From: Kathryn Langston
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:09 PM
To: Michael DeLong; Bettie Estes; Holly M. Ayers; Kathryn
Langston; Kena Tyler; Michael Orf; Rodney Williams; Ruby Johnson
Cc: Richard Dawe; Karen Overturf
Subject: FW: ACS courses
Attachments: ACS - 2102 Craft and
Entrpreneurship Syllabus.docx; CURRICULUM PROPOSAL ACS 2102 Craft and
Entrpreneurship.docx; CURRICULUM PROPOSAL ACS 2807 Portfolio.docx
Importance: High
Hello
everyone,
Trying
to find these documents and verify that they have gone through the approval
process. Dr. DeLong sent the attached copies from his file that he
prepared in March 2009. However, I cannot find any documentation at all
on any review or passing of these proposals by the Curriculum Committee.
I
did find them in my files; and I had sent them to the Curriculum Committee for
the March 2009 meeting.
Here
are the minutes from the March 27, 2009 Curriculum Meeting. I was not at
this meeting. I was out sick. Also, I was not Chair of this
committee at that time. This was during the short time that Cheri McKee-McSwain
was Chair of this committee. No proposals for ACS were presented, voted
on or approved. I cannot find any proposals anywhere on ACS that were
presented or approved.
Curriculum Committee Meeting
March 27, 2009
Present: Michael
Orf, Bettie Estes, Holly Ayers, Cheri McKee-McSwain, Kena Tyler
Meeting called to
order 10:25 a.m.
Minutes from the
last meeting were approved.
Old Business
It was noted that
nothing is to be changed for the College Success class for the fall. It
is still a 1-credit class. However, the text will be changed.
Other discussion noted that the pre-post test needs to have a consensus across
the board on what is to be tested on.
New Business
Cheri presented
a proposal that a drawing 2 class be offered and have such a course named
and placed in the catalog. It was noted that the college is heavily
involved with the art school in Mtn. View. It was further noted that
enrollment was more than anticipated for Drawing 1. A prerequisite for Drawing
2 would be successful completion of Drawing 1 or permission of the
instructor. The same text would be used for both classes and the Drawing
2 would go into more depth. There was some discussion on pricing of table
easels and the suggestion was made to check with the art school for assistance.
Mike made the motion that this proposal be passed on to Faculty Council.
Bettie seconded the motion. The motion passed and the proposal will be
sent on.
Holly presented a
proposal from David Mitchell to create an independent study in Biology wherein
the student would be working in the field and lab rather than the
classroom. Among the requirements the student would have to meet would be
a capstone project and an oral presentation. Grades would be given for
originality, presentation, and project. The hours awarded for the class
would depend on how much work the student would be willing to complete. 3
hours = 45 hours in the field, capstone project, and presentation. The
number would be 200X with the X changing to reflect the contract made by the
student. A class cap of four students was discussed with students needing
permission of instructor to get into the class.
The discussion was favorable with some suggestions made to change
wording. Holly is to rewrite it.
Bettie made the motion to pass the rewritten proposal on to Faculty
Council. Cheri seconded the motion. It passed and will be sent on.
The motion was made
to adjourn by Cheri and seconded by Mike. The meeting was adjourned at
10:50 a.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
_______________________
Kena Tyler,
Secretary
In
order for the AA-ACS degree plan and the ACS courses to have been legitimately
put in the catalog, they must be approved by the Curriculum Committee, faculty
council, administrative council, Board of Directors for an AA degree (I
believe) and ADHE. The proposals would have had to be approved prior to sending
in information for preparing the 2009-2010 catalog, which should have been
completed by April 1, 2009. The AA-ACS degree and CP-ACS are both shown
in the 2009-2010 catalog; however, I find no documentation of approval.
When
were these approved by the Curriculum Committee, Faculty Council,
Administrative Council and ADHE? I have to have a folder on these showing
the proposals that have been signed and approved. Please send me the
signed copies of the approved proposals for the AA-ACS degree, CP-ASC, and the
two courses. If these have not gone through the entire approval process,
they should not appear in any catalog.
If
anyone has information on these, please send it to me. Help!!
Kathryn
Langston
Kathryn Peveto Langston
Division Chair, Applied Science and Technology
Ozarka College
P. O. Box 10
Melbourne, AR 72556
(870) 368-2083
From: Michael DeLong
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:46 AM
To: Kathryn Langston
Subject: ACS courses
Hi Kat,
I was going through my files and found these curriculum
proposals I developed in March of 2009. I am not sure why they didn't get
on your agenda, but here they are again.
Mike
Michael
L. DeLong
Dr.
Mike DeLong
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Ozarka College
218 College Drive
PO Box 10
Melbourne, AR 72556
870-368-2004
mdelong@ozarka.edu