Minutes
April 17, 2002
Present: Sharon
Hashimoto, Maggie Brown, Rebecca Sliger, Bob Bonner, Jean Harris, Tracy Brigham,
Gwen Spencer
Presiding: Glen
Avantaggio, Vice President
Agenda: 1.
Probation Policy re-draft
2.
Review of Degree requirements
1.
Probation policy; Rebecca
Sliger, Maggie Brown, Eric Baer and Gwen Spencer have been appointed as a
sub-committee to re-draft the Probation Policy.
2.
There are three more meetings this quarter to reformulate the
probation policy, take it to the Divisions and operationalize it.
3.
Members discussed aspects of degree requirements such as
Diversity and Global requirements, for example and requiring more writing across
the curriculum, writing tutors and writing workshops.
Gwen Spencer noted that there is a
loophole in the writing requirements; Students
taking Writing 101 can pass without a C and then go on to take Journalism.
To enter a 4 year university, a student needs a C (2.0).
At Highline, to go to the
next writing course, Writing 102, students need a C, (2.0) except if they
Journalistic Writing.
Sharon Hashimoto said this
issue was discussed in the Writing Department where it was agreed that students
need to pas Writing 101 with a C,
(2.0) in order to go on to other
writing courses.
Gwen Spencer emphasized that
the large, major universities such as the University of Washington, Seattle
University, Western Washington University, Washington State University, CWU, WWU
and EWU all require a 2.0 in course work in order to be admitted.
Therefore, we need to change our degree requirement here.
Glen Avantaggio will send
notification via the minutes to Faculty Senate members who were not present in
order to let them know about this timely issue concerning needed change in the
degree requirement.
4.
Glen Avantaggio stated that during the process of looking at
degree requirements, we did not look at the AAS degrees and need to do so
Bob Bonner passed handouts
concerning the AAS, Associate in Applied Science degree, stating that it has
different degree requirements than the other degrees the college grants.
There are specialty
designations related to job functions such as in the Respiratory Care practicum.
Also, students in AAS majors take 90-100 credits in their two year
programs. ˝ to 1/3 of their
credits are in general education.
Not all AAS programs have open door policies.
People apply for admission to these programs, like the nursing program
and they must complete prerequisites in order to be eligible for the screening
process that preceeds being chosen for admission.
In addition, some programs go through accreditation processes at the
national level and at the state level where state law governs the accreditation
process.
There are five AAS degrees that go
through a national accreditation
process for their specialty, such as Respiratory Care and Nursing.
There are no proposed changes
for the AAS degree presently. One
recent change is that for the AAS degree, under Communication requirements,
students can now take either writing 101 or Speech 100, not both.
There used to be “course
imbedded” learning that no longer exists.
(See Handout) The new
expectation is that master’s level
instructors will teach all coursework required for the AAS degree programs. Once issue concerns the ease of transfer to four year
universities for some of the AAS courses so that these students can go on for
bachelor’s degrees.
Bob mentioned that starting
these AAS degree programs is rigorous and the programs themselves must
demonstrate that there are jobs for
their graduates with specific salaries and
that they conduct needs surveys to ascertain this data.
5.
Gwen Spencer distributed a handout with two quarters worth of
data concerning our new policy on probation. There are now fewer students taking course work
with greater than 15 credits, total, since the
policy was implemented. She
explained several aspects of the handout and also the impact of a lesser credit
load and the effect on financial aid, all of which
the sub-committee will address.
Gwen also
mentioned that the official admission
requirements for AD transfer
students is 2.75 and it is expected to go higher.
Notes by Judy Johnson-Wise