PE and health teacher chosen as interim faculty president

By Nick Ngo

Feeling that he could fill the void of an empty position for spring quarter, Health and Physical Education Instructor Daryle Broadsword stepped up to be the president of the Faculty Association. The role of president was supposed to be taken up by Computer Education Instructor Gary DeRoest. However, DeRoest is on sabbatical leave until fall quarter.

Broadsword is temporarily stepping in as president to keep the association moving forward and functioning properly. In the fall, DeRoest will come back from his sabbatical to serve as president. At that point, Broadsword will move to the position of vice president, whose job is to be the president of the Faculty Senate.

“It’s something I’m doing because I think it’s important to provide some continuity,” Broadsword said. “I look at the fact that the Faculty Association, being here for a number of years, has worked to maintain a very high quality of faculty members and working to maintain high quality educational services provided to our students.”

Broadsword started working at Mt. Hood Community College in fall of 1978 as an assistant baseball coach. Then in August 1980 he became a full-time faculty member. Broadsword worked from 1980 until July 1994 and he left the school. He came back in fall 1998 as a full-time faculty member and the head coach of the women’s basketball team.

Currently Broadsword is teaching health and physical education classes. He teaches classes like Diet and Weigh Control, Personal Health, Stress Control, Health and Fitness For Life and Sports Psychology.

Spending time teaching and being the president of the Faculty Association is not the only thing Broadsword has under his belt. He also is on the Faculty Evaluation Oversight Committee, where they make sure the evaluation process is working properly. The committee works with the administration and the administration can offer suggestions.

They take it back to the Faculty Association and talk about the proposed changes and seeing if it would benefit the faculty and students.

Another organization Broadsword is part of is the Accreditation Task Force; he takes part in the committee that overlooks Standard Six, Governance and Administration. Every seven years, the school goes through an accreditation process.

An accreditation process is when the school looks at nine standards to make sure what the school is doing meets up with the guidelines of the governing agencies or the agencies that offer the standards. Standard Six looks at the school board, board of education, the president and leadership methods.

Broadsword is also on the Contract Maintenance Committee, which seeks to bring clarity to issues with the faculty contract.

Even though Broadsword is serving a short term as president, he still has plans to improve the association. He wants to enhance faculty representation with the school board, to make sure faculty concerns are heard and wants to keep a positive collegial process of working out problems.

Broadsword said his job is “to make sure you represent your union and your association well, so that you adhere to their best interest, but also keep in mind our own true purpose and that’s helping students get their needs and education taking care of.”

Filling the other Faculy Association positions are Pat Casey as vice president and Shannon Valdivia as secretary. Ellen White is nominated to be treasurer, replacing Wendell Johnson who died April 6. Pat Casey will leave on sabbatical fall term and Broadsword will become the vice president.