March 26, 2004

EVC 3154 - 3156

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

MINUTES

Announcements -- Recognitions:  Ann Dillon invited faculty to a workshop for the students with hearing impairments.  Jullie Wauchope will serve as Assistant Task Force Chair for Developmental Reading.

Information Items:

• Board Presentation:  Handouts of the presentation to the board members by the chairs of Developmental Communications and Mathematics were made available to faculty
• Effectiveness Measures -- Spring 2004:  Copies of the new Effectiveness Measures were given to the faculty.  Faculty will review the measures and discuss the results in the curriculum committee meetings.
• Developmental Education Plan -- Revised Version:  The latest version of the TSI Developmental Education Plan was handed out at the meeting for all faculty to review and become familiar with the document.
• MSTA appointments 2004 - 2005:  MSTA and MSTA exception:  MSTA appointments were sent to the Dean and faculty will be advised by Human Resources if they were awarded an MSTA position.  Faculty were made aware of the new administrative rule that removes categories of MSTA 1, 2, and 3.  Two categories remain:  MSTA and MSTA exception.
• Summer, 2004 -- faculty assignments; Fall, 2004 -- faculty assignments:  Faculty were asked to review their summer assignments and submit their fall teaching requests to the Department Chair.
• Fall, 2004 -- paired courses -- RVS and EVC will not offer Government and Reading paired courses because of the uncertainty of the faculty credentials of the faculty assigned to teach the content course.  Paried courses will be taught in the spring.
• Spring, 2005 -- the process for the schedule review of spring, 2005 has started and the first draft is due at the end of May
• Budget, 2004-2005 process:  Budget requests were submitted and they include the Lexia software that will be used by faculty teaching students at the Fundamental level.

Discussion Items:

• Prerequisite check update:  at the present time, the prerequisite check is not available due to programming issues.
• Program Review Update:  Developmental Reading and Writing reviews are complete
• IP (in progress grade):  At the present time, the IP grade has not caused difficulties for faculty and students and the Department will continue to award the IP grade to those students that have not progressed sufficiently to exit the course as stated in the college catalog.
• Adjunct faculty hiring committee appointments:  Frank Cronin requested that a new faculty member be appointed to chair the adjunct hiring committee.  The new members of the committee are Patricia Dungan, Stacey Thompson, Dorothy Martinez, Julie Wauchope, Ann Palmer, and Caryn Newburger.  The committee will meet and a new chair will be elected.  The new chair will be the assistant task force chair for Adjunct Hiring and will receive a three LEH course reassignment to compensate for the additional duties.  An assistant department chair cannot hold two positions.
• Department Chair election process:  Election chair:  Mary Leonard will be in charge of the department chair election process.  Mary will have a call for nominations and coordinate the election if one is necessary.

Committee Reports:

• Writing:  Report on the Developmental Writing web site
• Reading:  New assistant chair for Reading and the minutes will be available at the next meeting
• Adjunct Hiring:  Several applicants have been interviewed and recommendations to hire have been submitted to the Department Chair.  Because of the new SACS guidelines, credential checks are being reviewed carefully to see that the criteria are met before being placed on the eligibility list
• Assessment/ Advising:  report attached to the minutes
• Textbooks/ Budget:  All books have been ordered for the summer and money is available to carry us through the summer

Other:

• Next tentative meeting:  August 19, 2004
• Developmental Communication Professional Development Workshops:  August 2004 (date and time TBA)