GCOE Senate

Academic Affairs & Curriculum Committee

2005-06

Minutes for Email meetings Jan-Mar 9, 2006

Contributions and votes marked by various combinations of

Alisa Beaver, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, Esmaeil Mahdavi, Tara Parker, Denise Patmon, Peter Taylor.

1. Proposal review/update.

Course No. / Title or Topic / Date Rcvd / Submitted by / Action
Spe G 647 / Assessment-based instruction / 04-05? / Approved Faculty Council 2/6/06
EDLDRS 734 / Writing the Doctoral Dissertation / 9/12; 11/14 / Joe Check / 12/1 review: Approved EM/AB subject to spelling corrections.
Family Therapy Program / Online offering of same Program / 10/5 / Gonzalo Bacigalupe / Emails c. 10/12 confirmed approval.
Approved Faculty Council 2/6/06
Counseling & School Psych / Counseling tracks become programs and change the degree from MEd to MA or MS. / 10/5 / Rick Houser / Approved by emails c. 10/28.
Teacher Ed / Special topics / 11/14 / Peter Kiang / Approved on motion NLP/AB
EDC G 690 / Separate track B from track C Teacher Research course / 11/14 / Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn / Approved on motion AB/TP
Instr. Design / Minor course changes / 12/8 / Dennis Maxey / Approved by email
Center for Technical Education / PrfDev courses for Spring 06 / 1/19 / John White for Sumner Rotman / Approved by email subject to changes reviewed by PT (final approval c. 1/30)
Edcg 667 / Methods of middle and secondary english instruction / Revised version rcvd 1/24 / Chenfeng Zhang / Approved by email subject to changes reviewed by PT (final approval c. 2/17)
EDC G 666 / Middle and Secondary School: Social Studies- Methods of Teaching / c. 1/21 / Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn / Approved by email subject to changes reviewed by PT (final approval 2/6)
Center for Technical Education / 7 new voc. tech. syllabi / 2/9 / John White / Approved by email subject to changes reviewed by PT (final approval 3/1)
Teacher Ed / Program change: elective course (EDC G 629, Foundations of Middle School Teaching) -> required for Track B- Middle School Education / 2/27 / Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn / Approved by email vote 3/9
Teacher Ed / Math. Methods courses / 3/1 / Stan Dick / Approved by email subject to changes reviewed by PT (final approval pending)

2. Other business

Curriculum Fair -- Senate (2/9/06) decided not to hold this during this year.

Web presence reactivated at http://www.cct.umb.edu/AACC.html (& linked to College website). Senate website in progress, but not yet clear how its works (Senate 2/9/06)