NORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OFFICE OF INSTRUCTION
CURRICULUM AND ACADEMIC STANDARDS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, January 9, 2006
President’s Boardroom
PRESENT:
Chair—Michaelann Allen
Business and Engineering Technologies—
Health and Human Services—Loretta Ryan
Credentials—Jane Oberlander
Humanities— Steve Quig, Howard Xie
Science and Math and Social Science—Denise Brannan, Ann Murkowski
Advising Center—Alice Melling
Counseling—Lydia Minatoya
Institutional Research—
Library— Maria Paz
Student Representative—
Vice President for Instruction—Mary Ellen O’Keeffe
GUEST(S):
Call to Order
Michaelann, The Chair, called the meeting to order.
Minutes of December 12
Motion was made and seconded to approved the minutes; motion carried.
Course Updates (Deletion of MUS 182 & 125)
These two courses should be deleted from the catalogue and across the District
as they have not been offered for years. Motion was made and seconded to delete MUS 182 and MUS 125; motion carried.
Human Relations Criteria
Michaelann asked the committee to present a compiled list of criteria at their division meetings and bring their thoughts to the next CAS meeting for a vote. Mary
Ellen said this is needed for the self study. Michaelann and a small sub group
used Bob Schuessler’s criteria and Lane Community College’s criteria to create
this document for input. CAS will need to compile a list of existing courses to present to the Accreditation team. For example: Medical Assisting and other professional technical programs have to have 3 credits of Human Relations as part of
general education requirements. Having the criteria and list of classes allows
students to have flexible choices and meets accreditation guidelines. Mary Ellen
stated that Edmonds Community College had at one time embedded Human Re-
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lations into professional technical courses and had to pull them out after accreditation as the accreditors did not see that they were teaching this. There needs to
be a vote on this at the next CAS meeting.
Miscellaneous
CAS may have to select a new Chair for fall 2007, as Michaelann has served her
term. Michaelann asked for thought on this as she may not be able to continue
next year as Marilyn Smith is looking for someone to take over Phi Theta Kappa
advising and Michaelann would like the opportunity to do this if possible.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00pm.
Next scheduled meeting is January 23rd.