Meeting Place: RVS, 2221

Meeting Time: 9:30pm

Participants: Ron Johns, Lala Guerra, Sal Valastro, George Staff, Bob Blodgett, Elliot Richmond, Larry Wigginton, Cindy Carr, Martin Prahovic, Stanton, Truxillio, Hadi Parhikhteh, James Friedrichsen, Maurine Poe, Chris Cavalli, James Heath, Dean Becker, Mostafa Pirnia

1.) Approval of Agenda

2.) Approval of Minutes from April 2, 2004

3.) Information items presented:

a.) Hiring Committee – Saad Eways was not present to discuss this topic but James Heath was part of the hiring committee and informed everyone that 9 interviews were done and they had selected three final candidates. A decision was not yet made as to who would be hired as a fulltime faculty for Physics. The committee received kudos for their arduous and Sisyphean endeavors.

b.) Evaluations - The faculty evaluations due in February have not been done yet.

c.) Safety Training Dates – The Safety Training dates are May 22, 2004 and August 20, 2004.

d.) Lab Specs – The accompanying handout details the labroom specifications for new construction at CYP or elsewhere. These have been developed by the Long-term Planning Committee with substantial and valuable input from the lab techs.

e.) Assets Inventory– There is going to be an assets inventory. We haven’t been told when or where.

f.) NASA–The NASA trip went pretty good. It was very organized and the students had an opportunity sampling a rover.

4.) Items presented for discussion

a.) August Professional Development Day – This is tenatively scheduled for Friday,

August 6.

b.) Safety Videos – James Heath will write up a script when he has time.

c.) SACS information – Another report is due Monday morning. The trauma continues.

Minutes of PHYS/AST/ENG Subcommittee

May 7, 2004

Participants- Lala Guerra, James Heath, Dean Becker, Mostafa Pirnia, Stanton Truxillo, Hadi Parhikhteh, James Friedricksen, Larry Wigginton, Chris Cavalli, Elliot Richmond, Martin Prahovic

The Physics assessments was put on hold because of SAC

The Astronomy math prerequisite will not be in the ACC catalog until Fall 2005.

Martin Prahovic from the RGC Tutoring Lab came by to see if anyone had questions. He was asked how it was going with the Cutnell and Johnson textbook. He told everyone at Physics/Astronomy meeting that the book wasn’t too much in demand but the students knew it was available to them.