Los Angeles Vally College

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• Date of Last Meeting: November 17, 2011

• Changes to conference reimbursement were discussed. With the approval of the new contract, faculty members will be allowed to request up to 1,000 for conferences, and will be able to request reimbursement for more than one conference.

• The revised EMP implementation grid was approved.

• A revision to Board rule 6201.13 was approved.

• A number of budget line items were approved.

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Last meeting date: November 10, 2011

• At this time there are some projects that are subject to the Chancellor’s 30-day moratorium. Valley: 1) Parking Lots Internal Roads, 2) Campus In 3) Buisness Journalism.
• Parking Lot "A"We are still working with the bonding company. We’ve moved forward with emergency contract to connect bioswale to County storm water line.

• Comm/Workforce Dev Center: We received the BAFO for this project. Going to Board on 12/07/11.

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• Date of Last Meeting: May 6, 2011
• Committee members discussed adding a new question to the VTEA mini grant application for extra points only if suggestions were related to recommendation from the Advisory Board meeting.
• Alan Cowen informed committee members about a new class that he is developing. The class would be in the Emergency Services Department, working title is “First Responder Qualities & Qualifications.” Basis would be on learning to interview, being computer literate, customer service etc.

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Meeting Date: September 29, 2011

• Committee members reviewed CARTS goals and discussed alignment with SSC goals.

• Committee members will bring success, retention, and service outcome data (when applicable) for their areas for discussion to Oct. meeting. If labs have not received this data, please request from the Office of Research and Planning.

   

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• Date of Last Meeting:  November 23, 2011.

• The committee recommended approval of 3 study away programs from Summer 2013: Montpellier (French Program), Alicante (Spanish Program) and London (Humanities Program that is hybrid in nature).

• The committee recommended that beginning in Spring 2012, no new curricular proposals may come for consideration if the Annual Plan module on curriculum has not been submitted with the exception of regularly scheduled outline updates.

• So far this year, the committee has reviewed and approved 50 outline updates, 118 course archives, 11 DE/hybrid requests, 13 revised course SLOs, 4 new programs, 4 new courses, 1 cross-listing request, 1 program change, 4 course changes, and 1 TAP/Honors request.

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• Date of Last Meeting: October 10, 2011

• UPDATE 1 (action item/motion passed/decision made):
  The LAVC Mission Statement Workgroup (Sheri Rodriguez, Roana Thornock, Rhonda Eisner, and Sue Carleo)
  Presented new language for the college mission. The current mission was found to be too long for its purpose; they streamlined it and made a distinction between mission and vision statements, vision being about long-term values, mission being how we do business today. The committee agreed that there was a need to get a broad base of support, so EPC will host two town hall meetings very soon to allow all interested parties a chance to weigh in on the mission and vision statements presented to EPC

• UPDATE 2 (action item/motion passed/decision made):
  The Winter session was approved and endorsed by the EPC and will be forwarded as an information item to IEC.

• UPDATE 3 (action item/motion passed/decision made):
  Chauncey Maddren made a presentation on the history and current status of Title IX; he then discussed gender equity as reflected in the LAVC sports offerings. At issue is not dollar expenditures, but opportunity. There were requests for a variety of other kinds of information. Maddren will return next month with more statistics on LAVC programs.

• UPDATE 4 (action item/motion passed/decision made):
  The Grants Committee has continued to work on its handbook and tool box. The tool box will have a variety of tools to help grant writers with their work.

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• Date of Last Meeting: December 6, 2011
• Reports: Revised Student Success Taskforce Recommendations from district SSI distributed to committee members. Students are being added to the accelerated math path 115/125 for the spring semester 2012.
• Foundational Skills Pathway Assessment survey was distributed and over 90% were returend. Workgroup members will meet over the winter session to begin assessing data.

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• Date of Last Meeting:  November 14, 2011
• Reviewed partnership form.
• Reviewed website.
• Organized committee to make presentation regarding grant process at Chairs and Directors Meeting and through professional development.

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Last Meeting: October 12, 2011

• HPC - Staff Administrative Procedures and Policies revised and approved unanimously. To be forwarded to IEC for discussion and approval.
• HPC - Mission and Purpose statement revised in light of ongoing assessment of role of the Committee. Approved and forwarded to IEC for discussion and approval.

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• Date of Last Meeting: November 15, 2011
• A new student information system, funded by prop J, will replace the current system within the next two years. Valley is one of the pilot schools. The system is designed to serve students more effectively and give us better access to data.
• ASU reported that they are looking at the issue of student apathy, informing students about ASU and the college, ways they can get involved and working on a magazine. They are expanding the day/times of meetings and a town hall with the ASU president.
• Handbook Review – the workgroup is having problems completing the handbook and reported that they are considering reverting to the old shared governance handbook. This would not address the need for a planning handbook.      

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Last Meeting:  January 10, 2012

• Discussed at length January coach visit: schedule, attendees, data to discuss, etc. 

• New Data Coach visit on 1/23 to include additional training for focus group facilitators and note takers; data team session on logic model, etc .

• Additional Focus Groups will be conducted in winter/spring 2012

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• Date of Last Meeting: September 15, 2011
• To conform to State Chancellor’s Office requirements, we distributed a professional development plan on Opening Day and by email. The Professional Development Office is collecting the forms, which are due by September 30.
• Deborah will inform the Academic Senate about the Flexible Calendar Plan submitted in June 2011 to the State Chancellor's Office.
• In addition to regularly-scheduled workshops this semester, we intend to offer "just-in-time" training to meet individual needs and fit people's varied schedules.

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• Date of Last Meeting: December 1, 2011
• Approved program review narrative from Child Development Center.
• Reviewed committee self-evaluation form for Fall semester.
• Discussed annual plan submissions and ACE program viability.

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• Date of Last Meeting: Sept. 1, 2011
• Set three dates for Fall STARS events -- 9/26, 10/27, 11/29 in the Fireside Room; tentative topics are preventing cheating/plagiarism, teaching reasoning skills (theme-year SLO), and effective classroom communication; possible guest speakers
• Set a goal to create a student mentoring program for new students or those in developmental courses
• Incorporate Achieving the Dream objectives to help engage students, faculty, and staff in identifying obstacles to success

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• Date of Last Meeting: November 21, 2011
• Course assessment submissions - Anthro 141; Educ 2; Eng 80, 82, 83,124,125,205,206,361, 362,363; FireTech 203; Math 105, 112, 215, 225, 227; Psych 1, 14; Stats 1; total courses assessed is now 24%.
• Service Outcomes workgroup has initially reviewed submissions and will work over break to give final approval to remaining service outcomes.
• Our progress with SLOs and how we stand in regards to accreditation was discussed including a review of the data from the accreditation survey.

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• Date of Last Meeting: November 9, 2011
• Committee voted to assign a member from SSC as a liaison to the Tier-3 committees. This individual will facilitate correspondence, communication and information sharing between the SSC and the respective committee.
• Committee will use the "goals module" to assess the status of past and current goals. This process will also be required for the Tier-3 committees. Committees that have a budget attached to their program will be required to do the budget forms. 
•  No further actions were made/taken

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• October  28, 2011
• In process is the establishment of a record of all sustainable and green events on the LAVC campus.

• The Go Green! Sustainability Committee is establishing an ongoing inventory of biodiversity on campus. This work will engage students and faculty across the curriculum in addition to staff from all areas of the campus.
  Anyone interested in participating in the research or activities is invited to join the committee.

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• Date of Last Meeting: October 19, 2011

• Jim Martneny discussed podcasting options available to faculty.

• Aaron Weathersby reported that the On-Demand software is being piloted in the administration building. This will allow certain licensed sofware to be downloaded by faculty/staff. IT hopes that this will be available campus-wide in two months.

• Two workgroups turned in section drafts of the Technology Plan and the committee prepared baseline questions for a Technology survey for the campus.

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• Date of Last Meeting: September 1, 2011.
• Josh Miller asked for nominations for chair of WEC. Meredith Leonard was nominated and elected by acclamation.
• A motion was passed requesting additional speed controls in parking lots, including speed bumps, signage, pavement markings, and enforcement.
• 2011-12 Goals will be addressed at the next meeting.