Lake Tahoe Community College

SLO Committee Meeting

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Room A106

Minutes

Members Present:  Kurt Green, Jon Kingsbury, Lisa Foley, Scott Valentine

Staff:  Terry Livesay

Items discussed:

1)      Approval of minutes from November 26 meeting: Approved by consensus

2)   LTCC Library & Media Services Program SLOs

The committee reviewed the LTCC Library & Media Services Program SLOs.  Lisa stated that she had asked Lori Gaskin if she would be required to do the Library Program SLOs and the Media Services Program SLOs separately, and the answer was ‘no’.  Jon liked the fact that Lisa made the connection to the core competencies. The committee unanimously approved the Library & Media Services Program SLOs.

3)  Start evaluation process of new courses submitted:

The committee reviewed the original eight courses that were submitted for SLOs and MASLOs which resulted in all being moved forward.  There were 12 additions which also resulted in all being moved forward.

4)  Other items:

a)     Kurt stated there are four discipline areas that are behind in their SLOs.  Those areas are: ART, CAO, CIS, and ECE.  CAO alone has 45 to do.  Kurt met with the deans and a few areas are doing quite well.  As for the others, Kurt will send out an email reminding them again to review their courses and possibly delete or inactivate ones that haven’t been taught in quite some time.  Also when Kurt met with the deans, it was brought up to possibly hire someone to do the SLOs for some of the faculty.  Kurt stated it was a workload issue and that certain faculty don’t have time to do the work.  Jon asked Kurt what his sense was of the deans on the issue.  Kurt stated that it was suggested to get a liaison to work with the adjuncts to get the SLOs done.  This decision will fall to the deans.      

b)     The committee discussed meeting times and dates for the winter quarter.  Kurt, Jon, and Lisa were able to continue with the meeting times and dates of the fall quarter – Wednesdays from 2:00pm – 3:00pm.  Scott has class at this time, so it was decided that he would be given copies of all agendas and minutes to review and make any comments he deems necessary and give them to one of the committee members before each meeting to present on his behalf.  

Meeting was adjourned at 3:20pm.