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I. CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 2:05 p.m.
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
M/S/P (Athans/Beaulieu) to approve the minutes of the May 18, 2004
meeting with two changes—Item #2 correct the name GOTT and item #4 S.
Morales-Guerra stated that it would cost $45,000 to implement On-line
Orientation on campus.III. ROLE AND
STRUCTURE OF EPSC:
K. Daar distributed a first draft of the Educational
Plan Subcommittee flowchart indicating a need for greater connectivity among
EPSC, the Technology Plan Committee and the Facilities Committee. EPSC will be
the main advisory committee to EBPAC regarding educational issues. Other
educational-related campus committees and ad hoc groups will report to EPSC.
Areas in need of greater shared-governance representation were identified.
- D. Anderson suggested that the flowchart also incorporate Program Review and
contract education. The committee agreed that these areas are represented
enough in the realms in which they exist currently.
- R. West suggested that the flowchart also incorporate Articulation. The
committee decided that since the Articulation Officer must sit on the
Curriculum Committee and Transfer Committee, Articulation was already
represented.
- D. Beaulieu suggested that the distributed schematic looked hierarchical.
The committee agreed that the schematic must be viewed as a flexible document
and many of the areas can overlap others.
- D. Beaulieu stated that Off-Site is its own committee and reports directly
to EBPAC, primarily about real estate issues, but not exclusively. K. Daar
clarified that off-site educational issues need to be addressed at the EPSC.
- R. Moyer stated that Accreditation-mandated Student Learning Outcomes will
need to be reflected in syllabi and perhaps even the course outlines. B. Baity
emphasized that SLOs need to be measured and that we need to show that we are
successful in teaching our students--this should be the driving force in
establishing SLOs, and not just to meet Accreditation standards when ELAC comes
up for review in 2009. B. Baity also reported that a mid-year report needs to
be sent to Accreditation, and progress on developing SLOs should be mentioned
in this report as well.
- K. Daar ended the discussion on the Role and Structure of EPSC by requesting
that committee members inform her of any developments, concerns, etc. through
e-mail and voicemail so as to devote limited committee time to pressing
matters.
IV. REMEDIATION:
K. Daar expressed that there is little connection
between the basic skills Math, English, non-credit, and counseling areas and
suggested that a committee needs to be formed to look at remediation more
holistically to offer to students as a package. She stated that the Senate
created an advisory committee to look at remediation, yet a shared governance
group needs to also be created to report back to EPSC. She requested someone to
spearhead the forming of the committee, but emphasized that the Chair of the
committee needs to be someone directly involved in remediation issues. D.
Beaulieu and K. Daar will start the committee and find an appropriate
discipline member to continue to chair the committee.
- D. Beaulieu reported that District Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Academic
Senate Presidents are meeting March 11 to discuss the TRUCCS study and how to
deal with remediation as a District.
- R. Moyer stated that a culture of “referring” needs to be established on the
campus. Remediation also needs to be sophisticatedly marketed to students so
they may view remediation as a true benefit for their education.
- K. Daar reminded the committee that the Senate is currently investigating
adding English advisories to transfer-level courses.
- O. Valeriano stated that many of our students at Southgate are struggling
with a language barrier and are of a culture of not planning for classes; many
may take the Assessment test, but do not pre-register. Although they show up to
the campus on the first day of classes, remedial courses (such as English 21)
are already cancelled due to lack of enrollment. He recommended that some Basic
Skills faculty be available “on hold” for possible last-minute teaching
assignments.
- D. Beaulieu stated that pre-English 21 classes are needed.
- K. Daar suggested that more counselors need to be involved in remediation
concerns. D. Ornelas will bring EPSC remediation concerns to the next
Counseling Department meeting next week.
V STUDENT PREPARATION:
K. Daar distributed course outlines for two new corequisite
courses (one through Personal Development and the other through Education)
taught at City. She will also request a copy of the outline for a new PD course
at Pierce College called “College Success Seminar”.
- C. Rozadilla will find out if there are UC transferable PD courses that may
attract students. She also stated that a PD committee (through the Counseling
Department) has been formed to revise current course outlines and to look at
other PD courses throughout the District.
- K. Daar suggested that perhaps Basic Skill courses and PD courses should be
packaged together.
- R. Moyer ensured that PD courses will be offered if there are students to
take them, and recommended that the college needs to strategize on how to
market and advertise PD courses.
- D. Ornelas will bring the distributed courses to the attention of the
Counseling Department.
- D. Beaulieu expressed concern that PD courses can only be offered as a
counselor’s hourly assignment.
- The committee discussed the possibility of other disciplines offering
comparable courses.
VI. QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT:
Assessment and Online Orientation
- S. Morales stated that Pierce has online orientation based on Miramar
College’s example. She is interested in waiting to see Pierce’s success rates
before recommending online orientation for ELAC. She stated that the
Matriculation Budget is limited, and for now matriculation money would better
be used for other purposes.
- K. McMahan stated that online orientation would be beneficial for Distance
Education students.
- D. Beaulieu stated that if students have online assessment, they may “stick
around” for online orientation.
- C. Rozadilla stated that students could benefit from greater flexibility in
times to be assessed, like on a Saturday, for example. The more people
assessed, the greater the enrollment.
- R. Martinez stated that Fullerton College and West L.A. are currently doing
online assessing.
- K. Daar suggested that online assessment should go back to the new committee
that she and D. Beaulieu will form.
- R. Martinez stated that more people are needed for Information Technology to
make our college more technologically friendly. ELAC currently has the greatest
number of computers in the District and the least number of technicians. In
contrast, Harbor has a third of ELAC’s computers, yet more technicians.
Classified technicians and a manager need to be hired.
- D. Beaulieu stated that a motion recommending funding for more technicians
be given to EBPAC.
- K. Daar recommended that research be conducted to validate the request to
EBPAC. The EPSC will make a formal request to the Technology Plan Committee to
provide the EPSC with this information so that a formal recommendation by the
EPSC can be made to EBPAC.
- S. Morales will forward to K. Daar a copy of Math and English Assessment
Instruments used at various colleges for distribution to the EPSC.
VII. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Karen Daar
EPSC Co-chair
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