Faculty Association Committee Minutes

Call to Order:		In the absence of Lisa Jamba who was attending a Banner training session and arrived toward the end of the meeting, July Solano, Faculty Association President, called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m.

Members Present:		Bettie Adams, Janet Bosnick, Katharine Brown, Lisa Jamba, Lynn Jones, Jan Meires, Sarah Philips, Arturo Sanchez, Robert Thunen, Kristine Webb

Ex-officio members:		Cindy Chin, Linda Burks

Members Absent:		Oscar Patterson, Rusty Smith

Others Attendance:		Judy Solano, John Kemppainen, John McDonough, Li Loriz

Welcome and Charge

Judy Solano welcomed the Committee members and asked them to introduce themselves. She distributed copies of the description of the Committee. In giving the Committee its charge, she noted that the APC is a critical committee and now that many of the former responsibilities of the faculty members have been turned over to staff support offices, the Committee cannot lose the responsibility for reviewing and evaluating curriculum. The job of the committee is not to prevent curricular ideas but to ensure that objectives and proposals are clear.

II.

Election of Chair

The chair will receive a stipend of $2,000 this year. July Solano discussed the responsibilities of the Chair which include interfacing with Colleges on items that are sent back to them, coordination of the synopsis of courses and programs, and preparation of the Faculty Association agenda packet. Cindy prepares the agenda and gives the agenda to the Chair for review. The Chair is re-elected every year, but often a Chair will serve for two years. Judy encouraged the Committee to remain in the meeting until a decision on the new Chair was made.

Janet Bosnick agreed to serve as primary Co-Chair with Bettie Adams as secondary Co-Chair. Bettie conducted the remainder of the meeting.

III.

Approval of Minutes

The minutes of the June 2, 2005 meeting were approved.

IV.

Meeting Time

It was agreed by all members that the Committee will continue to meet at 10:00 on the first Thursday of each month.

Evaluation of APC Workshop

Members who attended the APC Workshop on August 29 conducted by Lisa Jamba commented that the workshop was very well done and useful and that they would have liked to have more time to cover other procedures of completing forms.

VI.

Feedback on New APC Forms

The print in a completed form is very small in some of the fields.

The suggestion was made to include in the instructions for APC 1, page 3, the text "Add none if none," under C.1 Prerequisites and C.2 Co-requisites so that the Committee will know that the items were not overlooked.

Bettie Adams pointed out that there needs to be a point after which the Committee will no longer accept the old forms. The group agreed that the deadline would be effective immediately.

APC 1, A.7. Who should be the Contact person, the faculty member or department chair?

APC 1, B.16 . Instructions were discussed for enrollment restrictions.

It was decided that APC1, B.9 should be divided into 9(a) and 9(b) for the full time and an abbreviated title of only thirty characters to take care of the character limit and truncation that happens in Banner.

VII.

Academic Programs Review

College of Health

School of Nursing : Log #05/06-001 through #05/06-022
TheAPC 3 adds a new track, Nursing Anesthetist, to the MSN Program. The APC 1 forms are all for
new courses in the new track.

	Log #4/05-001: APC 1 to add new course, Technology in Anesthesiology Nursing.
	Log #4/05-002: APC 1 to add new course, Chemistry and Physics of Anesthesiology Nursing I.
	Log #4/05-003: APC 1 to add new course, Chemistry and Physics of Anesthesiology Nursing II. "Defines" in the first objective in Section C.4 will be changed to "Define".
	Log#4/05-004: APC 1 to add new course, Principles of Anesthesiology Nursing I.
	Log#4/05-005: APC 1 to add new course, Regional Anesthesia.
	Log#4/05-006: APC 1 to add new course, Principles of Anesthesiology Nursing II.
	Log#4/05-007: APC 1 to add new course, Principles of Anesthesiology Nursing III.
	Log #4/05-008: APC 1 to add new course, Principles of Anesthesiology Nursing IV.
	Log #4/05-009: APC 1 to add new course, Advances Anesthesiology Nursing Seminar.
	Log#4/05-010: APC 1 to add new course, Advanced Bioscience for Anesthesiology Nursing I.
	Log#4/05-011: APC 1 to add new course, Advanced Bioscience for Anesthesiology Nursing II.
	Log#4/05-012: APC 1 to add new course, Pharmacology of Anesthesiology Nursing I.
	Log#4/05-013: APC 1 to add new course, Pharmacology of Anesthesiology Nursing II.
	Log#4/05-014: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum I.
	Log#4/05-015: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum II.
	Log#4/05-016: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum III.
	Log#4/05-017: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum IV.
	Log#4/05-018: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum V. The word "algorithm" in the last objective in C.4 will be changed to the phrase "established algorithm" and the comma after "assessment" will be deleted.
	Log#4/05-019: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum VI.
	Log#4/05-020: APC 1 to add new course, Anesthesiology Nursing Practicum VII.
	Log#4/05-021: APC 1 to add new course, Professional Aspects of Anesthesiology Nursing
	Log#4/05-022: APC 3 to add Nurse Anesthetist Track to the MSN Program.

All APC forms were unanimously approved.

The School of Nursing will email the log numbers and abbreviated titles of the new courses to Bettie Adams for inclusion in APC 1, B.9.

VIII.

Committee Instructions from Lisa

Lisa Jamba distributed copies of the Committee’s Annual Report and asked members to continue to work on the Issues to be Addressed section of the Report. She specifically pointed out adding resources/links to the APC Forms webpage for learning outcomes to help faculty develop these outcomes, reviewing feedback from workshop and consider having a workshop at the beginning of each fall term, and monitoring member participation. She pointed out that the funding of courses and additional resources is not an issue to be handled by the APC. On behalf of the Committee, Bettie Adams thanked Lisa, outgoing Chair, for all of the work and time that she devoted to the APC.

IV.

Adjournment & Next Meeting:

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 11:45 a.m. The next meeting is scheduled for October 6, Thursday, at 10:00 a.m.

Submitted by
Sarah Philips
Secretary, APC Committee