Student Development Committee
Friday, November 3, 2006
Sylvania Campus, TLC
Submitted by Dee Wilson

Attending:  Lisa Fountain, Laurie Bales, Wendy Palmer, Tony Griener, Michelle “Chach” Hart, Linda Reisser, Kendi Esary, Rebecca Mathern, Dee Wilson, Mary Severson

Introductions: New student representatives, Chach Hart and Lisa Fountain, were introduced.

Children on Campus:  Follow up work needs to be done develop procedures and get the word out to PCC staff and develop procedures.  Areas identified include: Public Safety, Managers, Faculty, Student Services and Staff.  The policy has already been added to the Student Handbook. 

Question was raised on sex offenders - DOS determines whether to notify faculty members.

ACTION ITEMS:

• Linda to add agenda items to discuss at Deans & Directors; Also to send ‘Sex Offender Notification Policy’ to Mary  
• Rebecca to have communication piece prepared.
• Mary to determine if policy should be included in the faculty handbook. 
• Wendy to a statement to the OSD form prepared to alert faculty to student needs.

Smoking Policy Update.  Survey has been developed with input from HR, PS, Cabinet, Federation and Student Groups.  It is intended to assess preferences across the broad community. The taskforce will be meeting today to discuss how to distribute survey. They are considering software to track survey responses and prevent duplicates. 

ACTION ITEM: Kendi to bring copy of survey to next SDC

Distanced Learning (DL) and Student Policies:  DL Faculty members are experiencing problems with inappropriate contact related to online classes. Many comments are disrespectful and there have been instances of harassment.

Mary met with faculty to determine how to apply student Code of Conduct in a virtual classroom.  For regular classes, faculty can block attendance for one class session.  If the conduct continues, the matter is referred to the campus Dean of Student Development.  There is a need to determine the equivalencies between physical and virtual classrooms. The SDC will discuss this matter and determine whether additional language needs to be added to the Student Handbook DL classes. The group also needs to explore when it would be appropriate to immediately disconnect access.

ACTION ITEM:  Mary to bring the Code of Conduct to the next meeting for discussion

Computer Literacy:  Recommendation of SDC last year was a computer literacy program was needed, but the group did not believe it was our role to define how this looks.

Here is a link to the recommendation from the prior year:

http://www.pcc.edu/resources/academic/eac/student-development/documents/ComputerCompetencySkills.pdf

Additional discussion included concerns about additional barriers to enrollment and is opposed to additional testing at admissions. The group talked about how competency could be developed without presenting a barrier.  The ITAC committee did a list of classes where core computer competencies could be learned, but did not seem to have much of an impact.  The strategy at Cascade has been to set up START labs on campus manned by two student helpdesk staff.  This has been successful and will be expanded to other campuses. 

Brainstorming ideas:

• Incorporate information/computer literacy into the curriculum of certain classes.
• Set levels of computer skills required for course (ex Level 1 – basic; Level 2 – intermediate; Level 3 – advanced computer literacy). 
• Provide just-in-time assistance for students through computer labs or tutoring centers
• Make 1cr CG course mandatory and free if possible (This may get on the budget initiative as a pilot, but something more interactive is also needed.)

Recommendation: That the matter be referred to the Academic and Student Affairs Council.  Linda and Rebecca will present this to the group and report back to the SDC.    

UPDATES:

Wait List: Wait lists will be turned beginning 11/17 on for Winter Registration. Students will be able to put themselves on a wait list. As soon as there is a vacancy, the student will be automatically enrolled in the class.  This automated registration element of the wait list process freezes one business day before the class begins. Students can still add themselves, but they won’t be automatically registered. Guidelines have been established for crediting tuition when students are enrolled in error because they do not understand the process. 

Refund / Drop Policy: The SDC may be asked to look into potential changes once the college assesses how well the wait list process is working for enrollment management.

Lecture Series: PCC sponsors a lecture series and is able to provide free tickets.  The last one was the Mayan Lecture. Tickets will be distributed by Library.  Rebecca suggested putting the announcement News & Opportunities channel on MyPCC.

Print Copies:  The library will be changing their process.  Enrolled students will get 500 free prints per term and will be able to buy additional print pages as needed. 

MISC ACTION ITEMS

• Rebecca to set up SDC group page
• Mary to send list of SDC member to Rebecca

MEETING SCHEDULE:  Meetings will be scheduled for the 1st Friday of each month from 9am to 11am beginning 12/1. 

Meeting Dates:

12/1     Cascade

Jan       SKIP

Feb 2   Rock Creek

Mar 2 Sylvania

Apr 6   SE Center

May 4 Cascade

Jun 1   Rock Creek

12/1 Meeting Agenda

DL Procedures / Code of Conduct

Children on Campus Report from DOS

Literacy Report – Rebecca

Smoking Report – Kendi