Academic Affairs Cluster

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF CPC

M I N U T E S

February 20, 2008

2:30 p.m.

President’s Conference Room

PRESENT

Administration

Dr. David Humphreys, Bobby McNeel, Luis Rosas

Faculty

Nabeel Barakat, Carmen  Carrillo, King Carter, Joy Fisher, Lauren McKenzie, Joyce Parker, Dr. Stan Sandell, Beverly Shue, June Smith, Jim Stanbery, Tricia Wickers, Mark Wood, Bradley Young

ABSENT

Administration

Kristi Blackburn, Dr. Robert Richards, Dr. Ann Tomlinson

Faculty

Marian Locascio, Juanita Naranjo, Pamela Watkins

Classified Manager

Carla Mussa-Muldoon

Classified

Hovsep Kotelyan, Traci Liley 

CALL TO ORDER

Luis Rosas called the meeting to order at 2:50 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room.

I. ADOPTION OF AGENDA

The agenda was accepted as presented.

II. ADOPTION OF MINUTES     

The minutes for the meetings of December 12, 2007 and December 19, 2007 were accepted as presented. 

III. FINAL ADOPTION OF UNIT PLAN TEMPLATE

Mr. Stanbery stated that during meetings held in January, the committee voted to adopt the introductory assumptions and narrative portion of the template as already distributed to Division Council. The spreadsheet, in its current format, was the result of further discussions by a smaller group, and has satisfied concerns that the unit plans link directly to the essential statistics for division offerings in a way that updates automatically.

Mr. Stanbery pointed out that where more than one objective served was cited on the spreadsheet each one would have a separate column to allow for sorting accordingly. 

Dr. Humphreys asked if it would be appropriate for unit plans to be submitted in a digital format and that he would follow up on the suggestion of Mark Wood that the form be created in Excel rather than Word so that the data can be better managed across the spectrum of the discipline.

One additional recommendation that came out of the Division Council meeting just prior to this meeting was to go from WSCH to FTEF but state it as FTES to FTEF.

It was approved by consensus that the forms presented to the committee be adopted on the understandings specified above and that the divisions complete and submit them by the April 2 meeting of this committee.

IV.  SLO’s ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

It was noted that the draft of the Outcomes Assessment Plan: Beginning the Dialog, prepared by Dr. Humphreys, has been discussed in previous meetings. Dr. Humphreys recommended that although he would like to see at some point a formal discussion take place on certain issues such as the difference between assessment and evaluation, he asked for consensus from the committee to proceed with setting up a five-column form to start entering SLO’s and then the next step is to identify some measures and what the results are.

V.  ITEMS FROM THE FLOOR

There were no items from the floor.

VI.  ADJOURNMENT