OCT - Lamar State College - Port Arthur

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Lamar State College-Port Arthur Faculty Senate
Minutes – October 2, 2007
Student Center, Room 422
Attendance:
Academic
Gene Byrd
Sally Byrd
*Monteel Copple
Susan Gregory
Kim Jones
Percy Jordan
Michelle Judice
Martha Pate
David Sorrells, Vice President
Mavis Triebel, Secretary
Technical
Janis Browning
Nancy Cammack, President
*Anna Dattalo
Sheila Guillot
Janet Hamilton
*Shirley MacNeill
Mary Mulliner
Robert Peeler
Ed Quist
*Patricia Schipplein
Janet Tawney
Creig Miller, Adjunct
Staff: Helen Dupre
*Denotes Absence
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Call to Order
President Nancy Cammack called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m.
Guest Presentation
Tom Neal, Vice President of Student Services, presented information about his
department’s responsibility in regard to cheating, plagiarism and/or disciplinary actions.
All information in regard to student policies is on line in the Student Handbook.
However, his department would like to be kept informed about all infractions
experienced by faculty. A separate file is maintained for these disciplinary cases that
are reported to their department. Through this process, multiple infractions by a student
would be compiled.
Approval of Minutes
David Sorrells moved the adoption of the minutes from Sept. 4, 2007 and Sally Byrd
seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Committee Reports
Awards Committee
Martha Pate reported that her committee will be seeking nominees for the annual Piper
award as the letter from the Piper Foundation has been received. The deadline for the
application is November 21, 2007. The committee will have a recommendation at our
November meeting.

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Facilities
Mavis Triebel stated that the problem with the door locks in the Ruby Fuller Building
could be handled by a work order.
Faculty Development/Welfare
Sheila Guillot reported that the committee will be coming back with the recommended
qualifications for the delegate attending the “Great Teaching Roundup”.
Faculty Social Functions
Susan Gregory reported there are several options available for the coming months. “The
Christmas Carol” will be in November, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” in
February, “Of Mice and Men” in April, and “Chicago” in April. Please get in touch with
Susan to express your interest in attending any of these events. David Sorrells invited
interested persons to attend the “Renaissance Festival” on the second weekend in
October. Janet Hamilton stated that Ken Burns will be speaking at the Lutcher Theater in
Orange on October 17 as part of the Lecture Series of the LSC-Orange campus.
Old Business
The chair appointed Kim Jones as an additional member to the “Relay for Life”
committee. David Sorrells, chair of the LSC-PA Relay for Life Committee, reported that
the committee will be considering fund raising projects to finance our team at their next
meeting.
New Business
The Chair introduced Creig Miller, adjunct voting member and Helen Dupre, staff
non-voting member. These two members were elected by their colleagues in an
election held in September and will serve through the September 2008 meeting of
the Senate.
Miller will serve on the Academic Issues and Facilities Committees and Helen
Dupre will serve on the Faculty/Staff Relations Committee.
The Chair announced that Development Leave applications are due for 2008 or
2009 to the Department Chairs by October 12. Those interested in applying
should get their applications to Sheila Guillot prior to that date for their review.
Janet Tawney requested that Security at night be improved. There have been
instances of teachers being locked in the building. The Chair requested the
Facilities Committee to investigate this problem.
Janet Hamilton requested that cross walks be painted on Procter Street from the
Allied Health Building to the Performing Arts Center. There is a fear that a
student is going to have an accident in this area. This item was also assigned to
the Facilities Committee to pass on to the Campus Safety Committee.
Reports
Lamar University-Beaumont
Mavis Triebel reported that President Jimmy Simmons will address the Beaumont Senate
at their meeting on October 3, 2007 with his State of the University address. At their

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September meeting goals were set for the 2007-2008 Senate to include salary and equity,
faculty development leaves and to improve communication
Flower Fund
David Sorrells reported that the Flower Fund has $50 in the account and he has received
approximately $100 today. Gene Byrd thanked the Senate for the flowers that were sent
during his recent illness.
Executive Committee
Nancy Cammack, president, gave the Executive Committee Report.
Dr. Monroe discussed the following:
During Hurricane Humberto, we suffered some minor damage including the loss
of a 75-year old palm tree near library as well as some windows in Armory, water
blown under some doors, and then debris removal for about a total of $25,000.
About one half of that amount was overtime pay to employees worked Thursday-
Sunday in preparing the campus for our return on Monday morning. Nancy
Cammack thanked administration for keeping faculty informed of the closing of
our campus in a timely fashion.
The Solid Gold Rock & Roll Show was held as planned on Saturday evening in
the Parker Center with about 700 persons in attendance. This attendance figure is
about the same as the previous year.
Bill Worsham and Dr. Monroe met this past week at the Mount Pleasant North
Texas Community College concerning the Regional Junior College Association,
Region 14. This organization meets every 6 months. We made and were granted
a request to move LSCPA to Division 1 status, to begin in the 2008-2009 season.
We have been playing school teams in this division while classified as a Division
3 team. This request which raised LSCPA’s level of competition was deemed
necessary to attract quality players. Housing has been another issue in attracting
quality players for a competitive team. We currently have four athletic students
living in the Lamar Beaumont dormitories per an agreement. Now we can award
our athletics students scholarships based on scholastic achievement but not
athletic scholarships per se.
As reported last month, we are upgrading our 10-year master plan with the
assistance of the SHW group from Dallas as our consulting firm. One of the
items under consideration is dormitory space. We are seeing the need for living
space for our athletes and for students enrolling in the commercial music
program. The music program is creating a huge outreach beyond this area.
Having dormitory space would also make us more competitive.
Our Centennial Committee is meeting weekly with Dr. Charles Gongre as the
chair of that committee. We will use the calendar year of 2009 to commemorate
our 100 years rather than the school year of 09-10. Currently the committee is
seeking a theme that will look both at the past and to the future.
The Motiva expansion has been approved. This will bring many new jobs to the
area and will impact us both in a positive and a negative way. We are currently
training construction workers through the Technical Division. A $250,000 grant

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will be announced this week from the Texas Workforce Commission to assist in
the training of approximately 240 persons in the various construction fields.
Three new members have been appointed to the TSUS Board of Regents by
Governor Rick Perry. They are: Charlie Amato of San Antonio, business owner;
Ron Blatchley of Bryan, home builder, former mayor of Bryan, with close ties to
higher education; and Michael Truncale, Attorney at Law, Beaumont, with a
strong Lamar connection. Don Flores of El Paso was reappointed. These
appointments make possible a full board at the November meeting.
The Port Arthur Civic Center reopened this weekend. Some of the functions that
have been taking place in the Parker Center will return to the Civic Center. We
will still have a few functions on our campus but not as many.
Dr. Stretcher reported on the following:
We are working on a computer security training course for all faculty, staff
and students in compliance with the new mandate by the Texas Legislature. It
will be a web-based activity for people to exhibit familiarity with computer
security. Training of this type will allow documentation for everyone’s
completion of the training. If one does not pass the training or does not
complete it, a loss of computer privileges will occur.
On October 24, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Parker Center, Jeff Corwin, the TV
personality/animal handler, will be our guest lecturer. He will bring some of
his reptiles with him but people will only have visual access to them.
We currently have 160 co-enrollment students from Nederland High School
and 60 from Memorial High School, Port Arthur.
Announcements
The chair thanked Sally Byrd, Susan Gregory and Michelle Judice for their refreshments
for today’s meeting.
Our next meeting will be November 6, 2007 with Sheila Guillot, Kim Jones, and Janet
Tawney providing refreshments.
The meeting adjourned at 3:15 p.m.
Mavis Triebel, Recording Secretary