November 21, 2019 Meeting

Agenda

TAFT COLLEGE CTE COMMITTEE AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2019

1PM-2PM

Cafeteria Conference Room

 

Call to Order

Public Commentary Action Items
Approval of Minutes
Approval March 07, 2019 Minutes (Last meeting that met quorum) (3 minutes)     ACTION

Updates:

None

Old Business:

None

New Business:

  1. Revise CTE Committee Charter ACTION

The CTE committee, a sub-committee of the Academic Senate, provides guidance and coordination of programmatic activities across CTE programs, and to make recommendations to the Academic Senate and to Curriculum and General Education Committee in accordance with the 10+1 responsibilities.  Additionally the CTE committee serves as an avenue for participatory governance and collegial consultation.

Action requested: Review and make changes to charter to reflect the guidance and coordination purpose of the Committee and alignment with 10+1 responsibilities, participatory governance, collegial consultation.

Discussion Items

None

Other?

Adjournment               

Next scheduled meeting:  Dec 5th, 1 to 2pm in S-11

Minutes

TAFT COLLEGE CTE COMMITTEE
Minutes

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2019
1PM-2PM
Cafeteria Conference Room

 

Call to Order

Called to Order at 1:10pm
Members Present: John Eigenauer, Tori Furman, Becky Roth
Guests: Sharyn Eveland, Lori Travis, Mike Jiles, Jessica Grimes

 

Public Commentary Action Items

None.

Approval of Minutes

Approval March 07, 2019 Minutes (Last meeting that met quorum) (3 minutes)     ACTION

On a motion by John Eigenauer seconded by Becky Roth the March 07 minutes were approved.

 

Updates:

None

Old Business:

None

New Business:

  1. Revise CTE Committee Charter ACTION

The CTE committee, a sub-committee of the Academic Senate, provides guidance and coordination of programmatic activities across CTE programs, and to make recommendations to the Academic Senate and to Curriculum and General Education Committee in accordance with the 10+1 responsibilities.  Additionally the CTE committee serves as an avenue for participatory governance and collegial consultation.

Action requested: Review and make changes to charter to reflect the guidance and coordination purpose of the Committee and alignment with 10+1 responsibilities, participatory governance, collegial consultation.

No Action Taken: Unanimous agreement on the need for revision of charter.  A draft version of the charter was developed over the course of the discussion.

Actions Taken

Discussion:

    • Reviewed the current charter
    • Discussed how the current charter does not align with 10+1 (i.e. Funding is determined by administration via APR and not a 10+1 issue).
    • Recognized there is data disconnect on the APR forms and lack of local labor market information made available. Discussed various resources to acquiring LMI data (Centers of Excellence, surveying local businesses and advisory committee partners, Cal-Plus, EMSI, TC Foundation, etc.)
    • Discussed ways the committee could support the engagement of local industry (invite to CTE Committee meeting, mini-advisories, monthly topic speaking sessions, work groups, etc.) and being respectful of their time.
    • Revisited scope of the CTE Committee versus the advisory committees and discussed various structures (1 large advisory committee with all at the table per semester versus program specific advisories each term) and challenges each approach may pose (adjunct involvement, industry involvement, too broad conversation, too TC-heavy conversation).
    • Identified current gap in information from existing advisory committees being carried back to Academic Senate and agreed that the CTE Committee would be a great place to analyze and discuss industry feedback, allowing industry to focus on being industry professionals (LMI trends, current opportunities, technology, etc.) and TC to be the academic professionals (curriculum development, COR’s, program development, etc.).
    • Brainstormed new structure/functions of CTE Committee acting like a pre-post meeting for advisory committees and a “think tank”.
    • Acknowledged the challenge in getting Taft College faculty to participate on committee; wasn’t focus of this meeting to solve that problem. 10+1 responsibilities need to be focus and revising charter.
    • Reviewed membership. Recognized existing membership too large and that participation from each division is vital in having robust discussion and recommendations.
    • Stressed the importance of giving industry data and having them help TC program representatives understand what the need is and making sure TC program representatives arrive prepared to advisory committees.
    • Drafted a simple model showing the reporting relationship among curriculum/programs, industry advisory committees, and the CTE Committee (see Appendix A).
    • Drafted changes to existing CTE Committee Charter to align with discussion (see Appendix B).

 

Discussion Items

None

Other?

Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 2:03 p.m.

Next scheduled meeting:  Dec 5th, 1 to 2pm in S-11

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