El Camino College
Mathematics Department
Meeting Agenda
September 10, 2013
1:00 – 1:50 pm
Mathematical Sciences Division Meeting, 10/10/13
Agenda
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Update on Dean Hiring
Great California Shakeout Earthquake Drill, October 17, 2013, at 10:17 am
Evaluations
New Grade Submission Deadlines
Student Success Task Force Information (New policies)
Procedures Update
a. Equipment failures
b. Absences
c. Substitutes
d. Textbooks, Faculty copies
e. Copy Machine
7. Department Committee Updates (See attached)
8. Campus Committee Updates
9. Growth Sector and JPL Grant
10. Calculator loan program and funding sources for more
11. Announcements
EL CAMINO COLLEGE
MATH DEPARTMENT MEETING
September 10, 2013
Full-Time Faculty and Staff: Mr. Barajas, Mr. Bateman, Ms. Beckett-Lemus, Mr. Broderick,
Ms. Bucher, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Evensizer, Ms. Forbes, Mr. Fry, Mr. Georgevich,
Ms. Granich, Dr. Hamza, Mr. Hernandez, Ms. Ho, Ms. Hockman, Mr. Horvath,
Dr. Kasabian, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Marks, Ms. Martinez, Mr. Minasian, Ms. Meyer,
Dr. Morales, Ms. Ng, Ms. Numrich, Dr. Rapp, Mr. Scott, Dr. Sheynshteyn, Ms. Silva,
Ms. Sims, Mr. Taylor, Ms. Tummers, Ms. Wang, Mr. Wapner, Mr. Yun
Absent: Ms. Bickford (Conference), Ms. Hoang (teaching conflict), Dr. Kjeseth (conference),
Mr. Martinez (conference), Ms. Moreno (maternity leave), Ms. Sandoval (maternity leave),
Ms. Seyedin (ill), Dr. Sheynshteyn (conference)
UPDATE ON DEAN HIRING
The position was announced the first week of October and closes on November 12. The
selection committee will remain the same with the exception of the EEO representative, who has
not yet been selected.
GREAT CALIFORNIA SHAKEOUT EARTHQUAKE DRILL
The drill will take place on October 17 at 10:17 a.m. Disabled students will shelter in place.
Everyone else will evacuate to the areas between the MBA building and the Music and
Administration buildings.
EVALUATIONS
The evaluator assignments have been made. The revised peer evaluation form is online in Word
format. The form will be emailed to faculty. Evaluators are to fill out the electronic form for
submission to the division office.
NEW GRADE SUBMISSION DEADLINES
The grade submission deadline for fall is tentatively set at December 20 or ten days after the last
class meeting, whichever comes first.
Mathematics Department Meeting
October 10, 2013
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PROCEDURES UPDATE
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Equipment Failures
o Notify the division office staff of any equipment failures.
o Emergency override instructions for the Control Dashboard will be put in the drawers
of the instructor station in each classroom. Faculty should use the override only when
the Control Dashboard isn’t working.
Absences
o Notify the division office staff of the absence reason so it can be charged correctly on
the timesheet.
o As part of the current Agreement, new absence accounting rules have taken effect.
All faculty absences are converted from days to hours, based on a forty-hour work
week. The hours used on the absence report can be found on the printed contract.
o Dr. Rapp reminded faculty to fill out a “Temporary Instructor Reassignment” form
when they arrange for reciprocal substitute(s).
Textbooks, Faculty Copies
o There have been issues with getting faculty textbook copies, and Dr. Rapp and
Ms. Sims are working on options.
Copy Machine
o The division office copy machine is for emergency use only. Do not use the division
copy machine for large jobs. Plan ahead and use the Copy Center. Ms. Evensizer
reported that in her experience the Copy Center staff has consistently given a
turnaround of a day or two.
DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE UPDATES
Dr. Rapp recognized Ms. Forbes for her SLO and PLO work.
Ms. Forbes reported that
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100 percent of the spring reports have been turned.
CM1 has completed all PLO and SLO revisions.
TracDat training sessions were announced. Ms. Forbes will be conducting training sessions
for math faculty at a date in November to be determined.
Mathematics Department Meeting
October 10, 2013
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CALCULATOR LOAN PROGRAM
Funding for additional calculators will be provided as follows.
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The Graduation Initiative has provided funding to purchase twenty calculators.
Dr. Arce will provide $9,000 in funding.
Thirty calculators will be purchased using funds collected from students for broken, lost, and
not returned calculators.
There are funds in the HSI STEM grant to support purchasing up to
100 TI-84 Plus for use in the STEM courses. (See Committee Updates for more details)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A representative from Wolfram will conduct a Mathematica 9 seminar on October 14.
Dr. Rapp encouraged faculty to pick up a brochure for the Great Teacher’s Seminar.
Mr. Bateman’s Senate term has expired, and a volunteer is needed to replace him.
Computer lab sign-up procedures will be sent by email.
OTHER
The 2014 summer session will have two six-week, back-to-back sessions and one eight-week
session. The deans have been asked to offer 65 percent of their six-week classes in the first sixweek session, and 35 percent in the second six-week session. The first six-week offerings should
be designed for continuing students and the second session for High School students.
Dr. Rapp has asked for faculty input for offering four- and five-unit courses in a six-week
format.
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Math Department Meeting, 10-10-13
Committee Updates
Div LOACC
Spring 2013 Assessment Reports: 27 out of 27 (100%) SLO assessment reports have been
submitted and 3 out of 4 program assessment PLO reports have been submitted.
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Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs): Engineering and CM 2 were approved to have 2
PLOs. The two program representatives shared their justification for having 2 PLOs at
the division SLO meeting. All the other programs have at least three comprehensive
PLOs which is the campus standard and do not require revision.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs): CM1 has completed revising existing PLOs and
SLOs. CM1 has four PLOs and each course has four SLOs where each individual SLO
corresponds directly with another individual PLO. CSCI is currently revising their PLOs
and SLOs. The deadline for revision is November 8th, 2013. All other committees’ SLOs
are satisfactory and are aligned with their PLOs.
TracDat: The following dates are listed for campus wide TracDat training:
o Tuesday, October 22 2:30pm to 3:30pm
o Thursday, October 31 1:00pm to 2:00pm
o Tuesday, November 5 from 5:30pm – 6:30pm
o Friday, November 22 from 9:00am – 10:00am
o Computer Lab – Library West Basement Room 19
Please register as soon as possible at: http://elcamino.flexreporter.com/app/login.php
Junko Forbes will be holding training sessions in November. Times, dates, and locations
will be announced later.
Curriculum Update
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Action Complete: The Math 150 course review proposal from last spring has not had its
final action taken. The only remaining proposal from last spring is the Math 140 course
review.
College Curriculum Committee Action: At the CCC October 8 meeting, the course
review proposals for Math 140 and Math 12 were approved, as well as the technical
inactivation of Math 50D and Math 50C.
Awaiting Action by the Curriculum Advisor:The department and DCC approved the
Math 130 course review and this proposal now awaits action by the Curriculum Advisor.
In addition, the Math 100 inactivation is awaiting action by the Curriculum Advisor.
Returned to the Proposal Originator:Math 60 was returned to the originator for
technical work on the conditions of enrollment and entry skill matching. These are
extensive changes, so this proposal will need to undergo DCC technical review again,
and should come before the department again.
Other work:CM1 continues its work on the Math 170 and Math 180 course review,
which will be submitted together in the spring.
Program Review
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Engineering – 1st draft was submitted to Academic Affairs and meeting with APRC
scheduled for November 19, 2013. The deadline to re-submit is December 13, 2013
Computer Science – 1st draft was submitted to Academic Affairs, and we are awaiting a
date for the meeting. The deadline to re-submit is December 13, 2013
BSI
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In the process of completing the annual report
Given change of rules, more money to spend this year
o Met with the dean and have done allocations on how to use the budget
o More SMAs, more SIs, more calculators for Basic Skills classes, more counseling
intervention, etc…
Great Teachers Seminar
o Friday, November 1, 2013, 8:30am – 3:00pm, MBA 219
o Stipend of $45 per hour for all adjunct and fulltime faculty that attend the entire 6
hours
o Flex credit for fulltime instructors available
Faculty Development
o Please inform me on what faculty development opportunities you would like BSI
to sponsor
Committee D
 Course slo teams are re-configured for this year (see attached) and assessments are being
written and sent out to instructors.
 We plan to write a program review update this year.
 Sue and Susan will take the lead on contacting sociology and psychology instructors
about math 67 as a prerequisite for Psych 9a and Soc 109 (Elementary Statistics)
 We will also get the conversations going about allowing math 67 to serve as the math
requirement for the associate degrees, perhaps first with Tom Fallo.
 Art will invite a counselor to attend our future Committee D meetings especially when
business includes math 37 or math 67.
CM1
 The SLO/PLOs for Spring 2013 are all done and submitted to Junko. The discussion was
done in our first CM1 meeting last month and by email.
 We revised the SLO/PLOs - we have 4 SLOs for each course, and they map to each of
the 4 PLOS. They passed a committee vote 21-0 late last week.
 Now we can devote more time to the Math 170/180 discussion - that will be our main
task for the remainder of the semester. There is nothing new to report with that yet.
 We don't have any textbook selections to worry about this year - all the texts are current
editions.
CM2
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CM2 has approved the new textbooks for Math 140 today with 22 Yes (including a
vote from Patricia Stoddard, Compton; Ruth Zambrano did not participate). I have sent
the ISBN codes to both Bonnie and our Bookstore.
Due to the fact that Pearson will no longer have MyMathLab codes for 8th edition of
Angel(A Survey of Mathematics with applications), the Math 120 Subcommittee
members have unanimously decided to roll to the 9th edition of Angel starting Spring
2014. Had we been notified earlier from Pearson, we would have rolled to the new
edition this semester. I will be notifying our Bookstore on this decision along with our
choice of Finite Math textbooks after we finished e-voting on Tuesday. This decision will
not impact instructors who use The Mathematical Palette, the other Math 120 co-default.
Finite Math is currently one of the courses listed on the Business Transfer Model
Curriculum for CSU. Dr. Virginia Rapp has added an evening section of Finite Math for
Spring 2014. This new section will be taught by Alice O'Leary who is a long-time parttime instructor and who also spoke to help save this course last semester. I will be
distributing flyers to Math and Business counselors, Math 67, 73 and 80 instructors, and
posting them inside our MBA building in Mid-October. If you are currently teaching
Math 67, 73 or 80, would you please kindly spend 3 minutes informing students about
this course? Our goal is to have two sections offered again in Fall 2014.
Janet Young will be offering additional TracDAT training on October 22 (2:30 3:30 pm ) and October 31 (1-2 pm). The Math Department has been given priority
to enroll in these two sessions before Janet opens it to the entire campus next
week. Flex credit will be available. If you can make it, please sign up for the training
THIS WEEK as we rotate SLO coordinators every semester to share the burden.
Per Lars' email (9/28), our Math 130 College Algebra proposal has been approved by the
Math Department! The voting results were 27 Yes and 1 No. On behalf of the Math 130
Subcommittee, I thank you for your support!
SLO Update
o All CM 2 Spring 2013 SLO reports have been submitted to Junko on Friday,
October 4, 2013. A big thank you to Aban, Bob Horvath, Milan, Lynn and
Junko!
o The new requirement for Program Level SLOs has been increased to a
minimum of three. Although CM2 has only 2 PLOs, the representatives of
CM2 (Milan, Aban, Susanne, Junko and I) defended our justification of
keeping just two PLOs at the DELOACC meeting on September 26, 2013.
Dr. Rapp has approved our PLOs and we expect this to pass the campuswide SLO committee as well. Linda has completed the required paperwork
and submitted to Junko on Friday, October 4, 2013.
o Math 130 SLOs have been updated to align with the recently revised Math
130 course outline. Two Math 160 SLOs have been remapped to the
appropriate CM2 Program Level Outcomes.
o Thanks to Aban, Lynn, Megan, Hamza, Ambika and Eddie Morales, all Fall
2013 SLOs have already been sent out to all sections of CM2 courses!
CM3
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Susie Tummers was the prominent author of the Program Review Document has goaround. Her countless hours and hard work produced a very fine document. Thank You
Again, SUSIE!! The most important recommendation from the previous PR was to
restructure the units in Math 110 to increase student contact hours. This has been
accomplished! The restructuring of all three courses taught at ECC campus are now all 2
lecture and 2 lab units. This was also something that the counselors were asking to take
place too. Success on this aspect of the PR has taken place and is in place. We are also
so very fortunate that Susanne Bucher is teaching the Math 110 sections (2 per semester)
and increasing our reach to faculty who have K12 experience continues to serve us
well. From my vantage point, there does not seem to be any major recommendations for
the upcoming PR but this is something that the committee can chat about this week.
As far as SLOs and PLOs, we continue to follow the schedule we set up:
o Fall semester, ALL SLOs for Math 110 are assessed. This semester we will
include the Math 110 from the Compton Center.
o Spring semester, ALL SLOs for Math 115 and Math 116 are assessed. These
courses are only offered at the ECC campus. The Math 116 SLO report for Spring
2013 was not put into CurricuNET, but rather it was submitted as a written report
to Junko due to the change over to TracDAT
o Spring semester, ALL PLOs are assessed and for spring 2014, we will include the
Compton Center classes too.
o The assessment reports have been submitted in CurricuNet electronically. Given
the nature of this program, we submitted all of the information in the boxes
provided. We did not cut/paste documents so there is no report to attach. If you
can easily view what we submitted, that might provide the information we wrote
after our face-to-face meeting last spring.
Conference Committee
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Working on a standard operating procedure
o How to apply for conference funds, etc…
Calculator Loan Program for Stem Courses
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There are funds in the HSI STEM grant to support purchasing up to
100 TI-84 Plus to supplement our calculator loan program, but we would need
to have a proposal from instructors teaching our majors courses. The
proposal should detail how a student calculator loan program for individual
students would enhance instruction and student learning in these classes.
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Get started by making sure that the library is willing or able to almost double the number
of calculators. One might also need to hammer out a new prioritization scheme.
It shouldn’t take anyone more than four to six hours to do most of the work.
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MBA Building Emergency Organization
Role
Assigned
Alternate(s)
Primary responsibilities in emergency
Building Emergency
Captain
Dr. Virginia
Rapp
Jackie Sims
Communicate with Campus Emergency
Coordinators.
Coordinate building response
Coordinate with building captain to provide
response by team members in assigned
area.
Area Leader:
Ground Floor
Area Leader: 1st Flr
Math
Angie
Snider
Aster Assefa
Area Leader: 1st Flr
Business
Area Leader: 2nd
Floor
Jackie Sims, Bonnie Mercado
Area Leader: 3nd
Floor
Sue Bickford, Art Martinez
Stairwell Monitors:
Lynn Beckett-Lemus, Gregory
Fry, Linda Ho, Paul Yun, Greg
Scott, Lars Kjeseth, Megan
Granich, Lars Kjeseth, Ralph
Taylor
Southern Stairwell
(Closest to Redondo)
Clear stairwells from basement through
third floor; check that roof door is locked
and that roof is clear.
Stairwell Monitors:
Northern (Closest to
Administration
Building) Stairwell
Milan Georgevich, Eduardo
Morales, Aban Seyedin, Lijun
Wang
Fire Equipment
Monitors (*)
Michael Bateman, Bob Horvath
Respond to fire emergency situation using
available equipment.
First Aid Assistants
(*)
Judy Kasabian, Susan Taylor,
Trudy Meyer
Assist injured persons to the extent of
training.
Evacuation
Assistants (*)
Assist evacuation of mobility-impaired
persons. Special equipment available on
second floor.
Messengers
Kaysa Moreno, Kristine
Numrich, Carl Broderick,
Massoud Ghyam, Leonard
Wapner, Ambika Silva, Susie
Tummers,
Relay messages between Building Captain
and involved areas
Search and Rescue
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Sue Bickford, Art Martinez,
Susanne Bucher, Jasmine Ng
Search damage areas.
Traffic Monitors
Jeff Cohen, Jackie Sims, Junko
Forbes, Alice Martinez, Martha
Sandoval, Zachary Marks, Trudy
Meyer,
Provide traffic control to guide evacuees to
safe areas, following Evacuation Plan.
Sweep Teams
Jill Evensizer, Hamza Hamza,
Robert Lewis, Ralph Taylor,
Eduardo Barajas, Jeff Cohen
Sweep corridors and rooms to ensure
building is evacuated.
(*) Requires some training or experience.
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