Q2S Steering Committee

February 2, 2017

UEC 102

Attendees (

D. Chen-Maynard, K. Fleming, A. Bodman, J. Gilbert, K. Costino, T. Nelson, K. Kolehmainen, M. Marx, J. Fryxell, P. Bungard, G. King, S. Sudhakar, D. Fischman, T. Provenzano, L. Bryan, C. Lindfelt, C. Stanton, M. Ahmed, A. Roman, N. Jones, O. Rosas, R. Chen

Commenced: 2:05pm

  1. Approval of minutes
  2. Central updates
  3. Student focus group were conducted last week, Wednesday and Thursday. Both days combined had over 100 attendees. Students responses will be shared with the committee via Google Drive. There were concerns brought up about the safety of public transportation.(
  4. Chair survey has 52 responses as of 2/1/17(
  5. ASI Meeting to go over survey to go out to students. (
  6. Working with new HR department regarding staff professional development.
  7. Subcommittee updates
  8. Advising
  9. Received a lot of feedback from chairs regarding a survey. Resulted in approximately 10 questions passed on for consideration to the ASI survey.
  10. Budget
  11. Formulating Q2S proposed budget in a format the CO is familiar with.
  12. Consider including HR, college AA/S to next meeting
  13. Communication
  14. Please send content to the committee you would like communicated or developed
  15. Q2S website is ready for a redesign, which will be happening in the next few months.
  16. Request for a newsletter or some sort of information pushed to the committee with “What’s New” or a subscription type service that sends out a digest of “new” stuff.
  17. Part-time faculty have not visited the Q2S site.
  18. Curriculum development
  19. Last meeting went over, in detail, the role of the college coordinator and resources to help them
  20. Developing a recommended timeline when departments should submit P&C forms. It could be staggered to ease colleagues bottleneck with reviewing curriculum.
  21. GE is nearing completion. Will meet next Monday and then present to ED.
  22. Planning on having courses submitted as soon as CIM is up and ready.
  23. GE would like to meet with advising and deans. One suggestions is a one page summary to share with advisors, etc.
  24. Faculty affairs
  25. Currently at FAM 651.4; going through in order
  26. Student administrative services
  27. Meet last week to make sure the various business units are thinking about when the consultants would be on campus.
  28. Planning to identify and address the various student fees.
  29. Request to merge smaller fees into a group.
  30. Discussed EO 1071, minimally.
  31. Planning a FIT GAP meeting in May/June.
  32. Normative number of units
  33. Chair responses ( was discussed
  34. Responses from Los Angeles and East Bay
  35. Discussed information from IR (
  36. The committee discussed various processes for a clear and transparent way to have an exception policy.
  37. Consensus:
  38. courses that are currently above 4 in quarter or have a yearlong or 3+ quarters sequence, automatically get an exception in semester.
  39. 1, 2, 3 units should automatically get an exception.
  40. Breakout sessions—groups were not able to come back together prior to the meeting ending. Discussions moved to OrgSync.

Concluded: 4:05pm