Santa
Barbara City College
Committee on Teaching and Learning
Minutes of Sept. 9, 2002
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Present: V. DelVecchio (Library), M. Eckford-Prossor (English), G.
Federman (Tech.), M. Ferrer (FRC), P. Guenther (Math), D. Kiley (Library),
G. Lewin (Chair), D. Mackie (Academic Support), B. Moore (Math), C. Solberg
(History), S. Starkey (English), N. Warner (Art), E. Wise (Biology), J. Ullom
(Admin. Liaison)
Excused: J. Anderson (Health Tech.), P. Chavez-Nunez (FL/ESL), J. Pike
(LSS)
The
meeting was called to order at 3:00 p.m. by Gerry Lewin and the following
announcements were made:
1. There will be two orientations for the Re-entry program. A flyer
about Re-entry Student News was provided. Please share with your departments
and divisions.
2. The LRC will have several workshops for student success again this
fall. The first one on Time Management will be October 17th from 12:00
to 1:00 pm in the Library, Room 146.
3. Gerry provided information about the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and an application to the Carnegie Scholars
Program for the 2003-2004 year. Please contact Gerry or visit the CASTL website
for more information at http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/guidelines/.
She shared an article from CASTL that is linked from the Spring 2002 CTL webpage
on "Situating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary
Conversation". It describes a new paradigm taking place in teaching and
learning at the college level.
Committee
Duties:
Tasks that the CTL committee will work on this fall (some of these are listed
on the back of the meeting agenda in a memo from Lana Rose):
1. Identify and review which of the 4faculty.org modules are critical to pedagogy,
with an eye to identifying those that could be offered as Flex workshops.
FEC will then recommend a list of activities for Flex.
2. Discuss the issues involved with bundled texts. For instance, some books
are bundled with a "free" CD, but if students open the CD, they
are unable to sell back the book. Some discussion at the meeting included
not selecting textbooks from publishers that engage in this practice.
3. Review the proposal for changes in SBCC's Professional Development plan.
(Continuation from the spring.)
Meeting
Dates:
The meeting dates for the 2002-2003 year are as follows:
| Fall Sem. | Spring Sem. |
| Sept. 9 | Feb. 10 |
| Sept. 23 | Feb. 24 |
| Oct. 14 | Mar. 10 |
| Oct. 28 | Mar. 24 |
| Nov. 25 | Apr. 14 |
| Dec. 9 | Apr. 28 |
| May 12 |
CTL's
Weekly Teaching Tip
1. David Wong has created a database for the teaching tips. Please view this
at http://frc.sbcc.net/lasso/tlc/search.html. David Wong will automatically
add each tip of the week to the database.
2. Be sure to sign up for a week, if you have not done so already.
3. Jack suggested asking the new faculty members to also share tips. Everyone
agreed this was a good idea. Jack will suggest it to them at the next Faculty
Development Seminar meeting.
Presentations
at CTL's Meetings:
At one of the next meetings we will have a presentation on service learning.
Anyone who is interested in doing a presentation, let Gerry know when you
would like to do it.
George brought up the idea that new faculty members could present/share how
Flex was done at their previous institutions, since a calendar change appears
imminent.
CTL's
Webpage:
If you would like to contribute to the webpage, contact Gerry. Also, when
you get a chance, take a look at the CTL's website to see the latest information.
Url: http://www.west.net/~ger/CTL1/CTLindex.html
Mark
Ferrer, FRC:
Mark shared new things being developed by at the FRC:
* resources, tools, etc.
* "Just-In-Time" resources for students and teachers
* planning tools for students (Task Analysis)
* how to do research on the web
* Val's course in Information Competencies
* Student Hub and Teacher Hub
* Assignment Maker
* Syllabus Maker
The
URLs for these resources are www.studenthub.org (for student resources) and
www.studenthub.org/faculty (for faculty resources). The password is described
on the page.
Jack
Ullom, Student Success Initiatives:
Gateway
Program
The Gateway Program provides extra support in introductory courses for students
that have been identified as "at-risk with potential". An institute
for faculty was held in Summer 2001. Some of the courses that have been part
of the Gateway Program are History, Comap 101, Psychology, Chicano Studies,
Film Studies, and Political Science. The first semester, the Gateway students
had an 83% success rate (249 students) and the second semester saw an 84%
success rate. Some classes, including Curtis Solberg's classes, saw 100% success
rates in Gateway students.
The
student aides have knowledge of the course material and have been receiving
training in tutoring from Jerry Pike. It was determined that the aides needed
more leadership training, so Tina Kistler has developed a two-unit leadership
course in the Communications department. There are many different groups of
students that can be served by this course, including student senators and
tutors for other programs.
This
program has been funded by a 3 year state grant, that was cut when the state
cut funding for student success initiatives. However, as a result of the successful
first year, Jack Friedlander informed Jack Ullom that the district wanted
to institutionalize and expand the Gateway Program. Next spring the program
will include English 70, English 100, Math 1, and Math 100. Student athletes
and students in the EOPS program will be part of a pilot in the spring. There
will be about 50 students that will be taking both English and Math together.
Jack Friedlander also nominated the Gateway Program for an award from the
Community College League.
Faculty
Development Seminar
This is now called the Faculty Teaching and Learning Seminar. Last fall new
faculty members participated in the seminar. In the spring semester the seminar
was offered to current faculty members and 28 participated. The spring success
rates were increased for 11 of the 17 faculty from the fall seminar (the rest
maintained already high success rates). The seminar is now being offered on
6 Fridays in the fall and 6 Fridays in the spring (rather than all in one
semester). There are 10 to 11 new faculty involved in the current seminar.
The
state funding for this program was also cut. A decision was made to institutionalize
this program as well and Jack Friedlander has pulled together funding for
Professional Development from a variety of sources, giving PD its own budget.
Jack F. would like to pull all PD and SS programs together and apply for a
Hesper award.
Telecourses
A re-entry of telecourses in distance learning is being seen at various places.
Palomar College got a $53 million dollar federal grant to develop telecourses
that use the computer for communication for teacher-student and for student-student.
We should start to look at what telecourses might be available for purchase.
Jack suggested inviting Guy Smith to the committee to give a demonstration.
Jack also discussed workbooks that Andrea created for deans that allow deans to quickly look at success rates by instructor, see census enrollment and final enrollment (dynamically), and look at student information for a particular class (phone number, address, etc.). Meeting was adjourned at 4:30 pm.
Next
meeting: Monday, September 23rd, 2002, 3:00 p.m., in LRC 108. Marilynn
Spaventa will visit to explain the new proposal for Professional Development
on our campus.