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Curriculum Advisory Committee

Needs representatives from:

Life Science

Physical Education

Creative Arts

Supportive Services

 

Thank you to Lynn Iwamoto

for stepping up to chair the CAC

 

 

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COC request form

to request faculty members to serve on a committee.

 

 

 

 

Guidelines for Service on Shared Governance Committees

Approved March 20,2008

 

 

New Committees Currently Forming.

 

Distance Education

 

From Gail Fail:

To Academic Senate

From Gail Fail, 9/20/07

 

            In August this year we had a mini-conference at MPC, on bargaining and quality issues in Distance Education (DE.) Attending were faculty and administrators from several other community colleges. The meeting was funded by a grant from NEA. The group (along with some more

folks) will meet again in October in Sacramento.

 

           Attending the August meeting for MPC were: Gail Fail, Fred Hochstaedter, Caroline Carney, Stephanie Tetter, John Gonzalez, and Sharon Colton.

 

            The October meeting will be attended by Jon Mikkelson, Alan Haffa, Marianne Ide, AJ Farrar, Jonathon Osburg, Gail Fail, Susan Steele, and Stephanie Tetter.

 

            The MPCTA would like to work with the Senate and in particular the CAC, to achieve the following goals, in no particular order:

 

1. Establish a good working relationship between Senate/CAC/MPCTA regarding DE issues. We have different roles, but having more brains available to look at everything is always a good idea.

 

2. Assure we are in compliance with Title 5, in terms of instructor contact, Senate approval of DE courses, and faculty hiring.

 

3. Establish some consistent faculty training.

 

4. Give input to administration on the platform(s) we use for delivering DE.

(The anti-Moodle rumblings are already loud.)

 

5. Establish the role of the library in DE.

 

6. Figure out how to provide student services and counseling for DE students.

 

7. Negotiate some important issues: workload, class assignments, class size, pay for developing DE classes.

 

8. Plan for DE growth at department, division and campus wide levels. (Do we want to grow in DE? Will we just be diluting the enrollment of traditional

classes?)

 

9. Avoid repeating work that has already been done, either here or at other colleges. Steal Shamelessly will be our motto!

 

10. Assure that the quality of a DE class is as good as a traditional class.