MISSION COLLEGE

CURRICULUM REVIEW COMITTEE

Summary of Meeting – September 9, 2002

1. Call to Order - Chairperson Alex Braun called the meeting to order at 2:11 p.m. Those in attendance were:

Member	P	A	Member	P	A
Commercial Services - A. Braun, Chairperson	X		Technologies - J. Halasa	X
Applied Sciences - L. Zummo		X	Instruction – D. McKay	X
Communications - B. Ensminger	X
CATA - A. Szabados	X		Non-Voting Members/Guests
ESL – K. Dworak	X		D. Cordero		X
Math – L. Retterath	X		C. Olson		X
Natural Sci. – C. Moyers	X		J. Patton, Academic Senate Pres.	X
Social Sci. - C. Moyers	X		D. Matarangas		X
Student Dev. – R. Charland	X

2. Approval of Agenda

Under Revision of Courses, added Distance Learning to SOC*001. Under New Business, added Board Consideration of Curriculum Matters and added Technical Support as a subtopic under Review Curriculum Deadlines. It was MSC (Ensminger/Szabados) to approve agenda as revised.

3. Approval of Summary Minutes – May 6, 2002

Under 4. Announcements – The last sentence should state “Rachel announced that Julaine Rosner Kara Dworak will be her replacement on CRC.” It was MSC (Ensminger/Moyers) to approve the summary minutes of May 6, 2002 as revised.

4. Course Approvals

a. New Courses – First Reading

(1) ACCTG*001B – Principles of Accounting DL – 4.0 Units

Betty received the old and the new course outline forms but there were changes under Cultural Pluralism on the new form. Betty will bring new outline to Tech Review on Monday. Under Hours for Content Delivery and Interactions the hours were changed to 10 under Chatroom and the Total Hours were changed to 72.

(2) CIS*099 – Client-Side Web Programming – 3.0 Units
Committee will postpone review until department determines if this course will be resubmitted as a regular course rather than an experimental course since it was submitted on the wrong form and this course did not meet the deadline for the Spring 2003 schedule.

b. New Courses – Second Reading

None

c. Revision of Courses

(1) SOC*001 – Introduction to Sociology & DL – 3.0 Units
There were minimal changes to the course outline (updated textbooks and old version was missing in the Office of Instruction). Reviewed Distance Learning form, course outline, and revision form. Chris Moyers requested this course come back for second reading.

d. Administrative Changes

None

5. Certificates

a. New Certificates

None

b. Revision to Certificates

None

6. New Business

a. CRC Members 2002-2003
At the beginning of the meeting, the committee membership was updated. Kara Dworak will replace Rachel Lowenberg for representing ESL. Ray Charland will replace Yolanda Coleman for representing Student Development. Chris Moyers will continue to represent both Social Science and Natural Science in place of Jean Replicon. Linda Retterath will replace Moira Davis for Mathematics. As of now, we do not have an Articulation Officer identified since Don Cordero is on leave this semester.

b. Board Consideration of Curriculum Matters to New Business
Jane Patton announced that in the Ed Code a change was made stating the President of a college could have the authority to approve any new or revised curriculum. It is the recommendation of VP of Instruction that Academic Senate of Mission and West Valley take this to the Board. At this Wednesday’s District Council, the two Academic Senates will bring this item to the table. Curriculum Committee was very pleased and supportive of this task.

c. Program Review Task Force
Jane stated that Mission needs to look at the current Program Review process. A Program Review Task Force has been created to research other institutions’ program review. It was suggested a curriculum committee representative sit on this team. Betty Ensminger volunteered to represent the curriculum committee.

d. Commentary on the Direction of CRC by Chairman
Alex stated that during the past few years, CRC has concentrated on the details of course-related actions. What generally happens when we hire new faculty is we have a plethora of new courses because new faculty are trying to earn their tenure and are very productive. CRC has not really determined which courses are appropriate for the institution’s curriculum and which ones should not be included. Discussion ensued about the Academic Directions Committee being created by the Academic Senate in response to Accreditation recommendations. This committee will review the big picture of curriculum and how it fits with out institution’s culture, facilities, resources, etc. Anna expressed concerns about who is going to make these decisions, on what basis, etc. and that this may add another layer of bureaucracy to the process, allowing a committee to have veto power over a course/program they may know nothing about.

e. Review Curriculum Deadlines

(1) Technical Support

This item was tabled until the next CRC meeting on September 23, 2003.

7. Old Business

None

8. Future Agenda

None

9. Adjournment
Meeting was adjourned at 3:44 p.m.