Members Present: Gayle
Arries, Jackie Blakley, Tiffany Blackwell, Tim Bowen, Rick Cothran, Jenni
Creamer, Mark Dougherty, Galen DeHay, Penny Edwards, Mandy Elmore, Adam
Ghiloni, Scott Harvey, Glenn Hellenga, Linda Jameison, Tom Lawrence, Lynn
Lewis, Chris Marino, Mary Orem, Jeanne Otey, Sarah Shumpert, Brian Swords, Mia
Tensley, Luke VanWingerden
Members Absent:
Other Attendees: Ashley Brady, Margaret Burdette, Brian Smith
Length of Meeting: 2 hours
The minutes of the June 26,
2018 meeting were approved as presented.
Galen welcomed Luke VanWingerden to the group and noted that Gayle
Arries will not be leaving the college.
Jackie Blakley introduced Brian Smith, the new Business Technology
Department Head.
Ashley Brady presented the
Veterinary Technology Academic Program Review.
She distributed the Veterinary Technology Welcome Packet to the group
and provided a slideshow of the new facility. Ashley noted that the challenge
for her during the APR was to try to see the program as someone unfamiliar with
it and looking in on it. With the
Welcome Packet as an additional resource, she discussed the highlights of the
APR.
Focus Area 1 – Key Measures
·
Day and evening
cohorts – This fall we have 82 students with 5 cohorts.
·
Enrollment number
(175) in the APR includes students in pre-reqs.
·
Combined 2 class
into VET 113 to create more accessibility for students.
·
Decrease in VTNE
pass rate may be attributable to students delaying taking the exam.
Focus Area 2 – Resources
·
Great Team
·
Faculty are
experts in their fields with over 40 years of combined knowledge.
Focus Area 3 – Accessibility
& Design
·
Looked for ways
to make the program more accessible to students.
·
Great employment
rate at graduation with placements all over the country.
·
The evening
program opened up the program to so many other students.
·
Gender
percentages have flipped over the last 20 years, with the majority being female
students. This follows the national
trend.
Focus Area 4 – Learning
·
Three –year plan
- reviewed initiatives.
·
VET 113 – in
place this fall.
·
Articulation
agreement with Greenville Tech.
o
Looking at
feasibility of improving transfer students.
The commute is a factor.
·
2+2 Agreements
with Murray State, Clemson, and Lincoln Memorial.
·
Improve VTNE pass
rates – Review pass rates for those who took the prep course.
The group posed questions and
the following points were noted.
·
Most graduates
move into jobs. Some continue their
educations. Advisors discuss goals and
plans very early on in the program.
·
The Welcome
Packet is provided to the student as soon as possible.
·
Students attend a
mandatory freshman orientation.
·
The evening
cohort is a semester behind the day cohort.
This allows students who do not succeed in a class to move into the
evening cohort and re-take the class.
This allows the student to continue in the program without a delay.
·
Withdrawal
options are discussed before the mid-term and withdrawal dates
·
Evening students
are invested! They have bought-in and
hit the ground running.
·
Advisory
committee members are huge supporters of the program.
·
To make VET 113
more accessible to students, it is offered in the fall in the morning, in the
spring in the afternoon, and in the summer in the evening.
·
Following the
national trend, our students do not perform as well in the anesthesia, pharmacology,
and radiology domains of the VTNE.
·
VTNE costs
$350. Student has to have graduated to
take the exam, so we do not attach it to a course fee.
·
Viable career
ladder – clinics, pharmacy sales, lab settings
·
Large animal
program would be the next big initiative.
Scott Harvey discussed the
summer/fall 2019 calendars. He noted
that the Learning Beyond Campus session was included in the summer calendar,
and that the calendar was consistent with historical summer calendars. Some issues were noted.
·
Formatting
(wording was cut off)
·
Wording was
inconsistent in some cases
·
A few dates were
out of order
Scott will make the
corrections and publish the calendars online.
He also noted that the spring graduation date was moved to accommodate
Littlejohn’s schedule. Scott will work
with any students impacted by the change in the date.
Jackie Blakley gave the
Student Success Team Pilot Presentation.
Galen gave some background on how the team grew from the project
charter. Jackie discussed the following.
Divisional Student Success
Teams
·
Analyze success
gaps
·
Refer students to
resources
Pilot Guidelines – From the
project charter
·
Division specific
issues
·
Case management
·
Campus technology
Anatomy of the Team
·
Outstanding team
·
Representation
from multiple student resource offices
Analyzing Data
·
Focused on
students with less than a 2.0 institutional GPA
·
Sorted by race,
gender, academic standing, GPA, major
Division Implementation
·
Mandatory
academic recovery workshop
·
Mandatory
academic/Leading Edge workshops
·
Division welcome
event
·
Student
monitoring – registration access denied if they don’t fulfill requirements
Other Recommendations
·
Continue to
improve workshops
·
Student
Ambassadors – lunch with few students
·
Men of Color –
group to discuss experiences and issues
Discussion on the presentation
noted the following.
·
Consider
professional development on how instructors can be more welcoming. Also discuss in department head and
department meetings.
·
Students in the
recovery cohort can be coded differently and would be easy to track in Banner
·
Should the
student be the center of the model?
·
Built good
rapport through the college. So
beneficial for the team to have someone to call as a resource.
·
Draft process is
a great start.
ACTION ITEM: The Curriculum & Instruction Team will
determine next steps on how to expand this to other divisions.
Under Announcements:
Galen gave the group some
background for Dr. Booth’s memo announcing two positions.
Grayson Kelly will become Vice
President of Institutional Advancement and Business Relations. In addition to the current fundraising role,
this position will provide proactive, structured management of our external business
relationships.
The Dean of Integrated Workforce
Solutions position will create structure to manage IWS partnerships. It will be a collaborative, energetic role that
will work across the institution.
Galen will remain the Chief
Academic Officer.
Galen asked the members of
the group to bring any questions about these positions forward for discussion,
with answers going back to the divisions.
Sarah Shumpert announced that
Richard Smith is retiring. A new FTE in
IT will take over the technology aspects of Richard’s position. The Curriculum and Instructional Support role
will focus on pedagogical aspects.
Scott Harvey announced that
we will hold three evening sessions of Banner 9 training.
Jenni Creamer thanked
everyone for his/her efforts during enrollment and orientation.
With no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.
Recorded By:
Anne
Bryan
Next Meeting: Tuesday,
September 11, 2018 @ 1:00, in SSC 205
