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COU Faculty meeting

August 24, 2016

Minutes

In attendance: Leslie Anderson, Rebecca Smotherman, Paul Maddox, Amy Chenoweth, Marci Dowdy, Joe Hulgus, Taryne Mingo, Robin Farris, Maia Moore, Jef Cornelius-White

Meeting time: 935 adjourned 1150 Minutes recorded by Morgan Gonzalez

Program Area / Topic / Task / Action / Who is responsible / By when
WELCOME
Approval of minutes from April, June Retreat, August Retreat / Motion: Second: Vote:
Discussion:
Popcorn round: What did you do for the summer related to counseling? / RS- Paperwork, video lectures, chosen to present at APT conference, Zoomed training for p/I
AC- Not leaving. Kudos to the clinic, spectacular level of sophistication, worked on increase of clients presenting with acute trauma
MD- Worked on Study Away program
RF- Bike ride in Czech republic start summer, worked in clinic seeing increase of client sessions, new book cases in clinic
TM- Taught personality development, book chapter ready to publish for U of Georgia on gender and sexism
JH- Taught, revised course motivated by disturbing feedback from student and SP16 instructor of 794, revising family skill development, presenting in September at statewide conference.
RPM- agreed w/AC spent time working child clients this summer, presented at WY statewide conference for play therapy, has been accepted to present in sept. redesigning 708 class settings in practicum format
MNM- prepared to move to here coordinated reading program in Carbondale, taught a humanitarian & global justice class, started research study, preparing 714 incorporating zoom, completing qualitative descriptive study of black men who were or are enrolled in COU program - working on coding
JCW- Chairing dissertation program first defense next month, on graduate screening committee, helped MD w/ study away program, going to Mexico to teach for a week in Oct. organized conference this summer, working w/seminar students to get more organized, applying for promotion as distinguished professor
ALA- welcomed new grandchild, hired by Lumina foundation to train the trainer program w/ L. Foster focusing on neuro-counseling this fall get to go to New Mexico. Four day seminar. Incorporating neuro-council intro play into COU 710 & interview application- first time external reviewer. IDEA- this sharing moment may be good marketing material if videotaped and placed on website.
CLINIC update (Robin) / Clinic Advisory / Robin Farris, Director report / New book cases in clinic, issues regarding calling 911-calls are routed through school security and this created privacy issues. New format and contact numbers have been updated in handbook. Procedure updates to determine status of clients on state registry lists, guardian permission for minors, new play therapy form, practicum orientation participation. Equipment request to go to provost.
COU Master’s Programs / Annual Report update / Working to map out how required statistical data is retrieved for consistent annual reporting. / ALA
Fall Admissions / JCW/ MD/ JH unavailable for fall interviews on 10/28, buddy system to be formalized by JCW by September Faculty meeting/ deadline for acceptance Fall Dec-1/Spring April 1
Practicum/Internship / 1 person deferred to spring, RS to determine correct coding of students that have not completed P/I, question about "I" or "Z"
5 students may drop off because of hours
Advisory Boards / MH wants to meet in fall/ School wants to meet in spring
Assessment / CAEP language needs to be added to matrices. 733/751/707/703/710
Curriculum / MD addressed new ASCA ethical standards for COU 702, also presented on COU754 more experiental training only 15 students per class FAFSA frenzy college course Sunday/ apprenticeship/ students working day jobs will need to take time off.
Course Schedules / Master calendar of NCE/CPCE exam dates to avoid conflict of classes / MG / Sep. mtg.
Handbook revision / Update from committee / tabled
Website revision / update from committee (Taryne, Joe) / Good reviews by students
Group advising / Make notes about presentation for spring update / All / spring
West Plains / Update / 1 student
Student support issues/ concerns / RPM had student went to JH class to finish hours to accommodate, two students didn’t pass COMPS advisors to reach out to students
CACREP / ALA working on updates
COU Ed.S / Program / Updates (Joe) / JH waiting for changes from governance will be meeting with Dr. J.S.
Committee reports / Expectations set / Committees are to report on progress / All / Sep. mtg.
Other business / Cohort Model / Group reporting on retreat assignment / RPM/JH/TM/JCW reported on 2yr 60 hour track for MH/School cohort which would start in summer-preliminary format- faculty to review and provide feedback / All / Sep. mtg.