Lake Tahoe Community College

SLO Committee Meeting

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 10:00am to 11:00am

Tallac Room

Minutes

Members Present:  Kurt Green, Jon Kingsbury, Beachy Orr, Rosie Hackett, Lisa Foley

Staff:  Terry Livesay

Items discussed:

1)      Approval of minutes from December 3 meeting: Approved by consensus

2)  Start evaluation process of new courses submitted:

The committee reviewed the original 12 courses that were submitted for SLOs and MASLOs which resulted in three being moved forward and nine being returned to the initiator.

3)  Other items:

a)     Lori Gaskin spoke to Kurt regarding when the SLO Committee will be reviewing ‘Program Level’ SLOs.  Kurt will put together a packet for the next meeting on Jan 23.

b)     Discussion took place regarding having ‘Program Level’ SLOs in the next catalog.  The concern is the upcoming deadline for catalog edits.  This will be discussed further during the next meeting.  Members were asked to bring their current year catalogs with them to the next meeting.

c)     Lori Gaskin and Mike Spina will attend a special SLO meeting to be held on Jan 18 to discuss a way that faculty can access CMS once courses are moved on.

d)     Pertaining to item “c”, Lisa expressed the opinion that all SLOs and their changes are to be faculty driven.  Jon expressed concern regarding the accountability of any changes made by faculty.  He felt that any changes made must be reviewed by the SLO Committee.

e)     The committee expressed concerns regarding the curriculum that was put forth prior to the SLO Committee being formed and the need to identify those courses in order to ensure that SLOs will be done within the three-year timeline.

f)     Rosie informed the committee that she will not be able to attend most of the winter quarter meetings due to outside engagements. The committee decided to change the meeting dates and times for the winter quarter to Wednesdays from 2 – 3pm so that Rosie can attend.      

Meeting was adjourned at 11:00am.