ACADEMIC AFFAIRS STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE CPC

MINUTES

FOR THE MEETING OF

March 22, 2006

1:30 p.m.

President’s Conference Room

Attending:      

Administration – Nancy Carson, Bobby McNeel, Luis Rosas

Faculty – Nabeel Barakat, Carmen Carrillo, Tricia Wickers for Wendy Hollis, Bruce Lemon, Lauren McKenzie, Susan McMurray, Joyce Parker, Evelyn Portis, Jim Stanbery, Mark Wood, Bradley Young

Guests – Ms. Micca Gray, Dr. Cheryl Chappell-Long, Dr. Genevieve Lau, Dr. Ray Maghroori, Dr. Philip Manwell

Absent:

Administration - Charlie Bossler, Bob Richards, Ann Tomlinson

Classified –Traci Liley, Hovsep Kotelyan

Classified Manager - Carla Mussa-Muldoon

Faculty – King Carter, Joy Fisher, Stanley Sandell, Pamela Watkins

Students – Praow Angchuan, Cortney Barton, Leviticus Moevdo

Luis Rosas chaired the meeting.

I.          MINUTES

Minutes of the March 8, 2006 meeting were approved (McKenzie/Lemon).  The agenda was approved as presented (Carson/Lemon).

Mr. Rosas gave a brief overview of the purpose and duties of the Academic Affairs Standing Committee of the CPC for the benefit of the visiting Accreditation team. 

A district wide handout was distributed showing the 2005/06 First Period FTES; 2005-06 FTES—Demonstration; 2005-06 Apportionment FTES, and a Historical Reference including 2003-04 Recalculation and 2004-05 Annual.  The document is one of the data management tools for enrollment planning, which is helpful in comparing Harbor to other colleges within the district.  This demonstrates one way the LACCD manages its nine campuses. 

Current planning includes consideration for offering Winter Session as an early start Spring Semester this year at Harbor. 

II.                    PROPOSITION A/AA AND FEMA ACTIVITY UPDATE

Walk-A-Thon plans are progressing for a mid-May event, to include the community as well as students and staff.  This is also planned as a celebration of the new track and field completion.

Nursing Building reports reflect complaints of missing outlet covers as well as the need to re-do some carpet sections damaged by seeping glue.  Fine Arts has an extensive work list.  Dr. Spink took some items to the architect.  The need to have the Music Recital Hall and the Theater complete by the start of the fall semester cannot be overly emphasized.  (Mark Wood, Nancy Carson, Bobby McNeel and Luis Rosas all sit on CORE Group.  Mike Bishop, of Pinnacle One, chairs the group.)

The FEMA projects in Science are going on, room by room, due to the lack of swing space.  At this time the bottom floor is complete.  New lights have been ordered for the second floor, which will be up to code.

Mr. McNeel reported on the new Starback System, for streaming video, with a 15minute delay and storage.  Ivan Clarke is working to get the LACCD to lower the firewall to make this more accessible to students. 

Mrs. Carson asked how students are dealing with the large amount of construction on campus.  The response seemed to suggest that their greatest complaints now have to do with parking.

III.     STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES IN RELATION TO UNIT PLANS

A handout of College Level Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) was distributed to members.  The next step in academic planning would be to look at SLOs in relation to unit plans.  Now SLOs must meet at the institutional level.  Harbor’s Curriculum Committee is watching this with great interest.  How this might look:

                                             Effective Communication Skills

                                SLOs        Communication Division      lUnit Plan

                                                                                                   lProgram Review

                    Dev. Com.    English     ESL     Foreign      Journalism    Speech

                                                                     Language

Causes?

SLOs?

It was suggested that a matrix, working the next level down and filling in courses across with detail filled in later, would be a good place to begin.  A simple check off with room for comments (Claire Adam’s model) might also work well.  If learning communities are set up to SCANS, it could be an easy first step.  Mr. Rosas stated that the methodology would be best coming from the disciplines level.  It was suggested that the request go directly to the disciplines, and that they send back to this committee their information.  Mrs. McMurray suggested that there is a good deal of information available in Lauren McKenzie’s office, Academic Affairs, and her own office, some of which came from Mary Ellen’s workshops. Please e-mail matrix suggestions to Mrs. Carson.  The goal is simply to begin calm, deliberate steps over the next six years.

IV.   ADJOURNMENT

Future meetings take place at 2:15 p.m., in the Global Classroom, on:

April 26

May 10 and 24