Ed Policy Committee
2004-2005
Voting Faculty Reps
(one vote per division)
Physical Education: Diana Cushway
Counseling co-reps: Lynne Douglas, Jacquie Escobar
Social Science/Creative
Arts: Bridget Fischer
SMT co-reps: Cindy Moss, Tadashi Tsuchida
Business: Paul Spakowski
Language Arts/Learning
Resources: Garry Nicol, chair
Non-Faculty Reps
Classified: Char Wulbers,Counseling
Student Rep, ASSC: Melchie Cabrigas, VP ASSC
Dean of Enrollment
Services: Sherri Hancock
Dean of Counseling: Jennifer Hughes
Matriculation Coordinator: Evelyn Seth
Vice President Student
Services; Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia
Recorder: Linda Ghio
Ed Policy Meeting
Notes
November 2, 2004
Present: Tsuchida,
Nicol, Moss, Cabrigas, Hancock, Hughes, Seth, Wulbers, Ybarra-Garcia, Ghio
1. October
minutes approved with revisions.
2. Academic
Senate meeting report
Garry gave an overview about what is important for accreditation. Website additions will go to website committee and any change will be sent to the Public Information Office. Post minutes and agendas on Ed Policy meetings. Garry will send to Nick Kapp. A&R needs new grievance form and CBE form. Evelyn will draft the grievance form and submit it to Sherri and also to Rosemary for her review and final approval. Forms should include footers with the revision dates. The CBE form was approved by Regina Stanback-Stroud. Forms need to be brought up at the Institutional Planning Committee meeting to be formally recognized as campus-wide procedures and then they are submitted to the AS, college council and cabinet. This sign-off procedure is good for accreditation because it shows committee approval. Forms will also be included in the student handbook.
3. Academic
integrity and plagiarism
Rosemary attended a CSSO meeting and Jeannie Wilson of UC Davis discussed UCÕs code of conduct. Copies of the Power Point presentation were distributed and they can be sent to the rest of the committee. Rosemary noted that 75% of students are cheating, which is easier now due to text messaging, computers and cell phones. In 2001, 40% of students cut and pasted information from the web. There needs to be a campus-wide movement to increase awareness of cheating with faculty and administration as it impairs the reputation of the college. We need to keep better records of student cheating and plagiarism. Exams should be restructured so that questions are not easily answered and we need to help students gain more confidence in their abilities so they are less likely to cheat.
Rosemary asked the Ed Policy committee to sponsor a forum on a flex-day to discuss the topic of cheating and plagiarism. Jennifer suggested that Academic Senate review the policy to make sure it is specific enough. Once the forum is held and a recommendation is made, the Ed Policy committee can create a policy on cheating. RosemaryÕs handouts and a copy of the Canada policy should be distributed ahead of time so people can come to the forum with their suggestions. Garry will also distribute website information for people to review. Garry will mention the forum proposal to Academic Senate and the Ed Policy committee will vote at its next meeting on whether or not to hold the forum.
4. Classroom
etiquette
This topic will be discussed at the November meeting.
5. Fine tuning of AP, CLEP, and CBE
Garry distributed a draft for the committeeÕs review. He worked with Jennifer and Linda Rosa on the degree audit and he asked the committee if students get GE breadth requirements or credit. The language in the catalog should be brief and simply inform students that Skyline will accept AP credit for English. For AP and CLEP, the information will be reflected in the studentsÕ transcripts as satisfying GE requirements. Wherever English 100 is a factor, three credits of AP credit at Skyline will be posted. Rosemary asked Jennifer to clarify this information and Garry also suggests reviewing it with Linda Rosa. We will make a decision at the next meeting.
Evelyn distributed the new matriculation plan. There are eight components of matriculation with activities for retention and goals for each. It informs the state how we will spend the funds and also how the funds were spent last year.
Jennifer will bring the form to the next meeting. A student can apply for academic renewal and can have up to 36 units removed from the computation of their GPA, not their transcript. It only applies for Skyline graduation. We require a student to justify the need for renewal, other colleges do not. The consensus of the counseling department is that we should not have to disclose the reason. The counseling department would like to revise the form and asked if we can remove the need for a student to justify the request. Jennifer and Sherri will work together because are Title 5 guidelines that may prevent this. It will be discussed at the next Ed Policy meeting.
This discussion will be held at the next meeting when other committee members are in attendance.
The committee reviewed the status of AP, CBE and CLEP and discussed courses which are repeated excessively. This is not a problem at Skyline, but is still an issue at CSM and Canada. Regina reported that all senates approved the degree audit recommendations, but a lot of work needs to be done. Quarter unit requirements were discussed, as well as reciprocity of courses between colleges after Board Policy 6.26 was passed for programming purposes for degree audit.
Melchie reported that the three colleges have approved that a notation of outstanding associated student service be added to transcripts. Rosemary said students should have this notation if they were involved for an entire semester or more. The notation needs VPSS approval and there needs to be defined criteria so we can have continuity between the three colleges.
All topics will be repeated.