February Minutes - draft AA/AS degree requirements and DwD’s 2:4 Faculty to Faculty meeting: April 24, 2015 Jerry and Keith will meet to develop a plan on how to proceed with implementing new DWDs and reviewing older DWDs. Proposed action: Meet with college advisors to talk about intricacies of the Dwd and “exceptions” that are being granted. Academic Council Updates February Minutes – Draft March Minutes – Draft 10:00a I Diane Hegeman/Jerry Migler CCCS Summary of AP Scores 10:15a I Jerry Migler Informational item: Universities still not able to decide what standard score should be for AP scores. Stay tuned. PLA updates 10:20a I Jerry Migler/Bitsy Cohn How the system is moving forward with PLA. How do we recognize previous learning? Writing the PLA manual and a cross-walk matrix Disruptive Trends 10:35a I Jerry Migler/Keith Howard Propose that from this group we identify one disruptive trend that may help us to address the CCCS strategic plan. Identified issues that need attention: We need to address students’ needs and some of our faculty do not see urgency. Could we discuss with faculty at 2:2 what trends are upon us – credit for prior learning, apprenticeships, flexibility in our parts of term, offering courses when and how the student needs them, etc… Our infrastructure is outdated and we can’t react quickly enough Review our policies and procedures to see which is creating a barrier to student success. Can we use a grant for this? Items to look at: length of terms, credit/non-credit and how to use non-credit for competency-based learning, etc… We need to identify our “population” better. Why do we think that is our population? It’s not hard to save the good students, but to move the needle we need to work with
those students that are “on the bubble.” We have a lot of students that come to be successful and they run up large bills and leave. The challenge is to get those students back and help them to be successful but that will take more resources. Other I Jerry Migler HLC Faculty Qualifications: By January 1, 2016 we must comply with HLC’s new statement. Qualifications for those who teach in dual enrollment has been called out specifically. Go to HLC’s website for more information. = Working Lunch: Academic & Student Affairs Updates 12:00p I Jerry Migler & Keith Howard Legislative updates 12:00p I Jerry Migler/Keith Howard Concurrent enrollment – coursework related to apprenticeship and internship able to get concurrent enrollment PTEC bill – pathways in technology bill. Still working on the language MOU for medical facilities for students who have been sexually assaulted and support State policy on sexual assault prevention Veterans and in-state tuition BAS: Water Quality – Red Rocks Community College 12:15p I Jerry Migler/Linda Comeaux Application is being finalized. 5 year budget. Policy going to the board in May Grants Casey Sacks Apprenticeship grants – three colleges are working on this with Casey. Department of Labor – short term training for managers – PCC will take the lead First in the World – consortium of colleges across the system TechHire – focus on IT certifications I3 – technology and HS partnership grants Equity in Excellence Development Education grant funding TAACT 5 – state-wide data sharing NSF – online science instruction Competency based education – CAEL and working