Curriculum Committee
March 25, 2014
DRAFT
Members Present:
Debbie Buti, Begoña Cirera-Perez, Mary Ines (SSCC), Lynn Klein, Larry Leach,
Wayne Pitcher, Kent Uchiyama, Patricia Wu
Ex-Officio:
Jane Church (voting for Laura Alarcon), Kaaren Krueg
Guests:
None
1.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:05 by the chair, Wayne Pitcher.
2.
Minutes of March 11, 2014.
Wayne noted a typo in the date of the next meeting. It should say March 25.
MS (Church/Buti) to approve the minutes of March 11, 2014, as corrected.
3.
Proposed Curriculum Schedule/Calendar
For our newer members, Wayne explained the “old” paper-based curriculum process,
which grouped presentations by division or subdivision. He also told how he developed
the draft calendar for 2014-15. There was general discussion on how the CurricUNET
“organization” differs from the college organization.
Jane introduced the topic of “gate keeping” the submissions, and whether the division
rep should hold all proposals until a given date and then launch them all at one time.
This might serve to keep the submissions in presentation order.
Begoña commented that she does not want to have two deadlines to remember: looking
at her division’s proposals twice once prior to launch and again shortly before voting.
She would like to have a longer time to process before voting, so that she could fit the
reviews into small spaces in her schedule. Kaaren agreed, noting that if we have the
calendar, we can do our own prioritization.
Jane asked whether the committee is comfortable voting on the day of presentation.
Maybe delaying the vote for a week will give proposing faculty an incentive to complete
needed revisions in a timely manner.
In a discussion on revisiting the year-round submission process, Jane stated that at LPC,
if you present a class in the Spring, it becomes effective the following Spring; if you
present in Fall, it becomes effective the following Fall.
Wayne reported that last week he, Begoña, and Lynn attended a meeting regarding SLOs.
One of the examples of how other colleges deal with the recordkeeping was the Modesto
Junior College web site. Wayne projected pages from their site that deal with curriculum
scheduling and calendar.
4.
Proposed Curriculum Schedule/Calendar
a/b. Technical Review
There was discussion on how to establish technical review, both pre-launch and postlaunch. Regarding training: please ask your colleagues what would help them. In a
discussion on producing a handbook, Wayne mentioned a snipping tool used by his
wife. [Being curious, Kaaren researched online. Such a tool seems to be included in
Windows 7.]
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c. CurricUNET “Gurus” Group
Right now, all the how to knowledge rests with Wayne, Jane, and Kaaren. We need
to get others up to speed. Wayne may set up some meetings to discuss how we might
accomplish this.
d. Voting membership for Articulation Officer
Last time this was proposed to Faculty Senate it included voting rights for the VP
Academic Senate and a classified member. It was not approved. This time we
should ask for rights for only the Articulation Officer.
Jane said that in a recent user group survey, 76% of Articulation Officers statewide
have a Curriculum Committee vote. She added that the fact of Chabot’s Articulation
Officer being housed in Counseling is not relevant to the question of whether the
Articulation Officer should be able to vote. She pointed out that when she is acting
as Articulation Officer she is representing the college. She will write a draft
proposal for the Senate’s vote.
5.
Good of the Order
Jane announced that she has submitted her retirement letter. June 25, 2014, will be her
last day.
Debbie is retiring at the end of December, 2014.
Kaaren is scheduled for a medical procedure on April 24 and will be out for one to two
weeks’ recovery. In consultation with Matt Kritscher, it was decided that anything not
state approved by Monday, May 12, will not appear in the 2014-16 Catalog.
6.
kk 3/26/14
The meeting was adjourned at 3:40 PM
Next meeting: April 8, 2014, in Room 2256.
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