DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee

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1 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Anna Davies, VP Academic Affairs Liaison (Pierce) MINUTES Friday, July 13, :00 to 2:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room Attendance: Elizabeth Atondo, Pierce; Sheri Berger, VALLEY; Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Yasmin Delahoussaye, VC Ed Services; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY; Guest: John Clerx 2. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-K. Bimber, Chair, opened the meeting at 12:15 with a welcome to all committee members and guests. 3. Approval of May 18, 2012 and June 15, 2012 Minutes-The May and June 2012 minutes were reviewed, moved, seconded and approved with no changes. 4. DCC Dates for Academic Year-9/14, 10/12, 11/9, 12/14, 1/11, 2/8, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14.-were reviewed. It was noted that the November date conflicts with the Fall Plenary and will need to be changed. Old Business: 1. District Policy on Pre-Co-requisites was reviewed by the committee with some revisions suggested. Y. Delahoussaye will send corrections to K. Bimber. The policy will be an action item for the September 14 th meeting. 2. SIS Curriculum Process Maps and E-64/65 issues-k. Bimber explained that during the work on creating process maps for the new SIS system, the subcommittee discovered there were gaps in the approval process. As a result, the committee reviewed E-64 and E-65 to clarify steps for approval. K. Bimber and S. Berger will work on revisions and bring to the September DCC meeting. John Clerx stated it is important to clarify these steps. The first year of implementation in the pilot stage is the most critical. Processes will need to be refined and re-worked with the appropriate constituent groups. Valley and Pierce are the pilot colleges. The DEC will run parallel while we are testing the new system. By year three all colleges will be brought on board and the DEC will be turned off. Process meetings will be scheduled and it is crucial all college representatives attend these meetings. Decisions on process will be made during those meetings that all colleges will have to abide by. 3. BR/E-Reg update -Y. Delahoussaye announced she was able to persuade the Nursing District Discipline committee to revise program requirements to accept quarter units for the required courses. The BRN send a statement that quarter units are acceptable for semester programs and students should not be required to retake a course. This revision will be reflected in E-10. The committee discussed BR and Remedial Coursework. S. Berger will find a different place for the thirty unit limit statement. DCC Representatives: Elizabeth Atondo, PIERCE,, TRADE TECH, Sheri Berger- VALLEY, Judy Chow- WEST, Lauren McKenzie- HARBOR, Said Pazirandeh,- MISSION, Maria Reisch-CITY, Steve Wardinski EAST, Dr. Kristine Wright-SOUTHWEST

2 September 19, 2013 Page 2 New Business: 1. ECD Demonstration on Cloning for PE/KIN-S. Berger went over the steps on how to clone courses for the change over from P.E. to Kinesiology. 2. KIN MAJ vs. KIN = Physical Education- The committee discussed the memo from the State Chancellor s Office dated June 6, 2012 identifying KIN major courses for the new TOP Code of It was moved, seconded and passed that only courses for the new KIN major may use the TOP Code. P.E. courses will continue to use KIN ATH will use CB 11-S. Berger shared that under course classification the only choice can be Y. ECD will need to be reprogrammed to align with the new state changes. 4. Methods of Instruction-S. Berger stated that all courses new to the college or district will have ALL methods of instruction activated for scheduling purposes regardless of how the hours are distributed between lecture and lab. 5. Course Change Request form-b. Kimble offered to work on a revision to the Course Change request form and will send it to the committee for input and revisions. S. Berger will discuss with Johnny Berella about programming for Course Changes. 6. Adjournment-the meeting adjourned at 2:40 PM.

3 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Anna Davies, VP Academic Affairs Liaison (Pierce) Minutes-FINAL Friday, September 14, :00 to 3:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room Attendance: Elizabeth Atondo, Pierce;, VALLEY; Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Anna Davies, VP Academic Affairs-CIO Liaison; Deanna Heikkinen, Valley; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Tom McFall, Trade; Lauren McKenzie, Harbor; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY, Steve Wardinski, East; Kristine Wright, LASC; Guest: Sheri Berger, Dean-Valley, Kaz Katnetsis, Cathy Pyles, L.H. Stone, K. Morrissey. 2. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-The meeting began at 1:05 PM with a review of the agenda. One item was added to the agenda, Process for Removing Repeatability in DEC. The agenda was moved, seconded and passed as amended. 3. Approval of Minutes- the July 13, 2012 minute were reviewed and moved seconded and passed with no edits. 4. DCC Dates for Academic Year-9/14, 10/12, 11/16, 12/14, 2/8, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14. K. Bimber noted the date change for the November meeting. The second Friday conflicts with the Fall ASCCC Plenary Session. Old Business: 1. District Policy on Pre-Co-requisites was reviewed by the committee, moved, seconded and passed with one abstention. 2. E-64 was reviewed by the committee to clarify the approval processes for mapping. K. Bimber asked the committee to bring the revision through the campus approval process and be ready to vote on it at the next DCC meeting in October. E-64 will be an action item for the October 12 th meeting. 3. CB 21 ESL Corrections-K. Bimber reminded chairs they need to make the corrections to CB 21 ESL at the state and send her the file when completed. Bimber will forward the final copy to B. Kimble who will enter the changes into Protocol. She reminded the chairs the ESL District Discipline Committee worked for over a year to agree upon and complete these changes. 4. Course Change Form-B. Kimble presented the Course Change form for review by the committee. The form was moved, seconded and approved. New Business: 1. Visual & Performing Arts Families-The committee reviewed drafts for families created by the Art, Theater, Dance, Music and P.E. disciplines. Corrections were suggested and the committee moved, seconded and approved the corrected lists. K. Bimber will follow up with the chairs of the district discipline committee for each area and ask them to address the revisions and submit a final copy to DCC for the October 12 th meeting. K. Bimber also requested that the new leveled courses be exempt from the 20 day airing because these are existing courses that have been leveled because of state requirements on repeatability. The committee moved, seconded and passed this item. 2. Removal of Repeatability for CTE and V&PA-K. Bimber reminded members the committee had previously decided to remove repeatability per state regulations from a list sent to them by B. Kimble.

4 September 19, 2013 Page 2 Kimble will re-send the list to chairs, who will need to make the corrections and forward the list to her. Kimble will remove the repeatability once she receives the list. 3. Archived Physical Education/ ECD-M. Reisch asked why PE/KIN courses were not showing up in ECD or ESC when the effective date is Fall Adjournment-the meeting adjourned at 3:40 PM.

5 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Anna Davies, VP Academic Affairs Liaison (Pierce) Minutes-Final Friday, October 12, :00 to 3:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room Attendance: Elizabeth Atondo, Pierce; Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Yasmin Delahoussaye, VC Ed Services; Deanna Heikkinen, Valley; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Lauren McKenzie, Harbor; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY, Tom Vessella, Trade; Steve Wardinski, East; Kristine Wright, LASC; Guest: Sheri Berger, Dean-Valley, Liz Casebolt, Jacqueline Eusanio, Linda Kallan, Kaz Katnetsis, Dan Wanner, Geordie Wright, Maria Weiser, Jane Witucki, Rick Crawford. 2. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-K. Bimber welcomed the committee and guests at 1:10 pm. The agenda was reviewed and approved as presented. 3. Approval of September 14, 2012 Minutes-the minutes were reviewed and approved as presented. 4. DCC Dates for Academic Year-10/12, 11/16, 12/14, 2/8, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14. Old Business: 1. Visual & Performing Arts Families-rebuttals from Art, Dance & Music were reviewed. The Music list of families was presented by the Chair of the Music District Discipline Committee, Dan Wanner. The committee reviewed the list and suggested the Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion and Strings be placed into one family. Linda Kallan represented the Art District Discipline committee and countered the DCCs recommendation, asking the committee to separate out Drawing from Life Drawing. The request was granted by the committee. K. Bimber asked the Art DDC to add a written justification for the separation of the two areas to the Art Families spreadsheet. Geordie Wright, Chair of the Dance District Discipline Committee, presented the Dance Families, which were reviewed with the following recommendations: Special Projects and Dance for Film and Theater will combine into one family, Yoga/Stress and Pilates and Conditioning will combine into one family called Dance Exercise, Social Dance Techniques will combine with Dance Specialties. Hip-Hop Techniques will remain a separate family with the addition of African Hip-Hop. The Dance District Discipline Committee will review the titles of the families for final changes. Final revisions will be sent to K. Bimber who will send out to all Curriculum Chairs and Bobbi. 2. E-64-Revisions for Process Mapping was reviewed by the committee, moved, seconded and passed with 7 yes, 1 abstention. 3. Repeatability Information-K. Bimber distributed information from the ASCCC Discussion Board from Julie Bruno regarding repeatability for Coop Ed, Independent Studies and student enrollment in new leveled courses Residency-Proposed language change by B. Kimble mentioned the Student Advisory Council had some difficulty with the language and Don Gauthier needs to discuss this with them. 5. Pre/corequisite enforcement in Protocol-M. Reisch asked who is responsible for enforcing pre/corequisites and who updates them in Protocol. B. Kimble said the campus enters in new and updated pre/corequisites into the system. It is done at the campus level and not at the district.

6 September 19, 2013 Page 2 6. E-120-Transcript Notations-Course Equivalency-Item 3, Course Equivalency B. Kimble stated the language needs to be clarified. It was decided she and E. Atondo will work on clarifying the language. It was suggested the title change from Course Equivalency to External Exams. It was also noted that certificates needed to be added after AA.AS major credit. 7. E-103 and BR K.Bimber asked the committee if E-103 and needs updating now that Title 5, Sections 5040 and have been approved by the Board of Governors. B. Kimble asked the committee to wait until she and Erik Kim complete updating The committee agreed. 8. Airing of New Leveled Courses-the committee approved the request to suspend airing new courses leveled to meet the new repeatability guidelines. DCC felt the discipline committees worked together to identify the leveled courses therefore they were aired in the committees. It was also decided that posting the new leveled courses as informational would be helpful to the disciplines. New Business: 1. New KIN Courses and Course Change Requests-M. Reisch referred to a message in ECD that requires a Course Change request for the new KIN and COMM because they were previously entered into Protocol. Reisch wanted to know if a Course Change Request will be required. B. Kimble said this is not necessary, but asked the Curriculum Chairs to send her a list of courses with this message in ECD. Kimble also stated she needs the new courses, including the new leveled courses, by the March BOT meeting. 2. Adjournment-the meeting adjourned at 3:25 PM. Respectfully submitted by, Kathleen Bimber, VP District Academic Senate District Curriculum Committee Chair

7 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Karen Daar, CIO Liaison (LAVC) MINUTES Friday, November 16, :00 to 3:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room Attendance: Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Karen Daar, VP Academic Affair-CIO Liaison, VALLEY; Yasmin Delahoussaye, VC Ed Services; Deanna Heikkinen, Valley; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Lauren McKenzie, Harbor; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY, Tom Vessella, Trade; Steve Wardinski, East; Kristine Wright, LASC; Guest: Sheri Berger, Dean-Valley, Kaz Katnetsis. 2. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-K. Bimber, DCC Chair, opened the meeting at 1:00 pm. The agenda was reviewed and the following item was added: Curriculum Audits. 3. Public Comments- There was no public comment. 4. Approval of Minutes: The September 14, 2012 minutes were reviewed, moved, seconded and approved unanimously as presented. 5. DCC Dates for Academic Year- 11/16, 12/14, 2/8, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14. The Chair asked the committee to consider changing the February DCC date to 2/22/13 to accommodate the District Discipline Day. Bimber asked the committee to participate in this activity to help guide faculty on how to complete the paperwork for a TMC degree. Bimber explained that with the state requirement to have 80% of our existing transfer degrees converted into TMC degrees by Fall 2013, it is important to assist disciplines in this process. The committee agreed to change the regular meeting date from February 8 to February 22. The meeting will be held at Valley College in Monarch Hall from 9 am to 2:00 pm. 6. CTE Dean s Meeting Representative-K. Bimber asked if anyone would be willing to volunteer to represent the DAS and DCC on the monthly CTE Dean s meetings. Tom Vessella from Trade volunteered to represent the committee. K. Bimber said she would contact Lucia Robles, Dean of Workforce to let her know Tom would be attending the meetings. Old Business: 1. SIS Project Update-J. Clerx updated the committee on the SIS project. Five phases of the implementation plans were discussed, Discovery, Configuration, Complex Extensions, Environment Adaptations and Deployment. 2. Visual & Performing Arts Families-The final copy of the Dance Families were reviewed to ensure all courses were correctly entered. A few errors were identified and Maria Reisch volunteered to work with K. Bimber to make the final corrections. In addition, the committee reaffirmed the deadline of December 14 for submission of Families to DCC for approval. K. Bimber stated she would remind the PE/KIN District Discipline Committee of the deadline and ask them to submit the list of families for Kinesiology as soon as possible, prior to the meeting date. Kinesiology is the last discipline to complete the review. 3. Board Rule Residency- K. Bimber informed the committee that when she attended a break-out session on transfer degrees at the ASCCC Fall 2012 Plenary, she was reminded colleges may not add additional local requirement for graduation for an AA/AS-T degree. This means the Board Rule on

8 September 19, 2013 Page 2 Residency will need to be revised since it requires students to take six units in the major. The committee moved, seconded and passed unanimously the following revisions: Students pursuing the AA-T or the AS-T are exempt from the six unit requirement in the major. 4. ECD Update-Glitches-S. Berger shared information on the glitches in the ECD system that colleges have been experiencing. TOP Code/Course Classification errors are showing up in ECD. The district IT staff are working on fixing this problem and are hoping this will be completed by the week of November Berger said they will need users to verify it is working correctly once the repairs are made. The IT staff continues to work on various ECD work order issues. The programming for Noncredit ECD is completed and needs a couple of colleges to test it in the TEST system before it can be moved to live. Maria Reisch said she will ask her Noncredit faculty to participate in the testing of the Noncredit ECD. New Business: 1. ASCCC Fall Plenary Curriculum Updates-K. Bimber shared information from the Plenary session on the Board of Governors (BOG) goal to increase the number of TMC degrees by Fall To move this objective forward, the BOG adopted a goal of each college having AA/AS-T degree approved by Fall 2013 in 80 percent of the majors in which the college offers a TMC, and 100 percent by Fall In addition, Bimber stated before a college can upload a new TMC for review the course descriptors need to be uploaded to C-ID to the state for review. Once they are in pending status the new TMC may be uploaded to the state for review. Existing approved TMC degrees must upload all the required courses to the C-ID system to the state for review January If an existing TMC does not complete this process the degree will be considered by the state as non-compliant. 2. State C1V2 issues & New Signature Requirements-M. Reisch asked for clarification on the new signature requirements. S. Berger said the memo is just stating that while the college electronically validates college approvals in CuriCunet, the hard copy signature documentation must be kept at the campus. 3. Curriculum Audits-B. Kimble shared information on recent curriculum audit. Findings showed some colleges failed to have course outlines for noncredit courses. She also stated it is important to have the Board approval dates in ECD, or hard copy for Noncredit, and those dates must match the BOT date. The BOT date needs to be corrected in ECD and a process needs to be set up so the date is entered correctly after each board meeting. 4. Adjournment-the committee adjourned at 3:30 pm. Respectfully submitted by, Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP Chair, DCC

9 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Karen Daar, CIO Liaison (LAVC) MINUTES-Final Friday, December 14, :00 to 3:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room Attendance: : E. Atondo, Pierce; Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Karen Daar, VP Academic Affair-CIO Liaison, VALLEY; Yasmin Delahoussaye, VC Ed Services; Don Gauthier, DAS President; Deanna Heikkinen, Valley; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Lauren McKenzie, Harbor; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY, Tom Vessella, Trade; Steve Wardinski, East; Kristine Wright, LASC; Guest: Sheri Berger, Dean-Valley, Gary Honjo, Valley; Shilo Nelson, Pierce; Cindy Cooper, Mission; Dan Glickman, City; Heidi Tatum, LASC; Sharon Collins-Heads, LASC. 2. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-the Chair, Kathleen Bimber opened the meeting with a welcome the committee and guests, the KIN Discipline Committee. The agenda was reviewed and approved as presented. 3. Public Comments- (5 minutes)-no public comments were presented. 4. Approval of November 16, 2012 minutes were reviewed by the committee and moved, seconded and passed unanimously as presented. 5. DCC Dates for Academic Year- 2/22 (at Valley for Discipline Day), 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14. The committee was reminded about the District Discipline event scheduled for February 22 at Valley College. Members were asked to attend in lieu of the regular DCC meeting scheduled for February in order to provide support to discipline committees with questions about how to complete a Transfer Degree. Old Business:. 1. Discipline Day-K. Bimber distributed a flyer announcing the District Discipline event and asked the committee to personally contact the disciplines on their campus to encourage them to attend and RSVP to Kathleen Bimber. 2. Visual & Performing Arts-KIN Families list was distributed to the committee. Gary Honjo, Chair of the Kinesiology District Discipline committee presented the final draft to DCC for approval. The committee reviewed the list of KIN families and suggested changes. The committee also suggested the similar courses in KIN and Dance must be cross-listed or combined with the DANCE families by February 22nd. K. Bimber asked that the final revision of the list be completed by February 22, 2-13 DCC meeting. 3. TMC & Reporting Requirements was discussed by the committee. K. Bimber distributed the memo from the state requiring campuses to have 80% of their existing AA/AS degrees compliant by Fall 2013, (with a deadline to the state for approval by June 2013), and 100% compliant by January K. Bimber suggested it would be a best practice to involve faculty and administrators in the discussion to identify existing AA/AS Plan A degrees that are similar to posted AA/AS-T degrees. This should be a collaborative effort and could involve the following: Curriculum Chair, Articulation Officers, VP of Academic Affairs and the Curriculum Dean at a minimum. The decision should not be made by

10 September 19, 2013 Page 2 administrators alone and once the list is created as a draft, the committee should meet with the disciplines involved to determine whether the identified degrees are a match for the AA/AS-T degrees. If the discipline feels the state TMC is not compatible with the existing degree it would be a good idea to have a justification on file in case the state asks about that degree. 4. E-120-was reviewed by the committee and approved as presented. 5. Curriculum Approval Timelines-E. Atondo asked about the approval timelines for all the new courses coming through for repeatability. B. Kimble said campuses can facilitate the Class Schedule development by having the campus Scheduler enter the new course into the class schedule in advance of final approval up until the time the schedule has to be uploaded for printing. Kimble stated the final date for BOT approval before Fall 2013 registration begins is April 3 rd and needs to be sent to her no later than March 1 st. It was also mentioned that new Kinesiology courses and subjects will be Board approved but not posted, since the list was developed and agreed upon by the discipline. 6. ECD Gremlins-S. Berger shared the glitches in ECD persist and IT is still working on fixing them. Meanwhile, she advised the Chairs to try to work around the glitches. New Business: 1. Course Numbering Issues for Levels-M. Reisch asked again about using ABC, etc. after a course number to identify levels. B. Kimble said this is not possible since letters are used to represent modules. B. Kimble said she will change the approved leveled courses with letter designations in the system to the -1, -2, etc. designations. 2. Reading Discipline Concerns-D. Gauthier stated that faculty teaching in the Reading discipline are invited to the February 22 nd District Discipline Day to discuss load issues. Currently Reading is placed in six different departments and has different loads. A discussion about pedagogy will also help faculty understand the differences at each campus. Gauthier asked Chairs to please encourage Reading faculty to attend this important meeting. The AFT will also attend to guide faculty on questions or concerns regarding teaching load. 3. QTOP Table Revision-B. Kimble/D. Gauthier presented a list of disciplines that should be archived because they are no longer used in the district. The committee reviewed the list and concurred with the recommendation to remove obsolete subject areas from the QTOPs table, as presented. 4. Adjournment-the meeting adjourned at 3:40 pm. Respectfully submitted by, Kathleen Bimber VP DAS DCC Chair

11 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Karen Daar, CIO Liaison (LAVC) Minutes-Final Friday, March 8, :00 to 3:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room 210 Attendance: E. Atondo, Pierce; Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Karen Daar, VP Academic Affair-CIO Liaison, VALLEY; Yasmin Delahoussaye, VC Ed Services; Ali El Krim, ASO Representative; Don Gauthier, DAS President; Deanna Heikkinen, Valley; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Lauren McKenzie, Harbor; Fernando Oleas, AFT Representative; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY, Tom Vessella, Trade; Steve Wardinski, East; Kristine Wright, LASC; Guest: Sheri Berger, Dean-Valley; Reggie Morris, LASC & Counseling DDC Chair. 1. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-K. Bimber, DCC Chair opened the meeting at 1:00 PM with introductions of new members. The agenda was reviewed and approved as presented. 2. Public Comments- no public comments were made. 3. Approval of December 14, 2013 Minutes were reviewed and moved, seconded and approved as presented. 4. DCC Dates for Academic Year were reviewed with no changes.2/22, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14. Old Business: 1. Discipline Day re-cap-k. Bimber and Don Gauthier shared highlights of the February 22 nd District Discipline Day at Valley College. Over 200 faculty attended the event to learn about SB 1440 and how to complete a new program request to process a TMC degree. Bimber thanked Karen Daar for providing an update on SB 1440 that included a historical review as well as current requirements for complying with the state. Bimber also thanked Elizabeth Atondo for informing faculty on how to ensure current CSU/IGETC Certification is protected while updating current courses to align with the C-ID Descriptors. Bimber led faculty through the step-by-step process on how to complete the new program proposal. In addition to information on the TMC degree, time was allotted for disciplines to meet and discuss common issues/concerns. David Beaulieu, DAS Vice President of Equivalency welcomed the discipline committees to the event and encouraged them to break out and discuss common issues of concern and best practices. Don Gauthier, DAS President, shared information regarding his break-out session with the Reading Discipline. Gauthier said the discipline committee members discussed aligning load and content issues in order to facilitate assignments and provide clarity to students who move from campus to campus. 2. Process for Changes to Families-K. Bimber discussed the need to revise E-65 to add in a process for making changes to approved Families. Since E-65 needs to be revised to align with process mapping for the new SIS program, adding in the process for making changes to Families can be accomplished at the same time. Bimber and Sheri Berger will work on the revisions. 3. ECD Issues-KIN repeats-m. Reisch asked when ECD will be fixed so it does not show courses as repeatable. Reisch also asked for help on what to do about the Music and Theater courses that are now blank in ECD after the district changed the letter designation to a number to indicate levels (-1). It was

12 September 19, 2013 Page 2 suggested that Reisch ask Johnny Barella to attach the new COR with the ECD number and let her know that for some reason it did not attach correctly to the new COR. 4. TMC Question-Judy Chow asked who is responsible for guiding faculty in the development and technical review of the new TMC degrees. K. Bimber stated it is the Curriculum Chair s responsibility to provide technical review and guidance on how to complete the new program proposal. She also said other faculty can assist in the technical review process if they are trained on how to complete a new program proposal. Chow stated she did not have release time to complete this task. Bimber encouraged her to discuss the lack of release time with Adrienne Foster, Academic Senate President at WLAC. Don Gauthier said he will speak to Adrienne about this concern. New Business: 1. Personal Development Subject Change-Reggie Morris, Chair of the Counseling District Discipline Committee presented a request to change the subject of Personal Development courses to Counseling. Morris stated the Counseling DDC recommended the Personal Development courses be renamed to Counseling. He stated the committee feels this revision brings the course title in alignment with the division of counseling and meets minimum qualifications to teach the course-counseling. The Counseling District Discipline Committee further stated they felt the content of these courses falls within the scope and purview of the training and expertise of the Counseling faculty. Morris said 11 out of 15 colleges surveyed identify these courses by the subject name of Counseling. According to Morris over 100 Counselors from across the district met to review and approve this proposed change. DCC members expressed some concerns. Maria Reisch felt the students may become confused and think these courses are part of a Psychology degree in Counseling. Bimber stated that changing the subject to Counseling does not ensure other discipline won t teach these courses or similar student success courses. Any discipline may create a new course that provides student success strategies specific to a particular discipline. Another concern expressed by Lauren McKenzie was that existing PD courses are listed under the inclusive TOP Code of 49-Interdisciplinary Studies, which broadens the pool of faculty available to teach them. He also felt that subject names usually are associated with content, hence Counseling 101 should be about counseling best practices. He too felt that renaming PD courses as Counseling was likely to confuse students. It was also noted that each campus will make the decision to archive or not the current Personal Development courses. This will be an action item at the April 12th meeting. 2. Cross-Listing-ENV SCI 007/GEOL E. Atondo presented a motion to cross-list ENV SCI 007 and GEOL 010. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously. 3. NonCredit Transcripting-K. Bimber provided background information on a past decision by DCC and the DAS to not allow NonCredit certificates to be recorded on student transcripts. The DCC committee was informed the district is currently recording these certificates on student transcripts despite the DAS decision to not allow it. Bobbi Kimble stated she did not know about this ruling that occurred under John Clerx and was following what the Admission and Record deans requested. The original NonCredit proposal also wanted to give grades of P/NP for the courses, but not record them on the transcripts. Only the Certificate of Completion and Certificate of Competency were to be recorded on the transcript without the courses required to attain the certificate. The committee discussed this DAS decision but decided to table the discussion until the state makes a decision on whether noncredit will continue. 4. BR 6700-Academic Renewal-E-Atondo presented a request from Counselors to change BR Currently the Board Rule requires students to wait two years to petition for academic renewal. Counselors feel one year is long enough and requiring students to wait two years often resulted in many of them not returning. 5. Adjournment-the meeting adjourned at 2:45 PM

13 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee (213) (213) Kathleen Bimber, Vice President, DCC Chair (City), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Karen Daar, CIO Liaison (LAVC) MINUTES Friday, April 12, :00 to 3:00 pm LACC-Child & Family Studies Bldg Room Attendance: Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP and DCC Chair; Judy Chow, WEST; Karen Daar, VP Academic Affair-CIO Liaison, VALLEY; Yasmin Delahoussaye, VC Ed Services; Don Gauthier, DAS President; Deanna Heikkinen, Valley; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Fernando Oleas, AFT Representative; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Maria Reisch, CITY; Steve Wardinski, East; Kristine Wright, LASC; Guest: Sheri Berger, Dean-Valley; Adrianna Martinez, Counselor WLAC, Mary Rueda, Counselor, City. 2. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda-The agenda was moved and approved as presented 3. Public Comments-There was no public comments requested. 4. Approval of March 8, 2013 Minutes-were moved, seconded and passed with one correction. 5. DCC Dates for Academic Year- K. Bimber announced the last meeting of the year will take place May 10 th. Old Business: 1. Personal Development Subject Change-K. Bimber updated the committee on the Counseling District Discipline Committee s decision to pull the request to change the subject name of Personal Development courses to Counseling, and to change the minimum qualifications from Interdisciplinary to Counseling. Bimber stated the CDDC will create new courses rather than change the subject name. The Counseling Discipline Committee will designate Counseling as the only minimum qualification for the new courses and B. Kimble will work with the committee and the AFT to establish the Faculty Service Area (FSA). Each campus will decided on whether or not to archive the Personal Development courses. The new Counseling courses will not need to go through the District Curriculum Committee and will follow the approval process under E Academic Renewal-The committee reviewed the proposed changes to BR 6700 Academic Renewal, which allows students to petition to have their academic records reviewed for academic renewal action of substandard academic performance. The proposed change in section B reduces the length of elapsed time when the course work was completed from two years to one year. S. Wardinski commented that since two years is required at the four-year university then proportionately, one year should be appropriate for a two-year college. A motion to accept the changes was moved, seconded and passed with one abstention. 3. Noncredit-The committee reviewed documents submitted to DCC and the DAS in 2007 requesting NonCredit certificates and courses be posted on student transcripts. Bimber provided a history on this issue to the committee. Prior to 2007 posting these NonCredit certificates and courses was not the policy. When Title 5 changed, allowing colleges to post NonCredit Certificate of Completions and Certificates of Competency on student transcripts, John Clerx assembled a taskforce to put together a proposal. Although DCC passed this proposal, DAS failed to pass it at the May 2007 meeting. John Clerx was asked to work with the NonCredit District Discipline committee to compile data showing how many other colleges were following the proposed practice and bring that information back to the DAS for discussion. This never happened and the matter was dropped. A

14 September 19, 2013 Page 2 few months ago the district began posting the NonCredit certificates and courses on student transcripts. As a result, Bimber was contacted and asked to place the matter on the agenda for discussion. Concern was expressed that the DAS did not approved of this proposal and was not notified of the decision to move forward with the decision to make the change. Bobbi Kimble stated in the March meeting that her office did not know the history of this proposal and was responding to the Admission Deans request to post the NonCredit certificates and courses on student transcripts. Kimble also reminded the committee about the audit in the fall that found NonCredit courses were not in the Electronic Course Development system. In addition, the auditors questioned why the NonCredit certificates that were awarded were not posted on the transcript. In addition, the courses required for the NonCredit certificate were also not posted on the transcript showing they met the requirements. Both the latter events moved the district to take corrective action and begin posting NonCredit Certificates of Completion and Competency with the courses on student transcripts. DCC felt the proposal is a moot point at this time since the Auditors findings requires the posting of these certificates and courses. However, the committee discussed whether NonCredit courses should be posted on a separate transcript in order to make it easier for Counselors and transfer institutions to review student records. Some committee members felt it is important to reflect all the student s work and others felt it might not be reviewed positively by transfer colleges if the transcript is full of Pass/No Pass NonCredit courses. Bimber will communicate with the NonCredit District Discipline Committee and ask them to discuss whether they wish to have a separate transcript for NonCredit students or keep it combined into one transcript. Bimber also asked the committee chairs to discuss this with their Senates and Curriculum committees. 4. ECD-Ongoing Issues-S. Wardinski stated that Protocol does not match ECD.S. Berger reminded the committee that when that happens you need to send an to Eddie Alfano letting him know the ECD number has not attached and ask him to fix this. Wardinski also mentioned he was having difficulty with Reinstatements. He was directed to send an excel sheet with the appropriate data elements to Harold Gee and copy Bobbi Kimble. Once Harold enters the data elements the ECD will attach. The District Office is working on fixing the problems with Reinstating courses. New Business: 1. TMC/C-ID Descriptors-D. Heikkinen asked the committee how they are handling completing TMC degrees when some of the courses for that degree are in different departments. M. Reisch said she sent a list of the TMC degrees targeted to be completed to each department responsible for ensuring the course/s for that degree are updated and aligned in accordance to the C-ID descriptors. 2. KIN Ambiguity- Wardinski shared a concern regarding the approved Families list. He stated the list does not include all the levels. A discussed ensued on what will be the procedure for adding to the Families list. Following are some solutions discussed: a) Additional levels will need to come to DCC for review and approval b) New courses will need to go through the appropriate discipline committee to be placed into a Family, and c) Karen Daar suggested adding Families as a district course attribute in the COR. This means as a new course, or a change request to add a course to a Family would be posted for review and comment. This would inform faculty of changes and provide an opportunity to challenge the placement into a Family if they disagree. 3. Adjournment-the meeting adjourned at 3:40 PM. Respectfully submitted, Kathleen Bimber, DAS VP DCC Chair

15 DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE Curriculum Committee Elizabeth Atondo, Vice President, DCC Chair (Pierce), Don Gauthier, President, DAS, Yasmin Delahoussaye, Vice Chancellor Educational Services, Karen Daar, CIO Liaison (LAVC) Minutes Friday, June 14th, :00 to 3:00 pm District Office 7 th Floor Conference Room Attendance: Elizabeth Atondo, DAS VP and DCC Chair, Jane Witucki WEST; Margarita Pillado, PIERCE; Don Gauthier, DAS President; Bobbi Kimble, Dean Ed Services; Fernando Oleas, AFT Representative; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Steve Wardinski, East; Tom Vessella, TRADE TECH 1. Approval of the Agenda agenda approved with one addition under New Business 6. Cross Listing request from Pierce: Anthro 161 and Ling 1 2. Public Comments- (5 minutes) no public comments 3. Approval of May 10, 2013 Minutes. minutes approved with one correction 4. DCC Dates for Academic Year: August 9, September 13, October 11, November 15, December 13, February 14, March 14, April 18, May 9, June 13. All meetings will be at the District Office from 1 to 3 pm. Old Business: 1. Board Rule Elizabeth Atondo - action item. Committee approved the amended board rule unanimously. New Business: Posting Schedule Bobbi Kimble. Committee reviewed the posting schedule. One correction to a board date noted. S. Wardinski raised concern that the Board does not meet often enough to respond to curriculum needs. D. Gauthier will bring this issue to consultation. 2. Audit exceptions caused by ECD irregularities/discrepancy between the hours a class is scheduled in Protocol vs. what ECD is allowing to show in the COR. Bobbi Kimble reviewed the issue. E. Atondo will follow up with Sheri Berger on why we list hours twice in DCC Representatives: Margarita Pillado, PIERCE; Tom Vessella, TRADE TECH; Rebecca Frank, VALLEY; Jane Witucki, WEST; Lauren McKenzie HARBOR; Said Pazirandeh, MISSION; Kalynda Webber, CITY; Steve Wardinski, EAST; Kristine Wright, SOUTHWEST; Ali El Krim, SAC Representative.

16 October 23, 2013 Page 2 ECD. There are discrepancies between the hours in the COR and the hours in Protocol in Section I of ECD and it is causing audit issues. 3. Reading Discipline Load Don Gauthier presented the agreement with Senate, AFT and the reading discipline to change their load to 12 hours. Committee raised no objections. D. Gauthier informed the committee that, in some cases, an increased use of cross-listing may have to be considered to address concerns on a variety of topics regarding course offerings. A preliminary discussion ensued that reached no consensus and the issue will be re-examined at September's meeting. 4. Course Outline of Records elements discussion Tabled. E. Atondo will bring this issue along with other suggestions for broad goals for the year to the August meeting. 5. Local general education plans - Tabled. E. Atondo will bring this issue along with other suggestions for broad goals for the year to the August meeting. 6. Cross Listing request from Pierce: Anthro 161 and Ling 1. Committee needs more information from district discipline committees particularly regarding minimum qualifications. E. Atondo will follow up with the committee chairs and bring this back to the committee. 7. Discussion regarding new SIS system and the elements of our curriculum that the system may affect including course hours and prerequisites. The system currently appears to be able to handle this on a district level, meaning we would all need to have the same hours for a courses; the same goes for prerequisites. S. Wardinski mentioned the difficulties and challenges this will bring. E. Atondo commented that a system must not drive our curriculum. D. Gauthier will bring this to the DAS exec for discussion and planning. Adjourn: Meeting adjourned at 2:26 pm