks to the Board, February 2017

Good afternoon, Chancellor, Honorable Trustees, colleagues, ladies and gentleman. On behalf of the entire Senate, I would like to express our appreciation to Chancellor Maldonado for his visit to our February Faculty Senate Meeting.  He introduced us to the new Vice Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Effectiveness.  The senators appreciated the Chancellor’s full-throated endorsement

Senate President’s Remarks to the Board, January 2017

(NB the following comments were delivered by President-elect Mohamad Tlass, who was present in the absence of President Melissa Miller-Waters) Good afternoon, Chancellor, Honored Trustees, colleagues, ladies, and gentleman. Faculty Senate President Melissa Miller-Waters regrets being absent today but is honored that, as President Elect, I am able to present her remarks for her.

Senate Elections Are Almost Upon Us!

  Very soon, all faculty will be invited to participate in elections for the 2017-2018 slate of Senate delegates.  Please see this page for a list of currently-listed candidates, and for further details.

HCC’s All Faculty Retreat is Here!

COMMENTS FROM 2017 FACULTY RETREAT What valuable insights did you gain from this year’s All Faculty Retreat? I learned so much from full-time faculty and as an adjunct, I now understand why I should continue teaching at HCC. I have many of the same teaching challenges as my colleagues! When we are given the

Faculty Excellence Awards: share with your students

  From the Faculty Excellence Awards Subcommittee: We are now officially ready to accept nominations from students. In fact, this year it is a requirement that nominators be currently enrolled HCC students. We have a short questionnaire that only takes a couple of minutes for students to fill out. The link is below: Faculty

Senate President’s Remarks to the Board, December 2016

Senate President Dr. Melissa Miller-Waters: Good afternoon, Chancellor, Honorable Trustees, colleagues, ladies and gentleman. On behalf of the entire Senate, I would like to express our appreciation for Trustee Tamez’s leadership as chairperson of the board this past year.  We very much appreciate your dedication to our institution and to our shared mission, and

All Faculty Conference on March 4

Dear Colleagues,  It’s time to submit proposals and register for the Faculty Conference. The conference will be held on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Doubletree Hotel, 400 Dallas St., Houston, Texas from 8:00 – 2:00. The theme of this year’s conference is “Got Problems???”  Now we need your proposals! It’s not a conference

More tweaking, apologies!

David here!  I'm having to do a bit more tweaking, as the cool site theme we had been using suddenly turned "no longer free" and we're doing this on the cheap. Also, there was a problem with the Upcoming Events calendar. This was because the site's time zone had somehow gotten shifted to Eastern.

Senate President’s remarks to the Board, November 2016

Senate President Dr. Melissa Miller-Waters: Good afternoon, Chancellor, Honored Trustees, colleagues, ladies and gentleman. The Faculty Senate has been busy this month, and I have few key updates. I am proud to report to you that the donations to our Bedichek-Orman fund from our annual auction have continued to grow; the Foundation has informed

Senate President’s Remarks to the Board, October 2016

HCC Senate President Dr. Melissa Miller-Waters: Good afternoon, Chancellor, Honorable Trustees, colleagues, ladies and gentleman. I am proud to report to you the record breaking success of our annual Bedichek-Orman Auction, held last Friday evening at the West Loop campus. Together, we raised over $13,000 which will be used as professional development grants to

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