Academic Affairs Cluster

 

 

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF CPC

 

M I N U T E S

April 7, 2010

2:30 p.m.

Conference Room SSA 219

 

 

 

ATTENDANCE

 

PRESENT

Administration

Dr. Kristi Blackburn, Dr. David Humphreys, Dr. Robert Richards, Luis Rosas

Faculty

Nabeel Barakat, King Carter, Sally Fasteau, Joy Fisher, Jonathon Lee, Lauren McKenzie, Susan McMurray, Joyce Parker, Dr. Stanley Sandell, June Smith, Jim Stanbery, Tricia Wickers, Mark Wood, Bradley Young

 

 

CALL TO ORDER

Jim Stanbery called the meeting to order at 2:35 p.m. in conference room SSA 219.

 

 

I. ADOPTION OF AGENDA

The agenda was accepted with the following changes:

1. Because Item III, Ideas for Student Services Working with Academic Affairs, was presented during Division Council, it was deleted from today’s agenda.

2. Susan McMurray will present two items under VIII, Items from the Floor.

 

 

II. ADOPTION OF MINUTES

The adoption of the minutes for March 17 were postponed until the next regularly scheduled meeting.

 

 

IV. COLLEGE PLANNING AND PROCEDURES MANUAL

Copies of the latest working revision of the manual were distributed for discussion. Jim Stanbery pointed out that the items in bold face were the changes made since the last committee review. All that remains to be completed are the appendices cited in the table of contents not contained in the present draft, along with some graphics work on the lexicon, the planning flow chart and the planning time line. Consensus was reached by the committee to send the draft forward.

 

 

V. SUMMATIVE EVALUATION PROCESS FOR COLLEGE STRATEGIC

PLAN

Copies of the District Strategic Plan Summative Assessment Scorecard summary report dated February 10, 2010 were distributed for discussion. The college was scheduled to make a presentation to the Student Success Committee of the Board of Trustees on April 14; however, the Board schedule for the next six to eight weeks has been rearranged and there will be a Board meeting held here at Harbor College on April 28. Jim Stanbery asked the committee, if there was no objection, to ask the Senate and the CPC to approve the college presenting to the District the current strategic plan in its present form with no modifications, except for substituting the updated planning lexicon for the previous one. We should also show the District the extent to which the college plan is congruent with the District plan. Mr. Stanbery went on to also ask the committee for authorization to request that this be included on the agenda for the next meeting of CPC in order to set up a working group to have an appropriate item along those lines ready for April 28.

 

Dave Humphreys noted that although we have the overview now of how that planning process is going to work, what we need to solve at our level here is the process by which unit plan becomes cluster plans. CPC, at its next meeting, is also supposed to authorize a working team to do the draft of the new educational master plan. Committee members agreed on the importance of bringing in representatives from student services to participate on that working team and strongly recommended the need for joint working sessions with student services and the Academic Affairs committee.

 

 

VI. COURSE OFFERINGS POLICY (Summer, Fall, Spring)

After much discussion on this issue consensus was reached by the committee to authorize Jim Stanbery and Luis Rosas to draft a resolution stating that a decision such as whether to offer a summer session is sound policy only to the extent it is based on appropriate data, and data supporting the decision to schedule a Summer II session this year was never convincingly presented to the bodies properly concerned.

 

IV. ITEMS FROM THE FLOOR

Susan McMurray announced that out of a recent Area C meeting of the state-wide Academic Senate came a resolution to take a vote of no confidence against Barbara Beno.

There is also strong support for a resolution regarding flexibility of categorical accounts.

 

 

V. ADJOURNMENT

The meeting was adjourned at 2:40 p.m.