November 21, 2018 Meeting
Agenda
Taft College Academic Senate Council Meeting
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
12:00pm to 1:00pm,
Cafeteria Conference Room
Agenda
Call to Order
Public Commentary
Action Items
1. Approval of Minutes of October 17, 2018 Meeting
2. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee Charter
3. Distance Education Committee Charter
4. Business Faculty Replacement
5. California Academic Partnership Program Grant
6. AB 705: Placement, High School GPA, and High School Coursework
7. Assigning Courses to Disciplines
Information/Discussion Items
- ASCCC Visit: January 17, 1-3pm
9. Faculty Position Request Ranking: January
Open Forum for Announcements
Adjournment
Next meeting of the Academic Senate-of-the-whole is Monday, December 3, at 12:00pm in the Cougar Room.
Minutes
Taft College Academic Senate Council Minutes
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Cafeteria Conference Room
Members Present: President Geoffrey Dyer, Vice President Vicki Jacobi, Mike Jiles, Tony Thompson, Kanoe Bandy, Kelly Kulzer-Reyes, Greg Golling, Tori Furman, Juana Escobedo,
Guests: Antonio Alfaro
The meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m.
Public Commentary
- None
Action Items
Approval of Minutes of October 17, 2018 meeting
- No changes, minutes adopted by unanimous consent.
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee Charter
- Vicki Jacobi presented the minor corrections to the charter made for consistency of language. Headings were also added for accessibility.
- The Student Learning outcomes Assessment Steering Committee Charter moves forward to Senate of the Whole by unanimous consent.
Distance Education Committee Charter
- Membership changes to the charter include making the Director of Distance Education a non-voting member, adding a faculty co-chair, remove the limit of number of faculty representatives, changing advisor to counselor, defining quorum as simple majority, and using Robert’s Rules of Order.
- The Distance Education Committee Charter moves forward to Senate of the Whole by unanimous consent.
Business Faculty Replacement
- Kanoe Bandy is looking for the Senate’s support for replacement of Adam Bledsoe. The need is in Business, Economics, and Management. She also shared a concern for adjunct availability until the position is replaced.
- There is been growth in this area in part due to the services to incarcerated students.
- Geoffrey Dyer referred to past practice of recommending faculty replacement positions.
- On a motion by Tony Thompson, seconded by Greg Golling, the Business faculty replacement was approved to move forward to Senate-of-the-Whole.
California Academic Partnership Program Grant
- The CAPP Implementation Grant is due in January.
- Committee members include: Vicki Jacobi, Juana Rangel-Escobedo, Lori Sundgren, and Tammy Sutherland.
- Ideas for activities have been discussed such as a summer data summit with faculty from both TC and TUHS, on-boarding of disproportionately impacted students, use of Success Navigator, and parent orientations.
- Vicki Jacobi will provide an update during the January in-service meeting.
- On a motion by Kanoe Bandy, seconded by Mike Jiles, the California Academic Partnership Program Implementation Grant was approved to move forward to Senate of the Whole.
AB 705: Placement, High School GPA, and High School Coursework
- Consider the impaction prerequisites may impact other disciplines.
- Fall 2018 ASCCC Resolutions 8.01: Using Multiple Measures in addition to High School Grade Point Average for Student Assessment and Placement Practices and Resolution 18.01: Guided Self-Placement were reviewed.
- Taft College already has a Guided Self-Placement webpage that is live to the public/students.
- It is important to have conversations with discipline faculty and counselors and may be most appropriate for Academic Development Committee and/or Student Success Committee and/or Access Committee to work on Guided Self-Placement.
- Lori Sundgren will put Guided Self-Placement on the Academic Development Committee agenda as the work is consistent with the committee’s charter.
- Geoffrey Dyer will put the Guided Self-Placement website update on the agenda as an informational item for next Senate-of-the-Whole.
Assigning Courses to Disciplines
- Vicki Jacobi suggests that course assignments to disciplines be made during the curriculum process at the Curriculum meeting.
Information/Discussion Items
ASCCC Visit: January 17, 1-3pm
Faculty Position Request Ranking: January In-Service Senate-of-the-Whole meeting
Other/Open Forum for Announcements
- The FON report indicates 58.7 full-time faculty and currently there are 60 full-time faculty.
The meeting adjourned at 1:05 p.m.
Recorded notes provided by Juana Rangel-Escobedo
Submitted by Candace Duron, Secretary