Meeting & Agendas

Meeting was called to order at 1:30 p.m.

Jane welcomed everyone to the fall 2009 meeting.

Jane distributed minutes from the fall 2008 committee meeting, and asked members to present questions if they had any. All members were in agreement with the minutes. Jane also thanked members for their prompt e-mail responses to approve changing the required Ethics/Logic course to any Humanities/Fine Arts course for AAS degree plans.

Jane reported that enrollments for Office Administration as a whole were up from fall 2008 to fall 2009 by 35.76%. The board agreed that future enrollments at the Eastview campus should be monitored following the opening of the Round Rock campus to see how Eastview will be affected by the new location. Suggestions were also made to include data revealing how students are sponsored for the OA program in future reports.

The Round Rock campus will open fall 2010 with one computer lab designated to Business studies in phase 1. Roni Cook, full-time instructor for OA will move to the campus for its fall 2010 opening. OA course offerings will support the accounting program as well as the Office Asst Certificate program.

The survey had good responses from the general administration area. The board would like to invite members from the Legal Administration Association and the Medical Office Manager Association to promote adequate representation from both fields. Revisions will be made to the 2010 survey to include legal office functions and we will also look at alternate programs that will assist in generating the survey more efficiently and accurately.

Jane provided the board members with handouts that notated the feedback from the Instructional Program Review 2008-2009 Conclusions: What are the major conclusions regarding the present state of the program? 1.The Office Administration program is providing valuable skills for the Austin Area workforce. 2.Some of this program’s assets are faculty, curriculum, flex courses, instructional resources and successful graduates. 3.This program will strive to increase student retention, especially for flex courses, and to grow the program as demand increases from our neighbors to the north. Recommendation was made to expand services, offer courses at Round Rock Campus, add flex lab and lab support at Round Rock campus (phase two), add traditional delivery options for flex courses, and increase student retention for flex courses.

Meeting was adjourned at approxiamtely 2:30 p.m.