Columbia College · January 31st, 2017 EXEC Minutes 1 Exec Voting Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Jill Olson, Brian Sanders Rsrc/Lsn Members Klaus Tenbergen, Melis

January 31st, 2017 EXEC Minutes 1

Exec Voting Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Jill Olson, Brian Sanders

Rsrc/Lsn Members Klaus Tenbergen, Melissa Raby, Joe Ryan, Raelene Juarez, Bella Lacazotte, Lesley Mitchavy, Marnie Shively, Elissa Creighton, Don Dickinson

Full Members: Melissa Colon, Jeff Fitzwater, Tom Hofstra, Joe Manlove Others Invited: Approval of Minutes: November 22nd, 2016 Call to order: 2:42 pm

Action: Move to approve the minutes of November 22nd, 2016 M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging,

Schultz, Olson)

Action: Move to approve the agenda as amended M/S/P (Schultz/Olson VOTES FOR Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging,

Kathy Schultz)

Action Items

SECTION A

Action items listed in Section A are part of the Curriculum Committee’s consent agenda. Any person in attendance may pull specific items off the consent agenda for separate discussion and action.

Items not pulled for separate discussion/action will be acted upon as one action by the Committee membership

1. Disc AW‐CERT HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT Hotel Management (COA) Don Dickinson

2. Disc DRAFT 97 Work Experience‐Drafting Kathy Schultz

3. Disc DRAFT 199 Independent‐Study Drafting Kathy Schultz

4. Disc ECON 99 Independent Study Randy Barton

Move to approve the consent agenda with item 1 starting Summer 2018, and items 2,3,4 starting Summer 2017

M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

Discussion Items:

5. CCCCO Memo re: Streamlining the Curriculum Process Kathy Schultz

Chancellor Office is Moving to a new MIS system Starting January 1st, 2017, Courses will be able to be approved without waiting, if

the certification form as been signed. All the courses submitted before the end of the year, still need to go through regular CCCCO approval

Non‐credit courses are not affected by new approval process

Curriculum Committee Exec Meeting

Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 Buckeye 4, 3:00‐4:30pm


Non‐credit courses for MATH and ART may not be able to be added to the new catalog, as they are still waiting for approval

Need to prepare catalog draft with everything in it, with different colors representing different stage of approval, and if courses are not approved on time, they will be removed, and added to the next addendum

Experimental courses are back, to offer an alternative for courses that cannot wait to go through the lengthy CCCCO approval process

6. PSLOs – Progress on entering into CurricUNET/Catalog Kathy Schultz

Refining PSLOs for transfer degrees. Some needed to be revised and even redone PSLOs are not ready to be entered in CurricUNET or in the catalog Not all the transfer degree have been mapped to the courses BIOL is ready to go Next step is to work on all the new awards following the same steps used for the

transfer degrees Due to Accreditation, the addendum will have to be published on the original due

date of July VPI will send reminder to faculty that PSLO need to be ready by the end of February

7. Collaborative programs with MJC Kathy Schultz

Interim was nominated to replace Patrick Bettencourt but, we are still waiting for MJC response A MOU will be started while waiting for MJC Elizabeth Pfleging will build the template with MJC classes Kathy Schultz will build the program into CurricUNET, with MJC classes Maybe creating CC own Health classes, if MJC collaboration fell Another option: Build the degree with MJC courses, while waiting for our courses to be approved by CCCCO

8. Repeatability programming changes for CurricUNET Kathy Schultz

SLO modules in eLumen has been taking more time than anticipated Spot for work experience None of the new spots are programmed yet All these repeatability changes have been sent to Governet Maybe have form As added Maybe having them to create reports

9. FIRE and C‐ID Elizabeth Pfleging

MJC finalized descriptors are at the same levels as CC courses but MJC FIRE courses not transferable, while CC FIRE courses are

College will have to decide if it will accept non‐transferable course when same C‐ID

If CC doesn't accept non‐transferable, maybe C‐IDs shouldn't be submitted when


MJC courses are not transferable, and CC are

An equivalency is available between MJC and CC, for particular classes. But C‐IDs will be for all the CA Colleges

C‐IDs, no matter if descriptors are transferable or not, will be accepted by CC

10. Database Update:

The Access database is out of service

All the reports are being built manually

The 5 year review report cannot be generated from the Database

Adjourn: 4:49pm Olson

Next Curriculum Meeting March 14th, 2016 in Buckeye 4 from 2:40‐4:30pm

November 22, 2016 EXEC Minutes 1


Rsrc/Lsn Members Klaus Tenbergen, Melissa Raby, Joe Ryan, Raelene Juarez, Bella Lacazotte, Lesley Mitchavy, Marnie Shively

Full Members: Melissa Colon, Jeff Fitzwater, Tom Hofstra, Joe Manlove Others Invited: Pam Guerra‐Schmidt, Don Dickinson Approval of Minutes: October 4th, 2016 Call to order: 3:00 pm

Action: Move to approve the minutes of October 4th 2016 as amended M/S/P (Schultz/Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR:

Pfleging, Schultz)

Information Items:

1. Repeatability Criteria Programming Changes Kathy Schultz/Brian Sanders

Some changes need to be made to the agenda:

Repeatability go from Information Item to Discussion Item

Add notification: o Math 350 o Child 31 o Child 99

Remove item #10 as it is a duplicate

Action: Move to approve the agenda as amended M/S/P (Schultz/Olson VOTES FOR Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging,

Kathy Schultz)

Notification:

MATH 350: Needed to be coded as “non‐Credit” and changed from MATH 350 to MATH 750. This change has been made in CurricUnet, Board Report, and on the Agenda from the previous Full CC Meeting

The State has a limit of letters for the title of a class. The limit is set at 68 (including the spaces). 2 CHILD classes needed to be adjusted to this limit.

o CHILD 31 had the word “Administration”, in its title, changed to “Admin” and changed “and” to “&”. Now new title is :”Admin #2, Personnel & Leadership in Early Childhood Education”

o CHILD 99 has 70 letters, and need 2 letters to be removed. Change title to “Independent Study: Child Development or Elementary Teacher”

Action Items

SECTION A

Action items listed in Section A are part of the Curriculum Committee’s consent agenda.


Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 Buckeye 4, 3:00‐4:30pm


Any person in attendance may pull specific items off the consent agenda for separate discussion and action. Items not pulled for separate discussion/action will be acted upon as one action by the Committee membership

2. Disc. ART 52 Publication Design II Kath Christensen

3. Disc. CCTDM 52 Publication Design II Kath Christensen

4. Disc GUIDE 150 Guidance for Nursing Majors Elizabeth Pfleging

5. Mjr MATH 602 Prealgebra Joe Manlove > MATH 602 ‐ Prerequisite of MATH 601

6. Disc AW‐AS 743 Post‐Secondary Studies: Emphasis in Micha Miller Biological Sciences A.S. Degree

7. Disc AW‐AS 746 Post‐Secondary Studies: Emphasis in Micha Miller Environmental Sciences A.S. Degree

8. Mjr BIOL 99 Independent Study in Biology Micha Miller

9. Mod AW‐AAT 609 Elementary Teacher Education Pam Guerra‐Schmidt

Move to approve the consent agenda as amended M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging,

Kathy Schultz)

Prerequisite of MATH 601 has been discontinued, this why Elizabeth had questions and wanted to remove this item from the consent agenda

5. Mjr MATH 602 Prealgebra Joe Manlove MATH 602 ‐ Prerequisite of MATH 601

Move to approve the removal the MATH 601 as Prerequisite of MATH 602 M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill

Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

SECTION B

10. Disc CCTDM 52 Publication Design II Kath Christensen

11. New GUIDE 8 Introduction to College Kirsten Miller

New Course Units 0.5‐1 Effective Summer 2017

Move to approve GUIDE 8 Introduction to College M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging,

Kathy Schultz)

DEA Hybrid of GUIDE 8

Move to approve DEA Hybrid of GUIDE 8 M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy

Schultz)

DEA Online of GUIDE 8

Move to approve DEA Online of GUIDE 8 M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy

Schultz)

12. Mjr HPMGT 142 Garde Manger Don Dickinson


Major Modification: 5 year review Units 3 Effective Summer 2017

Move to approve the major modification of HPMGT 142 Garde Manger M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill


13. Mjr . HPMGT 143 Advanced Garde Manger Don Dickinson Major Modification: 5 year review Units 2 Effective Summer 2017

Move to approve the major modification of HPMGT 143 Advanced Garde Manger M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson

VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

HPMGT 143 ‐ Prerequisite of HPMGT 142

Move to approve HPMGT 143 ‐ Prerequisite of HPMGT 142 M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth

Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

14. New MATH 120 Path to Statistics Lahna VonEpps – Separate Approvals Only (Course approved 11/15/2016)

Motion to approve bundling Advisory Corequisite of MATH 750 and MATH 650 M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES

FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

Advisory Corequisite of MATH 750 Advisory Corequisite of MATH 650

Move to approve Advisory Corequisite of MATH 750 and MATH 650 M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson,

Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

Eligibility for MATH 101 as Advisory

Move to approve Eligibility for MATH 101 as Advisory for MATH 120 Path to Statistics M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging


Advisory of ENGL 151 or ENGL 1A

Move to approve Advisory of ENGL 151 or ENGL 1A for MATH 120 Path to Statistics M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES

FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

15. Mjr OFTEC 152A Medical Billing and Coding Judy Reiman – To Become: Reimbursement Methodology

Major Modification: Title Modification Units 3 Effective Summer 2017

Move to approve OFTEC 152A Medical Billing and Coding to become Reimbursement Methodology M/S/P

(Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)


Motion to approve bundling all the Advisory of OFTEC 50 M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth


Advisory of OFTEC 50 for OFTEC 152 A, B, and C

Move to approve Advisory of OFTEC 50 for OFTEC 152 A,B and C M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson,


Motion to approve bundling all the DEA Online for OFTEC 152 A, B, and C M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill


DEA Online of OFTEC 152A, B, and C

Move to approve DEA Online of OFTEC 152A, B, and C M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth


16. Mjr OFTEC 152B Medical Coding II Judy Reiman To become: Basic ICD Coding


Move to approve OFTEC 152B Medical Coding II to become Basic ICD Coding M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill


17. Mjr OFTEC 152C Advanced Medical Coding Judy Reiman To Become: Basic CPT Coding


Move to approve OFTEC 152C Advanced Medical Coding to become Basic CPT Coding M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson


18. New OFTEC 152D Intermediate Coding Judy Reiman DEA Online of OFTEC 152D Prerequisite of OFTEC 152B Prerequisite of OFTEC 152C

19. New OFTEC 152E Professional Coding Practice Judy Reiman Prerequisite of OFTEC 152D DEA Online of OFTEC 152E

Motion to table OFTEC 152D and E until form As are received M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson,


20. New OFTEC 170 Healthcare Delivery Systems Judy Reiman

New Course Units 3 Effective Summer 2017


Move to approve OFTEC 170 Healthcare Delivery Systems M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth


Motion to approve bundling all the DEA Online for OFTEC 170 and 171 M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill


DEA Online of OFTEC 170 and 171

Move to approve DEA Online of OFTEC 170 and OFTEC 171 M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz VOTES FOR: Jill Olson,


21. New OFTEC 171 Healthcare Data Content and Structure Judy Reiman

New Course Units 3 Effective Summer 2017

Motion to approve OFTEC 171 Healthcare Data Content and Structure M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill


22. Mod AW‐AS 444 Hospitality Management: Don Dickinson To Become: Hospitality Management: Hotel and Restaurant Management

Move to approve AW‐AS 444 Hospitality Management: To Become: Hospitality: Culinary Art Hotel and Restaurant

Management M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

23. Mod AW‐AS 471 Office Technology: Medical Office Specialist Judy Reiman

Motion to approve AW‐AS 471 Office Technology: Medical Office Specialist M/S/P (Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Jill


24. Mod AW‐AS 740 Hospitality Management: Emphasis in Don Dickinson To Become: Hospitality: Culinary Arts

Move to approve AW‐AS 740 Hospitality Management: Emphasis in Culinary To Become: Hospitality: Culinary Art

M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

25. Mod AW‐AST 700 Mathematics Joe Manlove

Move to approve AW‐AST 700 Mathematics M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging,

Kathy Schultz)

26. Mod AW‐SAC 102 Office Technology: Medical Coding Judy Reiman Certificate Skills Attainment Certificate

Move to approve AW‐SAC 102 Office Technology: Medical Coding Certificate Skills Attainment Certificate M/S/P

(Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson, Elizabeth Pfleging, Kathy Schultz)

27. New AW‐SAC 143 UAV/Drone Mapping Microcredential Jeff Tolhurst


Move to approve AW‐SAC 143 VUA/Drone Mapping Microcredential M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson VOTES FOR: Jill Olson,


Discussion Items: 28. AS‐T Public Health Kathy Schultz

Curriculum Committee Recommendations:

Move forward in creating this program Ask Laureen Campana about helping building the introduction of the Public Health class Contact Lisa Riggs from MJC See if there is some top code near 1201 that would better fit for our current Allied Health

degree Look for Minimum Qualification

29. Repeatability Criteria Programming Changes Kathy Schultz/Brian Sanders

Adjourn xxxxxx Elizabeth

Next Curriculum Meeting January 31, 2016 in Buckeye 4 from 2:40‐4:30pm

October 4, 2016 EXEC CC Minutes 1


Rsrc/Lsn Members Klaus Tenbergen, Melissa Raby, Joe Ryan, Raelene Juarez, Bella Lacazotte, Lesley Mitchavy, Marnie Shively

Full Members: Melissa Colon, Jeff Fitzwater, Tom Hofstra, Joe Manlove Others Invited: Approval of Minutes: April 12, and September 20, 2016 Call to order: 3:00 pm

Action: Move to approve the minutes from September 20th and April 12, 2016 as amended M/S/P

(Schultz/Olson/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz)

Action: Move to amend the agenda to add the C‐ID SPCOM Columbia/MJC to the agenda M/S/P

(Pfleging/Schultz/Olson VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz, Olson)

Information Items: 1. Catalog Addendum Kathy Schultz

We had agreed that the addendum will go out at the end of June but, this year, it was decided to extend the deadline to be able to add 2 transferable degrees, CHEM and BIOL. These 2 degrees were not approved at the Chancellor’s Office until recently.

3 other modifications were also waiting for final approval at the Chancellor Office but, the committee decided not to wait any longer, and to go ahead and get the addendum published

Several modifications to the addendum draft were made: o 2 minor changes from the Academic Senate in the GE CSU

Breadth o Added AS‐Ts to CHEM and BIOL o Added CHILD DEV COA o Language Art Emphasis in Communication

Degree audits will be honored the way they are built in the original catalog, the changes in the addendum will not affect the students already enrolled for this year.

Bella will post the addendum online, and send a PDF to all the counselors.

Discussion Items


Tuesday, October 4, 2016 Buckeye 4, 3:00‐4:30pm


2. Audits and Clean up Kathy Schultz

Records must be accurate at the Chancellor’s Office. Our Financial Aid Office turns in a report of certificates and degrees for which we want students to receive financial aid. Those Federal data base records must match the Chancellor’s Office records to be approved.

After looking at the CC programs list, Kathy Schultz found out that there are numerous non‐substantial changes that have not be processed at the State Chancellor Office level

Decision needs to be made on what to do with these non‐substantial changes that haven’t been processed

If it is decided to update those records, we may be asked, before being approved, to provide information we no longer have

Chancellor is not asking Colleges to update their records before the migration over to their new system

Before deciding if we need to update our records prior to the migration, questions need to be asked of the Chancellor’s Office before taking any step forward. Answers need to be clear from the Chancellor’s Office on the consequences of updating our records if we cannot provide the requested information

Maybe ask if we can just change the units, to be accurate, without having to bring more information

If we don’t update, as far as Letitia Miller knows, Chancellor Office, takes data from our catalog, and doesn’t look at the old records

Most of the non‐substantial changes are units, some course’s name, program’s name changes

Some items have nothing in their COR, fixing all these records would take a tremendous amount of time

Dr. Sanders reiterated CurricUNET should be our base, as it is the most accurate database we have.

Dr. Sanders believes that five‐way audit, between databases is needed to bring and keep records up‐to‐date

Decision was to not attempt to correct non‐substantial changes prior to the CO move to the new database

3. COCI (Chancellor’s Office Curriculum Inventory) Migration Kathy Schultz

Time line: o Pilot Colleges o Early adopters o Final wave

Maybe Columbia could be in the early adopters. Dr. Sanders thinks it may be very challenging to be in the early adopters due to all our staffing changes.

Kathy Schultz has the impression that action will be taken on all the items sent to CO during the migration, as the Chancellor Office wants to meet its deadline


4. CurricUNET programing changes Kathy Schultz

As soon as we have a space for it, we could add the program SLOs into CurricUNET.

Dr. Sanders announced that an additional staff will be hired (Grant funded) to help with SLOs, and data entry

If Governet cannot provide a space for the program SLOs, faculty will keep on adding the Program SLOs in the description.

Some Program SLOs have been added in the descriptive some have been added in the narrative, in the past

Governet need to make immediate changes: o must remove the “/activity” (Lab/Activity) o Must change the repeatability criteria on the cover sheet o Introductory phrase for the SLOs on the print out of the COR and

Programs

4. C‐ID SPCOM Columbia/MJC Elizabeth Pfleging

When CC turned in SPCOM class to match descriptor, it was matched to C‐ID descriptor 180 while, MJC went with C‐ID descriptor 115

CC and MJC have an agreement that classes are the same but, C‐ID are different which could bring some confusions

Maybe SPCOM classes have evolved to be different, resulting in different C‐ID results

A meeting should be organized between CC. and MJC to facilitate a discussion on course equivalency. Dr. Sanders will schedule and facilitate this meeting.

Adjourn 4:00 Olson

Next Curriculum Meeting November 22nd, 2016 in Buckeye 4 from 2:40‐4:30pm

September 20, 2016 EXEC CC Minutes 1


Other Exec Members: Klaus Tenbergen, Melissa Raby, Joe Ryan

Full Members: Melissa Colon, Jeff Fitzwater, Tom Hofstra, Raelene Juarez, Joe Manlove‐ Faculty Intern Non‐voting member

Resource /Liaison / Student Members: Wendy Griffiths‐Bender, Bella Lacazotte, Savannah Rose Pascale

Others invited:

Approval of Minutes: April 12, 2016

Call to order: 2:42pm

Action: Motion to table the minutes from April 12, 2016 to the next Executive meeting M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson/Schultz)

A. Information Items:

1. Curriculum Workshop 10/14 Kathy Schultz

October 14th Kathy Schultz will be holding the first Curriculum workshop from 9am to 1:30pm. The last date will be October 17th, also last day to lunch new courses

These 2 dates will be published in the next Senate Newsletter

Kathy suggests not to wait October 14th to start working on Curriculum. October 14th is the expectation date for catalog approval

2. Work Experience/Independent Study Guidelines Kathy Schultz

Work Experience/Independent study guidelines will be presented, once again, during next Senate meeting

If there is a discipline specific Work Experience class, and it is not currently in an award, a discontinuance shall be initiated, or it shall be included in the program or certificate

If an occasional Work Experience class is needed, a generic Work Experience class shall be used

If a Work Experience class that has a transferable number but, the rest of the classes and the award are non‐transferable, then a major modification shall be initiated

If the Independent Study is going to be used, it should have a SLO and a COR. If department is not going to use the Independent Study, it needs to be discontinued

A lot of Independent Study don’t have SLOs or COR, and are hitting the 5 year review. This list needs to be cleaned up before Accreditation

Action items listed in Section B are part of the Curriculum Committee’s consent agenda. Any person in attendance may pull specific items off the consent agenda for separate discussion and action.

Items not pulled for separate discussion/action will be acted upon as one action by the Committee membership


Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Buckeye 4, 2:40‐4:30pm


B. Action Items:

Disc 3. AT 170UD 2013 B.A.R. Update Training Erik Andal

C‐ID 4. HHP 60 Health and Fitness Education Nate Rien

Disc 5. HHP 61 Activities in Motor Development Raelene Juarez

‐End of Consent Agenda‐

ACTION: Move to approve courses listed in consent agenda (Action items B) M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson/Schultz)

C. Discussion Item:

6. Catalog Errors Kathy Schultz/Elizabeth Pfleging

EMS 4: wrong pre‐requisite, hasn’t been updated with the last change. If the EMS 4 is not placed in the addendum, to fix that error, the counselors need to be aware of it.

Admission and Record confirm that EMS 4’s error is not in the system, so it is not going to block them.

Not fixing EMS 4, may misguide students but, if instructor and counselors are aware that OFTEC “Medical Terminology” is not a pre‐Req., it is better not to add EMS 4 in the addendum.

Email will be sent to EMS 157 instructors asking them to announce to their class that “Medical Terminology” is not a pre‐req.

Decision is taken not to add EMS 4 to the addendum, but all the concerned party will be informed that Pre‐eq. is wrong.

Language Arts and Communication: SPCOM 40A “Beginning Communication with the Deaf”, this class does not exist. Instead we have SIGN 40A, but it has never been in the catalog, and never been in a Degree.

Take SPCOM 40A out of the catalog. Kathy Schultz ask for a motion, and a vote.

Language Art will go after Child Development

ACTION: Move to correct the Degree by removing SPCOM 40A from the addendum, and CurricUNET, and inform all the appropriate

persons M/S/P (Pfleging/Olson/Schultz)

7. Catalog Addendum ‐ Current Status Kathy Schultz/Bella Lacazotte

Addendum must be published in the catalog. Students cannot graduate if course not published in catalog

No update for PSYCH./SOCIO./POLSC. Programs have not been found on the Chancellor’s Office website. BIOL. and CHEM. are the only programs showing as approved

If answers cannot be found for the program modifications, Kathy will ask the Dean of Curriculum Instruction at the Chancellors’ Office, where to go, who to ask to get update on these modifications

GE: the only changes that need to be made are the one on area “B”, clarifying that if student has met the second criteria, then student only need one course out of area “B”. And, Area “E”, parentheses will be added “3 units minimum”

BIOL.: Need to delete “Adoption Pending CCCCO approval” in the draft addendum

CHEM.: Need to delete “Adoption Pending CCCCO approval” in the draft addendum

CHILD DEV.: Need to delete “Adoption Pending CCCCO approval” in the draft addendum


Proof for typos

PSYCH./SOCIO./POLSC.: Ask Letitia Miller if she can check at the Chancellor’s Office, and get any update on it. These are in the catalog but, the revisions are still pending, and not in the catalog. If these revisions haven’t been approved, PSYCH./SOCIO./POLSC. Need to be pulled off the catalog

October 28th being the deadline to fill for graduation, for Spring 2017, addendum need to be out by October 1st

8. Accreditation Standard 2 A ‐ SLO/COR Kathy Schultz

Without Brian Sanders or Raelene Juarez being present, there is not much to talk about

Kathy Schultz built a SLO modification proposal, which could be used in CurricUNET

Faculty are confused about the migration process from CurricUNET to E‐Lumen

SLOs don’t need to be entered in CurricUNET for old courses, only new courses need to have their SLOs entered in CurricUNET.

Raelene will be placed as Tech. Review to help faculty

9. Curriculum Bylaws Updates Elizabeth Pfleging

Articulation Officer noticed that some things don’t exist anymore State wide and need to be updated

Standard 2A, the substitution in course equivalency policy are important but it is not housed anywhere. The procedure is not in the Curriculum by‐law.

The term of “Curriculum Mentor” need to be changed to “SLO Coordinator”

Changes must be part of a Full Curriculum meeting for approval, before being sent to the Academic Senate meeting as recommendation

Final approval by Senate should be received by the March meeting, because Accreditation timeline has been backup by 2 months. Finished product need to be on the June Board meeting instead of the August Board meeting

1st draft should be presented in January Exec. Meeting before be presented to the Full Curriculum meeting

Kathy’s question: should the substitution be in the Curriculum by‐laws, or the Senate by‐laws?

Articulation: LDTPs are not used anymore and need to be deleted

10. Non‐Credit Certificate of Completion Kathy Schultz

Certification of completion: 2 have been created. The first one didn’t need any change. The second one, needed some changes.

Students will be tested via CASAS and, instead of grade, there will be a SP (Satisfactory Progress) showing in the transcript

Still need to find out what Chancellor is expecting as narrative for certification of completion, and what other approvals will be needed for completion

Adjourn 4:29 Pfleging/Schultz

Next Curriculum Meeting October 4, 2016 in Buckeye 4 from 3:00‐4:30pm

April 12, 2016 EXEC CC Minutes 1

Exec Voting Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Jill Olson, Leslie Buckalew

Other Exec Members: Klaus Tenbergen, Melissa Raby, Joe Ryan

Full Members: Melissa Colon, Jeff Fitzwater, Tom Hofstra, Raelene Juarez, Joe Manlove‐ Faculty Intern Non‐voting member

Resource /Liaison / Student Members: Letitia Miller Wendy Griffiths‐Bender, Abby Sunday, Savannah Rose Pascale

Others invited: Tom Hofstra, Rod Harris

Approval of Minutes: February 2, 2016

Call to order: 2:42pm

Action: Move to approve the minutes from February 2, 2016 as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz)

A. Information Items:

1. Abby's Contract Ending Kathy Schultz

Abby’s contract will end April 29, 2016 2. New Person Joining the Team‐ Bella Lacazotte Kathy Schultz

Bella is internally transferring from MJC and will begin April 18, 2016. Abby will have a week or so to associate her to the world of curriculum and the Academic Senate.

3. Review of eLumen Curriculum Module Kathy Schultz

Leslie will be attending a CIO conference next week and will report out on how other colleges are using eLumen.

Joe will ask about the intersegmental aspects interfacing with the CCCCO, ASSIST, C‐ID and assessment pieces that will be being used in statewide assessment.

4. Curriculum Institute Kathy Schultz

Kathy and Elizabeth will attend. Letitia will not be able to attend this year.

Joe will check his calendar to see if he can go.

It would be ideal that the new VPI attend.

Action: Move to amend the agenda to add SKLDV 410 to the agenda M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz)

5. SKLDV 410 Supervised Tutoring

This is a notation item for the committee to approve adding Geology, Anthropology, and Physics to the disciplines list for approval on SKLDV 410.

The committee discussed the possibility of other disciplines or all disciplines that would require tutoring to the list.

It was added that we cannot collect apportionment if the faculty overseeing the Academic Achievement Center (AAC) where the SKLDV 410 is being held does not have a masters degree.

Joe will research what other AAC’s are doing, and how they are addressing this issue.


Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Buckeye 4, 2:40‐4:30pm

April 12, 2016 EXEC CC Minutes 2

B. Action Items:

Disc 6. FORES 199 Independent Study Tom Hofstra

Action: Move to approve the discontinuance of FORES 199 as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz)

C‐ID 7. MUSIC 50 Applied Music‐Guitar Rod Harris

C‐ID was conditionally approved, and wanted a performance element added onto the COR. Performance element has been added and will be resubmitted.

Action: Move to approve MUSUC 50 as submitted M/S/P (Schultz/Pfleging/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz)

C. Discussion Item:

8. SLO Progress and Processes‐ Bylaw Changes Raelene Juarez /Kathy Schultz

Faculty will be asked to look at their SLO’s for their current classes and make the decision to keep the SLO, revise it, or delete it and start fresh.

If we do not make adjustments eLumen will assume that we are not changing anything imported from the old SLO tool and the old SLO’s will stay on record as is.

Discussion if the SLO coordinator will sit on the curriculum committee as a voting member.

If it is possible maybe we could build a SLO modification in CurricUNET that would require the SLO coordinator to be in the meetings.

Kathy will ask if this can be an agenda item at the faculty retreat.

9. Area E: General Education Breadth Requirement, One Kathy Schultz course or 3 units?

Kathy will ask if this can be an agenda item at the faculty retreat.

Would like to have Area E ready to be approved by Fall 2016

Under Area E the intent was to have a 3 unit requirement. We will need to revisit this in the Fall as this was voted on in and approved by the Senate, yet all the elements to make that decision were not included.

We were out of compliance for years and would not certify CSU GE breadth unless a student had POLSC 10 and American History, and this was and is not correct.

We are still strongly suggesting that students take HIST 16 or 17 and POLSC, but it is no longer required for our local AA.

Adjourn 4:15 Pfleging/Schultz

Next Curriculum Meeting September 20, 2016 in Buckeye 4 from 2:40‐4:30pm

1ExecutiveCurriculumMeeting02/02/2016

ExecMembers:þKathySchultz,þElizabethPfleging,þJillOlson,þLeslieBuckalew

FullMembers:¨KlausTenbergen,¨JoeRyan,¨MelissaRaby,¨MelissaColón,¨JeffFitzwater,

¨TomHofstra,¨RaeleneJuarez,¨JoeManlove-FacultyInternNon-Voting

Rsrc/LsnMembers:¨LetitiaMiller,¨CarolEllis,¨BradSullivan,¨ErinBass,þAbbySunday,

¨WendyGriffiths-Bender

CalltoOrder:2:40pm

ApprovalofMinutes:November24,2015

ACTION:MovetoapproveminutesfromNovember24,2015M/S/P(Pfleging/Olson/Pfleging,Schultz)ABSTENTION:Olson

InformationItems:1. InstructionOfficeCurriculumUpdates LetitiaMiller

• ThecurrentstatusofCCCCOprogramswasreviewed.ChemistryAS-Tisinsecondaryreview.BiologyAS-Tisinpreliminaryreview.POLSC,Sociology,andPsychologyAA-Tareallinpreliminaryreview.

2.Physics,O-CHEMandUCTransfer• InordertobeabletocreatetheAS-TinBiologyandChemistrywehadtoomany

unitsinourdegree.JoedecidedtoreducetheCHEMandPHYCSto4.0units.• WedidmatchtheC-IDdescriptors• UCSB,UCLA,andUCSDwillbediscontinuingourarticulationforPHYSICScourses

duetotheloweringofCHEMandPHYCSunits.MercedCollegeisokwithourchangestothecourses.WehavenotheardfromUCDavisasofyet.

• 6-8studentsperyeararegoingtotheseUC’s,andwouldbeeffected• ArticulationwithUC’swasgrantedoveradecadeago,andhasnotbeenlooked

atsince.Nowtheyarestatingthatthecontent,breadthandunitsareoutofscope.

• IfwetakeourPHYSCandCHEMbackto5unitswewouldbeovertheunitallowanceforourtransferdegreeswhichwouldimpactBiologymajorsaswell.

• MJC,MercedandDeltahavethree5unitPHYCSclassesandthatiswhatarticulatesforthephysicsseriestransferringforaphysicalscienceandengineeringmajor.The4.0unitPhysics5Aand5BisstillfineforLifeSciencemajors.

CurriculumCommittee

Tuesday,February2,2016Buckeye42:40-4:30

þ ExecMeeting


• Mercedhastwo4.0unitPHYCSclasses,buttheirPHYCSarticulationtoaUChasthethree4.0unitPHYCScourses.

• InordertokeepthetransferdegreewiththeA/BcourseonitbutkeeparticulationwithUCwewouldneedtocreateaPHYCS5Ccourse.

• Trickledowneffectwouldbesignificant.IfwecannotarticulatethesecoursesitwilleffectBiologyandotherphysicalsciencemajors.

• MATHcreatedsome5.0unitMATHcourses,thisneedstoberevisited.• Oneoptionistoofferthethirdcourse,evenifthestudentsdon’ttakeitwe

couldkeepourarticulationwiththeUC’s.• Eventhoughwearefixingaproblemwithafocusonphysics,highunitcourses

intheSTEMmajorsisanissuethatwillneedtobeworkedonandaddressed.• Theissuethenbecomes:

ü 1.Isthecollegegoingtosupportaddinganadditionalcoursethatcouldpotentiallybealowenrolledcourse?ThefirstfewtimesthatweofferPHYCS5Citwillbelowenrolled,willitbeallowedtoruntobuilduptowhatweneedittobe?

ü 2.Timingandourstudents:AftergoingthroughlocalprocesswewouldbeabletoofferitSummer2017attheearliest.ThesemustbeenteredintoASSISTbeforewecanofferthem.IfwecannotgetitintoASSISTnow,wewilllosearticulationforthenext2years.

ü IsthereawaywecancutthistimedownorgetthisapprovedandeffectiveSummer2016?Yes,ifwecanexpeditethecourse.Itwouldneedtofollowthesesteps,someofwhichhavealreadybeencompleted:ThecoursehasalreadybeenlaunchedintoCurricUNET.JoehasworkedwithZayaforcoursecontent,FormA,andCourseOutlineofRecord.Thiswillbeonthenextfullcurriculumagendaforlocalapproval.Oncepassedatthelocallevel,wecanmoveforwardwithStateapproval.

• PHYCS5Cwouldonlybeofferedevery2years• Lesliesupportsthespiritofthisreview.Thereareothersystemicissuesthatwill

needtobelookedat,butthisisathoughtfulandaggressivewaytogetthisdone.

• WedonotknowhowquicklytheCCCCOofficewillbeabletoapprovethis,Itwillneedtogointothecatalogaddendum.

• JoewillattendnextCounselor’smeetingtoeducateandshareinfoabouttheoverallPhysicscoursesandthearticulationissues.

• ITisimportanttodevelopacommonblurbforlettingstudentsknowaboutpossiblearticulationchallengesatthespecificUCswhohavenotifiedusWITHOUTscaringstudentsawayfromtakingourPhysicsclasses2016/2017.

• Elizabethwillcheckintotalkingwiththecurrent18Bclass.


3.ExpediteProcess KathySchultz

• SharedtheexamplefromMJContheCoverSheetExpeditereasons.AlthoughwedonotformallyhavethisprocessinplaceinourCurricUNETproposals,theExeccommitteeagreesthatthefullcommitteemaychoosetoexpeditethePhysicscourseandpossiblyothercurriculumworkthatcomesthroughthisSpringthatneedsasoonereffectivedate.

• ThisbroughtthediscussionbackaroundtothecurrentproposalfortheFireSciencedegree.Thereisstillsomeconfusion/discussionaboutthetargetstudentforthisdegree.Conflictbetweentheoryandpracticalskillscourses.

• TheExecCommitteedidagreethatwhethertheprogrammodificationsmoveforwardatthenextmeetingornot,weneedtobesuretochangethenameinthiscomingcatalogsowedonothavetwodegreesnamedFireTechnology.

Adjournment:4:30pmPfleging/Olson

NextExecCurriculumMeetingisMarch15,2016inBuckeye4from2:40-4:30pm


ExecMembers:þKathySchultz,þElizabethPfleging,þAnneCavagnaro

FullMembers:¨LeslieBuckalew,¨KlausTenbergen,¨CarolBogue,¨MelissaRaby

Rsrc/LsnMembers:þLetitiaMiller,¨CarolEllis

OthersInvited:þRodHarris,þTedHamilton,¨MarylLandess,¨LahnaVonEpps

CalltoOrder:2:40pm

ApprovalofMinutes:October6,2015

ACTION:MovetoapproveminutesfromOctober6,2015M/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/CavagnaroPfleging,Schultz)

ACTION:Movetoamendtheagendatoremoveitems#2,13,14,and15completelyfromtheagenda,andadditem#24-CourseControlNumbersEnteredintoASSISTM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/CavagnaroPfleging,Schultz)

InformationItems:

1. InstructionOfficeCurriculumUpdates LetitiaMiller• HasbeenworkingwithKathyonandexpeditedprocessforcurriculumapprovals.

ActionitemslistedinSectionAarepartoftheCurriculumCommittee’sconsentagenda.Anypersoninattendancemaypullspecificitemsofftheconsentagendaforseparatediscussionandaction.

Itemsnotpulledforseparatediscussion/actionwillbeacteduponasoneactionbytheCommitteemembership

A.ConsentAgenda DEA 2. ESC5PhysicalGeology JeffTolhurst-DEAonly C-ID 3. MATH2Statistics LahnaVonEpps C-ID 4. MATH18BCalculusII AnneCavagnaro C-ID 5. MATH26LinearAlgebra MarylLandess C-ID 6. MUSIC50AppliedMusic-Guitar RodHarris C-ID 7. MUSIC51AppliedMusic-Keyboard RodHarris C-ID 8. MUSIC52AppliedMusic-Woodwinds RodHarris C-ID 9. MUSIC53AppliedMusic-Brass RodHarris C-ID 10. MUSIC54AppliedMusic-Strings RodHarris

CurriculumCommittee

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C-ID 11. MUSIC55AppliedMusic-Percussion RodHarris

(Item#11movedtodiscussion) Mod 12. AW-AA522LiberalArts:EmphasisinScienceA.A.Degree JoeRyan

(Item#12movedtodiscussion) -EndConsentAgenda-

ACTION:Movetoapprovetheconsentagendaasamendedwithitem#2removedcompletelyfromtheagenda,anditems#11and12movedtodiscussionM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/CavagnaroPfleging,Schultz)

B.C-IDModifications C-ID 13. MUSIC60Choir RodHarris C-ID 14. MUSIC64JazzChoir RodHarris C-ID 15. MUSIC72JazzEnsemble RodHarris11.MUSIC55AppliedMusicPercussion

• C-IDmodification• Updatedrepresentativetextbook• EffectiveSummer2016• 0.50units

ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC55asamendedM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

12.AW-AA522LiberalArts:EmphasisinScienceA.A.Degree• Concernwasexpressedthatastudentcanearnthisdegreewithoutcompletinga

sciencelabcourse,whilethedegreetitlestates“EmphasisinScience”• Kathywillmoveforwardarequestthatweorganizeabroaderdiscussionandfacilitatea

meetingthattalksaboutissueswithAD-T’sandpost-secondarydegrees.• EffectiveSummer2016

ACTION:MovetoapproveAAinLiberalArtsassubmittedM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

Alengthydiscussionensuedregardingthelabcontent,unitsandhoursoftheMUSICcourseslistedbelowwiththefollowingpointsofnote:

ü Historicallywewerenotcapturingweeklystudentcontacthours,andlookedatwhatothercollegesweredoing.Theyallhadmorecontacthoursformusicclassesthanwedid.Thedecisionwasmadetomirrorwhattheyweredoingtoincreaseourweeklystudentcontacthours.Ensemblewaschangedfrom3hoursaweekto4(3hoursperweekofclasstimeand1hourby


arrangement).Allmusicclasseshad1-2hoursaweekbyarrangement.Thisincludedallconcertandrehearsaltimes.

ü WantedJazzStudiesclasstobe12hoursperweek,becausethatwaswhatthestudentsactuallyputin.Becauseofalltheconcertsandrehearsalsthestudentsareinvolvedin6hoursofnormalclasstimeand6hoursofconcerts,rehearsalsandtours,whichishowthecurrentcontacthourscametobe.

ü Wecangoupahalfofaunitwhichwouldgivethestudentsatotalof81.00contacthoursfor.50moreunits.

ü Mostschoolsensemblesare1.0units.Veryfeware2.0.ü AmorerobustdiscussionneedstobehadintheSpringabouthoursandunitsforseveralmusic

courses.16.MUSIC75JazzStudies

• C-IDmodificationandMajormodification • EffectiveSummer2016• 1.0unit• ThiscourseistitledJazzStudiesbecausethestudentsstudyeverything.Itisa

performanceclassbutitgoesbeyondthat.• Thisisstudentdrivenandiswhattheneed.• Researchingwillbeconductedinvolvingotherinstitutionstoseewhattheyaredoing

withtheirensembles.WillbeworkingwithDeanofArtsandSciencesintheSpringtocorrectthehoursandunitsissueforcourseswiththeeffectivedateofSummer2017.

ACTION:MovetotableMUSIC75duetoquestionsregardingunitsanhoursM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Schultz/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

17.MUSIC78Ensemble:InstrumentalEmphasis• C-IDmodification • Updatedrepresentativetextmaterials• EffectiveSummer2016• Rationaleforunitsandhourswasdiscussedandexplained.Thehoursandunitsforthis

coursearecorrect.• 1.0unit

ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC78asamendedM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

18.MUSIC5AIntermediateMusicianship• C-IDmodificationandMajorModification • EffectiveSummer2016• Objectivesandgradingscalewasexplained• Rationaleforunitsandhourswasdiscussedandexplained.Thehoursandunitsforthis

coursearecorrect.• 1.0unit


ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC5AassubmittedM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

>MUSIC5A-PrerequisiteofMUSIC4BACTION:MovetoapprovetheprerequisiteofMUSIC4BforMUSIC5AassubmittedM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

19.MUSIC20BElementaryMusicTheory• C-IDmodificationandMajorModification • EffectiveSummer2016• 1.0unit

ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC20BassubmittedM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

>MUSIC20B-PrerequisiteofMUSIC20A

ACTION:MovetoapprovetheprerequisiteofMUSIC20AforMUSIC20BasamendedM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

20.POLSC16ComparativeGovernmentandPolitics• MinorModification • Updated“outline”terminologytomeetC-IDrequirements• “Researchprojects”areessaysthatstudentsarerequiredtowritefromtheiroutlines• EffectiveSummer2016• 3.0units

ACTION:MovetoapprovePOLSC16assubmittedM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

D.NewCourses21.AT150SoftSkillsfortheIndustrialTrades

• NewCourse• EffectiveSummer2016• 2.0units

ACTION:MovetoapproveAT150assubmittedM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

DiscussionItems:

22.SLO’sinCORUpdate-KathySchultz23.ProcessforASOEChanges-KathySchultz

• AllfacultywhohaveanASOEintheirareahavebeenemailedandareawarethattheywillneedtoberevisingthatawardintheSpring.


• Thegoalistohavetheselaunchedinthenextweek.Therethenwillbe8workingdaystotakeaction.WouldliketohavethesepresentedatthefirstcurriculummeetingintheSpring,January19,2016.

• ThecurriculumchairwillberequiredtolookatallrevisedASOEproposalsinCurricUNETbeforetheymoveforward.ThearticulationofficerandDeanswillalsoberequiredtolookateachproposal.

24.CourseControlNumbersBeingRequiredinASSIST-ElizabethPfleging

• Inthefuturewewillhavetohavethecoursecontrolnumbersfornewcourses.AllnewcourseswillhavetobeapprovedbytheStateChancellor’sofficebeforebeingenteredintoASSIST.

• Thiswillslowthearticulationprocessdownsignificantly.

Adjournment:4:30pmPfleging/Cavagnaro

NextExecCurriculumMeetingisFebruary2,2016inBuckeye4from2:40-4:30pm


þ ExecMeeting

ExecMembers:þKathySchultz,þElizabethPfleging,þAnneCavagnaro

FullMembers:¨LeslieBuckalew,¨KlausTenbergen,þCarolBogue,¨MelissaRaby

Rsrc/LsnMembers:þLetitiaMiller,¨CarolEllis

OthersInvited:¨RandyBarton,þRaeleneJuarez,¨RodHarris

CalltoOrder:2:45pm

ApprovalofMinutes:September15,2015

ACTION:MovetoapproveminutesfromSeptember15,2015M/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Cavagnaro,Pfleging,Schultz)

ACTION:Movetoamendtheagendatoincludeitem#8PreviewofCourseDescriptionsM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

InformationItems:1. CurriculumWorkshop

• UpdatedtoOctober8,2015from10-3pminFir4.2. Membership

• Kathyreviewedtheopenpositionsavailableonthecommittee.• Threeyearsforfacultytocommittothecurriculumcommitteemaybetoomuch.

Suggestiontoupdatethetermtotwoyears.Nodecisiononchangingatthistime.

ActionItems:3. MUSIC60CollegeChoir

• C-IDmodification• AskedtoincludeanauditionontheCOR

ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC60withthereviewofcatalogdescriptionM/S/P(Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

4. MUSIC64JazzChoir• C-IDmodification• AskedtoincludeanauditionontheCOR

ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC64withthereviewofcatalogdescriptionM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz

5. MUSIC72JazzEnsemble

CurriculumCommitteeTuesday,October6,2015 Buckeye42:40-4:30


• C-IDmodification • AskedtoincludeanauditionontheCOR

ACTION:MovetoapproveMUSIC72withthereviewofcatalogdescriptionM/S/P(Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Pfleging,Cavagnaro,Schultz)

DiscussionItems:

6.SLOModule-KathySchultz• WouldliketohaveSLOcoordinatorbeafacultymember.• Whatamountofreassignedtimewillthispositionhave?Aspartofthereassignedtime

shouldtheSLOcoordinatorsitoncurriculumcommittee?• Currentlyhave10%reassignedtimeforCurriculummentors.• Forthenext2yearswouldliketohaveaCurriculum/SLOmentor.• FacultyneedtodecideiftheyaregoingtostatetheSLO’sintheCOR,andhowthat

wouldhappen.• SuggestiontoattachtheSLOasaseparatedocumentifpossible.• PossiblethatSLO’swillhavetobeenteredintoCurricUNETaswellaseLumen.IfanSLO

needstobechanged,howwouldbedone?• AlloldSLO’swillneedtobecopiedandpastedfromtheoldtoolintotheneweLumen

tool.Willfacultyberesponsibleforenteringthese?WithsuchvolumewoulditfallontoLetitiaorAbby?

• SLO’swillnothavetocomethroughthecurriculumcycletobeupdated.

7.“CorBetterofPforCoursesinDegreesandCertificates”-KathySchultz• Seehandout• Wedonothaveplusorminusgrading.• A&Rcannotreverseapass,nopassonceitisenteredintothesystem.Theoptionfor

thestudentistorequestapetitionforthecoursetobewaived.• Thissituationcomesupseveraltimesduringasemester.• Wecanadda3rdoptioninCurricUNETandDatatelthatwouldallowthestudenttotake

thecourseforA-Fonly.• Reviewedanddeterminedthatweareincomplianceandcanchangethepolicyifwe

wantto.WendywillpresentittotheSenate,andinviteMelissaRabytospeaktotheconcerns.

8.PreviewofCourseDescription-KathySchultz

• Perourrequest,CurricUNEThasaddedachoiceintheWRdropdownmenucalled“CourseCatalogReport”whichisaviewofhowthatcourseinformationlooksinthecatalog.

Adjournment:4:19pm

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Executive Curriculum Meeting 9/15/2015

Exec Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Anne Cavagnaro

Full Members: Leslie Buckalew, Klaus Tenbergen, Carol Bogue, Melissa Raby

Rsrc/Lsn Members: Letitia Miller, Carol Ellis

Others Invited:

Call to Order: 2:47pm


ACTION: Move to approve minutes from November 25, 2014 as amended M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Cavagnaro,

Pfleging. Schultz)

Information Items:

1. Board of Trustees (BOT) Approval Dates on COR’s- Kathy Schultz

BOT approval dates will be added at the bottom of COR’s in the footer

2. CC Approval Date on Programs- Kathy Schultz

BOT and local curriculum approval dates will be added in the footer of the Programs

Discussion Items:

3. Catalog Addendum Timeline- Kathy Schultz

A lengthy discussion ensued with the following points of note:

AD-T’s are approved as of the letter date sent by the State Chancellor’s office.

Would like to set a date to put out an addendum. Does it matter if it happens before the Fall semester starts? What happens if we get approvals after that? Need to identify an end date for addendum.

What are the perimeters for what goes into the addendum? Modified courses? MJC adds only new courses and programs.

New programs are not an issue. The issue is in revised programs that have been presented to the students in a different way that could benefit or harm them. Are we going to have an overlap of a year? Which catalog do counselors refer to?

Suggestion to prepare the catalog as a two year catalog to give students the most choices and options to catalog rights. Put both versions of the initial and modified AD-T’s into the 2015-2016 addendum, that way when a student applies for graduation they will not be told they have not taken the right courses to fulfil their AD-T.

Concern that there may not be enough students in a particular AD-T pathway to fill classes. IE: ANTHRO/SOCIO 8 has been listed twice and both times the class was cancelled due to low enrollment.

We complied with what was mandated by the state for AD-T’s. This may not be what is best for students. Compliance comes at a price.

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A program review discussion needs to be had. If there are courses that have been in the catalog that haven’t been offered in a number of years, the instructor will need to run a 5 year review or discontinue it.

When courses and programs will require a significant amount of approval, suggestion to add “Effective upon CCCCO approval” to these when reviewed by the Curriculum committee so it does not set up the local expectation that it will happen in our timeline, but the States.

Any wisdom in moving to a 2 year catalog with addendum? We would not be so rushed all the time.

What we print in the catalog, the student has rights to. What has not been approved by the state should not be put in the catalog. For the ones that slip through the cracks, we have a petition process the student can follow.

Need to identify timelines that are beyond our control. Must set calendar timelines.

In Summary

The committee made the decision for the addendum to include new courses and new programs. Deadline for addendum will run until June 30th, and can be posted to website when finalized.

Current addendum to include approved AD-T’s. Will be asking Letitia to put together an addendum of approved programs and courses since Summer 2015.

4. AD-T Process/Timeline- Kathy Schultz

See item #3 discussion points

5. Accreditation Standards II- SLO/COR- Kathy Schultz

Options for SLO’s complying with accreditation:

Discussion to build a link that can go from the COR directly into the new software where the SLO’s are. This is not a short term solution.

Attachment of a document that lists the SLOs, like a syllabus is attached in CurricUNET.

Flip the switch in the SLO module in CurricUNET. Letitia can ask Governet to turn it on and see if it will work and be adequate for what we need, as well as how long it will take to activate this portion of the software.

The Senate should address the SLO issue as this is a compliance of accreditation, not up to the Curriculum committee to decide how the SLO’s are entered.

6. GE Pattern Modification Process- Kathy Schultz

Our current GE pattern is locally approved. The state does not have to approve it, as long as it meets Title V.

A draft of the proposed activity list will be presented at the next full Senate meeting on 9/25/15.

Not all students are being accessed for math equivalency.

At this time the actual number of students who are accessing directly into a collegiate level math class is very low.

The majority of students who go directly into a collegiate level math class was with a counselor sign off or multiple measures.

Concern was voiced about a statewide assessment. Initial setting of cut scores can be tricky if we are using them as an equivalency. These cut scores will need to be validated.

Statewide assessment will allow each individual institution to set their own cut scores.

Timeline to pass this modification:

Senate Council Resolution review in October

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Full Senate 1st reading of Resolution 10/30/2015

Full Senate 2nd reading of Resolution 11/20/2015

College Council agenda information item 12/4/2015

Board of Trustees agenda item 12/9/2015

7. Substitution Policy and Procedures- Kathy Schultz

A timeline has been added to this procedure per Dr. Raby. A copy of this will be sent to her for review.

C-ID information needs to be clearly stated and added to the policy

Adjournment: 4:55pm

Next EXEC meeting October 6, 2015, Buckeye 4, 2:40-4:30pm

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Exec Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Anne Cavagnaro

Full Members: Leslie Buckalew, Mike Torok, Kathy Sullivan, Melissa Raby

Rsrc/Lsn Members: Letitia Miller, Carol Ellis

Others Invited: Tom Hofstra

Call to Order: 2:47pm

Approval of Minutes: November 25, 2014

ACTION: Move to approve agenda as amended M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

ACTION: Move to approve minutes from November 25, 2014 as amended M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Cavagnaro,

Pfleging. Schultz)

Information Items:

1. Ad Hoc Committee GE Pattern- Kathy Schultz

Kathy is asking people to review the PowerPoint and additional documents that were emailed and submit feedback before the next full Senate meeting 2/27/2015

Anyone with a particular interest in joining committee please see Kathy

Don Smith, Laurie Sylwester will join the committee

Jeff Fitzwater and Kirsten Miller will represent counselors

2. C-ID and Status Update- Elizabeth Pfleging

Each transfer degree that we have created is being reviewed and compared against the transfer model.

Memo from Chancellors office as of 1/28/15- previous deadlines was that by July 1st of this year all courses with C-ID descriptors that we had utilized within the transfer degrees had to be C-ID approved or they would be deactivated even if they were approved and students were actively pursuing them. Now they are saying the WILL NOT be deactivating previously approved AD-T’s as of 7/1/2015. However, any new proposals or changes to existing proposals must have C-ID approved courses by 7/1/2015.

Action Items:

3. CCTIS 29 Project Management

5 year review

Major Modification

Cross listed with BUSAD 29

Effective Summer 2015

ACTION: Move to approve CCTIS 29 Project Management M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

Curriculum Committee

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> CCTIS 29 - Advisory of CCTIS 10

ACTION: Move to approve as amended M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

4. HHP 16 Walking for Fitness

Major Modification


To become HHP 16A Fitness Walking

ACTION: Move to approve as amended M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

5. NATRE 97 Work Experience in Forestry and Natural Resources

Restructure only

To become FNR 97


ACTION: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

6. AW-AS 734 Forestry Associate in Science

Discontinuance of AS

Chose to keep ASOE in Forestry

Discussion of adjusting the wording under the ASOE degree in the catalog to make sure that it is very clear that this is an Associate Degree.

7. AW-AS 758 Natural Resources

Discontinuance of AS

Chose to keep ASOE in Natural Resources

Tom is still encouraging students to pursue the ASOE degree, educating them on the AS, and the difference between the two.

ACTION: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

Discussion Items:

8. Timeline for new GE course offerings

Letitia and Kathy are going to try to build a visual timeline to demonstrate what happens after a course is approved locally. The timeline will make the flow of the process more clear.

Suggestion to give a local approval date, or projected first offering date

Suggest a pull down menu as a reminder for GE courses and/or IGETC

9. Repeatability

Letitia is moving forward with [email protected] to have them change our coversheet to put in our new repeatability. The change that will be a surprise to faculty is: if it is required in the major at a CSU or UC. You cannot just say yes or no, you will need to provide documentation, and there will be a line that will allow you to attach documentation on what you have found. Kathy will look up specific wording within Title 5.

Formal Course Substitution Policy- Not in Curriculum or Senate bylaws, they are in Admissions and Records Procedural Policy. Committee thought a draft for this policy had been brought to the Senate

February 3rd, 2015

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at one point. Could not recall exactly where it left off in the process.

We do not have a functioning ARC committee that looks at special substitution requests, and it is needed.

Abby and Kathy will look up the minutes and track down where the Formal Course Substitution Policy left off and get the information to Kathy and Melissa.

10. EMS 4- In the fall the Committee approved OFTEC 50 as a prerequisite to EMS 4 based on the incorrect information that MJC also had OFTEC 50 as a prerequisite to EMS 4.

Sylvia is willing to remove the prerequisite but the information in the catalog will be incorrect. Melissa addressed the issue of the minimum grade requirement set at 80% versus 70% as a C.

The only consequence by bringing the course back through is the advisory for ENGL 151 is delayed another year as well as the minimum grade requirement.

If we revoke the action that we took in November the class will remain in the current catalog and the changes that are needing to be updated can be made, and go through the normal timeline.

Kathy will get in touch with Sylvia and let her know the plan for EMS 4.

ACTION: Move to reconsider the action taken in November for EMS 4 and bring it back to the next full committee

meeting M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Cavagnaro, Pfleging. Schultz)

11. Can we roll the catalog sooner? The timing of rolling the catalog effects when Summer and Fall applications can begin. When students choose a specific program they are entitled to catalog rights which effects application dates. There are some complications in rolling earlier, will need additional discussion

Adjournment: 3:52pm

February 3rd, 2015


Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:40-4:30, Fir 7 Exec Members: Exec Voting Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Anne Cavagnaro

Other Exec Members: Leslie Buckalew, Mike Torok, Kathy Sullivan, Melissa Raby

Rsrc/Lsn Members: □ Patricia Ramirez, □ Susan Vegter-Slape

Others invited: □ Adrienne Seegers, □ Jeff Tolhurst, Sylvia Watterson, Cheryl Divine, Raelene Juarez,

□ Rod Harris, □Micha Miller, Tom Hofstra, □ Maryl Landess, □ Joe Ryan, Ida Ponder

Approval of Minutes: October 7, 2014

Action: Move to approve the minutes as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro,

Schultz)

Action: Request by Kathy Schultz to amend agenda to remove item #32 completely, and add item #39 catalog

Issues M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

Action: Move to approve the consent agenda M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro,

Schultz)

Information Items 1. Curriculum Support Staff Kathy Schultz 2. AD-T and C-ID Status Elizabeth Pfleging

Action items listed in Section I are part of the Curriculum Committee’s consent agenda. Any person in attendance may pull specific items off the consent agenda for separate discussion and action. Items not pulled

for separate discussion/action will be acted upon as one action by the Committee membership

Action Items: Consent Agenda Mnr 3. CHILD 3 Practices in Child Development DEA only- Adrienne Seegers Mnr 4. CHILD 8 Early Literacy Development DEA only- Adrienne Seegers Mnr 5. CHILD 28 Books for Young Children DEA only- Adrienne Seegers

Disc 6. CMPSC 3 Operating Systems Ida Ponder Disc 7. CMPSC 9 Introduction to UNIX/LINUX Ida Ponder

Disc 8. CMPSC 101 How to Succeed As an Online Student Kathy Schultz Re 9. CMPSC 60 Introduction to GIS-ArcView Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 60 Re 10. CMPSC 62 GIS Mapping-Introduction to SAR GIS Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 62

Novem

ber 25th, 2014

Re 11. CMPSC 63 GIS and Making Maps: The Essential Skills Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 63 Re 12. CMPSC 64 ArcGIS: Creating a Basic Map Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 64 Re 13. CMPSC 67 GIS Geocoding Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 67 Re 14. CMPSC 70 Introduction to Raster-Based GIS Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 70 SA > CMPSC 70 - Advisory of GEOGR 60 SA > CMPSC 70 - Advisory of GEOGR 59 SA > CMPSC 70 - Advisory of CMPSC 60 SA > CMPSC 70 - Advisory of CMPSC 59 Re 15. CMPSC 75 GIS Applications in Resource Management Jeff Tolhurst- To become

CCTIS 75 SA > CMPSC 75 - Advisory of CMPSC 70 SA > CMPSC 75 - Advisory of GEOGR 70

Re 16. CMPSC 61 GIS Mapping – Introduction to Fire Incident Jeff Tolhurst- To become CCTIS 61 Mapping

Mod 17. AW-AS 710 Child Development Associate in Science Adrienne Seegers Mod 18. AW-AS 719 Entrepreneurship Ida Ponder Mod 19. AW-AS 739 Post-Secondary Studies Degree: Emphasis in Joe Ryan Pre-Engineering

Mod 20. AW-AS 743 Post-Secondary Studies: Emphasis in Joe Ryan Biological Sciences A.S. Degree

Mod 21. AW-AS 747 Post-Secondary Studies: Emphasis in Joe Ryan Physical Sciences A.S. Degree

Mod 22. AW-AS 751 Science: Emphasis in Earth Science A.S. Joe Ryan Mod 23. AW-AS 754 Science: Emphasis in Physical Science A.S. Joe Ryan

Mod 24. AW-AA 523 Liberal Studies: Emphasis in Elementary Joe Ryan

Teaching Preparation A.A. Degree

-End Consent Agenda-

Action Items II:

25. EMS 4 Emergency Medical Technician Training

Major Modification


Counselors and Committee are concerned that OFTEC 50 is an unnecessary course to add as a prerequisite, in addition to EMS 157 and ENGL 151. This could be a hindrance or barrier to students with so many prerequisites on a single course.

Novem

ber 25th, 2014

Concern from the Committee that OFTEC 50 could become impacted as so many students will have to take it as a prerequisite, as well as the nursing students receiving a point for this course.

Sylvia added that the reason for adding this course was to help students be more successful in the EMS 4 class. Students are coming into the class extremely under prepared for the medical terminology used in this course. If they do not have a base for medical terminology, and do not know the language then they have to spend a great deal of their time learning it before they can actually learn what to do with it. All EMT and paramedics use the medical terminology taught in OFTEC 50. Nursing and paramedic students are required to have Medical Terminology and EMS 157 to earn their degrees. Additionally, MJC also requires Medical Terminology as a prerequisite to EMS training.

The reason for adding ENGL 151 as a prerequisite was students reading and writing skills are very poor and needing help.

OFTEC 50 and EMS 157 are offered as a prerequisites for EMS 4 at MJC

Moved from a variable 7.0-8.0 unit course to 7.0 units only

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

> EMS 4- Prerequisite of EMS 157


> EMS 4- Prerequisite OFTEC 50

Kathy Sullivan stated that it is already planned to have more offerings of this course in the future face to face as well as online. If warranted we could offer this as a summer course.

Suggestion for Sylvia to educate the current students that OFTEC 50 is going to be added to the prerequisites and begin preparing them to

Medical Services and EMT are part of the county pathways grant. Hoping to ramp up our classes and have a medical services program that is actually serving the growing field.

Suggestion for Sylvia to make an appointment to speak with Counselors and explain the reason for the prerequisite additions, and benefits students will have by taking this course as a prerequisite to EMS 4.


> EMS 4- Prerequisite ENGL 151

This prerequisite of ENGL 151 may be better offered as an Advisory

If students see in the catalog that there is an Advisory of ENGL 151 for EMS 4 they would be alerted that this course requires reading and writing skills which are necessary to be successful in EMS 4.

Action: Move to approve as amended to read Advisory of ENGL 151 for EMS 4 versus a prerequisite M/S/P

(Cavagnaro/ Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

Novem

ber 25th, 2014

26. ENGL 705E English as a Second Language-Proficient

New Course


Course tabled at Curriculum meeting 11.18.14, sent back to originator for review.

Course description reworked

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

> ENGL 705 E- Advisory ENGL 705D

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

27. HHP 99A Pilates I

New Course


Elizabeth asked faculty to keep an eye open for any example of articulation for Pilates within a Kinesiology major at a CSU

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

28. AW-ASOE 450 Natural Resources: Water Resources Management

Major Program Modification


To become Water Resources Management

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P Cavagnaro/Pfleging/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

29. AW-CERT 250 Natural Resources: Water Resources Management



To become Water Resources Management

Change last sentence in description

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P Cavagnaro/Pfleging/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

30. AW-CERT 251 Natural Resources Technology



To become Natural Resources

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P Pfleging/Cavagnaro/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

31. AW-ASOE 451 Natural Resources Technology



To become Natural Resources

Novem

ber 25th, 2014

See discussion notes from item #31 as it also applies to AW-ASOE 451

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P Schultz/Cavagnaro/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

32. AW-ASOE 435 Forestry Technology

Program was tabled at last meeting 11.18.14 pending a decision on keeping both the

ASOE/AS in Forestry or having only 1 degree to satisfy Forestry

Decision to keep ASOE in Forestry. Changed the description, and number units based on

various advisement.

Listed clearly in and highlighted description that this is an Associate’s degree



To become Forestry

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P Cavagnaro/Pfleging/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

33. AW-SAC 133 Wastewater Treatment Plant Operation




34. AW-AST 700 Mathematics



Maryl to work on narrative for submission to state for approval


35. AW-AAT 608 Music

New Program


This AA-T will only work with the IGETC pattern

Rod to work on narrative for state submission approval

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P Pfleging/Cavagnaro/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

36. AW-AAT 609 Elementary Teacher Education

New Program


Micha Miller/Kathy Schultz to work on narrative for submission to state for approval

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P Pfleging/Cavagnaro/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Cavagnaro, Schultz)

Discussion Items 37. AD-T Goal Worksheet-

The Math, Liberal Studies, Music, and Studio Arts now allow us to be in compliance with SB1440 and SB440.

We could create a couple other programs without creating new classes

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ber 25th, 2014

Must keep our eyes on C-ID June 30 deadline, it is holding firm. If you have a course that is not in approved status for C-ID the state Chancellors office states they will “de-activate” your degrees. Unaware of the exact timeline that the “de-activation” will be happening

Question was raised as to whether we needed to update our original Goal Worksheet to show removal of Computer Science degree. Response from the State Chancellor’s office was a definitive “NO”.

38. Ad Hoc Committee for Discussing GE Pattern-

Do we want to begin with a sub-committee of Curriculum, or do we want to open it up to a larger group of participants to be involved in the discussion?

Suggestion to request a general item of discussion for the GE pattern at the In-Service Senate Meeting. A lot of education needs to happen regarding this matter. This could have potentially wide ranging affects college wide stemming from the initial discussion. We will need some time allotted for presentations, and a Q &A. Faculty need to have the opportunity to discuss issues and offer feedback.

Kathy will contact Ted to see if we can have a discussion item on the In-Service Senate Agenda. This will allow the most possible faculty to be in attendance to discuss this. We need to raise this question and discussion to the body at large.

Jeff, Elizabeth, Tom, and Kathy will meet next week to prepare information for an educational presentation

39. Catalog Issues-

In February Elizabeth will be able to make changes and updates in Assist. Very large change going into Assist with FNR, and CMPSC changing prefixes and titles

Submitting our C-ID courses, once approved we can finalize the narratives, then submit the AD-T’s

Questions about when physically preparing the catalog what is the decision whether or not we put in the new AD-T’s if we haven’t yet gotten back approval from the State?

Cannot submit new courses for C-ID approval until February. Timeline would put them mid-late February when the catalog has already been started

Needing timeline verification as to why the AD-T’s and new courses would not end up in the printed catalog versus the online addendum

40. Curriculum Support Staff-

Abby will now be supporting the Academic Senate and filling the Curriculum Secretary position at 40 hours per week

Lateral transfer on the Board agenda for Susan’s position. If approved will be start date will be in January

Adjourn 4:28pm

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ber 25th, 2014

October 7, 2014 1

Curriculum Committee □Exec Meeting Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:40‐4:30, Buckeye 4

Exec Voting Members: □Kathy Schultz, □Elizabeth Pfleging, □Anne Cavagnaro

Other Exec Members: □Leslie Buckalew, □Mike Torok, □Kathy Sullivan, □Melissa Raby

Rsrc/Lsn Members: □Patricia Ramirez, □Susan Vegter‐Slape

Others invited: □Tom Johnson, □Nate Rien, □Joe Ryan

Call to Order: 2:41pm Approval of Minutes: September 16, 2014

ACTION: Move to approve minutes M/S/P (Cavagnaro/Pfleging/Unanimous)

Action Items: Consent Agenda

ACTION: Move to remove FNR 81 from consent agenda M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz/Unanimous)

1. C‐ID: CHEM 14 Fundamental Chemistry for Allied Health

SA: Prerequisite of MATH 101

SA: DEA Online 2. Mnr: HHP 80 Varsity Cross‐Country 3. Mnr: HHP 82 Varsity Basketball (Men) 4. Mnr: HHP 86 Varsity Basketball (Women) 5. C‐ID: HIST 14 World Civilizations: 1650 to Present

ACTION: Move to approve remaining courses on consent agenda (Action items 1‐5) M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Unanimous)

ACTION: Move to approve NARTC 181 to become FNR 81 M/S/P (Pfleging/Cavagnaro/Unanimous)

6. C‐ID: NARTC 181 California Wildlife to become FNR 81

It was submitted as a C‐ID and no C‐ID descriptor currently exists for this course

Wasn’t numbered correctly

Would be better to back it out and re‐enter it correctly Discussion Items:

7. Draft Curriculum Review Checklist

Kathy Schultz handed out two checklists, an older version as well as an updated version o Added a C‐ID area o Started to add people to go to for each individual area

Could the student services rep be utilized to back up articulation?

Creating a well‐defined workload

October 7, 2014 2

o Area reps to give focus to specific areas

Getting courses adequately looked over by someone other than the originator

Specializing people in areas, i.e. Editing, typos, grammar

Kathy will get together some options for a structure and bring back to the committee o Adding “applicable” to the Areas of Scrutiny checklist members area versus

“faculty” alone in order to better define the position and create more accountability

o Creating a divide and conquer strategy to better delegate the workload o Simplifying the checklist by eliminating the first column, Course Outline of

Record

Unfortunately there are areas without a faculty member to do a review in a specific area/discipline

The more detail needed in reviews the more time faculty must put into it o Could SSSP help to entice people to review o Faculty needs to attend meetings as well as spend the time to review the

proposals

No discussion once an item reaches the consent agenda therefor it is imperative that the committee members have a focus and that all things have been attended to and addressed prior to being placed on said agenda

Action needed: Kathy to revise CurrinUNET checklist as mentioned above

8. Online Education Initiative (OEI)

Melissa Colon shared information and brought materials defining the OEI project

Statewide initiative with 24 chosen colleges to participate

Columbia College is in the Online Tutoring Pilot portion for Spring 2015 o Smarter Measures (vendor) will be embedded in online classes that are in initial

phase of the pilot o Will not begin Full Launch until Summer or Fall 2015 o Limited to the 19 High Demand C‐ID ATE transfer courses available in the pilot

ENG1A was the only one on the list that we have been actively teaching online

Must be a course that has been actively taught online, not just offered face to face

In second phase hoping to add more courses o Pilot creates an opportunity for online tutoring services to be less expensive

With only having one class that we could run in this pilot Melissa checked to see if we could work with MJC who has more courses that fit the pilot

o They must be our adjuncts not MJC’s o Melissa, Leslie, and others working to get more courses in the pilot via MJC

adjuncts Psych1 – Shelley Frichtenkort Hist16 – Curtis Martin Spcom5 – Kim Gyuran Eng1A – Ann Smith

Adjunct here already

October 7, 2014 3

o Three MJC adjuncts above must go through an extensive application process and a review period

Both MJC and Columbia will benefit from this pilot o Creates a bridge between us and MJC o First hand input and research into how this tutoring will work o We are getting in on the ground floor of something huge o Expanding online student services in multiple ways

Rubric is very similar to the rubric that is already used with distance education faculty

OEI Timeline o Applications by 10/8 o Notification by 10/13 or 10/14 o Review of selected courses 10/15‐10/27 o Instructor notification of PASSED, PASSED CONDITIONALLY WITH WORK NEEDED,

or DID NOT PASS o Recommending that DEAs are approved by the beginning of November

Will be checking for C‐IDs

Placeholders in the Spring draft already

Will start to see the three course DEAs coming through curriculum

Deans and administrators decided who to invite to apply for the pilot

Data collected on the vendor Smarter Measures to learn if the service is adequate

If a course in the pilot is not offered at one college a student may take this course through the college that does offer said course

o Could increase numbers via online offerings that other colleges do not have available

Multiple classes in the pilot are offered here just not offered online

Online opportunities open the door to more adjuncts

Action needed: Melissa will look into finding what particular data measures will be collected and will update the courses offered in the pilot with our course numbers

9. Status Update

New contract person being approved to help with curriculum support

Susan will be leaving, possibly in mid. November

Kathy to take on the senior curriculum person in place of Susan until a replacement is found

Contract person does not get immediate access to curricUNET Kathy will take on that role temporarily until contract person is trained

Susan hoping to be able to train someone and may even be able to come back to train in December

Adjourn: 4:23pm

Exec Voting Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Anne Cavagnaro

Other Exec Members: Leslie Buckalew, Mike Torok, Kathy Sullivan, Melissa Raby

Rsrc/Lsn Members: Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter‐Slape,

Approval of Minutes: April 15, 2014

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P (Schultz/Pfleging VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Schultz ABSTENTION: Cavagnaro)

Information Items

1. Curriculum Institute

It was shared that the Chancellor’s Office said that institutions need to be more specific in

justification of changes for course modifications

o This will allow the reviewers to identify proposals as substantial vs. non substantial

that will allow them to process more efficiently. They are getting many courses

submitted incorrectly bogging down the system

o This will also allow the office more information to for the Board Report as well

Prerequisites

o Good practice is the inclusion of a math and English content expert for justification

o MJC is using a list of possible exit skills for math or English courses

In regards to Committee review of incoming proposals, some strategies were discussed

o The use of checklists for tech and faculty review.

o Develop a strategy of key areas to review for this checklist

o Assigning specific courses (not all) as to not overload the committee

Stand‐alone courses need a unique number

o This includes Experimental courses /#98 courses.

o We cannot reuse the same 98 course id

Noncredit courses

o Moved around to better fit (HHP)

o Funding could be changing for these (CTE)

2. Curriculum Technology Solution Update

Discussion occurred regarding the next steps after the Governet meetings in May

It needs to be decided if is it worth the financial investment to upgrade?

Kathy, Susan, and Leslie spent some time to look at addition other technology solutions (with

Susan taking the lead in investigating)

Leslie shared that Datatel or Courseleaf may have possible options

Leslie would like to see more talk about the options

o We need to develop the Task Force once Susan returns

o Grid/Matrix of each product to decide on next step

o Taking consideration of customization options

Need to find something that comes with ample & prompt support

Reporting and exporting of data important

o New version doesn’t deal with this well

o Concerned about this aspect of meta

Courseleaf demo was geared to a 4yr and not a community college format

We did not go with the upgrade, therefore there is no timeline to this decision

Curriculum Committee Exec Meeting Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:40‐4:30, Buckeye 4

Septem

ber 16th, 2014

3. Material Fees

The discussion continued regarding whether or not Material Fee eligibility should be

scrutinized by the Curriculum Committee

o Kathy proposes leaving existing process as is while educating committee on material

fees and how to move forward with the approval of material fees

o Material fee needs to listed on syllabus defining the amount and what it will cover

Any changes made with Curricunet must be made prior to conversion, so if Material Fee

screens were added, it would need to occur before the conversion began.

4. District Policy 4260 Prerequisites & Corequisites

It was brought to Kathy’s attention that the Board Policy was not in alignment w/ Title V

regarding Prerequisites and Corequisites.

She and MJC Curriculum Chair are giving feedback for changes to the Policy.

Title V had changed a few years ago as statistical data was no longer required to justify

requisites out of the discipline (math or English).

5. Substitution and Reciprocity for AD‐T

The draft was provided to Senate Council, and the Exec Committee last year.

The duration of time needed for faculty content expert responses still needed to be defined,

summer time poses a delay that has negative implications to a student trying to enroll

Elizabeth shared that she is getting a lot of requests for articulation with private colleges.

She is not prioritizing these as the curriculum of these institutions is not stable, and the titles

also frequently change. Those present agreed that this was not a good use of her time.

The focus needs to be directed at how we can best serve our students.

Adjourn 4:18

Septem

ber 16th, 2014

Exec Voting Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Joe Ryan

Other Exec Members: Chris Vitelli, Leslie Buckalew, Mike Torok, Melissa Raby

Rsrc/Lsn Members: Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter‐Slape,

Others invited: Rick Rivera, Tom Bender


Clarification: change to specify in Discussion Item 3 that the English program includes a course that has an unaccepted C‐ID status. The “not approved” phrase insinuates it was submitted and not approved in terms of C‐ID language

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P (Pfleging/Ryan/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Ryan)

Information Items

1. Material Fees

Need to develop a process within curriculum for the instances when a Material Fee needs to be removed

Currently it would be revisited at the 5 year review and removed if necessary

Due to the need to tighten up the process as a whole this needs to be considered

Could it be an administrative removal?

Chris suggested leaving it on in order to leave the flexibility, as the COR only states that it is allowed o It was then discussed further and all agreed that if they want it removed permanently then it

needs to be run the through curriculum process

Leslie would prefer the COR to be accurate. Is there a material required to meet objectives?

Discussion occurred regarding whether or not the Committee approving the material fee as allowable within the COR is being made blindly. The “material fee allowable” criteria in accordance with TITLE V is not being considered at the Committee level. The Committee first expressed their desire to leave that at the administrative level.

Discussion continued regarding the possibility of embedding the 4 TITLE V questions within CurricUNET. The question was asked if this was burdensome or helpful to the Committee’s process.

The consensus from the Committee was that adding the 4 questions was a middle ground, with the responsibility of the thorough review remaining with administration.

2. AD‐T & C‐ID Update

There was no change from the last meeting

A TOP Code check was completed.

We have 3 local degrees that match existing TMC degrees TOP codes o Math, Music, Liberal Studies‐Elementary Teaching Prep

This is a better measure of what degrees must meet TMC

The “Area of Emphasis” definition will be developed by the State and will be shared so that it will be made clear once the TMC’s are developed which local degrees need to be revised. No date for the AD‐T has been released yet, just the expected date the TMC models will be available.

3. Curriculum Institute

Leslie, Michelle, Kathy and Elizabeth are registered

Action Items 4. ENGL 151 Preparation for College Composition

Major Modification

5 year review

Effective Summer 15

Faculty chose to keep comment in description regarding ENGL 649

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Ryan/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Ryan)

Curriculum Committee Exec Meeting Tuesday, April 15, 2014 2:40‐4:30, Buckeye 4

April 15th, 2014

> Prerequisite of ENGL 650 or placement through the assessment process

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Ryan/Pfleging/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Ryan)

> Advisory Co‐enrollment of ENGL 649


> DEA Online of ENGL 151

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/ Ryan/ VOTES FOR: Pfleging, Ryan)

5. HPMGT 152 Restaurant Planning

DEA Only

Effective Summer 14

> DEA Hybrid of HPMGT 152


> DEA Online of HPMGT 152


April 15th, 2014

Exec Members: Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Joe Ryan, Leslie Buckalew

Resource/ Liaison/ Student Members: Mike Torok, Melissa Raby, John Leamy, Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter-Slape, Chris Vitelli Nate Kiger

Others invited: Randy Barton

CALL TO ORDER: 2:43 pm

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: November 26, 2013

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Ryan/2 in favor, 1 abstention)

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Course Ranges in Programs Handout attached

According to Susan, when a range of courses is listed in a program, rather than specific courses it has to be coded as a standalone course

2 of the 3 awards currently using this listing were Skills Attainment, so it is a non-issue for those

The other award (AA Fine Arts) is not a current issue either as the courses listed in the range were already included in a different program

Moving forward the Curriculum Committee will be asking faculty to specifically list the courses in order to avoid this issue. This is to include all awards effective Summer 15

If new courses were added with a number within that range they will unintentionally be included in the award. It also appears unintentional.

Faculty should review the list of courses when making the program modification

Action: It was motioned to move to require all courses be listed for all degrees and certificates M/S/P (Ryan/Pfleging/Unanimous)

ACTION ITEMS

2. BUSAD 18 Business Law C-ID Modification

Effective Term Summer 2015

Discussion occurred regarding Business Administration AS-T which is currently under review

The current 4 unit BUSAD 18 course has conditional C-ID approval that expires in October of 2014

This proposal modifies the course from 4 units to 3 units and is effective Summer 15

Elizabeth asked a C-ID reviewer whether or not it would be an issue for the students to have a lapse in time between the conditional approval and the effective date of the current BUSAD 18 proposal. The C-ID reviewers had not considered this scenario, and Elizabeth did not anticipate there being a problem based on that response

The 3 unit BUSAD 18 is more in line with C-ID descriptors

The possibility of making this specific approval effective Summer 14 was discussed

This would require that Susan withdraw the Business Administration AS-T in order to replace it with the 3 unit version. It is likely that it would get approved for the 14-15 Catalog, but not guaranteed

Elizabeth added that there are a lot of students waiting to select this program. There is a potential risk that these students would be adversely affected

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Ryan/Pfleging/Unanimous)

DISCUSSION ITEMS

3. Timeline for Remaining AD-Ts Handouts attached

Curriculum Committee Exec Meeting Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:40-4:30pm, Buckeye 4

February 4th, 2014

Elizabeth called attention to the following language from the original letter sent out by the Chancellor’s Office regarding SB 1440

o By June 1, 2014, colleges must replace all course-to-course articulation used for all AA-T and AS-T degrees

by showing that all course(s) have awarded pending or final C-ID status. Articulation may only be used

where no C-ID descriptor is available. The Chancellor’s Office will begin deactivating all noncompliant

AA-T and AS-T degrees beginning June 2014 that do not have approved C-ID numbers for courses where

descriptors exist

Our English A-T is the only currently offered ADT with courses that have not been C-ID approved (ENGL 81 will be submitted for the first time and ENGL 10 for the second). These modifications are currently being worked on, so we are expected to meet the Fall 2014 deadline

If then, Business Administration AS-T, and the History and Political Science AA-Ts are approved, the College will have a total of 10 which is 100% of what we certified we would have at this point (by Fall 2014)

o However, the total of 10 includes a ‘swap out’ which was subsequently identified by the State as unacceptable means of reaching the Fall 2015 goal

o 4 additional AD-Ts were created to meet the goal of 10. Those degrees were not identified as TMC Aligned Active AA/AS Degrees, but we had the courses to match the TMC requirements for those majors

o Those ‘swapped’ were: History, Kinesiology, Political Science, Anthropology and Psychology

Listed below are the Columbia College active AA/ AS degrees that are TMC aligned but do not have an AD-T to date (and their applicable statuses):

o Computer Science: Department is working on changes to their ASOE because it does not reflect a true Computer Science degree.

o Elementary Education: Faculty are meeting regarding this. Missing World Regional Geography course as it was discontinued some time ago. Mike Torok will speak to faculty from that area about reactivating and updating the course.

o Geology (Earth Science): Have all courses, need to build program o Mathematics: Missing a course. Courses may exceed the maximum allowable units for program o Music: A tentative plan of action was developed in a recent meeting with faculty. The final plan awaits

research regarding an ideal lecture/lab model from Dean o Fine Arts (Studio Arts): Currently being developed.

The second phase with the deadline of the start of 2015-16 is: o Every CCC shall create an Associate Degree for Transfer in every major/Area of Emphasis (offered by that

CCC) for which there is a TMC finalized prior to start of 2013-2014 academic year. o Two area of emphasis TMCs will be developed.

Per Elizabeth’s count we currently have 17 AS and AA degrees that have “emphasis” within their title o There are 3 area of emphasis degrees that are currently being worked already as they are listed as active

AA/ AS degrees that are TMC aligned: Elementary Education, Studio (Fine) Arts and Geology (Earth Science)

Additionally, the 5 unit MATH courses are a wider issue as they are causing other AD-Ts to exceed the maximum allowable units listed on the TMC

Action Needed: Kathy Schultz to ask Leslie to help facilitate the next step discussion regarding Math AS-T (Meeting to include faculty from all STEM disciplines)

4. Programs Impacted by Course Changes This was discussed at the last Full Curriculum Meeting but no decision was made

March 7th is the date to launch these program changes in order to have them completed by end of Spring 14

Michelle will provide a list of all programs requiring modifications to Kathy by the March 7th workshop so that faculty who need to initiate the proposals can be contacted

The discussion consensus has been that it is the faculty member’s responsibility to make these modifications.

As it stands today, the following process will continue to be followed o The person changing the course should look at the impact report and make the changes to the affected

programs within their area o If the program being affected is in another area, it is their responsibility to contact the faculty member from

the other area to make the modification o The Chair and support will continue to track the impacted programs and remind faculty to make the

modifications when necessary

5. Substitution and Reciprocity for AD-Ts

February 4th, 2014

Handout attached

The draft was comprised of a combination of existing catalog language and Hartnell College policies which addressed this need

Policies needed to be developed to address the need for an extra level of scrutiny for non C-ID courses being applied to an AD-T

The extra level added to the review from appropriate faculty content experts is the additional review from the Articulation Officer as it relates to C-ID descriptors, textbooks and prerequisites

This addition was agreed upon to internally ensure it meets academic merit

C-ID information needs to be shared with the faculty content experts

The discussion continued regarding adding the third level of Dean support to the process described in #5 for Course equivalency, and # 6 for Course Substitution procedures

When asked about this preference, Chris shared the following points o Deans are involved in the Curriculum approval process o The Dean is asked for support in the curriculum review process for the original course and it would make sense

that the Dean would be asked for support in the replacement course o Deans are involved in signing off on special petitions to substitute o There are check and balance systems in place for other related processes o It should be framed as Dean signing off to identify support rather than an approval

Kathy pointed out that there may be a future need to elaborate on the procedures related to foreign transcripts

6. Curriculum Institute July 10-12 in San Jose

Registration is open

Michelle and Kathy’s attendance can be covered by Senate Travel budget

The funding sources for Elizabeth, Susan (tentatively) and Leslie will need to be identified

If professional development funds will be requested, the deadline for submitting the request is April 11, and decisions will are made April 15

Action Needed: Michelle to provide Leslie Buckalew a copy of the cost breakdown and information for the Curriculum Institute, and to cc Chris Vitelli

7. Review of Programs Cycle Kathy is going to pull together an ad hoc committee to work on this topic

The Curriculum Committee is not enforcing any requirement for review of programs at this time

8. Catalog Min GE Units for AD-T Susan received feedback on the History and Political Science degrees that the language within the catalog description

should say, “CSU General Ed Breadth Minimum 39 units”

This was discussed, as it is impossible to complete our General Ed pattern in 39 units We are over by 1 unit in the Area B Other reviewers have accepted the statement referencing 40 unit GE pattern The language states minimum 39, so it was agreed it would be within reason to use that statement The need to make them all consistent was discussed Chris advised Elizabeth to consult another Articulation Officer to see what they are doing, and if necessary bring the

discussion back

ADJOURNED 4:23 pm

February 4th, 2014

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AA-T AND AS-T CERTIFICATION FORM

100% GOAL WORKSHEET DueJanuary31, 2013

District: Yosemite Community College District College: Columbia College

Required Signatures:

Date John Leamy Name Signature: President, Academic Senate

Leslie Buckalew, Ed.D. Date Name Signature: Chief Instructional Officer

Dennis Gervin. Ph.D. Date Name

Signature: President

November 2012/ Revised 11.21.12

February 4th, 2014

STATE OF CALIFORNIA BRICE W. HARRIS, CHANCELLOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE 1102 Q STREET / P.O. BOX 4554 SACRAMENTO, CA 95811-6539 (916) 445-8752 http://www.cccco.edu

November 30, 2012

TO: Chief Instructional Officers Chief Student Services Officers

FROM: Barry Russell

Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs

SUBJECT: SB 1440 Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act and SB 1415 Common Course Numbering System

This memorandum provides information regarding SB 1440 Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act and SB 1415 Common Course Numbering System, the timeline to amend all active AA-T and AS-T degrees to include C-ID descriptors, and a new AA-T and AS-T proposal submission process.

BACKGROUND The passage of SB 1440 Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act and SB 1415 Common Course Numbering System serve as catalysts for cross-cutting systemic changes that positively impact the transfer pathway and the course articulation process to better serve California students. Although not included in SB 1440, Transfer Model Curricula (TMC) were developed as a means of establishing common degree requirements. SB 1415 initiated the Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID) as a way to establish course to course articulation among the community colleges and between the California State Universities.

As noted in previous memos and pursuant to SB 1440, the Academic Senates for the California Community Colleges and the California State University continue to develop statewide Transfer Model Curricula (TMC) in the most popular 120-unit transfer majors to the California State University. The development of these TMC requires an alignment with common course numbering through the Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID) process. To date, all 22 issued TMC templates include a series of approved C-ID descriptors and all future TMC templates under review will include C-ID descriptors.

The use of common course numbering has been debated in academic and legislative circles for many years, and the legislature has long wanted to impose a common course number system to facilitate the transfer path among the segments of higher education. Most recently, SB 1415 (Brulte), Common Course Numbering System, mandated that, “…not later than June 1, 2006, the California Community Colleges and the California State University shall adopt, and the University of California and private postsecondary institutions may adopt, a common course numbering system for the 20 highest-demand majors in the respective segments...” The C-ID system was established to meet the legislated mandate for a common course numbering system among California’s public colleges and universities and offers a means of one-to-many articulation with four- year universities and across all 112 community colleges.

TIMELINE TO AMEND ACTIVE AA-T AND AS-T DEGREES

The initial set of AA-T and AS-T implementation instructions permitted community colleges to self-certify that courses listed by the college on the AA-T and AS-T TMC template aligned with the C-ID descriptor. It also permitted the use of course-to-course articulation with one California State University in lieu of an approved C-ID descriptor.

February 4th, 2014

SB 1440 and SB 1415 Page 2

In an effort to assure statewide articulation and to better align the implementation of AA-T and AS-T degrees, colleges are now required to adopt C-ID descriptors where applicable. Colleges may no longer use articulation in lieu of an approved C-ID descriptor. Articulation will only be permitted if no C-ID descriptor exists. Colleges will need to review and amend all active AA-T and AS-T degrees where “self-certification” of C-ID was used and where course-to-course articulation was used in lieu of a C-ID descriptor.

NEW AA-T AND AS-T DEGREE APPROVAL PROCESS Effective January 1, 2013, all AA-T and AS-T proposals submitted to the Chancellor’s Office for review and approval must demonstrate that courses included in the degree have been submitted for C-ID numbers, where descriptors exist. The course’s C-ID number may be in pending or final status. Articulation may only be used for courses where no C-ID descriptor exists.

REPLACE SELF-CERTIFICATION WITH C-ID EXISTING AA-T AND AS-T DEGREES By June 1, 2013, for any existing AA-T and AS-T degrees that included a self-certification that a course or courses matched a C-ID descriptor, colleges are required to submit those courses for C-ID approval where descriptors exist.

REPLACE ARTICULATION WITH AA-T AND AS-T WITH PENDING C-ID NUMBERS By June 1, 2014, colleges must replace all course-to-course articulation used for all AA-T and AS-T degrees by showing that all course(s) have awarded pending or final C-ID status. Articulation may only be used where no C-ID descriptor is available. The Chancellor’s Office will begin deactivating all noncompliant AA- T and AS-T degrees beginning June 2014 that do not have approved C-ID numbers for courses where descriptors exist.

The illustration below depicts the implementation of the timelines noted:

Figure 1. Illustration of the AA-T and AS-T CID Adoption Timeline

Shared at the CCC CIO Conference

CONTACT: Submit written inquires to curriculum.cccco.edu.

cc: L. Michalowski S. Montemayor Lenz J. Spano B. Quinn J. Adams, ASCCC

February 4th, 2014

Attendees at Friday’s NCIAC meeting expressed it would be helpful to have a summary of the recent SB 440 legislation signed into law. Enjoy…

SB 440 (Padilla, 2013) Primary Components

1. Endorses the statewide Transfer Model Curriculum approach in statute 2. After the start of 2013-2014:

a. Every CCC shall create an Associate Degree for Transfer in every major/Area of Emphasis (offered by that CCC) for which there is a TMC within 18 months of the approval of the TMC.

3. Before the start of 2015-2016: a. Every CCC shall create an Associate Degree for Transfer in every major/Area of

Emphasis (offered by that CCC) for which there is a TMC finalized prior to start of 2013-2014 academic year.

b. Two Area of Emphasis TMCs will be developed. 4. Before the start of 2016-2017:

a. At least two more Area of Emphasis TMCs will be developed. 5. CSU to develop an admission redirection process for Associate Degree for Transfer

students who apply for admission to, but are not accepted into the CSU campuses specifically applied to.

6. The CCC and CSU to develop a student-centered communication and marketing strategy in order to increase the visibility of the associate degree for transfer pathway for all students in California that includes, but is not necessarily limited to, all of the following:

a. (a) Outreach to high schools in accordance with existing high school outreach programs and activities performed by the colleges and universities.

b. (b) Information on the pathway prominently displayed in all community college counseling offices and transfer centers.

c. (c) Associate degree for transfer pathway information provided to all first-year community college students developing an education plan to aid them in making informed educational choices.

d. (d) Targeted outreach to first-year students through campus orientations and student support services programs offered by the campus that may include, but are not necessarily limited to, Federal TRIO Programs, First-Generation Experience, MESA, and Puente.

e. (e) Information on the pathway prominently displayed in community college course catalogs.

f. (f) Information on the pathway prominently displayed on the Internet Web sites of each community college, each campus of the California State University, and on the CaliforniaColleges.edu Internet Web site.

Bob =========================================================== Bob Quinn Transfer and Articulation Coordinator California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office [email protected]

February 4th, 2014

February 4th, 2014

The current catalog has three programs with a “range” of course numbers in the description:

Automotive Technology for Entrepreneurs SAC – “8 units required from AT 1 – AT 199 (max 1 unit from AT 97)” = 31 courses, 6 currently coded as stand‐alone (excluding ASE Certification courses which should remain as stand‐alone)

Fine Arts Emphasis in Art AA – “Any MUSIC 30‐78 course (1‐1.5)” = all 23 courses are already coded as program‐applicable

Metal Sculpture for Entrepreneurs SAC – “2 units from any ART course 1‐99” = 34 courses, 8 currently coded as stand‐alone

The CCCCO Data Element Dictionary contains the following definition. Reference: http://extranet.cccco.edu/Portals/1/TRIS/MIS/Left_Nav/DED/Data_Elements/CB/cb24.pdf]

Restricted electives are specifically listed as optional courses from which students may choose to complete a specific number of units required for an approved certificate or degree.

The following excerpt is from a July 2013 formal training session entitled “Local Approval of Stand‐Alone Credit Courses” sponsored by the CCCCO. Reference: http://extranet.cccco.edu/Portals/1/AA/Stand-Alone/2013-14TrainingStand-AlonewithSpeakerNotes.pdf

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College Credit from Other Institutions

Previously earned lower division degree applicable or transfer college or university units will be

accepted if the institution is accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies: Middle States

Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA), The Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges

(NASC), North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), New England Association of Schools

and Colleges, Inc./Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (NEASC‐CIHE), Southern Association

of Colleges and Schools/Commission on Colleges (SACS‐CC), Western Association of Schools and

Colleges/Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (WASC‐JR), Western Association of

Schools and Colleges/Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities (WASC‐SR). A

maximum of 15 semester units will be allowed for courses taken by correspondence from accredited

institutions. No credit will be awarded for developmental or skills classes, upper division courses, or

extension courses. Columbia College does not evaluate international transcripts. Lower division courses

will be accepted if recommended by the Credentials Evaluation Service, Inc., P.O. Box 66940, Los

Angeles, CA 90066, or the Foreign Educational Document Services, P.O. Box 4091, Stockton, CA

95201. The cost of the evaluation is the responsibility of the student. In accordance with District policy, official college transcripts received by Columbia College will be evaluated for college credit. Transcripts received become the property of Columbia College. The elective unit requirement may be met with courses from regionally accredited colleges and universities without further evaluation. Program and general education requirements may be met with courses from regionally accredited

colleges and universities only after being evaluated through the course equivalency or course

substitution process.

Course equivalency may be determined by any of the following methods:

1. Direct articulation between Columbia College and the sending institution.

2. Indirect articulation between Columbia College and other California Community Colleges based on

approval of courses for the California Identification Number System (C‐ID).

3. Indirect articulation between Columbia College and a sending institution determined by cross

referencing additional public colleges and universities included in the California statewide articulation

repository (ASSIST.org). For example, if a course under review does not have a finalized C‐ID descriptor

and Columbia College does not have direct articulation with the California Community College a CSU

that maintains articulation with both Columbia College and the other California Community College

could be used to establish indirect articulation.

4. A critical evaluation of the course to verify core elements of the course including content objectives,

lecture and/or lab hours, and pre‐co‐requisites are sufficiently aligned with Columbia College courses.

This review will be conducted by appropriate faculty content experts.

5. In addition to the criteria described above, courses being applied toward ADT requirements will also

be reviewed and supported by the college Articulation Officer and the applicable Dean

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Course substitutions may be approved by any of the following methods:

1. Courses completed at another California Community College that are approved for an associate

degree general education category as outlined in Title 5 will be applied to the same associate degree

general education category at Columbia College regardless of whether or not Columbia College has an

equivalent course.

2. Courses completed at another California Community College or at a California State University that

are approved for a CSU general education category as outlined in CSU E.O. 1065 will be applied to the

parallel associate degree general education category at Columbia College

3. Courses completed at private colleges and universities that are approved for a CSU general education

category as outlined in CSU E.O. 1065 will be applied to the parallel associate degree general education

category at Columbia College

4. Courses completed at another California Community College that are approved for the Intersegmental

General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) as outlined in the Standards, Policies & Procedures for

IGETC) will be applied to the parallel associate degree general education category at Columbia College.

5. A critical evaluation of the course to verify core elements of the course including topics, course

objectives, lecture and/or lab hours, and pre‐co‐requisites are a sufficient substitution for the Columbia

College or TMC required course. This review will be conducted by appropriate faculty content experts.

6. In addition to the criteria described above, courses being applied toward ADT requirements will also

be reviewed and supported by the college Articulation Officer and the applicable Dean

February 4th, 2014

Exec Members: Kathy Schultz, Chris Vitelli, Elizabeth Pfleging, Joe Ryan

Resource/ Liaison/ Student Members: Mike Torok, Melissa Raby, Randy Barton, John Leamy, Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter‐Slape Nate Kiger

Others invited: John Accurso, Li Ching Accurso, Raelene Juarez, Adrienne Seegers, Sylvia Watterson

CALL TO ORDER: 2:44 pm

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 8, 2013

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. C‐ID and AD‐T Status Updates

Elizabeth’s chose to combine her update with Discussion Item #10

ACTION ITEMS

2. ART 12 History of Art Renaissance, Baroque and Modern

Major Modification


Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Schultz/Pfleging/Unanimous)

ART 12‐ Advisory of ENGL 1A

Action: Move to approve as submitted M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz/Unanimous)

3. HHP 17 Stability Ball Training for Fitness

Discontinuance



4. WKEXP 97 Cooperative Work Experience

Major Modification


This course is not a unit change. It is currently not being offered as a 1 unit section due to scheduling needs, however it is not the intent to eliminate the 1 unit section

Action: Motion to amend the COR from 2‐4 units to 1‐4 units M/S (Pfleging/Schultz)

Action: Move to approve as amended M/S/P (Pfleging/Schultz/Unanimous)

5. Kinesiology Associates in Arts‐Transfer Degree

Program modification


This action item was tabled at the previous meeting. It had since been determined that the movement courses have been articulated with CSU San Bernardino within the major which aligns with the new TMC template


6. Child Development Associate in Science

Curriculum Committee Exec Meeting Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:40‐4:30pm, Fir 4

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7. Emergency Medical Services Associate in Science




8. Emergency Medical Services: Emergency Medical Services Certificate of Achievement




9. Emergency Medical Services: Emergency Medical Technician Skills Attainment Certificate




DISCUSSION ITEMS

10. Reciprocity and Course Substitutions for C‐ID and AD‐Ts See handout

A procedure needs to be established for students who wish to apply for reciprocity or course substitution for AD‐T degrees. When the coursework is from a private or out of state institution as they are not subject to C‐ID approvals

The State Academic Senate is urging Curriculum Committees to adopt reciprocity or course substitution policies for non C‐ID approved courses

Discussion occurred regarding the process that is in place for reciprocity or course substitution for non AD‐T programs, although it is not documented

Melissa added to the discussion that the equivalency is built into Datatel. Faculty are only asked to review for equivalency when it is a course that has not previously been reviewed

It was questioned if these courses built into Datatel should be subject to a periodic review to see if the course had been modified

The need for Dean of Instructional Service’s participation in this process was also discussed

It was determined that this process needs to be discussed and codified

Action Needed: Michelle to invite Kathy Schultz and Patricia Ramirez to the next Dean’s Council meeting to discuss further

11. Course Impact and Cascade Effects

Kathy discussed the need to bring the idea of a shortened time frame for program modifications resulting from cascade effects. Course modifications that have title or unit changes to the full Curriculum Committee are creating the cascade effect

Susan and Michelle initiated many of the program modifications as an Admin Update in order to meet the catalog deadline

Other ideas that have been suggested is implementing automatic process, create a minor program modification option, or to continue to keep them as is and as a consent agenda item

Elizabeth felt that there was a positive side to this cascade effect, as some improvements were also made to the programs

12. CurricUNET Timeframes

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Kathy asked for feedback regarding the Curriculum Member review level time frame that was increased from 5‐8 days

It is actually 8‐10 working days in the count for CurricUNET

The Committee might be asked to continue to look at the timeframe and make a decision prior to the fall of next year.

13. Districtwide Repeatability Discussion occurred at the curriculum workshop that Kathy attended regarding the need to have the

programming in place to prohibit non repeatable coursework district wide.

Melissa Raby stated that this programming was in place and would block a student from taking a course that is articulated as the same between both CC and MJC

It was asked of Melissa, how this is being updated as changes are being made. Melissa was unsure and said she would look into it

Kathy followed up with the question regarding related in content courses and asked whether or not the programming to identify and prohibit more than 4 attempts was in place, and was the related in content courses provided to IT? Also when a course is articulated with an MJC class that belongs to a related in content grouping at CC, does the system prevent those repeats?

13. NATR 6 Submission for General Education

Discussion occurred about whether or not the submission for general education needs to have an action item approval from the Curriculum Committee

It was determined based on Randy and Melissa’s knowledge of previous practice that this was not required and Elizabeth should go ahead and submit NATR 6

Randy added that the Curriculum Committee would advise faculty to work with Elizabeth for this submittal

Action Needed: Kathy to research the process so that it is more defined

ADJOURNED 3:58 pm

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ber 6th, 2013

Columbia College

Executive Curriculum Committee Minutes Tuesday, October 8, 2013 2:40-4:30 pm, Buckeye 4

Exec Members: Kathy Schultz, Chris Vitelli, Elizabeth Pfleging. Joe Ryan

Resource / Liaison Members: Randy Barton, John Leamy, Melissa Raby, Patricia Ramirez, Mike Torok, Susan Vegter-Slape

CALL TO ORDER 4:04pm

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes for September 17, 2013 were approved as submitted M/S/P (Ryan/Pfleging /Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Material Fees This Information Item will return to the next Curriculum Executive Meeting Agenda as both Susan and Chris were unable to attend. Those present wanted to comment. Randy spoke about the form that must be implemented no later than Fall 14. The form will include a series of questions, if all are yes, the material fee would be permissible. The second page will detail the costs associated with the class that will be paid with material fee. John expressed his preference that the forms remain housed in the Dean’s office and the responsibility of the Curriculum Committee would be to agree that the material fee is allowable and to include a request in the tech review for the faculty member to work with their Dean to complete their materials fee form. It was agreed that this might be a good future item for an Academic Senate meeting.

2. Variable Unit Courses Kathy wanted to follow up with a discussion that occurred last Spring. Joe had recommended that a meeting be held with departments that have a lot of variable unit courses. This did not occur yet due to time constraints, however there have been efforts to work with these departments individually, and Kathy shared those updates:

The HHP Department has been moving forward in changing their variable unit courses

Kathy has met with Gene, and will continue to do so in order to address the variable unit courses that are currently in CurricUNET.

The CMPSC Department has met, and as each 5 year review occurs, they will be transitioned away from variable units

Kathy and Elizabeth will be meeting with the Art Department on 10/10/13

The need to educate faculty about the implications of variable unit courses was discussed. It was decided that Kathy would initiate the topic as an agenda item for a future Academic Senate meeting. John suggested that the Curriculum Committee decide ahead of time what questions would be asked of those submitting a curriculum proposal for a variable unit course so that it could be shared with the Senate. The information will also be shared with faculty through email in order to reach those who would not be attending the Senate meeting.

3. Curriculum Web Page A lot of information was brought over to the new web page since the agenda was posted. However, it still needed to be determined what information on the Curriculum Support web page was current and what was expired or irrelevant in order for Michelle to clean up the Curriculum Web Pages. The following suggestions were made:

Remove the CB21, BSI and ESL links

Remove the C-ID PowerPoint Presentation, as the C-ID web page has resources

Link to State Bill Information web site where all versions of Senate Bills are available rather than the SB 1440 links that are currently listed on web page

Link to CLEP and International Baccalaureate sections of Catalog rather than existing documents

Add the Disciplines List / Minimum Qualifications to page

Link to version 4 of Program and Course Approval Handbook

October 8th, 2013

Ensure accuracy of CCCCO Taxonomy Link as the Chancellors website has changed

Kathy added that the priority for updating would be given to the main page which will include membership, handbooks, and Form A templates

4. C-ID and AD-T Compliance Friday will be a big determinant of where the College stands with movement towards C-ID and AD-T compliance. The

current concern is the AD-Ts that were certified as being offered in Fall 2014. It was discussed what preparation needed to occur for the workshop, and who would be attending.

5. District Policy / Procedure Request Kathy received a request to provide procedures to accompany District Policy. The 3 policies that she received were for Articulation, Program and Curriculum Development, and The Philosophy and Criteria of Associate Degree and General Education. Elizabeth is working on the Articulation procedures with the MJC Articulation Officer. It was discussed that the input provided by each college would be combined as a whole by the District. Discussion occurred in regards to the specificity that should be provided as procedures as the examples provided ranged widely in length and depth. Kathy will send them what we already have in place, and will wait to see if the committee feels that is sufficient.

Adjournment: 3:57pm

October 8th, 2013

Columbia College

Executive Curriculum Committee Minutes Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2:40-4:30 pm, Buckeye 4


Others Invited: Anne Cavagnaro, John Carter

Resource / Liaison Members: Mike Torok, Melissa Raby, Randy Barton, Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter-Slape

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes for March 26, 2013 were approved upon changes made to clarify sentence within Information Item # 1. Elizabeth specified that Columbia College is ahead of MJC in numbers of courses approved. M/S/P (Pfleging/Ryan/Unanimous)

The minutes for April 23, 2013 were approved as submitted M/S/P (Ryan/Pfleging/Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Certification for Local Approval of Stand-Alone Courses

Full Curriculum Meeting included the Stand Alone training. One new member, Tom Hofstra, did additional training outside of the Curriculum Meeting. Tom signed off, and document was sent forward. Local decision was made that the training did not need to be redone by Administrators, as none of the Deans were new to the process.

2. Curricunet Notifications

Email notifications were not being sent out by Curricunet to alert those who have submitted proposals. Susan contacted Governet, and they had mistyped our email address when they changed servers. We will not be asking for past emails. Susan asked that all go to their approvals to see if they can be acted upon. Kathy asked Susan to send email to full committee. Susan confirmed emails are on track now. Susan will review to see if faculty missed their opportunity due to lack of emails.

Action needed: Susan will alert those who have proposals that need attention, as well as the full Curriculum Committee Membership who need to act on approvals.

3. C-ID & ADT's Update

Agenda items #3and #7 were combined upon Elizabeth’s request.

ACTION ITEMS

4. MATH 18A Calculus I: Differential Calculus

C-ID Course Modification

Effective Term Summer 2014 Elizabeth said conditional C-ID status had expired. Anne said very few changes were made to meet C-ID approval. She will make further changes when the 5 year review takes place.


> MATH 18A - Prerequisite of MATH 17B

Discussion occurred to clarify that the C-ID approval does not reset the 5 year clock. The 5 year review timeline will be tracked in Access.

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5. MATH 18B Calculus II: Integral Calculus


Effective Term Summer 2014 Anne made very minor changes again on this one for the same reasons as stated above.


> MATH 18B - Prerequisite of MATH 18A


6. MUSIC 4B Elementary Musicianship

> MUSIC 4B - Prerequisite of MUSIC 4A

These items were pulled from the agenda because John was unable to attend this meeting.

DISCUSSION ITEMS

7. SB 440 Effects - Elizabeth Pfleging

Elizabeth shared the SB 440 document (see attached). This Senate Bill is in the Legal Analysts Office with unanimous votes. She referenced the language within SB440 which read, “Before commencement of the 2015-16 academic year, a community college shall create an associate degree for transfer in the major and area of emphasis offered by that college for any approved transfer model curriculum finalized prior to the commencement of the 2013-14 academic year.” The intention of SB 440 is to clarify and eliminate loopholes. If we offer a major, and there is a transfer model in that curriculum, then we need to create an ADT in that major.

Joe clarified the timeline. If proposals are put in by May of 2014, we have until November 2014 to get the proposals through the Curriculum process, submitted, and approved by the next Fall. Elizabeth said the alternative would be to make the decision to remove those majors from our catalog if there was no desire or ability within a department to create matching Associate Degrees. Although it is possible to put the TMC’s in the catalog pending approval from the State, it is not preferred practice. The Committee agreed that it should be pushed to have them all done by the end of this year, which would allow enough time for inclusion in the 2014-15 Catalog.

Chris spoke of the ASOE degrees and the difficulty of fitting them in as an ADT. The State views ASOE degrees as AS degrees. Chris stated VTEA funding will be affected, as the ADT’s are not considered CTE degrees. As far as completions are concerned, it will affect VTEA.

Elizabeth’s review of the areas that have not been moved forward and also appear to need transfer degrees are: Computer Science, Elementary Education (one class away-World Regional Geography), Geology (discussion about whether this is the same as Earth Science), Mathematics, Music and Studio Arts.

When asked by Kathy about whether or not this list covers the Post-Secondary Studies Degrees w/ emphasis, Elizabeth read from the SB440 further, “Before the commencement of the 2015-16 academic year, there shall be the development of at least two transfer model curriculum in areas of emphasis and before the commencement of the 2016-17 academic year, there shall be the development of at least two additional transfer model curriculum in areas of emphasis.” In regard to moving into areas of emphasis instead of specific majors, Elizabeth said she will be researching that at Articulation Conferences to find out what the majority interpretation of that is. Her interpretation at this time is, that it does refer to the Post-Secondary Studies Degrees w/ emphasis. Elizabeth is requesting that an “ad hoc” committee be formed to review the list she has for accuracy of her interpretation and to then, come up with a plan and timeline to either remove the degree or create the courses necessary to create the ADT.

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Randy mentioned getting the word out that some of the necessary TMC courses are already done, and some of the programs just need a few specific courses needing work for completion. Kathy suggested inviting specific people that need to be involved in the TMC completion to a meeting. After further discussion, October 11 was chosen for this special meeting. The goal would be to get the information needed worked through during the workshop so that the issues were completed that day.

Action needed: Michelle to book TRC from 9-1 for the Special Curriculum Workshop to focus on TMC’s. Kathy to arrange for committee members’ attendance at workshop in shifts, and to also target specific people who are involved.

8. Curriculum Institute 2014 - Kathy Schultz

Kathy is ensuring that everyone is alerted of this and that it is planned for and funding is available. She suggested the following people attend: Herself, Elizabeth, Michelle, Susan, Chris and possibly the incoming Academic Senate President. The official date is not published yet, but it will likely take place in mid-July. It was in Southern CA for 2013, so it should be Northern CA in 2014. Discussion occurred about putting in for Staff Development Funds. Aligning Staff Development Fund deadlines with registration might be an issue. Chris suggested Academic Senate travel funds that are usually used for this purpose continue to be set aside. The other potential participants should apply for Staff Development Funds. Registration begins in January. Chris agreed that registration should occur at that point and it will be funded afterwards, either thru Staff Development or other sources.

Action needed: Michelle will send out dates once they are published

Adjournment: 3:54pm

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AA‐T/AS‐T Review and Update Last January, Columbia College submitted a document to the Chancellor’s Office certifying the creation of 10 AA‐T/AS‐T’s at Columbia College (see attached). Below is a summary of the progress to date on the AA‐T/AS‐T development based on this document: Approved: In Progress: Not Started: 1. English 6. Business Admin (Math 12) 9. History 2. Child Development 7. Kinesiology (Phys 4A/movement courses) 10. Political Science 3. Communication Studies 8. Anthropology (SPCOM 5) 4. Psychology 5. Sociology Timelines to be in compliance with AA‐T/AS‐T development:

1. Fall 2013: 80% of the certified majors must have an AA‐T or AS‐T in place. If BusAd, Kinesiology and Anthropology are completed, submitted and approved by end of fall, we will be at 80% (8/10) of majors we certified.

2. Fall 2014: 100% of the majors must have an AA‐T or AS‐T in place. If History and Pol Sci are completed, submitted and approved, we will be at 100% (10/10) of majors we certified.

However, SB 440, a new bill currently making its way through the legislation, will require that

“community colleges…create an associate degree for transfer in every major and area of emphasis offered by that college”. Based on the requirement that we should be developing an AA‐T/AS‐T for every major we currently offer in which there is a corresponding TMC, our list of AA‐T/AS‐T’s could look like this:

1. Business Administration 11. Anthropology 2. Communication Studies 12. History 3. Computer Science 13. Kinesiology 4. Early Childhood Education 14. Political Science 5. Elementary Education 15. Psychology 6. English 16. Sociology 7. Geology 8. Mathematics 9. Music 10. Studio Arts

The timeline for SB 440 states “Before the commencement of the 2015‐16 academic year, a community college shall create an associate degree for transfer in the major…offered by that college for any approved transfer model curriculum finalized prior to the commencement of the 2013‐14 academic year.” We have LOTS of work to do to if we plan to create transfer degrees in areas not originally certified: Computer Science, Elementary Education, Geology, Mathematics, Music and Studio Arts by the 2015‐16 academic year!

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AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 5, 2013

AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 24, 2013

AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 25, 2013

SENATE BILL No. 440

Introduced by Senator Padilla(Coauthor: Assembly Member Williams)

February 21, 2013

An act to amend Sections 66746 and 66747 of, and to add Section66748.5 to, the Education Code, relating to public postsecondaryeducation.

legislative counsel’s digest

SB 440, as amended, Padilla. Public postsecondary education: StudentTransfer Achievement Reform Act.

(1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges andthe California State University as 2 of the segments of publicpostsecondary education in this state. Existing law, the Student TransferAchievement Reform Act, encourages community colleges to facilitatethe acceptance of credits earned at other community colleges towardthe associate degree for transfer. The act also requires the CaliforniaState University to guarantee admission with junior status to acommunity college student who meets the requirements for the associatedegree for transfer, and provides that admission to the California StateUniversity under these provisions does not guarantee admission forspecific majors or campuses. A student admitted to the California StateUniversity pursuant to the act is entitled to receive priority over all othercommunity college transfer students, excluding community college

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students who have entered into a transfer agreement between acommunity college and the California State University prior to the fallterm of the 2012–13 academic year.

This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislaturerelating to timely progression from lower division coursework to degreecompletion. The bill would require community colleges to create anassociate degree for transfer in every major and area of emphasis offeredby that college for any approved transfer model curriculum, asprescribed, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

The bill would require California State University campuses to accepttransfer model curriculum-aligned associate degrees for transfer in everymajor and concentration offered by that California State University, asspecified. This bill would provide that the guarantee of admission forthose community college students described above includes admissionto a program or major and concentration that is either similar to thestudent’s community college transfer model curriculum-aligned associatedegree for transfer or may be completed with 60 semester units of studybeyond that degree for transfer, the determinations to be made by thecampus to which the student is admitted. The bill would require theCalifornia State University to develop an admissions redirection processfor students admitted pursuant to the Student Transfer AchievementReform Act who apply for admission to the California State University,but are not accepted into the campuses specifically applied to.

The bill would require the California Community Colleges and theCalifornia State University, in consultation with specified parties, todevelop a student-centered communication and marketing strategy inorder to increase the visibility of the associate degree for transferpathway for all students in California. To the extent that this provisionwould create new duties for community college districts, it wouldconstitute a state-mandated local program.

(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse localagencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandatesdetermines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutoryprovisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.

State-mandated local program: yes.

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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

line 1 SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the line 2 following: line 3 (a) Since the enactment of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher line 4 Education, preparing students to transfer to a four-year university line 5 has been a core function of the California Community Colleges. line 6 (b) Successful and timely progression from lower division line 7 coursework to degree completion is a basic principle of California line 8 higher education and is critical to the future of the state’s economy. line 9 (c) The Public Policy Institute of California projects that

line 10 California’s workforce will have one million fewer graduates than line 11 it needs in 2025, and that increasing transfer rates from community line 12 colleges to four-year postsecondary educational institutions could line 13 dramatically reduce the education skills gap. line 14 (d) Today, one in every four jobs requires an associate degree line 15 or higher. In the near future, one in every three jobs will require line 16 an associate degree or higher. line 17 (e) The size of the California Community Colleges and the line 18 California State University systems, which have the largest share line 19 of postsecondary students in the nation, allow the state to address line 20 the serious projected shortage of educated workers. line 21 (f) To meet workforce demands in a cost-effective way, it is line 22 critical that we significantly increase the number of students line 23 obtaining an associate degree while preparing for transfer to a line 24 four-year college or university. line 25 (g) Although the community college and state university line 26 segments have undertaken tremendous efforts to institute the new line 27 transfer pathway, current implementation efforts of Sections 66746 line 28 and 66747 of the Education Code alone are insufficient to ensure line 29 that the associate degree for transfer becomes the preferred transfer line 30 pathway for all students across the state. line 31 SEC. 2. Section 66746 of the Education Code is amended to line 32 read: line 33 66746. (a) Commencing with the fall term of the 2011–12 line 34 academic year, a student who earns an associate degree for transfer line 35 granted pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be deemed eligible for line 36 transfer into a California State University baccalaureate program line 37 when the student meets both of the following requirements:

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line 1 (1) Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units that are line 2 eligible for transfer to the California State University, including line 3 both of the following: line 4 (A) The Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum line 5 (IGETC) or the California State University General line 6 Education-Breadth Requirements. line 7 (B) A minimum of 18 semester units or 27 quarter units in a line 8 major or area of emphasis, as determined by the community college line 9 district and meeting the requirements of an approved transfer model

line 10 curriculum. line 11 (2) Obtainment of a minimum grade point average of 2.0. line 12 (b) (1) (A) As a condition of receipt of state apportionment line 13 funds, a community college district shall develop and grant line 14 associate degrees for transfer that meet the requirements of line 15 subdivision (a). A community college district shall not impose any line 16 requirements in addition to the requirements of this section, line 17 including any local college or district requirements, for a student line 18 to be eligible for the associate degree for transfer and subsequent line 19 admission to the California State University pursuant to Section line 20 66747. line 21 (B) Before the commencement of the 2015–16 academic year, line 22 a community college shall create an associate degree for transfer line 23 in the major and area of emphasis offered by that college for any line 24 approved transfer model curriculum finalized prior to the line 25 commencement of the 2013–14 academic year. line 26 (C) A community college shall create an associate degree for line 27 transfer in every major and area of emphasis offered by that college line 28 for any approved transfer model curriculum approved subsequent line 29 to the commencement of the 2013–14 academic year within 18 line 30 months of the approval of the transfer model curriculum. line 31 (D) Before the commencement of the 2015–16 academic year, line 32 there shall be the development of at least two transfer model line 33 curriculum in areas of emphasis and, before the commencement line 34 of the 2016–17 academic year, there shall be the development of line 35 at least two additional transfer model curriculum in areas of line 36 emphasis. line 37 (2) The condition of receipt of state apportionment funding line 38 contained in paragraph (1) shall become inoperative if, by line 39 December 31, 2010, each of the state’s 72 community college line 40 districts has submitted to the Chancellor of the California

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line 1 Community Colleges, for transmission to the Director of Finance, line 2 signed certification waiving, as a local agency request within the line 3 meaning of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 6 of Article line 4 XIIIB of the California Constitution, any claim of reimbursement line 5 related to the implementation of this article. line 6 (c) A community college district is encouraged to consider the line 7 local articulation agreements and other work between the respective line 8 faculties from the affected community college and California State line 9 University campuses in implementing the requirements of this

line 10 section. line 11 (d) Community colleges are encouraged to facilitate the line 12 acceptance of credits earned at other community colleges toward line 13 the associate degree for transfer pursuant to this section. line 14 (e) This section shall not preclude enrollment in nontransferable line 15 student success courses or preclude students who are assessed line 16 below collegiate level from acquiring remedial noncollegiate level line 17 coursework in preparation for obtaining the associate degree. line 18 Remedial noncollegiate level coursework and nontransferable line 19 student success courses shall not be counted as part of the line 20 transferable units required pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision line 21 (a). line 22 SEC. 3. Section 66747 of the Education Code is amended to line 23 read: line 24 66747. (a) (1) Notwithstanding Chapter 4 (commencing with line 25 Section 66201), the California State University shall guarantee line 26 admission with junior status to any community college student line 27 who meets all of the requirements of Section 66746, with admission line 28 to a program or major and concentration, as applicable, that meets line 29 either of the following: line 30 (A) Is similar to the student’s community college transfer model line 31 curriculum-aligned associate degree for transfer, as determined by line 32 the California State University campus to which the student is line 33 admitted. line 34 (B) May be completed with 60 semester units of study beyond line 35 the community college transfer model curriculum-aligned associate line 36 degree for transfer, with completion ability determined by the line 37 California State University campus to which the student is line 38 admitted.

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line 1 (2) Admission to the California State University, as provided line 2 under this article, does not guarantee admission for a specific major line 3 or campus. line 4 (3) Notwithstanding Chapter 4 (commencing with Section line 5 66201), the California State University shall grant a student priority line 6 admission to his or her local California State University campus line 7 and to a program or major and concentration that is similar to the line 8 student’s community college transfer model curriculum-aligned line 9 associate degree for transfer, as determined by the California State

line 10 University campus to which the student is admitted. line 11 (4) A California State University campus shall accept transfer line 12 model curriculum-aligned associate degrees for transfer in every line 13 major and concentration offered by that California State University line 14 campus that meets the requirements of paragraph (1). A California line 15 State University campus shall additionally make every effort to line 16 accept transfer model curriculum-aligned associate degrees for line 17 transfer in each of the California State University concentrations. line 18 (5) As used in this section, a “concentration” is an area of line 19 specialization within a major degree program. line 20 (b) A student admitted under this article shall receive priority line 21 over all other community college transfer students, in accordance line 22 with subdivision (b) of Section 66202, excluding community line 23 college students who have entered into a transfer agreement line 24 between a community college and the California State University line 25 prior to the fall term of the 2012–13 academic year. A student line 26 admitted pursuant to this article shall have met the requirements line 27 of an approved transfer agreement consistent with subdivision (a) line 28 of Section 66202. line 29 (c) The California State University shall develop an admissions line 30 redirection process for students admitted under this article who line 31 apply for admission to the California State University, but are not line 32 accepted into the California State University campuses specifically line 33 applied to. This process shall be aligned with the guaranteed line 34 admission into the California State University system under line 35 subdivision (a). line 36 SEC. 4. Section 66748.5 is added to the Education Code, to line 37 read: line 38 66748.5. The California Community Colleges and the line 39 California State University, in consultation with students, faculty, line 40 student service administrators, the State Department of Education,

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line 1 the California Education Round Table, and other key stakeholders, line 2 shall develop a student-centered communication and marketing line 3 strategy in order to increase the visibility of the associate degree line 4 for transfer pathway for all students in California that includes, line 5 but is not necessarily limited to, all of the following: line 6 (a) Outreach to high schools in accordance with existing high line 7 school outreach programs and activities performed by the colleges line 8 and universities. line 9 (b) Information on the pathway prominently displayed in all

line 10 community college counseling offices and transfer centers. line 11 (c) Associate degree for transfer pathway information provided line 12 to all first-year community college students developing an line 13 education plan to aid them in making informed educational choices. line 14 (d) Targeted outreach to first-year students through campus line 15 orientations and student support services programs offered by the line 16 campus that may include, but are not necessarily limited to, Federal line 17 TRIO Programs, First-Generation Experience, MESA, and Puente. line 18 (e) Information on the pathway prominently displayed in line 19 community college course catalogs. line 20 (f) Information on the pathway prominently displayed on the line 21 Internet Web sites of each community college, each campus of the line 22 California State University, and on the CaliforniaColleges.edu line 23 Internet Web site. line 24 SEC. 5. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that line 25 this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to line 26 local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made line 27 pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division line 28 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

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Columbia College

Executive Curriculum Committee Minutes Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2:40-4:30 pm, Buckeye 4


Others Invited: Anne Cavagnaro, John Carter

Resource / Liaison Members: Mike Torok, Melissa Raby, Randy Barton, Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter-Slape

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes for March 26, 2013 were approved upon changes made to clarify sentence within Information Item # 1. Elizabeth specified that Columbia College is ahead of MJC in numbers of courses approved. M/S/P (Pfleging/Ryan/Unanimous)

The minutes for April 23, 2013 were approved as submitted M/S/P (Ryan/Pfleging/Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Certification for Local Approval of Stand-Alone Courses

Full Curriculum Meeting included the Stand Alone training. One new member, Tom Hofstra, did additional training outside of the Curriculum Meeting. Tom signed off, and document was sent forward. Local decision was made that the training did not need to be redone by Administrators, as none of the Deans were new to the process.

2. Curricunet Notifications

Email notifications were not being sent out by Curricunet to alert those who have submitted proposals. Susan contacted Governet, and they had mistyped our email address when they changed servers. We will not be asking for past emails. Susan asked that all go to their approvals to see if they can be acted upon. Kathy asked Susan to send email to full committee. Susan confirmed emails are on track now. Susan will review to see if faculty missed their opportunity due to lack of emails.

Action needed: Susan will alert those who have proposals that need attention, as well as the full Curriculum Committee Membership who need to act on approvals.

3. C-ID & ADT's Update

Agenda items #3and #7 were combined upon Elizabeth’s request.

ACTION ITEMS

4. MATH 18A Calculus I: Differential Calculus


Effective Term Summer 2014 Elizabeth said conditional C-ID status had expired. Anne said very few changes were made to meet C-ID approval. She will make further changes when the 5 year review takes place.


> MATH 18A - Prerequisite of MATH 17B

Discussion occurred to clarify that the C-ID approval does not reset the 5 year clock. The 5 year review timeline will be tracked in Access.

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5. MATH 18B Calculus II: Integral Calculus


Effective Term Summer 2014 Anne made very minor changes again on this one for the same reasons as stated above.


> MATH 18B - Prerequisite of MATH 18A


6. MUSIC 4B Elementary Musicianship

> MUSIC 4B - Prerequisite of MUSIC 4A

These items were pulled from the agenda because John was unable to attend this meeting.

DISCUSSION ITEMS

7. SB 440 Effects - Elizabeth Pfleging

Elizabeth shared the SB 440 document (see attached). This Senate Bill is in the Legal Analysts Office with unanimous votes. She referenced the language within SB440 which read, “Before commencement of the 2015-16 academic year, a community college shall create an associate degree for transfer in the major and area of emphasis offered by that college for any approved transfer model curriculum finalized prior to the commencement of the 2013-14 academic year.” The intention of SB 440 is to clarify and eliminate loopholes. If we offer a major, and there is a transfer model in that curriculum, then we need to create an ADT in that major.

Joe clarified the timeline. If proposals are put in by May of 2014, we have until November 2014 to get the proposals through the Curriculum process, submitted, and approved by the next Fall. Elizabeth said the alternative would be to make the decision to remove those majors from our catalog if there was no desire or ability within a department to create matching Associate Degrees. Although it is possible to put the TMC’s in the catalog pending approval from the State, it is not preferred practice. The Committee agreed that it should be pushed to have them all done by the end of this year, which would allow enough time for inclusion in the 2014-15 Catalog.

Chris spoke of the ASOE degrees and the difficulty of fitting them in as an ADT. The State views ASOE degrees as AS degrees. Chris stated VTEA funding will be affected, as the ADT’s are not considered CTE degrees. As far as completions are concerned, it will affect VTEA.

Elizabeth’s review of the areas that have not been moved forward and also appear to need transfer degrees are: Computer Science, Elementary Education (one class away-World Regional Geography), Geology (discussion about whether this is the same as Earth Science), Mathematics, Music and Studio Arts.

When asked by Kathy about whether or not this list covers the Post-Secondary Studies Degrees w/ emphasis, Elizabeth read from the SB440 further, “Before the commencement of the 2015-16 academic year, there shall be the development of at least two transfer model curriculum in areas of emphasis and before the commencement of the 2016-17 academic year, there shall be the development of at least two additional transfer model curriculum in areas of emphasis.” In regard to moving into areas of emphasis instead of specific majors, Elizabeth said she will be researching that at Articulation Conferences to find out what the majority interpretation of that is. Her interpretation at this time is, that it does refer to the Post-Secondary Studies Degrees w/ emphasis. Elizabeth is requesting that an “ad hoc” committee be formed to review the list she has for accuracy of her interpretation and to then, come up with a plan and timeline to either remove the degree or create the courses necessary to create the ADT.

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Randy mentioned getting the word out that some of the necessary TMC courses are already done, and some of the programs just need a few specific courses needing work for completion. Kathy suggested inviting specific people that need to be involved in the TMC completion to a meeting. After further discussion, October 11 was chosen for this special meeting. The goal would be to get the information needed worked through during the workshop so that the issues were completed that day.

Action needed: Michelle to book TRC from 9-1 for the Special Curriculum Workshop to focus on TMC’s. Kathy to arrange for committee members’ attendance at workshop in shifts, and to also target specific people who are involved.

8. Curriculum Institute 2014 - Kathy Schultz

Kathy is ensuring that everyone is alerted of this and that it is planned for and funding is available. She suggested the following people attend: Herself, Elizabeth, Michelle, Susan, Chris and possibly the incoming Academic Senate President. The official date is not published yet, but it will likely take place in mid-July. It was in Southern CA for 2013, so it should be Northern CA in 2014. Discussion occurred about putting in for Staff Development Funds. Aligning Staff Development Fund deadlines with registration might be an issue. Chris suggested Academic Senate travel funds that are usually used for this purpose continue to be set aside. The other potential participants should apply for Staff Development Funds. Registration begins in January. Chris agreed that registration should occur at that point and it will be funded afterwards, either thru Staff Development or other sources.

Action needed: Michelle will send out dates once they are published

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE EXECUTIVE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4

Members: Joe Ryan, Kathy Schultz, Elizabeth Pfleging, Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Leslie Buckalew, Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,

Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Pourchot, Recorder

Others Invited: John Leamy, Paula Clark

CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Joe Ryan at 2:40 p.m.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: March 26, 2013 The minutes were not approved since Kathy Schultz was absent and there was not a quorum. The March 26, 13 minutes will be brought back in the fall.

CHANGES TO THE AGENDA: 1. Joe added CHILD 170BC (correction) as an Action Item to the agenda. 2. John added Non-Credit Report as a Discussion Item to the agenda. 3. Joe informed the committee that Kathy Schultz was not able to attend today’s meeting due to illness, but had submitted

her proxy votes via email so that the meeting could continue to address important action items that needed to be finished before the end of the semester (see handout).

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. TMC/C-ID Report-Elizabeth *see handout Elizabeth handed out her spreadsheet that tracks all TMC degrees Columbia is eligible for, the courses within the TMC and where those courses are at in the C-ID process. Most of the degrees are moving along at a good pace except for BUSAD which will not be eligible for submission until MATH 12 has been updated and submitted for C-ID approval. John reported that they are having issues with a text book for this course, but will start actively looking into resolving this issue so that it can move forward. Elizabeth exchanged e-mails with Ted Hamilton this year to discuss the History and Political Science TMCs, but they have not been entered into CurricUNET yet. Joe will follow-up on this issue with Ted. The CTE C-ID list should be coming out this summer. Since Kathy was absent due to illness, item #5 on this agenda will not be addressed at this time since she will be the Curriculum Chair next year and needs to be involved with the plan for 2013-14.

ACTION ITEMS:

1. ANTHR 10 Major Modification

Title: Archaeology and Cultural Prehistory Units: 3.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 3.0/0.0

Effective Term: SUMMER 2014 Notes: This proposal was forwarded to the Executive Committee for review and approval since Paula Clark

was not in attendance for the last full Curriculum Committee meeting, and this course is needed for C-ID. Kathy Schultz was absent due to illness, but submitted her approval vote by proxy via email (see enclosed document).

ACTION: Move to APPROVE as submitted M/S/P/ (Schultz (proxy)/ Pfleging/ Unanimous)

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2. AW-AAT 603- Anthropology Associate in Arts-Transfer Degree New Program Units: 19-21

Effective Term: SUMMER 2014 Notes: This proposal was forwarded to the Executive Committee for review and approval since Paula Clark was

not in attendance for the last full Curriculum Committee meeting, and this TMC degree needs to be submitted before Fall 2013. Kathy Schultz was absent due to illness, but submitted her approval vote by proxy via email (see enclosed document).

ACTION: Move to APPROVE as submitted M/S/P/ (Schultz (proxy)/ Pfleging/ Unanimous)

3. CHILD 170BC (correction) New Proposal

Title: Practical Strategies to Enhance Early Childhood Social Emotional Development Units: 1 Hours: Lec/Lab: 1.0/0.0

Effective Term: SUMMER 2014 Notes: This course was Approved in the 4/16/13 full Curriculum Committee meeting with an effective term of

summer 2014. It was supposed to have been approved with an effective term of fall 2013. Since this item has to be submitted to the Board for approval today in order to be offered in fall 2013, the Executive Committee is being asked to approve this course with the retroactive approval date of 4/16/13 and an effective date of Fall 2013. Kathy Schultz was absent due to illness, but submitted her approval vote by proxy via email (see enclosed document).

ACTION: Move to APPROVE CHILD 170BC with a retroactive approval date of 4/16/13 and an effective term of Fall 2013. M/S/P/ (Schultz (proxy)/Pfleging/ Unanimous)

DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Special Variable Units Meeting -Joe Joe informed the committee that there needs to be a special variable units meeting in the fall and all faculty who have variable unit courses invited to discuss the effects of variable units on the college and what is expected if a course is submitted as variable units. Since Kathy will be the Curriculum Chair next year and is not at today’s meeting a date was not decided upon at this time. Jeri recommended Friday, September 20, 2013. This would allow for the topic to be discussed at the Senate Council, Whole Senate, Executive Curriculum and Full Curriculum meetings ahead of time and properly announced out to the faculty at all those meetings.

2. C-ID and TMC Fall Plan-Elizabeth

The spread sheet was handed out and review on agenda item #1. The rest of this item was not addressed at today’s meeting since Kathy was out ill.

3. Non-Credit Report-John Leamy * see handout

John was at the Academic Senate Plenary last week where the topic of non-credit courses was top priority. The State is in the process of changing what are considered non-credit courses. John reported that they are looking at having all English courses that are below transfer level be considered Basic Skill courses and all math courses below intermediate algebra be considered Basic Skill. If this proposal goes through, it could potentially have a huge impact on our funding since non-credit courses are funded at a lower rate. The State Academic Senate had a Resolution against this proposal at the Plenary Session, but John had to leave early and is not sure if it passed or not. John will report back with the outcome of the Resolution and will send out a copy of the handout to the committee.

4. Thank You The committee thanked Joe for his hard work and dedication to the Curriculum this semester. They were very happy with the forward momentum he provided during this interim period. The committee expressed regret that Jeri Pourchot will not be working with the committee next year.

ADJOURNMENT: 3:10 p.m.

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Others Invited: John Leamy


APPROVAL OF MINUTES: ACTION: The minutes for September 18, 2012 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Schultz/Pfleging/Unanimous)

ACTION: The minutes for November 20, 2012 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Schultz/Pfleging/Unanimous)

ACTION: The minutes for March 5, 2013 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Schultz/Pfleging/Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS: 1. TMC/C-ID Report-Elizabeth

*see handout Elizabeth went over the ADT Status Summary and explained to the committee that two new columns had been added to the end of the spreadsheet after we had sent out our certification. This shows us that the Chancellor’s Office is keeping track of what is being submitted. She also handed out a report showing our submitted courses to C-ID and where they are at in the approval process. Some of the courses are about to expire and require faculty to act immediately. The new Senate Bill 440 that is going through legislature right now would encourage CSUs to be more expansive and broaden the ability to accept transfer students. MJC is fourth in the state for having their courses submitted for C-ID, and we are ahead of them. Elizabeth did not know where, but ahead. Joe reminded the committee that when it comes to TMCs and C-IDs we need to have our ducks in a row by October 19, 2013. The four areas we do not have a degree in are: Math, Geography, Elementary Teacher Preparation, and Studio Art.

ACTION NEEDED: * Jeri to make contact with faculty who have courses that are about to expire for C-ID approval or have already expired and encourage them to get their courses updated and approved by the Curriculum Committee before the end of the semester.

DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. New Program Information Requirements-Kathy

*see handout Kathy brought a draft Word template for New Program Information Requirements to the last meeting with the CTE wording. The committee had asked her to come back with a template that would ask more specific questions relating to both A&S as well as CTE. She is working on condensing the guidelines for numbers 1-3 and having them on the back of the document for reference. The guidelines for #1 as listed in the CCC-501 form could confuse the proposer with labor market information, so she wants to reword some of this to make it easier to understand. There will be a need to educate faculty about this new requirement before they launch a new program in CCNET. John will put this on the first agenda in the fall. The Curriculum Chair will need to be on the lookout for new programs and make sure they contact faculty when one has been submitted.

ACTION NEEDED: * Kathy to work on condensing the guidelines and having them ready for review by the full Curriculum Committee on 4/9/13 or 4/16/13.

*Add this document as an Action Item on the next Full Curriculum Committee meeting.

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2. Variable Units-Joe Joe expressed to the committee the need to figure out how the Curriculum Committee wants to best handle this

situation in a way that will help people with variable units know what to do. We may need to come up with a set of questions the faculty member can look at to see if their course is able to have variable units or if it needs to be another course. They could be Y/N or more in depth.

*see handout-Elizabeth researched a few other colleges to see how they handle variable units. It appears the primary reason for variable units is special problems or special topics with labs. There were no regular general courses that had variable units. The wording, “Open entry, open exit” was used leading her to believe this may be an Ed code policy.

A lengthy discussion ensued with the following points of note: Do we really need variable units? The COR should reflect the content for the maximum amount of units A course should be offered for the amount of time necessary for the student to master the level Since the State is having issues with our courses we are submitting for C-ID and TMC, we may need

to look at not having variable units on transfer level courses and requiring them to be different courses Currently there are 3 proposals in the CurricUNET approval process with variable units waiting for

the committee’s decision. Joe will contact them and let them know the committee is still working on this and they may not be able to be approved until fall. He will also let them know that no matter what the committee decides, they will be expecting specific details defining what the different units will require

The committee would like to hear more on this topic from Chris and Mike ACTION NEEDED: *Joe to look up Ed code 55044 to see what is said about variable units *Jeri to add this item to the last full Curriculum Committee meeting this semester.

3. Forwarding to the Board-Two Week Waiting Period-Joe

John and the Senate Council are working on the Bylaws to address this issue. The Executive Curriculum Committee suggested that the Curriculum Approvals move forward as usual, and if an appeal is filed with the Senate Council the item under appeal can be removed from the Board Report if necessary.

4. Curriculum Committee Membership and Support-Kathy

*see handout With the change in Curriculum Chairs, Erik and Rick’s resignations and the uncertainty of a Curriculum Mentor next year, there are several vacancies on the committee for fall. John will send out an email to confirm and recruit individuals as soon as possible.

ACTION NEEDED: *John will send out an email to faculty to recruit and confirm membership for fall

5. Other Items Melissa to forward information on some catalog software that works with CurricUNET to Joe and Kathy

ADJOURNMENT: 4:12 p.m. Pfleging/Schultz

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4





APPROVAL OF MINUTES: none

INFORMATION ITEMS: none

DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. New Program Proposals and the Attached Data-Joe

Joe wanted to clarify that the goal of this proposal is to allow for the Curriculum Committee to receive the appropriate needed information in order to make an informed approval at the meeting, but not too much where it will intimidate people or not meet the timelines. Kathy, Elizabeth and Chris have not had time to meet since the last curriculum meeting to work on the suggested changes. Kathy will create a simple template that clarifies the CTE area since Arts and Sciences is already covered. The areas they will address are: 1) research, 2) two year completion, 3) advisory committees. The template will allow for the proposer to either copy/paste the information or to attach it as a document into CurricUNET. It will be important for committee members to educate faculty on this template. Jeri will make sure this document is available on the Curriculum website. Chris expressed is hope that the Curriculum Committee would not approve a proposal that has a “no” listed anywhere on the New Program Proposal document.

ACTION NEEDED: * Kathy to create a template and share with Chris and Elizabeth before the next Curriculum Committee meeting.

*Add this document as a Discussion/Action Item on the next Full Curriculum Committee meeting.

2. Curriculum Committee Calendar for Next Year-Joe *see handout. The committee reviewed the draft 2013-14 Curriculum Meeting Schedule. The proposed meetings are following the same format that had been used for the last 3 years. After much discussion the following changes were made:

Remove “BR” from the notes since we no longer follow that format Add 10/18/13 with a note “ Last day for Initial Launch” Add a note on 11/19/13 “Last approval day for catalog and IGETC, CSU, GE”. Add 3/7/13 “Spring Curriculum Launch”

The Committee thought it would be a good idea to have a FLEX activity on 3/7/13 for the Spring Curriculum Launch with a party type atmosphere. This may help relieve the bottleneck affect in the fall and also start preparing for the influx of 5 year reviews that will start hitting in 2014-15. Other notes of discussion were:

Putting new programs into an electronic addendum is difficult for students. Faculty would like the ability to be creative and submit new innovative courses in February to offer in the

summer session. They should not have to wait 2 years to teach a course. Joe would like the deadline for calendar to be as late as possible in the fall to allow for innovative submissions. A proposal takes a minimum of 16 days and usually 29 days to get through the curriculum review process. Susan reported she has a hard time keeping track of items that go past the deadlines. Proposals now have to go through 3 approval processes (curriculum committee, board, state). This was not the

so in the past and causes things to take longer as well as creates more work for Susan. Need to keep the Curriculum Meeting Schedule and timelines the same year-to-year and predictable. The Committee needs to be active in educating faculty on timelines, deadlines and processes. Maybe have an incentive for individuals who finish their proposals early. Have a P.R. campaign now to do this

over spring. The committee would like for proposals to move forward at all levels when everyone in the level has reviewed

the proposal instead of having it remain at the level for the full period of time. The committee would like for another 5 year review report to be sent out to faculty right now so that they can

start working on courses that are coming due over the next year.

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ACTION NEEDED: *Jeri to make changes to the calendar and put on the next Full Curriculum Committee meeting agenda as an Action Item.

*Jeri to ask Susan if proposals can be moved forward after everyone at the level has commented instead of leaving it there for the allotted period of time.

3. Forwarding to the Board-Two Week Waiting Period-Joe

John and the Senate Council are working on the Bylaws to address this issue. The Executive Curriculum Committee suggested that the Curriculum Approvals move forward as usual, and if an appeal is filed with the Senate Council the item under appeal can be removed from the Board Report if necessary.

4. Selection of Curriculum Chair When Vacated-Clarification-Joe

Two issues where discussed at the meeting. The first issue was a discrepancy between the Academic Senate Bylaws and Election Policies and Procedures. The Committee suggested that the Bylaws be changed to state: “The Curriculum Chair shall be elected as outlined in the Election Policies and Procedures document. Current voting members, or faculty who have had one-year of voting membership on the Curriculum Committee are eligible for the position. However, if a vacancy cannot be filled with a full-time, eligible faculty member, the Senate President may, with the concurrence of the Senate Council, appoint an active faculty member to a one-year temporary term.” The second issue was the Curriculum Bylaws for “Unfilled Terms” conflicted with the Senate Bylaws #16. The Executive Committee suggested that the Curriculum Bylaws be changed to state: “If the Chair is unable to complete their full term, an election needs to be called by the Academic Senate, and the guidelines for eligibility for the Curriculum Chair position will followed.”

ACTION NEEDED: *John will make changes to the A.S. Bylaws, taking into consideration the above mentioned suggestion. This item will be taken to the next Senate Council meeting and then to the Senate for a vote.

*Joe will update the Curriculum Bylaws with the above suggestions and bring it to the 3/19/13 Curriculum Committee meeting for a vote and then to the 3/22/13 Senate meeting for a vote.

*Jeri will put this as an Action Item on the above said meetings.

5. Curriculum Update-Leslie Leslie reported that she, Joe and John along with MJC will be giving a curriculum update to the Board at the 3/13/13 Board meeting here at Columbia.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:10 p.m. Pfleging/Schultz

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4

Members: Randy Barton, Leslie Buckalew, Elizabeth Pfleging, Joe Ryan Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,


Others Invited: Raelene Juarez

CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:42 p.m.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Moved to next meeting. Did not have a quorum

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. SAM and Top Code Updates Chris reported they have not had time to do this yet. The goal is to take a look at all of the codes to see if some of them

could be coded differently. They will try to get to this over the summer, but we do not need to keep following up on this item on future agendas.

2. Repeatability Update Randy informed the committee that a follow-up letter had been sent out to specific faculty who had not turned in a

course repeatability response. 72 courses were not responded to that will now default to not repeatable. Discussion ensued with the following points of note:

Need to get verification if non-credit can be repeatable. Susan will create a special approval process that will not include the Curriculum Committee as reviewers

for the courses that need to have repeats removed. This will be done administratively. Melissa Raby reported that Margo Cuzman needs to know right away what we are doing for programming

purposes. Leslie, Susan and Randy will contact her to discuss families. The ESC field trips are tricky, and will need Randy to follow-up with Jeff to make sure everyone is on the

same page with this situation. Elizabeth will post a question on the discussion board in regards to field study courses. Do they need to be

more than 80% different? ACTION NEEDED: *Randy to get verification on non-credit courses

*Susan to add a special approval process to remove repeats *Randy to contact Margo Cuzman *Randy to contact Jeff Tolhurst about ESC field study courses *Elizabeth to post concerns on discussion board

3. Appealed Courses Update Randy sent an appeal to the Senate Council on the decision of the Curriculum Committee approving the 8 AT, ASE

preparatory courses. The Council tabled the appeal until Erik Andal was notified and invited to the meeting. They also requested that Randy ask the Curriculum Committee to re-look at the issue and give the Council the best advice as to what should happen with this issue. Discussion ensued with the following points of note:

The vote on this appeal by the Council needs to be based on facts. It may be necessary to bring in an expert to inform the council/senate on what is happening so that an informed decision can be made.

The administration shared concern with scheduling these courses since they could be in violation of state law.

Would like to have positive solutions for things when we say they can’t be done. Leslie would like to see an Executive Curriculum meeting scheduled in January where the members could

brain storm to find positive solutions to problems we are experiencing. ACTION NEEDED: *Randy to see if we can get an expert from the State Academic Senate to come here and update

faculty on the new curricular changes required by the State. *Randy to add a special executive curriculum committee meeting in January

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DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. Discontinuance Process-Randy

Randy asked the committee if the discontinuances of courses and awards be easy or should communication among the faculty take place? Currently there is not a good communication system happening and items are being discontinued without faculty being aware of the consequences that may be taking place to their awards not only in the same area, but across the disciplines as well. Discussion ensued with the following points of note:

Should a faculty member be able to discontinue a course that is not in their discipline? Need to identify who/what is in the Impact Report when bringing forth a discontinuance. Maybe we need to have a check box in CurricUNET that the proposer has to check-off showing they have

contacted everyone who is affected by the discontinuance. May need to take a look at another college who is using the Meta version of CurricUNET to see how the

discontinuance process works for them. Or need to make a request for this to be added on our version. The committee agreed that they would like to be able to see a Course Impact Report on all courses, not

just proposals. Susan will contact GoverNet to see if this is possible. ACTION NEEDED: *Susan to contact GoverNet to see if the COURSE IMPACT REPORT can be available on all

courses.

2. C-ID Course Submission-Randy Elizabeth reported that the C-IDs must be done in order for the TMCs to be approved. She has already discovered a few little glitches with the ones that have already been submitted. It is very important to get faculty involved in this process. The committee would like for the Deans to bring this to their Division Meetings in the spring. May even have it at In-service where we can break them up into groups and work on it.

ACTION NEEDED: *Deans to add this to their Division Meeting agendas

3. TMC Planning for Course Development-Randy *see handout Elizabeth started filling out the TMC templates that we are eligible for at this time. Area faculty still need to look them over and make sure they are correct and go from there. Randy shared a handout he created on the TMC approval process and how we take them from creation to Board approval. The committee recommended some changes that Randy will make and bring back at the next executive meeting. This process will allow a fast track for C-ID/TMC propelled proposals. The committee would like to see

4. TMC Planning for 80%-Randy

The committee would like for Elizabeth to have a TMC training for the Curriculum Committee to bring them up-to-date on what needs to happen. The rest of this was covered in item #3.

ACTION NEEDED: *Randy to schedule aTMC training for the Curriculum Committee. ACTION NEEDED: The committee would like for Program Proposals to be an action item on the next curriculum committee agenda. They would like for all program proposals to come to the Curriculum Committee as a packet. (Course Impact Report and documentation that dialogue has happened at the faculty and dean level in CCNET)


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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4

Members: Randy Barton, Leslie Buckalew, Elizabeth Pfleging, Joe Ryan Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,




APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 17, 2012 Note: Changes were made to Discussion Item #2, bullet #2 to state “In” not “Starting”.

ACTION: The minutes for April 17, 2012 was APPROVED with changes M/S/P (Ryan/ Pfleging/ 1 aye, 1 abstention)

INFORMATION ITEMS: 1. DEA Language *see handout

Randy shared the new DEA language that was presented to Senate Council and will be added to the Curriculum Bylaws. This information will also be sent out in the Senate Newsletter.

ATTENTION NEEDED: Randy to send this information to Ted for the Newsletter.

2. TMC Update Elizabeth reported that she has been working with some faculty over the summer on TMC degrees in different

departments. Early Childhood Education and Psychology have both been launched in CurricUNET and are moving forward through the process. She would like to see ENGL, MUSIC, BUSAD and POLSC come forward soon. Elizabeth was informed that TMC that have been submitted to the State are being approved very quickly. John L. reported that he is going to work on EDUC.

3. SAM and TOP Codes Update

Since the deans were not in attendance at the meeting, Susan reported that she has given Chris V. a list of active courses. He is focusing on SAM codes for both divisions.

4. Certification for Local Approval of Stand-Alone Credit Course

Randy reported that all voting members have signed-off and the form was sent to the State on Friday, September 14th.

DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. Repeatability Subcommittee-Randy (Dr. Buckalew arrives)

Randy reported that he and Raelene are on the Repeatability Subcommittee. The Executive Committee had questions as to when and how this process was going to start. They expressed their desire for decisions to be addressed so students will not be forced out of classes when repeatabilites are removed, and alternate courses do not have time to be approved for next year. They felt there may not be enough time to wait to work on this due to the deadline for catalog date, and faculty need some time to be thinking about how to deal with their courses if they are to lose repeats. Student success needs to be our number one concern. John asked Randy to send out a message that is clear on courses currently in CurricUNET. There was much discussion about the language in Title V and the ability to create alternate courses. Joe stated that the language is already there that you can write curriculum that helps the student be successful. The committee decided to go forward with the email from David Morse with what the Board of Governors has put out on course repeats. They instructed Randy to send this information out (BOG language) to all faculty as well as: Identify (courses that are not eligible for repeats) Notify (faculty immediately that their course(s) are not eligible for repeats) Allow time for restructure (notify faculty immediately so that they will have time to restructure their courses if

needed) Distribute (Guideline on families for departments that are eligible to use them)

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The following departments were assigned to individuals for assistance with repeatabilites as follows: HHP Raelene Juarez MUSIC Counselors SCIENCES Joe R. and Micha M. FIRE Raelene Juarez ART Counselors CMPSC Kathy Schultz OFTEC/BUSAD Randy Barton ACTION NEEDED: *Randy to send out a memo to faculty immediately informing them of the information from the

BOG as well as the other directives listed above from the committee. *Elizabeth to talk to the other counselors about assisting the MUSIC and ARTS department. *Randy to talk to Kathy Schultz about assisting the CMPSC department.

2. Pre-requisite Data Research-Randy Randy informed the committee that they will soon need to start looking at our pre-requisites. It is important that we start developing a pre-requisite database. Pre-requisites in CTE need to be reviewed every 2 years. Randy will be putting together a list for the committee to review.

ACTION NEEDED: *Randy to put together a list and bring it back to the committee.

3. New Department-item added at meeting Susan informed the committee that CTE would like to add a new department to their division titled Management (MGMT).This item will need to come to the Full Curriculum Committee for approval. The committee wanted to know if the addition of this new prefix would affect existing courses. Susan will check on this issue and report the information out to the full committee. John advised the committee to look very closely at this new department addition.

4. TMC Training-item added at meeting

Elizabeth reported that over the summer she attended a training on how to train individuals on the TMC process. Elizabeth was asked if she would provide the TMC training for the Curriculum Committee in the near future.

ACTION NEEDED: *Randy and Elizabeth to schedule a TMC training for the Curriculum Committee.

ADJOURNMENT: 3:54 p.m. Ryan/Pfleging

Next Executive Meeting: October 30, 2012

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Members: Randy Barton, Leslie Buckalew, Elizabeth Pfleging, Erik Andal Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,


Others Invited:


APPROVAL OF MINUTES: March 27, 2012

ACTION: The minutes for March 27, 2012 was APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Andal/ Pfleging/ unanimous)


ACTION ITEMS:

1. Effective Terms for DEAs Randy asked the committee for clarification on what “Effective term immediately after” means in regards to their

motion on DEA effective terms at the last full committee meeting. They clarified the language to state, “The effective term for DEAs is to be immediately after the next scheduled offering.”

ACTION: Move to clarify the language on DEA effective terms to be, “The effective term for DEAs is to be immediately after the next scheduled offering.”

M/S/P/ (Pfleging/Andal/ Unanimous)

2. Effective Terms for 98s & 198s When it comes to effective terms for 98s & 198s, the committee needs to take into consideration Board approval. Randy will add a note at the bottom of the Timeline/Deadline chart informing faculty of the timeline for 98s & 198s and that they need to allow approximately 3 months from start to finish before they can teach these courses.

ACTION: Move that 98s & 198s effective term be the next scheduled offering after Board approval. M/S/P/ (Andal/ Pfleging/ Unanimous)

DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. Application of Repeatability Criteria-Randy

*see handout. The four courses that were approved for by the Academic Senate for the administrative removal of repeats was the beginning of the clean-up process for the college. Randy went over the hand out showing the proposed changes for repeatability that may be approved by the legislature in December. After much discussion the committee decided the best way to handle the repeatability clean-up would be to recommend that a panel made up of faculty to go through the courses with the new criteria and identify which courses are eligible for repeatability this fall. Dr. Buckalew was unsure if the new criteria would be retroactive, and suggested we continue with the clean-up process even before the legislature finalizes the criteria presented at today’s meeting.

ACTION NEEDED: Randy will ask the Senate for faculty volunteers to participate on a panel for the fall.

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2. TMC Planning-Elizabeth *see handout Elizabeth reported that Columbia College currently hast 2 TMCs in place (Communications and Sociology), and Child Development is pending. She guided the committee through the C-ID website and the different TMCs that are available, and asked the committee to identify which of the TMCs they felt we should be bringing into our awards. There was much discussion on the priority of TMCs and having all of our courses connected with the new C-ID numbering system. At this time it is not mandated, but most likely courses that are connected with the TMCs will be required to have C-ID numbering in the future. Listed are points of discussion:

It is necessary for faculty from the discipline to be involved with the TMC process and the C-ID course numbering.

Starting Spring 2012 only TMC degrees will be accepted at the CSUs, so it is very important that our college has these degrees to offer transferring students.

Faculty have to offer the courses listed in the TMC to make it work. This means we should not be offering a TMC to the students unless the faculty guarantee they will be offering the courses.

When a TMC is approved, the courses must be in the 2 year plan. Collaborative offering with MJC to make a course go. Plan:

Jeri to set-up appointments with faculty in different departments to meet with Elizabeth; Elizabeth and faculty members will go through the TMC degree to see if it is doable; Elizabeth and faculty members to discuss the option of connecting their courses with C-ID

number system; Elizabeth and faculty members to look at the descriptors together if they decide they are

interested in connecting their courses with the C-ID numbering system; Courses listed in the TMC will be followed-up on to make sure they are in the 2 year plan, and

are being scheduled.

3. Training Needs of the Committee-Randy Randy had asked the full-committee for input on training needs at the last meeting. He wanted to know if the executive committee had anything else to add to the list. The items from both meetings are as listed:

C-ID TMC Stand alone Title V COR Item of interest New things from the upcoming Institutes Innovative Curriculum (on the pulse of what is going on in the community)

4. Summer Projects-Randy SAM and TOP Codes

ADJOURNMENT: 3:50 p.m. Andal/Pfleging

Next Executive Meeting: Fall 2012

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE Special #1 EXECUTIVE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:00-3:00 Buckeye 4



Others Invited: Anne Cavagnaro, John Leamy, Gene Womble

CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:07


INFORMATION ITEMS:

ACTION ITEMS: 1. 2012-13 Timeline/Deadline-Randy

*see handout The Committee discussed in detail the submitted 2012-13 Timeline/Deadline. Some of the language has been changed

from last year to help faculty understand last dates for submissions. The Articulation Officer had asked for more clarification on the deadline for IGETC. Susan asked that the 10/23/12 submission date state “NEW courses and programs.” Randy will add “Levels” to the submission deadlines for a clearer understanding for faculty. The following are items of interest or action from the discussion:

Have a faculty member not involved in the Curriculum process help with what will be understandable to them for curriculum submission.

Chris suggested looking at the format currently used with high school articulations to see if it would be useful for our purposes.

Possibly add a default time on “Originator Levels” to help the approval process flow smoother. Ask Governet to add a default when “No Changes Needed” has been selected. Ask if Governet could send repetitive reminders when courses are not addressed by the originator. Randy and Susan to meet and create a list of items that need addressed by Governet. Possibly add a deadline for schedules to the Timeline/Deadline. Ask Curriculum members to volunteer to meet during the summer to address late proposals that need attention before

fall, and/or to help relieve the influx of proposals waiting when they return in the Fall. The Deans suggested that a State application for new programs be completed before the Curriculum Committee

approves the program. They find more information is needed on the State application than what is provided and approved by the committee. It was suggested that the State application be filled out and attached to the CurricUNET proposal before it can be voted on by the committee. Susan will check to see if Governet can add a rule that puts a hold on the proposal until the application has been attached.

May need to arrange another meeting to discuss the CurricUNET approval process. ACTION: Move to APPROVE the submitted 2012-13 Curriculum Committee Timeline/Deadline with

changes. M/S/P/ (Andal/ Pfleging/ Unanimous)

ACTION NEEDED: Randy and Susan to compile a list of items that need to be addressed by Governet. Jeri to get a copy of the high school articulation process from Chris.

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DISCUSSION ITEMS: Anne Cavagnaro joined the meeting to discuss issues she has experienced with the curriculum process. She provided the

committee members with a statistical analysis she had put together on Completed Major Modifications and Discontinuances (see handouts). Her concerns are in several different areas of the curriculum process. Items of note are as follows:

Prevalent problem with front loading of proposals in the school year. If the process was more cyclic it would be a smoother process throughout the year.

Faculty do not understand the process. More information needs to be provided and be clearer. Consider going to a 2 year catalog. Assign a small adhoc group to take a look at the process and address the need to simplify and streamline. Have Governet send an email to the originator informing them where they are in the approval process and/or

alerting the originator sooner. The Curriculum Representatives are under-utilized. Have the representatives shepherd course proposals that

are from their areas. Discontinuances are being done by non-faculty, especially in orphan areas. Faculty are not aware that these

courses are being discontinued and are not having input. This area needs looking into. Default needed when “No Changes are Needed.”


Next Regularly Scheduled Executive Meeting: 3/27/12

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE Special #2 EXECUTIVE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING




Others Invited: Raelene Juarez, John Leamy, Gene Womble

CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 3:11



ACTION ITEMS: 1. Repeatability Criteria-Randy

*see handout This topic was brought up last week at the special Executive Curriculum Committee meeting; however, there was a

special budget meeting given by the Chancellor at the same time so the curriculum meeting was ended before much discussion could take place. Randy reminded the committee how important it is to have criteria to identify activity courses. The following are items of interest or action from the discussion that ensued:

This topic needs quite a bit of discussion at the Senate level, especially with activities. Member asked Randy why there is such a hurry all of a sudden with umbrella changes? To which Randy stated that the

College is out-of-compliance with some of the courses listed with repeatabilities, and could have financial ramifications if there was an audit.

Some courses in the catalog are out of compliance, and activity courses are not necessarily our biggest concern at this time. But, we will definitely need to address these at another time.

Dr. Buckalew asked for a short list to be created of courses that need to be cleaned up and perform triage. Jeri will create the list using the catalog and forward the information on to the Deans.

Criteria still needs to be identified in order to filter the courses for the short list, and send this information to the faculty immediately.

Need to have a subcommittee of the Senate address the criteria. Need to identify lab versus lecture too. ENGL 151 was identified by a committee member as one of the courses that should not have repeats, but does.

ACTION NEEDS: * Raelene to work on this and take to the Academic Senate. She will put together a small adhoc committee consisting of Curriculum Representatives, Articulation Officer and John Leamy.

* Erik will work with Raelene on terms. * Jeri will compile a list of all courses in the curriculum inventory that have repeats and distribute to the Deans. * Deans will look at the courses will repeats and bring a short list to the next executive meeting.

DISCUSSION ITEMS:


Next Regularly Scheduled Executive Meeting: 3/27/12

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE Special EXECUTIVE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING


Members: Randy Barton, Leslie Buckalew, Elizabeth Pfleging, Erik Andal Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby, Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Pourchot, Recorder

Others Invited:



INFORMATION ITEMS:

ACTION ITEMS: 1. 2012-13 Curriculum Committee Meetings Schedule-Randy

*see handout The Full Curriculum Committee who met just prior to this meeting approved the 2012-13 Curriculum Committee

Meeting Schedule with the submitted change for a 11/27/12 last approval day for catalog. This change is to assist with articulation submission needs.

ACTION: Move to APPROVE the submitted 2012-13 Curriculum Committee Meetings Schedule with the changed last approval day for catalog being 11/27/12.

M/S/P/ (Andal/ Pfleging/ Unanimous)

2. Repeatability-Criteria and Application-Randy *see handouts Randy informed the committee that there is an urgent need to establish repeatable course criteria before the catalog goes to print. The criteria identified by this committee will be submitted to the Full Curriculum Committee and then the Senate for approval. Once approved the criteria will be used to do clean-up in the catalog and be established in CurricUNET. Randy stated that Title 5 has not changed the criteria, but that the college has not been using the criteria appropriately. Committee members had to leave before the criteria could be identified today due to the Chancellor’s budget forum being presented at 3:00. This meeting will be rescheduled within the next two weeks to address this issue, which stated by Susan should still be enough time to make changes in the catalog. Also, Randy asked that the Deans review the repeatable courses list and identify which courses should keep repeatability based upon Title 5 language.

DISCUSSION ITEMS: none


Next Executive Meeting: TBA

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4

Members: Randy Barton, Leslie Buckalew, Jean Mallory, Erik Andal Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,

Jeri Pourchot, Recorder

Others Invited: Raelene Juarez, Elizabeth Pfleging, Susan Vegter-Slape


APPROVAL OF MINUTES: November 22, 2011

ACTION: The minutes for October 11, 2011 were APPROVED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Andal/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS: 1. Crystal Report Update for S.A.M. Codes-Randy

Randy contacted District IT and asked for a report that would identify S.A.M. codes. The report is called Course Basic Extract Report and is accessible by Diana Sunday and the Deans. It has been awhile since the S.A.M. codes have been scrubbed and there could potentially be some courses that could fall underneath CTE. Chris will work with Susan during the summer to clean-up the S.A.M. codes and Mike will work with them on the TOP codes.

2. New Articulation Officer-Jean This is Jean Mallory’s last curriculum meeting as Articulation Officer. Elizabeth Pfleging will be the new Articulation Officer after she is confirmed at Wednesday’s Board Meeting. Jean will be working with Chris Vitelli as the new CTE Transition Coordinator.

3. Work Experience Follow-up- Chris Vitelli Chris met with Dave Chestnut who is the current Work Experience Coordinator to discuss the possibility of WEXP 97 being constructed as a general course that is cross-listed for all participating disciplines. The wording in the newest Minimum Qualifications is vague as to the qualifications of the WEXP Coordinator. It states that the person must have MQ in any discipline in which work experience is being provided. Dave informed Chris that Work Experience is very important and he hopes that we’ll be able to offer it regardless of who coordinates the program. Randy informed the committee that a general course that is cross-listed with all of the disciplines may not work with CurricUNET. The Committee may have to look at leaving a WKEXP 97 in each discipline with all of the CORs for each discipline having an identical standard area with the prescribed language by the State. Each discipline could then add extra information beyond the standard language. Each discipline’s WKEXP 97 would be required to have a five year review. Chris will be taking a look at the cost of having the work experience program. Susan reminded the committee that in the past students have been allowed to enroll after census, so the college is not getting paid for those students. MJC no longer offers WEXP.

4. Syllabi Availability for Everyone-Randy Raelene and Randy have looked into alternative ways to have syllabi available for everyone. Currently CurricUNET does not allow access to the attached course syllabus. Other options are:

Each semester the updated syllabi that are turned into the Deans could be loaded onto Share Point. Randy could have an access link to the Share Point folder put on the College’s webpage. This would allow everyone to have access to the most current syllabi. Not sure who would be responsible for uploading the syllabi. Randy could create a form for faculty to fill-out for submission or possibly send it to Wendy Link to upload. Hard copies can be scanned and uploaded. This process also addresses the State’s mandate of assuring students are receiving syllabi.

Black Board or Moodle are other options available for uploading and storing syllabi.

5. Course-vs-Lab Objectives on C.O.R.-Randy

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Erik brought this issue up several months ago. Jean informed the committee that it is important to keep course objectives and lab objective separate since that is the way it has to be reported in OSCSAR for articulation. Randy asked Susan to have Course Objectives changed to Lecture Objectives in CurricUNET for clarity. Erik would like to see the COR be changed where there is only one area to list objectives and have check marks next to each objective identifying whether it is a Course or Lab Objective. Susan reported that currently it is very difficult to get major programming changes from Governet, and the major changes they have made recently have not been very reliable. If there is improvement in service from Governet in the future the committee can look into the possibility of having Erik’s suggestion implemented. It is very important to be able to differentiate between what is a Lab Objective and what is a Course Objective.

ACTION ITEMS: 1. Course numbers 98, 99,198 & 199-Randy

Susan and Jean both stated that it is important to preserve these course numbers. They are generic numbers that are assigned to a temporary course with a 2 letter designator. These courses are automatically considered historical after one year and do not need to go through the discontinuance process. Randy asked the committee if it would be ok to move these numbers to “Unassigned” in the Access database. Right now they keep coming up in reports as being out-of-compliance and messes with the 5 year review process. Since these numbers are assigned to a course for only one year, they do not need to go through the required 5 year review. If they are moved to “Unassigned” in the database they will no longer come up in the reports. Course proposals with these numbers will still need to come to the Curriculum Committee for approval and Randy feel that it is important for them to come through the Curriculum Committee at the end of the one year for discontinuance. The discontinuance process on these courses is more for keeping data clean and for informational purposes. SKLDV now has content and will be on the 5 year review cycle.

ACTION: Move to have course numbers 98, 99,198 & 199 moved to the “Unassigned” area in the Curriculum Access database.

M/S/P/ (Andal/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

2. Content Review Screen-which one do we use-Randy The Content Review screen in CurricUNET has glitches. It is too difficult to have two modalities for course content, so until CurricUNET can fix the issues it is best to stay with the paper submission modality. Susan will try to work with Governet after April to solve the issues. In the meantime Susan will ask them to hide the screen or have it turned off.

DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. COR Distribution Letter-Randy

Randy asked the Deans if they sent the COR Distribution letter out to adjuncts this spring and if they received any feedback. The Deans said that it went well, but there wasn’t any real feedback. They suggested having a shorter version for future distributions. Mike informed the committee that he also provides CORs for new adjunct faculty.

2. Articulation Issues as Training-Randy There were a few proposals brought to the Curriculum Committee this year that caused discussion and probably should not have been approved, but they were. Unfortunately, those courses have been returned unaccepted by the U.C.s . Randy is going to bring these courses to the next Curriculum meeting for a training session. Randy asked Elizabeth if she would please compile the information on these courses so that he can present them. Jean reported that they have until the summer of 2013 to update the required information in these courses or they will be pulled by all of the U.C.s . The U.C.s review committee meets only in the summer, so if these courses are not submitted by October we may not be able to present them and will have to start all over with new articulation. Mike is working with the related faculty and is trying to coordinate a conference call between them and the U.C. review team.

ACTION NEEDED: Randy will try to work with others to get syllabi uploaded to Share Point. Randy may need to create a form for syllabi upload to Share Point. Susan to have Course Objectives changed to Lecture Objectives on the CORs in CurricUNET. Susan to have Governet hide or turn-off the Course Content screen in CurricUNET. Chris and Susan to meet after April to work on S.A.M. codes. Chris, Mike and Susan to meet after April to work on TOP codes. Randy to set-up Share Point for Leslie Buckalew. Jeri to move course numbers 98, 99, 198 & 199 to the Unassigned area of the Access database. Elizabeth to compile information on the unarticulated courses for Randy to present at next full curriculum

committee meeting.


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4

Members: Randy Barton, Tom Kimberling, Jean Mallory, Erik Andal Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,

Jeri Pourchot, Recorder Others Invited: Raelene Juarez CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:43 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 11, 2011

ACTION: The minutes for October 11, 2011 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Andal/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS: None ACTION ITEMS:

1. C.O.R. Distribution Letter-Randy *see handout

This letter was drafted by Rick Rivera, Don Smith and Randy Barton. Randy showed the letter to the Senate and will take it to the next Senate Council meeting to have them address the Header of the document. Once the document is completed it will be handed out to Adjunct at the In-service and to all full-time faculty as well. Randy will add the document to the Curriculum Handbook and webpage.

2. S.A.M. Code Access Needs-Randy Randy asked the Deans what they specifically needed to work with the S.A.M. Codes. Chris stated he would like to work with Susan on assigning the codes in Datatel. Other colleges allow the Deans access to the S.A.M. Code screen in CurricUNET and Chris would like to have access if possible. After much discussion the following was decided: • Randy will ask for a screen shot and get it to Chris as soon as possible so he can identify what he would need off of

the Datatel screen where the S.A.M. Codes are entered. • Randy will ask for Chris and Mike to have access to the CurricUNET screen where S.A.M. Codes are entered. • Randy will obtain a Crystal Report for S.A.M. Codes from Datatel. • Randy to ask for a CurricUNET custom report for comparison and syncing of S.A.M. codes.

ACTION: Move to allow Deans to assign S.A.M. Codes to courses. M/S/P/ (Mallory/Andal/ Unanimous)

ACTION: Move to have Randy obtain a CRYSTAL report for S.A.M. Codes. M/S/P/ (Mallory/Andal/ Unanimous)

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ACTION: Move to approve all submitted Discontinuances as a bundle. M/S/P/ (Andal/ Mallory/Unanimous)

3. BIOL 170BA

Discontinuance Title: Special Topics in Biology: Baja Natural History

Units: 2.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 1.00/3.00

Effective Term: SUMMER 2012 Notes: This course has not been offered in several semesters and the Dean does not plan to offer it at this time.

4. EMS 110 Discontinuance

Title: Automated External Defibrillation and Professional Rescuer CPR Units: .5 Hours Lec/Lab: .50/0.0



Title: Child and Elder Abuse Units: 0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0



Title: Emergency Vehicle Driver Training Units: 0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


7. ENGL 198EY

Discontinuance Title: CENGL-198EY

Units: .5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


8. FIRE 102

Discontinuance Title: Firefighter I Internship



9. FIRE 103

Discontinuance Title: Firefighter II Academy



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10. FIRE 104 Discontinuance

Title: Firefighter II Internship Units: 4.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/14.0


11. FIRE 109

Discontinuance Title: Hazordous Materials First Responder

Units: .5 Hours Lec/Lab: .50/0.0


12. FIRE 270BA

Discontinuance Title: Continued Professional Training: CAL FIRE CPT



13. FIRE 270BD

Discontinuance Title: TCFD/Special Topics Fire Technology



14. FIRE 270BQ Discontinuance

Title: Fire Control Technology/Special Topics Units: 1.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 16.0/0.0


15. FIRE 270BZ

Discontinuance Title: EMT First Responder-Special Topics in Fire Control Technology



16. FIRE 270CJ

Discontinuance Title: Incident Command System 300-Special Topics in Fire Control



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17. FIRE 270DE Discontinuance

Title: GPS Orientation Training-Special Topics in Fire Control Technology Units: .5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


18. FIRE 270DW

Discontinuance Title: Elevator Rescue-Special Topics in Fire Control Technology

Units: .5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0 /0.0


19. FIRE 270DX

Discontinuance Title: S-430 Operations Section Chief-Special Topics in Fire Control Technology

Units: 1.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0 /0.0


20. FIRE 270DZ Discontinuance

Title: S-390 Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations Units: 0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


21. FIRE 270EG Discontinuance

Title: S-403 Information Officer Units: 2.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


22. FIRE 270EL Discontinuance

Title: Confined Space Rescue Technician Units: 1.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 8.0/32.0


23. FIRE 56

Discontinuance Title: Emergency Trench Shoring



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24. FIRE 58 Discontinuance

Title: Rescue Systems I: Fundamentals of Heavy Rescue Units: 1.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 1.0/1.5


25. HHP 25B Discontinuance

Title: Jazz Dance II Units: .5/1.5 Hours Lec/Lab: .0.0/1.5-0.0/3.0-0.0/4.5


26. HIST 55 Discontinuance

Title: The American Frontier Units: 3.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 3.0/0.0


27. INDIS 170AW Discontinuance

Title: Special Topic: Embedding Basic Skills in Course Content Units: 1.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 1.0/0.0


28. INDIS 170BA

Discontinuance Title: Special Topics in Instr. Skills Training



29. INDIS 278

Discontinuance Title: Basic Skills for Occupational Success

Units: 3.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 3. 0/0.0


30. MUSIC 304

Discontinuance Title: Community Band

Units: 0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


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31. NATRE 170BA Discontinuance

Title: Field Research Experience in Ecology Experience in Ecology Units: 3.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/0.0


DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Work Experience 97 Update-Randy Randy met with the Deans and Raelene to discuss options for Work Experience 97. It was decided not to do away with individual program work experience 97 courses. All of them will have the same state mandated content and objectives, but the individual programs can add to the C.O.R. and the Description. There will not be a generic Work Experience 97 C.O.R. Work Experience 97 will be overseen by the Work Experience Coordinator.

2. Miscellaneous Erik has agreed to take on the Vocational Education Representative position newly vacated by Don Smith with the understanding he plans on bringing some areas of concern to light. After much discussion, the items listed below are areas of concern:

o Erik informed the Executive Committee that the State does not require Lab Objectives to be written separate from course objectives; therefore, why is the committee requiring faculty to do more work than what is needed/required?

o Erik’s chief concern is work being required by the proposer that is not needed in multiple areas of curriculum. o Erik expressed frustration with not being able to access syllabi in CurricUNET. He would like for the syllabi to

be open to everyone. Having access to the syllabi would help faculty who are coordinating adjunct. ACTION NEEDED: Randy will work with Susan to see if the syllabi can be open for everyone to see along with the

C.O.R. Randy will work with Susan to see if the wording “Course Objectives” can be changed to “Lecture Objectives”, if not then Jean conceded that lab objectives are not required separately, and if the lab objectives are identified in the course objectives area it would be acceptable.

ADJOURNMENT: 3:57 p.m., Mallory/Andal Next Executive Meeting: 2/7/11

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4

Members: Randy Barton, Tom Kimberling, Jean Mallory, Erik Andal Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,

Jeri Pourchot, Recorder Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:45 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 12, 2011

ACTION: The minutes for April 12, 2011 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Disciplines List-Randy The remaining courses to disciplines that were not approved last year by the Curriculum Committee have gone to faculty and is nearly completed. There are still a few outstanding courses to disciplines that Randy is working on, and he has added some himself since some are orphan courses or was not able to get faculty to participate. This report will come to the 10/25/11 Curriculum Committee meeting for review and hopefully approval, then on to the Senate. There was much discussion by the Council in regards to how the discipline(s) should be applied to Work Experience 97. This is currently coordinated by Dave Chestnut and overseen by Chris Vitelli. The Council was under the impression there would be one course outline of record for Work Experience 97 and a cross-listing with the other disciplines. Randy reported Susan is fining limitations with cross-listing and is not sure how this will work. It was decided that Randy, Raelene, Mike and Chris will meet to work on how Work Experience 97 should be listed with the Disciplines’ List, and how Dave Chestnut’s minimum qualifications will fit.

ACTION: Randy, Raelene, Mike and Chris to meet and work on Work Experience 97 and allocating disciplines. Randy may need to contact Susan about limitations with cross-listings.

2. Pre-requisite Process/Policy- Randy

The Pre-requisite Process/Policy needs to be looked into. Currently we do not have a District Policy, but Randy is going to start developing a local one that he will draft and bring back to the Committee for input and approval. Randy needs the Deans to be invested in this process since it could have a big impact on the courses in their divisions. In the past the College has never followed-up on statistics used for pre-requisite requirements, if it is something we should do, it needs to be added to the new process. If the College does not come up with a process/policy for pre-requisite approval for disciplines outside of the course discipline, we could have the ability to pass them taken away.

ACTION: Randy to draft a new Pre-requisite Process/Policy and bring back to the Curriculum Committee for input and approval as soon as possible.

3. Credit Hour (application of policy)-Randy This document was just passed at the last Full Curriculum Committee meeting and will now go to Senate for

approval. Randy will also post it on the Curriculum Committee webpage. ACTION: Randy to forward this to the Academic Senate and post on the Curriculum Committee webpage.

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ACTION ITEMS:

1. Repeatability-Randy *see handout There are changes coming down on repeatability. Randy directed the Council to review the October issue of the

Academic Senate Rostrum if they had not already read the article. Basically, it is 3 takes, and 4 under certain circumstances. No action was taken on this item; Randy wanted the Deans to be aware of the changes and to make sure student admittance is not written off by Counseling as had been reported. The repeatability section in CurricUNET will need to be rewritten. There are approximately 200 courses with repeats in the College’s inventory that will need to go through a full audit. It is important that everyone on the Curriculum Committee is on the same page with this information. Randy would like the VPSL Office to interpret the new recommendations and give the Curriculum Committee direction by spring. It was decided that Chris and Mike with work with Randy on this.

ACTION: Randy, Mike and Chris will meet and work on interpreting and creating the necessary changes.

DISCONTINUANCES: None DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. COR Distribution Methods-Randy Randy had brought up this issue at the last Full Curriculum Committee meeting, where it was decided to form an adhoc committee to look into different methods. During the discovery process it was noted that our Course Outline of Records are available for viewing on CurricUNET without any special permissions. Below are discussion items that ensued from a lengthy discussion period: • Send a list out to faculty and adjunct of what they are teaching along with instructions on how to access the C.O.R.s

and a check-list for them to verify that they have looked at the C.O.R.s. • The Deans would like the ability to view the syllabi on CurricUNET for all courses. • Mike informed the committee he has a process already established for his faculty to view C.O.R.s. • The Deans have been identified as being the department responsible for C.O.R. Distributions, and not the

Curriculum Committee. • Have a computer station set up at all Adjunct In-services with instructions on how to access their C.O.R.s.

2. TMC and the Catalog-Randy Randy is looking for something to address how the College is going to add the TMCs to the Catalog. There needs to be a process on how we are going to deal with post-secondary information and the need to clean-up repetitive verbiage. Currently language is repeated in the catalog with each TMC. Below are discussion items that ensued from a lengthy discussion period on the topic: • Some members mentioned that our local degrees may be taken out of the catalog with the advent of the TMCs;

however, Jean Mallory reminded everyone that the TMCs only guarantee admittance to local CSUs, and that some student going elsewhere may want the specialized degrees.

• The Committee may have to address all of the degrees at one time. • Necessary to bring the Counseling department into the talks about degrees. • Randy and Jean will set up an appointment with Melissa Raby to discuss the verbiage in the catalog.

ACTION: Randy, Mike and Chris will meet and work on interpreting and creating the necessary changes.

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3. Curriculum Duties/Processes-Randy *see handout Randy went over the VPSL Office responsibilities in the Curriculum Bylaws and handed out a draft of the Curriculum Approval Flow Chart. Randy, Raelene, Tom Kimberling, Susan and Jeri worked on the submitted flow chart to represent how curriculum proposals flow through the process and at what responsibilities. Randy would like the Deans to look at this and contribute to the process; especially in regards to Program submissions to the State. The Committee asked how SAM codes are being entered and by whom at this time. Tom reported that Susan Vegter-Slape enters the SAM codes. Most colleges have the Vocational Education department/Dean involved in the process and Chris would like to be able to work with Susan on allocating the codes to different courses. The Deans would like to know if it would be possible to get access to add codes in CurricUNET like MJC does. Randy will work with Susan on permissions for code access. The Deans are to add needed processes to the flow chart and send it to Randy. Randy will bring the new draft to the next Executive Curriculum Committee meeting. Chris would like to know when the program approval date really is for catalog.

ACTION:

• Randy to meet with Susan to work on permissions for Deans to get code access in CurricUNET AND to find out what the actual deadline is for program approval date for catalog.

• Susan and Chris to work on Vocational Education input on SAM coding. • Chris and Mike to add needed process to the flow chart and send to Randy before the next Executive

Curriculum Committee meeting.

4. VPSL Representation on Curriculum Committee-Randy

*see handout This item and item number 3 ran together in conversation. Randy pulled from the Curriculum Bylaws the VPSL’s Office duties, which in turn are Susan Vegter-Slapes duties as a resource/liaison from that office. The main question from the Bylaws is whether Susan’s attendance is required at the Executive and Full Curriculum Committee meetings. In the past she had assisted the committee with CurricUNET entry and input at the meetings. Tom felt that her attendance should not be necessary if the VPSL was in attendance. Susan can be on call for meetings, and the Chair would contact her or the VPSL Office if she was needed. Jean Mallory would like the final Curriculum Committee approval date added to the CORs as soon as possible since she needs that available for submission to other institutions and programs. The Committee decided Jeri could enter this information into CurricUNET once she has the proper permissions.

5. Other Items: a. State List of Non-Credit Inventory Discontinuances-Randy

Randy informed the Committee that a spreadsheet will be coming to the next Full Curriculum Committee meeting for ratification. This inventory list of non-credit courses was sent to the VPSL’s Office a few years ago for discontinuance from our system. The VPSL’s Office did an administrative discontinuance without bringing it through the curriculum process; therefore, we did not have record of this activity, and it has been causing problems with the accuracy of our curriculum data. With the ratification of this list we will be able to go into CurricUNET and verify that all courses that are inactive on the spreadsheet are inactive in CurricUNET. After CurricUNET’s course inventory cleaned-up we will then align our Access database. All changes to curriculum inventory need to go to Curriculum Committee.

b. 2+2 Pathways-Jean Mallory Jean reported out about a meeting she attended involving articulation with Community Colleges and

High Schools. They are working on a process. Jean will contact Chris with more information.

ADJOURNMENT: 3:20 p.m., Mallory/Andal Next Executive Meeting: 11/01/11

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE FULL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:40pm, Buckeye 4

Members: Randy Barton, Tom Kimberling, Erik Andal Melissa Colon, Brian Jensen,

Raelene Juarez, Rick Rivera, Jean Mallory, Don Smith, Joe Ryan, Nate Rien Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Chris Vitelli, Melissa Raby,

Patricia Ramirez, Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Pourchot Others Attending: CALLED TO ORDER: 2:45 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: none INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Welcome Back-Introductions Randy welcomed Rick Rivera and Nate Rien to the Curriculum Committee as the new voting members. Rick and Nate will be sharing a position. Rick will be attending the meetings in the Fall and Nate will attend in the Spring for the next 3 years. Randy also welcomed Chris Vitelli, the new Dean of Vocational Education and Tom Kimberling, the Interim VPSL.

2. Share Point Training Randy informed the Committee that Share Point will be the Document Sharing Program they will be using for retrieving

documents for the meetings. He attempted to sign everyone on to the system, but there were too many complications. He will make arrangements to have everyone signed on before the next meeting. He did a brief run through of the program on the overhead.

ACTION: RANDY TO MEET WITH COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO SIGN-ON TO SHARE POINT AND SET THEM UP BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING.

3. Handbook

Everyone should have received an updated Curriculum Handbook by this time. The Handbook is set up exactly like the electronic version on the Curriculum webpage. Randy encouraged committee members to become familiar with the handbook.

4. Stand Alone Training The State allows individual colleges to approve Stand Alone courses if all voting members have received Stand Alone training. Stand Alone courses are courses that are not part of a program. All new members have received Stand Alone training handouts and have been directed to conduct the training on the provided webinar site. Once the training has completed they must sign-off with Jeri so that the appropriate verification documentation can be routed and sent to the State before the September 30th deadline. Randy asked that all training be completed by Wednesday or Thursday of this week. If we do not have the training completed in time, we cannot perform approvals on Stand Alone courses.

5. Repeatability Training * See handout Randy went over the repeatability criteria needs in CurricUNET. Much discussion ensued from the committee on which courses can have repeatability and what the different criteria are for repeatability. The State is still working on the guidelines and how they are going to address the issue. Currently, each College is being asked to come up with a policy for this area. See handout for slides from a current State Academic Senate Institute on repeatability.

ACTION: RANDY TO WORK WITH ADMINISTRATION ON DEVELOPING A REPEATABILITY POLICY AND BRING BACK TO COMMITTEE

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6. Course Outline of Record Training * See handout Randy spent a great deal of time going over the different areas of the Course Outline of Record with the committee. C.O.R.s were handed out to adjunct faculty at the Adjunct In-service last week. The State Academic Senate is strongly recommending that COR.s be part of regular correspondence at every college and each college must verify that each course is being taught to the C.O.R.. How we are going to do that at this point is unclear. If all requisite courses are not taught to the C.O.R., then the Committee cannot pass prerequisites. Randy will work on a process and bring it back to the Committee. Randy also reminded the Committee to keep Disciplines in mind and that it is extremely important to have someone qualified to teach the course, represent the course.

ACTION: RANDY WILL WORK ON A PROCESS FOR C.O.R. IMPLEMENTATION AND BRING BACK TO COMMITTEE.

7. Curriculum Chair Designee for Executive Committee Each year the Curriculum Chair designates another Curriculum Member to be a voting member on the Executive

Curriculum Committee. Randy would like to designate Joe Ryan if he is available and willing since he has had past experience with the position. Since Joe is not at the meeting, Randy will contact him to see if he will take the placement.

ACTION: RANDY TO CONTACT JOE RYAN IN REGARDS TO BEING THE DESIGNEE FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

8. 2011-2012 Curriculum Timelines/Deadlines

The deadline to submit course proposals for catalog has been moved up to October 25, 2011. Basically, all courses must be submitted into CurricUNET by that date in order to make it into the 2012 Catalog. The Committee asked about State approval and how long it takes to have a course approved at the State level. Some courses that were passed in the Spring last year have not been approved by the State as of yesterday, and have already been added to the Fall Schedule. We do not have a solid timeline for State approvals. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, some of the courses were submitted a little late in the summer. It is a good guideline to plan for 1 full year from the time a new course or a major modified course is proposed until it has been approved by all governing bodies and possibly eligible to be taught. Randy will define what has to be approved by the State and bring back to the Committee.

ACTION: RANDY TO DEFINE WHAT HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THE STATE AND BRING BACK TO COMMITTEE.

ACTION ITEMS: None DISCONTINUANCES: none DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Content Review- A First Look Ran out of time and was not addressed.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:30 pm

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Members: Randy Barton, Dennis Gervin, Jean Mallory, Maryl Landess Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Gary Mendenhall, Melissa Raby

Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:45 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: February 1, 2011 and February 11, 2011 The Committee asked that ACTION items be sent out to the person who was delegated to perform a task.

ACTION: The minutes for February 1, 2011 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Landess/ Unanimous)

ACTION: The minutes for February 11, 2011 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Landess/ one Abstention)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. TMC-Sociology and Communication-Randy Randy will contact Mike and check with Tim on the SPCOM 12 situation. This summer we will be cleaning up units. Randy to send the latest version to Mike and Susan.

ACTION: *Randy meet with Mike and Tim to check on SPCOM 12. *Randy to find and send the latest version on units to Mike and Susan. ACTION ITEMS:

1. Discontinuances/Clean-up remaining courses-Randy Randy and Jeri will be working on compiling a list of courses still remaining in the College’s

curriculum inventory that need to be updated or discontinued. Jean asked that the list be sent to her to make sure it is accurate.

2. Board Report Review-Timeline-Randy The Committee discussed if it was necessary to have a timeline for when the Board Summary

Reports would be submitted and if they should be reviewed first by the Curriculum Committee before going forward to the Board. Susan will check with Dennis to see if there should be a timeline, otherwise it was decided that she would submit them as needed and that the Curriculum Committee did not need to review them first. Jean was glad to hear that the summary report is going to be submitted on a more regular basis since this will allow the courses and programs to be approved sooner and she can submit them to the State more often and by December.

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3. Postings-Randy Randy will start posting on the Curriculum website the following items: Course Review-The 5 year reviews will be updated regularly so that faculty will be able to

look-up where their courses are at. Disciplines-Courses and their disciplines will be posted as they are updated for faculty access.

Randy would like permission to finish up the disciplines this summer so they can be submitted to the Senate for approval in the fall.

ACTION: Move to give Randy permission to work on the outstanding disciplines during the

summer for approval in the fall by the Academic Senate. M/S/P (Landess/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

DISCONTINUANCES:

1. HHP 12 2. HHP 21 3. HHP 29 4. HHP 301

ACTION: Move to DISCONTINUE HHP 12, HHP 21, HHP 29, and HHP 301 with and

effective date of Summer 2012- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Landess/ Unanimous)

DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. CurricUNET Dates (shut-down and start-up)-Randy Susan informed the Committee that people will start receiving notices starting the first day of school in fall for approval. The clock is shut-off the last Friday before finals week in spring and for breaks and holidays.

2. Course Review 5 Year Cycles-Randy Randy will be working on a spreadsheet over the summer so that come fall courses will be divided up for the next review cycles. He would like to offer some sort of “quick pass” from the committee to early birds to get people to update again in the near future even though they just updated their courses.

ACTION: Randy to create a spreadsheet for course reviews.

3. Other Items: The ENTRE TMC and some other programs need to go to the Board this summer so that

Susan can submit to the State. Does Mike need to submit the TMC’s to the State? Need to develop a process for submitting degrees.

ACTION: *Randy will meet with to see if he will be submitting the already approved

TMC’s to the State. *Randy will work on a process for submitting degrees for the committee to

approve in the fall. * Susan and Jean will work on submitting the TMC’s to the Board this

summer.

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4. Follow-up on Previous Agenda Action Items: Susan to lock disciplines in CurricUNET Randy to create a form with a rationale area for discipline changes Randy to create a report in the access database that will gather new and revised disciplines

for the Academic Senate approval. Randy will follow-up with Dave Chesnut on the work experience courses

ADJOURNMENT: 4:20 p.m. Next Executive Meeting: fall

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Members: Randy Barton, Dennis Gervin, Jean Mallory, Maryl Landess Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Adrienne Seegers Melissa Raby

Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Pourchot Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 4:07 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: none. The 2-1-11 minutes will be on the 3-1-11 executive agenda. INFORMATION ITEMS: None ACTION ITEMS:

1. C.O.R. Assignment Area-Randy Randy asked the Committee how important the “Assignment Area” is to them. There are 6-8

course proposals in the approval system that will be coming to the committee shortly that have not addressed the assignment area and the proposer is having issue with his request to complete the area. The information provided is very generic and does not relate to the course objectives. He is asking the committee what the criteria should be. Dennis stated that the State Academic Senate agrees that the assignment area is important as is needed to understand the methods of instruction and evaluation. The Curriculum Committee and Faculty Senate decides what is required to accurately evaluate curriculum. It was decided that the Full Curriculum Committee should decide how important they feel the assignment area is and how it can be consistently enforced based on the C.O.R. Assignment Area document that was handed out from the Course Outline of Record: A Curriculum Reference Guide.

ACTION: Jeri to put this item on the Curriculum Agenda.

Randy to get this information out to the members for review before the next meeting.

2. Discipline Proposal Method-Randy Many courses with disciplines have already been approved by the Academic Senate and now

the Curriculum Committee is seeing some of these courses coming back with changes. Randy is asking the Executive Committee how they would like to see this situation handled. Some ideas are:

Lock the Discipline field in CurricUNET so that only certain administration can enter data in that field.

Have a statement on CurricUNET that informs the proposer there will need to be a rationale form submitted to the Academic Senate if they would like to change the current discipline.

ACTION: Randy to compose a rationale form for discipline change and bring to the Curriculum Committee for approval.

Susan to lock the discipline field in CurricUNET as soon as possible and add a

note to the screen stating that a rationale form must be completed to change the discipline.

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1. G.E. Philosophy- Randy Title 5 and the Accreditation Standards dictate what goes on in this area. The Curriculum Committee needs to adopt a philosophy and add it to this upcoming catalog. The Committee looked at some sample philosophies from other colleges and the Board Policy. It was decided that a special group consisting of Randy, Jean and John Leamy would meet to work on a philosophy and bring back to the Curriculum Committee.

ACTION: Jeri to make meeting arrangements Dennis to allocate space and location of G.E. Philosophy in catalog.

ADJOURNMENT: 5:00 p.m. Next Executive Meeting: 3-1-11

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Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:40 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: December 14, 2010

ACTION: The minutes for December 14, 2010 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Landess Abstained)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. 97 Work Experience Courses-Gary Gary was not in attendance. Randy informed the Committee that Dave Chestnut is the Work Experience Coordinator and is working on the 97 C.O.R. Adrienne will be the point person for now. Randy will bring a draft of the C.O.R. from Dave to the next Executive Committee meeting for input. The Committee discussed in great detail how this situation is going to work. It was agreed upon by general consensus that it will most likely have to be 1 C.O.R. with cross-listings to the other courses. Discussion items were: The course content is the same on all of them since they have to meet State

requirements. Some departments want their work experience to be identifiable on the student’s

transcripts. Susan to check on how we would report these courses to the State, it should be like

all cross-listings. Randy will get the Work Experience courses/names from Dave Work Experience is 4 Units per semester and 16 Units total. Need to know how these courses will be entered in Datatel

ACTION: *Randy to get a draft from Dave as well as the names of the work experience courses.

*Susan to see how these courses would be reported to the state *Susan to see if there is a limit to cross-listing in CurricUNET.

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ACTION ITEMS:

1. Disciplines’ Field in CurricUNET-Randy There is an issue with courses that already have approved Disciplines by the Senate now

coming back through curriculum with revisions. Randy suggested that the Disciplines area of CurricUNET be locked off from faculty and only administrative personnel can have access to that area. Susan will check to see if the discipline area can be locked. It was suggested that a form be created for faculty to fill out with a rationale if they wish to change the approved discipline. This form needs to be available on the Curriculum website. Randy will send the verbiage to Susan. At the end of the semester there will need to be two reports for the Senate involving disciplines. One will have new disciplines that need to be approved and the second one will have revised disciplines that need to be approved. It is important for faculty to realize that curriculum does not belong to individual faculty, but to the Senate.

ACTION: *Susan to work on locking the disciplines area in CurricUNET. *Randy to create a form with a rationale area for discipline changes.

*Randy to create a report in the access database that will gather new and revised disciplines for the Academic Senate’s approval.

2. Proposal Pathways-Randy This is a process for proposals that do not have faculty support. Randy and Raelene’s

proposals were combined into this one process that would require a form. The form has not been developed yet. This process allows the full-time instructor in the area 16 days to respond or it will revert to the orphan track, then follows Track 4. After much discussion it was decided that there should be a “gatekeeper” if the Curriculum Committee decides to go with this process. The “gatekeeper, most likely Susan” would have let people in and lock them out after the course is approved or not approved. Randy will be taking this proposal to the next Full Curriculum Committee meeting for approval.

3. TMC-Randy Randy reported that Dennis had contacted the state and they have sent the

recommendations for names of the degrees. Randy has been working with the faculty on Psychology, Sociology and Communication Studies. We will need to post these degrees in the addendum because they will not be approved in time for the catalog this year. The Committee discussed that they should perhaps list them in the catalog with “pending”. TMC degrees will not require institutional requirements. The colleges can keep their original degrees as well, but they may become obsolete after the TMC degrees are in place. The TMC degrees will be accepted at all CSUs, unlike individual institutional degrees. Jean and Melissa will brainstorm together on wording for the catalog and give the information to Susan. The UCs are working on similar degrees, but are not there yet.

ACTION: Melissa and Jean to meet and work on the wording for the TMC degrees in the catalog and give to Susan.


1. Course Numbering Review-Gary Randy to meet with Gary and Kathy Smith to get an understanding on the differences between 200, 500 and 600 level courses.

ACTION: Randy to meet with Gary and Kathy Smith

2. Voc. Ed. Order of Approval by State and Curriculum Committee-Randy The State requires the Vocational Education division to meet certain mandatory requirements such as meeting with advisory committees and reporting new programs. The new and changed programs have to be approved by the State before they can be put into practice. Currently the Curriculum Committee has not been taking these into consideration. The State can take up to 1 year, and is not a good idea to have students taking the courses when they are not

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approved. The Committee reported that this is not just Vocational Education, but all programs. Much discussion continued about the situation and if the College should wait until the State approves programs before adding them to the catalog. The programs have to be approved by the Curriculum Committee before the State will approve them. Randy would like a list of all the programs that have gone through the Curriculum Committee this year. The Committee decided to have Susan hold until the State approves. The proposals will still go through the Curriculum/Senate process.

ACTION: Jeri to get a list to Randy of all programs that have gone through the Curriculum Committee this year.

3. Deadlines for Catalog and Schedules-Randy Susan asked for the Catalog deadline to be moved up to December to allow her more time for catalog revisions. This would also be very helpful with the schedules as well. The Committee would like to know if Program Review could be moved to spring instead of fall, since faculty would need that extra time to get curriculum review done. Susan will work with Jean on the IB and DD214 information for the 2011-12 catalog. The Committee wondered if the Curriculum meeting should be moved to a different day of the week. It appears that Tuesdays are not a good day for many faculty and Dennis. Possibly send out a survey to see what day would work best.

4. Other Items *Randy reported that there will be a special Executive Curriculum meeting on 2-11-11. Agenda

items consist of General Education Program. (Randy will check to see if there is a District policy). * Scheduling for next year’s meetings. Possible Fridays.


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Wednesday, December 14, 2010 2:40-4:40-Buckeye 4


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:56 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 12, 2010

ACTION: The minutes for October 12, 2010 were APPROVED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Embedding Courses/Teacher Prep- Dennis Chancellor’s Office is looking more closely at teacher prep courses. Currently we are not offering these types of courses.

2. Baccalaureate Distinction-Jean The community colleges have been asking the CSUs to come up with a clear policy on what has to be in a course to make it transfer level. The CSUs are writing it at this time and Jean will send it forward to the Curriculum Committee when she receives it.

ACTION ITEMS: none

1. 97 Work Experience Courses-Gary Work experience is very prescribes by the State. The College has to follow the guide book put out by the State dictating what can be done. It would be best if these courses could be submitted with 1 outline and then cross-listed in the different disciplines with letter designators. Susan will need to figure out how they will be reported to the State. Gary will work with Dave Chestnut to come up with the outline this Spring. 96 courses were eliminated a couple of years ago. Randy will inform the faculty that this is how these courses are going to be carried out.

2. Proposal Pathways-Raelene Raelene was unable to attend the meeting. Randy shared the Proposal Pathways document

with the committee. This document shows different ways a course can make it to the Curriculum Committee for review; even if it does not have a sponsor. It allows the Committee the opportunity to see the proposal and keep them from being stuck in the CurricUNET system in limbo. The Committee liked the document, but asked that “sponsor” be changed to “Representative”, and remove “ approval processes competed thus far and”. Randy will take this document to the Senate as amended for approval. It will most likely need a change in the Curriculum Bylaws.

ACTION: Move to APPROVE the Proposal Pathways document as amended and send to the

Academic Senate for approval. M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/Unanimous)

ACTION: Randy to take the document to the Academic Senate for approval and update the

Bylaws as needed.

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DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Lab/Lec- Jean Jean had asked for clarification at the last Full Curriculum Committee meeting. The Executive Committee reported that if a course says lab work, there has to be specific time blocks for lab. Dennis will look to see if he can find a clear definition. The Deans will work with their faculty.

ACTION: Dennis to look for a clear definition to bring back to the committee. 2. SB 1440

There are 5 majors being proposed. Looking at CID for identifiers. Jean and Randy have put a spreadsheet together and are sending it to instructors for sign-off. The College is required to have a minimum of 2 done by Fall. They will most likely have to go into an addendum since they will not be ready in time for this year’s catalog. The Committee suggested there be a statement in the catalog informing the students where the addendum is located.

3. CLEP *see handout College Level Examination Program. The CSUs recognize the fulfillment of areas through CLEP exams regardless of our recognition here at Columbia College. Randy and Jean have put together a Resolution for this program as well that will go before the Senate in January. ACTION: Jean to send the chart to Susan for the catalog

4. IB * see handout IB is similar to AP on some campuses. The table clarifies how some CSU campuses are applying exams for credit. Randy and Jean have put together a Resolution to go before the Senate for approval. This Resolution would support Columbia College in recognizing these credits.

5. DD214 Vet Discharge Form. CSUs are giving military personnel credit for Area E. The State is giving credit in Area E and for activity. Information is located in the college catalog in the Military Service Area, pg. 41 and in the G.E. grid on pg. 55.

6. TMC-CID Transfer Model Curriculum. This will need to be added in the catalog as a chart. Will have to be

an addendum this year. 7. Justification for Need-Dennis

Dennis spoke to Joe Derrin. Justification is not needed in credit courses. At this time only in non-credit courses or stand-alone.

8. Repeatability-Randy The District’s policy is in place. We are good to stay with 4 times for activity and performing

arts, field trip courses, where content changes, and mandated state requirements. Not eligible for courses with “change in experience.” An audit may be a workable option.

9. Stand Alone CB 24-Basic Skills. We have already cleaned up our courses a couple of years ago. Send

to Alex. Mission and Concentration on B.S. will have to come back at another time.

10. Financial Aid and D.E. Courses There are some authentication issues that have been brought up at other colleges. The

Department of Education came down on some colleges that were not adequately verifying students enrolled in on-line courses. This is bringing about the Substantive Change Policy. Dennis just cautioned the committee that this is something we need to be aware of and keep on our radar.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2010 2:40 Buckeye 4


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:50 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 14, 2010

ACTION: The minutes for April 14, 2010 were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Barton/ Maryl Landess abstained)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Embedding Courses/Teacher Prep- Dennis Committee decided to table this until the next meeting when Dennis could be present to

discuss the item.

ACTION ITEMS: none DISCONTINUANCES:

1. AT 11 2. AT 131 3. BUSAD 152 4. BUSAD 153 5. BUSAD 154 6. HHP 175 7. HHP 30 8. HHP 51 9. HHP 59B 10. HHP 71 11. HHP 80 12. HHP 81 13. NATRE 255 14. NATRE 95B

ACTION: Move to APPROVE all Discontinued courses as a group M/S/P (Mallory/Landess/Unanimous)

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DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. IB-Jean

* see handout IB is similar to AP on some campuses. The table clarifies how some CSU campuses are applying exams for credit. Jean recommended that this issue go to the Academic Senate for a possible approval to be used here at Columbia. Randy and Jean will work on a Resolution for this issue to take to the Senate in November. If this Resolution is approved by the Academic Senate, then the IB/CLEP Table would need to be added to the Catalog in the Spring.

2. CLEP-Jean *see handout College Level Examination Program. The practice has been “No” here at Columbia in the past for accepting CLEP. Student’s would take the exam and not have to take the course for credit. The CSUs recognize the fulfillment of areas through CLEP exams regardless of our recognition here at Columbia College. Jean informed the Committee that both the IB and CLEP would be instrumental in helping students transferring to 4 year institutions.

3. DD214-Jean Vet Discharge Form. CSUs are giving military personnel credit for Area E. The Curriculum Committee will be asking the Academic Senate to recognize credit for Area E and for the 2 units of P.E. required at Columbia on Certificates and Degrees.

4. SP 1440-Jean Committee decided to table this until the next meeting that Dennis could attend.

5. Justification for Need-Dennis Committee decided to table this until the next meeting that Dennis could attend.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:00 p.m. Next Executive Meeting: 11/23/10

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:40 TRC

Members: Randy Barton, Dennis Gervin, Jean Mallory, John Leamy Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Gary Mendenhall, Melissa Raby

Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:45 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: February 24, 2010

ACTION: The minutes were APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Two-Year Catalog-Dennis Dennis reported that we still need to address how we will deal with the catalog

addendum. Need to hold to the curriculum deadlines and may start asking for faculty to submit a rationale proposal to his office if they want a course to be approved outside of the deadlines. Need to have a mechanism to deal with issues that come up. This summer Randy and Dennis need to work on this issue and put together some sort of handout for the Division meetings.

We need to become compliant with our courses and have them approved by the Board of Trustees before scheduling them. Effective terms may need to be looked at, especially mid-year.

Independent Study must be a course we do not teach, so it must have a comprehensive outline and then must be approved by the Board. Not sure if Title V addresses the approval process. Randy and Susan need to meet and go over the process and make sure CurricUNET is ready to follow the process by fall.

2. Psychology Certificates-Susan The Psychology Attainment Certificates are now in the on-line addendum and will be in the 2010-2011 catalog.

3. Changing of Course Units/Hours-Randy

The committee has not met yet. Randy will get that going and will come up with something appropriate for Columbia. We have had unit changes without content changes. Need to meet with Jean and John and turn this into a policy over the summer and bring it back in the fall.

4. CurricUNET Reports-Susan

Susan is scheduling a demo of an Adhoc reporting meeting with CurricUNET. First they announced the report would be free, but now they are charging $5000 Dennis asked for Susan to go ahead and set up the free demo and if it is really good, there could possibly be money available to purchase. Susan will go ahead and schedule the demo and let the committee know the date and time. Randy would like to have a trial period to work with the reporting before committing to its purchase. Jean reported that the Summary of Curricular Changes Report is not working. Susan would like for Jean to be available the next time she talks to Aaron since he keeps reporting it is working. Jean would be able to let them know exactly what she needs and address what is not working correctly. This report would be good for the Course Changes Board Report also. Susan will set up the meeting and then follow-up with Randy.

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5. Multiple Listed Courses- Susan

Susan reported that CurricUNET has this working now. The parent course shows up with a note stating the multiple listed course(s). Also, the system will not allow for deletions of pre-requisites that are attached to the course.

ACTION ITEMS:

1. Updating Terms on a Rotational Basis/DE Coordinator-Randy Originally the terms were set up on a rotational basis so there would never be a major

change of members at one time. John will check to see if he still has the first rotation schedule and then we can get back to where we are supposed to be. If not, we may need to start new. Terms need to run by position and not by person as a 3 year rotation.

The Committee decided to strike the extra D.E. Coordinator column and add the position to the Liaison area. Currently Melissa who is the D.E. Coordinator will be filling both the Faculty-at-Large position and the D.E. Coordinator position. When her term is up as Faculty-at-large, she will then be in the D.E. Coordinator position only. The D.E. Coordinator position will be a non-voting position.

2. How to Deal with out of Compliance Courses During the Summer-Susan Randy needs to talk to Dennis about this situation. The Committee suggested that Dennis send out another reminder to faculty before they leave for the summer. Susan will put a hold on the courses that are submitted over the summer at level one.

3. Discontinuance of a Course that Leads to Modification of Program-Randy

When a course comes through, Randy would like to have a Program Modification/Course Impact Report with it (just like we do the Form As). If the course affects a program and does not have a Program Modification, then it cannot be seen by the Committee. The report may need to be pulled at the Technical Review Stage to make sure whether it affects a program or not and to follow-up with the course proposer. The Program Modification needs to go through the system so that faculty in the area has the opportunity to review and respond to the change. Susan will look into how the notifications can go out to the faculty involved with the program change. The notification may need to go out to all faculty, which would be troublesome, but it is better to have “over done” notification than not having the appropriate faculty notified. Randy would like for him, Susan and Dennis to meet and go over this.

4. Work Experience Courses as a 5 Year Review Packet- Randy

This item was tabled until Gary can be at the meeting. DISCONTINUANCES: none DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Webpage Removed from agenda and will bring back on the Full agenda

ADJOURNMENT: 4:10 p.m. Next Executive Meeting: next fall

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:40 TRC


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Randy Barton at 2:50 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: January 13, 2010

ACTION: The minutes were approved with one spelling correction. M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Two-Year Catalog Dennis is proposing that we consider transitioning from a one-year to a two-year catalog, in keeping with general practice throughout California. Advantages would include a reduction in production costs and labor. However, the change would make post-publication online catalog addenda a necessity; criteria and procedures would need to be developed. We will look for other community colleges that have recently made this type of transition to learn how it was handled. There was discussion about the relationship between the catalog’s effective date and articulation deadlines.

2. Psychology Certificates

Susan explained that two 12-unit psychology certificates were approved as certificates of achievement in early 2008 for Fall 2008 implementation, but because they have not been submitted to or approved by the State office, are being offered as skills attainment certificates. It is uncertain whether or not they will still be submitted to the State for approval as certificates of achievement.

3. Changing of Course Units/Hours

Jean has obtained information from Delta College on their guidelines for reviewing proposed changes in course units. Randy will form a workgroup to review this issue and develop a draft set of guidelines for the curriculum committee’s consideration.

4. “Advanced Placement” in Catalog

For the 2010-11 catalog, Jean and Melissa will develop a revised listing of Advanced Placement courses in the format adopted by CSU’s statewide in May 2009.

5. CurricUNET Reports There was discussion about the types of data we need to pull out of CurricUNET for our various purposes. Dennis needs a report that shows Distance Ed status. Jean needs certain types of data for ASSIST. Requests should be forwarded to Randy and Susan. Susan will check with Governet regarding the ad hoc report feature that has been in development.

ACTION ITEMS:

1. Multiple-Listed Courses We are at a point of deciding whether to remove the multiple-listed courses from CurricUNET, leaving only the official courses in the database. There was discussion about whether or not

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the multiple-listed courses have a unique CID and can be easily found using the search feature. Susan will do some testing before deleting anything.

ACTION: Remove the multiple listings from CurricUNET. M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/Unanimous)

DISCONTINUANCES:

ACTION: Move to APPROVE all proposals listed below as a group. M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/Unanimous)

1. HHP 20

Discontinuance Title: Dance Survey


Effective Term: SUMMER 2010

ACTION: Discontinuance HHP 20 – APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy /Unanimous)

2. HHP 27

Discontinuance Title: Choreography




3. HHP 28

Discontinuance Title: Dance Production




4. HHP 39

Discontinuance Title: Intramural Athletics

Units: 0.5-1.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/1.5-4.5


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ACTION: Discontinuance HHP 39 – APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/Unanimous)

5. HHP 40

Discontinuance Title: Racquet Sports

Units: 0.5-1.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0.0/1.5-4.5


ACTION: Discontinuance HHP 40 – APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/Unanimous)

DISCUSSION ITEMS: None

ADJOURNMENT: 4:15 p.m. Next Executive Meeting: 4/14/10

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:40 TRC


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None APPROVAL OF MINUTES: November 25, 2009

ACTION: The minutes were approved with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Approval Process Model for New and Modified Courses Form Randy introduced a new form that will help originators with the CurricUNET process. This form will be in the curriculum handbook, web page and a part of the training package in the future. The Committee asked Susan if she could run a report identifying where courses are in the process. Susan is working with Jason on this.

2. Interpreting the Five Year Review Report

Randy changed the coloring to be more reflective of where the course is on the report and added the new policies.

3. Randy’s Absence

Randy will be leaving for medical reasons during the month of March. During that time John Leamy will be filling in for him as Chair. John will ask for another voting member at the next full committee meeting.

ACTION ITEMS:

1. Discontinue the D.E. Only Proposal Susan reported that it could not be taken entirely out of the system or it would affect those courses that have already gone through. It will be taken out of sight.

ACTION: Remove D.E. only proposal from use in CurricUNET M/S/P (Leamy/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

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DISCONTINUANCES:

ACTION: Move to APPROVE all courses listed below as a group M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

1. HHP 41 Discontinuance

Title: Fencing: The Sport and Martial Art Units: 0.5-1.5 Hours Lec/Lab:

Effective Term: SUMMER 2010 Note:

ACTION: Discontinuance HHP 41– APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

2. HHP 42

Discontinuance Title: Fencing II

Units: 0.5-2.0 Hours Lec/Lab:



3. HHP 43

Discontinuance Title: Introduction to Sailing

Units: 2 Hours Lec/Lab: 1/3



4. HHP 7A

Discontinuance Title: Applied Fitness I

Units: 0.5-2.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 36-117


ACTION: Discontinuance HHP 7A- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

5. HHP 7B

Discontinuance Title: Applied Fitness II

Units: 0.5-2.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


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Note:

ACTION: Discontinuance HHP 7B- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

6. MUSIC 65 Discontinuance

Title: Theater Production: Music Emphasis Units: 1 Hours Lec/Lab:


ACTION: Discontinuance MUSIC 65- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

7. MUSIC 69

Discontinuance Title: Madrigal Ensemble




8. POLSC 95A

Discontinuance Title: Service Learning I in Political Science

Units: 2.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 1/3


ACTION: Discontinuance POLSC 95A- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

9. POLSC 95B

Discontinuance Title: Service Learning II in Political Science



ACTION: Discontinuance POLSC 95B- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

10. POLSC 97

Discontinuance Title: Work Experience in Political Science

Units: 1-8 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


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Note:

ACTION: Discontinuance POLSC 97 APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

11. SOCIO 95A Discontinuance

Title: Service Learning I in Sociology Units: 2. Hours Lec/Lab: 1/3


ACTION: Discontinuance SOCIO 95A- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

12. SOCIO 95B

Discontinuance Title: Service Learning II in Sociology



ACTION: Discontinuance SOCIO 95B- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

13. SOCIO 96

Discontinuance Title: Work Experience in Sociology

Units: 1-8 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


ACTION: Discontinuance SOCIO 96 APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

14. SOCIO 97 Discontinuance

Title: Work Experience in Human Services Units: 1-4 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


ACTION: Discontinuance SOCIO 97- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

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DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Validation of 5 Year- Randy Already dressed at the top

2. Datatel-satisfaction of pre-requisites -Randy Susan is looking for a procedure on how she should address this issue in an automatic way. She feels uncomfortable doing it manually based on A&R’s request. Randy will contact departments (SPAN, MATH, ENGL) to get a list and then have the Curriculum Committee look at list then send to Susan. A&R will continue to do manual override and they will check with the deans

3. Entrance and other limitations on requisites-Randy The prerequisite forms the committee worked on before did not address special limitations. John suggested looking at other colleges to see how they are doing this instead of reinventing the wheel. Randy will send an email to Jean, the deans, A&R, & Dennis asking for a list of course limitations.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:35 Next Executive Meeting –2/3/10

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:40 TRC


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None APPROVAL OF MINUTES: September 9, 2009-Discussion Items #1change wording on first sentence and add be cautious as last sentence


October 14, 2009

ACTION: The minutes were approved as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/ Unanimous)

November 4, 2009


INFORMATION ITEMS:

none

ACTION ITEMS:

1. Independent Study Procedure Jean will go over this with the Deans in the Spring

ACTION: The Independent Study Procedures were approved as submitted. M/S/P (Mallory/Leamy/ Unanimous)

2. CurricUNET Access Protocol for Susan

Randy will send a matrix to the Senate Council. Focusing on Orphan areas at this time DISCONTINUANCES:

ACTION: Move to APPROVED all courses listed below as a group M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

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1. CHILD 105 Discontinuance

Title: Creative Activities in Child Nutrition Units: 2 Hours Lec/Lab: 2/0


ACTION: Discontinuance CHILD 105– APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

2. CHILD 7

Discontinuance Title: Child Health and Safety



ACTION: Discontinuance CHILD 7– APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

3. FIRE 170BA

Discontinuance Title: Continued Professional Training: CAL FIRE CPT



ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170BA– APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

4. FIRE 170BC

Discontinuance Title: Continued Professional Training: Rapid Intervention Crew



ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170BC- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

5. FIRE 170BE

Discontinuance Title: TCFD Management I



ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170BE- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

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6. FIRE 170BJ Discontinuance

Title: Firefighter I Training Units: 4 Hours Lec/Lab: 3/4


ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170BJ- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

7. FIRE 170CH

Discontinuance Title: Continued Professional Training: Fire Apparatus Returnee Training



ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170CH- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

8. FIRE 170CI

Discontinuance Title: S-330 Strike Team/Task Force Leader-All Risk

Units: 1.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170CI- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

9. FIRE 170CR

Discontinuance Title: CDF Firefighter I Returnee Training



ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170CR- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

10. FIRE 170CY

Discontinuance Title: Command 1A



ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170CY- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

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11. FIRE 170DE Discontinuance

Title: GPS Orientation Training Units: 0.5 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


ACTION: Discontinuance FIRE 170DE- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

12. AT 170

Discontinuance Title: Special Topics in Automotive Technology

Units: .5 to 3.0 Hours Lec/Lab: 0/0


ACTION: Discontinuance AT 170- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Leamy/Mallory/Unanimous

13. MUSIC 70

Discontinuance Title: College Band




DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Proposal Protocol- Randy Put on hold

2. 3 Voting Faculty Members on Executive Committee-Randy Jean made a move on behalf of the committee that the Curriculum Policies and Procedures be changed to reflect that the Executive Committee be composed of the following voting members: Academic Senate President or their designee Curriculum Chair designee from the full committee Articulation Officer This is to be brought back to the full committee for a vote


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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2:40 TRC


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

Minutes were not approved. Not enough members in attendance to make a quorum. INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. CCCIO Conference Update-Dennis

*See attachments. Dennis went over areas such as: The meaning of C.C. degrees. A.S.= ENGL, MATH, SCIENCE & Career Tech. Ed. A.A. =

everything else ASOE. The state is talking about doing away with this degree. Currently Gary’s area

decides on the ASOEs. The BOG is looking at local degree requisites. This may have local Academic Senate

involvement. CB 21. The state is supposed to be sending us a list. We are supposed to have this

completed before the catalog comes out. Dennis suggested we stop waiting for the list and start looking at it now. There will be trainings on 11/17 &18 and 12/3. Mike will contact faculty in ENGL, MATH, ESL and have a member from each area attend the training. It was suggested that the Senate President attend as well. Dennis will forward the rubric to Mike. When the date is decided, the TRC will need to be reserved.

ACTION: Mike to contact faculty members and find one from each department to participate on the CB 21 process/training

2. Requisite Programming-Susan

Susan will implement as per the 10/14/09 minutes

ACTION ITEMS:

1. Independent Study Procedure- Jean Postponed until there is a quorum

2. CurricUNET Access Protocol for Susan *See attachment. Randy handed out an approval process for review. Currently, adjuncts are being given access to CurricUNET without a full-time faculty member assisting. The Curriculum bylaws state that anyone can develop curriculum, but must be sponsored by a full-time faculty member. Should there be some type of procedure so that Susan knows when it is ok to give access to adjuncts? (The committee did not give an answer to the question). Dennis reminded the committee that it is the Curriculum Committee’s responsibility to make sure Distance Education follows Title 5. With all the questions raised about adjuncts being able to participate in curriculum and be on the Curriculum Committee, Jean reminded the committee that there are currently 2 adjuncts holding voting positions on the committee (Jean Mallory and Elizabeth Pfleging).

DISCONTINUANCES:

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DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. Orphan Programs-Process- Randy

See attachment. Randy handed out a matrix for everyone to look at. This is a worksheet that he would like for people to fill out. The Academic Senate Council is striving to create process and procedures to deal with orphan areas. Randy has been charged with orphans in relation to curriculum. This matrix will help with that process as well as coming up with procedures for the Curriculum Handbook. He will update the spreadsheet with the suggestions from the executive committee and send it out electronically.

The Deans would like for the Academic Senate to create a Resolution stating courses that have not been updated in over 5 years will not be scheduled. The deadline could be something like the last Curriculum Committee meeting in November. Jean reported that ethically she should be pulling courses from ASSIST that are as old as some of our courses are at this time.

ACTION: Randy will compile the information received from the executive committee and bring the results to the next executive meeting.

Randy will take the resolution idea to the Senate Council

2. 3 Voting Faculty Members on Executive Committee-Randy Randy asked the executive committee how they felt about having a 3rd voting member added to the executive committee. With only 2 voting members it makes it difficult to have action items carried out since there is often not a quorum and also that would help in issues ties. The committee thought there use to be 3 voting members and was unsure how it changed. They asked Randy to look at the old bylaws and bring the information back to the next meeting.

ACTION: Randy and Jeri will try to find where the change happened in the old bylaws.

3. Originator Attendance at Meetings-Randy This item will be addressed with other issues in the matrix Randy is compiling.


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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:40 TRC


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: None APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 9, 09

Minutes were not approved. Not enough members in attendance to make a quorum. INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Requisite Forms The prototype is completed and ready to send to CurricUNET. The Committee decided to hold the screen until after the catalog deadline. It could be open at the administrative level for beta testing behind the scenes.

2. Course Number 70, change existing courses MUSIC 70 has not been taught in years and most likely needs to be discontinued. Susan will check with John Carter and Rod Harris to see what they wish to do. Susan will send Randy some alternate course numbers for CMPSC 70/GEOGR 70 so that he can work with Jeff Tolhurst on changing them. The Deans are ok with these changes as long as the affected faculty have been informed.

3. Curriculum Open Labs There have been two open labs so far, and both were well attended. Susan and Jeri have received positive feedback.

ACTION ITEMS: None

DISCONTINUANCES:

None DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Independent Study Procedure/Process The Committee liked the final procedure/process. Susan will add this to the CurricUNET approval process. Jeri needs to ask Jean for an electronic version and add it to the handbook. The Committee will vote on this form when there is a quorum.

ACTION: Bring back the document for approval at the next Executive meeting

2. Direction of Administration on Curriculum See handout

Randy met with Dennis and put together the procedures for the V.P. of Instruction. The Deans looked it over and had no objections. They were concerned with the co-chair part of the language. Some places it states that the V.P. of Instruction is the Co-chair and in other areas it does not. Also, if he is the co-chair, what are his responsibilities as such?

ACTION: Randy to talk with Dennis and Erik about the co-chair issue and possible responsibilities.

3. Outcomes versus Course Objectives

See handout This handout appeared on Jeri’s desk and she is not sure who left it there. It was shared with the Committee to see if it was something they left and if they wanted to address the issue. The Committee agreed they are not ready for this issue yet and to give the handout to the SLO Mentors.

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ACTION: Jeri to send the document to the SLO Mentors

4. 600s Categorized for Discipline Purposes The Courses to Disciplines subcommittee has come across some issues with the SKLDV 600s. Randy asked the Committee if they would like to break them into two sections (Basic Skills and Skill Development) so that it would help with distinguishing minimum qualifications. The Committee is not interested in breaking them into two sections. Randy will inform the subcommittee that they will need to move them to a new category if they need to.

ACTION: Randy to inform the Courses to Discipline subcommittee of the Committee’s decision not to subdivide.

5. Process for Adjuncts and Distance Education

The Senate needs to address this issue. What happens when an adjunct wants to do a Distance Education proposal and a Full-time instructor does not want it offered? Randy will talk to Dennis and Erik about this. Susan wants to know when it is ok to give an adjunct access to CurricUNET? Is it different with D.E., does she wait to get an ok with Melissa Colon?

ACTION: Randy to talk to Dennis and Erik about the Senate’s part in the process Randy to talk to Dennis and Melissa about when an adjunct is allowed to get access to CurricUNET to do D.E..

6. Old Proposals in CurricUNET Approval Process Susan will go in and kick out last year’s BUSAD courses that have been sitting in there. She will save comments and send the information to Randy and Gary.

ACTION: Susan to kick out the old BUSAD courses


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Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:40 TRC


Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez Others Invited: none APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 1, 09

Randy brought to the committee’s attention Item # 3 & 4 under Action Items in the minutes. He wanted clarification if the courses were being tracked and needed to be brought back to the committee. Susan is tracking the courses (they are in Groove) and they will need to come back to the committee this year. Jeri will notify the originators once CurricUNET is available again for submissions.

ACTION: The minutes were approved as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous) John Leamy was unable to vote since he was not present at the

April 1st meeting.

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Courses to Disciplines Randy sent out emails to those he did not have the opportunity to speak with. He is tracking them on a spreadsheet. Some of them are coming back slowly. Orphan and Difficult courses are going to the Disciplines Subcommittee. The Deans would like to have a look at the courses after the subcommittee has attached disciplines to them, but before they go to the Curriculum Committee or Academic Senate. The courses should be ready in about two weeks and ready for committee in 3 weeks.

ACTION ITEMS:

None DISCONTINUANCES:

None DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. CSU, GE Approval of online science labs-Jean Mallory Jean received a survey via email stating CSUs are critically reviewing online science labs on a case by case basis. Even though they are not supposed to look at modality, they are. She advised caution on approving courses that are using online modality for labs. Speech is not allowed at all. Fresno and Chico are not taking physiology or biology online labs; hybrids are ok. Until this is resolved, there are issues. We should be cautious in approving on-line science labs

2. Datatel-satisfaction of pre-requisites-Susan Requests for higher level courses being accepted as a pre-requisite have been coming to Susan. Students are being blocked if they have taken higher level course work, but not the pre-requisite that is required. Need to come up with a way to solve this situation. Randy suggested that it be identified at the program level. They need to be identified by requests and then have the department take care of them. The committee will need to revisit this again in the spring. There could also be a possible one time pass on Form As and have them listed and put into Datatel. They would not be listed in the catalog. Mike Torok’s departments seem to have the most courses with the issue, so would be best to check with him when identifying what coursed need to be addressed.

ACTION: Add this to the first spring agenda.

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3. New approval process-Randy Randy shared an approval process chart with the committee (Jeri to add it to the next full committee packet). This chart will be put into the new handbook and be available on the internet so that everyone will know what is happening. Randy reminded the committee that the Tech Review will not be checking for content. Randy will be putting together a list identifying roles for each level of the approval process.

4. Screen Changes-Susan

The syllabus screen has been removed and syllabi will now be put in the attachment section in CurricUNET. One issue is that faculty will not have access to their old syllabi unless Susan or Jeri retrieves it for them.

5. Help! Desk-Randy Randy would like for one phone number/person to be identified for information. It was decided that Jeri’s number would be the one listed. She would help the individuals as much as possible and then contact Susan or Randy if needed.

6. Course Outlines-Bring the new sections up to date-Susan/Randy Reading, Writing and Out of Class Assignments are now a screen in CurricUNET since the syllabus is no longer required in the COR. Representative examples in this area are not required to have a long detailed description or as comprehensively listed as the actual class assignments and may qualify as minor modification. These particular screens must be filled out.

7. Independent Study Procedures/Process-Randy This topic was brought up at a previous meeting and was asked to be brought back. We are looking for uniformity. Currently the faculty do what they want and each Dean does it differently. Would like for it to be the same. Mike has a template and some examples we can use. The outline has to be available if needed since a student has to take this to the UC/CSU for the course to be evaluated based on content. After much discussion, the committee decided it would be best to have Independent Studies documented in CurricUNET. Susan will set up a new Independent Studies proposal type and approval process. The approval process would go through the Dean and then to the secretaries. Using CurricUNET would provide uniformity, all necessary areas to be addressed and for reliable storage. There should still be a syllabus and a contract done and these would be added to the attachment area. Deans will come up with a 2 letter and year identifier for the courses.

8. Direction of Administration on Curriculum-Dennis Tabled until Dennis is able to attend

Susan asked for clarification on DE Proposal type. DE Proposals will be a separate proposal from Major or Minor and will be approved separately. Susan informed the committee that only one modification at a time can go through for a course. Minor and Major modifications would have to be sent through and passed before a DE proposal or modification could go through. The originator will not be able to have access to the DE screen when they are doing a modification.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:32 Mallory/Leamy Next Executive Meeting –9/23/09

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:40-4:35 TRC

Members: Joe Ryan, Dennis Gervin, Jean Mallory, Randy Barton Resource/Liaison/Student Members: Mike Torok, Gary Mendenhall, Susan Vegter-Slape,

Jeri Perez Others Invited: APPROVAL OF MINUTES: March 4, 2009

ACTION: The minutes were approved as amended M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Multi-listed courses-verification they will link Jason will go in a fix this during the summer when things quiet down and CurricUNET is not being used as much.

2. Numbering for OFTEC 152 and 160 Gary and Randy will advise Judy to renumber 152 to be 152A and 160 to be 152B next fall

3. D.E. Module locked for D.E. Information Only. Susan reported that she has not asked Jason to work on this yet and will talk to him. Joe would like for this to be up and running by August

ACTION: Susan to contact Jason and see if the D.E. Module can be changed before August ACTION ITEMS:

1. OFTEC 160 (OFTEC 152B) Periodic Review/With Major Change

Title: Medical Coding II Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes: This course was originally approved as OFTEC 160. It was changed to OFTEC 152B at this meeting and

changed in CurricUNET by Susan

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Major Changes for OFTEC 160 (OFTEC 152B). Moved to APPROVE as submitted

M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

2. FIRE 270EA

New Course Title: L 280 Followership to Leadership Effective Term: FALL 2009 Unit Changes: No Hour Changes: No Requisite Changes: No Notes: This was originally passed in Full Committee with a requisite. The requisite was removed since it is not a

Columbia College course. This needs to go to the Full committee on 4/8/09 instead of at the executive meeting.

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3. HPMGT 134 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Commercial Baking: Beginning Effective Term: FALL 2009 Unit Change: No

Hour Change: No Requisite Change: No

Notes: Course is being sent back to the author for a syllabus update. The current syllabus has an 18 week schedule

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HPMGT 134-Moved to TABLE as submitted M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

4. BUSAD 161A, 161B, 164

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 161A, 161B, 164- TABLED until author completes changes and forwards on to committee

M/S/P (Mallory/ Barton/ Unanimous)


1. Wording for ESC 35 Courses “Maximum of 3 units of any of the following.” There are three places in the catalog where this will need to be addressed.

2. Repeatability Statement for EMS and FIRE Gary reported that he and Dennis had spoken about this in the past. Dennis said there are exceptions, he would look them up and get back to Gary. Currently some of these courses have unlimited repeatability in Datatel. Joe will talk to Dennis

ACTION: Joe to talk to Dennis about repeatability and do CIO know anything about AA/AS and whether they will be changed to be transfer or not.

3. Extra Meeting to Discuss CurricUNET and Problems

Jeri to make a meeting for the first week in May. Everyone is invited to attend.

4. Training Meeting in Fall Randy will hold a special faculty training next year to inform people about comments in CurricUNET

ADJOURNMENT: 3:45 Next Executive Meeting –Next Fall

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 2:40-4:35 TRC


Jeri Perez Others Invited: Melissa Colon APPROVAL OF MINUTES: None INFORMATION ITEMS: None ACTION ITEMS:

1. BUSAD 53 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Project Management Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes: This course was passed earlier in the year as a multi-listed course with CMPSC 53. Need to get it out of the

Que. Susan will contact Jason and find out how things are going with getting multi-listed courses connected and what we should do with this outline since we should have only 1 course outline for both courses.

ACTION: Susan to contact Jason ASAP and find out where we are with multi-listed courses and verify that only one course will be listed for both courses.

2. CMPSC 14

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Advanced Website Development Effective Term: FALL 2009 Unit Changes: No Hour Changes: No Requisite Changes: No Notes: Melissa cleaned up areas of concern from the last meeting.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 14. Moved to APPROVE as submitted M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

ACTION: FORM A-CMPSC 13. APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/ Barton/ Unanimous)

3. HPMGT 134

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Commercial Baking: Beginning Effective Term: FALL 2009 Unit Change: No

Hour Change: No Requisite Change: No

Notes: Course is being sent back to the author for revisions. The course content is too vague and needs a FORM A.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HPMGT 134-Moved to TABLE as submitted M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

4. OFTEC 100

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Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Computer Keyboarding I Effective Term: FALL 2009

Unit Changes: No Hour Changes: No Requisite Changes: No Notes: Susan fixed the typing speed formatting during the meeting

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for OFTEC 100- APPROVED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/ Barton/ Unanimous)

5. OFTEC 110

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Computer Keyboarding II Effective Term: FALL 2009

Unit Changes: No Hour Changes: No Requisite Changes: No Notes: Committee decided to not worry about a FORM A since it is a recommended for success and the FORM A

area on CurricUNET is not available at this time.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for OFTEC 110- APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

6. OFTEC 151 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Medical Office Management Effective Term: FALL 2009

Unit Changes: No Hour Changes: No Requisite Changes: No Notes: Sent back to author. Comments from committee had not been addressed and will not be approved until the

author fixes problem areas. Also, conflict in Prerequisite area. Needs a FORM A when re-submitted ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for OFTEC 151 Send back to author to fix M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

ACTION: Gary to talk to Judy about the prerequisites

7. OFTEC 210 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Typing Speed and Accuracy Building Effective Term: FALL 2009

Unit Changes: No Hour Changes: No Requisite Changes: No Notes: This course was pulled by the author. She would like to do more work on it before going to the Committee

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for OFTEC 210 Pulled by author


1. Dean level holding- Committee decided to leave the hold at 3 days until the end of the semester, and then change it to a 5 day hold during the summer.

2. Certificates and Degrees affected by new courses and changes Faculty who have made changes to courses that will have an impact on certificates and degrees will need to contact Susan as soon as possible and give her the appropriate

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information so that she can do a proposal in CurricUNET. The Committee would like for the proposals to come through for an approval process.

ACTION: Susan will check to see if it is possible to have these proposals go through the approval process. Joe will talk with Jeff Tolhurst about ESC 35 and their place in majors.

3. OFTEC 160- This course was approved last month at committee. Judy would like to change the numbering since OFTEC 152 is an advisory. She is proposing to change 152 to 152A and 160 to 152B. The Committee felt this would not be a good idea since we are trying to get away from labeling courses with and “A & B” identifier.

ACTION: Gary and Randy will speak to Judy about what is the best way to proceed with numbering these two courses.

4. FORM A’s- Joe hopes this part of CurricUNET will be available by next fall. Until then, FORM A’s can be attached in the attachment areas. Courses that are coming through now with pre-requisites will need to be looked at separately on the old forms and then added to the attachment areas. Courses that went through committee in the last few months that did not have the FORM A’s ready for review will need to have them submitted and looked at by the March 11th meeting.

5. Next Year’s Calendar- Joe advised Randy that he should meet with Jeri as soon as possible and prepare a meeting calendar for next year. This calendar will need to be approved by the Curriculum Committee at the next meeting. He also suggested have 1 “no action” meeting at the beginning of each semester so that the committee can meet and discuss issues.

6. D.E. Module- Joe expressed the need to have the D.E. module set up so that no other changes can be made to the course when a D.E. proposal is being made. D.E. forms can be proposed in “New Course” and “Major Modification” if the author feels like there needs to be changes made to the course. Currently it is too difficult for the committee to know if changes have been made to a course if they are receiving it as a D.E. proposal.

ACTION: Susan to contact Jason and see if he can have the D.E. module locked for D.E. information only.

7. Reminder to Faculty- Joe will send out an email reminding faculty that all courses must be submitted by 3-15-09 in order to possibly make it to committee before the end of the semester.

ACTION: Joe to send email out to faculty ASAP

8. Course Outline Workshop- The committee is considering the idea of holding a workshop on how to write course outlines. Faculty could use this as a FLEX credit.

9. Courses into PDF-

In the summer we will need to take all courses and turn them into PDF files to be stored on the shared server. This is to protect the college from losing them since CurricUNET is a web based program housed and owned at/by Governet.

10. Left over D.E. Courses.-

New D.E. courses and ones left over from the last meeting will be the first items on next week’s agenda.

11. MATH 17A and 17B-

These courses were already passed but are still in the Que. Jeri will check to see why and let Joe know

12. ANTHR 1- Jean informed the committee that ANTHR 1 may be listed in Area B2 next year.

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13. Articulation Officer Comments-

Jean expressed her concern that faculty are not responding to her comments on CurricUNET. The problems are still coming forward to the committee meetings due to the lack of changes being made by the authors. The committee feels education may be the best source of action at this point. We need to let them know how important it is for them to address the comments.

14. Proposals-Going Forward with Entry-

Susan asked if it would be ok for her to go ahead and enter courses into Datatel that are close to being and should be approved. The Committee felt that at this time it would be ok to do so as long as Susan notifies Joe and Jeri which courses she is entering.

15. Old Courses-Discontinuing

Susan will run a report on courses that are listed in the catalog but have not been taught in the last 2 years or more. She will then send out the report to the Deans, Dennis, Joe and Jeri. The Deans will notify faculty that they will need to update or schedule these courses within the next year or they will be discontinued.

ADJOURNMENT: 3:42 Next Executive Meeting 3/4/09

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:45-3:42 TRC


Jeri Perez Others Invited: Melissa Colon APPROVAL OF MINUTES: None INFORMATION ITEMS: None ACTION ITEMS:

1. CMPSC 1

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Computer Concepts and Information Systems Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes:

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 1-APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/ Barton/ Unanimous)

2. CMPSC 14

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Advanced Website Development Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes: This course is being sent back for author to fix. Author needs to take out prerequisite for CMPSC 12 and

submit a FORM A for CMPSC 13

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 14. Send back to author to fix M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

3. CMPSC 149

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Photoshop for the Web Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes:

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 149-Moved to APPROVE as submitted M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

4. HHP 53A

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Volleyball I Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes: Needs to have grading scale added

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HHP 53A- APPROVED with changes M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

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5. HHP 53B Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Volleyball II Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes: Needs to have grading scale added

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HHP 53B- APPROVED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

ACTION: FORM A-Moved to APPROVE as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

6. HIST 21

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Women in American History Effective Term: FALL 2009 Notes: Sent back to author. This should have been a major and needs to be reviewed by the Full Committee.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HIST 21. Send back to author to fix M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

DISCONTINUANCES: None DISCUSSION ITEMS: On February 11, 2009 the Distance Education propositions will be coming through. Title 5 requires a separate approval component for D.E. from regular course outlines. Trying to get this done by deadline for Deans to be able to schedule. The faculty submitting the D.E. courses are not necessarily sure on how to do them at this point, but are receiving training from Melissa. Joe asked the committee to handle these outlines gently. ADJOURNMENT: 3:42 Next Executive Meeting 3/4/09

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:17 Buckeye


Jeri Perez Others Invited: Kathy Schultz APPROVAL OF MINUTES: None INFORMATION ITEMS: None ACTION ITEMS:

1. CMPSC 4

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Windows Operating Systems Essentials Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: No new text until the college changes software version. Changes made during meeting to catalog course

description, objectives

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 4-APPROVED with changes made at meeting M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

2. CMPSC 53/BUSAD 53

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Project Management Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: none

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 53/BUSAD53-APPROVED as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/ Barton/ Unanimous)

ACTION: FORM A -Moved to APPROVE as submitted M/S/P (Mallory/Barton Unanimous)

3. BUSAD 158

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Payroll Accounting Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Changes made during meeting. Additional assessment information

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 158-Moved to APPROVE with changes made at meeting

M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

4. POLSC 12

Text Change Only Title: American Political Thought Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Text change only. This is not a review

ACTION: Text Change for POLSC 12- APPROVED (not a review) M/S/P (Mallory/ Barton/ Unanimous)

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5. POLSC 14 Text Change Only

Title: International Relations Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Text change only. This is not a review

ACTION: Text Change for POLSC 14- APPROVED (not a review) M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

DISCONTINUANCES: None DISCUSSION ITEMS: Joe asked the committee to concentrate on major modifications and new courses at this time. ADJOURNMENT: 4:37 Next Executive Meeting 1/28/09

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:40, TRC


Jeri Perez Others Invited: APPROVAL OF MINUTES: None INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. Canceling 1/7/08 executive meeting. We will not be back from break at that time. 2. Resignation- Floating this item until the January 14, 2009 meeting

ACTION ITEMS:

1. ANTHR 3

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Current Issues in Anthropology Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: None

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for ANTHR 3-APPROVED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

2. BUSAD 158

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Payroll Accounting Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Expand course content beyond chapter headings

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 158-TABLED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

3. BUSAD 161A

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Small Business Accounting Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Course content issues and unclear objectives

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 161A-SENT BACK TO ORIGINATOR M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

4. BUSAD 161B

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Small Business Accounting Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Course content issues

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 161B- TABLED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

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Title: Business Mathematic Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: None

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 163- APPROVED M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

6. BUSAD 164

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Income Tax Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Objectives need editing-measurable

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 164- TABLED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

7. BUSAD 18

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Business Law Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: None

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 18- APPROVED M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

8. BUSAD/CMPSC 53

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Project Management Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Courses do not have the same outline. Originator must decide which one they wish to use and the other one

deleted. Bring back to committee when decision has been made

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD/CMPSC 53- TABLED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

9. CMPSC 17

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Advanced Internet Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: None

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 17- APPROVED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

10. CMPSC 51 and CMPSC 52

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Management Information Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: BUSAD 51 and BUSAD 52 were passed earlier this semester. These outlines needs to be deleted from the

system and related to BUSAD 51 and BUSAD 52

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 51 and CMPSC 52- NO ACTION M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

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11. CMPSC/BUSAD 54 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Data Mining Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: CMPSC will be the primary outline

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD/CMPSC 54- APPROVED M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

12. GEOGR 12

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Cultural Geography Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Book update approved. Outline not reviewed. Originator will submit a new one at a later date

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for GEOGR 12- TEXT BOOK APPROVED ONLY M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

13. GEOGR 15

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Physical Geography Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Book update approved. Outline not reviewed. Originator will submit a new one at a later date

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for GEOGR 15- TEXT BOOK APPROVED ONLY M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

14. HIST 16

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: United States: to 1877 Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Book update approved. Outline not reviewed. Originator will submit a new one at a later date

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HIST 16- TEXT BOOK APPROVED ONLY M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

15. HIST 17

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: United States: 1877 to Present Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Book update approved. Outline not reviewed. Originator will submit a new one at a later date. Long title is not

same as catalog. Susan will fix.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for HIST 17 TEXT BOOK APPROVED ONLY M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

16. POLSC 10

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Constitutional Government Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Book update approved. Outline not reviewed. Originator will submit a new one at a later date

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for POLSC 10- TEXT BOOK APPROVED ONLY M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)


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1. Orphan Departments- Joe asked the Committee if there was a way to track programs that

do not have a full-time faculty member overseeing it. Gary reported that orphan departments in Vocational Education are adopted by full-time faculty in other departments, but he tracks them. Mike will look into this in his division.

ACTION: Mike to check on orphan programs in his division 2. Other-

Jean reported that she needs some sort of documentation that shows what has been modified on course outlines. Joe suggested that we could either make a PDF file at each meeting of approved courses before he hits approve or print out a CC report on all courses that are approved before he actually hits the approve button. Susan will ask Jason to create a report once Jean lets her know what details she needs.

ACTION: Jean to give details needed for report to Susan Susan to contact Jason to create report

Gary and Mike will give Joe information (programs, hours and names) for adjuncts to update orphan courses. Joe will take this information to Dennis for funding.

ACTION: Gary and Mike to send adjunct information to Joe Jeri to remind Deans after break

The CSU and IGETC information on our CurricUNET site will be edited. Jason pasted MJC’s

information on our page. There will be a change in the approval route. An additional originator step will be added

after curriculum committee review. Currently there is no way for the originator to make changes after the curriculum committee reviews the course and it goes to the committee meeting. This extra step will allow for changes to be made and then go to the committee meeting.

Susan is going to change the Deans and faculty review of courses to 3 days instead of 10. If we stay with the 10 day review, the courses will not make it through in time for the catalog deadline. January 22 is the last day for catalog.

ACTION: Joe to send out information to faculty on the new 3 day review for approval.

Joe will be doing a CurricUNET and Disciplines Listing training on FLEX day. ACTION: Jeri to let the Deans know the time of the training when it is scheduled. ADJOURNMENT: Next Executive Meeting 1/28/09

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:01, Buckeye 4


Jeri Perez Others Invited: APPROVAL OF MINUTES: None INFORMATION ITEMS: None

ACTION ITEMS:

1. BUSAD 161A

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Small Business Accounting I Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: There was a mix up in the CurricUNET program and this should not have come to committee. It was tabled at

the time due to changes that needed to be made. Susan will check with CurricUNET to see why the mix-up happened. This will go back to Dr. Hill for completion and brought back at a later date.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 161A-Tabled M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

2. BUSAD 161B

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Small Business Accounting II Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: There was a mix up in the CurricUNET program and this should not have come to committee. It was tabled at


ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 161B-Tabled M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

3. BUSAD 163

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Business Mathematics Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: There was a mix up in the CurricUNET program and this should not have come to committee. It was tabled at


ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 163-Tabled M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

4. BUSAD 164

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Income Tax Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: There was a mix up in the CurricUNET program and this should not have come to committee. It was tabled at


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ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 164Tabled M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

5. BUSAD 18

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Business Law Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: There was a mix up in the CurricUNET program and this should not have come to committee. It was sent back

for review. Susan will check with CurricUNET to see why the mix-up happened. This will go back to Dr. Hill for completion and brought back at a later date.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 18-Sent back for review M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

6. BUSAD 53-Project Management 7. CMPSC 149-Photoshop for the Web 8. CMPSC 17-Advanced Internet Research

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: There was a mix up in the CurricUNET program and this should not have come to committee. These are being

removed from today’s agenda and will be brought back when completed Susan will check with CurricUNET to see why the mix-up happened. This will go back to Dr. Hill for completion and brought back at a later date.

DISCONTINUANCES: DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Liberal Arts Major Susan and Jeff have worked on a new draft and will be sending it to Stephanie Low

2. Algebraic Implications “The current courses Math 100B, Math 101, BUSAD 163,are going to be replaced by Math 104 for 2009/2010 catalog. This is to comply with the AA degree changed coming from the state

3. Preferred Focus Areas The Committee decided not to have focus areas at this time. Take a look at it again next semester.

ADJOURNMENT: Next Executive Meeting 12/10/2008

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

MINUTES Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Committee Members:

Present: Joe Ryan, Jean Mallory, Dennis Gervin, Randy Barton Absent:

Resource/Liaison/Student Members:

Present: Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez (recorder)

APPROVAL OF MINUTES – October 1, 2008

ACTION: The minutes were approved as submitted M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/Unanimous)

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. CurricuNET Issues Resolved- email from Susan Liberal Studies-Susan needs to contact Stephanie Low to get an update. Last Susan heard, a description for each

area of emphasis was needed. Susan will work with Jeff and Joe will talk to Jeff and try to have it ready for review on 11/5/08 and for a vote on 11/19/08.

Susan will send out an email to everyone updating them on what has been resolved with CurricUNET. ACTION: Susan to send out an email to everyone informing them what has been resolved with CurricUNET.

ACTION ITEMS:


Title: Small Business Management Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Needs grading standard added

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 150-Approved with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

2. BUSAD 158

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Payroll Accounting Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Needs changes to objectives. They are too general

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 158-TABLED M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

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Title: Human Relations Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Needs grading standards and title change

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 24- PASSED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

4. BUSAD 30

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Principles of Marketing Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Spelling issues need to be fixed

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 30- PASSED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

Dennis left

5. BUSAD 40

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Management Principles Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes:

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 40- PASSED M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

6. BUSAD 51 and CMPSC 51 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Management Information Systems Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Sentence issue need fixed

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 51 and CMPSC 51- PASSED with changes M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)


Title: E-Commerce Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: FORM A needs to be added

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 52 and CMPSC 52- PASSED with changes M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)


Title: Data Mining Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes: Content needs to be more specific and updated. FORM A needs to be added

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for BUSAD 54 and CMPSC 54 - PASSED with changes M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

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9. CMPSC 30

Periodic Review/With Minor Changes Title: Financial Worksheets on Computers Effective Term: SPRING 2009 Notes:

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for CMPSC 30- PASSED M/S/P (Mallory/Barton/ Unanimous)

10. LIBR 1 Periodic Review/With Minor Changes

Title: Library Information Resources Introduction Effective Term: SPRING 2009

Notes: Take out credit/no credit. In course content change UNIT #4 TO UNIT 4,5 and delete UNIT 5. Also on UNIT #9 change to UNIT #9,10 and delete UNIT 10.

ACTION: Periodic Review/With Minor Changes for LIBR 1- PASSED with changes M/S/P (Barton/ Mallory/ Unanimous)

DISCUSSION ITEMS:

1. Two Year Plan-Joe At the last meeting we thought the Two Year Plan was updated and ready to be added to the catalog addendum and website. However, right after it was presented a faculty member brought their updated plan into the Arts and Sciences office. After further review, it is noticeable that there are other 2 year plans missing. Joe will contact Mike Torok and see if we can get this cleaned up.

ACTION: Joe to contact Mike about making sure the 2 year plan is updated and ready to be added to the catalog addendum and website.

ACTION: Susan to make sure that the updated 2 year plan is added to the catalog addendum and website.

2. Liberal Studies Degree-Susan All ready discussed above

3. Courses to Disciplines-Joe Joe will be taking this to the Senate for discussion on Friday. The plan is to pull out the controversial ones for approval later and address and approve the ones that are apparent by January. These will be sent to the Senate of the whole for a blanket approval.

4. Disciplines Committee-Joe The Academic Senate Council will be the subcommittee who will review courses to discipline issues.

5. Independent Study Approval Process-Joe 99 and 199 will be done by the instructor and given to the Dean. The Dean will be responsible in letting Susan know about the course so that it can be put into CurricUNET with a 2 letter identifier. Tim Elizondo has a good template that would be useful to follow. Joe will talk to him about getting a copy.

ACTION: Joe to contact Tim about an independent study template

6. CurricUNET-Lab Content on Outline Report- This is no longer a problem

7. Ida would like a new department for the entrepreneurial program. The committee wanted more information and would like for Joe to invite Ida to the next meeting.

NEW AGENDA ITEMS FOR FULL COMMITTEE: * Discontinued courses, who is going to do it if there is not full time person. NEW AGENDA ITEMS FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: none

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ACTION ITEMS: Susan

1. Have CurricUNET notify and hold course until ALL Executive Members have had an opportunity to review the course.

2. Make a list of issues that have been resolved and Joe will email out to everyone 3. Have CurricUNET add the Articulation Officer to the same level as the Curriculum Chair on the review

chart. 4. Check on the A.C. report in CurricUNET 5. Have CurricUNET take out the note next to class participation

Jean 1. Think about giving a Curriculum workshop Joe

1. Contact Mike about completing the 2 year plan and make sure that Music and other missing departments are added

2. Joe to contact faculty and remind them to check for spelling errors before submitting curriculum 3. Contact Ida about curriculum issues that need changing. 4. Contact Ida and see if she can come to the next meeting to discuss the entrepreneurial program.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:56PM Next Executive Meeting 12/10/08 Next Full Meeting 11/5/08 Submitted by: J. Perez, Support Staff

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MINUTES Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Committee Members:

Present: Joe Ryan, Jean Mallory, Dennis Gervin Absent: Randy Barton


Present: Gary Mendenhall, Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez (recorder) INFORMATION ITEMS:

1. 200 Courses-(Gary left), Dennis handed out a draft Proposed Course Numbering System for Gary. The Committee liked the format but wanted to see the non-credit/non-basic skills kept as 300-399 and have a separate category for the basic skills non-credit; possibly numbering them 700-799. Joe, Dennis, Gary, Mike and Kathy Smith need to meet again to work out the details for Joe to take to the Academic Senate and then back to the Full Curriculum Committee. The issues that need to be discussed are:

a. What is the definition of Basic Skills for Columbia that benefits the students most? b. Separate out non-credit courses c. Apply a different course numbering to basic skills non-credit courses versus regular non-credit courses.

DISCUSSION ITEMS: (Dennis left)

1a. CurricUNET Processes (amended to agenda) Currently there is a problem with the approval process. If the Dean and originator sign-off on the proposal before the department has a chance to respond, they are left out of the loop. Susan will contact CurricUNET and have them change the process where the department is on the same level as the Dean with a 10 day review before it goes back to the originator or whatever comes first.

2a. Minor Changes CurricUNET Processes (amended to agenda) The committee would like for the Articulation Officer to be put at the same level as the Curriculum Chair. Susan will contact CurricuNET to have this changed. Currently the Articulation Officer is not on the approval process under that title. (see diagram below for new process route). Susan also needs to contact CurricUNET and have the TOTAL HOURS locked. Faculty should not be allowed to zero them out. Minor modifications should have less than 20% change in content and objectives in order to be considered a “minor” change. If the Committee feels that more than 20% of the content or objectives have been changed it will be renamed a “New Course” and sent to the originator to complete. Susan has the ability to change the form at her level. Susan will contact CurricuNET and have them turn the TMI option OFF on the minor modification form since all TMIs need to go before the Full Committee.

Curriculum Chair Articulation Officer

Originator Executive Board

1. Discontinuances Processes This item will be taken to the Full Committee. The Executive Committee is in agreement to the idea that discontinuances can be voted on in Executive Committee if everyone has approved the discontinuance in CurricUNET. If there is a problem it will go before the Full Committee.

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1.5 CURRICUNET ISSUES Susan will check to see if there are Form A type approvals for requisites in CurricUNET. Joe and Jean will look at the requisite area to see what is needed. Joe will piece together what he would like it to look like.

2. Two Year Plan Arts and Sciences is finished. Joe will edit PDF and send to Jeri to forward out to the committee and Mike.

3. Liberal Studies Degree

Susan and Jeff have mailed off the revision to Stephanie Low. Stephanie is hopeful that we will not have to redo the Liberal Arts Teacher degree since it is a Liberal Studies. She is talking to her supervisor. Once it comes back from Stephanie, it will come back to the committee to fill out the degree forms. Susan will check to see if they are available on CurricuNET.

4. Courses to Disciplines Joe will take the lead on this and talk to certain instructors. Faculty assigns disciplines to courses. Lists of proposed disciplines will be sent to the academic senate for discussion. Since these are part of the course outline and there will be hundreds of these, we will do blanket approvals of course disciplines once complete discussions have been had in academic senate and the curriculum committee. Susan will contact CurricUNET and have them make sure that the discipline shows up on the course outline.

5. Independent Studies Independent Studies is not specifically listed in the catalog. The general description for 99 courses is in the catalog. The course should go through CurricUNET with a 99 or 199 numbers and a two letter designator. These courses would not be voted on, but discussed in executive committee so they could be reflected in the minutes. Susan would be able to activate it without approval except from the Dean. The Deans need to be aware that these courses have to be entered into CurricUNET with all elements required and rigor met. These can no longer be submitted in a paper form.

6. Discipline Committee Joe will speak to Anne next week about putting together a subcommittee of the Academic Senate.

7. Specific Language for comments in CurricUNET Joe felt there should be a better communication language used in the comment areas other than “ok”. He would rather see an “approved” or “not approved because……..”. The Executive Committee did not feel that this was a pressing issue or at least not at this time.

8. Major vs. Minor Modification in CurricUNET See item 2a above. Major and Minor doesn’t necessarily mean the same in CurricUNET as it did before. It is more a way of filtering courses now. If there are major changes it may be sent to the Full Committee for a vote. This will be at the preview of the Executive Committee members.

9. Rule for Course Discontinuance If Not Offered The current rule is “If a course has not been offered in 5 years it can be discontinued”. The Executive Committee will refer this to the Full Committee to see if they wish to stay with this rule that is at least 14 years old. Susan is getting a list from Datatel of courses older than 5 years.

NEW AGENDA ITEMS FOR FULL COMMITTEE: * Syllabi in course content area-information item * Specialty Focus Areas-discussion item * Possible solution to the L.S. dilemma –discussion item * Discontinuing courses –stay with old rule?- action item * Discipline Subcommittee-information item * Two Year Plan –information item * Updated CurricUNET information, Susan-information item * 200 Courses update-information item * Minor Modification, Executive or Full Committee-action item NEW AGENDA ITEMS FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: * Independent Study approval process-

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ACTION ITEMS: Susan

1. Move department approval to the same line as Dean with a 10 day review 2. Move Articulation Officer to the same line as the Curriculum Chair on Minor Modifications 3. Have TOTAL HOURS blocked from faculty entry 4. Remove TMI option from Minor Modification 5. Check to see if discontinuances need to be approved by every member 6. Check to see if there are FORM A type approval for requisites in CurricUNET 7. Check to see if there are degree forms available on CurricUNET 8. Get list from Datatel of all courses that have not been taught in 5 years or more.

Joe and Jean Check out the requisite area Joe

1. Edit PDF on Two Year Plan and send to Jeri 2. Talk to instructors about courses to disciplines 3. Meet with Anne to discuss Discipline Committee 4.

ADJOURNMENT: 4:40PM Next Executive Meeting 10/22/08 Submitted by: J. Perez, Support Staff

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MINUTES Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Committee Members:

Present: Joe Ryan, Randy Barton Absent: Jean Mallory, Dennis Gervin


Present: Susan Vegter-Slape, Jeri Perez (recorder) The meeting was cancelled due to absences. Issues and future agenda items were discussed as follows: DISCUSSION ITEMS: * Courses that are easy to pass will be the first on agendas * CurricuNET will be open to faculty starting Monday, September 22, 2008. Joe will send out an email informing faculty * Randy’s 170 courses will be brought to committee at the end of October after Susan contacts Jason. Action: Joe to send out email to faculty of CurricuNET start up Action: Joe to check with Mike Torok on the progression of the 2 year plans Action: Susan to contact Jason. We would like for syllabi to be on the WR Report. Action: Susan to contact Jason. Can 170 courses that are being discontinued be listed in CurricuNet without having to enter all of the information? Action: Joe to contact Jeff Fitzwater in regards to the Liberal Studies degree and the information sent back from the State Office NEW AGENDA ITEMS: * Syllabi in course content area-information item * Specialty Focus Areas-discussion item * Possible solution to the L.S. dilemma –discussion item ADJOURNMENT: Submitted by: J. Perez, Support Staff

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