Academic Senate Committees
Self-Evaluation Form
Name of Committee:
Academic Year:
Academic Policy Committee
2014-2015
1. List dates of all meetings that were held, and post agendas and approved
minutes of these meetings on the committee’s Web site.
Dates: 2014--July 22, August 26, September 23, October 28, November 25
2015--January 22, February 26, April 23, May 28, June 25
Meeting agendas and minutes may be found:
http://pshare.piercecollege.edu/committees/senate/acpolicy/_layouts/15/start.asp
x#/SitePages/Home.aspx
Total number of meetings held:
Frequency of meetings:
Average attendance of voting members per
meeting :
Number of meetings in which a quorum was
attained:
10
Monthly
20—80%
10—100%
2. What were the main accomplishments/tasks achieved this academic year?
Provided a forum for chairs to share their ideas, concerns, and
suggestions for improving the departmental operations of the
college.
Provided feedback to the college administration on regulations and
procedures that affected the academic environment.
Participated extensively on the Faculty Position Priority Committee
to recommend 30 new instructors to the college president.
Developed and communicated ideas to streamline the duties and
tasks performed by department chairs.
3. List the tasks/goals that are in progress, modified, or incomplete.
Department chairs handbook
3a. List the factors or barriers that inhibited completion of the
goals/tasks.
Response: APC requires the impetus and funding to print such a
handbook. Its contents can be derived from the
listing of duties and tasks provided by the Office of
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Academic Affairs annually
3b. If resources are needed, list them and justify how they would
allow the committee to achieve goals or complete tasks.
Response: APC would need to create a task force to work on such
a project. The task force should be comprised of
department chairs and academic deans. It should
provide a timeline and a description of procedures to
complete regular duties and tasks assigned to
department chairs. Funds would need to be made
available to print the handbook in a format that would
permit pages to be removed and inserted.
4. List the committee’s prioritized goals for the 2015–2016 academic year.
Please include the goal or the objective:
 Develop a department chair handbook in conjunction with
deans from the Office of Academic Affairs.
 Analyze academic policies and procedures to enhance
processes and college-wide outcomes, as needed.
 Examine the role of the department chair and develop
professional development and training opportunities to
support the successful implementation of chair duties.
 Work collaboratively with the college administration to
evaluate and improve the academic environment.
5. Does the committee have any suggestions to improve participatory governance
processes or make them more efficient?
The committee expressed concern that the voice of the chairs has
not been heard as part of the participatory governance process.
Examples include the slow processing of key requests, student
parking in faculty parking areas, requiring complicated paper
processing for moving a class from its assigned classroom to the
library for a single session, canceling early low-enrollment classes
without collaboration with the department chair. The committee
needs to address how it can become more effective in
participatory governance.
6. Explain how the committee addressed recommendations from the prior year.
Recommendations from last year’s self-evaluation follow: None
were received since Senate Committees did not validate the 20132014 self-evaluations.
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Recommendation Remediation
Responsible
Party
Date for
Completion
1. None received
2. None received
7. Complete the chart below to update the committee’s membership for 2014–
2015. Please identify Chair and/or Co-chair. All committee members are
department chairs. The chair of the committee is the first vice president of the
Senate. Terms continue for all until a member is no longer department chair.
Department
Chairperson
Agriculture & N.R.
Leland Shapiro
Anthropology/Geog. Science
Adrian Youhanna
Art & Architecture
Melody Cooper
Business Administration
David Braun
Chemistry
Child Development &
Education
Isadore Goodman
Communication Studies
Jennifer Rosenberg
Computer Applications & OT
Lyn Clark
Comp Science & Inform Tech
David Schamus
Counseling
Rudy Dompe
English
Donna Accardo
History & Humanities
Richard McMillan
Industrial Technology
Mike Van Dyke
Kinesiology
Shilo Nelson
Library
Paula Paggi
Life Science
Larry Thouin
Mathematics
Bob Martinez
Joleen Voss-Rodriguez
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Department
Chairperson
Media Arts
Jill Connelly
Modern Language
Fernando Oleas
Music
Wayne Perkins (Skip)
Nursing
Joan Schneider
Philosophy/Sociology
James McKeever
Physics & Planetary Science
Dale Fields
Political Science/Economics
Kathy Oborn
Psychology
Chad Snow
Theatre Arts
Michael Gend
Chair Signature:
Chair Name:
Date:
Lyn Clark
June 27, 2015
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