COLLEGE COUNCIL – November 19, 2010

CC-127 in Bill Brod Community Center ● 12-1:30pm

 

TOPIC / PRESENTER

KEY POINTS / NEXT STEPS (Action)

Approval of Minutes

Presenter: Moller

·         A motion and second were made to approve the minutes of the November 5, 2010 College Council Meeting as written.  Vote taken and minutes approved as written.

Course Provisioning in Moodle

Presenter:  Beining

·         Baseline processes have been established in using Moodle.  Now it is time to make course provisioning a more LEAN process. 

·         What is provisioning?  When a course from datatel is “pushed” over to Moodle.

·         Course provisioning is a very time consuming process. 

·         The provisioning issue was presented to the DL Committee.  Their recommendation is that all face-to-face classes will be provisioned.  

·         Benefits of provisioning all face-to-face classes:  less time consuming; much faster process for staff; anticipating faculty need and eliminates shell requests from faculty; provides a method of emergency communication (ex. class cancellation). 

·         DL Committee concerns of provisioning all face-to-face classes:  Storage space – shells do not take up much storage space; Confusing to students? Unless the class is actually made available by the faculty, students can not see it.  If faculty is not interested in using the shell, they can just ignore it – there is no requirement that they must use it for their face-to-face class.

·         Provisioning of all face-to-face classes would take place week 10 of the term and faculty will be notified when provisioning is completed.  Faculty can transfer their own content (there are instructions to follow) or they can ask the DL office to do so for them.

·         Moodle does have the capability for blogging but before moving your current blog over, look to see if the Moodle blog serves the same purpose.

·         Moodle can be used to alert students via email of class cancellation.

Curriculum Committee Updates

Presenter:  Parker

·         Curriculum Committee met over the summer to look at accreditation requirements and what was needed to certify that courses were meeting gen ed outcomes and criteria.

·         The Committee clarified the gen ed mapping language and modified the outcome document and course outline.

·         The annual update of outlines will be moving to a 3-year cycle.  This will be implemented fairly soon.

·         The roles between the Curriculum Committee and the Curriculum Office are being clarified.  Course outlines will “live” in the Curriculum Office, not in the departments.  The future goal is to put the outlines on the web so they are available to both internal and external people.

·         A style guide in also in the works to help departments better prepare for course review and gen ed certification. This will be coming out soon.

·         Supporting documents for gen ed certification process are on the committee’s website.  These documents will show guidelines to make the course approval process run smoothly. 

·         The deadline for new courses to be approved and be in the printed catalog is November 29, 2010.  For courses submitted for approval after the deadline,  there will be a list on the web of those courses and a reference in the catalog of where to find that list.  The online list will include everything in the catalog.

·         Experimental courses do not need to go to Curriculum Committee.

·         Non ged ed courses should follow the best practices for writing outcomes and should follow the style guide. 

·         If anyone needs help with the new Curriculum Committee outline guidelines, Curriculum Committee members are here to help.  Please feel free to contact them.

ASG Report

Presenters:  MacDonald & Elliot

·         The Health Club Turkey Trot is next Tuesday on the track.

·         There are 206 applicants for the Giving Tree this year. 

·         The Holiday Party is December 9 from 6-8pm.  There will be free food, games and time to spend with family.  Santa Claus will make an appearance.

·         Next year on January 12, 2011, there will be a Make-A-Wish Foundation event sponsored and supported by local businesses.

·         The Cougar Cave (CCC’s food pantry) is always accepting donations. 

·         The dodge ball tournament is tomorrow.

Classified Report

Presenter:  Strawn

·         The Classified Association will be giving $100 to ASG to support the Giving Tree - $50 for a boy and $50 for a girl. 

·         Some building representatives have put boxes in their buildings to gather stocking stuffers for the children on the Giving Tree.  The boxes are due to ASG on Monday, November 29. 

FT Faculty Report

Presenter:  DelGatto

·         FT Faculty contribution for the staff drive hit 81% this year.

·         FT Faculty contributed to the Giving Tree and a notice was sent to FT Faculty to also participate on their own if they could.

Inclement Weather Policy

Presenter:  Cochran

·         The inclement weather policy was reviewed.  There are four (4) ways to communicate information : FlashNet (TV & radio), CCC website, phone greeting on main CCC number (503-657-6958) and ConnectEd on instruction days. 

·         A reminder will be sent out to staff to update their ConnectEd account, if needed. 

 

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UPCOMING MEETING DATES FOR 2010/11 ACADEMIC YEAR:

12/3, 1/7, 1/21, 2/4, 2/18, 3/4, 3/18, 4/1, 4/15, 5/6, 5/20, 6/3

FIND COLLEGE COUNCIL MINUTES at F:\1MINUTES\College Council\10-11

PRESENT:  Steffen Moller (chair), Tami Strawn for Kelly Steigleder (recorder), Beth Hodgkinson, Bob DelGatto, Adam Hall, Bill Briare, David Miller, Camilo Sanchez, David Williams, Melissa Jones, Bob Cochran, Thomas Elliott, Travis MacDonald, Jeff McAlpine, Dave Arter, Sarah Hoover, Steve Beining, Tamara Barry, Cyndi Andrews, Elizabeth Howley, Sharon Parker, Tiffanie Clifford, Renee Boeckman

COLLEGE COUNCIL MEMBERS:  Steffen Moller (chair), Becky Ogden, Rodney Osterhoudt, Delbert Dulley, Shelly Tracy, Sarah Hoover, Melissa Jones, Dave Arter, Kim Carey, Mary Collins, Shelley Shaw, Keoni McHone, Jeff McAlpine, Adam Hall, Pat Wiggins, Miguel Cardenas, Leroy Cook, Dave Williams, Tiffanie Clifford, Tamera Barry, Karen Martini.