ACADEMIC AFFAIRS STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE CPC

MINUTES

FOR THE MEETING OF

May 18, 2005

1:30

President’s Conference Room

Attending:      

Administration – Nancy Carson, Bob Richards, Luis Rosas, Ann Tomlinson

Faculty – Nabeel Barakat, Joy Fisher, Wendy Hollis, Bruce Lemon, Lauren McKenzie, Susan McMurray,  Stanley Sandell, Pamela Watkins, Mark Wood, Jim Stanbery, Bradley Young

Guest – Sally Fasteau

Absent:

Administration - Charlie Bossler, Bobby McNeel

Faculty - King Carter,  Jonathon Lee, Joyce Parker, Evelyn Portis

Classified –Hovsep Kotelyan, Traci Liley

Classified Manager - Carla Mussa-Muldoon

Students – Robert Cox and Joe Gillman

I.          MINUTES

Minutes of the May 4, 2005 meeting were presented and accepted with the inclusion of the following:  Mr. Stanbery pointed out the absence of an appropriate record of his distribution of a binder for the Academic Affairs Cluster Unit Reviews for incorporation into the Academic Cluster Plans.  During the meeting discussion of the information contained in the documents was conducted.

IV.              PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING THE ACADEMIC CLUSTER PLAN

l  Each division’s unit review, including objectives, activities and       resources, with expected costs, are included. 

l The Academic Program Review step-by-step, adopted by the Academic Senate Program Review Committee, November 2004. 

l Accreditation Standard IIA, Shaping the Dialog

        l Data Evaluation Program Review Guide

l Examples of the Program Review Summary

l A Guide to Writing Student learning Outcomes (SLO’s)

II.       MISSION STATEMENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Review of the Office of Academic Affairs Unit Plan 2005 mission statement led to a change.

         Office of  Academic Affairs Cluster Plan

Mission

The mission of the Academic Affairs Cluster is to lead and support the instructional units in delivering student-centered learning experiences that are responsive to the community needs.  Academic Affairs is the coordination/management center for instructional programs.

Objective

Academic Affairs is committed to offering programs and courses to meet the expectations of the community and the learning needs of students as they achieve their educational goals.  Institutional programs are as follows:

l Degree and Transfer programs

l Vocational and workforce preparation

l Basic skills instruction

l English as a second language

l Credit and noncredit courses for life-long learning

     l Contract education including customized corporate  training

l Community services

l Support services

l Information literacy

Values

                l Student-centered learning environment

                l State-of-the-art instruction

                l   Innovative delivery systems

l        Relevant curriculum curricula

III.     PROGRAM REVIEW FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

During the meeting of Wednesday, 5/25/05, Mark Wood will lead the division chairs through a program review exercise.

IV.     PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING THE ACADEMIC CLUSTER PLAN

Mr. Stanbery pointed out the need for every chair to have the informational binders before them at each meeting, and refresh their memory by re-reading the Policy and Procedure Manual.  The manual is our College’s official policy.  For now, each area should have 1-5 priorities, which if our goal is to serve students, should reflect service to the students.  Once the plan is developed, the planning will fall into place.  This should not be an operational plan as defined by the manual, but rather guided by the plan itself.  For September members are going to have to continue this work.  The immediate need however is to work on simply defining the five bullets.

If a specific faculty position is to be indicated, this should reflect the work of the FHPC rankings.  FHPC is to rank in terms of the Academic Affairs Master Plan.  The Y2000 plan is now outdated.  Most agree that departments without full time members in the discipline should be filled first, then move to number two and so on.  With accreditation upon us, the need for clerical support is urgent.  A clerical position is needed to digitize course outlines and then later, to work for Behavioral Science, Social Science and Business on a shared basis.

CPC has challenged the cluster to come back with a list of priorities with justification, and expected cost (if available).  By motion, it was agreed to review once more the priorities for Academic Affairs, this time as “immediate needs.”  (Consensus)  By friendly amendment, it was agreed that each item would be separated and viewed individually (Hollis/Watkins/Consensus).

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS SUB COMMITTEE OF THE CPC

PRIORITIES

IMMEDIATE NEEDS                                                                                                                         

Immediate Needs priorities ranked at the AASCCPC on 5/18/05 (Consensus).

Volunteers to serve on the sub committee of the Academic Affairs Standing Committee of the CPC who will work on preparing justification of the priorities include Wendy Hollis, Lauren McKenzie, Ann Tomlinson, and Luis Rosas. 

V.      ADJOURNMENT

 The next meeting of the AASCCPC is a special division chair’s workshop, on Wednesday, 5/25/05, in the President’s Conference Room.