COU Faculty Meeting

COU Faculty meeting April 26, 2017 Minutes

In attendance: Marci Dowdy, Rebecca Smotherman, Amy Chenoweth, Taryne Mingo, Robin Farris, Jef Cornelius-White, Leslie Anderson, Paul Maddox, Lisa Monkres, Judy Campbell Meeting time: 9:30am, adjourned – 11:30 Minutes recorded by Morgan Gonzalez Program Topic Task Action Who is By Area responsi when ble WELCOME Approval of March MD moved to approve, TM second, approved unanimously minutes with corrections of clinic update. Group RS On name placard, each faculty member is to positively activity comment on each faculty member's card. Department Judy Campbell Discussion about Site supervisor pay-if former MSU employee account needs to be set up, if not they must complete an independent contractor application Lisa Monkres Discussion- DESE certification Q&A for School Counseling students needing to complete the teacher cert section. This is in continuance of problems that arose from courses that were would not be accepted by DESE. Report Clinic practicum orientation scheduled 4/28 Items only Update Institute workshop 5/5 ABC's of play therapy in schools with RS presenting and Expressive arts in counseling presented by TM Clinic has experienced increase teens, kids, couples 2 new interns to start Makayla and Madison Cameras are 8 y/o Conference RPM Presented at the Evidence Based School Counselor Conference with Megginson, A.J. & Maddox II, R.P., Enriching your school counseling data collection. Fifth Annual Evidence-Based School Counseling National Conference, San Diego, CA. March 2017 (National refereed presentation) MNM Presented at ACA in SF MD Shared content of a text received yesterday from an MSU School Counseling alum who is a practicing school counselor in an area school. Thank you MSU Counselor Educators!!

"So a little something for you to be proud of. My Superintendent said he could tell those he interviewed that were coming from MSU and from those coming from other schools. I already knew our program rocked...congrats to you guys for making us kick butt counselors."

Submissions 7 faculty submissions to national conferences JCW is advising students to use PRoBE MEP Discussion Assessment pre-post test for education students. ALA recommended course of action to clarify from DESE and cert office by 4/27 Advisory board Meet this week SC and MH MD/ 4/27 ALA West plains Update WP Article with RS hit locally, no date for new cohort COU Admissions Process TM- meeting with group to discuss the admission process 2 Master's recommendations. Program Program Syllabi Rubrics Need to be completed by June 15 and submitted to Travis assessment Mahler or Ximena Uribe-Zarain project items need to be (1) associated to standard (2) standard needs to be assigned (3) alignment Curriculum Revisions are at grad council in EPP revision COMP/NCE New testing ALA- discussion students have a window for testing that will method be 3/15-4/15, June, 10/15-11/15, exceptions case by case Criteria for NCE will be students enrolled in internship. Follow up surveys tabled Other SB490 Suicide prevention AC- discussed the bill that will require counseling students business bill to take 2 hrs of suicide prevention training, considerations of embedding training into course requirements.

Fall Retreat Doodle Poll RPM to send out a doodle poll to Before RPM determine date and time suggested summer using the Kinney building.

Faculty end of Suggested by TM summer party