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On behalf of the faculty, I want to again thank this Administration and this Board for its continued support for bringing faculty pay into line with comparable market averages. We are making progress, yet more progress remains to be had. We in the Senate look forward to continued conversation about how best to bring

First, the Senate would like to acknowledge the visit by Chancellor Maldonado, Vice Chancellor Beatty, and Vice Chancellor Brewer. When the Administration and the faculty get together, everyone wins. Our door tends to open most of the time –and for the record, we managed to get all our business done by a respectable hour that

Before I begin, I would like to publicly extend congratulations to former Senate President Linda Comte, who has been elected to serve on the Texas Community College Teachers Association Executive Committee as Treasurer. Ms. Comte officially assumed the office at the beginning of April. As a member of the Executive Committee, she will be involved

David here.  I have been granted admin privileges on the old Bedichek site.  We do want to thank Jenn Graves for all the hard work she has done for us over the years. There is a good chance that site will be migrating here over the next few months.  We'll keep everyone posted.

When you submit your bio for posting, it goes through a brief moderation process (not for content, but rather to make sure you are not a robot posting spam). We appreciate your patience. As long as you hit "submit" it will be approved, usually by me, as soon as I see the email and can

I just wanted to make sure you all were aware of David's remarks to the board and the HCC FS SB11 resolution draft (tidy)[1]. Below are his remarks : The Senate first wishes to acknowledge the fine efforts on the part of the Administration’s Emergency Management Team.  This week was full of entertainment for

The annual Faculty Senate Delegate elections for the 2016-2017 academic year will be held over the coming weeks. On account of the transformation, we will have a new Senate structure and a new election process. Senators elected this Spring will start their service at the August 2016 meeting of the Faculty Senate. Deadline Monday,

Please make plans to attend these to ask questions of Dr. Beatty. While the main focus of these gatherings will be to discuss the implications of the new gun laws, you should always take advantage of the presence of the Chief Academic Officer to speak what's on your mind (after dealing with the main

A fairly goodly number of people have been asking what, precisely, are the Senate's compensation goals for this year?  (In other words, how much of a raise are we asking?)  Through the hard work of the Compensation Group (headed by David Wilcox and Heath Giesbrecht), we have a PowerPoint presentation that sums things up, along with