January 10, 2023 Meeting
Agenda
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION
CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Memorandum
TO: Curriculum and General Education Committee
- Bandy, A. Bledsoe, B. Devine, J. Farmer, M. Mayfield, T. Mendoza, M. Oja, T. Payne, J. Rangel-Escobedo, A. Rashvand, D. Vohnout, N. Woodall, B. Young, ASO Representative, and PTK Representative
FROM: Dr. Vicki Jacobi, Vice President Academic Senate, Co-Chairperson
Dr. Leslie Minor, Vice President of Instruction, Co-Chairperson
DATE: January 6, 2023
SUBJECT: Next Meeting’s Agenda
A Curriculum and General Education Committee meeting will be held on
Tuesday January 10, 2023, from 11:10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in T-12, Taft College,
29 Cougar Ct., Taft CA 93268
Curriculum & General Education Committee
AGENDA
CALL TO ORDER
- PUBLIC COMMENTARY
The Committee welcomes participation at Curriculum Committee Meetings. Members of the public may address the Committee. For everyone to be heard, please limit your comments to 5 minutes or less.
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES: ACTION ITEM
- December 15th, 2022, Curriculum & General Education meeting (3)
- ACTION ITEM
Items listed under the CONSENT ITEMS are considered routine and are acted on by the Committee in one motion. There is no discussion of these items before the Committee vote unless a member of the Committee, staff, or public requests specific items be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Agenda. Any person can pull items from the consent agenda and move to new business, to be discussed and voted on individually. Items typically on consent are course outline of record under five-year review, renewal of distance learning modality or inactivation of course (removal from Chancellor Office Inventory of Courses).
- No action items
- CONSENT ITEMS
- No consent items
- DISCUSSION ITEMS:
- Programs in development
- Spring 2023 C & GE
- SmartCatalog
- Other
- AJOURNMENT
*Program Status, please see the table below:
Program | Tech Review Approved | C & GE
Approved |
Board
Approved |
State
Approved |
Notes |
*Law, Public Policy, and Society ADT | Spring 2021 | Spring 2021 | Spring 2021 | N/A | Under Review @ C/O |
*Communication Studies ADT | Spring 2022 | Spring 2022 | July 2022 | N/A | Under Review @ C/O |
History ADT | Spring 2022 | Spring 2022 | July 2022 | N/A | Under Review @ C/O |
Sociology ADT | Spring 2022 | Spring 2022 | July 2022 | N/A | Under Review @ C/O |
* New Program
Minutes
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION
CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Minutes of the Curriculum and General Education Committee Meeting
January 10, 2023, in T-12
Present: A. Abbott, A. Bledsoe, B. Devine, S. Eveland, D. Garza, L. Minor, M. Mayfield, T. Mendoza, M. Oja, T. Payne, J. Rangel-Escobedo, T. Payne, N. Woodall
Absent: K. Bandy, J. Farmer, V. Jacobi, A. Rashvand
Guests: J. Page, L. Travis
Recorder: N. Lopez
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
Meeting called to order @ 11:14 a.m.
- PUBLIC COMMENTARY
The Committee welcomes participation at Curriculum Committee Meetings. Members of the public may address the Committee. For everyone to be heard, please limit your comments to 5 minutes or less.
Dr. Eveland thanked the C & GE committee for their attendance. Dr. Eveland, along with Dr. Abbott, will be co-chairing the C & GE Committee in Dr. Jacobi’s absence. Dr. Eveland and Dr. Abbott will also be serving on the Tech Review work-group until Dr. Jacobi’s return in mid-February.
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES: ACTION ITEM
- December 15th, 2022, Curriculum & General Education meeting (3)
- Oja requested that the minutes from December 2022 show (list) the program ideas the committee discussed under V. A. – Discussion Items. On a motion by B. Devine, seconded by J. Rangel-Escobedo, and unanimously carried by all, the minutes were approved with the additions of program ideas listed.
- ACTION ITEM
Items listed under the CONSENT ITEMS are considered routine and are acted on by the Committee in one motion. There is no discussion of these items before the Committee vote unless a member of the Committee, staff, or public requests specific items be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Agenda. Any person can pull items from the consent agenda and move to new business, to be discussed and voted on individually. Items typically on consent are course outline of record under five-year review, renewal of distance learning modality or inactivation of course (removal from Chancellor Office Inventory of Courses).
- No action items
N/A
- CONSENT ITEMS
- No consent items
N/A
- DISCUSSION ITEMS:
- Programs in development
Dr. Minor gave an update on the current programs under development. Among those programs were Computer Science A.S.-T and Engineering A.S. Dr. Minor thanked Division Chairs for the program ideas/proposals submitted so far. The committee will bring back this item for the last C & GE meeting of Spring 2023.
- Spring 2023 C & GE
The Spring C & GE meeting schedule will be set at our next meeting. We will be meeting February 10th 2023 after Governance Council.
- SmartCatalog
Divisions were encouraged to review their Catalog sections. Send changes to T. Payne or N. Lopez.
- Other
N/A
- AJOURNMENT
*Program Status, please see the table below:
Program |
Tech Review Approved |
C & GE Approved |
Board Approved |
State Approved |
Notes |
*Law, Public Policy, and Society ADT |
Spring 2021 |
Spring 2021 |
Spring 2021 |
N/A |
Under Review @ C/O |
*Communication Studies ADT |
Spring 2022 |
Spring 2022 |
July 2022 |
N/A |
Under Review @ C/O |
* New Program
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