Meeting & Agendas
Committee
Distance Education Committee
Date
02/16/2007
Status
Approved
Begin Time
01:00 pm
End Time
03:00 pm
Location
HBC 301.2
Online/Remote Url
Agenda:
1)
Description
Call to order
Presenter
Minutes
Attending:
Committee Members: Leigh Kilman, John Kennie, Jim Holzknecht, Al Purcell, Richard Smith, Nancy Keller, Carol Hirsh, Diana Withers, Janet Bickham, Nancy Worlds, Scott Gibby, Robert Bermea
Non-Committee Member: Brucie Bowman
2)
Description
DL Faculty evaluations
Presenter
Minutes
Comments, questions and concerns were raised and discussed about DL Faculty evaluations. Recommendation was to invite Vida Forest Y Salazar to a DLC Meeting.
3)
Description
Testing Centers
Presenter
Minutes
4)
Description
Comments, questions and concerns were raised and discussed about ACC Testing Centers. Recommendation was to invite Sharon (King) Frederick to a DLC Meeting.
Presenter
Minutes
5)
Description
Best practices
Presenter
Minutes
Robert Bermea discussed the process by which the DLC Subcommittee looking into DL Best Practices developed ACC Best Practices and its implementation process. He mentioned documents are currently under review by Mike Midgley and Donetta Goodall.
6)
Description
DL Counselor
Presenter
Minutes
Robert Bermea mentioned Carol Townsend has come onboard at Pinnacle Student Services office and she will be the Distance Learning Counselor. She will be invited to future DLC meetings.
7)
Description
Retention initiative
Presenter
Minutes
Robert Bermea mentioned the Student Services Cluster Initiative - ID# 1217 – This is an initiative to strengthen retention for distance learning students.
8)
Description
DL Publicity via Public Information & College Marketing
Presenter
Minutes
Robert Bermea mentioned a meeting he had with Marvi Reyes in Public Information & College Marketing to look pre-registration information for students about Distance Learning courses.
9)
Description
DL newsletter
Presenter
Minutes
Robert handed out the Spring ’07 Distance Learning newsletter to the group and mentioned it will come out twice a year, and distributed during General Assembly. He also mentioned the “Articles of Interest” that is sent to DL faculty.
10)
Description
SACS substantive change
Presenter
Minutes
Robert provided information on the SACS Substantive Report that requires ACC to report when degree and certificate programs are offered 25%, 50% and 100% via Distance Learning.
11)
Description
VCT SACS report
Presenter
Minutes
Robert and Richard Smith provided the committee with an update to the VCT SACS Review that has been going on during the past year and half and is nearly completed.
12)
Description
Military distance testing
Presenter
Minutes
Robert brought up an issue that has come up in regards to distance testing US Military servicemen. Currently faculty has the option of allowing/not allowing distance testing. The committee will put forward a recommendation that a faculty member will have to allow distance testing to servicemen, as long as distance testing guidelines are followed by the students. The recommendation will go to Mike Midgley and Donetta Goodall for implementation.
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