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Academic Senate Goals 2011-2012

 

Address Accreditation recommendations on SLOs (Fred)

Ø  Address the following recommendations from the March 2010 Visiting Team Report and follow-up letter from ACCJC:

• “Develop and implement a more effective and clearer strategy for integrating SLOs with planning, research and resource allocation efforts. The process should contain an evaluation and improvement component for all educational, academic support, fiscal, technological and human resources.”

• “Complete the process of assessment to guide improvement of student learning”

• “Complete the process of identifying course-level SLOs and ensure that student information is clear, that SLOs are described, and that students receive syllabi reflective of the identified SLOs

• “Take steps to ensure that faculty and others directly responsible for student progress toward achieving stated SLOs have, as a component of their evaluation, effectiveness in producing those learning outcomes.”

Ø  Develop a plan to address outstanding issues

Ø  Write a report that addresses the recommendations and shepherd it through the shared governance process

 

Address Accreditation recommendations on Distance Ed (ICDE)

Ø  Review the report and approve its submittal to ACCJC (this is already done, therefore a goal we know we can accomplish!)

 

Examine, recommend changes if appropriate, and disseminate information in the following areas:

Ø  Hiring (Faculty hiring group in progress; Fred)

• Adjunct hiring procedure (this one is almost done)

• Equivalency processes (We have started work on this)

• Associated board policies on faculty hiring and equivalency

 

Ø  Program Review (Fred)

• Consider possible changes dictated by our response to ACCJC SLO recommendations 1-3.

• Follow up on the Academic Senate recommendation to faculty union on making participation in program review part of the evaluation process

• Perhaps we could encourage training on how to make the existing process as useful as it possibly can be.

• Review and revise the Faculty Handbook as appropriate

 

Plan flex day events that are informative, inspirational, motivational, and/or engaging to all those that attend (Flex Day group)

Ø  Consider a “Learning Communities” theme

Ø  Consider and act appropriately on further participation from the Physical Education division

Ø  Develop a position on coffee and food so that we don’t continue to struggle with this question every semester.

 

Make technology a more user-centered resource at MPC (Catherine, Alexis)

Monitor improvement efforts currently underway as of fall 2011 and, where appropriate, assist in institutional efforts to improve the user-centered focus of technology at MPC.

 

Ensure high quality instruction and services by investigating, and possibly revising, the faculty evaluation and mentoring process (Mark, Kevin, Andres, Steve)

Establish topics to be included in faculty evaluation procedures and materials. The MPCTA would then negotiate these procedures and materials at an appropriate time.

Review and possibly revise the mentoring process

 

Investigate and possibly recommend Plus/minus grading at MPC (Steve, Mark, Andres, Robynn, Mike)

Ø  Survey faculty perspectives on this issue

Ø  Develop further plans of action based on the results

 

Review Board Policies that relates to academic and professional matters (Brian, Anita)

 

Encourage collaboration between faculty and staff involved in instruction, student services, and administrative services (Kelly, Chris, Mike)

Ø  Educate faculty about new repeatability regulations so that instructional faculty may help inform students

Ø  Investigate ways to research the success of individual students and cohorts of students so that faculty may more effectively be able to advise them on academic issues.

Ø  Investigate ways to advocate for student access to printed schedules.

Ø  Encourage the improvement of communication about campus issues.

Ø  Encourage participation in campus committees so that the responsibility of shared governance is shared more evenly.

 

Work collaboratively with ICDE to establish a philosophy that articulates the role, scope, and meaning of high quality distance education at MPC (Steve, Stephanie).

 

 

Participate in the development of the MPC Educational Master Plan (Anita, Kathleen)