********************************************* DISCLAIMER: THIS FILE WAS PRODUCED FOR COMMUNICATION ACCESS AS AN ADA ACCOMMODATION AND IS PRETTY CLOSE TO 100% VERBATIM. THIS IS AN EDITED FILE BUT MAY CONTAIN SOME ERRORS. THIS IS NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT, IT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED, PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. THIS FILE SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED IN ANY FORM (WRITTEN OR ELECTRONIC) AS A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OR POSTED TO ANY WEBSITE OR PUBLIC FORUM OR SHARED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE HIRING PARTY. THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PURPOSES OF VERBATIM CITATION. ********************************************* March 6, 2026 Faculty Senate ---Kelly O'Keefe: It is 1:00, so we're going to go ahead and get  started. If you want to take a seat, please. Hello. Welcome. Glad to see a lot of familiar faces. And the feedback is supposed to cut down the closer I get to the microphone, but I'm already a loud person, so... (chuckles) maybe I might not need this, but it'll be needed for the recording... so, um... anyways, welcome... thank you for attending faculty senate March meeting. It's great to have in-person meetings sometimes, right? And I want to make sure that we do some introductions here, of course. And, uh... so, I'll start with myself... I am Dr. Kelly O'Keefe... I am the faculty senate president... and I am also senator representing the Workforce  Development and Lifelong Learning division. ---Dr. Ian Roark: Good afternoon... Ian Roark, Provost, Executive Vice Chancellor. Okay, am I passing it this way or that way? ---Dennis Just: Hello everyone... Dennis Just, faculty president... faculty senate President-elect... and Science division faculty senator. ---Vivian Knight: Good afternoon everyone... this is Vivian Knight, faculty senator... Vice President. ---Jane Hall: Good afternoon everyone... I'm Jane Hall... I'm the faculty senate secretary... and I'm also a senator for our Business IT and Hospitality division. ---Theresa Riel: Theresa Riel, former Math faculty, East Campus... current Governing Board member. ---Matej Boguszak: Hi everybody. Matej Boguszak... representing Mathematics. ---Caroline Torres: Good afternoon. Caroline Torres, another great Math department here. ---Dan Hanselman: I'm Dan Hanselman, Math faculty at East Campus. I'll be presenting for the Math Spotlight today.   ---Aaron Kostko: Hello. Aaron Kostko, Philosophy faculty,  mostly on the West Campus. ---Maggie Golston: Maggie Golston, of Writing, Literature, and Humanities faculty. ---Michael Nolan: Michael Nolan, Visual Arts. ---Unknown: [unintelligible] ---Nikki Robinson: Nikki Robinson, faculty senator for Healthcare Professions. ---Julie Andrews: Hello, I'm Julie Andrews and I am the senator for Social Science, Humanities, and Education. ---Emily Besich: Hi, Emily Besich for the libraries. ---Sol Gomez: Sol Gomez for the libraries as well. ---Elliot Mead: I'm Elliot Mead... I'm representing for Communications. ---Denise Riley: Denise Riley, Acting Dean and guest. ---Emily Halvorson-Otts: Good afternoon. Emily Halvorson-Otts, Acting Vice Provost of Academic Affairs... guest. ---Michael Tulino: Hello. Michael Tulino, registar... guest. ---Erich Saphir: Erich Saphir, Econ and Political Science and guest. ---Ishrat Mahzabeen: Ishrat Mahzabeen, Economics faculty... guest. ---Patrick Moore: Patrick Moore, Building and Construction... guest. ---Alex Armstrong: Alex Armstrong, Sciences... faculty senator. ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Good afternoon... Jeff Nasse, Chancellor. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you everyone... so, we'll go ahead  and get started with the agenda here. We're going to review the February minutes and if you are a senator, please vote for the approval on those minutes. We'll take just a few minutes to do this. If you have any amendments that would like to be made, just go ahead and select a microphone and let us know if there's something  that you'd like to have changed. And just as a reminder, if you haven't signed in yet, the Google form link is on the agenda. It's very important that you sign in... we have some voting coming up here in our meeting today,   so I want to make sure that we meet quorum and that we have enough votes to move those nominations ahead. Okay. Has everyone had time to review the minutes for February? Any amendments requested? I'm not seeing any,... so, if you would go ahead  and vote for approval on the February minutes. Do a raise a hand for yes from senators  for approval on February minutes. And those that do not approve the  February minutes, raise your hand now. Okay... so, February minutes have  been approved. Thank you. We'll move on to any requests for agenda modifications. I'm seeing no requests... we are a quiet bunch today. [chuckles] So, let's go ahead and move on. Any requests for executive session? Okay, no requests... and we have open forum... the  first announcement is something that I would like to   bring forward as we are approaching the next round of SENSE Surveys for our students.   It's imperative that we remind faculty in our areas that this report and survey is extremely important... it's something that the college actually pays for and in this last go round we only received about 100 responses... we need about 300 to actually get, gather some really good data from our first year students... and that's something that we need to promote within our classrooms. So, if you could please remind your faculty in your areas and ask that we get involved with having our students complete   these surveys when they receive those emails...  that would be greatly appreciated. And this is something that we're going to continue to remind faculty and students of when it gets   a little closer, but they should be receiving those survey emails about the first week of D... September, excuse me. So, once the fall semester starts, that'll be something that comes as reminders a little bit more often, okay? Any more announcements for open form? Okay, moving right along... Dennis. ---Dennis Just: Thank you, Kelly... so, we do have the last call for some requests for faculty engagement... you may have seen before. This is your opportunity to join the group that is looking at reviewing our faculty senate charter... so, very important... this is our charter document... and so, you have an opportunity to be a part of the review and potential update to that. There's also a subcommittee on professional development, which is one of my favorite parts of, you know, being a faculty. This sort of... a lot of us are lifelong learners I imagine... and so, this is an important group that you can be a part of as well. And then finally, the AI Syllabus Statement Revision Workgroup... and so, we all are familiar with that AI statement in our syllabi and how that's becoming more and more important with every passing semester... and so again, if you're interested in any of these, these  are the links in the agenda for you to submit your name  to be moved into that group... and if there is some request for faculty engagement that you would like to go,   and have us solicit at a future faculty senate meeting... please scroll down to the bottom   and that is this first form here, uh the faculty senate engagement request form... thank you. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you, Dennis... and just to add to that... for that professional development subcommittee, this is something that is written into our charter and we have not, in previous years, follow through with having this subcommittee... it's really important... and at this time, especially important to partner with the TLC... and have them understand what we need as faculty moving forward as... in professional development. That also connects with all the new AI and everything that we need to be trained on, so we can teach our students as well. So, please consider joining those groups and making  sure that we know what we need to be trained on...  and we help our fellow colleagues. So, we're going to go ahead and move forward onto the report section... and we're going to start with Dr. Ian Roark  with the Provost report. ---Dr. Ian Roark: Good afternoon again... I'll echo that plug, particularly for the professional development. So, good... I wasn't planning on saying this, but as we look at the Chancellor's Cabinet goals,   one of the items are the teaching competencies for Pima Community College. And of course, I have visited with AVC Schmidt... Kate Schmidt and her team... that we... meaning we, the faculty and administration, should work together to contextualize those competencies   in our teaching and learning philosophy for the institution. And if I were to ask, what is the philosophy of teaching and learning? What is the stated philosophy for teaching and learning at Pima Community College? Would anybody be able to answer that question? That's our vision... and that's our... that's our mission. The reason... we don't have a stated philosophy for teaching and learning at the institution, right? So, we need to work together to really contextualize those competencies in hopefully a philosophy that really centers on what it really is all about at the end of the day, which is student success... and as teaching and learning is the heart of the institution... and as we said this morning, even Dr. Nasse and myself at this morning's futures conference for community members, right... if it wasn't for the classroom, there wouldn't be a need for the college... but what happens in that classroom is ultimately   the most important thing... and so we should have  a defined philosophy around what it means for teaching and learning excellence at the college... you can see my written report there... let's just go through a couple of highlights... the Academic  Affairs Forum on Accelerate, I don't think that we can   talk about that enough... so, the next forum will feature some, but not all, items related to our 8-weeks initiative in a guided pathways context... and then... the links for the slides and the recording are there. Dr. Nasse, myself, and a number of other individuals have been meeting with school dis... continue to have met with numerous school district superintendents around our relationship with our high schools and are we engaged enough at the high school level. Many of you are receiving emails from James Palasios via... usually Emily Halvorson-Otts, acting VPAA, regarding multiple opportunities to be present at high schools and to celebrate your discipline and your program areas in order to capture more of those young people coming out of high school and hopefully coming to Pima Community College. But also, we've been talking around dual enrollment and how can we of course be of better service as an institution as we work through our higher learning commission monitoring report and compliance. But also, with the rapid growth of dual enrollment, the possibility and the likelihood that we will start having to assess some form of cost recovery or tuition for that... and it's been... the approach has been in partnership with the superintendents, not one is in position from the college... so, we actually have a working group of superintendents that are going to be reviewing a projected model that takes into consideration things that they brought to us. What does that mean for students who are on free and reduced lunch? What does that mean for school districts that are more impoverished and have a more challenged tax base than other school districts? And so, those conversations have been productive and we will continue to work in that regard with our superintendent and school district colleagues, right... they are our brothers and sisters in action with respect to this thing   called education, right... they're just on the front end of it... and so, partnering with them is crucial, especially in this time of challenging federal and state policy environments. Also, I was honored to represent Pima Community College  on a group called JFF... JFF stands for Jobs For the Future... they just now go by their acronym like so many other organizations. They're a national organization focused on, you know, student success, technology, workforce development, and all things higher education... and specifically, this group called Elevate... and I was invited to be a participant and speak at their kickoff meeting for what's called JFF Elevate, which is an "invite only" group or collaborative of community colleges focused on innovation. And there's some other things there as well that was able to... I was able to participate in. Going back to the K-12 theme, a number of us, including our Chancellor, attended the, Pima County School Governing Board Collaborative, where school Board members and their superintendent gather for dinner and talk about issues of the day... and Dr. Nasse was the featured speaker for the event. building off of the same themes I just discussed with K-12... and then also, a number of us... we've been around each other a lot this last month, but Dr. Nesse and I... and 2 of our Governing Board members... our Vice Chair, Karla Bernal Morales... and Board member Dr. Barraza... Nicole Barraza... joined a number of us in Santa Cruz County to visit with 2 Board members from the Santa Cruz County Provisional College District, as well as their CEO, Greg Lucero, and staff to really talk about the monumental growth and activity we've had with the provisional district and in Santa Cruz... and how we can further partner together to ensure that as we are the provider for the provisional district that Nogales, Rio Rico, and the surrounding communities know that we are one in this education mission... and that the students in Santa Cruz County are Pima Community College students and how can we be of  better service all around collegewide to ensuring   that we are delivering upon that responsibility as an additional location. And then we also, a number of us... it took a lot of time to prepare for the Board study session on the general obligation bond...   and Dr. Dave Bea of course, was the primary deliverer of the information to our Governing Board.    And if you haven't seen that study session, I highly recommend going back and watching it. And as Theresa... as Board member Theresa Riel is here today... I for one am also very grateful about what happened earlier this week at our Board meeting, where our Governing Board voted 5 to 0 to support the college   going for a 200... up to $250 million general obligation bond in the November election. And there's going to be much more information coming up about what the projects are, the priorities...   and I also encourage watching the video from that particular Board Meeting, because there's a lot of opportunity and excitement... but our Board members, all around, all 5, really outlined the rationale for why they were supporting this general obligation bond initiative with respect to the challenges we have with the lack of state funding with, you know, having to rely on our local tax base  and tuition dollars as our primary vehicles and really thinking about stewardship... and I  recommend listening to the Chancellor's report   during that board meeting as well... and not only should we be thinking about excellence and outcomes  with respect to teaching and learning... and because our students deserve the very best in terms of those... but also as stewards of the public good in everything that we do, how can we be approaching the work that we do through a mindset of service and greater stewardship. And then finally, a lot of external engagements there... predominantly echoing the items with respect to K12, but also some other initiatives that I hope someday get to talk a little bit more about, such as the Cradle to Career Initiative... I serve as the co-chair for the United Way's Cradle to Career Initiative, locally engaged with Jobs For the Future... and continue to represent the college on the higher  learning commission's Credential Innovation Lab and their work with micro-credentialing in the  future of education and workforce development. So, I'm honored to represent all of you as your Provost, and serve alongside you as we try to take this amazing place to the next level... so, thank you for everything that you do,   both in the classroom and outside of the classroom... and your service to Pima Community College... and I look forward to our continued partnership as we advance the institution to new heights in service to our students and to our community. Thank you, Madam President. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you, Dr. Roark... and Dr. Nasse, would you like  to speak today? I didn't have you on our agenda, but... ---Dr. Jeffrey Nasse: Okay. Thank you. Never pass up a chance to say "hi" to faculty... good afternoon... happy Friday faculty senators and guests. Always good to be here and good to see people in person who I haven't seen in a little while. I think I always just want to say thank you... you know, I get to go to lots of different events and represent the college in different ways and it's an honor... but it all comes to what down to what you're doing in the classroom and I don't forget that, right. That's really where it's happening. You are transforming the lives of our students every day in our... in our classrooms... and so, thank you for your work as faculty... thank you for volunteering to be on the faculty senate, too... to help us make informed decisions as we try to... to move the ball forward and advance outcomes. Yeah, I think Dr. Roark highlighted some important things that have been happening here in the last few weeks... you know, in regards to the Board... yes, the general obligation bond is really exciting and fun for the college... I think necessary in a lot of ways, to keep our mission going in terms of accessibility for students in the long run. I think also important, just in the immediate, is our budget framework... I think we're in good shape as we head into to next year, thanks to the Board's leadership, their guidance, around how we're thinking about the budget for next year, to ensure that we can appropriately compensate our faculty and our staff, for the good work that you are doing... and so, we're going to be coming back to the Board with the formal budget,   but the vote this past week... and I go, I know there's no more exciting things to watch YouTube videos   of study sessions in Board meetings.  However, there is some good information there and I won't go over all that today. But importantly, you know, the Board had some tough votes for the institution in terms of property taxes, and tuition rates for students and differential tuition... but it's all about, you know, the resources for the college... and part of that is of course is our annual budget and making sure that our faculty are appropriately compensated, our adjunct faculty are appropriately compensated,  our staff of course and that's all part of that.   And so, I think we're in good shape as we head into next year around that... and then, yes... asking our community here in Pima County to invest in the college through a general obligation bond... is something that is a great opportunity for the college and I think a necessary one. I really value the role the senate plays and frankly all of our shared governance bodies play in helping us through... think through... outcomes, right? How can we continue to get better as a college in terms of serving our students? And we're seeing some really  good momentum, right? Just... even around enrollment.   We're seeing more people choose Pima Community College as a provider of choice and coming to the college. You know, we have close to a thousand new actual students at the college this spring than we did last year... and we still have some registration opportunities in the spring... so, that's great growth. We're also really excited about what we're seeing for the summer in terms of people coming to the college. And our applications... it's still early for fall in terms of actual registrations, but we're noticing a trend upwards in our applications at the college... so, that's all are good... and now I'd like to... you know, we need your help in carrying on... and how do we make sure that these students that are choosing Pima, that they're successful while they're here? And I know that's ongoing work and it's hard work, and I thank you for that. So, I'm eager... it's always fun for me to come to senate and just hear... air what's going on, what's happening in your world,   what things we could be doing better to support you in your work... and how you're thinking about ways we can continue to improve, right... it's always about I think for learning, right... continuous improvement. How do we learn and get better? How do we learn and get better? I won't be able to stay for the whole meeting, I don't think, today, but it's a pleasure to be here and thank you for the opportunity, I appreciate it. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you, Dr. Nasse... so, it appears that we still have some senators who have not signed in and guests.   So, if you have the agenda, if you would please... you don't have the agenda. [chuckles] It's on the faculty senate web page and it's  a live link... so, if you click on the sign-in link,   it will bring you to the Google form that'll help you sign in. And we just want to make sure that we have quorum because we do have voting coming up. And I did notice we had some people sitting on the outside of our circle here that did not get to introduce themselves.   And we also had an officer come in a little late based on everything that she was doing over at Downtown Campus. So, I'm going to go ahead and pass the mic down to our Governing Board rep... and then we'll go ahead and hit the people on the outside there... go ahead. ---Sarah Kirchoff: My name is Sarah Kirchoff... I am the Governing Board rep and the department head for AIT. I am applied tech faculty senate. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Go ahead. ---Amanda Abens: All right... there it is on... Amanda Abens for workforce development. ---Michael Amick: Michael Amick, chief online learning officer. ---Diane VanderPol: Diane VanderPol, college library director. [someone coughing] ---Sam Overton: Sam Overton, accounting guest. ---Kate Schmidt: Kate Schmidt, AVC of academic resources and services. [someone coughing, again] ---John Gerard: John Gerard, applied tech, faculty senator. [mike sounds as it hits something] ---Kelly O'Keefe: Can you pass it down to Padma, please? ---Padma Nair: Padma Nair, representing Science Division. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Wonderful. Anyone else that we've missed? Okay, thank you very much for doing that and hopefully we'll get close to having quorum... okay, perfect. So, we'll go into my president's report and hopefully you all had a chance to review this beforehand. I'll just highlight some of the... what's in there, and then, of course, allow you just to read that on your own. First I'd like to highlight one of our fellow colleagues... faculty member, Roger Hurwitz was highlighted and interviewed in an article that was called "Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Into the Curriculum"... and I felt that was very important to highlight because there's a lot of wonderful work being done by the AI Advisory Board... and he highlighted  that in this article, and so the community is hearing about what we're doing in preparation for our students entering into industry. So, if you get a chance, go ahead and click on that article... and it's a short read, but it's interesting. And then the next item is... we were... [chuckles] yeah, here's the clip for the rodeo day parade. [sound from video] It's a little bit difficult to hear... it's quiet, right... but Dr. Nasse was there... his wife Christa and and parents were in the audience watching... and myself, Makyla Hayes, faculty member Tammy Dew... as well as many, many other students, Dr. Stewart and others...and so that was quite fun. And I hear from the Board meeting that we got second place for our float. Okay... so, next year we're going to get first, right? Okay... so, everyone who's still faculty come next year, plan on being in the Rodeo Day parade... that was a lot of fun... and I know it's a day off... [chuckles] and everyone looks forward to that... But I will tell you, we've had a lot of fun and wasn't work. [laughs] So, I wanted to bring highlight to that. Of course we have consistent enrollment growth again and Dr. Nasse already spoke to that so we'll move on. And then PCCEA is hosting an all faculty meeting next week, March 12th... from 2:30 to 5 at the Downtown Campus. So, make sure that constituents in your divisions know that that is open to all faculty. The topics of conversation will be brainstorming and gathering opinions of the faculty leadership model and the accelerate initiative. We've already heard from Dr. Bea this last month with the budget... he's presented it in many different forums. So, I just gave a little bit of highlights from his presentation there. There is a technology transition happening from PimaConnect to ConexEd... and I'm sure some of those things have been heard hubbub about, right? PimaConnect is no longer working for us in the capacity that it was before... and ConexEd is not going to be a 100% replacement for that... so, early alert system is not there. You should go ahead and continue connecting with your students in the more traditional ways, until we are able to get a program that takes over what we were doing, if that's the direction they go. Okay, we have a couple announcements in the political scene and AZ HB2409, I've linked it there for you. It's an Arizona House bill and it's on artificial intelligence, statewide education program... so, be sure to look into that. And then also, AZ HB4040 is a house bill for title of public schools, universities and AI policies. So, all things happening in our state that are very important for us to keep a breast of. So, let us know if you have any concerns, questions about that... and we can definitely look into that. We had Data Days, as you probably all know, February 13th... that was very successful. A lot of wonderful things happening and I wanted to make sure that you had on your calendar for fall September 18th is our next Data Days... so, please  plan ahead make sure that you're able to attend that . And I've already spoken to the SENSE and then we have an Academic Affairs forum that was on February 20th. We also have another one coming up this month, I believe it's March 23rd... 20... am I... Dr. Roark? 27, thank you. [laughs] I caught him... I caught him not having to do other things. [laughs] So, just make sure that if you don't have that on your calendar, please do put that on your calendar and try to attend. And that concludes my President's report. So, we'll move on to the Board of Governor's report. ---Sarah Kirchoff: As was already mentioned, right... the the Board  voted and passed the general obligation bond...  so that will be moving forward... a couple of other things that were voted on was the tuition increase.   So, that's going to be happening, the differential tuition... and then, the other thing of interest was naming rights. So, the Pima Foundation has brought up an interest from donors in naming either a room or a lab or what have you   in honor of somebody right, which brings in funds to them... and so the board voted to pass 2 different rooms for naming rights moving forward... so. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you Sarah. We have a link to the PCCEA report, as well as the TLC and adjunct reports. Makyla Hayes is at professional development and so is Brooke Anderson... so, we will not have oral reports on those. Please make sure you read those and contact them if you have any questions. We'll go ahead and move to the business section... and this is part of the fun of spring semester, right? We get to highlight some of our wonderful colleagues and it's a very exciting time... we have Erich Saphir here... to, you know, present on Dr. Amy Cramer and we have Sam Overton to speak for Dr. Ken Vorndran... and then, we also have Board member Theresa Riel, who would like to speak on behalf of the nominations for Mike Stack and Rob Modica. So, let's invite Eric to speak. Is there a microphone there? ---Erich Saphir: There's not. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay. Okay. You can go ahead and do that. ---Erich Saphir: Okay. Thank you so. ---Kelly O'Keefe: It's on. Thank you so much for having me... so, I'm Erich Saphir, department head for Political Science and Economics... and it is my great honor and distinct pleasure to advocate for faculty emeritus for Dr. Amy Cramer, who is one of the most impressive human beings and faculty members and servants to the community and the college that I've met in my 3 decades of teaching here... she has really put the college on the map not only regionally but nationally, international, with her breakthrough approach, I would say, to economics... to try to depolarize, you could say, understanding of policy issues through the creation of the voices on the economy program or vote... because it's her deeply felt belief that there isn't  just one correct way to approach economic issues...  and so, by combining the wisdom or the perspectives... and contrasting and learning from the perspectives of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx... and having students roleplay different perspectives... and really understand that there are meaningfully different ways of looking at issues, and to use that as a foundation for maybe finding solutions and new ideas for approaching issues by respectfully listening to people that we may disagree with. Something that is, I think, very much in evidence that we need to do that. And so Amy has created this wonderful program that is now in use in over 90  countries in the world... and it is a beautiful OER resource. ---Ishrat Mahzabeen: 108. ---Erich Saphir: I'm sorry, it is now 108 countries. So, next to me is Ishrat Mahzabeen, who is the new Amy... and is just as committed to student success and to continuing this wonderful work... so, she is both in Econ and also the director of the VOTE Program here. And so, I'm very excited to be able to have her continue that work... but, so with that, I would just like to put her nomination to you for your consideration and hope you'll approve it. Thank you. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you, Eric. What wonderful things to say about her. And then we're gonna go to Sam Overton. ---Samantha Overton: Hi, Sam Overton... so, I have the privilege of being able to represent a whole group of individuals who will be nominating Dr. Vorndran. And so, in that application there is just letter, after letter, after letter, about the incredible things that he did during his career... almost 20 years with Pima Community College.... his biggest, in my opinion, achievement was the support of all of his students... hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scholarships that students were able to achieve. Jack Kent Cook, all USA, all Arizona... lot of recognition of students, who have gone on to get doctorate degrees because of his support. And so, we really want to just highlight his efforts in supporting honors... honors is today what it is, because of all of the work that Dr. Vorndran put into it... and he is still helping Pima, as he is currently a member of the Foundation. So, he's on the Board of the Foundation, continuing to help build alumni association and try to give back to Pima even today...   and I think he will always be a part of Pima and the Pima family. So, I thank you. ---Kelly O'Keefe: All right... thank you, Sam. And then, we also have a Board member, T. Riel or Theresa Riel... [chuckles] I'm going to combine them. [chuckles] ---Theresa Riel: That's my email. [Kelly chuckles] Is this on? Okay.  So firstly, I'd just like to say that I'm here representing these 2 nominations as former faculty, because I was asked by Kelly and by Kirk Mehtlan. I taught at the East Campus and so I knew both of these folks for my entire tenure there. And I'd first like to talk about Michael Stack, art teacher. I hope you had a chance to read their applica... or their nominations because all four of them are just full of so much amazing information and it's just really... it makes me proud to know how amazing all of you are. I mean, every one of you will be nominated for faculty emeritus at some point for all the amazing things you do. But Mike Stack... he had an office 2 doors down from mine... I was a math teacher... he was an art teacher... and to hear what he and his students would talk about during so many of their interactions... he was personable... he was caring... he would talk about things about the real world... and all sorts of other different activities and student interest... and they would always be bringing art and art education and art history back into these conversations.   He had an art walk at the East Campus, where we had... every year we had between 20 and 40 art installations    that were absolutely beautiful, and he would go out to artists in the comm... well not just in the community... actually, international artists... and he would ask them to store, present, stage, their art pieces at the East Campus. He spent just, I'm sure, innumerable hours getting those artists to do that... and then, it just beautified the Campus... we would have people from the community come and take art walks on Campus and he would lead those oftentimes. And then, the other thing that I didn't hear mentioned  in his application was, he was the faculty sponsor   for the Student Art Club at Pima Community College. And every year they would have 2 art shows  that would just line our walls initially in the library... and then, once the Clement Center was built, north of the East Campus, the Senate... excuse me, the Clement Center walls would just be lined with student art. And I proudly can say that I have four of those original art pieces, because the students would sell them, and it was just amazing, beautiful art. So, Michael Stack still produces art. He oftentimes has art shows here in Tucson, and he's always a big huge proponent of Pima Community College... so, I completely admire everything he's done. Rob Modica also taught for, I think, 4 decades...  way longer than I taught at the East Campus. How I remember him, besides the things that were  mentioned in his applica... or in his nomination form was...   I was on the college curriculum committee for a little over a decade, and he was there before me, and he stayed there after me... I think he was on that college curriculum committee for, I think, like 27 years... and he was always advocating for content, curriculum, classes, programs... he stood up to the pressure from administration for trying to take programs   that were not producing more than 10 or 11 graduates a year... and he would say those are 10 or 11 graduates   that the world needs to have this education. And he was fierce. So, it was just so lovely having him with all of his knowledge and his experience beyond that. And then, the other thing that Rob did was, he had international tours every year... where he would take students and other faculty and he would go on these tours. And one year my older son, Pascal, and I... we were lucky enough to go to Italy with him for, I think it was 11 days. And the prowess that that man had... we got to Germany and our flights had been cancelled, and there were 20 some odd students...   and adults going on this trip... and he just  handled it like it was no problem at all... and we got through customs, we got new tickets... he was absolutely amazing. The thing that I thought was so impressive about those trips were... the kids would party... like Italy, I think drinking age was 18...   so, everybody was of age to go out and have a wine or 2.... and he would have such full days of activities and tours and experiences... and every single one of those kids, even though they had been out maybe all night, enjoying that part of the experience, they were there every single day at the tours of, you know, the all of these different museums, and the Vatican... and it was just absolutely amazing how he could take his experience and his knowledge about art, and art... excuse me... about well everything humanities and art and just bring it into such a great learning experience. So, I'm really proud of these 2 nominees and I hope that you all feel that they're definitely worthy of this high honor.  Thank you. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you. And this coming from someone who has faculty emeritus status, [chuckles] so that means a lot. And we have such excellent colleagues... it's really an honor to be able to support each other in this way... and... and it's a... it's a hard... you know... we have to take this responsibility to heart, with voting for this honor of faculty emeritus. So, thank you all for your presentations for colleagues...   and if you have not yet voted as a senator, please  make sure you do... for the faculty emeritus nominees...   and the official link is listed below each of  the names on the agenda in the business section.   So, we will present the final vote at the end of the meeting just before we adjourn...   so everyone knows how that vote went.  Okay. For the next we're going to move on to Division Spotlight and we are going to hear from both Emily and Sol about the library. ---Sol Gomez: Hello. hello... is this on? Okay. All righty... we'll  start off... I'm Sol Gomez. .. this is Emily Besich... and we're gonna... we're also senators, but we're going to talk up... talk about the library. Okay, if we could just move on to the next slide, please. All right... so, the library is, you know... we're a big part of breaking down barriers for students because we offer a lot of access to resources and to help them succeed with our technology lending program. We check out laptops, hotspots, iPads, for students for the entire semester... with 24/7 LibChat... this is one of my favorites... we offer live chat to students... actually everyone... 24/7, anytime any day...   where students can access librarians... it's fast... we start talking right away and we help them research, with research, 24/7 ---Emily Besich: Never AI. ---Sol Gomez: That's correct, it's a human... it is a human... yes.  And of course, we offer lots of things, where we... it's a hub of sharing different types of resources  that students may not have at home... or at that moment in time. And we work with faculty to adopt OER resources and we offer full text... I mean textbook reserves for students,   so they can check out textbooks for a short period of time... since the, you know... it's a financial burden for those textbooks. we offer part-time work opportunities for federal work study... we... for outstanding research we offer the library research award scholarship for students. and we just foster belonging... it's a place where people feel comfortable away from home in the classroom. And we'll move on to the next slide please. ---Emily Besich: We'll move around the room so you don't all have to be craning, you... everyone will crane their necks at different times. So, another thing you might know us for is, faculty  collaboration... so, we are faculty members, just like you all, that's why we're here... but we have liaison librarians that meet with your discipline, usually at your DFC meeting... and get an idea of, you know, what's going on with you? What support might you need? Are there different online databases that we need to be looking into? Are there different physical resources that your students might need? I think from a DFC or at least a faculty meeting at Northwest, we found the idea to get goggles for labs... and that ended up being one of the top physical items that checked out that year was... students, who had forgotten their lab goggles... needed to grab some  real quick, and they could just get them out from the library. So, we have our liaison librarians, who work with those types of needs... and then, you also have your embedded librarian. So, if you're teaching a writing intensive class like Writing... Anthropology 112, Psychology, ESL, any of those, there is a librarian who's embedded in your D2L class, who knows your assignments, can help students with their specific questions, and also can work with you to figure out custom research assignments, other support that you might need... maybe support   for your personal research or curriculum development... we're really here to help with any faculty thing that you could think of. So, that's an example... Sandra is one of our librarians and she is a liaison to the Fine Arts, as well as Business. So, some of you might know her from your classes and she works super hard to serve in all of those capacities. I'm a liaison for Writing and ESL and Paralegal... and Sol... ---Sol Gomez: I'm the liaison for AGEC classes and Dual Enrollment. ---Emily Besich: Awesome... okay, next slide please. I'll move over here. [laughs] So, another collaboration opportunity is... we are opening a VR lab at the Downtown Campus. So, if you are super duper interested, you can go peek at it now... like, it is all set up... we have 7 stations... we have the headsets. There are some tweaks that we're still making to how you log into the computer... so, you can log in to them right now with your MyPima... it would work... but it's going to be a little bit smoother for students. So, that's why we haven't officially opened it yet because there's a few tech things that we're fixing. but we're really looking to develop partnerships with instructors... so, we have one instructor in CAD, Francisco Gomez, I want to say... Francisco, who is going to hopefully have his students do walkthroughs of their final projects in VR. So, we're hoping to have that for this May... we'll see... but if you can think of potential for VR for your class... if you're just personally curious about VR and want to play some games, that's also totally fine...  but you can come by and check those out... and we are also working on software purchases right now for the VR headset. So, if you have a particular software that would be useful to your division or your class... or it's just something that you think we should get because it's cool, then definitely let me know or any librarian that you know know and they'll get it to me.  So, yeah... look for announcements about workshops for the VR lab... we will be working with the Teaching and Learning Center and working with the IT EdTech team to have workshops, like, formally teaching you all about, you know, the fundamentals of VR and how to use it... and then, we'll also have open lab, where you can just come explore. Okay, next slide please. ---Sol Gomez: All right, this is our last slide... so, it... we're definitely  more than just a space... we serve the community members, college faculty and staff, and of course, the students... with... from all programs and modalities... and from... including all our 5 campus libraries and the Makerspace. We're open 200... 284 operational hours per week. And speaking of the laptops and hotspots, we check out over 2,000 tech devices... we are in an... since we're liaison... but we're also embedded in classes... in the fall of last year we were embedded in 450 courses, serving over 9,000 students, through instruction or just research help... and we have 3,000 unique users reserving the study rooms... and that increases every year, from an average of 39% since the fall of 2022... or since 2022. So, I think 75 seconds per slide... we also have other slides included in this presentation that have more stats and more information... so, feel free to access that. ---Emily Besich: Yeah. How much do we have a little bit more time? Are we... okay? Yeah. So, just a showcase of some of our events and programs... so, we have the Makerspace at East Campus. They are doing programming just about every week... they have different things like learning how to 3D print, learning how to sew, needle felting, laser cutting, macrame... it changes every week, what they're doing. We have had readings for Banned Books Week at every library. We like to collaborate with departments like Writing and Honors to put on workshops that are specific to what they're doing... or also, that are student led workshops. So, we've had honor students lead crafting workshops about making worry dolls that they give out to people in the community.   We have things with Pima Love Notes, with RISE, like a lot of different honors things... we also have crafting workshops at the other locations...  so, like, Desert Vista does crafting workshops in partnership with the Makerspace... we have them at Downtown Campus, too. We have clothing swaps, so that students can swap clothing in a green way with each other. And then a lot of times those donations end up going to RISE or other programs, to support the community at Pima... and we do movies... movie screenings... we have book sales... the East Campus book sale is next week if you're interested in going to a book sale... so, we have all sorts of things going on all the time   and we always try our best to support the community and the students as best we can. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Cool. Thank you. [applause] Okay, [off mic talk, chuckles] That was an excellent presentation. Thank you both. Now we have Daniel Hanselman and he will be presenting on Mathematics. ---Daniel Hanselman: Is this on? Hi, I'm Dan Hanselman, I'm a Mathematics DFC co-chair and a Mathematics faculty at East Campus. So, we're talking today about what we are doing to improve the success rates and the outcomes for the Mathematics department... what we've done historically... we noticed in the data we have over the last... kind of stacked up there, but the data we have over the last few years... recently we've been getting 65% success rates out of the Mathematics department as a whole. And we wondered, what would it take to get us up to 70% success rates for Mathematics department here at Pima Community College. And it turns out that when we do all the numbers, that's one more successful student per CRN in the mathematics department. So, we started to ask ourselves, what can we do then to reach that one more student... find success for one more student   in our classes, in each of our CRNs, to increase our success rates to 70% for Mathematics department. Next slide, please. So, what have we done in the past to increase these success rates and how have these led to better success for our students? You see in 2017, we used to have Math 095, which was pre-Algebra for co... or prerequisite for Math 142... and we had  Math 097, which is intermediate algebra... both as prerequisites for Math 142. In 2017, we changed that to having just one prerequisite, which is  Math 092, or was Math 092, in order to get into the math 142. So, these are completion rates for transfer program Math level, or program level Math.   So, within one year of enrolling in a first dev Math course or gateway Math course, we want to see what are the completion rates for one year of... after starting at Pima Community College.   As you can see... you can see the success rates just by making that change of having the 2 prerequisites   for Math 142, to having just 1 prerequisite for Math 142... we have basically a 10% increase in our success rates of com... successfully completing a college level, transfer level, Math course within a year... just by making that one change. You can see in 2018, a year later we added multiple measures for placement... so, instead of having to come in and taking placement tests and seeing where you placed on the Mathematics scale here at Pima Community College, we allowed high school students to come in and use high school level classes to place them into high level... higher level, transfer level courses at Pima Community College... and you can see, just by making that change as well of having multiple options instead of having  to come through DevEd, or placing into DevEd... students came in and were allowed to use their high school transfer classes... that also resulted in almost 10% increase in completion rates for students completing a high level, transfer level Math course. Next slide. So recently, like, we thought... well, what else can we do to change this? And so recently we had the Math 092 and 095, those are no longer offered here at Pima Community College... and instead for Math 142, we've changed it to 142 and 092RQ, which is a co-requisite course. Students come in an hour before each class and they meet with their teacher for an extra hour and possibly another faculty member for an extra hour, to go over prerequisite materials... what do you need to know in order to have success in the next class? So, you have a whole hour of extra time with the teacher to learn the materials that you needed to learn, in order to have success in the next class... we did that for both Math 142 which is college Math as well as math 151, which is college Algebra... so, we have a co-requisite for Math 142, which is 092RQ...   and we have a co-requisite for 151RQ, which is 097RQ... and we wanted to see what the success...   what the changes in success were for that... in fall of 2025, we had 12.6% of students were placed into a standalone dev Math class compared to 62% in fall of 2010... a completion of college level Math within one year was 48% for fall 2024 students compared to just 11% in 2010... and the success rate for Pima Community College Math students in their first attempt at their next math class has increased to 67% over the past 2 years versus just 56% 10 years prior. So, this change that we've... the changes we had before, we can see an already marked improvement in the success rate   for students could pass a transfer  level course. Go to the next slide please.   So, with the Math 142RQ and the Math 151RQ... we don't have a long standing lot of data to compare... but if we look at just the success rates for Math, for fall of 2025... in Math 142RQ, we had a 67.3% success rate out of 251 students. And in Math 151RQ, we had a 62.3% success rate out of 281 students... so a total, we had a 64.7% success rate out of just over 330 students... these students would have been placed into Math 092, 097 or 095 priorly... prior, traditionally... and giving them a 25% chance of completing a college level Math course when allowing for one year to complete.  Instead, we have a 64.7% in one course in one try to  get to that level... these same students completed  college level Math courses again at 64.7% rate in just one semester... yes. [question off camera] I believe we do, I'd have to talk to the Dean... I'm certain we do. [question off camera] Yeah. I'll have to talk to Dean Gray about it, but I'm certain we can pull that data together. Other questions? Thank you so much for your time. [applause] ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you, Dan. That was a great presentation.  A lot of great information to hear about Math.   And I... so I want to thank Dan, Emily, and Sol for doing their Division Spotlights and sharing a little bit about   your areas with the rest of the faculty... it was very interesting to hear about different aspects that we don't always see in our areas. So, thank you so much... next on our agenda is Dr. Thies. ---Dr. Jeff Thies: Good afternoon everyone. Is this thing on? So, the first question of the day, which one is correct? Do I spend spell my name IES or EIS? [audience laughs] Whoever says the right way first gets a donut from the box of donuts... Kate. ---Kate Schmidt: [off mic] I before E. ---Dr. Jeff Thies: I before E... neighbor, weigh, and Jeff Thies. Thank you. [unintelligible off mic] We're just... yeah, there we go... opportunities  for improvement... I just thought it was... yeah. [unintelligible off mic] Thank you for the quick edit... updates on the commencement ceremonies. It should not be surprise news that we are doing 2 commencement ceremonies in May. We talked about this last month when I was here... some updates I'm providing on the commencement ceremonies. The team's been working on the back end to divide up the programs proportionately. So we have divi... degrees and certificates appropriately split between the 10:30am and the 4pm commencement ceremonies. We have accurately decided what those... that split is going to be... the last time I was here, I shared with all of you what it looked like it was going to be... we made some little tweaks and edits along the way. We... I'm saying collectively that was primarily the registrar's office... Emily Ratley and others within that division are helping us kind of streamline where those certificates and degrees go... there are going to be posted on the web page,  marketing is finalizing the design... they will be getting with web systems, if not today... tomorrow. And we should see that posted next  week on the commencement web page. So students, faculty, staff, whoever wants to know, they will  be there on that commencement page on the website.   Additionally, we will be sending out personal  emails to all of the graduates to let them know   which of the two commencements they will be going to based on the certificate and degree that they are completing. The help that we're asking all of you is, if you are somebody that happens to advise students or you're in a cohort program, or you know all of the students that are graduating in May with your respective degrees and certificates, please share with them as you see them in class, or as you're seeing them in the hallway, you know, to double check that list...   if they ever have questions, be familiar with where your particular degree and certificate are going to be. It's at TCC again, so that hasn't changed... the gap in time, we're expecting, hopefully more students will stick around, giving that it'll be A) a shorter and B) a more personal experience with their particular cohort. If you've gone to the past, and I've gone to all except one of the past 10, a lot of the cohort groups go, and they are the ones that tend to stick around...  and so, supporting that aspect of it as well,   none of us like to see, you know, the last 2 or 3 students walk across the stage, and you look back and 98% of the rest of their colleagues have left, right? And so, we're hoping this takes that into account as well. Any questions on the commencement ceremonies? Yes, sir. [unintelligible off mic] Eric, of course you're allowed. ---Erich Saphir: So, just... ---Dr. Jeff Thies: Off the record though, right? ---Erich Saphir: from the Germany study abroad program last summer, we had some beautiful pictures and I had communicated,   I think, to you... with you... or Dr. Roark about whether there might be a place to submit those pictures, with of course appropriate media release... so they could be projected on the screen uh before the ceremony.  Where should those students send  pictures for consideration for that? Would it be to you or Dr. Roark, or an all-together different destination? ---Dr. Jeff Thies: Yeah, go ahead and have them send them to me and I'll make sure they get taken care of. ---Erich Saphir: Thank you. ---Dr. Jeff Thies: It's IE... [crowd chuckles] on the email... I've been dealing with that all my life. Can you tell? [crowd chuckles] Nothing personal. Anything else, commencement ceremony wise? Great. I'm going to move on to the next one. Faculty engagement and pre-post enrollment processes... I approached the faculty senate leadership about pulling some faculty into the work that we're doing regarding how faculty navigate and support students before, during,   and after the first day of class, right... this has been an ongoing conversation for quite some time, Denise,  so, we're talking wait list... we're talking drop for non-payment... students show up day one.   Is it an email? Is it a form that they got from student affairs? We are moving off of the paper form. We do not want to operate with paper... but we want to be having those conversations with faculty. And at this point, I have not received anybody that's willing to come and join us for the conversations... so, if you could email me... I'd love to invite you to the next meeting regarding your engagement in pre and post enrollment processes at the college.   I saw a few hands go up... so, jthies@puma.edu. [unintelligible off camera] Yeah, you're right... you're... well, you're... yeah, it autofills in some spots. Any questions on that particular topic? Anything you want to know about some of the challenges we're trying to work through? Saving time... Emily, you now have an extra 5 minutes probably for SOPs on modalities. ---Emily Halvorson-Otts: Thank you. ---Dr. Jeff Thies: Thank you everyone. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you. And I did see a few hands go up, so thank you to those that are willing to serve on that committee. And so, Emily Halvorson-Otts is next... with an O. ---Emily Halvorson-Otts: [unintelligible] With an O. All right... I felt strange sitting down and... with a presentation up here... so, I'm going to walk around, too. So, I'm going to be talking about an SOP that's been a collective effort from several various groups, on the expected use of our LMS/D2L in all of our modalities. All right... so, as we're aware... we have the chancellor's goal of growing enrollment and impro...  and improve student persistence... so, this SOP connects directly to his goal, and we'll talk about that a little bit further. It also connects to our next goal that I'm going to talk about, which is our cabinet one of our cabinet goals, which is using student success data to identify instructional strategies and course level interventions... and finalize and continue evidence-based teaching and learning competencies. So, the LMS is going to help us as we outline this SOP and how we want to use this for all of our modalities, in helping to work on both of these 2 goals, a chancellor and a cabinet goal... all right. All right... so, the SOP is really, as I've already indicated... it's for all modalities... and then, there is a section that outlines further on, asynchronous fully online courses... so, it goes into more detail from that... and the rationale for that is, as many of you have talked about, there used to be a PimaOnline department head manual that really provided a lot of structure on what those expectations were for using the D2L/LMS within those modalities. And so, a group has taken that content and has placed it into this SOP and has modernized it based on where we're at currently within the institution... and it's added in components for the other modalities. And so it connects to that old department head... PimaOnline department head manual... as well as just faculty expectations that are outlined in policy. For the All Modalities, it outlines some basic criteria... it is... the syllabus should be in there... and of course using simple syllabus it funnels right into D2L... there is some expectations of the gradebook... and right now it talks about active use in the... of the gradebook... well, that's one of the things we need to determine... what exactly is active use? and there are in fact some conversations that we've been having around that... so, pulling back to the Chancellor's goals and Cabinet goals... we need to work on improving our student metrics of persistence and retention, as well as using data to... for interventions... so, right now, many of us look at our productive grade rates,   which are lagging indicators... we look at them for the previous semester and we go, "oh... well, we got a 75% productive grade here... what can we do going forward? Well, if we can know in real time what is happening in our classes and we can look at grades and attendance, we are going to be able to be able to act on it more quickly. So, we need to define what that active is. There's been some conversations with faculty senate leadership. I've been starting those conversations with Deans...   and I've asked Deans to start those conversations with  department heads and this conversation is going to keep occurring but this is one step in helping us engage in getting towards that goal of more active use...   again, to support those goals that we have. So, that one was a little bit of a side sidebar. There's obviously the calendar, as well as mobile ready... oh... course communications just using the announcements... so that you're communicating to your students what is happening in your the classroom... as well as accessibility... and I'm sure several of you are aware of the new accessibility law... the federal compliance and accessibility that we are now working on, which I shouldn't say we're now working on... as an institution we've been very keenly aware about accessibility issues   for a long time... and that is something that we know we need to do for our students, is creating that universal design. So it's ensuring that we're meeting those accessibility requirements. Asynchronous... this again goes into more detail because it came from that old PimaOnline department head manual... and these are the themes around course preparation, engagement, mobile readiness, assessment... as well as the self-design courses... and under that particular section is expectations for hybrid and virtual. So, there's some small delineations for those 2 modalities as well. And with that... next slide. So far, the distance education committee has provided input... the Deans have looked at it... and now we're coming to all of you. And we're going to keep coming to other groups... we're going to bring it to AERC, the course modalities task force, as well as the Provost Leadership Team... and because  we really want this to receive your feedback on   what has been created... so, that it is something  that all of us are comfortable using in our classes  and creating these expectations of what this should look like. And so, that is the link to the SOP.   You are free to either put feedback directly into it or in the Google form. And we are asking for feedback by the Friday after spring  break. And with that, are there any questions? ---Kelly O'Keefe: Go ahead, Matej. ---Matej Boguszak: I don't think we have access to the documented links. If we could just get that. Thank you. ---Emily Halvorson-Otts: All right... we will make sure. I think you're the owner of it. Thank you for letting us know that... our apologies. So, I guess there won't be any questions if you don't have access, right? We will get you access. Sorry about that. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Okay... thank you... so, no other questions, we'll go ahead and move on. In the spirit of full transparency, I realized that I didn't get a motion and a second motion for the approval of the February minutes. So, I'm going to motion. ---Dennis Just: Seconded. ---Kelly O'Keefe: [laughing] Thank you. And then, of course, everyone already voted to approve  them, so just for the official record, please. Thank you. And then also... we did have an amendment last minute to our agenda and at the... on the last part of our agenda we've now added Kate Schmidt... and Kate is going to present on the faculty awards from the provost office. ---Kate Schmidt: Here we go. Can you hear me now? Wonderful. So, I don't have a slide and this is really hot off the press information... we will have an email out on Monday. But the faculty senate, for really the last year and a half has been working with the office of the Provost to create a more regular cadence of recognizing the great work that faculty are doing. And so, we've um agreed that there will be spring awards and fall awards for faculty. And in the spring they'll... they will typically in the future launch in January... we know it's not January, it's March... but we have a schedule to get get them ready to award 2 awards to faculty at the May senate... and those will focus on... one will be loosely around current initiatives... so, it's the pro, you know, things that are recognized by the Provost or a faculty member has really supported a current initiative, something that's in a strategic plan, in a departmental plan, the Chancellor's goals, or the Cabinet goals. The second is something that really came from senators about, kind of, a longer term faculty achievement award. So... so, something that would go to a faculty member who's worked for 10 years... or you know, 10 years or longer. There's some other criteria that we've outlined that will come out on Monday.   Those are the two that will be... we'll be working on in the next few months and then awarded in May. And then, in the fall we roll out faculty excellence and teaching awards... and we'll be offering 5... up to 5 for full-time faculty or staff instructors... and then, up to 5 for part-time faculty or staff instructors. and we'll get... nominations, go through that process and have that that ceremony during the All Faculty Day in January. There will be more information coming out on Monday. We do have, at least for this year, financial support from the foundation, which you know, we always appreciate their support of faculty and your work. They did say we will need to kind of ask them every year... so, it's a little bit, that the the monetary awards, are a little bit dependent on that availability, but we have never had them turn us down on things, so, we're pretty confident that we can move forward with that. And I really do want to thank... this really sort of initiated under Denise's leadership and continued with you all... and giving input and serving what you thought we should be doing in a regular award program. ---Kelly O'Keefe: Thank you so much. Does anyone have any questions about the upcoming faculty awards or the SOP... or anything in regards to what Kate has presented? Okay... well, I'm sure I speak for all of us when we say that we're excited to see this happen... and even more excited to see that it's an SOP and it's going to be a regular thing coming from the provost office. So, thank you for your leadership in that. And we now have the distinct pleasure of announcing our faculty emeritus results. We're going to look... we're going  to pull it up right now. Hold on. And while that is happening, you  all now have access to the SOP. Okay, we have it now. [chuckles] So, approved to move forward to Dr. Roark is Dr. Amy Cramer,   Dr. Ken Vorndran, Mike Stack, and Rob Modica. Thank you so much everybody. [applause] This was an excellent faculty senate meeting and I encourage us to continue with... coming with questions and asking those presenting to us... you know, very important questions so we can keep the conversation open... and although this is a formal meeting, it can have discussion. So, please know that... that we're open to that. Okay. Thank you all so much... have a wonderful weekend... meeting adjourned.