Meeting & Agendas

Vanessa Garza, Noko Wilson, & Laurie Clark were welcomed as new members of the committee.

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• The WAC has not met since July but has a meeting scheduled for September 15. • WAC committee co-chair Edward Terry is reviewing hundreds of ACC websites for possible update or removal. • The process for online transcript requests is now working, and Theresa reminded us that ACC no longer charges a fee for transcripts. • IT is working to complete the process for online graduation applications

• All college employees have been transitioned to Gmail. • Each departmental email account must now have two owners identified. IT has sent an announcement about this to all departments. • A new user interface with Datatel is to be working by late September.

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• A new $3 annual student accident insurance fee is causing CE to create new course type codes so that some courses can be exempt..

IEA is preparing for the upcoming review of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Credentials are now required for all professional-technical staff in Student Services and perhaps for some classified staff with supervisory responsibilities. Our compliance report is due on March 15, 2012. The SACS site visit will likely be mid-October or early November 2012 and will last four - five days.

• Theresa Harkins stated that the college is changing from Datatel’s current eCommerce system for cashiers and CE Instant Enrollment. A new e-Commerce solution, from Datatel, is currently being implemented. This solution separates Datatel (and ACC) from processing credit card purchases which ensures CISP (Careholder Information Security Program) compliance. Touchnet will not work for CE instant enrollment students and the Accounts Receivable office has chosen to NOT use the Touchnet eCashiering module. • Kathleen Christensen reminded us that Telephone Registration will be discontinued on Sept 22, 2011. • Kathleen also said that the new waitlisting service currently used for selected Math and Biology courses may be extended to all Math courses as well as to History and all Biology courses in spring 2012. She explained that the day before the final day of registration all students are released from the waitlist. • Kathleen explained that with the proposed student online withdrawal system the drop down menu identifying reasons for withdrawing will also include reasons why the withdrawal should be exempt from the state’s mandated six-drop withdrawal maximum. There will be no Financial Aid exemption for withdrawing except for military service. • Vanessa Garza in Financial Aid informed us that there are no longer appeals available for those students below the 67% completion rate and 2.0 GPA.