SFCC Minutes

Statewide Faculty Curriculum Council
Minutes from the March 13, 2009 Meeting
Lowry, Building 959, President's Conference Room


III. Amy and Ana provided the group with a handout explaining the four TRI courses that they are requesting for the certificate program. TRI 101 and 102 will be on-line. TRI 201 and 202 will be in the classroom. They will be offered in a "fast track" mode of ten week cycles. The motion to approve these four courses passed. Amy agreed to be the discipline chair.

IV. There was explanation from Geri and discussion about some PHO courses (ten of them, I think) which will be on the Bulletin Board for the April meeting. CMC needs these, and has been teaching them, as two credit courses. They have articulation agreements in place with two colleges. RRCC needs these as three credit courses. The concept of variable credit courses was debated. Geri stressed that there is no consideration of deleting any ART or PHO courses.

V. After SFCC approved the deletions of the HHP courses at the last meeting, Aims called and said they are still teaching some of them. Jim will find out which ones are still being taught and SFCC will undo the deletions at a future meeting.

VI. The AEC courses and ARC courses will be on hold until the April meeting.

VII. Bulletin Board:
--Roger mentioned that they discovered two courses that are pretty much identical--JOU 111 and MAR 220. The appropriate people are working on a solution.
--ASE courses, changes in competencies--yes
--CNG 209, 210, 214, revisions in title, description, outline and competencies--yes
--CNG 221, 222, 223, deletions--yes
--ELS 201--yes
--HIS 101, 102, 201, title changes--yes
--HIS 202. title change--hold, Sharon will check with the discipline chair to find what the title should be (what appeared on the posting was not what the history group had agreed to)
--MOT 100, deletion--yes
--PSY 269, number and title change--hold, Misty will request the deletion of PSY 289
--TRI courses, approved earlier in the meeting
--EIC 141--continue the hold, the TSJC rep. will look into it and report at the April meeting

VIII. System updates from Geri:
A. Geri is concerned about the negative tone and lack of professionalism in some recent e-mail exchanges between discipline chairs and faculty members. There are too many challenges and issues going on to be dragged down with nasty, bitter exchanges. We need to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. Geri will forward any future inappropriate e-mails to the appropriate VP of Instruction for them to deal with.
B. Because of all sorts of new programs, stimulus money possibilities, etc..., college presidents and others will be meeting on April 7 to discuss how the community colleges can respond quickly to meet the demands and opportunities ahead.
C. Geri is looking at how to make the CTE program approval process move quicker so colleges can respond to demands. Call Geri or Scott Stump for any help in making things move quicker.
D. Legislative updates:
1. The negative amendments that were attacking Amendment 50 money have been defeated.
2. Today, Gov. Ritter will announce the bill to deal with concurrent enrollment. There are lots of good things
it. We'll see how it goes through the legislative process
E. The CDHE may cancel the spring gt Pathway course review meeting. There are not very many courses that have been nominated. Those who have nominated courses (the VPIs did approve most of them at their last meeting) will probably be disappointed. Geri said it was more important for them to move through the fall review than the spring review. Vicki Leal will be at the system office later today and Geri will find out for sure what the plan is.
F. The faculty names that are on the distribution lists came to the system office from VPIs. If there are names missing, VPIs or discipline chairs should forward the names to Geri for inclusion.

IX. There was a wide-ranging discussion on the agenda item "Credit Hours to Classroom Time Ratios." Geri provided the group with a handout titled "CCCS Instructional Course Type Guidelines" which contained definitions from CDHE on the topic. No action was taken.

X. The next SFCC meeting is scheduled for April 10, 2009.

Minutes Respectfully Submitted By,
Fred Boettcher
SFCC Secretary