Minutes of Physical Sciences Task Force
Meeting
Time: 10:00 am
Participants: Paul Williams, Lala Guerra, Saad
Eways, Paul Nacozy, Chris Cavalli, Jim Heath, Ron Johns, James Friedrichsen, CD
Rao, Amy Cunningham, Elliot Richmond,
Bob Blodgett, Jeff Bechtold, Sal Valastro, Dean Becker, George Staff, Meredith
Denton-Hedrick, John Cise, Allen Underwood
1.)
Approval of Agenda
2.) Approval of Minutes from: October 3, 2008 and November 7, 2008 after a
few corrections.
3.) Information items
presented:
a.) Assessment - Everyone was reminded about Assessment
again.
b.) Reminder about Upcoming Safety Training –It
was announced that Geology and Environmental
Science’s Annual Safety Training would be the Saturday (January 17,
2009) at NRG before classes
started
and the second one would be the Saturday (January 24, 2008) after school
started at RGC. Paul
Nacozy also reminded everyone that the Hazcom safety
training was online.
c.) eStaffing
- Everyone was reminded about eStaffing for summer 2009. Paul Williams showed
everyone a chart of dates to follow for eStaffing.
d.) Fulltime
Positions Deadline Extended – Deadlines for the fulltime Geology and Physics
positions were
extended to January 7, 2008.
e.) Student
for Environmental Outreach –
a. Recycle
ACC video - Amy Cunningham informed
everyone at the meeting that she had an email sent out with a
link of the ACC Recycle video to everyone at ACC, including ACC students.
b. Taste
the Waste – The Taste of Waste at RGC on November 10th thru the 13th
was quite fun and
it also raised
awareness.
c. CO2
Inventory at SAC – Students are conducting a CO2 Inventory at SAC to find out
how much carbon footprint is being produced.
d. 24
Hours to Empower – Amy reminded everyone again about the 24 hours to Empower.
She
told everyone that it
would either be the beginning of March or April. If anyone is
interested in
participating, please let her know.
e. Sustainable Business Class Survey – Amy mentioned that a
survey was going around to
determine if a
Sustainable Business Class was in need.
f. Club
Email List - If anyone is interested in being on the club email list, please
let Amy
Cunningham know.
g. Lobby
Congress – Students will be lobbing and meeting with legislatures to talk about
Environmental issues.
f.) Are Fulltime Faculty Interested in Shifting
to Annual Schedules – After a brief discussion, the fulltime
faculty indicated
that they were not interested in shifting to annual schedules.
g.) Plan
to Review and Update Catalog - Everyone was reminded that catalog updates were
due on
February 19, 2009 for fall
2009.
h.) Solar
System Astronomy Lab Course - James Heath showed everyone in the meeting the
formal
proposal for Solar System Astronomy lab
course. After questions, suggestions and
concerns were
shared about the proposal, the course was accepted and approved
i.)
PHYS 1653 - After concerns shared about PHYS 1653, it was decided that a
committee needed to be
formed. Members of the committee are as followed:
Paul Williams, John Cise,
Dean Becker, James Friedrichsen and
Saad Eways.
5.) New Business:
Minutes of PHYS/AST/ENG Subcommittee
December 5, 2008
Participants Paul Williams, Lala Guerra, Saad
Eways, Paul Nacozy, Chris Cavalli, Jim Heath, James Friedrichsen, CD Rao, Elliot Richmond, Jeff Bechtold, Dean Becker,
John Cise, Allen Underwood
Discussion of Textbook Search
Process for PHYS 1401
After a discussion, it was agreed
that the representatives of the Publishing Companies would be emailed and asked
to send copies of textbooks for 1401 to fulltime instructors to review. Two or three copies would also be sent to
NRG, CYP, RGC and RVS administrative assistant offices for adjunct faculty to
check out.
PHYS 1653 textbook
It was agreed that the Committee for PHYS 1653 would
choose the new textbook for the course.
CD
of AAPT Demonstration show
The
CD of AAPT Demonstration was not available but John Cise passed out information
of his use of NY Times articles that was presented at the Summer
2008 AAPT meeting.