Division Council

LOS ANGELES HARBOR COLLEGE

OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 

D I V I S I ON   C O U N C I L 

MINUTES

February 20, 2008

 

Present:  Nabeel Barakat, Carmen Carrillo, King Carter, Joy Fisher, Dr. David Humphreys, Lauren McKenzie, Bobby McNeel, Joyce Parker, Luis Rosas, Dr. Stan Sandell, Beverly Shue, June Smith, Tricia Wickers, Brad Young, Mark Wood

 

Absent:  Kristi Blackburn, Ivan Clarke, Carla Mussa-Muldoon, Dr. Robert Richards,

 

MINUTES

The minutes for the meeting of February 6, 2008 were accepted as presented.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bobby McNeel asked the Chairs to encourage each student who received a $1,000 AVES Scholarship to write a thank you letter to the Los Angeles Community College Foundation and bring it to his office where they will receive their checks.

 

A copy of the accreditation progress report that will be submitted for Board approval was passed around for committee review. The report is not entirely available in electronic format yet as some of the components will have to be scanned.

 

June Smith reminded the members of the upcoming district-wide discipline meeting that will be held this coming Friday, February 22, at L.A. Valley College starting at 9 a.m.

 

INSTRUCTION/CONSTRUCTION ISSUES

Mr. Rosas noted that as the current construction projects proceed and the college gets down to the final allocation of space, decisions will need to be made as to where to put certain programs and how we divide the space among those programs. It is his belief that the prevailing philosophy should remain that priority should go FTES generating programs. At issue right now is what will become of the south wing of the Administration Building. Due to a lack of adequate space in the new Technology Building, Brad Young was asked to draw up plans that place the Administration of Justice and Fire Technology programs in that area. It has been purported that IT may also be sharing this area as well.

 

Lauren McKenzie noted that the demolition of the Technology 2 building will also take away the only lighting that was available between the Tech. 1 and Tech. 2 buildings. This issue will be brought before the CORE Group and the Work Environment Committee.

 

ACCREDITATION SLO REPORT – UPDATE

Dr. Humphreys stated that this process has gone on for several months and it has involved a number of meetings including some sub-committee meetings of the Academic Affairs Committee of CPC. At the next Academic Affairs Committee of CPC meeting, which will follow immediately after Division Council, it is hoped that participants will be able to come to some finality regarding the forms. This part of the meeting today is an opportunity for discussion and feedback.

 

We have at Harbor a program review process. Program review happens every six years and presumably it does two things: it is retrospective and prospective. It looks back and sums up what the program is at the time and then looks forward over the next six years and forecasts where the program would like to be. Unit planning integrates with program review because unit planning is done once a year and it is the plan the division has for that year to talk about programs they would like to start or stop, faculty that need to be hired, and equipment and supplies that need to be purchased. In other words, it is the operational plan for the year. All of that rolls up into the larger strategic planning document through CPC. There is a lot of data that is accumulated and one of the things that we would like to see unit planning rest on is data from the divisions. Dr. Humphreys would like to set up some training sessions with the various divisions in order to actively work on getting SLO’s written into the appropriate format so the college can then move forward with this process. One of the forms that he proposes comes from the James Nichols model for assessment. It is typically called the 5-column model and it is a way of writing out your college mission, what the SLO is, what the measure is that you will use to assess it and what the results are and how it has been used. After further discussion, it was recommended that Excel rather than Word be used in creating the forms in order to better manage the data and to go from WSCH to FTEF but state it as FTES to FTEF.

 

CURRICULUM

Lauren McKenzie distributed a draft copy of the list of compliant degrees. The new Title V requirements state that our A.A. Liberal Arts degrees must be set up in such a way that they have an area of emphasis of at least 18 units. Brenda Guertin has put together a model of how this can be accomplished.

 

ADJOURNMENT

The meeting adjourned at 3 p.m.