Academic Standards and Practices
Agenda
Friday, December 3^rd  2-4 pm 
CLIMB Room TBA

I.  Syllabus Policy (S-704)

The EAC members had no problems with the title change or the first paragraph changes. They asked that I look for an archived copy to make sure that “Required Content Areas” had once been in this policy (it has => http://www.pcc.edu/resources/academic/standards-practices/archive/acad33.html ).

a) Start with comparing what was required in the old 1996 policy with our latest versions.

b) Eric Kirchner suggests we just say “Course Outcomes (from CCOG)” instead of “CCOG (use hyperlink to course or Course Outcomes (from CCOG) under Required Content Areas.

c) Attendance (Does the college have an official attendance policy? Some EAC members seemed interested in having it listed. )

c) Create an actual example statement for the Academic Integrity Policy. Here’s an example from one of my syllabi: “PCC does not allow or tolerate students cheating. If I catch you cheating on a quiz or test or suspect that you have given me a term paper that you did not write yourself, then I will either not give you credit for that test/assignment, or I will give you an F for that test/assignment. This will negatively affect your final grade for this class.”  Let’s create a generic example statement.

d) Create a generic statement for unauthorized recording & distribution of course sessions

e) Create a generic statement for cell phones/electronic devices

II. GPA Recalculation (Veronica/Rebecca)

III. Bylaws

a) It was pretty clear that the EAC members and Dr. Chairsell want us to put back the information about quorums under III. Meetings, so we will do that.

b) We need to look at the PDF of Robert’s Rules of Order to see if we want to mention it in the bylaws or to simply say that we follow Robert’s Rules of Order.

c) Dr. Chairsell was a bit concerned with the addition of D under standing committees: “Standing committees do not need a quorum rule because all recommendations in these working groups go through the EAC.”  She thought this had the potential of putting a lot of pressure on the EAC. We should talk more about this.

IV. New chair for the ASAP committee

I’ve gotten a new job. I’ll be the Interim Division Dean of ABS, Career Tech, OST, and Corrections at SE Center beginning December 21^st.  This is a problem for our little committee because only faculty can be the chairs of EAC’s standing committees.  This job requires you to do 4 meetings a month:  plan and hold an ASAP meeting, meet with the DOIs before each EAC meeting for about 1 ¼ hours, present at the EAC meetings and receive input from EAC members, and meet with Dr. Chairsell & President Pulliams. The DOI meetings, EAC leaders meetings and the meeting with Dr. Chairsell and President Pulliams are fascinating. I’ve learned a lot just this term. I would encourage any of you faculty members to be a chair (or: propose someone in your department to be the chair). This commitment would be from January-June 2011. I promise it’ll be interesting! J