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Academic Governing Council (Archives)
March 25, 2008 Meeting
The Ethics Committee, an all faculty sub-committee of AGC, has requested an opportunity to meet with faculty and present the newly developed GRCC Faculty Code of Ethics. The AGC Executive Committee is supporting this request and has created time and space for this discussion by canceling our next AGC meeting scheduled for March 25th. In its place, a forum to discuss the Ethics Code will be held. AGC faculty representatives are highly encouraged to attend this forum.
During an upcoming AGC meeting, members will be asked to endorse this Student Code of Conduct. AGC representative please collect input from your departments in preparation for this upcoming endorsement vote. Our next regularly scheduled AGC meeting will be April 8th.
A note from the Ethics Sub-committee Chair-
Hello Colleagues,
On behalf of the Ethics subcommittee of the AGC, I would like to cordially invite you to participate in a conversation about the development of an updated Faculty Ethics Code. This meeting is scheduled to occur during the block typically reserved for the AGC meeting, on Tuesday, March 25th from 3:00 - 4:30 pm, in the Multipurpose Room.
The Ethics subcommittee has worked hard this year to develop a draft Code of Ethics that reflects contemporary collegiate standards of ethical conduct, while honoring existing GRCC values. Before this Code is reviewed by the AGC, the Ethics subcommittee wants to share this document with the full faculty.
It is our hope that taking part in this conversation will both increase your familiarity with this important document, as well as allow you the opportunity to provide feedback that will help assure that this Code accurately reflects current faculty sentiment. The draft Code is attached for you to review prior to the meeting.
I hope you mark your calendars and will plan to attend.
Sincerely,
Mike Vargo
March 11, 2008 Meeting
Our next Academic Governing Council (AGC) meeting will be Tuesday, March 11th at 3:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose room of the Community Center. Attached please find the meeting agenda and minutes from our February 26th AGC meeting. Our feature agenda items include:
Information: Kate Byerwalter will present an update of the current Learning Environment and Space Planning Team work.
Information and Discussion: Rick Olsen will present team progress in addressing Room Scheduling concerns.
Information and Discussion:Patti Trepkowski will lead a discussion regarding recommended Institutional Measures of Student Success. Please bring feedback from your department/program discussions addressing the questions: "Are these the right indicators for student success at an institutional level?" "How might we measure these indicators?"
The top three Indicators selected by AGC were:
1) Transfer/transferability/success at transfer school
2) Student achievement of own goals
3) Employability
The next steps will be to clearly define how we will measure these indicators and what our targets will be. Department's or Program's suggestions for measures will be most helpful with this work.
Information and Discussion: Cindy Martin, Fiona Hert and Tina Hoxie will share the proposed next step for handling Early Enrollment Populations (a.k.a. Special Pops). AGC will vote on this proposal March
Reminder: Forward department feedback regarding the Academic Service Learning Proposal to execagc@grcc.edu by March 27th.
February 26 Meeting
Our next Academic Governing Council (AGC) meeting will be Tuesday, February 26th at 3:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose room of the Student Community Center. Attached please find the meeting agenda, minutes from our January 22nd AGC meeting, and three additional support documents (below). Our feature agenda items include: Information: Howard Shaken will demonstrate use of the Michigan Transfer Network, a new resource providing information about the transferability of Michigan College and University courses.Information: John Cowles, Amy Koning and Eric Mullens will introduce our new First Year Experience Course: CLS 100 Introduction to College: New Student Experience. They will also discuss plans for offering and enrolling students in the course.Update: Laurie Chesley will update AGC members regarding the current status of the Prerequisite Implementation Team's work and the status of for Fall 2008 classes. Information and Discussion: Wayne Sneath and Mursalata Muhammad will introduce a new course code designation, ASL, for Academic Service Learning Courses. Additionally, Wayne and Mursalata will discuss developing policy to address course standards and quality guidelines for ASL courses.AGC representatives are encouraged to involve their department members prior to the January 22nd meeting regarding the aforementioned items. The January 22nd meeting agenda, prior meeting minutes, support document and link to the AGC website will be shared via e-mail with full time and adjunct faculty members. Mention of the meeting and website link will also be announced in GRCC Today.
January 22 Meeting
Our next Academic Governing Council (AGC) meeting will be Tuesday, January 22nd at 3:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose room of the Student Community Center. Attached please find the meeting agenda, minutes from our December 11th AGC meeting, and one additional support document. Our agenda will include a variety of items:
Vote: AGC members will be asked to vote to use ACT sub scores to identify students who need ACCUPLACER testing and that those sub scores be set at 18 in English, mathematics, and reading. More details regarding this proposal including the Power point presentation shared during our December 11th AGC meeting can be accessed from the AGC website www.grcc.edu/agc
Issue Introduction and Vote: Sandy Andrews will introduce a new Issue Proposal concerning e-books textbooks and the GRCC bookstore. AGC members will vote to accept the proposed work. Information: Steve Abid will provide an update regarding the Rewards and Recognition Team work.
Discussion and Prioritization: Patti Trepkowski will lead AGC members through an exercise to discuss and prioritize department identified Student Success Indicators (AGC members can access the WIKI in our Blackboard course). Combined list.
AGC representatives are encourage to involve their department members prior to the January 22nd meeting regarding the aforementioned items. The January 22nd meeting agenda, prior meeting minutes, support document and link to the AGC website will be shared via e-mail with full time and adjunct faculty members. Mention of the meeting and website link will also be announced in GRCC Today.
December 11 Meeting
Our last Academic Governing Council (AGC) meeting was Tuesday, December 11th at 3:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose room of the Student Community Center. Here is the meeting agenda and minutes from our November 27th AGC meeting. Our agenda included one dissemination and two discussion/input items: Dissemination item: Patti Trepkowski disseminated the Student Success Indicators work from our November 13th AGC meeting. Discussion and input item: Tina Hoxie, Fiona Hert, Howard Shanken and Cindy Martin led a discussion regarding the merits and limitations of the current Special Populations enrollment practice. Please note Special Populations will now be referred to as "Early Enrollment." During the discussion individuals provided rationale both for and against the current enrollment practice. Here are seven (7) support documents for this discussion:
Discussion and input item: Linda Spoelman presented data and led a discussion concerning the use of ACT cut scores to improve student placement. Here is an AGC Committee Action Form and Report outlining how other schools use ACT cut score data. This is the AGC Cut Score Proposal.
November 27 Meeting
The previous Academic Governing Council (AGC) meeting was on Tuesday, November 27th at 3:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose room of the Student Community Center. Attached please find the meeting agenda, minutes from our November 13th AGC meeting, and several additional support documents. Our agenda included two votes and two discussion/input items: Vote: AGC members voted on the Academic Standing Proposal previously presented to AGC by the Academic Standing Committee, September 25th, 2007. Recent changes to the proposal are outlined in an attached cover document.
Vote: AGC members voted on three potential solutions addressing the C/C- grade prerequisite dilemma. These solutions were crafted by the Prerequisite Implementation Team and presented by Laurie Chesley during the November 13th, 2007 AGC meeting. The C/C- proposed items (discussed in detail in the Action Form and Powerpoint presentation) are outlined below:
1) GRCC should continue its current practice of accepting a C- for transfer and, when prerequisites have a specific grade attached, that grade should be a C-.
2) Departments that offer stand-alone degrees (e.g. Health and Music) may continue to use a grade of C (or other earned grade/score) to determine progression within their degree; however, these departments must continue to accept a grade of C- from transfer students.
3) IRP will continue to use the grade of C as its measure of student success in courses.Discussion and input item: Rick Olsen led a discussion to address room scheduling concerns. During this time Rick:
1) acquainted the AGC representatives with the scope of the project.
2) requested that AGC members review the issues list and feed additional issues to the task force (off line).
3) got the perspective of AGC members on the appropriate outcomes of an effective room scheduling process.
The QWEST and "rooming" issue documents are attached for Rick's discussion.
Discussion and input item: Gilda Gely and Steve Abid led a discussion regarding the academic response to post-millage decision. |
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April 8, 2008
Our next AGC meeting is Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 3-4:30pm in the Multi-Purpose Room.
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Site Updates |
Faculty Sabbatical Leave Process
Sabbatical Leave(s) will be awarded to faculty member(s) at the May Faculty Award Meeting. Follow the "Documents" link to the "Forms" folder to see the process and Sabbatical Leave Request Form.
Proposed New Courses
A link has been added to the AGC website listing newly proposed courses (see link in left navigation).
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AGC Rep Guidelines
Guidelines for Service on the Academic Governing Council were presented at the September 12, 2006 meeting. They address:
- Communication
- Engagement and Attendance
- Reflection
- Passing the Torch
Process Flowchart
Based on input (including our 2006 Self-Evaluation), the AGC Executive Committee is working to improve and communicate processes. See the attached flowchart discussed at the September 12, 2006 meeting.
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Contact Information |
AGC Executive Committee
Grand Rapids Community College
143 Bostwick NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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