Meeting & Agendas

Mr. Stephens welcomed everyone to the meeting.

The minutes from the February 8 meeting were approved by the committee.

Mr. Colangelo mentioned that all the Upper Lever courses with textbooks from McGraw Hill would be on First Day Access. It would be beneficial for the students to register early so that their access to Blackboard would be easier. There would a note posted on Blackboard how to access the First Assignment. The wording would be the same for all courses.

Mr. Thibodeaux mentioned there was some discussion on what would happened on whether the high schools would go with the same textbooks that we use. that there would be a Google Doc created to be shared with faculty focusing on content, amount of resources and any problems. There was some discussion on whether we should use two different textbooks for the high school classes and wherether we should accept the high school program. We would also have control of the Exams given by the high schools instructors.

Summer and Fall assignments were discussed. Full Time faculty would need to send Katy their choice of those classes they would be teaching.

Discussion on the need to update the Mission Statement for the Department. The word basic would need to be taken out. It was mentioned that perhaps a subcommittee should be created to work on the Mission statement. Kimberly would be sending information to Denise to create one for the department.

Denise would be sending information on the IPR goals to the members.