Members Absent: Gayle Arries, Tiffany Blackwell, Rick
Cothran, Tim Bowen, Jenni Creamer, Penny Edwards, Adam Ghiloni, Scott Harvey,
Mia Tensley
Other Attendees: Margaret Burdette, Billy Carson
Length of Meeting: 1.75 hours
The minutes of the May 22,
2018 meeting were approved as presented.
Billy Carson presented the
Computer & Information Technology Academic Program Review. The presentation included an introduction and
discussion on the Focus Areas:
Introduction
·
Program Offerings
·
Delivery Methods
Key Measures
·
Prepare Students
for the Workforce
·
Advisory Board
reviews curriculum
·
11-year
Enrollment Trend
Summary of Key Measures
·
Viable program
·
Increase service
course enrollment
·
Improve
enrollment, recruitment and retention
·
Continue to
pursue articulation agreements
Resources – Human
·
Demographics for
faculty and students
Resources – Physical
·
Planning/Implementation
·
Little demand at
Anderson and Easley campuses
·
CISCO network
Accessibility & Design
·
Recruit women and
minority students
Learning
·
Always tweaking
the curriculum
·
Specialty areas
·
New Curriculum
Design
§ Programming Emphasis
§ Forensics/Cybersecurity
§ Network System Administration
Strategic Program Planning
Planning Matrix
Group discussion noted the
following;
o
Incentivize or
provide scholarships to take the certification exam
o
Possibly combine
Certified “Ethical” Hacker program with Corporate & Community Education
o
Faculty teaching
Cybersecurity obtain expertize through self-study and conferences
o
Faculty teaching
courses with certifications should have those certifications
o
Transfer issues
and SACSCOC requirements must be considered
o
Recruiting high
school and 25-year olds – engage both; consider evening programs
o
Not been
successful in creating internships
o
Work with Mandy Elmore
to explore possibility of providing scholarships for camps
o
CPT 170
discussion:
§ Need is declining – why use it to generate revenue?
§ Skill set is needed
§ Is the level of online assignments a detriment in a
face-to-face course?
§ Course needs revision
§ Course needs student learning outcomes
ACTION ITEM:
Re-design CPT 170 to meet the needs of the programs the
course aims to serve. Meet with the
divisions to find emerging needs and revise the course. Meet with Jeanne Otey to consider MOS certification.
Our sector growth is 24 – 38
year olds. Need to be proactive and
adapt to what is going to happen in the future when high school numbers
decline.
o
Identify the need
o
Give them what they
need
o
Job placement
o
Move money into
certifications
o
Evening piece
§ Short sessions
§ Flexibility
§ Out of classroom support
§ Capitalize Zoom technology and multimodal delivery
§ Hold short evening programs on the same day so that
people are on campus Will help to grow
the evening program
§ Provide a student experience
Mark Dougherty gave a Portal
Project update. He reported that a
survey will go out to the content owners as a method to see what may need to be
changed. The survey will ask the owners
to consider how the new portal impacts the public facing side. Links with broad references may not need to
be revised, but more specific links and instructions may need to be revised.
It was also noted that Banner
training will take place throughout the month of September. Employees must go through training to get
access. Chris Marino noted the hard work
of IT and the Portal team to make this upgrade happen.
With no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.
Recorded By:
Anne
Bryan
Next Meeting: Tuesday,
July 24, 2018 @ 1:00, in SSC 205
