Minutes From SFCC Meeting

Statewide Faculty Curriculum Council
Minutes from the May 8, 2009 Meeting
Lowry, Building 959, President’s Conference Room

I. Bulletin Board:
AEC 101, 102, 121, 123, 131—credit hour reductions, yes
CAD 215—No, no discipline chair approval, too much duplication from another course, most of the discipline voted against it. A question was asked: What can the faculty member who wants this change do? The answer: take it up at the 2-2 conference with the discipline.
CAR courses and CON courses—recommend that the discipline meet at the 2-2 (or during the summer) and work on duplication and deletion matters. Darrell will help coordinate and facilitate this.
CTC 108 and 121—table, have they been posted for 30 days? Question for Geri: Can a Dean be a Discipline Chari?
EIC 125—table, need TSJC input
ENY courses—table, possible duplication and overlap issues. The group is meeting on Monday. Make them an item for the Aug. meeting.
FIN 243—yes
FLD 210—yes
--moved on to some other matters and then returned to the Bulletin Board—
HIT courses—Ginny explained the accrediting agency requirements for this discipline that they are seeking to meet. She also said there is not much time left to get this done and that it is a costly process. Joan read an e-mail from her HIT person who did not want these changes. Possible numbering and duplication issues were raised. It seems there are two different accrediting agencies—one for a certificate and one for a degree. Lengthy debate ensued. There were different interpretations of the results of a meeting that was held by the discipline on this matter. Ginny was surprised to hear the objections. There was also lack of agreement on who the discipline chair is for HIT. There was a motion made and seconded to have the groups meet at the 2-2 conference and work out these issues. The motion passed unanimously.
FST courses—yes
GUS courses—table, need TSJC input
JOU 102, title change—yes
MGD 220 and 252—yes
PHY 107—yes
PLU 242—yes
ARC courses—deletions, still needs the 30 days, item for Aug. meeting
PHO courses—continue to table until the Aug. meeting. They have been discussed at the March and April meeting. SFCC wants Geri’s input.
PER 264—yes, had been approved in the Ap. Meeting.

II. Peter Beal explained and defended his request to create a HNR (honors) prefix. Many of the SFCC members explained how their college is already doing the interdisciplinary honors concept that Peter suggested, through other means. Some members brought up the question of possible transfer issues if that prefix was used. The motion to approve this prefix was defeated. Peter will take the SFCC comments back to his campus.

III. Linda Bowman gave CCCS/CCHE updates (Geri’s son was graduating from CU-Boulder that morning):
1. Sen. King’s transfer bill was not passed by the General Assembly. Most four-year colleges and the Department of Higher Ed fought against the bill. It was a close vote in the senate—16-18. There were 15 lobbyists from the four-years working against the bill. Geri, Linda, and others were very hard in support of the bill.
2. The concurrent enrollment bills passed. Ninth and tenth graders can participate. Quality standards were stressed. These bills were supported by the P-20 Council.
3. The Amendment 50 enacting legislation passed.
4. The merger of PCC and San Juan Basin passed.
5. SB212 meetings are still ongoing. It is important that community college faculty continue to involve themselves in this process.
6. There will be a math summit this summer. Geri will get the word out.
7. Don’t contact GT members [?] on your own. There is a system in place that should be followed.

IV. Scott handed out a copy of “Rules of Engagement for gtPathways Reviews” from Vicki Leal at CDHE. He will send it electronically to SFCC members.

V. Debra Nickell gave the group some handouts explaining the requests for changes in the Physician Assistant (PA) Program. SFCC was very impressed. The changes will be posted in June and acted on at the August meeting.

VI. 2-2 conference:
1. CMC requested that the group consider a change in the proposed dates. Their campus has scheduled an all-campus meeting on one of the dates. SFCC looked at other options and tried to accommodate the request, but concluded that the scheduled dates would stay the same (Sep. 18 and 25).
2. Joan handed out a breakdown of disciplines for the two conferences. The group made several comments and suggestions. Joan will send the information out. (On May 14, Joan sent this information to the faculty at each college—thanks.)
3. The group discussed several possible topics for the conference.

VII. Wendy Kilgore from the system office showed the group how to access the CCNS on Banner. There is a link in Banner to CCNS. This is under construction and should be ready in June. She will look into how Aims and CMC can have access. She will also look into several requests for possible searches that would be helpful—like what college is teaching what course. Sherrill will continue to be the one to input the information. SFCC seemed to be impressed with this addition. The whole thing should be more stable.

VIII. The meeting adjourned.

IX. The next SFCC meeting is scheduled for August 21, 2009.

Minutes respectfully submitted by,
Fred Boettcher
SFCC Secretary