IC Meeting – February 12, 2014 Page | 1
IC Meeting Notes
Boardroom
February 12, 2014
9:00 AM
Attendees:
Jack Bautsch, Tom Braziunas, Kim Chapman, Terry Cox, Gary Gorland, Tom Griffith, Christy Isaacson, Julianne Kirgis, John Lederer, Pete Lortz, Bill McMeekin, Sharon, Simes, Steven Thomas, Jeannette U
Guests:
Lucas Reber, Karen Stuhldreher
Approval of notes January 22, 2014
IC notes for January 22, 2014were postponed to next meeting.
Hiring Updates
Presidential Search
The committee has chosen candidates to interview. The interviews will take place on the February 19, 20 and 24. The plan is to make an announcement of the finalists on March 7. The Search Advocacy training came in handy when looking at the questions.
Interim Dean for AHSS
Pete gave an update on the process. Pete will email faculty about the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning work.
Instructional Designer
Kathleen Chamberswas hired as the new Instruction Designer for eLearning. She was most recently working for Shoreline Community College. She will begin at NSCC on March 3.
OCE&E Integration manager
The Integration Manager candidates will be interviewed on Friday. The search committee will select up to4 candidates as finalists. The finalists will be forwarded to the Policy Committee on February 27.
Information Technology Webmaster
An IT webmaster has been hired and will begin on February 24.
Interview for IEP faculty
Interviews will begin for the IEP full-time faculty position.
Learning Center Director
The E-Team has approved the job description for the Learning Center Director. The director will start in the Summer. The director will be in charge of thenew consolidated tutoring center. There will also be faculty coordinators for each of the major areas that offer tutoring (i.e., Page One, Math, and Accounting)
BFET Position
Megan Mihara has been hired as the BFET Coordinator.
Library Full-Time Faculty
ElinorAppelhas resigned and her position is now vacant. Sharon and Pete are working on a proposal to move forward with a replacement.
FT Faculty for 2014-2015
The Deans are currently completing the paperwork for the five full-time faculty positions. The positions are Electronics, ABE/GED, Medical Assisting, and Faculty for the new BAS Application Development Degree and BAS-AD Librarian. There will also be a Program Manager hired for the new BAS degree.
Summary reports from various Councils, Commissions, etc.
Workforce Education Council (WEC)
The meeting was held in Vancouver and was dismissed early due to snow. There was a presentation by the State Data Governance Committee about a change to exit coding. The exit codes for Short Certificates will now be broken into two codes. Certificates of 1 – 19 credits will be coded with a “9” and Certificates of 20 – 44 credits will be coded with a “4”. These exit coding changes will be starting in the Summer Quarter.
E-Learning Council (ELC)
A Request for Proposals (RFP) has been released from the State for a lecture capture system. There were 4 companies that responded to the RFP with Tegrity being one of the four. Tegrity’s current contract runs through June 2014.
There was a discussion on competency based programs. There is an interest in a system wide work group, to look at exploring competency based programs.
There was a discussion about academic plagiarism technology such as Turn-it-in and Smarter Measurer.
Library Media Directors Council (LMDC)
The meeting was held through Collaborate. The major discussion was about the migration into an integrated library system by the majority of colleges in the State.
Council for Basic Skills (CBS)
Competency Basic - how are they measured? It is up to each college to figure out how it is measured. Students need to be college ready. State board is pushing to move forward. High school 21 plus. Director at state board talked about new directions. There is a concern about people coming through adult educationwhodo not get into degree programs. Washington has new state plan – College and Career Readiness. The State of WA will need to write a brand new grant and reflect the emphasis of the new state plan. The GED has started. The math is harder.
Information Technology Commission (ITC)
As mentioned last IC meeting, CTC link is proceeding along. Additional trainings are taking place, and Lucas will keep NSCC employees aware of the trainings.
AmericanAssociation of Community Colleges (AACC)- Workforce Development Institute (WDI)
Customized skills trainings and partnerships with employers were prominent; many strategies were discussed to support this effort. TED.com now includes TedEd and TedEd clubs promoting academic learning/classroom engagement. They are starting to reach out to the college community for feedback and suggestions on building career exploration concepts into their site. Additionally there was discussion on successful K-12 outreach/recruitment efforts including customized career fairs for 8-12 grade students.
Articulation Transfer Council (ATC)
There was a discussion and several handouts about the “Smarter Balance Assessment”. This will be the assessments attached to the Common Core State Standards. Smarter Balance Assessment will be proctored to the eleventh graders.
Elementary Education DTA is being removed from the State offerings.
Based on the NCAA rules about transfer students, the AA-DTA has been changed so that no more than 3 activity Physical Education Credits can be a part of a student’s degree transcript.
Continued Discussion on Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment
Karen Stuhldreher ledthe discussion.
Read pages 141 – 195 for March 12 meeting.
CCSSE Update
The CCSSE surveys will begin next week. There is still a need for proctors, so if anyone can help it would be appreciated. Jack passed around a sign-up sheet.
Sharing
Information Technology
The ITAC meeting will be held tomorrow at 3:00 pm.
E-Learning
The ETAC meeting will be held this afternoon at 3:00 pm.
Workforce
There will be a meeting on the 25th at the OCE&E about Unemployment Compensation.
E-team
The results of the survey about the potential name change will be presented to the Board of Trustees tomorrow in the North Star. Additionally, an email will be coming out from Jill to “Everyone” soon with the results.
The Space Allocation Committee will be reconstituted. The committee will include a broad representation of the campus and be a standing committee. There will be representation from every area. If you are interested, let Pete or your Supervisor know.
Adjourn