Academic Affairs Cluster

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF CPC

M I N U T E S

November 7, 2007

2:30 p.m.

President’s Conference Room

ATTENDANCE

PRESENT

Administration

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

Faculty

King Carter, Joy Fisher, Lauren McKenzie, Dr. Stanley Sandell,

Jim Stanbery, Mark Wood, Bradley Young

Students

Carlos Saenz, Kael Sharp

ABSENT

Administration

Kristi Blackburn, Bobby McNeel, Dr. Ann Tomlinson

Faculty

Nabeel Barakat, Carmen Carrillo, Juanita Naranjo, Joyce Parker, Dr. Evelyn Portis, June Smith, Pamela Watkins, Tricia Wickers

Classified Manager

Carla Mussa-Muldoon

Classified

Hovsep Kotelyan, Traci Liley

CALL TO ORDER

Luis Rosas called the meeting to order at 2:45 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room.

I. ADOPTION OF AGENDA

There were no objections to the agenda.

II. ADOPTION OF MINUTES

After review of the minutes from the October 17, 2007 meeting, the minutes were accepted as presented.

III. NOVEMBER, DECEMBER MEETING SCHEDULE

The following meeting schedule was agreed upon by consensus of the committee for the remainder of the semester: November 21, December 12 and December 19 (if necessary).

Mr. Stanbery noted that he and Mr. Rosas have agreed that they will meet at 3:30 on the Tuesday eight days prior to every committee meeting to decide upon the agenda. This meeting is open to anyone who would like to come.

IV. HUMANITIES DIVISION PROGRAM INITIATION PROPOSAL TO SET A

MODEL FOR OUR PROGRAM INITIATION PROCESS

Mark Wood stated that he is currently working on a proposal to implement a new Digital/Media Arts Program at Harbor and asked for direction from the committee as to what the mechanism is for getting a new program initiated. He went on to say that he has discussed the program with the faculty in his division, completed a labor market survey where he has accumulated data from the state labor market, looked at similar programs at four-year institutions throughout the state and country as well as studied the transfer implications for local institutions such as CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU Long Beach.

Based on his experience with program development, Dr. Humphreys recommended that

once the program or curriculum has been written and is ready to go before the Curriculum Committee, the division faculty should sign off on whether they approve or reject the proposal and this sign off sheet should accompany the materials presented to the committee. Initially, the proposal should be approved by the Curriculum Committee, then it should be incorporated into the affected unit plan if it has not already been as an intended activity. For instance, approval of a general description of the Digital/Media Arts Degree would specify the general education courses and other requirements for it; then for each of the different sub-specialties or sub-divisions of that degree - Entertainment Design, for example - the required courses and electives for it would be specified.

Discussion ensued on funding issues for new programs. Mr. Stanbery stated that the essential distinction is between authorizing a program and actually offering the courses authorized, and that is what the planning process provides for. Classes would be offered and instructors according to the cluster’s decisions as to relative priorities, and that is why it is important for this committee to finish its workload this calendar year. Once the unit priorities are merged into the college plan, then the Budget Committee has the power to fund those activities in priority order from the funding sources from which money is available, which means that in some cases the Budget Committee will be skipping down to an activity that has a lower priority than items bypassed but for which there is categorical funding available.

V. FINAL ADOPTION OF UNIT REVIEW TEMPLATE

Reading from the agenda, Mr. Stanbery reminded the committee of the premise of today’s meeting – that, beyond this point, further consideration of the templates by the committee will not be as useful in making additional revisions of them as attempts by the units to put the templates to actual use, recommending that the present templates, with any changes recommended today, be forwarded to division chairs, who will present their unit reviews by December 19, authorized to make whatever changes in the format they determine are most workable for them. After further discussion, additional modifications to the template were made including [a] compressing the ‘outputs’/’inputs’ columns into a single array and adding a new array for SLO measures from the chart of assessment measures being developed by Dean Humphreys and [b] rephrasing the note about the kind of supporting data that is readily available in language Dean Richards will supply. The committee agreed by consensus that the template, with these revisions as incorporated by agreement of the committee co-chairs, be forwarded to Division Council at its next meeting.

VI. Adjournment