Attendees: James Salmen, Angela Schmitt, Kayla Spence, Michelle Médal, Kristen Salsbury, Maria Rase, Anne Beard
United Campus Workers Colorado (ucwcolorado.org)
Karen Peirce (a new staff participant in UCW) and Brandon Daniels (staff, faculty and student worker organizer for UCW) discussed the agenda and plan of UCW to help CU university staff. The UCW’s current efforts are focused on the upcoming Cost of Living Adjustment. COLA increases are 3%; the UCW is advocating for a 10% increase.
Budget
CLAS has confirmed this year’s budget to be $4,500. Last year $3,000 was allocated to professional development ($2,500 was spent) with the remaining available for other activities. A unanimous vote passed $2,500 for professional development.
Advocacy Committee Report on Meeting with Dean’s Office (9/7/2023) & Debrief on CLAS Faculty & Staff Forum (9/8/2023)
There was surprise that teri engelke was not in the room during Michelle’s talk about CLAS Staff council. Angela was disappointed that CLAS HR did not appear to be advocating for greater clarity and more complete information from central HR on promotions, job classification changes and additional one-time compensation. On behalf of the staff council, Angela will ask AnQuanette if CLAS HR can get more specific information from central HR on promotions and raises and provide that information to staff. Angela mentioned that professional development funds might be well-suited to offset the cost of the attendance of teams at a conference:
https://insightsedu.educationdynamics.com/event/d8f1fe4e-c2af-49f7-abb4-0374a375c2b8/summary
Activities
A social event will be planned for the fall. There was discussion of playing Bingo among staff where an app is used to collect fun facts about staff (Maria is contact). It was not who decided who would organize the event. Maria requested we announce anniversaries in the Dean’s Notes. Michelle will contact Carri Boothe for staff lists and Maria volunteered to work on this project.
Meeting Schedules for AY 2023-2024
Meetings will be 11:00-12:30 pm the first Mondays of each month.
Webform on Priority Issues
We have received 10 responses so far, and the link will be sent out again soon, along with information about our staff professional development funding opportunity. Hopefully, we will collect more responses in our feedback form and will review at the next council meeting.