Meeting Dates
Refer to the Faculty Senate Meeting Schedule.
Faculty Senate Travel Deadlines
Deadlines are posted on the Faculty Senate Travel page.
Charges
- Make recommendations concerning budgetary changes in the event of a financial exigency or other financial issue.
- Provide recommendations for the preparation of the college biennium budget including both operating, capital, and enhancement budgets.
- Research and make recommendations on issues regarding salary and benefits such as workload equity, health care benefits, retirement, funding for cost of living adjustments (COLAs), salary increases, salary schedules, and maintaining national and regional salary competitiveness.
- Recommend policy and procedure for granting Faculty Senate travel funds and process such requests.
- Review the Faculty Senate Travel budget and report its current state to the Senate.
- Review and make recommendations for changes to the sabbatical application process.
- Oversee the Sabbatical Subcommittee
- The Faculty Senate Chair will accept nominations for the Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee Chair up to ten days before the May meeting of the Faculty Senate.
- At the May meeting of the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Senate will confirm a Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee Chair. If no one is nominated, the Faculty Senate Chair will appoint a Chair.
- The Salary, Benefits, and Budget Committee will constitute a diverse Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee with representation from each division. The composition of the Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee is determined by a vote of the Salary, Benefits, and Budget Committee at the first meeting in the Fall.
- The Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee Chair will: make announcements about sabbatical leave and create deadlines; call for proposals for sabbatical leave; call and preside over the committee meetings; submit recommended changes to the sabbatical leave application to the Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee for their confirmation; work with the Faculty Senate Administrative Assistant to collect sabbatical applications for evaluation.
- The Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee will: evaluate submitted proposals based upon established criteria, and forward their recommendations directly to the President of TMCC. All members of the Sabbatical Subcommittee (including the Chair) shall keep the deliberations of their meetings confidential.
- Review and make recommendations of other topics as assigned by the Faculty Senate Chair, the Faculty Senate Executive Board, of the Faculty Senate Body.
Chair
Bradley Summerhill
Committee Membership
Ben Davis, Kevin Dugan, Brian Fletcher, Meeghan Gray, Andy Hughes, Shea King, Matt Leathen, Fred Lokken, Ron Marston, Mark Maynard, Jackie McDonald, Staci Miller, Haley Orthel-Clark, Doug Plourde, Phil Smilanick
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Meeting Minutes
2023
2022
- November 18, 2022
- October 14, 2022
- September 23, 2022
- August 19, 2022
- April 29, 2022
- March 25, 2022
- February 25, 2022
- January 28, 2022
2021
- November 19, 2021
- October 22, 2021
- September 24, 2021
- August 20, 2021
- April 30, 2021
- March 26, 2021
- February 26, 2021
- January 29, 2021
2020
- November 20, 2020
- October 23, 2020
- September 25, 2020
- August 21, 2020
- April 10, 2020
- March 6, 2020
- February 14, 2020
- January 24, 2020