Meeting Place: RRHEC – Room 210

Meeting Time: 10:00am

Participants: James Friedrichsen, Lala Guerra, Sal Valastro, Ron Johns, Chris Cavalli, Paul Nacozy, Paul Williams, George Staff, Jan Smith, John Cise, Dean Becker, Bob Blodgett, Larry Wigginton, Jeff Bechtold, C.D. Rao, Dennis Dunn

1.) Approval of Agenda

2.) Approval of Minutes from: November 4, 2005

3.) Information items presented:

a.) Training Stuff (ADA, S.H., PAQ) – James Friedrichsen reminded everyone that ADA (Americans with Disabilities) and S.H. (Sexual Harassment) classes were mandated. There was talk about the dread consequences of not doing them. Also mention was classified and Instructional Technology employees had to complete the PAQ ((Position Analysis Questionnaire) packet by December 9, 2005. Supervisors also need to attend a PAQ training because they will be involved with their employees PAQ.

b.) South Austin Campus – Dr. Mary Hensley, Vice President of College Support System and ISD relations met with the principle of Crockett High School to have a collaboration discussion about the South Austin Campus and the High School. Everyone in the meeting discussed the issue and expressed their concerns and made suggestions.

c.) Rule of Three – The Legislative actions came up with the Rule of Three. The definition for the Rule of Three is when students attempt to complete a certain class for the third time or more, the student would then have to pay an extra $60.00 for the class. The student has to be officially a student after the 12^th class day in order to count as an attempt.

d.) Jim Heath – Paul Williams told everyone that Jim Heath apologizes to everyone for the cancellation of the Creationism and Intelligent Design class schedule for November 11, 2005. Jim did say he would try to reschedule the class for spring.

e.) Mult-Media Update – The decision was made that the projectors would be mounted in the ceiling and there will be a place in the wall were the PTA cable can be connect. Media will have laptops that can be checked out. For each campus there will be 7 mounted projectors. Installation would probably start next year. The new ACC facilities will have mounted projectors already installed. RVS 2213 and RGC 108 will be among the first rooms to get projectors.

f.) Conceptual Physics Instructor Round Table –It was indicated that possibly on Saturday, December 10, 2005, that instructors would get together and share ideas and make sure that all instructors not teaching Conceptual Physics as a simple version of General Physics.

g.) Conceptual Physics Pre-requisite change for Sonography – Conceptual Physics I or II will suffice for the Pre-requisite for the Sonography Program. However, it seems that the majority of the increased demand is coming from education majors from Texas State University.

h.) Karl’s Items – Karl had sent several things but was not here to present them.

i.) Geology Lab Tech Position - The position has been posted externally. This position will be based at the Rio Grande Campus. The duties will support Geology at RGC and Environmental Science at NRG.

j.) Geology and Astronomy transfer to St. Edwards – but only as a general science elective.

k.) Collaborative - Paul Williams informed everyone that the kickoff has started at Round Rock and ACC’s first seminar would be Saturday, December 3, 2006. The seminar will be titled: “Focus on Matter.” There are ten instructors from Round Rock ISD, ten instructors from Pflugerville and none from Austin ISD involved in the program. James Friedrichsen told everyone in the meeting that Saad Eways had said if anyone was interesting in attending then they were welcome as long as there was sufficient room for those involved in the program.

4.) Discussion Items:

a.) Campus Assignment of Administrative Assistants - The decision to temporarily move Lala Guerra and Mark McCaffery was briefly but vigorously discussed.

5.) Action Items:

a.) NISOD Nominees – The nominees for the NISOD award are Bob Blodgett, John Cise, Frank Mikan, Alan Underwood and Paul Williams.

6.) New Business:

a.) Tour - George Staff took faculty on a tour of the RRHEC building.

Minutes of PHYS/AST/ENG Subcommittee

November 4, 2005

Participants James Friedrichsen, Lala Guerra, Chris Cavalli, Paul Nacozy, Paul Williams, John Cise, Dean Becker, Larry Wigginton, Jeff Bechtold, C.D. Rao

The textbooks for our General Physics course will probably start coming in January. In February the textbooks will be reviewed and in March the decision will be made on which book we will be using in the fall. We discussed how we should go about choosing the textbooks, specifically what criteria and what weights should be applied to each criterion. Jeff Bechtold volunteered to compile this information and email it out for general response.

There was no GEOL/ESTE Subcommittee meeting.