DAS Curriculum Committee Meeting

August 15, 2008

DO 8th Floor Computer Lab/3rd Floor Conference Room

MINUTES

  1. Welcome: The Chair briefly opened the meeting and moved to the ECD demonstration.
  2. Approval of June Minutes-the minutes were moved, seconded and passed..
  3. Announcements: 2008-09 dates were confirmed: Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, Dec. 12, Jan. 9, Feb.13, March 13, April 24 (Spring Plenary is 4/16-18) May 8th, June 12.

Old Business:

  1. ECD demonstration update & ECD Transmitters-Sheri Berger with Johnny. Barella and Steve Holton presented an ECD demonstration to chairs to update them on progress. The system goes live September 1, and can be viewed by anyone. Users will be able to edit it by October. if they are Pilot participants. Users will first need to sign in and must be using a valid district email address. Once you sign in you will receive an email with an initial password. As of September 1st you can go to the ESC system (esc.laccd.edu) or from the District webpage if you are at your college and view it and get familiar with how to move around in the system. One transmitter will be assigned at each campus and will be responsible for verifying that all course work has gone through the local approval process. Each campus will need to send John Clerx a letter identifying the transmitter and signed by the college president, the Academic Senate President and the Curriculum Chair. John will send a letter draft and each campus can fill in the blanks, sign it and return to him.
  2. Update on E-10 and Nursing Discipline concerns-K.Bimber distributed the E-Reg and asked the Chairs to begin vetting it on their campus. E-10 will be discussed at the next meeting.
  3. PNPR revised form w/ S. Low’s changes--J. Clerx-Tabled-JC still working on Stephanie Low’s suggested changes.
  4. CB00 and CCC 531 Procedures-J.Clerx is converting the files to excel so that it will be easier to upload to the District website and easier to track the progress of our courses and changes. John will be able to upload the information to send to the Systems Office and is hoping this process will cut down on the number of mistakes.

New Business:

Degree Works update form-J. Clerx passed out a form he would like us to consider using whenever there are course changes to our certificates and degrees in order to keep Degree Works updated. Some modifications to the form were suggested and John will make the changes and email the final to us.

  1. Course Change procedures and process for UC transferability changes- The UC systems office tell us what they accept so J. Clerx suggested that his office Assist.org to upload changes at the end of Oct. This will also be an agenda item for further discussion and vote in the September meeting.
  2. Essential Academic Skills and the Course Outline-D. Harrington-presented a suggestion from the district Student Success committee for changing the current course outline to include a section on Essential Academic Skills (EAS). It was thought the course outline would be a good place to include these in order to encourage faculty into thinking about these core concepts. All but two items seem to already exist in the course outline so the chairs asked J. Clerx to auto populate those areas as faculty fill in these items. This change will need to be approved at the local campuses so K. Bimber asked chairs to discuss this at their campuses in September and be ready for a vote on it in the October. DCC meeting. K. Bimber would like to bring it through DAS in the Nov. meeting.
  3. Stand Alone Training-reminder-K. Bimber reminded everyone that new members need to be trained. Kathleen reminded everyone to stay tuned into the Listserve as the Systems Office will schedule another training this month since they were unsuccessful in getting the last training archived.
  4. Adjourn-the meeting adjourned at 4 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Kathleen Bimber, Chair

DAS Curriculum Committee