Cosumnes River College (Approved 9/17/08)

Cosumnes River College (Approved 9/17/08) CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MINUTES September 3, 2008

COMMITTEE: Faculty: (18) Administration: (4) Dan DuBray (Chair) Pr Judy Beachler Pr ______(Co-chair) Pat Blacklock Pr Cori Burns Pr Liz Belyea Pr

Deva Chopyak Lynn Fowler Pr Cheri LaDue Classified: (2)

Michael Lawlor Pr Janet Shaw Pr Lap Ly Pr Lance Parks Ex Sue Palm Pr Student(s): (4) Amanda Paskey Pr Marjorie Schreiber Pr Kathryn Smith Pr Chris Wagner Pr Guest(s): Jennifer Zmuda (adjunct) Pr

I. CALL TO ORDER / APPROVAL OF MINUTES Dan DuBray called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m. in BS-148. The committee members introduced themselves. The minutes for May 14, 2008 were approved by consensus.

II. ANNOUNCEMENTS A. Chair’s Report ● The chair received new DE guidelines, The 2008 Omnibus Version of the Distance Education Guidelines, from the State Chancellor’s Office and he will forward them to anyone who is interested. He indicated after a review of the guidelines that we are ok. He forwarded the new guidelines to Lance Parks, DE subcommittee chair, for review. ● There are no curriculum proposal that have rolled over from spring, with the exception of RTVF 313, Freshman Seminar, which was tabled at the request of the faculty initiator. Everything else was approved by the last meeting in spring. There are a number of new proposals coming through Tech Review currently and will soon be on the agenda. ● Sue Palm, Marybeth Buechner, and Cori Burns, with the support of the administration conducted an SLO Workshop in the Careers & Technology area on Flex Thursday, 8/ 21/08. Dan facilitated a Clean Up SLOs on SOCRATES Workshop as well; he reported it was well attended by 12 participants. He said 33-45% of SLOs are completed. The goal is 60% completion by the end of this semester. He said they are open to meet with any department that needs help with SLOs. Tech Review met last week and 82 SLO consent items and 8 course proposals have come in.

Special Note: The committee recognized Dan’s birthday today and sang Happy Birthday! The committee enjoyed some delicious homemade cookies baked by his wife and daughter.

B. Office of Instruction Report Judy mentioned that one of the recommendations from the last accreditation visit and report was the direction to map Program Learning Outcomes to degrees and certificates. The Outcomes Assessment Task Force will discuss this issue in their upcoming meeting in September 2008.

III. CURRICULUM PROPOSALS Distance Education – Course Proposals - None at this time Requisite – Course Proposals – None at this time The chair thanked Michael Lawlor for agreeing to chair the Requisite Subcommittee. Consent/FYI – Course Proposal ANTH 320 was approved by consent as amended. ANTH 320, Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory SLO Cleanup Second Reading – Course Proposals – None at this time Second Reading – Program Proposals – None at this time First Reading – Course Proposals ECE 455, Environmental Rating Scales in Early Childhood Program New to College

(Standalone course)

First Reading – Program Proposals – None at this time

IV. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS / DISCUSSION ITEMS A. Subcommittee Reports GE – none Multi-Cultural – none DE – none Requisites – none Technical Review – covered in the Chair’s Report Curriculum Handbook Update – Sue reported she has draft procedures for Socrates she will submit soon for review. The Curriculum Handbook can be found on the “N” drive if anyone would like to work on updating the handbook. She is working on building a Curriculum website. Judy mentioned that the Curriculum Minutes will be posted on the Resource Guide website. B. Other 1. Curriculum Committee (CC) Calendar and Meetings and Deadlines – It was noted that the Nov 1 meeting date for DCCC should be Nov 7. 2. CC Member Assignments – The chair said there is a need to consider recruitment of more members to fill out the committee and insure the committee remains faculty weighted. Subcommittee assignments were reviewed and members assigned. Sue questioned whether the Past Curriculum Chair is a voting member. The consensus was yes. 3. CC Goals for 2008-09, including the SOCRATES Stage 2 Cleanup consensus process – The chair said the first goal, “Standalone Training”, will be done at the next meeting on Sept 17. He reviewed each of the goals with the committee. Sue mentioned we need to think about adding a new goal related to the graduation competency process. She also said we need to contact the English and Math departments and request they bring the new courses, ENGWR 300 and MATH 120, back to committee with a request, through SOCRATES, for graduation competency approval. The courses will then go to DCCC for approval and then they will be forwarded to the Graduation Competency Committee for approval. We need to do it now in order make the next catalog. It was noted that changes in this area could impact Voc Ed programs and that impact needs to be assessed. Additional goals dealing with this issue will have to be drafted and brought forward. If anyone has a goal to add to the list, please let the chair know. It was noted that the new Curriculum Committee Charge is pending approval by the Academic Senate. 4. Liaisons, acquire from Area Deans and Faculty incoming curriculum proposals for 2008-09 5. Training during the next CC meeting, 9/17/08, for Stand Alone Approval Process

V. ADJOURNMENT at 4:15 p.m. Submitted by Neva Conner