INTRA-AMERICAN STUDIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DIVISION MINUTES

OCTOBER 11, 1999

Present: Betsey Barnett, Larry Clarke, Megan Douma, Shirley Ferkingstad, Bob Francis, Rene Hardy, Paul Herrick, Ernest Johnson, Jim Jory, Diana Knauf, Ken LaFountaine, Lee Libby, Lawrence Linford, Sonny Masso, Cathy Patrick, Tim Payne, Tim Perry, Sharon Phillips, Andrea Rye, Frank Sjursen, Arlene Strong, Lew Tarrant, Terry Taylor, Bob Thompson, Linda Warren, John Wrobleski.

Guest: Jim James

  1. Process for Selection of Federation Representation for Division.

Ken announced the results of the balloting process for one of the division federation representatives. He stated that he had given every member of the Division who is a federation member a ballot. Because there are two representatives from this Division, some people assumed that only IAS people should vote for the position representing that group of faculty and only SS people should vote for the second position representing the other faction of faculty in the division. It was moved that the matter be turned over to the Executive Board of the Federation to determine who should vote for the respective positions, including whether Jim Jory is entitled a vote in this division as well as in Business Administration. The motion passed with five abstentions. Those abstaining were non-federation members.

  1. Issues Resulting from Dual Listed Classes

Tim Payne indicated that BusAd 100 and SocSci 100 is a dual listed course offered by the BA Division. Originally, the course description included the social science inter-relationships between culture, law, material and economic environments in the global business community. The course is now more of an introductory business course according to the current course description. The dual listing was originally created to allow the course to be taken for Social Science distribution credits. Currently, the course does not appear to have any social science elements in it. Some students are being advised that the course will transfer as Social Science distribution credits but the UW doesn’t recognize it as a social science course only as a business restricted elective. Tim would like to recommend that it not be dual listed and that this be taken to the Curriculum Committee.

Betsey indicated that the IASTU/SPCMU 103 course was originally created by IAS and introduced with both multicultural and intercultural communication components because there was a misconception that these disciplines were the same. The course has no speech communication content and should not be dual listed. She will be requesting removal of the SPCMU dual-listing.

Lawrence Linford indicated that the HIST 111, 112, 113 was originally team taught for breadth in the course and in the early 1990’s it became dual listed as HUMAN 111, 112, and 113. The purpose of the dual-listing was to allow students to apply the credits as either social science or humanities distribution. Members of the humanities division are now under the impression that these are two separate courses that are dual-listed and can be offered by either division. In reality, the course description is a history course and it only transfers as a history course.

Andrea stated that the issue is the definition of dual listing. It originally meant that a course was created in one division but dual listed for the benefit of students. The dual listing allowed students to apply the credits toward general education distribution requirements in the respective divisions. What is occurring now is that the divisions in which the course is dual-listed are assuming dual ownership of the course. This has created conflict and difficulty in scheduling classes. In addition, there are problems in efficient management and use of FTE’s, which have created dilemmas in making staffing decisions.

It was moved that a committee be appointed to look into the issue and report back to the Division at the next meeting. This motion was defeated 12-4. Andrea stated that this dual-listing issue was going to be brought to the Curriculum Committee. The Curriculum Committee representatives, Ken LaFountaine and Bob Thompson, felt they could represent the Division’s concerns on this issue.

III.Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success

Bob introduced Jim James the new director of Institutional Research. Jim explained that since he is the first person in this position at the College, the Institutional Effectiveness Committee and he are working at defining his position. He stated that at least 10 percent of the resources from his office are to be allocated to ad hoc requests for research data.

On his web site he has the accreditation handbook and a data dictionary (a data warehouse which helps to define data needs). Through Microsoft Access Software he has been able to pull data into tables that are more useable. These revised tables have been distributed to instructional programs for the program planning and assessment process. Jim asked for feedback on these new tables and graphs. Jim reminded the group that there is money available to do outcomes assessment. The RFP for proposals will be a standard format. The RFP will be posted on the faculty listserv. He encouraged faculty to submit proposals for assessment projects.

Bob asked if it were possible to track our transfer students and former graduates for assessment feedback. Jim stated that some tracking of students at the UW, WSU and Western is being done. It was suggested that information after student’s obtain their bachelor’s degree would be useful and Jim indicated that it would be worth pursuing.

  1. Reports:

A.Faculty Senate Council

They haven’t met yet, but the new division representative is Terry Taylor.

B.Curriculum Committee

They will meet for the first time this coming Thursday.

C.Federation

No report

D.Strategic Planning Committee

Betsey indicated that they would be focusing on areas for the coming year and asked for input. Several indicated that the upgrading of classroom equipment should be a high priority.

E.General Education Review Committee

This committee will be considering the General Education requirement and what criteria should be used for the courses chosen. ICRC, accreditation and the College’s requirements all need to be taken into consideration.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

INTRA-AMERICAN STUDIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

DIVISION MEETING MINUTES

November 1, 1999

Present: Betsey Barnett, Larry Clarke, Megan Douma, Bob Francis, Rene Hardy, Paul Herrick, Ernest Johnson, Diana Knauf, Ken LaFountaine, Lawrence Linford, Carmen Masso, Sonny Masso, Tim Payne, Tim Perry, Sharon Phillips, Andrea Rye, Arlene Strong, Terry Taylor, Bob Thompson, Linda Warren, and John Wrobleski.

Guests: Leslie Potter-Henderson and Charles Sasaki

Reports:

Faculty Senate Council: Deliberations are continuing on the Grading Policy. Faculty Emerti status is also being discussed as to benefits they receive. The issue of enforcing pre-requisites is also being discussed. Students who have not taken a pre-requisite, even if they pass a course that require this pre-requisite, are being denied admission at Western and the UW. There is a need for staffing to implement and maintain records for the pre-requisites. If students are prohibited from enrolling until they have the pre-requisite, it affects enrollment. However, if students struggle in classes where they have not taken the pre-requisites, it could ultimately affect retention.

It was suggested that the Division ask for staffing to implement and maintain a pre-requisite tracking system under the category of campus-wide needs through the budgeting process. This issue is also before the General Education Committee.

Curriculum Committee: Bob Thompson indicated that there were second readings of courses -- PHIL 115 which was tabled, PHYS 100, which was accepted for Fall Quarter 1999, VCT 124/BUSCP 124 and VCT 125/BUSCP 125, which were accepted for Fall Quarter 1999.

There were two courses presented to first reading, PE 155 Snowboarding I and PE 255 Snowboarding II. They were accepted for first reading for Winter Quarter, 2000.

Fourteen HCI courses were presented as a result of an external review, Shoreline’s accreditation and the Community Advisory Committee looking at the three career options, Medical Transcription, Medical Reimbursement and Health Information Technology. Consensus was reaching to accept the changes for first reading.

MCO Guidelines were discussed. They are attempting to simplify the instructions so that they are more clear and perhaps modify the template a little bit. Discussion will continue at the next meeting.

Interdisciplinary studies and Washington On-line Courses were discussed in relation to whether or not they are equivalent to the course defined by the MCO for traditional courses offered at Shoreline. Some of the WAOL courses as they are currently being taught would not be accepted as a Shoreline course (i.e. Chemistry 101 with a lab component). It was felt that there is a need to take a closer look at the ISP courses when there is a blending of the content to see if the courses offered are truly the course listed or that would be taught as a stand alone course. Likewise, online courses need to be scrutinized to insure that the content is the same as the traditional course.

Federation: Ken reported that there is a still an opening on the sabbatical committee for a Social Science representative.

General Education Committee: Gillian Lewis and Norman Gregory were elected as co-chairs. Diana Sampson presented a comparison of Shoreline’s Option A transfer degree and 5 other community colleges. Our requirements appear to have greater complexity and the opportunity for fewer electives. We have an IAS and Multicultural requirement due to the mission of the College. The committee will be looking at the requirements and determining what changes might be made to help students graduate with fewer obstacles.

Letter from Paul Cerda, Humanities: Paul asked to be part of the agenda, but due to the training scheduled he put his request in writing instead. He is asking to have a social potluck between the Humanities and IAS & SS Divisions to help people to get to know each other prior to the discussion of issues that have risen that seen to be of a sensitive nature. There was consensus to further pursue having the potluck. Bob Francis will convey our interest to Paul.

Other: Leslie Potter-Henderson reminded the faculty that if they wish to have the Library/Media Center purchase any books, videos, CDs, periodical subscriptions, multi-media, etc., the requests are due to her by November 15.

Robert Francis introduced Dr. Charles Sasaki who then presented a workshop on Outcomes and Assessment.

Meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

INTRA-AMERICAN STUDIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

DIVISION MINUTES

December 6, 1999

Present: Betsey Barnett, Larry Clarke, Megan Douma, Bob Francis, Rene Hardy, Paul Herrick, Ernest Johnson, Diana Knauf, Ken LaFountaine, Lee Libby, Lawrence Linford, Cathy Patrick, Tim Payne, Tim Perry, Sharon Phillips, Andrea Rye, Frank Sjursen, Arlene Strong, Lew Tarrant, Terry Taylor, Bob Thompson, Linda Warren, and John Wrobleski

Guests: Nancy Field and Leslie Potter-Henderson

  1. Nancy Field passed out several handouts relating to the Intra-American Studies and Social Science Division which included the Counseling Programs for Winter Quarter 2000, the Social Sciences Pathways, and planning sheets for the professional/technical degrees and the new psychology Option A transfer planning sheet, and baccalaureate universities’ tuition costs.

Nancy indicated that the University of Washington’s requirement that a student have PreCal 111 is not being implemented this year.

Nancy stated that there have been an unusually large number of students with crisis issues this quarter. Faculty were reminded that they take crisis appointments on a drop-in basis from 9:00a-1:00p.

  1. Reports:

Faculty Senate

Lawrence indicated that the proposed grading policy has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate and will be put to a faculty vote Winter Quarter. They held up so as not to confuse faculty when grading for Fall Quarter. The W period will be extended until the first day of the seventh week of the quarter. There will be a new NC (no credit) which will be for a P/NC grade. The Z will be only for hardship withdrawals. If a student repeats a course, the higher grade will be used to compute the GPA.

Curriculum

Discussion has begun regarding the History/Humanities series 111,112 and 113. There seems to be a difference between the two divisions as to the development of this dual listing. There is no dual listing policy. If consensus cannot be reached, it will be given to the VPAA to mediate between the two divisions.

These courses are used to meet discipline requirement for the SCC planning sheets. However the transfer institutions accept them for History credit only. The courses were linked in the 60’s then the dual listing was dropped in the 70’s and 80’s. The dual listing was created again when the courses were renumbered to follow the UW numbering.

Federation

There are five teams being formed to negotiate the contract. They are: evaluation, work load, distance learning, technology and part-time. These teams will be meeting at the Shoreline Center on dead day.

General Education

This committee has been working on updating the language for learning outcomes.

Strategic Planning

The committee has selected eleven focus areas for the coming year. These focus areas have been approved by both the President and the Board of Trustees. The committee is also recommending that the program assessment and planning process and the budget process be staggered over a two year period with opportunity to tweak the process in the off year. This recommendation has not yet been approved by the President or the Board of Trustees.

The committee is beginning to review the strategic plan for any needed revisions.

Other

Andrea reported that enrollment is short 211 FTE’s for Fall Quarter. Head count is up but students are taking fewer classes per student.

Shoreline will be moving it’s Northshore Center to be within the boundaries for our campus when Cascadia opens in the Fall of 2000. The college is looking to find space for our branch campus and the space could potentially be combined with the Puget Sound Technology Center.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m.

Intra-American Studies and Social Science

Division Meeting Minutes

February 7, 2000

Present: Betsey Barnett, Bruce Christopherson, Larry Clarke, Bob Francis, Rene Hardy, Paul Herrick, Ernest Johnson, Ken LaFountaine, Lee Libby, Lawrence Linford, Sonny Masso, Cathy Patrick, Tim Payne, Tim Perry, Sharon Phillips, Andrea Rye, Frank Sjursen, Arlene Strong, Terry Taylor, Bob Thompson, Linda Warren, and John Wrobleski

Guests: Nancy Field, Jack Hansen, Leslie Potter-Henderson

  1. Counseling Update

Nancy Field reported that the University of Washington will be taking the highest grade for repeated courses rather than averaging the two grades. This is in line with Shoreline’s policy.

Also at the University of Washington, Professional/Technical courses will be accepted in the gray area unless they are electives in transfer programs.

The University of Washington has extended their application deadline and has lowered the index for admission.

  1. Distance Learning

Jack Hansen indicated that last year there was a web study group that recommended technology and pedigogy to the technology committee. From that process a support person has been hired, Catherine Reznicek; two software platform were chosen, Blackboard and FrontPage; and grant funding has been secured to assist faculty in writing new courses.

Jack asked what the vision for distance education is in our division. Are faculty interested in working with the University of Washington, Washington State University or on home grown courses? Discussion indicated that there would be more control in design of home grown courses and that there could be content disputes when working with the other institutions. All courses developed would need to follow the same approval procedures as regular classroom courses currently go through.

When asked about how faculty should proceed if they have ideas, Jack indicated that they should talk to Catherine for internet ideas, Larry Cheng for ITV courses and Tom Moran for telecourses as well as the division chair. New courses or changes to an existing course would need to go through the Curriculum Committee.

Bob Francis indicated that there are some faculty that are discussing coordinated hybrid offerings, i.e., 10 credits at 8:30 with two classes scheduled sharing the hour and classroom space. It is hoped that this type of course could be advertised in it own section of the time schedule.

III.Updates on MCO Revisions

Division faculty from each discipline were asked to report on their status in revising MCO’s and progress in outcomes assessment.