Monday, April 23, 2007
Attendance: Orin Chein, Bruce Conrad, Anthony DeFusco, Chris Dennis, Rob Drennan, Jane Evans, Mary Anne Gaffney, Bernie Newman, Michele O'Connor, Jackie Resavage, Catherine Schifter, Concetta Stewart, Karen Turner, Patti Vorndran
The meeting was called to order by Mary Anne Gaffney at 2:15 pm.
The minutes of 9 April and the revised minutes of 26 March were presented for approval.
There was discussion recorded in the minutes of 9 April regarding the acceptability of transfer courses deemed equivalent to CIS C055 as science courses in associate degree programs that are subject to approval as meeting General Education requirements. It was noted in those minutes that Temple allows CIS C055 to function as a core science B, and that core science B was to be the level of the General Education science courses. However, the GEEC has said that computer science courses will not serve as General Education science courses. The relevant paragraph is to be removed from the minutes of 9 April. With that change, and with the addition of Bruce Conrad to the list of those present on 9 April, both sets of minutes were approved.
Associate Degree Program Evaluation: core-to-core.
Bucks County Community College
The discussion on 9 April left undecided the programs in Business Administration, CIS: Computer Science & Technology, and CIS: Information Science emphasis because they did not fulfill the General Education Science requirement without counting a computer science course in place of a natural science. EPPC decided that these programs need to require another science course in order for them to be approved. Students transferring to Temple with the Associate Degree in Nanofabrication Technology need to take one additional humanities/social science course for approval.
Harrisburg Area Community College
With the exception of four Associate's degree curricula, all were certified as meeting General Education requirements. Students in the following programs will need to take an additional mathematics course: General Studies, Photography/Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and Fine Arts.
Mercer County Community College
Students transferring Associate in Science degrees will need to supplement by taking an additional humanities/social science course, and students with the Associate degree in Architecture will need an additional science course. All other programs meet the Temple general education requirements.
Patti Vorndran informed the committee that there were four additional community colleges to be reviewed at future meetings. Among them is the Community College of Philadelphia. A list of the top 25 transfer feeder institutions was distributed. The Community College of Philadelphia provides almost 16% of our transfer students, which puts it at the top of the list.
Advances in Technology at the University
Chris Dennis said that grades will be submitted electronically by the instructor directly to ISIS. The new system may be ready for December 2007 grades. Questions arose about instances where the instructor might not be available, how an instructor can delegate the grade submission to a TA, and electronic changes of grades. Regarding the former two questions, it will be feasible to operate electronically much as we now do with paper. The electronic future of grade changes is more clouded, because of the sequence of approvals needed before a grade can be changed. Substantial changes to the Blackboard Gradesheet would be necessary to enable grades to be submitted directly from Blackboard to Academic Records
Concurrent scheduling
Different classes -- not cross-listed -- have been scheduled in the same room, at the same time, and with the same instructor. For example, a course entitled Cell Biology might be offered in undergraduate and graduate versions concurrently as Biology 0330/0430. The distinction between the versions would be in what the student was expected to produce, for the lectures would be the same. Another instance of concurrent scheduling would be to have an honors course meeting with a non-honors class. These arrangements may be necessitated by low enrollments or meager faculty resources. Concetta Stewart noted that students don't like concurrent scheduling. A question arose about double teaching credit for instructors of concurrent classes. In each case, a single course was trying to address two different populations of students. It was decided that EPPC would not rule in the case of honors and non-honors classes meeting concurrently, The case of graduate and undergraduate concurrent offerings is an issue for the Graduate Board. The new course numbering system has a 5000 level that would be appropriate for course open to seniors and graduate students. A third kind of concurrent offering might pair a W-course with a non-W course -- students enrolled in the former would write more.
The following motion was passed:
Writing courses may not be scheduled concurrently with courses not designated as writing courses.
Adjournment:
3:45 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Bruce Conrad
