Academic Affairs Cluster

M I N U T E S

November 21, 2007

2:30 p.m.

President’s Conference Room

ATTENDANCE

PRESENT

Administration

Dr. Robert Richards, Luis Rosas

Faculty

Nabeel Barakat, Carmen Carrillo, Joy Fisher, Jonathon Lee, Lauren McKenzie,

Joyce Parker, June Smith,

Jim Stanbery, Mark Wood, Bradley Young

Students

Carlos Saenz, Oluwatoba Oluyide

ABSENT

Administration

Kristi Blackburn, Dr. David Humphreys, Bobby McNeel, Dr. Ann Tomlinson

Faculty

King Carter, Juanita Naranjo, Dr. Evelyn Portis, Dr. Stanley Sandell, 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 November 7, 2007 meeting, the minutes were accepted as presented.

III. UNIT REVIEW TEMPLATES AS SUBMITTED TO DIVISION COUNCIL

Mr. Stanbery stated that the minutes from the last meeting noted that the templates were supposed to be open for further input which was received from Dr. Humphreys and Dr. Richards and their changes were incorporated into the current versions. There were no suggested changes to the templates other than in the area of the unit activities and these changes were e-mailed to members of the committee on Friday, November 16, after they had been submitted to Luis Rosas, Dave Humphreys and Bob Richards. They were then authorized to present them to Division Council with any further changes they wanted to make; but due to clerical error, the unit review templates were not submitted as planned. Mr. Stanbery went on to say that the premise from the last meeting was that only a practical attempt to use the templates would show what further modifications would be necessary. With this in mind, it was the consensus of the committee that the Division Chairs should meet on Wednesday, November 28, with the sole purpose of giving the chairs the opportunity to use the templates as an actual working model and discuss questions/problems that might arise as a result. The deadline for returning completed unit reviews is December 19.

IV. EDUCATIONAL MASTER PLAN SUBMISSION PROCESS AND

TIMELINE

The committee reviewed and discussed the Chancellor’s Educational Master Plan Update Proposal which states that “It is proposed that all LACCD colleges update their current Educational Master Plans with a brief addendum refreshing past goals and objectives before the beginning of Spring 2008. It further stated that “the resulting college Educational Master Plan Update will be a brief document (3-4) pages, containing the following:

1. An estimate of future college capacity needs based on area demographics and

participation rates.

2. 5-10 occupational & general education areas identified for possible new program

development.

3. New goals & objectives reflecting college Basic Skills Initiative “Action Plans.”
4. New goals & objectives for student success in response to the District Strategic

Plan, ARCC/AB 1417 measures, the Basic Skills Self Assessment process, and

the Technology Strategic Assessment.

Because the final deadline for submission of the EMP update is January 20, 2008,

Mr. Stanbery stated that it must be decided who’s responsibility it is to do the redraft

along with how and when it will be done. A meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 27, for all interested parties to discuss these issues.

V. PROGRAM REVIEW STATUS AND SCHEDULE GRID

The committee reviewed and discussed the program review status and schedule grid sheet which lists about 50 programs that come under the purview of Luis Rosas and their scheduled year of review. Mr. Stanbery stated that as it is up to the committee to make a realistic schedule of when all of the programs are supposed to go through program review, he proposed that the current schedule be adopted advanced by three years. Members of the committee approved this recommendation. To enable the divisions to complete the program review process, Mark Wood suggested that there needs to be a signed program review document in effect that can be used to make templates.

The committee also reviewed the program review status grid included in last semester’s final report of the Program Review Committee of the Academic Senate. Divisions for whose reviews the grid includes ‘N’ references will be asked to address these on a schedule to be assigned at the next Division Council meeting.

VI. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m. The next meeting of the Academic Affairs Committee of CPC will be held on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room.