These are just notes from the items as they appeared on the “agenda-ish thing” that we used to structure the meeting.
Reminder: Syllabi to Sara
You probably saw Carla Tweed’s email reminding everyone to turn in a copy of each course syllabus to Sara. If you haven’t done that yet, please do. We need those for our records. (Sara’s email is sgaytan@yccd.edu. She’s fine with electronic copies.)
Meeting schedule
The English Dept. will be meeting every second and third Tuesday at noon, in Room 1171 (the journalism lab). The second Tuesday meeting will focus on business. The third Tuesday meeting will focus on discussions about teaching, textbooks, etc.
I will send an email out requesting agenda topic ideas for both categories–business we need to discuss, and teaching etc. issues we would like to discuss. Note that there are actually only three sets of meetings left for the semester, not including the end-of-semester SLO discussions, we we’ll need to be selective.
Also, the counselor who was “assigned” to the English Dept., David Perez, accepted my invitation for him to attend our business-focused meetings, to offer us a counselor’s perspective in some of our discussions.
SLO Update
(Note: this information is updated from the information that I had at the meeting): I just (today) received the links to the videos from the pre-semester SLO meetings we held the Thursday before classes started. I’m working on the closed captioning, in part because some of the discussion is really hard to hear. Since each of the three meetingw was an hour long, it will take me while to get the captioning edited (longer than just three hours).
I hope to distribute a brief version of the notes, plus a link to the captioned video (and supporting documents), early next week.
We will also have some SLO work–both Program SLOs, and course SLOs for our literature and other non-composition classes–to do during our business-focused meetings.
AB 705 Update
We spend some time answering some questions that Brian Jukes had forwarded about information gathering. I won’t go into the details here, in part because it is starting to look like the earth may shift under us again. I’ve been talking to the AB 705 workgroup about some rumors and rumors of rumors that have been rumbling, and I’m trying to nail down which of these are worth worrying about. So anything I write now would be uncertain and potentially confusing.