Peralta Community College District
CIPD Agenda and Meeting Notes
October 5, 2015
Board Room, District
Present:
Joseph Bielanski; Alejandria Tomas; Tram Vu-Kumamoto; Fabian Banga; Timothy Karas; Drew Burgess; Vinh Phan; Lynn Torres; Anne Agard;
Vena Cera; Laura Bollentino; Pinar Alscher; Iolani Sodhy-Gereben; Arja McCray; Clifton Coleman; Karen Croley;
Absent:
Jennifer Lowood; Antonio Barreiro; Char Perlas; Lilia Celhay; Denise Richardson; Tina Vasconcellos; Mario Rivas; Everett Chan; Ed Jaramillo;
Cleavon Smith; Mike Orkin
Facilitator:
Arja McCray
Guests:
Beth Maher; Isela Santana; Susan Andrien
Note taker:
Clifton Coleman
Next Meeting: 11/05/2015. Board Room, District
Topic
Discussion
Review of Agenda
The 10/05/2015 agenda was approved by consensus, with
the caveat that the English 1A requisite discussion will be
tabled if there is significant disagreement.
Review of Minutes
Group reviewed 09/14/2015 minutes. Minutes were
approved by consensus with one edit. The first item should
reflect the September meeting date.
Approved by consensus:
Course Deactivations (9)
Please fill in titles and Top Codes for deactivations
New course LRNRE 226 was tabled per college's request.
Curriculum:
Berkeley City
College
Curriculum:
College of Alameda
Approved by consensus:
Course Deactivations (12)
Program Deactivation (1)
Follow-up Action &
Recommendations
Responsible
Party
Timeline
Send approved
proposals to the Board
Amany
ElMasry
November 2015
Send approved
proposals to the Board
Amany
ElMasry
November 2015
Curriculum:
Laney College
Approved by Consensus:
New Courses (3)
Curriculum:
Merritt College
No proposals
Adding BCC’s
ENGL 264A/B to
ENGL 1A’s
prerequisites
J. Bielanski explained that BCC's move to accelerated
English is part of a statewide initiative. Data shows that
students can be successful in these types of courses and the
decrease in time/terms leads to more completers.
College representatives expressed some concerns, including
whether such an accelerated course is appropriate for all
students/if students will choose an accelerated course for
time purposes when it may not be right for them. COA and
MC expressed that there was some concern among English
faculty at their respective colleges but also expressed
openness to the idea.
Isela Santana, English chair at MC, presented as a guest. She
expressed that MC is concerned that the accelerated
sequence is not a good fit for the college. However, there
seemed to be confusion about what was being asked. It was
explained that this would not be a replacement of the
sequence just an additional prerequisite for ENGL 1A.
Discussion also ensued as to whether English faculty should
all get together to discuss. Some felt this was a good idea,
while others mentioned that it had been tried but there is still
disagreement. There are possibly very few English faculty
against this but their opinions are expressed loudly.
Send approved
proposals to the Board
Amany
ElMasry
November 2015
Tram Vu-Kumamoto to
contact each curriculum
chair to set up a
meeting/attend
curriculum committee
meetings to discuss
proposal.
Tram VuKumamoto/
Alejandria
Tomas
October 2015
Amany
ElMasry
October 2015
Place item on
November 2015 CIPD
agenda.
T. Vu-Kumamoto stated that she will be happy to visit each
campus to explain the proposal. It was decided that BCC
will contact each curriculum chair to set up a time. The item
will be tabled until November CIPD.
Temporary v
permanent
deactivation
A. ElMasry posted summary of the temporary v permanent
deactivation decisions previously discussed at CIPD in the
Dropbox.
It was discussed how temporary deactivations will be
tracked. Curriculum Specialists are to keep a list of such
deactivations and will let AOs know when the two year
mark is reached.
It was decided that permanent deactivations are now to be
called "deactivations" and temporary deactivations are now
to be called "hibernations".
Adult Education
Program
Development,
Presented by Lisa
Cook
Revised Uniform
Course Numbering
System update
Laney ESL instructor Lisa Cook discussed the statewide and
district initiative to create adult education/noncredit
programs and that funding for courses in such programs are
now equalized with credit courses. Programs will be
sequences of courses that lead to literacy and competency to
move on a pathway toward college-level work, transfer, and
various careers. The first proposal will be at MC. This will
consist of two certificates that represent a partnership
between ESL and Child Development.
F. Banga and A. ElMasry updated the group on the status
and proposals for course renumbering. There are essentially
two main proposals on the table at this time: keep current
numbers as they are and move new courses to the new
1000+ numbers; or keep all courses 1-199 the same,
transferable courses will be 1-1999 and courses 200+ will be
moved to 2000+ (e.g. 221 would become 2021).
Keep a list of
temporary deactivations
(hibernations) and alert
AOs when two years
has been reached
Curriculum
Specialists
Ongoing
A ElMasry
By next edition of
PCAPM
Amany
ElMasry
and/or
representativ
es from
renumbering
committee
October/November
2015
Update PCAPM with
new deactivation
process and titles
(deactivations and
hibernations)
Amany ElMasry and/or
representatives from
renumbering committee
to meet with CFT
It was stated that feedback is needed from CFT to get more
information from A&R, counseling and transcripts. Subject
will be updated and brought back to a future meeting.
Next meeting
11/02/2015 (1:00 to 3:00pm). Board Room, District