SWC Chair Academy

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SWC Chair Academy

• Curriculum Committee Presentation
• Angelina E. Stuart, Faculty Co-Chair
• August 12, 2009

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Purpose Mission of Curriculum Committee

• Purpose To approve new and modified curriculum
  prior to submission to the Governing Board for
  final approval.
• Mission To provide guidance in and oversee the
  development of courses, programs curriculum
  policies to ensure that curriculum is
  academically sound comprehensive.

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Rights Responsibilities of Faculty

• California Ed Code 70902 the Academic Senate
  assumes primary responsibility for curriculum and
  professional and academic matters.
• Title 5 Chapter 6 deals exclusively with
  Community Colleges in this chapter 55000 deals
  with curriculum and 58000 deals with
  fiscal/matriculation elements of curriculum.

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10 1 Agreements

• Rely Primarily
• Degree certificate requirements
• Grading policies
• District/College Governance structures as related
  to faculty roles
• Faculty professional development

• Mutual Agreement
• Curriculum
• Educational Programs development
• Standards Policies regarding student
  preparation and success
• Faculty Role (Accred.)
• Program Review
• Inst. Planning Budget
• Other Academic Professional matters

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Committee Membership

• Voting members (12)
• I School Rep from each School
• Library faculty rep
• Non-Credit rep (10)
• Academic Senate Vice Pres.
• Articulation Officer
• Faculty Co-Chair Academic Senate President-Elect
• (votes only in case of a tie)

• Resource members (10)
• VPAA Admin Co-Chair
• Assessment
• Academic Tech. Committee
• Disability Support Services
• Presiding Chair
• Dean of Instructional Support Services (ISS)
  (Deans liaison)
• ISS Supervisor
• ISS Technicians
• ASO Representative

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So how are Dept. Chairs involved with curriculum?

• Collaborate with discipline faculty to design,
  review or edit curriculum, both new and modified
• Ensure that curriculum that goes to the
  Curriculum Committee is correct and includes
  consultation with full-time discipline faculty.
• Give a sign-off on CurricUNET (twice!)
• Collaborate with faculty from other disciplines
  as co-contributors to new or modified curriculum
• Assist in the design implementation of new
  academic programs in their discipline
• Collaborate with School Dean on recommended
  changes or additions to curriculum.

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5 Criteria for Curriculum Development

• Appropriateness must address the College
  mission and scope of the College
• Need There must be a demonstrable need (eg CTE
  and/or transfer data)
• Curriculum Standards Curriculum must be
  academically sound, maintain academic rigor and
  include critical thinking skills and SLOs (on
  addendum to curriculum)
• Adequate Resources There must be District
  support () already in place or a written
  agreement for such support prior to approval.
• Compliance Curriculum must meet Title 5
  regulations.

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CurricUNET

• CurricUNET (or CNET) is an online curriculum
  submittal system used at SWC.
• CurricUNET site link, CurricUNET Flowchart
  other important curriculum committee information
  can be found on the Curriculum Committee website
  under faculty/staff
• Note curriculum deadline September 4th, 2009 is
  deadline for prelaunch of new or modified
  curriculum. Curriculum submitted on CurricUNET
  by Sept. 4th is guaranteed review for
  articulation purposes, for inclusion in the
  catalog, approval of our Governing Board and
  final approval by the Chancellors Office, which
  allows for offering the following year.

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Curriculum Approval Steps in CurricUNET

• 6. Final Review (5 days) Dean Dept Chair, and
  Instructional Supp. Serv.
• Launch Curriculum sent electronically to
  committee to their review
• Agenda Curriculum is included on committee
  agenda for specific date (Brown Act)
• Committee Action Committee meets to discuss,
  review and take action (approve, deny or table).
  Note Committee policy all curriculum with
  more than 4 changes in a meeting will be tabled.
• Co-Chairs sign off (5 days)

• Prelaunch Faculty originator submits curriculum
  on CNET
• Dean/Dept Chair signoff
• Instruc. Support Services Techicians review
  suggest changes to faculty orig.
• Articulation, Library, Prereq/Coreq Review (10
  days)
• Originator Response Time (in 7 days or defaults
  back to Prelaunch) Faculty incorporate
  recommended changes, corrections or omissions

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Curriculum Approval Steps (cont)

• Governing Board Final action on curriculum
  given by GB (approve/deny or table)
• Final Processing Instructional Support Services
  follows up on curriculum to ensure proper
  routing, paperwork and reporting to the
  Chancellors Office (AKA Systems Office)
• Important Note
• In order for curriculum to be ready for fall
  offering, it
• 1) must be approved by the Curriculum
  Committee,
• 2) must follow the curriculum calendar
  deadlines,
• 3) must obtain Governing Board Approval
  by spring and 4) must be published in college
  catalog.

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Curriculum Development Resources

• Academic Resources
• Curriculum Handbook (on Curriculum website)
• Angie Stuart ext. 5607 (Faculty Co-Chair)
• School Curriculum Rep.
• Veronica Burton
• ext. 6383 (Articulation)

• Instructional Support Services
• Mink Stavenga, ext. 6442 or ext 6542 (Dean of
  ISS)
• Eva Hedger ext. 6340 (ISS Supervisor)
• ISS Technician by school
• Susan Soy ext. 5488 for Gloria Castro ext. 5801

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Dont hesitate to contact me with any curriculum
questions. Im here to help.

• Thank you
• have a great semester!