March 1, 2019

Anthropology, Economics and Geography Department meeting

Friday, March 1,2019 Room 2405 1:30pm-3:45pm

The Anthropology, Economics and Geography Department met Friday, March 1, 2019 from 1:30 PM to 3:45 PM at the Highland Learning Campus in Room 2105. The following faculty members were in attendance: Geoffrey Andron, Luke Armstrong, Iris Diamond, Jean Evers, Stuart Greenfield, Cedric Grice, Sherry Heiden, Steve Howard, Don Jonsson, Livingstone Kumassah, Anthony Lee, Paul Lehman, Lizzie Pintar, Alec Slivinske, James Sondgeroth and Daniel Waktola.

1. Approve agenda

Action: Agenda approved.

2. Approve the minutes of last meeting http://www2.austincc.edu/SOCSCI/Minutes.html

Discussion: Minutes are subject to edit for grammar and clarity.

Action: Minutes approved.

3. Updates:

- ANTH 2101 (Physical Anthropology lab), a one hour lecture to accompany ANTH 2301, was approved at February C&P meeting

- ECON:

- Faculty position/ hiring update-

- Summer 2019 ECS additions by Chair and Assistant Chair

- GEOG 2470: unique needs renewal update

Discussion: The Economics Faculty Hiring Committee has convened and are now finalizing selection of candidates. The interviews will take place in the last week of March.

In Summer 2019 four ECS sections were approved and added to the schedule. Two of these sections are at LASA, one at Cypress Creek Campus and one section at San Gabriel. A discussion followed regarding the minimum length of time needed to learn and apply the concepts of Macroeconomics.

Brief update on the status of the required Unique Needs Application process for approval to continue to offer Geog 2470 at ACC. Lizzie and Sam have contacted OEIA to get the requested data .

4. Presentation by Jean Evers: Globalizing Curriculum seminar project presentation

Jean Evers presented her work with The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at ACC, along with UT Hemispheres and ACC International Programs: Globalizing Curriculum Faculty Learning Community. Jean explained the benefits of participating in this seminar and recommended that others apply for next year’s project. If instructors are interested please contact FCTL@austincc.edu or William Hayden, Director of International Programs. The deadline to apply is April 22 and there is a small stipend for participation in the program.

5. DAC summary results in ECON, ANTH for Fall 2018: brief presentation

Discussion: Econ DAC results were sent by email to the Econ list serve. Lizzie presented Anth DAC results. Lizzie discussed that the Anthropologists might need to consider a more congruent assessment assignment.

Action: Approved

6. Zero Cost Textbooks: Discussion & take action.

Discussion: Lizzie mentioned that Carleen Sanchez is using an Open Educational Resources/Zero Textbook Cost in her Cultural Anthropology courses that were requested and approved during a previous task force meeting. A discussion ensued as to whether instructors interested in using OER/ZTC would need to present this information to the task force for potential approval. Motion: All ZTC (in lieu of requiring textbook purchases) materials will be approved by AEG taskforce prior to use.

7. Consider making ANTH 2101 a required course for all Anthropology majors (AA & AS)

ANTH 2101 Physical Anthropology (lab) is listed in the ACGM as an approved course to offer and has been approved by task force and Curriculum and Programs committee to begin offering in Fall 2019. This one hour lab is needed for students that take ANTH 2301 and are unable to transfer that credit to Texas State, as it does not include a lab component.

Action: Motion made and approved to designate Anth 2101 a required course for all Anthropology and Archaeology majors. Approved.

8. Discuss changes to Economics AA degree to align math courses required with Field of Studies (FOS).

Discussion: The economists discussed the proposed 2018 Field of Study Curriculum for Economics BS and BA track. Both of these FOS would require potential changes to the current Math courses required in the Econ degree. Due to the complexity of the subject, and the potential need to create an AS in Econ, the discussion will continue via the Econ list serve and the decision will be presented to the task force in a future meeting. All proposed changes will need to be submitted to Curriculum and Programs Committee for approval.

9. Department and College updates: Department Chair meetings, discuss Faculty Advising, and required instructor participation in DAC.

· The disciplines in the Liberal Arts are working to have a united approach with acceptance of D’s as a transfer grade. The first discipline to work on this will be General Studies.

· Registration Liaisons now assist students with enrollment issues on each campus. Please be aware of the registration liaison on your campus in order to refer students to the appropriate resource.

· The Liberal Arts is still hiring Instructional Associates that will work 20 hours per week and mentor 300 students to make sure they are on track to graduate.

· Department Chairs now submit proposals requesting an Assistant Department Chair and are required to explain the job duties of the Assistant DC. The final approval of course load reductions for Assistant Department Chairs will require approval from the Dean and VP.

· College initiative to encourage students to take two first 8 week courses at a time to focus studies on these two courses and then two more second 8 week courses to finish

the fulltime semester. The College will be scheduling more 8 week and weekend classes.

10. New budget for 2019-2020: due April 21. Time for the annual budget process to begin. Economists requested a copy of the breakdown of the budget for Economics. New funds will be requested in support of the lab materials needed for Anth 2101.

11. Reminders:

- Quality Matters training for all faculty teaching DIL: April 5

- Master Syllabi: updates by Faculty Senate will need to be revised

- Testing Center use in F2F classes

Testing Center is consider changes to the use of testing centers for face to face classes. Currently the makeup test policy is limited to no more than 25% of your class.

- Use of Blackboard for grades, syllabus, announcements, for sending group emails, etc. If you haven’t already done so, please begin using Blackboard to record grades so that students are aware of their grade in progress. The college recommends use of Blackboard in all distance learning and lecture courses.

- RSVP to calendar invitations (in order to receive reminders from Rachel). If you would like to receive the automated reminder emails for Attendance Certification and other Department deadlines please accept the calendar invitation sent by Rachel. Only those that RSVP yes to these invitations will receive the automated reminders.

- Digital Portfolio process, a demonstration prior to Convocation: August 2019. The departmental administrative assistant will work on a video demonstration of how to scan and save documents, create portfolio structure and how to upload files to Google Drive for next Fall’s portfolio process.

12. Announcement: Carol Hayman retirement. Carol Hayman was hired as an adjunct in the Anthropology Department in 1990 and was recognized for her many years of service to ACC. She served on Student Government Associations, International Programs Shared Governance Committee, and helped create the FAC Study Abroad program to Lima, Peru. Carol delivered many papers at professional meetings and volunteered extensively in the community. Carol is a member of various boards of Community Radio and has several exhibitions of her art work.

13. Adjourn