REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Minutes of the College Council
7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka, CA, Board Room
Monday, November 15, 2010
MEMBERS
PRESENT
Mark Winter, Dave Holper, Ruth Moon, Jose Ramirez, Ron McQueen, Martha
Racine (phone), Becky Blatnick (phone), Jeff Marsee, Keith Snow-Flamer, Utpal
Goswami, Roxanne Metz
MEMBERS
ABSENT
Mike Wells, Jolene Gates, Teagen Teslow, Ahron Cervania (ASCR), VP of
Admin Service (vacant)
CALL TO ORDER
Jeff Marsee called the meeting to order at 3:00 pm.
MINUTES
The minutes of 11/01/2010 were approved with the following revision:
(page 3, bullet #2)
Ruth Moon and Dave Holper suggested that the current College Council scope
accurately reflects reflected the work of the College Council.
A suggestion was made to focus on action items when drafting future minutes.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
BP/AP 4240
“ACADEMIC
RENEWAL”
Support staff noted that work was underway by the Academic Standards and
Policy Committee (ASPC) to define “term.” The definition of “term” will be
incorporated in the draft BP and AP 4240.
When the revised draft is received from the ASPC, substantive discussion at
College Council will continue.
AP305.01 /
AP305.03
“FACULTY
PRIORITIZATION”
A draft faculty prioritization model was presented by Dave Holper and reviewed
by the Council.
The Council suggested incorporating the appropriate administrative procedure
headings into the draft and also suggested utilizing strikeouts to note text
suggested for deletion. Upon completion of the suggested revisions the draft will
be distributed for a 30 day constituent review period.
AP305.01 “Contract Faculty Appointment Procedures” will be removed from ‘Old
Business.’
BP/AP4020
“PROGRAM
CURRICULUM
AND COURSE
DEVELOPMENT”
Dr. Goswami reported that there is nothing to report.
BP/AP 4231
Support staff noted that ASPC will begin revision of BP/AP4231 upon completion
“COURSE GRADE of BP/AP4020.
CHALLENGE”
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MISSION, VISION, Support staff noted that 30 day review period regarding the Mission, Vision, and
CORE VALUES
Values drafts would end November 29 and encouraged Council members to
solicit feedback from their constituent groups.
The Council recommended that feedback be submitted to support staff for
tabulation and distribution to College Council prior to the 11/29/10 Council
meeting.
PROCESS FOR
RESOLUTION OF
COMPETING
DRAFTS
The Council reviewed a draft document outlining a proposed process for
resolution of competing drafts.
POLICY AND
PROCEDURE
REVISION
PROCESS
Utpal Goswami presented a draft policy and procedure process description. The
intent of the procedure is to provide structure to the policy and procedure
revision cycle.
The Council suggested adding the process description to College Council’s
operating procedures and including it in the revised AP2511.
Dave Holper suggested revising the draft so the policy and procedure review
process considered the six year comprehensive accreditation self study.
Support staff noted the Board Related Policy Committee (BRPC) planned to
revise BP2410 “Policy and Administrative Procedure.” The Council concluded
that Utpal Goswami would conduct further research regarding policy and
procedure revision processes outlined in current BPs and APs and update the
College Council draft document.
Dave Holper suggested incorporating the proposed language into a revised BP
and AP2410. Dave also suggested that the revised College Council operating
procedures reference BP and AP 2410.
Roxanne Metz suggested College Council consider how to form the standing
subcommittee or the representative task force outlined in the documents.
INTEGRATED
PLANNING
MODEL
NARRATIVE
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that he had begun work on drafting a revised IPM
narrative and sent that work to the co-chairs of the integrated planning functional
committees. After revision, the document will be presented to College Council.
NEW BUSINESS
BP/AP 3200
ACCREDITATION
Discussion postponed until subsequent College Council meeting.
BP/AP 3410
‘NONDISCRIMINATION’
Discussion postponed until subsequent College Council meeting.
INSTITUTIONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
Keith Snow-Flamer reported that the integrated planning functional committees
co-chairs were scheduled to meet in two weeks. Participants include Susan
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COMMITTEE
Mindus, Bruce Wagner, Maggie White, Dan Calderwood, Keith Snow-Flamer,
Utpal Goswami, and Karen Nelson. Agenda items will include:
1. Review ACCJC rubrics for evaluating program review and planning,
assessment, and institutional effectiveness, and assess CR’s
performance related to those rubrics. After assessing CR’s performance,
the committee will discuss strategies to address deficiencies.
2. Discuss how each committee is going to process the resource request
addendums that were recently validated through the program review
committee.
3. Review Integrated Planning Model narrative
College Council suggested calling the group the Integrated Planning Oversight
Committee.
Roxanne Metz suggested that if the group is going to be the Institutional
Effectiveness Committee, the group should add the charge of assessing student
learning outcomes and ask the assessment coordinator to participate.
Utpal noted that institutional effectiveness should include assessment of the
institution as a whole, for example, how well are we meeting the ideals set out in
the mission statement and how is our annual planning affecting the performance
indicators outlined in the district’s strategic plan?
President Marsee concluded the conversation by noting that the oversight
committee was created to facilitate evaluation of the planning process. For
example, what does assessment tell us we should be doing? Is the district
heading in the right direction? Do we need to change direction?
COUNCIL
SUBCOMMITTEE
TO RESOLVE
GOVERNANCE
CONFLICT
Mark Winter reported that there was no report.
UPDATES
Regarding the new Student Services/Admin building, members of College
Council suggested thoughtful planning should be undertaken while designing
collaborative workspaces and communications infrastructure.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30
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