Los Angeles Southwest College Curriculum Committee Minutes December 11, 2012 Meeting attended by: Absent from meeting: Guests: Date: Time: Location: Minutes by: Agenda Topics Tangelia Alfred, Catherine Azubuike, Stephanie Brasley, Darren Cifarelli, Zekarias Dammena, James Hicks, Tamura Howard, Patrick Jefferson, Erik Lee, Neil Mantena, Marian Ruane, Lernik Saakian, Kristine Wright, Glenn Yoshida, Leonard Apenahier Leonard Apenahier, Lashawn Brinson, Shauna Carter, Al Cowart, Ali El Krim, Phillip Jones-Thomas, Kimberly McBride, Reggie Morris, Celeste Phelps, Angelica Ramirez, Roxanna Sanchez, Trudy Walton, Shelley Werts, Katherine Koziar, Alistaire Callender December 11, 2012 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. SSEC 309 Ivee Baquir-Streator Agenda Topic #1: Call to order at 1:11 pm Agenda Topic #2: Approval of today’s agenda and minutes from November 13, 2012 meeting.  Duration/ Responsible/ Deadline Duration: 1 minute Duration: 2 minutes The minutes and agenda were approved by consensus. Agenda Topic #3: Reports       Dr. Wright attended meeting on 12/10/12 Discipline Day February 22, 2013 @ Valley College All need to be leveled and done by early March. Bobby attended meeting - 3 colleges did not do well - Missing course outlines, errors not having proper dates, information problems. - Must get things done so we will not be in the same category. - Big problem is not having correct information. Dean Bugg and Dean Dela Cerda have no current audits. Upcoming in 2013 - Create a pre-engineering program coming from Professor Hicks. - CTE Curriculum approval challenges. Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, 12.11.12 Duration: 12 minutes 1  Position announcement at the District - Engineering Faculty position - Pre-engineering program - Limited position funded by grant funding. - 3 years position, fully funded by grant.  Movement with Staff of Cox building 5th floor - Community services will move to middle college bungalows - CTE will move to Academic Village  Reggie Morris Report - Large meeting of all Counselors at the district. - Counselors are concern about teaching Personal Dev. - Requesting Personal Development to change name to Counseling 17, and Counseling 20. - In the process of trying to make the name change. Agenda Topic #4: Old Business TMCs Discussion Process:  Dean Alfred and Dean Jefferson are working on a sample packet to get the TMC done.  From the list, 80% need to be done by 2013.  All need to be done by Fall 2014.  Studio Art is not on the list. We do not offer this.  Will add Calculus 1 and Calculus 2.  CC 510 and CC 501 will add on sample narrative to direction and Dr. Wright will email.  Page 7 & 8. AO needs to do.  Dr. Wright will rewrite the direction and will add narrative. Duration: 43 minutes DE Addenda Discussion Process:  Distance Ed needs to coordinate with Staff Development for all activities.  DE manual update, not so much of definition, it’s about the audit.  Curriculum, DE and faculty needs to act on the same page.  Online classes need to be on the same page.  Dr. Wright added criteria to approve DE Addendum.  No oppose, everyone approved all changes. Conclusions:  Dr. Wright added criteria to approve DE Addendum.  No oppose, everyone approved all changes. Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, 12.11.12 2 Action Items:  DE addendum needs to be up on the website and all in ECD system. Agenda Topic #5: New Business Discussion Process:  All DE addenda – discussion item and action item are all approved. No opposed.  Reggie Morris recommendation of Accreditation. Motion to approve.  Advance Course status - Math need to update all pre-requisite. All on the list do not have the pre-req.  All Math need to be approved but pending uploads pre-req.  New Courses- All of new courses are routing through ECD  Curriculum committee needs to approve them.  English 111, English 223, Journal 123 started last Spring 2012.  Theater 225 is on hold.  CO SCI 642 and CO SCI 644 both approved. All in favor.  COR updates - Electonics 111, English 94, Reading 25, Music 201, CAOT 031 and CO SCI 601 are all approved 12/10/12. - They will all be in the system as of 12/10/12. Duration: 13 minutes Next Meeting: February 28, 2012 Time: 11:00am Location: SSEC 309 Meeting adjourned at 2:25pm (Draft of the minutes submitted by Ivee Baquir-Streator on 2/26/13) CC Approved: February 28, 2013 Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, 12.11.12 3