Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes - October 27, 2017 ~ 11:00 a.m.

 

Members Present: Tonia Faulling, John Woodson, Chad Gregory, Jason Poole, Amy Roberts,

Lacey Torge, Adam Ghiloni, Amoena Norcross, Robin Long, Sarah Shumpert

Members Absent: Donna Palmer, Sandra Strickland, Scott Harvey, Crystal McLaughlin, Marilyn Angoli

 

1.   September 2017 Minutes Approved with Correction

The Committee approved the September minutes with the following correction: Line item #3, a; was revised as follows: “Amoena Norcross presented on behalf of Penny Edwards. She indicated a change was needed in the pre-requisites of all Social Science courses to reflect Accuplacer terminology and reduce the overrides after completion of RDG 100”.

2.   Curriculum Proposals

1. HVAC Recommended for Approval: Robin Long on behalf of Justin Herndon proposed to change degree configuration to remove technical elective from 5^th semester. Students are struggling to take/schedule the additional elective especially night students and it is not adding value to the curriculum. Robin also proposed expiring Residential Wiring Certificate (not in WIDS) stating there is a lack of student interest/enrollment and there has not been any enrollment since 2013.                                                
2. Manufacturing Management and Leadership Recommended for Approval: Robin Long on behalf of Mandy Orzechoswki proposed a degree emphasis configuration in Manufacturing Production and Operations and noted the I-BEST courses/certificates would fold up into the degree. This will provide students in the certificate program the opportunity to complete an actual 2-year if they wanted because the certificates are built into the emphasis (they would stack).
3. Automotive Technology Recommended for Approval: Robin Long on behalf of Trent Hulehan proposed to change certificate configurations for three (3) certificates: Automotive Transmission Systems; Automotive Braking Systems and Automotive Engine Performance Systems. Configurations will change and courses will be added to address hidden pre-requisites and make more transparent.                       

d.   CNC Programming and Operations: Robin Long on behalf of Daniel Harbin proposed degree modifications to remove MTT 171 and MAT 238 courses as they were not applicable and adding two (2) new courses (already in CAC): MTT 105 - Machine Tool Math Applications; MTT 243 - Advanced Dimensional Metrology for Machinists. Robin will follow up with the math department to ensure they are notified of the changes. In addition, Robin noted the certificate courses were reconfigured to better prepare students and to meet financial aid eligibility. The current certificates were deleted: Basic Machining, CAD/CAM/CNC Fundamentals and Introduction to CNC. New certificates were created to better align with industry needs and allow dual enrollment students the opportunity to earn a certificate: Introduction to Machining Certificate, Manual Machining Certificate, Introduction to CNC Certificate, Manual and CNC Fundamentals.

e.   Early Care and Education Recommended for Approval: Robin Long on behalf of Meredith McClure proposed reconfiguration of the Infant/Toddler Certificate by removing ECD 251 and replacing with ECD 243, stating ECD 251 rarely had enough enrollment for the course. The Infant/Toddler Certificate will also be offered as an independent study.

f.    Media Arts Production Recommended for Approval: John Woodson proposed to change the requirement of MAT 101 to MAT 120. He stated most media programs at 4-year colleges require MAT 120 or its equal. John stated requiring MAT 120 and allowing common substitutions of other transferrable MAT courses increases student transferability and brought a better quality of student.

g.   Business Administration Recommended for Approval: Robin Long on behalf of Tracy Ethridge proposed changing the configuration from ENG 155 and ENG 156 to ENG 101 and SPC 205; Mat 155 to MAT 120 to increase the transferability. In addition the pre-requites will change to ensure students have the basic skills needed in the associated courses: ACC 101 and CPT 170 will be added as pre-requites to BAF 201;  ACC 101 and CPT 170 as pre-requites to BAF 250. Robin will notify departments of the changes.

 

3.   Update on Catalog Process:

Robin Long and Marilyn Angoli have been working to streamline the catalog process so that the catalog matches WIDS, matches Banner and everything is on the same page. They have identified a number of discrepancies and are going through all of the processes necessary to ensure everything is in line and functional.

 

4.   Update of Curriculum Development Project Charter:

In the strategic plan, there is a project charter on developing an intergraded curriculum design process. Sarah Shumpert stated the project team has identified all of the curricular elements and noted there are key questions they believe need to be addressed before they can begin to map that process.

 

5.    Open discussion, Next Meeting, and Adjournment: The Committee discussed the next meeting date. The Committee agreed to wait until next semester (2018). Tonia Faulling will send a meeting request in February 2018.

SERVICE EXCELLENCE TEAM Meeting Minutes March 9, 2018

Opening: The regular meeting of the SET was held via email on Friday, March 9, 2018. The meeting was called to order by Cara Hamilton at 10:00 a.m.

 

Present:  Cara Hamilton, Aida Laham, Kathy Brand, Laura McClain, Scott Jaeschke, Lynn Lewis

 

Absent: Richard Parker,

 

Celebrations:

• Scott gave kudos to Lori Morrissette for the caliber and quantity of student events and activities that she so well plans and executes.  Scott stated she responds to concerns heard from students and reported the increase of students using the Edge app has increased.
• Laura added that her students appreciate the assistance student engagement has given allowing many to travel to conferences and feel part of their organizations.  She reported 11 of 16 were attending the state conference.
• Lynn stated the Nursing Expo held this week was a great success.  She added the nursing students were working together on campus giving our healthy snacks this week.
• Cara reminded everyone of the open forum next week for the 2 candidates for the HR position.  It was stated that a new survey will be used after the forums to give feedback.
   
  Review Decision & Action Tracking from last meeting:
  Action items were reviewed and updated from the last meeting (see tracking chart below).
   
  Updates from Sub Teams:
   

Communication: Aida reported the link for ordering TCTC apparel is now on eTC.  To get to the link you will: Log into eTC, go under Employee tab, go to the Celebrate Excellence box, find Employee apparel. The link directs you to all information to order TCTC branded merchandise. Aida stated an announcement will be sent out to all employees next week.  Aida also reported she was working to add people to her team.

Talent Management: No replacement for Lisa Anderson has been given to-date.

 

Recognition: Laura reported that the Employee recognition portal will be live soon.  Her group has reviewed and tested the portal and is working out issues with IT.   Once these issues are resolved, they will re-test and hopefully be ready to go live soon.  Cara reminded everyone that we still have the cards for recognition to use.  Laura also reported since losing people from her team, she has added Courtney Embler from student records, and possibly Hailey McClain from CCE. 

Cara reminded everyone that SET has a small budget of $5000 that can be used.  She asked all to think about this budget as we are preparing budgets for FY19.  The SET and Employee recognition budgets have merged, but not increased.

Discussion took place over the Staff Advisory Board realignment and Employee Recognition.  Cara will ensure that the SAB is meeting with Galen and/or Dr. Booth, discussing Faculty Senate (Stacey Frank) information/focus. 

Measurement: Scott reported the first round of surveys and analysis are complete.  Suggested changes have been made to survey questions and they are moving forward with the Transformative Employee Experience.  An announcement has been sent and employee interviews will take place between March 5-April 13 with data being collected.  Scott also stated that data will be actively collected using work study students around campus, noting specific information in different areas. Cara suggested that they also note physical issues they see.  This data will be collected and reported. 

Commitment of Excellence/LEAN/Service Obstacle System- No report

Academic – Member At-Large, D&I, TEE:  Lynn shared that the D&I climate survey showed themes and gaps and she will inform the group once data has been analyzed. She reiterated that the TEE is following the TSE process with interviews of all full and part time employees. The data will be brought back and shared.   

 

Management Accountability: Cara asked for feedback regarding changing monthly meeting to quarterly.  After discussion, it was decided to keep the monthly meeting for now and possibly change to business skype/Microsoft team.  Cara will look into making a SET group in business skype.  Discussion took place over having representation from CCE on the SET or possibly other campuses.  Technology would make meetings easier for those off campus. 

 

Review Next Steps for each SET:

Confirm Next meeting – Friday, April 13, 2018 at 10:00am in AD Fiscal Affairs conference room                                             

 

Recent Service Excellence Decisions and Actions Tracking 

6/9/17	Scott will contact Anne Bryan to be added to the agenda for the next Academic Leadership team meeting for a quick feedback follow-up.	ü
6/9/17	Richard will contact Anne Bryan to be added to the agenda for the next Academic Leadership team meeting to remind the group of LEAN processes.	ü
6/9/17	Laura will contact Jenni Creamer to request furniture for a student area on the second floor of Fulp.	?
9/15/17	Aida will discuss the location of the link for employees to order apparel with Rebecca Eidson and IT	ü
9/15/17	Aida will contact Eric regarding a cart for Laura’s sub-group	ü
9/15/17	Scott will report back to the group when data is analyzed (late October)	ü
9/15/17	Laura will give the group an update at the next meeting on the progress of the Sweet Cart and a projected timeframe for starting this recognition	ü
9/15/17	Cara will inquire about a replacement for Lisa Anderson for the Talent Management sub-group.	On-going
12/8/17	Aida will follow-up with IT to have the link for apparel put under the employee tab; Celebrate Excellence tab on eTC.  She will have an announcement sent out to all employees for notification.	ü
12/8/17	Laura will research and bring quotes to the group for a cart to be used for the Sweet-cart recognition	On hold
12/8/17	Kathy will add the requested names additions to Lynn Lewis’ sub-team title	ü
12/8/17	Scott will review the suggested changes made by the committee and report back to the group in February.	ü
12/8/17	Cara and Kathy will follow-up and complete all items in preparation for the holiday party	ü
3/9/18	Cara will talk to Galen about SAB/Employee recognition/Faculty Senate focus.
3/9/18	Aida will follow through with having an announcement sent out to all TCTC employees regarding the information on ordering TCTC apparel online.
3/9/18	Cara will check into creating a group in Skype for SET
3/9/18	Laura and her group will work with IT and test the portal for Employee recognition.  She will report back to the group when it is ready to go live.
3/9/18	Scott will collect data from student work studies and report back to the group.
3/9/18	TEE data will be collected between March 5-April 13.  A report will be given when data has been analyzed.

SERVICE EXCELLENCE TEAM Meeting Minutes February 9, 2018

Opening: The regular meeting of the SET was canceled and reports were sent electronically.

 

Present:  notes sent electronically

Absent:

 

Celebrations:

Lynn reported a Success Story:  NUR 229 students (seniors) will be visiting each county during the semester to present to an appropriate female adolescent audience (associated with our school systems – i.e. cheerleaders, volleyball players) information about risk of concussion and head injury.  Deans and Directors of SC Schools of Nursing are sponsoring the state-wide initiative and TCTC and TCTC SNA will be representing us well in the community where much talk exists about head injury risk in football, etc., and little education exists about risk for young female athletes.

Kathy reported that while at the doctor’s office in January she struck up a conversation with the receptionist who had started at TCTC but stopped due to “life”.  She stated she wanted to come back and finish her degree but didn’t know where to start.  I took her name and number and put her in touch with Tina Burton in the information center, who assisted her with the re-admission process. Tina said I could easily get a job recruiting students! lol

 

Review Decision & Action Tracking from last meeting:

Action items were reviewed and updated from the last meeting (see tracking chart below).

 

Updates from Sub Teams:

 

Communication: Aida reported that she has submitted the ticket for IT to add the title and link in the lower right section of eTC under the employee tab so our colleagues can have access to the link to order TCTC apparel. The ticket I think is still pending because I didn’t receive a notification saying that it is in progress.

Talent Management:

 

Recognition: Laura reported her team is almost ready to deploy the recognition portal. After several meeting with my team and Pam McWhorter in IT, we have made some changes and reported some troubleshooting issues during our testing phase. Once these issues are corrected, we will continue to test for a few weeks to check our capture of data and reporting before we will deploy.  I will bring my laptop to the next meeting to share with the SET.

Laura stated she has lost members on her team and has requested the members to submit possible names for replacement members. If the SET has any recommendations, I will certainly be appreciative.

The SweeTCarTCrew is on hold until the portal is up and running.  It will be our next focus for the team.

Measurement: Scott reported that he supports the changes to the questions that the group recommended in December. I am good to move forward with submitting them to IR for inclusion in the surveys.

Service Obstacle System- Richard had no report

Academic – Member At-Large, D&I, TEE:  

 

Management Accountability: Cara requested feedback from the SET on changing the format of the SET meetings to physically meeting on a quarterly basis with monthly, electronic submissions sent to Kathy who will disseminate the information (to keep all updated and on track).  The quarterly meetings would be set yearly with attendance a priority.  Please bring feedback to the March meeting.

 

Review Next Steps for each SET:

Confirm Next meeting – Friday, March 9, 2018 at 10:00am in AD 210                                        

 

Recent Service Excellence Decisions and Actions Tracking 

6/9/17	Scott will contact Anne Bryan to be added to the agenda for the next Academic Leadership team meeting for a quick feedback follow-up.	ü
6/9/17	Richard will contact Anne Bryan to be added to the agenda for the next Academic Leadership team meeting to remind the group of LEAN processes.	ü
6/9/17	Laura will contact Jenni Creamer to request furniture for a student area on the second floor of Fulp.	?
9/15/17	Aida will discuss the location of the link for employees to order apparel with Rebecca Eidson and IT	ü
9/15/17	Aida will contact Eric regarding a cart for Laura’s sub-group	ü
9/15/17	Scott will report back to the group when data is analyzed (late October)	ü
9/15/17	Laura will give the group an update at the next meeting on the progress of the Sweet Cart and a projected timeframe for starting this recognition	ü
9/15/17	Cara will inquire about a replacement for Lisa Anderson for the Talent Management sub-group.	On-going
12/8/17	Aida will follow-up with IT to have the link for apparel put under the employee tab; Celebrate Excellence tab on eTC.  She will have an announcement sent out to all employees for notification.
12/8/17	Laura will research and bring quotes to the group for a cart to be used for the Sweet-cart recognition
12/8/17	Kathy will add the requested names additions to Lynn Lewis’ sub-team title	ü
12/8/17	Scott will review the suggested changes made by the committee and report back to the group in February.	ü
12/8/17	Cara and Kathy will follow-up and complete all items in preparation for the holiday party	ü