AEG Department Meeting Minutes

November 18, 2022 9:30AM to 11:30AM Via Zoom

Attendees: Felicitas Adu-Acheampong, Luke Armstrong, Jason Briggeman, Iris Diamond, Ricki Dolan, Stuart Greenfield, Sherry Heiden, Steven Howard, Lei Ji, Don Jonsson, Livingstone Kumassah, Anthony Lee, Paul Lehman, Caleb Miller, Carleen Sanchez, Gloria Sellers, Mehrdad Setayesh, James Sondgeroth, Brianna Teague, Daniel Waktola.

Welcome

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Faculty News

VC, Instruction, Midgley email dated 11/16 (The Academic and Student Affairs Council met on November 4, 2022 and approved proposed changes to Administrative Rules 4.1201.02, 4.1201.02.1 (new) and 6.1202.03. Please follow this link to review the ARs and submit your comments.The deadline to comment on the proposed changes is January 23rd, 2023). Faculty workload will be suspended until new evaluation process is implemented.

Milestones:

25 years : Mehrdad Setayesh

20 years: Don Jonsson

5 years: Gabriela Martinez

QM National Certification

Luke Armstrong for ECON 2301

AI Curriculum Redesign Fellowship: Lei Ji

New faculty this semester: Welcome to our department!!

Anthropology: Carminia Martinez, Allison McNamara & Economics: Fatma Sardina

Fall 2022 Semester Information:

DAC report for ANTH:Exemplary: Nearly all scores were exemplary. Carleen will work with the Asst Dean to improve

DAC report for GEOG:Plan: Acceptable. Some improvement could be made in a few categories to move from Acceptable to Exemplary. Daniel Waktola will meet with Ron Johns to improve.

Enrollment report: Fall 10/31/2022

Graduation :7 ANTH AA; 1 ARCH AS; 4 ECON; 1 GEOG AS-

Website updates: Rachel will be working to update our webpages. All faculty should send a photo and bio to rdayton@austincc.edu.

Spring 2023 Semester Information: Enrollment report College enrollment numbers are sluggish at this time.~*8.5%

DAC: Data to be emailed by the end of term to Carleen, Luke or Daniel, depending on discipline. ALL instructors must participate.

New Hires: ANTH: Gloria Sellers, Matt Turner, Cassie Smith, Kelsie Hart

ECON: Sarabjeet Bedi, Nick Jenkins, and two other applicants in the pipeline

2023 Thanksgiving (scheduling ACC vs UT and ISD’s break) [LINK]: ASAC Nov 4, 2022 meeting. Per Senate President Nancy Stano, the issue was discussed but not approved; tabled for the time being.

Break out session on program marketing, recruitment, and retention.

Resources to consider- List of Majors, INSPIRE, Faculty Advisors (s), DEI mini-grants, Innovation grants, TLED workshops, Social Media

ANTH; ECON; GEOG

Reports from break out sessions and group brainstorming.

Adjourn