Minutes from Social Sciences Task Force Meeting of April 4, 2004

 

The Social Science Task Force met Friday, April 9, 2004, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Rio Grande Campus in Room 111. The following faculty members were in attendance: Geof Andron, Karen Bell, Jake Bloom, Mary Beth Booth, Jack Bucco, Mary Chipley, Clint Davis, Michael Forney, Carol Hayman, Sherry Heiden, James Hill,  Don Jonsson, Livingstone Kumassah, Lizzie Pintar, Mike Pool, Mariana Sidoryanskaya, Alec Slivinske, James Sondgeroth, and Donald Tompkins. 

  1. The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm.
  2. The agenda for the meeting was approved. It was agreed that Item 5 would be taken up as soon as the Dean arrived.
  3. Agenda

    1. Approval of agenda
    2. Approve the minutes from the last meeting: http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/SOCSCI/Minutes/meet_02_20_2004.htm
    3. Review the results from the SACS questions given last semester in each discipline, and develop a "Complete Impact Statement of existing Assessment Plan."
    4. Discuss the upcoming Program Review reports due next January for Anthropology, Economics, and Geography, and assign a faculty member to chair each of these Program Review Committees.
    5. Dean Peebles will explain the consequences of the much more strict application of the SACS requirement that everyone teaching an academic course at ACC have at a at a minimum a masters degree in the discipline in which they are teaching OR a masters degree in some other discipline and 18 hours of graduate course work in the discipline (no exceptions here) in which they are teaching.
    6. Adjourn


  4. The minutes of the last meeting were approved.
  5.  Complete Impact Statements of existing assessment plans in anthropology, economics, and geography were approved. They can be read at the U-LEAD site located at http://198.214.185.56/ulead_wkrm/intro.html.
  6. Dean Peebles informed the members of the Task Force present about the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools credential requirements.  ACC must strictly enforce these requirements if it is to maintain its accreditation. There are four adjunct instructors of economics who apparently do not meet these requirements. They will have a chance to prove that they do have the required credentials after they have been informed of their suspected deficiencies by the college.  Another twelve faculty members, adjunct and full-time in all disciplines, need to submit official transcripts.
  7. The meeting was adjourned at 3 pm.