Dean’s Council
Monday, January 10, 2011
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Boardroom
Notes
Present: Utpal Goswami, Mike Peterson, Rachel Anderson, Ahn Fielding, Anita Janis,
Geisce Ly, Pat Girczyc, Crislyn Parker recording, Roxanne Metz guest
Absent: Maggie Lynch
1. Set Future Meetings (see tentative schedule below)
Per agreement, future meetings will be the first and third Wednesdays, from 8am to 9am, in
the Health Occ Conference Room. Adjustments will be made for months where the Board
meetings are held at the Mendocino and Del Norte sites.
2. Substantive Change
a. Welding Certificate program at Del Norte-clarification:
• Del Norte is planning to align their Welding Tech program to follow the pattern in the
catalog, allowing students to complete the Certificate of Recognition. In doing so, this
will take them over the 50% rule.
• This requires the program be submitted to the Chancellor’s office for approval
• Utpal will contact Jack Pond regarding the areas we are doing things differently and
when and how to submit substantive change ,
b. Status of DE Substantive Change update from Maggie: tabled
c. Substantive Change proposals to ACCJC
• Roxanne Metz submitted a spreadsheet of certificates and programs. It was decided
that all sites need to put an “X” in the cell for all degrees and certificates already
offered or in the process of being offered, a “P” in the cells where they anticipate or
hope to offer programs and certificates, and (requested via email 1/11/11) an “N/A” n
the cells where no change is anticipated. This needs to be completed by end of next
week.
• ACCJC pointed out we need to have contingencies for all possibilities; including
“austerity”
3. Evaluation of Online Courses:
• Status: evaluations are part of CRFO negotiations and will be forthcoming in steps
• Do we/should we assess not-for-credit courses?
• Yes, and should be based on the anticipated outcomes of the event, the needs of the
community.
• Currently we assess policy and procedure, and student course evaluations.
• Assessment/evaluation tools need to be completed by February
4. Non-Credit ESL Options
• Per Ahn: Verizon foundation grant funding to provide funding for areas such as ESL,
50+, basic skills, and workforce training.
• Non-credit (not to be confused with not-for-credit) curriculum process is same as
credit; most courses are elements of existing credit courses.
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Utpal to pose the question of offering non-credit ESL courses during his visit to
Mendo, to determine if it would interfere with Mendocino College. If so, we will not
these courses, but they are needed in Eureka and DN.
Statistically, non-credit courses comprise about 10% of community college FTEs
5. Other
• Per the Self Study Mock Visiting Team, CR must have planning agendas for deficient
areas; not just a plan, but who has oversight, what are the steps and when will they
occur. This will be an agenda item for cabinet tomorrow (1/11/11).
• The Self-Study Steering committee can identify areas where planning needs to be
done, but must delegate creation of the actual plans
• Faculty and Dean interview schedules:
o Committee interviews are March 23, 24, 25
o Final Interviews April
o Health Occ interviews will be held February 8-10
o CTE Dean interviews will be held May 23-25
o IR position interview dates unknown at this time; hopefully April
o Utpal would like Dean’s Council members to meet all prospective candidates
• Enrollments
o Per IR total is around 5063 FTEs and if we include summer courses, it puts us
at 5300 or 5400
o FYI: Utpal views course rotations as what we need to offer for student
completion, not to count FTEs.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 19th at 8am, Health Occ Conference Room
Not for minutes:
1/22/11
Faculty Prioritization team: faculty side = 6 administration side = 6
Utpal, Rachel, Pat, Mike, Geisce, Anita, Maggie(?) Student Services(?)
Process can’t argue for or against the position; based on how priorities are assigned
Emerging: replacement-what happens to postion vacated in the past; is growth position or
replacement? B/C new process, s/b growth and must show a need – many have submitted
requests as requests that m/b should be growth
Some discussion on what is best way to define these positions
Growth
3 new interestes – what is the “other” categories? not a result, reason is should there be
imbalances, these “other“ interests can fill in i.e job need, etc.
“Other” put forth advances ie replace growth or replace replacement or a combo of both
# positions purely growth
# postions replacement
# positions replacement from several years back
Ex: Interest – position that supports basic skills and transfer, might get a higher ranking than
a position that supports only one or the other
Broader: postion that supports more than one type of program
Interest: sites have higher priority b/c has so few faculty to begin with (slightly higher priority
for sites)
Utpal will announce these are the position requests (from instructional side), based on rubric
Discuss rubric, not position requests; score all at same time,