REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Minutes of the Meeting of the Curriculum Committee Eureka, SS 202 (Board Room); Mendocino Coast, Room 201; Del Norte, Room D5 March 22, 2013 Members Present: Peter Blakemore, Mike Cox, Toby Green, Michelle Haggerty, Erik Kramer, Ken Letko, Mike Peterson, George Potamianos, Gary Sokolow. Members Absent: Utpal Goswami, Harry Pyke. 1. Call to Order: Curriculum Committee Chair, Peter Blakemore, called the meeting to order at 1:06 p.m. 2. Introductions and Public Comment: There were no comments at this time. 3. Approval of the Minutes: George Potamianos moved to approve the minutes of the Feb. 22, 2013 meeting, seconded by Erik Kramer. There being no objections, the minutes were approved as written. 4. Discussion Items 4.1 General Education Diversity Requirement The Multicultural and Diversity Committee is making recommendations to the Curriculum Committee about how to develop a diversity requirement for General Education courses. The MDC has drafted a document with three options that will fit into the Student Equity Plan.  Option 1 would be to establish a specific A.A./A.S. General Education requirement.  Option 2 would be to expand CR’s General Education outcomes to include meaningful language regarding multicultural and diversity learning.  Option 3 would be to establish a diversity, equity, and/or multicultural section in the course outline of record where faculty can propose that a specific course qualifies as such. The committee would have to look at how this fits into degrees and transfer degrees. Other schools that have a multicultural requirement have an extra requirement. Another issue is how to require the course not double count. The Curriculum Committee will put together a recommendation to the Academic Senate. The committee can choose to adopt what the MDC has put together or recommend the Academic Senate put an ad hoc committee together. This will be an action item at the April 26, 2013 meeting. 4.2 Regular Effective Contact for Distance Education Mark Winter was asked by President Kathy Smith to review the duties and responsibilities of Distance Education after the downsizing of the Dean and Director of Distance Education. She wants to provide a new system to for supporting of distance education. Mark did a review to see how compliant our distance education is with the ACCJC guidelines and there were some issues that need to be addressed. 1. According to ACCJC all online have to be approved by the Curriculum Committee before being offered online, however, a third of courses being offered this semester and majority of the courses being scheduled for summer session are not current. 2. Instructors that teach online have to be evaluated using different standards than instructors that teach face‐to‐face. The distance education ad hoc committee of the Academic Senate has drafted guidelines for how online instructors will be evaluated. It has to be to be approved by CRFO and the District. 3. There needs to be a college policy for determining who is qualified for teaching online, currently there is no such policy. Creating that policy should be high on our agenda. 4. The ACCJC requires substantive change documents for programs that can be offered 50‐
percent or more online. Those documents have to be submitted as we intend to offer 50‐
percent. Courses can be offered after the ACCJC approval. The Curriculum Committee will request a list of programs that are close to being offered 50‐percent online from the District. 5. Title 5 requires that colleges have policies defining and implementing “regular effective contact” to be used in the curriculum approval process. The distance education ad hoc committee of the Academic Senate has drafted a statement regarding instructor contact. There are two requirements that should be met before the Curriculum Committee approves a course for online instruction. Firstly, there needs to be a statement establishing expectations for instructor contact and feedback in the syllabus. Also there are required components to online courses: threaded discussion forum, email messages, timely feedback on assignments and instructor‐prepared material. 6. There needs to be a college policy on proctoring and authentication. Currently our bar for authentication is claiming logins for MyCR but the bar must be raised. Some colleges require at least one proctored exam for their online courses. This is on the agenda for the distance education ad hoc committee of the Academic Senate and will be brought to the Curriculum Committee. 7. The ACCJC also requires that we have a file of student complaints. The complaints would be gathered by the DE committee into a file for the ACCJC to review. 5. Action Items [Peter Blakemore entertained a motion to batch action items 5.1 through 5.8] 5.1 Distance Education: RHM‐1 Intro to the Hospitality Industry – Clyde Johnson Page 2 of 4 5.2 Distance Education: RHM‐3 Bar and Beverage Management– Clyde Johnson 5.3 Distance Education: RHM‐6 Hospitality and Restaurant Marketing– Clyde Johnson 5.4 Distance Education: RHM‐8 Controlling Foodservice Costs– Clyde Johnson 5.5 Distance Education: RHM‐14 Hospitality and Restaurant Management– Clyde Johnson 5.6 Distance Education: RHM‐17 Sanitation ‐ ServSafe– Clyde Johnson 5.7 Distance Education: RHM‐24 Hospitality Human Resources Management & Supervision– Clyde Johnson 5.8 Distance Education: RHM‐32 Hospitality Business Ownership– Clyde Johnson Erik Kramer [M], Michelle Haggerty [2nd]. Following discussion, George Potamianos [M], Gary Sokolow [2nd] to table these items and it was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty Y Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y Discussion: 1. There is proctored testing for these courses for external accreditation. 2. Gary Sokolow thought it set a bad precedent to have these distance education proposals up for approval but not have any hospitality associate faculty here to represent the material. Clyde Johnson drafted the proposals but circulated the documents to the RHM associate faculty. 3. George Potamianos asked if a substantive change has been submitted to the ACCJC that it is our intent that this program would be offered more than 50‐percent online. Clyde Johnson said the substantive change form has not been put forward. He asked if these action items could be tabled so he could find out which of these courses did the associate faculty really want approved for online instruction. 5.9 AG‐41 Agriculture Cooperative Work Experience Education – Franz Rulofson Mike Peterson [M], Erik Kramer [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty Y Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y Discussion: 1. This proposal follows the template that Jeff Cummings put together for CTE courses. 2. Students would not be able to enroll in this course without approaching faculty to open up a section. 5.10 Inactivations: ART‐46A, ART‐46B, ART‐52, ART‐58, ART‐64, ART‐64L, ART‐66, ART‐68, ART‐72, ART‐99D, ART‐99E – Cindy Hooper George Potamianos [M], Michelle Haggerty [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty Y Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y Discussion: 1. The Art Department is paring down course offerings to focus on general education, core and transfer courses. Some of the courses will be reintroduced as special topics. 2. This course is being inactivated because we do not have the infrastructure to support printmaking. 5.11 ART‐54 Drawing Lab – Cindy Hooper Page 3 of 4 Gary Sokolow [M], Erik Kramer [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty Y Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y With the following revisions: 1. Page 2 of 7 – Catalog Description: Delete “Repeatable to a maximum of 4 enrollments.” This course is no longer repeatable because of Title 5 changes. 5.12 ART‐62 Intro to Fiber Art – Cindy Hooper George Potamianos [M], Gary Sokolow [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty ‐ Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y With the following revisions: 1. Page 5 of 7 – Current Transferability: correct to “B – Transferable to CSU only”. 2. Page 5 of 7 – Current Transferability Status: uncheck “UC as general elective credit”. 5.13 ART‐62L Intro to Fiber Art Lab – Cindy Hooper George Potamianos [M], Gary Sokolow [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty AB Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y With the following revisions: 1. Page 5 of 7 – Current Transferability: correct to “B – Transferable to CSU only”. 2. Page 5 of 7 – Current Transferability Status: uncheck “UC as general elective credit”. 3. Page 5 of 7 – Proposed CSU Transferability – uncheck “no proposal”. 5.14 Inactivation: PHIL‐12 Logic – Michael Thomas Gary Sokolow [M], Mike Cox [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty Y Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y 5.15 Regular Effective Contact for Distance Education – Mark Winter Erik Kramer [M], Michelle Haggerty [2nd]. Following discussion, the motion to approve was passed by the following roll call vote: Cox Y Green Y Haggerty Y Kramer
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Letko
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Peterson
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Potamianos
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Pyke ‐ Sokolow Y With the following revisions: 1. After this is policy is approved by the Curriculum Senate it will go to the Academic Senate for approval and will then be posted on the Curriculum webpage. 6. Announcements and Open Forum 7. Adjournment: On motion by Gary Sokolow, seconded by George Potamianos, the meeting was adjourned at 2:46p.m. Next Meeting: April 12, 2013 Page 4 of 4