Committee Minutes

August 28, 2019

Date/Time
Wednesday, 08/28/2019
Location
Reaud 214
Submitted By:
Liv Haselbach

Minutes for CID Agenda August 28, 2019.  Reaud 214 3:30 pm

Attendees: Liv Haselbach, Jeremy Alm, Mark Mengerink, K.C. Sen, Diane Clark, Dan Chilek, James Slaydon, Phil Cole, Natalie Tindall, Kakoli Bandyopadhyay, Ricardo Colon, Marleen Swerdlow, Tom Sowers, Donna, Meeks

  1. The group discussed items it would like input on from upper administration and asked the Executive Committee to meet with the President and Provost before the next meeting.
    1. Improvements to the study abroad procedures.
    2. Having the protocol for summer classes set in the fall during schedule building so that the departments can more readily plan for classes in 12 month degrees, improved graduation rates, department budgets, etc. and faculty can better plan for their year and student needs.
  • Additional support from the research office.
  1. What % of online students are regional students that might otherwise be in f2f classes?
  2. Increased visibility and involvement of the CID at the University. It was asked that the CID President be part of the Convocation stage party. Also, there are several University committees that CID representation could be on, and the CID representative, in most cases the CID president, would like to attend.
  3. It is requested that Blackboard be opened several weeks before classes start and that syllabi be more readily available.
  • The CID is interested in getting responses to the above at the November 20th mtg if possible.
  1. The chairs were reminded to include Marketable Skills on department websites and to download their Field of Study list if developed by the THECB. thecb.state.tx.us/fos
  2. Committee appointment vacancies were filled. Liv continues on committees for the CID President, Stefan Andrei will remain the CID rep on UUCC and Monica Harn has been asked to continue service on the QEP if she is willing.
  3. Per the request of Dr. Brenda Nichols, the chairs discussed summer session types. The majority indicate that regardless of what session lengths are developed to accommodate online and other types of classes ( e.g. 8 or 5 week), the traditional first half plus second half of the summer sessions are crucial to remain (~6.5 weeks each) in order to improve graduation rates for classes that are in the critical path for graduation and need to remain in sequence.

 

Executive Committee 2019/2020

Liv Haselbach         M. Diane Clark Jeremy Alm              James Slaydon                      Dan Chilek