Voting Faculty Reps: one vote per division
SMT: Tadashi Tsuchida and Cindy Moss, co-reps  
Business; Kevin Sullivan,
Physical Education: vacant
Social Science/Creative Arts: George Buckingham
Counseling: Lynne Douglas
Language Arts/Learning Resources, chair: Garry Nicol

Non Faculty Reps
Classified: Char Wulbers, A & R Certifications/ Grade Evaluator

ASSC : James Duncan ASSC

Ex Officio
VP Student Services: Loretta Adrian
Dean of Enrollment Services: Sherri Hancock  
Dean of Counseling: Jennifer Hughes
Matriculation Coordinator: vacant
Recorder: Angelica Panganiban

 

2005/06 First Tuesday meeting dates 1:30 Room 5131: 9/06, 10/04, 11/01, 12/06, 2/07, 3/07, 4/04, 5/02

 

Ed Policy

Meeting Minutes, October 4, 2005.

Present: Moss, Sullivan, Douglas, Hancock, Hughes, Nicol

 

1.            Read and approve minutes

 

Minutes were reviewed and approved.

 

2.         Report from Academic Senate

 

Garry mentioned that because of the upcoming Accreditation, there is an effort underway to try to standardize the formatting of documents. There is an interest in making sure that all minutes are posted to the web and that there be “keyword” search capabilities to help identify topics that are covered in committee meetings (e.g. SLO’s). It was suggested that we be placing Ed Policy minutes in Adobe Acrobat, so that they are downloadable but not alterable.

 

3.         Review Degree Audit Steering Committee Recommendations: Sherri

 

There have been no meetings of the Steering Committee; however, we understand that Regina Stroud is working to schedule a meeting to discuss progress to date and outstanding issues. Jennifer will follow up with Regina regarding the CLEP issue so that it might be brought to the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) for discussion. At this point, the Degree Audit recommendations were passed and we do accept CLEP credit, however the faculty may wish to look at the various CLEP exams. At the present time, we award elective credit for CLEP exams. Jennifer will send the final versions of the “Credit by Tests” to Lori, Lynne and Garry.

 

4.         Review disabled student academic adjustment procedures: Lynne

 

Lynne has contacted her counterparts at CSM and Canada to begin work on the forms that would be used for students wishing to file a grievance related to an academic accommodations. It was agreed that the faculty would review the existing forms for the grade and college policies grievances to determine if these forms can be used, once modified, to reflect the academic accommodations policy. Once a draft of the forms has been developed it will be presented to the Vice Presidents of Student Services at the 3 colleges for feedback. It will then come back to Ed Policy for final recommendations.

 

5.         Report on cheating/plagiarism survey: Cindy.

 

Cindy shared the results of the cheating/plagiarism survey that was sent out electronically to faculty. It was suggested that we might wish to conduct the survey again to seek additional responses. All noted that the responses were not surprising. It was also suggested that we add a question or two to Cathy Hasson’s accreditation survey that will soon go out to students. Garry will look into this.

 

 

6.         Discuss additional goals.

 

It was suggested that in addition to the 05-06 goals that we have already identified that we add a goal of developing “policy awareness” for students regarding the cheating/plagiarism policy.

 

7.        Proposal to increase profile of matriculation advisory committee: Jennifer.

 

Jennifer has had some initial conversations with Garry and Carla, Academic Senate President, about expanding the Ed Policy committee membership, which also serves as the College’s Matriculation Advisory Committee. She pointed out that we currently do not have anyone on Ed Policy representing the Assessment, Counseling, or Research components of matriculation. Rather than establish a separate Matriculation Advisory Committee, it was suggested that one or two meetings per year of Ed Policy be designated as the meetings of the Matriculation Advisory Committee and we would invite at that time those additional faculty and staff to attend. It is recommended that the following additional faculty and staff be added: Mandy Liang (Assessment), Cathy Hasson (Research) and two counselors (Orientation, Counseling and Follow up), and perhaps an Instructional Dean from English and Mathematics. Garry will ask that this item be placed on the agenda for the next Academic Senate meeting. Jennifer will come and make this presentation.

 

8.              Agenda items for 11/01

 

Revisit the items from last month.