Collegewide Staff Council Meeting

Absent: Carol Janz (WEC), and Ann Whetstone (OSC)

Lorraine welcomed everyone to the Downtown Center. Lorraine explained how strongly she feels about how the Career Council is perceived. The group discussed this and everyone agreed that we want to be seen as a proactive, thinking group that deserves to be empowered and valued. Those representing the Career Council at other meetings should state comments in a positive manner, and be prepared with a plan or solution when bringing up issues. The Council officers would like the college to see that we can bring change. This information should be shared with all representatives on each campus.

The implied separation of faculty and staff was discussed. Issues such as the parking decals reading AFaculty/Staff@ and that faculty are tenured and have a sense of security in their jobs that staff does not have.

The issue of communication was discussed. We must be certain that issues and their status are shared with the college.

Dr. Stone mentioned that he would like the Career Council officers to attend an Executive Council meeting.

Lorraine distributed a compiled list of collegewide issues from all the campuses. The issues were grouped into the following categories: Compensation, Benefits, Professional Development, Technology, Security, Student, Procurement, and Miscellaneous. The group decided to list completed items on a separate page and to arrange pending issues by date order. A decision was made to review each of the issues to determine Anext steps.@ However, due to time restraints, it was decided to meet again on Thursday, April 11, (8:30 a.m. on the East Campus in Dr. Stone=s office) to continue the review and discussion of the issues.

Joanna distributed copies of the brochure Winter Park employees are creating for the Career Council collegewide. She requested input and suggestions from other council members.