Dean Team Minutes
April 15, 2014
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Central Conference Room
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Present (*):
Topic
Minutes
University of
Phoenix Partnership
Presenter
All
AGH
Acceptance of
Online Lab Science
Courses
Cynthia
Okawara
Kathie Hunt* (KH)
Kim Thompson (KT)
Bob Francis* (BF)
Susan Hoyne* (SH)
Bayta Maring* (BLM)
Samira Pardanani* (SP)
Dan Fey* (DF)
Gillian Lewis* (GL)
Alison Stevens* (AS)
Ann Garnsey-Harter* (AGH)
Discussion
The March 21 and 25 minutes were approved.
We have updated our articulation agreement with UP. Ann distributed statistics tracked
by UP on how many students from SCC go to UP. The agreement we have includes a
reverse articulation agreement and helps us with SAI points. Students get a discount on
tuition if they got their AA before they transfer. UP is trying to be a true partner. We
focused on 5 pathways: Business, Criminal Justice, Manufacturing/Machinist,
Communications and Psychology. Business is the biggest focus. They are willing to get
a roundtable together for Business. Ann reported the UP is the #1 place community
college graduates in the state go. Ann will talk to Bob about Social Sciences and follow
up with Gillian about Business folks having a meeting with UP.
Ann explained that several faculty who teach online lab courses brought this up as an
issue because they heard advisors in International Education are advising against taking
these courses even though they are not science majors.
Cynthia responded there are a lot of reasons why they do not recommend online. It does
not make sense for International Students to take online in most cases. They need
listening and speaking as well. If they are going to high level schools they need high
scores on their TOEFL. They need to improve all areas of their English. Plagiarism is
an issue Immigration wise they can only have one online class per quarter. There are
some high level schools that do not accept certain online credits. Cynthia has specific
examples. Our transcripts have an N section number on them indicating it’s an online
course.
Does IE have an issue with hybrid courses? No. They are a great option for our
students. Cynthia tells students if they want to take an online class, try a hybrid. They
have face-to-face contact. If they are lost in a Science or Math class and no one is there
to connect with them they are behind forever. There is no hope usually for them to catch
up.
USC accepts no online; UC Davis won’t accept an online lab; Michigan accepts no
online Math. We have new students coming in, and these are dream schools for many of
them. A lot of our students want to go to the UC system. We can’t set them up for
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Guests:
Action Items
Topic
Presenter
Discussion
failure. UC Berkeley does not accept online. High level private schools won’t accept
online course work.
UW is hard to get into for Business especially. They have a writing test. It’s a good
reason for them to take extra Humanities classes. Bob said they are putting English
prerequisites on their Economics classes. Econ schools now require a TOEFL. Many
International Students have Math skills but not the written ability.
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Unacceptable
Communication and
Behavior
GL
Ann said there are a lot of technologies around plagiarism we can implement. They
piloted one in the English department that worked well. There is a moral dilemma with
the fact student papers automatically become part of the database. Alison said you agree
as an institution all papers submitted becomes part of it. It is integrated into Canvas.
Kathie said they are finding plagiarism in art classes now. In photography they are
stealing images. All of a sudden faculty have to start putting images through the
database.
Gillian spoke of incidents with students who have a lack of civility. There appears to be
an expectation the world will change to accommodate whatever they need. Faculty are
trying to deal and cope with this. It seems there should be in every syllabus some
reference to appropriate professional communication required. Kathie talked about
inappropriate things that are posted on discussion boards. There is a sense that anything
is okay to say if you are feeling emotional or angry about something, or didn’t get what
you wanted. Kathie doesn’t think it is just students; she sees this in other areas as well.
Gillian said we need the whole campus to get involved. Alison said there is a model
code of conduct on its way from the WSSSC. It should go to the Faculty Senate. That
will be helpful to us. Alison talked about how civility is very much cultural. Bob said
we do owe our students some culturalization to appropriate behavior in the work place.
Bob remembers this being an issue in 1974 and civility was a conversation then. He is
not sure we have any greater incivility today than we did in 1974.
We don’t have mental health care like we used to, and we need more skills in
understanding how to diffuse situations.
Bob said if we had conversations of our expectations every year (including behavioral
expectations) we would be able to say when people are outside of our expectations. He
has expectations in his syllabus, and he thinks you do have to say explicitly those are the
expectations. When someone crosses the line, review the expectations.
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Noel Levitz Survey
BLM
Bayta said the Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey is being launched on April 23.
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Retention
Standing Item:
JUMC Update
AS
BF
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Good of the Order
Discussion
The Student Parliament wants students responding and they have a lot of energy around
it. They have branded the survey as a Student Voice Project – take stock, take the
survey, take control. There will be posters, lawn signs and lapel buttons. They are
filming a promotional video too. Bayta distributed the draft “wild card” questions; 4 are
from Student Parliament, 4 are related to Global Awareness and 2 are about
understanding student perceptions related to diversity on campus. Online students will
have a separate survey. The diversity questions will be placed at the top; Dan
recommended making questions #1 and #7 more intentional.
Bayta announced she has a new permanent Assistant Director, Juliet Scarpa.
Postponed.
They determined the number for Senior Associate faculty. That will come out to you
fairly quickly. Faculty have the right to say no. Deans asked Bob to put bumping on the
agenda for JUMC. The complaint track spreadsheet is acceptable.
Kathie provided information from the recent ATC meeting she attended. They are being
asked to vote on the following recommendations:
(1) “Community and Technical colleges that offer ENGL 100 as a composition
course below the ENGL& 101 (English Composition I) level, will need to
renumber ENGL 100 to a two-digit number (e.g. ENGL 99) effective (date
TBD).” This will impact all planning sheets and information. This would be
effective Fall 2015. WE have to figure this out; it also means it has to go
through the Curriculum Committee.
(2) ENGL 100 courses currently being used as a career and technical English
course need to change the ENGL prefix to one that reflects career and technical
coursework (e.g. WRT). They want to make a distinction between English and
things that are Prof-Tech. The reason for this is CCN. Anything English is
considered transfer. It has become an issue because of all the movement toward
baccalaureates in prof-tech areas. It has to be changed to make it clear what is a
transferable class, and it has to be clear to people transcripting things.
If English 100 becomes 95, it will not count as a college-level course. That is the issue.
Up to this point we have been allowed to use it as a restrictive elective. It will affect
everyone’s SAI points.
Another major thing ATC is talking about is Nursing pathways. They are making
changes on what is acceptable for Humanities credits. The issue is one way they are able
to make this work is no one else has access to these except Nursing students. They are
specific to Nursing.
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Action Items
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Action Items
They are trying to push 3 credits of Wellness too. 14 of 28 schools have it as a
requirement. 14 do not. Some have full-time faculty and some do not. It comes down
to the local institutional level. They have to make choices and what do they value. At
SCC we said to keep multicultural understanding. They are basically saying this isn’t a
luxury either. There is a huge push right now.
Adjourned 11:06 a.m.
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