1. 2018 FCCC Spring Plenary Welcome to Mohawk valley CC Remarks from:
Nina Tamrowski, FCCC President
Dr. Randall vanwagoner, President mvcc
Jim roberts, Plenary Host

2. Liaison Report: NYCCAP Randy VanWagoner, President NYCAAP
State Budget
Budget advocacy is extremely challenging. Hold harmless strategy didn’t work this year, need to continue to educate legislators and communities why a FTE increase is still a cut. The Chancellor should be commended for her hard work on the new funding formula, while not adopted will be an increase of $100/FTE in budget. In the future may need to have different funding formulas for upstate and downstate.
Performance Improvement Funds (PIF)
Hopefully will strengthen SUNY system, but does lead to competition between campuses.
Student Success Center grant (Johanna Duncan Poitier’s office)
If successful, SUNY will be in a good position to apply for other grants on the national level.

3. Liaison Report: Student Assembly Marc Cohen, President
State Advocacy & Outcomes
Mental Health Tele-Counseling. The budget has now doubled from $300,000 to $600, This is utilized now at Onondaga and will now be able to grow.
Continued interest in increasing student voice in shared governance on campuses, food insecurity, immigrant students, campus safety.
Community College Funding
The SA did support the new model of funding & capital investment funding
Federal Advocacy & Outcomes
Interested in protecting DACA students, monitoring President Trump’s actions and the status of DACA in the court system
Oppose PROSPER Act and the Trump budget.
Conferences & Meetings
Spring conference this weekend in Syracuse, transitional conference and inauguration of new officers in June.

4. Liaison Report: SUNY Student Assembly Marc Cohen, President
Budget
SA budget increased from $55,000 to $135,000 this will allow for better conferences, more meetings and stronger advocacy
The SA is exploring a $1 per student university-wide fee to maintain this level of funding after it expires in two years – These funds would more than adequately fund the SA budget and will become a much bigger discussion for the future
Shared Governance
Cooperation between FCCC, UFS and Student Assembly is strong
SUNY Voices – conference to be held in early June

5. Report from the Distinguished Academy Janet Nepkie
Encourages more Community Colleges to submit nominations for the Distinguished Service ranks. Four categories: Professorship, Service, Teaching, and Librarians.
Currently more than 1,000 members, 500 Emeriti
Rank carries responsibility for continuing service to the University
Next nominations are due September 14th, 2018 and the next set February 8, 2019.
The Distinguished Rank goes back to the 1960’s. It is a rank a person continues after retirement but most who hold the title today are already retired. More members are needed among the Distinguished Academy who are active and not retired
Three committees established, FCCC welcomed with these efforts: Presentation, Mentoring & Visiting Scholars
Distinguished Academy has a website and database online – please visit, share and use their resources

6. SUNY Open Educational Resources (OER) update Mark McBride – SUNY’s Library Senior Strategist
Money for campus OER projects is back this coming year - $4 Million SUNY $4 Million CUNY (private foundation money – not state or SUNY funded)
Baseline funding $20,000 per campus plus $8/student enrolled - $15/student if all sections of a course are OER
Monroe, Corning, Herkimer, TTC3, MVCC, Erie, other CC campuses are currently part of the SUNY OER program
In OER courses students don’t purchase textbooks – the funding helps campuses put in incentive programs, stipends or release time
SUNY wants to work with campuses to help them develop plans to sustain their OER programs
Campuses should commit to minimum three year OER programs to ensure enrollment increases and assist in research
NY has more funding than any other state – the targets are high enrolled courses and Gen Ed courses
Funding requires SUNY and CUNY to share best practices – a SUNY/CUNY event was held on March 23 SUNY/CUNY for faculty and student sharing – SUNY Student Assembly is working with SUNY

7. SUNY OER update Mark McBride - SUNY
Enrollment:
56,266 SUNY students enrolled in an OER course (80,000 target) Currently 57 SUNY campuses & 6.5 million in student savings (target $8 million)
Top enrollment – Math (over 10,000), followed by English, First Year Experience, Business, Psychology
Funding issues:
Maybe some funds for peer review in stipends or faculty release time
A course fee may be assessed by the campus to collect funds to pay for SUNY OER services or to develop OERs
Decision hasn’t been made yet re this year’s funding use - faculty consultation is desired
Curriculum:
SUNY OER Website – curated website with OER materials – some peer reviewed, some not.
Publishers are getting involved in OERs
More SUNY workshops about teaching effectively with OERs are likely
OERs truly empower the faculty to control the curriculum
Governance:
SUNY is planning a shared governance workshop – how do you balance OERs with faculty purview over the curriculum and academic freedom?
Colleges are promoting OERs to students and the community as a money saver but this tends to pit faculty against faculty. Shared Governance could help with rollout and resolving conflicts.

8. Dr. Kristina Johnson Chancellor of the State University of New York
Addresses the state budget results
Had 58 different meetings with legislators
Promoting a funding model redesign for CCs
One that has both fixed components and variable components
E.g. faculty need to be maintained regardless of class sizes
Did get $100 added per FTE but because enrollment is so low, most are still not able maintain/sustain
Engaged CUNY
Suggesting different models between SUNY and CUNY
“Community Colleges are the community’s college”

9. Dr. Kristina Johnson, cont. Four themes from State of Univ address
Increases innovation and entrepreneurship
Individualize education and making seamless transfer seamless within both local areas and across the system
Energy sustainability
Create new jobs locally
Partnerships
CCs are leading the way.
E.g. Guided Pathways Initiative

10. Q & A with Dr. Kristina Johnson Chancellor of the State University of New York
Do you have any thoughts about improving the communication processes to avoid misunderstandings on our advocacy message (SUNY – CUNY – NYSUT)?
It’s important to figure out the source of the confusion.
It’s a negotiation year, so there will be creative tension.
CUNY enrollment is increasing but SUNY is decreasing
If we had a floor of maintaining the funding, it would 6 million to CUNY and 12 million to SUNY. Over the next 6 months, we should get together to work it.
The communication within CCs is great because I am hearing the same messages from my visits.
Regional CC Councils. We met over a year ago but nothing has happened. There was concern that we would lose local control. Is this dead or alive?
I haven’t heard anything.
*Johanna Duncan-Poitier offered to address this later.

11. Q & A with Dr. Kristina Johnson Chancellor of the State University of New York
Who sets your schedule when you come to visit our campuses?
The President of the college sets it up, mostly.
It’s about a half-day commitment each visit.
What are your priorities for the new Provost? What will be the tasks?
We haven’t officially announced the individual.
The four themes
Working with JD-P on innovation and entrepreneurship, individualized education, energy and sustainability, partnerships
We may need to beef up our team on partnerships to create and implement a shared vision.

12. Q & A with Dr. Kristina Johnson Chancellor of the State University of New York
Are there any conversations that are happening about active shooter, shelter in place, etc? Are there any plans?
We need to have a task force around this. To put in place a process to respond AND prevent.
When I was visiting FMCC, there were locks on the doors. If we could put in place a check list of best practices. There is a “check list” article for saving a life after drowning in the New Yorker. We need something like this.
We need to have training.
We need to complete a root cause analysis
We are proud of our Shared Governance. What are your plans to orient ourselves with the new Provost?
All campus leaders coming in need to have shared governance education, training, and appreciation.
The new system Provost coming in came from a university that had no shared governance but had instituted themselves before they left.
People can learn the importance of shared governance. It may not be obvious to all people coming in. Part of our on-boarding process includes shared governance education.

13. Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Senior Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges and the Education Pipeline
Chancellor Johnson is paying attention to Community Colleges and worked to increase our funding in the 18/19 NYS Budget.
SUNY is looking at Excelsior Scholarship data and the impact on CC enrollment.
Initiatives led by JDP’s office:
Guided Pathways exploration is faculty driven; includes a new cohort of 10 CCs.
Developmental English Learning Community called ALP; using the co-req English model.
Math Pathways Scale Up Initiative (including 28 SUNY Colleges)
Strong Start to Finish Grant received of $2.5 M is to help fund Guided Pathways, Math Pathways and Co-requisite English.

14. Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Continued
The Chancellor has four Strategic Themes this year and Vice Chancellor Duncan-Poitier asked for FCCC input, including any current campus examples, on:
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Individualized Education
Sustainability
Partnerships
Delegates were invited to share these examples on flip charts around the room.

15. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative Carlos Medina - Vice Chancellor & Chief Diversity Officer
10th year of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
November Diversity conference had about 400 attendees. Excellent feedback
Shared governance critical to the diversity of campus & community.
Faculty in the classroom are critical – especially for 1st generation and low-income students in 2-yr institutions.
Chancellor Johnson has done much to further this initiative in her 1st 7 months

16. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative Carlos Medina, cont.
Chronicle of HE - The Trends Report - 10 trends in Higher Ed.
American Campus Under Siege – Addressing uninvited guests and inflammatory speakers on campus and their repercussions.
Students in Charge - Students increasingly demanding to be seen & heard regarding diversity, personnel and hate speech.
Loss of global prestige - For international students, studying in the US may be losing its appeal.
Despite progress, many students of color don’t perceive a commitment by colleges to create true inclusive community.

17. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative – Carlos Medina, cont.
Creating Strategic Diversity Initiatives
Student Demographics at CCs:
58% White
15% Hispanic/Latinx and rising
12.2% African American
4% Asian - more attend 4yr institutions
1st Yr retention rates rising since for minority students, but still lag behind white majority students.
Completion rates increasing for minorities students since but lag behind white majority students.
Two yr Assoc Grads increase from 15.7% to 21% overall, with minorities increasing from 5.9% to 8.2%

18. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative Carlos Medina, cont.
Serving Increasing Numbers of Hispanic Students
Federal Money Available for establishing Support Services
Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutes 2017
Suffolk
23.8%
Rockland
23.6%
Sullivan
Dutchess
18.8%
FIT
Hispanic Serving Institutes 2017
Westchester
34.6%
Nassau
27.8%
Orange
27.6%

19. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative Carlos Medina, cont.
Best Practices to support
Increase Faculty and Staff diversity:
African American faculty close to 5%, Latin close to 3%, Native American less than .5%
Improving Campus Climate - Everyone should feel they belong on campus.
Fostering Achievement, Completion and Success for all students is critical
Establish a Chief Diversity Officer on campus & President annually reports on Strategic Diversity Plan progress
Encourage people to attend SUNY Diversity Events

20. Liaison Report: Gwen Kay – UFS President
Resolutions from Winter Plenary (services for undocumented students, CGL signoff for program changes, diversity postdoc fellowship, international student advising, review of Liberal Arts definition)
Likely resolutions from Spring Plenary mentioned
Announced upcoming SUNY Voices events – June 1-2 Leadership Institute
Joint work with FCCC – OER, Student Mobility Steering Comm, Open Access, Gen Ed

21. Liaison Report: Bill Reuter – CCBOA President
Funding redesign – based on maintenance of effort, Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) and an EOP piece
Chargeback Formula Implementation postponed again (but until when?)
Excelsior scholarships:
CCs: applied – 5,257 received;
SUNY state-ops: 25,143 applied – 12,036 received

22. NYS Budget & Enrollment Forecasting: Josh Sager, Assoc
NYS Budget & Enrollment Forecasting: Josh Sager, Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Finance & Business
Gave historical trends on revenues and expenses SUNY-wide (and for Community Colleges)
Gave update about NYS Budget and its impact on Community Colleges
Projections on enrollment and high school graduates going forward for next decade
Number of high school graduates in New York will be decreasing over next decade while it will increase in NYC

23. Liaison Report: Chief Academic Officers Mary Rose Eannace, CAO at MVCC
Movement afoot at the federal level to reimagine community colleges as following a trade schools model with more certificate and micro-credential programs; Mary Rose, who emphasized several times that she comes from the world of teaching drama and dance, stated that humanities programs especially are under assault;
Community colleges are in a place of competition she likened to “the hunger games”, vying with each other for students and funding, specifically PIF grants;
MVCC is in the Guided Pathways second cohort of ten community colleges; she stated unequivocally that choosing and implementing Guided Pathways must be a college-wide team approach;
The CAO’s generally have a very good feeling about new Chancellor Kristina Johnson, believing she has a strong grasp on the role of community colleges as well as the challenges facing them;
The CAO’s are looking carefully at data comparing face-to-face, hybrid, and fully on-line delivery.

24. CGL Panel on Campus Issues & Shared Governance Monroe Community College, SUNY Adirondack & Ulster Community College
Monroe Community College - Amanda Colosimo, CGL
Amanda described the fall-out from a student’s racist tweet last fall and how the Faculty Senate and shared governance have been affected by the College’s response to it.
SUNY Adirondack - Marc Guise, CGL
Marc described a similar bias incident with a student displaying a Confederate flag and driving around campus with it. An open forum was held to allow the campus community to share their concerns about the incident.
Another unresolved campus issue relates to students taking cellphone photos in the classroom, raising privacy concerns for all involved. Two shared governance committees worked on a policy that they were going to present to the College’s legal representatives. The College administration simultaneously gave the job of drafting the policy to the College attorney. It remains to be seen how this will be resolved.
Ulster Community College – Jim Truitt, CGL
Jim discussed the significance that dropping enrollment has had on the College and the efforts to attract students from southern Ulster County, who have historically attended Dutchess Community College. The College has also been actively recruiting more non-traditional students.
There has been some discussion lately over the roll out of a policy to address enrollment that bypassed the shared governance process. The creation of an extension/satellite campus has been challenging as well.

25. Distinguished Service Award Dr. Tina Good, Past President of FCCC
The FCCC recognizes Dr. Tina Good with the Distinguished Service Award with a resolution and plaque
FCCC President Nina Tamrowski highlighted some of Dr. Good’s achievements and initiatives
Recognizes Dr. Good’s devotion to Shared Governance & growth of the FCCC in scale and stature
President of the FCCC from & held several other executive committee positions
First FCCC representative on the SUNY BoT
Implementation of SUNY Voices
Implementation of FCCC drive-in/roadshow conferences
Represented the faculty voice in many important SUNY initiatives

26. Business meeting President’s report- Nina Tamrowski
Budget: SUNY put significant effort into developing, explaining and lobbying for a change in the NY State funding model for community colleges.
NYCCT: Working on a stronger relationship with NYCCT, the Community Colleges Trustees’ organization. Good regional shared governance workshop at Erie that included Karen Mosher, NYCCT Executive Director, and a trustee from GCC. It is hard to get trustees to show up for events. The trustee institutes are very good – but enrollment has been declining there. CGL conferences that included the trustees were very valuable. NYCCT has planned their training institute in October so it has become harder to coordinate. NY State budget advocacy is a good time to collaborate and connect with Trustees.
COACHE: Many campuses have done the survey. There has been some on-campus discussion but very little detailed analysis or follow through on campuses yet. We encourage more sharing and use of the results.
Student Mobility Steering Committee (SMSC) has asked the SUNY Provost’s office to help obtain a comprehensive list of the course equivalencies across the community colleges to help with the “Individualized Education” initiatives (such as Open SUNY, Guided Pathways, etc.) NOT to be used as a means for course standardization or for applying pressure to revise courses.

27. President’s report cont.- Nina Tamrowski
SMSC wants to collect anecdotal info about where and when seamless transfer breaks down. Transfer counselors might be a good source. The appeals process through Dan Knox’s office is not an adequate source – many problems are probably never appealed by students. Surveys might be helpful. There is an institutional appeal process, but some departments won’t appeal for fear of creating an antagonistic relationship with the receiving departments.
Transfer path review process will start this fall. First there will be a survey of faculty, which asks whether your transfer path needs review? The SMSC will work with CAOs and CGLS to identify appropriate faculty to include, and create clear guidelines for the review process – governance organizations should be involved as well as Provosts.
Micro-credentialing (MC) and workforce development: there may be Presidential efforts in creating Micro-credentials for industry. Faculty governance must be used in the creation of credit-bearing MC. Review of non-credit MCs should be overseen by faculty. Portability, stackability, academic integrity, transferability are all considerations. Curriculum committees are sometimes involved, and sometimes not, in reviewing non-credit MCs. Credit bearing MCs sometimes do not go through curriculum committees. There may be a different process for non-credit MCs. There is support in the MC report for a faculty governance role in approval of MCs. There may be problems with unregistered credit bearing MCs (if not within a registered program) in terms of qualifying for financial aid. There have been colleges required to pay back large sums in financial aid for unregistered MCs.
Q&A for the fall plenary: What do we think about having a joint session with CGLs and College Presidents? Could we have an afternoon conversation with Chancellor and then a dinner with Presidents and maybe trustees as well?

28. Business Meeting: Officer Reports
Vice President’s report (Christy Fogal):
Christy is our representative on the Fact2 work group on micro-credentialing. She is co-chairing the micro-credential quality rubric taskforce. Much of the discussion has been about “how should governance be involved with micro-credential creation and approval?”
Information Officer’s report (Sean Simpson):
Links will be sent out in a couple of weeks for reporting changes in delegates, alternates and CGLs. There will be a new folder for Powerpoint presentations from this plenary in FCCC Blackboard.
August 24 will be the date for summer committee meetings, probably in Albany. 

29. Business Meeting: Committee Reports
Academic and Student Affairs (ASA) report: Kris Baker
Resolutions:
DACA resolution, endorsing UFS resolution requesting SUNY to support services and advisement to undocumented students, especially those affected by the rescission of DACA. Approved.
Resolution on Governance Involvement in New Initiatives recommending governance approval of initiatives such as Guided Pathways, OERs, P-Tech, etc. Approved.
Other Business:
FCCC was asked by UFS to pass a resolution on revising the definition of Liberal Arts and provide a member to their committee. We are going to propose a much more narrow resolution that supports the traditional definition.
ASA will be examining student transcript issues and the faculty role in assessment.

30. Business Meeting: Committee Reports
Governance Committee report: Diane Bliss
Resolution:
CGL Signoff Resolution in support of the UFS resolution requesting SUNY to require a Campus Governance Leader signoff on changes in programs and campus initiatives that fall under faculty purview, and only to be signed off on when campus shared governance procedures have been followed. Approved.
Other Business:
Standards of Excellence in Shared Governance – presentation of the rubric and indicators, primarily based on AAUP and Association of Governing Boards documents, except that the student role is included and local SUNY community college boards are recognized. To be used as a tool for assessing the state of campus shared governance, and possibly to be used by a visitation team. FCCC voted to endorse it as a living document to be shared with CC presidents for comment, and to authorize the Ex Com to make modifications as needed. Approved.

31. Business Meeting: Committee Reports
Awards Committee Report: Iris Cook
Please continue to support and apply for Chancellor’s Awards and Distinguished Awards.
Educational Initiatives Committee (EIC) Report: Wendy Johnston
A report from EIC will soon be available about the SUNY Gen Ed system, other Gen Ed systems, and the connection between SUNY Gen ED and Middle States. Look for more info about Guided Pathways, and Excelsior scholarship data.
Communication and Professional Development (CPD) Committee Report: Catherine Iannello
We are working on the briefing book – final edits will be completed in a week. Catherine Iannello is stepping down as Chair and Bruce Rowe is taking over. Roadshows (regional workshops) – this past year we have had little request for roadshows and we are wondering if we have a messaging problem. They are not just for campuses with serious governance problems. North Country and Rockland will be hosting roadshows in the fall. We plan to collaborate with the Student Assembly and possibly the Trustees on common issues for workshops. We will be collaborating with the FCCC Campus Governance Leaders’ group on CGL mentoring.

32. Business Meeting:
Next SUNY voices event for CGL training for both student and faculty governance leaders– June 7 and 8. Location to be announced..
Fall Plenary: Adirondack Community College, Oct 11 –
Elections: (Uncontested)
Vice President: Christy Fogal
Secretary: Kathleen Kimber
Treasurer: Michael Delaney