Provost’s Council
June 24, 2014
1:00 pm.
Ruby Hicks Hall, Room 245
(Revised July 22, 2014)
Members Present: Dan
Averette, Jackie Blakley, Jenni Creamer, Scott Harvey, Dan Holland, Lynn Lewis,
Rob Massey, Sarah Shumpert, Brian Swords, Hap Wheeler
Members Absent: Tim
Bowen and Marla Roberson
Others Present: Lou Ann Martin, Amoena Norcross
Length of Meeting: 1.5 hours
Topics Discussed:
The minutes of the June 10, 2014 meeting were approved with
a minor revision.
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Purpose
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Deliverables
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Next Steps
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Other Possibilities
Continued discussion included the following;
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Need to determine/create triggers for different
levels off need. Currently Student
Success Coaches are monitoring alerts and step in if needed.
·
Possible transition from Space Mtn. to Starfish
and issues/concerns.
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Adjunct training
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Blackboard grade/IT issues and possible
project/experimentation with Blackboard grades for online students.
Dan Holland noted the need to be careful how/what is
documented as a judicial or behavioral record.
All educational records are subject to litigation. Lou Ann agreed and noted that training on how
to write comments is available. Sarah Shumpert
will look into adding this to faculty development opportunities to be available
this fall.
With Provost’s Council’s approval, Lou Ann will take this
project to the Executive Staff for review and approval.
The High Impact Practices Institute Team (Amoena Norcross,
Hap Wheeler, Dan Averette, Sarah Shumpert and Galen DeHay) gave a follow-up
report. Amoena distributed and discussed
the handout, 2014 Institute on High
–Impact Practices and Student Success, Tri-County Technical College Action
Plan. She explained that the goal was
to determine and recommend a governance structure for all of our high impact
practices and to centralize the coordination of all the practices that
Tri-County uses. Centralization of the
practices will allow easier integration into the curriculum and may allow
students to engage in a HIPs earlier in their academic program.
Amoena discussed the HIPs Communication Plan. The next step will be to finalize the project
charter document and present it to Executive Staff for approval. The deans will
move to the project board, and the project team, led by Galen, will have
co-curricular representation. The team
will discuss the HIPs strategy at division meetings, at which time the team
will take inventory of the practices used, and move forward with a recommendation
of a HIPs governance structure.
Rob Massey discussed the Supplemental Instruction
Feasibility Study that he presented to the Commission at its June meeting. Rob gave an overview of supplemental
instruction and explained that its focus is the class rather than one
student. We will partner with Clemson to
run a pilot in the fall. We are in the
process of identifying SI leaders and will have a graduate assistant in place
to run the program. The pilot courses
for fall are BIO 101 and MAT 102. If the
pilot is successful, we will expand the SI offerings.
Under Announcements, Sarah reported that the online teaching
credential program is starting again.
She thanked the deans for their quick response.
Rob noted upcoming enrollment and registration events and
reported that these events seem to be going well.
Scott reported that the graduation initiative continues to
increase the number of graduates. These
graduates are counted in our May graduation numbers.
Jenni announced the launch of the pilot for the integrated
call center for Admissions and Financial Aid.
She mentioned the 233 Stop Out Report and noted that Scott will train
her on the report and then she will train the deans.
Lynn reported that the Vet hiring process is almost
complete. She also reported that two
former students have died recently in accidents.
Jackie noted that the B & PS Division meeting is August
13 at 8:30. If anyone would like to
attend and present, let Jackie know. All
are welcome.
Dan A. reported that Laser Camp is going well.
Hap noted that the Fulp Hall space study meeting went well.
Galen reported that there is only $29,000 available in the
Perkins Grant for funding activities.
Some of the staffing needs may have to be absorbed in the college’s
operational budget in future years.
Galen also reported that the State Budget and Control Board approved Phase
I, Pre-Design for the Student Success Center project. Ken Kopera is leading this project and will
be conducting sessions to gather input for/about the SSC. On a final note, the new/replacement
positions are posted and search committees will convene soon.
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Recorded By: Anne Bryan
Next Meeting: Tuesday,
July 22, at 1:00, in RH 245
