Meeting & Agendas


Committee
Accounting Task Force
Date
02/23/2024
Status
Approved
Begin Time
01:00 pm
End Time
02:30 pm
Location

ACC Highland Make It Center
Online/Remote Url


Members in attendance: Reed Peoples, Kimberly Cameron, Denise White, Yolonda Holland, Virginia Hauser, Kristy McDermott, Jay Thibodeaux, Jeffrey Brennan, Larry Stephens, Kelli Blount, May Wang
Members not in attendance: N/A, N/A, La Tasha Roberts, Tracie Miller, N/A, Sean Counterman, Kathleen Gott

Agenda:

1)
Description
Professional Development (PD) with Nicole Bell from HR
Presenter
Nicole Bell
Minutes
Department can enter PD event & employees can register or employees can just disclose PD as it occurs (self-report) All full-time faculty must have 12 hours of PD per academic year Must be approved by the Dept Chair All staff must have mandatory compliance training New faculty have 3 days after orientation to do mandatory training Cybersecurity - annually ADA/Title IX/Discrimination & Harassment - Every other year Tapestry/Meridians/Groundswell - Every other year To navigate Workday: Menu>Learning>My Learning>View Learning Transcript (will show expiration of mandatory training) Menu>Career>Training>Add (to self-report)
2)
Description
Financial & Managerial Accounting Associate certification
Presenter
Larry Stephens
Minutes
IMA accreditation 80 Questions Facilitated through ProMetric Cost $299
3)
Description
Assessments
Presenter
Kimberly Cameron
Minutes
ACCT 2301-Fall 2023 Assessment #1 did not pass with 80% It was a new edition and new assessment, so probably 1 question needs to change 2301 committee will look into the questions and make a new study guide to provide to all faculty to help with equity in the assessment ACCT 2302-New Assessment started in Summer of 2023 Students passed assessment #1, but not #2 The assessment was 80% of students had 70% or higher, changing it to 70% of students had 80% or higher
4)
Description
Textbooks
Presenter
Larry Stephens
Minutes
First Day Access Summer Deadline is March 1 Fall Deadline is April 1
5)
Description
Hiring Committee(s)
Presenter
Larry Stephens
Minutes
Adjunct Faculty: actively recruiting internally at ACC to grow adjunct pool Full-Time Faculty We are conducting interviews via Zoom on March 7 Then class demonstrations in person on March 28
6)
Description
Mentors/Mentees
Presenter
Larry Stephens
Minutes
Dr. Peoples/J.D. Naranjo Kimberly Cameron/Lilian Spell Kristy McDermott/Darryl Houston Jay Thibodeaux/Chris O’Donnell Kelli Blount/Virginia Houser Johnny Howard (Dr. Howard)/LaWanna Brown
7)
Description
Faculty evaluations are being updated
Presenter
Larry Stephens
Minutes
Discussed including class observations as part of evaluations
8)
Description
Next Meeting-April 19th
Presenter
Larry Stephens
Minutes
Plan to discuss new faculty evaluation rubric, which will be developed by the department Reducing workload for the research courses (with extensive manual grading) Summer Scheduling Baseline Schedule (beginning in the Fall) Attendance: Larry Stephens; Reed Peoples; Denise White; Kimberly Cameron; Jay Thibodeaux; May Wang; Kelli Blount; Okera Bishop; Johnny Howard; Kristy McDermott; Germaine Randolph; Yolonda Holland (no absences) Adjuncts: Jeff Brennan; Lilian Spell; Virginia Hauser; Tina Bertucci; Darryl Houston; J.D. Naranjo; Claudia Rodriguez

Guests:

Name:
Nicole Bell
Email:

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