Members Present: Gayle
Arries, Tiffany Blackwell, Jackie Blakley, Tim Bowen, Rick Cothran, Jenni
Creamer, Galen DeHay, Mark Dougherty, Penny Edwards, Mandy Elmore, Adam
Ghiloni, Linda Jameison, Tasheka Johnson, Scott Harvey, Glenn Hellenga, Gabe
Hollingsworth, Tom Lawrence, Bryan Manuel, Chris Marino, Mary Orem, Julia
Seligson, Sarah Shumpert, Brian Swords, Luke VanWingerden
Members Absent:
Other Attendees:
Length of Meeting: 1.50 hours
Galen welcomed Julia
Seligson, the new Faculty Senate President, to the group, and noted that it was
Rick Cothran’s birthday.
Smart Evals Project Report
Jackie
Blakley, Penny Edwards, and Chris Marino gave the final report on the
“Professional Development Regarding Use of SMART Evals Program”. Jackie distributed several handouts including
the project charter, information on the SmartEvals My Focus report, the history
of the project, and an overview of the final report. They noted the following.
·
Recommendation to
continue to train faculty on a regular basis
·
Are we asking the
right questions on the survey instrument?
·
Faculty should be
involved in the modification or revision of the survey questions
·
More
behavior-oriented questions
·
Important that we
are all on the same page about the importance of the evaluation
o
Include in FPMS?
o
Include
consistent verbiage in syllabi
·
Need training
through professional development
o
Invite Ron
Jennings, from SmartEvals, to professional development day
·
Faculty can add
their own questions
o
Hold a workshop
on how to create a good question
·
CCE could use
this system for its instructors
With
the final report, SmartEvals owner groups were discussed:
·
Instrument and
questions – Institutional Research and Evaluation department
·
FPMS, syllabi,
instructor knowledge – Deans
·
Professional
Development – Professional Development department
Business
Partnership Model
Galen
noted that the Business Partnership Model and the Enterprise Campus items are
broadly related. Both are in the
development phase and the discussion is meant to loop people in to what is
going on. Bryan Manuel presented on the
Business Partnership Model and noted the following.
·
Interaction with
business and industry partners is one of Tri-County’s strengths. We need to
coordinate how we work with our partners and find ways to intentionally work
with them.
·
Need to build
systems so that college personnel are connecting their work with Business and
Industry.
·
Based on
relationships:
o
Connect,
Cooperate, Coordinate, Collaborate
·
Relationships may
move back and forth over the continuum; evolve over time
·
Have traditional
relationships to strategic partnerships.
Bryan
noted that we are building the infrastructure so that everyone is well equipped
to connect and to use connections to the best of our ability, to better inform
the conversations on both sides.
Recommendations:
·
Incorporate these
needs into the CRM evaluation
·
How do we track?
o
Many
conversations about this
o
One way or
multiple ways
o
Adopting some of
SalesForce for IWS
Enterprise
Campus
Brian
Swords discussed the Enterprise Campus.
He noted that we are still fleshing out the elements of the campus and
stated that it is designed to serve the entrepreneurial and business sides of
the community. Along with Anderson County, we will use the old TTI building to
provide space for the following:
·
Some CCE
programming
·
Duke Power
lineman program
·
Transportation
·
Asphalt lab
·
Heavy Equipment
·
Some classrooms
·
Synergies with
Anderson County
The
Enterprise Campus is a separate entity from the college, and Brian will be the
Executive Director as it gets up and running.
Since we cannot be in the space until TTI has moved out, so there is no
timeline. The campus will be revenue neutral,
we are only leasing space, we do not own anything but are simply “hosts” to the
companies. The scope of an enterprise
campus has legislatively defined business sectors. Companies must apply and
meet certain criteria to be allowed at the campus. The college’s best interests
will always be a consideration.
Announcements
Galen announced that Dr.
Ahmad Chaudhry is the new Health Education dean. He will start on July 1.
Jackie reported that she and Jenni presented at the Student
Retention workshop hosted by the System Office.
It was a very good workshop, and they got a lot of positive feedback.
Adam noted that the WINS has moved forward. He and his team are working to make that
available for students this fall. More
to come.
Chris reported on Perkins 5 and noted the changes from
Perkins 4. There are now only 3
indicators and several things were consolidated. The states are charged with creating thresholds
and benchmarks, and Chris is the chair of our state group. He noted that before each local plan is
developed a needs analysis must be completed, so we need to start thinking
ahead. Laneika Musalini will be pulling
a group together.
Luke reported that BlackBoard Saas migration continues to
move forward. No change to the grade
book yet. The team feels strongly that
training is necessary, and they are developing a communication plan. He also noted that we should be on a common
shell cycle by fall.
Sarah announced that the curriculum coordinator position has
been filled. Daniel Graybeal will join
us on June 10.
Linda noted that, with a large percentage of students in
online courses this summer, we are reaching out to them to remind them of
resources to help them be successful.
Mary reported that she attended an affinity sorting exercise
that explored ways for academic and public libraries to collaborate. Our students will benefit from this
collaboration.
Rick announced that James Guthrie will join the college on
July 1 as CCE’s power lineman faculty and that Julia Lee has joined the college
as a training coordinator. He also
reported workforce scholarship funding is providing more money, that within the
next 3 months DOT certification classes will be streamed live, and that Oconee
County has contacted them about researching glass for highway use.
With no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.
Recorded By:
Anne
Bryan
Next Meeting: Tuesday,
June 11 @ 1:00, in RH 220A
