Bristol
Community College
Faculty
& Professional Staff Senate Meeting
Minutes
of Monday, October 26, 2015
Room
B101 3:15pm
Senators in attendance: M. Geary, J. Flanigan, S. Pero, H. Tinberg, R.
Worthington, R. Benya-Soderbom, J. Boulay, K. Hiller, B. French, L. Neubert, S.
McCourt, J. Corven, J. Jodoin, L. Delano-Botelho, J. Pelletier, S. Ferreira, R.
Amarasingham
Absences: T. Grady, J. Constantine, D. Phillips, C.
Leonard
Excused Absences: G. Leeman, D. St. George, J.
Mbugua
Special Guest: Deb Cohen
Six guests attended this meeting.
Meeting
called to order:
3:20 pm, quorum 3:39
Minutes: Minutes from October 5th were
reviewed and approved with no abstentions.
Advisement
Matters
Dean of Advising, Deb Cohen, discussed what
Advising is currently implementing:
·
The dissemination of the Mapworks
survey through CSS courses
·
Academic advisors are now connected to
each of the academic divisions (including Lash and Workforce)
o
Goal:
Gain
a better understanding of student needs within division
·
Advising 101, 102, 103 sessions
focus—how to be a successful student (ongoing)
·
Appointment Plus program (online
software package; started last year), with a possibility of extending to
faculty in the future
o
Will assess how things work this
semester
·
Assembling advising task force to
explore online advising
·
Updating website for academic advising
·
Weekly submissions to Bristol Buzz by
advisors
·
Orientation has now moved to Advising;
drawing from some aspects from Division 3 boot camp
·
First annual majors fair to be held
February 2nd
Division
Reports
·
There were no updates from any of the
divisions.
Rolling
Out the New Academic Initiative Implementation Guidelines: General Education
Competency Review
Task force co-chairs, Secretary Boulay and Holly
Pappas, provided an update on the status of the new academic initiative
implementation guideline for the general education competency review. They
offered a recap of the revisions to the Academic Initiative document (e.g.,
timeline, communication plan, relevant NEASC standard). President Tinberg will
sign this document after minor changes are made (i.e., moving timeline and
communication plan to the appendix).
Update
on Academic Support and Retention Task Force Charge
President Sbrega sent an email calling for joint
task force on student retention. Originally, this task force was to be
Senate-run, with a focus on the allocation of resources for academic support to
students. The Senate then discussed the benefits and challenges of
collaborating with the administration during the initial stages of this
initiative. The Senate’s goal is to focus on retention at the intersection of
academics across campuses. The following questions were raised by Senate
members:
·
How is academic support being defined?
Allow committee to decide working definition
·
Could this be part of a larger joint
effort?
·
Who is on the existing retention
council? Is the process transparent?
·
How willing are students to use
academic support?
·
What will be the methodology for work?
·
What do we know? What do we need to
know?
·
What do students need that we are not
providing?
·
Are there existing services that a
student needs beyond academic support?
A motion was passed by the Senate to accept the
offer to begin collaborative work with the administration in spring 2016;
however, they reserve the right to gather data that it hopes will inform the
Senate’s efforts as a serious partner in such collaboration.
General
Studies and the Meta-Major
Tabled for next Senate meeting.
Other
Meeting
Adjourned: 4:16 pm
Respectfully
submitted, Jennifer Boulay, BCC Faculty & Professional Staff Secretary
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