COLLEGE OF MARIN
ACADEMIC SENATE
MEETING AGENDA FOR April 2, 2009
CALL TO ORDER: 12:45 PM
I.
Approval and Adoption of the Agenda
II.
Reading and Approval of the Minutes
Minutes of March 26, 2009
III.
Officers’ Reports
President
Vice President
Treasurer
IV.
Committee Reports
Curriculum
Academic Standards
Community Education
Governance Committees
V.
Consent Agenda
a)
Spring 2009 Election Calendar
VI.
Action Items
a)
To Approve the Liberal Arts Degrees
VII.
Discussion
a)
AP 4231 Change of Grade (Early/Bellisimo)
b)
Admin Review/Revisions to Blue Print MOU
(Wilson/Bellisimo)
c)
Graduation Requirements and Physical Sciences Major
(Kelly)
d)
Revisions/Improvements to the Program Review Template
(McKinnon)
e)
Faculty Consultation in Program Relocation
(Woodlief/Bonander)
VIII.
New Business
IX.
Public Requests to Address the Senate on Non-Agenda Items
X.
Adjournment: 2:00 PM
For questions or information concerning the Academic Senate agendas, please contact:
Yolanda Bellisimo: yolanda.bellisimo@marin.edu X7446 Derek Wilson, derek.wilson@marin.edu X8255.
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Attachments:
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
April 2, 2009
1.
ELACC
I was at East Los Angeles Community College this past week as part of the
WASC self study team. What an experience. One thing I have learned from this
is the advantages and disadvantages of being a big institution. Big schools have
more people to do a self study and it doesn’t matter if you are big or small,
WASC expects the same amount of detail. So, in this case, big is better. The
disadvantages are great – district office versus local campus power struggles
being one of the biggest obstacles.
While there, I kept a list of details to remember when the self study team visits
us. It includes important stuff like having an IT person at the team’s beck and
call, serving something other than processed meat sandwiches for lunch, and
purging all outdated materials including modernization plans or mission and
vision statements from every place on campus and the web site.
I was on the Standard II team so I brought back stuff on SLOs, program review,
and administrative program reviews that I will share with Blaze and Sara and
David.
2.
Some Interesting Statistics
These figures tell you something about the level of efficiency of community
colleges and also why the State and tax payers should enthusiastically support
the job we do:
UCs have:
10 campuses
180,000 faculty and staff
220,000 students
CSUs have: 23 campuses
47,000 faculty and staff
470,000 students
We have:
110 community colleges (220 if you count all the off-site locations)
64,000 faculty and staff
2.6 million students
3.
Golden Bell for Staff
For the first time in as long as anyone has known about the Golden Bell Award,
College Council figured out that the staff has these awards as well as the faculty.
Our staff, in a quick turn-around nominated two staff members for this year’s
award. The nominees are Kathleen Kirkpatrick and Becky Reetz.
4.
Recovering Cancelled Units Process
I will be meeting with the VP on Monday to review the process the Senate
designed for how disciplines will recover units from classes that have been
cancelled in two spring/fall semesters. We will also discuss the MOU on the
Blueprint.
5.
From the State Senate
In its March, 2009, newsletter, ACCJC has defined what the standard means
(Standard II). First, student learning outcomes must be on every syllabus ACCJC is editing the standards to change "learning objectives" to "student
learning outcomes." Second, ACCJC also expects to see SLOs on the document
used by the institution to define its official curriculum, which would mean the
Course Outline of Record. For the full article, see
http://www.accjc.org/pdf/March%202009%20newsletter.pdf .