Skyline College

Skyline College
ED POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING
MINUTES for March 4, 2003

Present: I. Hermosillo, J. Hughes, M. Holder, C. Beringer, S. Zamani, B. Fischer, C. Wulbers, G. Nicol, R. Ybarra-Garcia, and P. Pontacq.
Chair: E. Seth
Recorder: M. Ton

1. Approval of minutes from December 3 meeting
The February minutes were approved as presented.

2. Honors course – Connie Beringer
Handout: "HTP Guidelines for Honors Contract Course".

The Honors Contract is a way to allow students in the Honors Transfer Program (HTP) to earn honors credit for a course that is not designated as honors. It fills the needs for Business majors and evening students to complete the HTP requirements. Detail requirements, guidelines and procedures are stated in the contract for both faculty and students. The HTP is about three years old. It currently has 160 students.

Melissa Komadina is the Counselor for HTP.

3. Credit by Exam update - Evelyn
Evelyn has brought EP’s concerns and suggestions to AS’s last meeting. Connie Beringer has asked the Senate representatives to provide information on their division’s practice on credit by exam. At this point, Connie has also requested the VPI to give directive to the deans to make priority the discussion within the division its practices on credit by exam.
The issue is with transferring AP credits. Universities may have different score requirements and may not accept our AP credits. Also, there is no policy stated for CLEP exam credits.
Jennifer and Soodi volunteered to work on the text that clarifies Skyline’s policy and procedure for credit by exam for the next revision of the catalog.

Agenda item for next meeting.

4. Review changes to proposed Signature Form

The committee reviewed the revised draft. Recommended changes to the signature form are:

For section A
Add boxes for "New Policy" and "Revised Policy"

For section C
Add boxes for "Review" and "Approve".
Remove signature line for Classified Council.

For section D
Add additional signature lines for EP members. Columns format can be used for Signature lines due to space constraint.

For sections C and D
EP members signatures should be positioned before shared governance committee’s.

Distribution and tracking of the signature form will be done by EP Chairperson. The completed form will be archived/posted on the EP web site. Evelyn will create links to archived minutes sorted/searched by dates.
Bridget will make changes for our next meeting. The committee will approve and forward to Academic Senate for their review/approval.

5. Appeals Policy for Student Grievances

The committee discussed definitions for a ‘grievance’ and an ‘appeal’. A grievance is the initial actual complaint and an appeal is the dissatisfaction of the resolution to the complaint.
The committee asked for clarification of faculty involvement of a grade grievance. For this type of grievance certain faculty need to be present at the hearing since only the instructor issuing the grade can change the grade?
Rosemary reports that the VPSSs are working with legal counsel to revise the student code of conduct. It is ready to go to the Board for approval

Need to specify appeal procedure on grade grievance (show on flow chart and in text).

Click here to see revised Grievance and Appeals Procedure flowchart

6. Review of current form(s) used for appeals proces

Current Appeals Form

Draft of Appeals Form developed by Sherri and Jennifer

Sherri and Jennifer will share their draft at the next meeting.

7. Other:
Committee member, Pete Pontacq, will be inducted into the California Community College Coaches Hall of Fame on Friday, March 14, 2003…….Congratulations!