<p> College Freshman Seminar Advisory Committee Meeting October 21, 2010, 3:30 – 5:00 a.m. Distance Education Rooms Summary</p><p>Attendees: Jian Zhang (Chair), Alan Weber, Bruce Seger, Christine Crowe, Dawn Tracey-Hanley, Deborah Wolfson, Douglas Howard, Jennifer Farquhar, Kristen Cosentino, Louis Attinasi, M. Garcia, Nancy Gerli, S. Lundahl</p><p>Transition of leadership in the Freshman Seminar Program (Zhang) Jian opened the meeting and announced that she is being transferred to the Title III project for the next twelve months and Bernadette Garcia will chair the College Freshman Seminar Advisory Committee. </p><p>Jian offered congratulations to Nancy Gerli for her department to be named Reading and Freshman Seminar independent of Foreign Languages.</p><p>Freshman Seminar area involvement in Title III Grant (Zhang) Jian opened discussion on a Title III Briefing Report that was distributed to the committee members. Jian reviewed the three major components of the proposal – Enable, Enhance and Enrich - and advised the committee how the freshman seminar area will be involved. The first area Enable will mostly deal with enrollment, advising, and an intervention system. In the list of charges it will be revamping the faculty training, and rethinking the whole delivery of Freshman Seminar. In the second area - Enhance - starting from next semester one faculty member from each campus will get one course release time to work with Jian and a tech person to create learning objects for COL 101. The third area – Enrich – will enrich teaching and learning by providing a unified delivery system for on-line and on-site resources. This one-stop on-line portal will link libraries, writing, math, academic skills centers, and gateway course support enhancements with an early alert and intervention system. </p><p>Jian advised the committee of the Title III Grant First Project Meeting to be held on Friday, October 29th, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., in the Montauk Point Room, Babylon Student Center. At this meeting there will be sign-in sheets for four kinds of design teams –  Enrollment and Admissions (E&A) Team to electronically enable processes and design early alert and intervention system  Counseling and Advising (C&A) Team to enable advising, orientation, assessment, and early alert and intervention  Gateway Course Support Enhancement (GCSE) Teams to enhance academic support for 20 gateway courses with collections of on-line learning objects  Learning Commons (VLC) Team to design a virtual portal linking all on-line and on-site academic support and strengthen on-line and on-site support college-wide</p><p>Central Administration Ammerman Campus Grant Campus Eastern Campus 533 College Road 533 College Road Crooked Hill Road 121 Speonk-Riverhead Road Selden, NY 11784-2899 Selden, NY 11784-2899 Brentwood, NY 11717-1092 Riverhead, NY 11901-3499 (631) 451-4112 (631) 451-4110 (631) 851-6700 (631) 548-2500 The committee unanimously approved the September 30th, 2010 FSAC meeting minutes with minor changes.</p><p>COL 105 Catalogue Description change proposal update (Zhang) The COL 105 catalogue description change has been approved and reapproved by the three campuses. It will now be considered by the Curriculum Committee for approval. Dawn Tracy-Hanley, Nancy Gerli and Faye Lourenso will send one or two COL 105 course outlines from their campus to Tina Good.</p><p>Adult Learners Freshman Seminar proposal progress Jian advised that Faye has sent the Letter of Intent for COL 111 to Candice Foley and the proposal is almost ready for proofreading. </p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Jian shared some class responses to the COL 101 course. Some responses addressed the cost of the textbook, the content of the textbook, as well as the benefits of the class. Students have issue with the price of the textbook being too expensive for a 1.5 credit course.</p><p>Discussion ensued on examining the textbook. The Grant and Eastern campuses have an option on the textbook, Ammerman does not. Art advised that the reason why Ammerman uses a single text and not a choice is because of the sheer size – having one textbook would be the only common denominator across that number of sections with various instructors. Bernadette advised that the committee made recommendations but the actual independent decisions were departmental based. Nancy discussed making the book more customized or black and white, thus cutting down the cost. Jian suggested that the committee get some feedback on the textbook from the faculty. It was decided to continue the conversation at the next meeting. </p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>COL 101 Personal Growth Assessment tool (Lundahl) Art discussed changing the instrument from an essay to a multiple-choice. Art advised that it was too challenging to come up with five multiple questions for each of the six areas. He suggested that we should go back to our original instrument, refine it, and hold a different type of training for our readers so that we are more consistent and apply the same instrument another semester. The general consensus of the committee was to apply the same instrument.</p><p>COL 105 & COL 125 assessment preparation (Lou) Lou addressed the committee in reference to assessing COL 125 and COL 105 this semester. COL 125 will have a writing assignment on personal growth and students are asked to selected three of six concepts and indicate how they apply them to their lives. This assignment will be scored with a rubric. There will be a training session on the rubric. Assessment materials were sent out to the College Success Directors last week. They will forward them to the faculty. Faculty will return them November 22nd. This will give students a couple of weeks to complete the assignment. </p><p>The COL 105 assessment will consist of twelve multiple-choice questions in three different areas – time management, library information management skills, and computer/navigating the student portal skills . This assessment was used last semester, but it has been modified this semester. Did some revision of the questions based on previous responses. Lou will be sending the test materials directly to the COL 105 faculty next week, before the end of the semester and returning the tests to the IE office by December 15th. Jian requested that the three directors inform the COL 101 faculty of the results as a courtesy. Lou will send those results electronically. Jian thanked Lou and the committee thanked Lou.</p><p>2</p><p>2</p>