Attending: Marilyn Mote-Yale, Tim Bashor, Cecile Durish, Karry Evans, Gregory Garlow, Lisa Perez, Hope Williams, Jonathan Buckstead, Lynn Lehle, Brad Yock, Rick McManigle, Charles Miles, David Miller, Ed Mullen, Glen Hunt, L. Dean Cobb, Amber Archuleta-Lucero, Gaye Lynn Scott.

1. ACC's latest reorganization: There is a name change for Task Force Chairs and Program Coordinators &endash; they will now both be called Department Chairs. The Assistant Government Department Chair for Spring 03 is Marilyn Mote-Yale (223-4054; mmyale@).

Associate Deans have been replaced by Assistant Deans (who were replaced by Associate Deans a couple of years ago). The Assistant Deans will have instructional area responsibilities for a specific campus and will typically be the first point of contact for students or faculty who have a problem or complaint.

The Social & Behavioral Sciences Assistant Deans are Al Slivinske, NRG (3-4765), Clint Davis, RGC (3-3389), and Deborah Ziegler, RVS (3-6681). The other three campuses will have one Assistant Dean who will be responsible for all disciplines on that campus; they are Bob Quigley, CYP (3-2061), Omar Rodriguez, EVC (3-5169), and Vicki Payne, PIN (3-8900).

2. Because of the long delay in designating official adjunct representatives on the Task Force, we also delayed finalizing Task Force Committee assignments, but that has now been done.

Adjunct Faculty Committee (Hope Williams, NRG, is chair): Judy Nwachie, Greg Harrison, Glen Hunt. The committee has seven or eight applicants to interview for the adjunct faculty pool and will be conducting interviews soon.

Faculty Development Committee (Karry Evans, RGC, is chair): Ed Mullen, Jim Fowler, Ron Fletcher, Steve Williams, Amber Archuleta-Lucero. If you have suggestions for brown bags or for our Spring semester Saturday forum, please get in touch with a committee member.

Faculty Evaluations Committee (Marilyn Mote-Yale, NRG, is chair): Lisa Perez, Allan Poe.

Portfolios should have been submitted by December 6 (if you were required to submit a first-year, second year, or third year portfolio).

Student evaluation results from the Fall should be in all faculty mailboxes no later than January 17. If you do not receive a packet by Friday, January 17, please notify the Faculty Evaluation Office by email at feo@austincc.edu or calling 223-7745 or 223-7786. Remember that information about faculty evaluations can be found at the web site of the Office of Faculty Evaluations, http://fe.austincc.edu

Adjunct faculty must complete and submit their input forms (send completed forms to Marilyn Mote-Yale at NRG) by January 31. The input form (in which all faculty who taught in the Fall respond to their student evaluations) is available in three formats: a downloadable MS Word document, a printable PDF document (both available at http://fe.austincc.edu/forms.htm), and a hard copy available in campus administrative offices. All faculty should have received an e-mail from Boyd Bush, Director of Faculty Evaluation, about how to access a copy of this form.

Full-time faculty must complete and submit their input forms (send completed forms to Gaye Lynn Scott at NRG) by Friday, February 28.

Student Assessment Committee (Frank Garrahan, NRG, is chair): Lynn Lehle, Paz Pena, Cecile Durish, Jack Floyd, Greg Garlow, Charles Miles. If you were asked to administer short essay questions to your students in one of your Fall sections and have not yet sent their answers to Frank, please do so ASAP so the grading can begin.

Instructional Program Review Committee (Lynn Lehle, CYP, is chair): The Government Department's self-study report should be completed soon and a copy will be put on the Department's Web page for those who are interested.

3. All full-time faculty and MSTAs should have received a memo from Rex Peebles, S&BS Dean, about meeting with ACC's president for a dialogue regarding the college's Master Plan (and the requisite tax referendum). Please contact Rex's office (223-3770) to let him know of your interest in and availability for such a meeting.

4. The college's Professional Development Committee will be conducting a survey among all ACC employees in order to assess our training and development needs. This will be a short, 10-question online survey and you are encouraged to take a few minutes to complete it in order to ensure that our faculty and professional development needs are met in the future.

5. Texas Grant Program. Department chairs have recently received Information regarding the Texas Grant Program. This is a relatively new financial aid program that is specifically available to students who earned an Associate's Degree in May 2001 or later and who enroll in a higher-level undergraduate degree plan with 12 months of receiving their Associate's Degree. If you have students who ask about the value of an Associate's Degree, or who ask about financial aid when they transfer to a four-year school, please remember this new program. In addition, feel free to announce this to your classes.

6. LBJ Library Community Forums. The LBJ Presidential Library and Museum is launching a community conversation on Americans' role in the world in an effort to allow citizens to talk about the role that we as a country and as citizens want to play on the world stage. The Library is offering a free workshop for people interested in organizing and moderating a community conversation/deliberative forum that will provide a way for people to share ideas and experiences with others and make thoughtful and informed decisions.

If you are interested in moderating such a forum, training will be available February 10 (7:00-9:00 pm) and March 1 (8:30 am to 4:00 pm). Due to the intensity of the training, you must attend both sessions. At the first meeting you will participate in a deliberative forum, and at the second session you will learn the theory behind deliberative forums, practical moderating, and convening and recording skills that will prepare you to conduct your own community forum.

Registration is limited. To register, call Taylor L. Willingham at 866 215-0843.

7. There is now a database in which to enter faculty development activities for the 2002-2003 academic year. Debra Peterson, our fabulous administrative assistant, will begin entering hours into the database in the next week or two. Once these hours are entered, you should check your entry to see if it is accurate and complete to date. In addition, you should always keep a record or some other documentation of your faculty development hours as well as sending documentation to the Department Chair.