College of Health Sciences & Human Ecology
Chairs Meeting Notes
October 14, 2015
8:00 a.m., Sattgast 314
Members Present: M. Driscoll, T. Gilbertson, T. Goodwin, E. Hagensen, D. Palivec, and S. Rickers
Guest: Nancy Haugen, Career Services
Good News Items presented.
--Jim White’s Honors Presentation is tonight. The subject is related to part of his sabbatical work.
--Elementary Education students field trip to Itasca State Park tonight.
--Social Work site review is tomorrow.
Elizabeth Hagensen gave Criminal Justice department synopsis. Some highlights:
--Dr. Yongsok Kim is a new faculty member in the department.
--Adding a Motivational Interviewing Certificate being discussed.
--Adding a new course – Principles of Supervision.
--Working with other departments to become more interdisciplinary.
--In planning stage of offering a Correctional Health Behavior Certificate (working with the NTC
Community Health Program.
Nancy Haugen joined the meeting to promote upcoming Career Services events:
--2015 Government and Non-Profit Career Fair in Mpls. Please promote to your students.
--Major and Career Expo, Nov. 4. She encouraged faculty and club advisers to attend and to recruit students to attend.
--Teaching Mock Interviews on October 26-27.
--Undecided No More workshop upcoming, encouraged to promote to any undecided students.
All HSHE College meeting is scheduled for November 23, noon to 2:00. Lunch provided. Each department is required to have a 15-minute presentation on department Indicators. All faculty should participate, not just the chairs. Troy will forward the link for the eight department indicators to you.
Discussion on how lab credits are handled.
Send your Assessment Plan Status for 2015-2016 and Diversity Mapping information to Troy.
PDP’s are due to the Dean on October 16.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Tammy Mayer
Upcoming Chairs Meetings: November 24 (Marsha dept. synopsis), Spring mtg. schedule TBD (Donna dept. synopsis).