Fall 2012 Faculty Meeting

Fall "Precision Student Discount Day": Thursday, September 6th from 10am to 2pm at NRG campus in room 3112. They will sell inks, papers and other supplies. This is the only day Precision will offer discounts on basic supplies.

Lighthouse: Faculty need to update their syllabus, supply lists, and End-of-Course Outcomes on their Lighthouse page. Outcomes are listed in your printed syllabus under the course description.

Department Repair Requests: If you are having issues and would like to submit work orders for phone/internet or facility repairs at NRG or SPS please send that request through Kat. It is necessary for requests to be submitted through our dept. office. Generally the college facilities department doesn’t notify the department when a request has been made by a faculty member.

Print Show Shifting to Thursday: Print show shifting to Thursday instead of Wednesday for the fall and spring shows.

Prints still due Monday last week of the semester

Judging Tuesday

Wednesday set up show

Show Thursday at 12 noon

Need Photos of Photo Department Media: We are getting more requests for images of faculty teaching in labs, students in classes, and general photography department facility images for articles about the department or for ACC promotional material. I could also use some help from faculty to organize and create images for the department to use for general promotional material.

Syllabus Requirements: Please refer to link if you have questions about what is required by ACC and SACS  ACC syllabus requirements

Hourly for 2012: will remain Cristine East, Kyle Pierce and Robert Gomez to help faculty with class needs. Hours available will be posted in the adjunct faculty office. Please contact them at 223-4463 or in room 3149 for general assistance.

Email:

Cristine East: ceast@austincc.edu

Robert Gomez: rgomez12@austincc.edu

Kyle Pierce: kpierce@austincc.edu

Lost and Found: Student lost and found will be located in Lori’s office in the bottom black file drawer. Please make sure your students remember to retreive their belongings. If you place items in the lost and found drawer, please note when and where you found the item and your name so we can do our best to locate the owner. PLEASE have your students put their names on their items.

Blog Page/ Blackboard: If you want to add a Blog or Blackboard page to your faculty page send Kat the link and she will add it.

Prerequisites: On your class roll make sure your students have met the required prerequisites for your class.

NO Soft Grading: Reminder - if a student is not doing well in your class, it’s important to grade students according to the work they are submitting. Soft grading can create failure for the student in future classes.

Withdrawing Students: If students are withdrawn from your classes please send a note to corresponding lab/camera class faculty as well as Lori & Cristine so they can make sure any equipment checked out to that student is returned.

Equipment Checkout:  We will collect student information for the purpose of students checking out department equipment. Within the first week of school have the students email you their information through the ACC Google mail, compile a sheet with your class information and list of students and forward that to Lori in order for your students to be eligible to check out equipment. Students CAN NOT check out equipment until Lori receives this sheet. Only pertinent to classes eligible for equipment.

Equipment check out start Monday, September 10th.

Check-out Times:
Mondays 12-2 & 4-6 due back Thursday between 12-2
Thursday 12-2 & 4-6 due back Saturday between 9-11
Saturday 9-1 due back Monday between 12-2

Wireless Connection at ACC: http://www.austincc.edu/helpdesk/docs/wireless_doc.html

ACC Fall General Assemble 2012: Friday, August 24th at Hyatt Regency downtown.

General Assembly welcomes all ACC faculty and staff to a new fall semester. This day-long mini-conference includes a State of the College Address by Dr. Richard M. Rhodes, ACC President/CEO and Dr. Enrique Solis, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost.

The keynote speaker Dr. Mark David Milliron, Chancellor of Western Governors University, will present "Emerging Insights on Learning, Technology, and the Road Ahead in Education…" addressing the key factors that drive positive change in education. All ACC employees are invited to attend and professional development credits will be awarded with supervisor approval. The morning event is free and requires no pre–registration. Those unable to attend can view a live webcast of the morning presentations on ACC's live streaming website: http://irt.austincc.edu/webcast/  Check link for details and workshop registration. http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/events/generalassembly/loc_park.html

SACS Visit 2012:  (SACS)Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

QEP - Quality Enhancement Plan 

MATH PLUS (http://www.austincc.edu/sacs/qep.php)

ACC's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a course of action to improve student learning. Although it is a requirement for accreditation, it also is an opportunity for the college to enhance its overall quality and effectiveness by increasing student achievement in a single, critical area. According to accreditation standards, the QEP must be focused, grounded in ACC's mission, and connected to its strategic plan.

Math PLUS: Plan, Learn, Understand, Succeed

ACC's QEP, Math PLUS, is a comprehensive, multi-year program that combines proven learning strategies with innovative enrichment activities to help students succeed in developmental mathematics.

Live webcast Friday, August 24, 9am-noon http://irt.austincc.edu/webcast/

Faculty Portfolios:  Update your faculty notebook that contains your "Portfolio" Details will be reviewed at the meeting. 

Labor Day: School closed Monday, September 3rd only. We are open the weekend Sept.1st and 2nd.

Classes Start:  Monday, August 27th

Welcome back!

Spring 2012 Faculty Meeting Information

Faculty Spring Development Day: Friday, January 13 at HBC. Faculty Development/Professional Development workshops will be held all day. Check link for details and registration. http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/events/springdevday/home.html

Classes Start Tuesday, January 17th. Semester starts on Tuesday. Monday is MLK day school closed.

Spring Precision Student Discount Day: Tuesday, January 31st. For the first time the discount day will be held on campus. They will sell inks, papers and other supplies in room 3112 from 12:30-6pm. This is the only day Precision will offer discounts on basic supplies.

Spring Break: March 12-18

Lighthouse: Faculty need to update their syllabus, supply lists and End-of-Course Outcomes on their Lighthouse page. Outcomes are listed in your printed syllabus under the course description.

Syllabus Requirements: Please refer to link for ACC syllabus requirements

Hourly for 2012: will remain Cristine East, Kyle Pierce and Robert Gomez to help faculty with class needs. Please contact them at 223-4463 or in room 3149 for assistance.

Lost and Found: Student lost and found will be located in Lori’s office in the bottom black file drawer. Please make sure your students remember their hard drives and jump drives in labs. Last semester there were at least a dozen hard drives turned in. If you find something and plan to put it in the lost and found please put when and where you found it and your name so we can try and track student down. Shouldn't have to tell students but seems we need to remind them…PLEASE have your students put their names on their supplies.

Blog page/ Blackboard: If faculty want to add a Blog or Blackboard page to your faculty page send Kat the link and she will add it.

Prerequisites: On your class roll make sure your students have met the required prerequisites for your class.

NO Soft Grading: If a student is not doing well in your class it’s important to grade students according to the work they are submitting. Soft grading can create failure for the student in future classes.

Withdrawing Students: If students are withdrawn from your classes please send a note to corresponding lab/camera class faculty as well as Lori & Cristine so they can make sure any equipment checked out to that student is returned.

FERPA: Please review attached link with FERPA information generated by ACC. The Photography department we will no longer store copies of grades. You will need to keep copies for your records incase there is question on final grades. Grades can be challenged up to 1 year. http://www.austincc.edu/business/documents/FERPA.pdf

Equipment Checkout: Speaking of FERPA. We will collect student information for the purpose of students checking out department equipment. Within the first week of school have the students email you their information through the ACC Google mail, compile a sheet with your class information and list of students and forward that to Lori in order for students to be eligible to check out equipment. Students CAN NOT check out equipment until Lori receives this sheet. Only pertinent to classes eligible for equipment.

Fall 2011 Meeting Information

Classes Start Monday, August 22nd, 2011.

Fall 2011 Precision Student Discount Day: Tuesday, August 30th, during regular business hours 9am-6pm.

Closed for Labor Day: Monday, September 5th.

New Adjunct Faculty: Welcome Whit Preston, he will be teaching Digital Imaging I and Advanced Imaging Lab.

New Full Time Faculty: Christine Reilly Harris (Digital area-NRG) and Frank Curry (Camera area -SPS).

Retiring Faculty: Don Ourada has retired and is moving to Alpine.

Hourly for 2011: Cristine East will be working with Kyle Pierce and Robert Gomez to help faculty with class needs. Please contact them at 223-4463 or in room 3149 for assistance.

LIGHTHOUSE: Faculty add supply lists and End-of-Course Outcomes to your Lighthouse pages. Outcomes is listed in your printed syllabus under the course description.

Syllabus Requirements: Please refer to link for ACC syllabus requirements

LOST AND FOUND: Student lost and found will be located in Lori’s office in the bottom black file drawer. Please make sure your students remember their hard drives and jump drives in labs. Last semester there were at least a dozen hard drives turned in. If you find something and plan to put it in the lost and found please put when and where you found it and your name so we can try and track student down. Shouldn't have to tell students but seems we need to remind them…PLEASE have your students put their names on their supplies.

BLOG PAGE/BLACKBOARD: if faculty want to add a blog page or Blackboard page to your faculty page send Kat the link and she will add it.


ACC's New Google Email and App System: Available workshops: https://www3.austincc.edu/it/workshops/www/gotoevents.php

Today's workshop in department lead by Lara Niles from Information Technology. She can be contacted at 223-1243 or lniles@austincc.edu

Additional Information Technology on-line workshop listings-http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/eworkshops/index.php#tech

General Assembly: Friday, August 19th. Good bye to retiring President Steve Kinslow and welcome new President Dr. Richard Rhodes.
Details at http://www.austincc.edu/pres/announcements/index.php

Spring 2011 Faculty Meeting Information

Imaging USA
January 16-18th free Expo passes available at http://imagingusa.org/free-imaging-expo-pass/?%2Ffree-expo%2F

Classes Start Tuesday, January 18th.

Spring Precision Student Discount Day: Wednesday, January 26th during regular business hours 9am-6pm.

Spring Break: March 14-20

ACC's New Google Email and App System: Available workshops: Basic information was listed in the Fall 2010 Faculty Meeting Information section. http://www.austincc.edu/pres/announcements/index.php

Faculty Spring Development Day is quickly approaching. Professional Development workshops will be held all day Friday, January 14, 2011, at HBC. Morning workshops will run from 9am-10:30am and 10:45am-12:15pm. Afternoon workshops will be offered from 1:30pm-3:00pm and 3:15pm-4:45pm. The ACC Spring Development Day website is available and workshops are filling up fast, so please enroll TODAY at http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/events/springdevday/ .
Casa Chapala will be providing breakfast with a Mexican Flair in room 201; however, you will need to make your own arrangements for lunch. To assist you in finding restaurants close to HBC we have provided a list of possible restaurants on the website at: http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/events/springdevday/.
Please remember that all overflow parking should be at Highland Mall. The College has no formal parking agreement with the Holiday Inn or Specs. Also, please remember that overflow parking requires you display your ACC parking permit. Campus Police will be checking both lots to make sure all employees have their permit displayed.
If you have any questions please contact the office of Professional Development and Evaluation Programs either by calling 223-7997 or emailing Nicole Bell at nbell2@austincc.edu .

Lighthouse: Please add your supply list and End-of-Course Outcomes to your Lighthouse pages. Outcomes is listed in your printed syllabus under the course .


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Meeting Minutes: 1-13-2011

IMAGING USA: If you have students that are volunteering at Imaging USA they may miss Thursday and Wednesday the first week. Bill said to give them an excused absence but ok to ask for proof they were working there.

PREREQUISITES: On your class roll make sure your students have met the required prerequisites for your class.

NO SOFT GRADING: If a student is not doing well in your class it’s important to grade students according to the work they are submitting. Soft grading can create failure for the student in future classes.

SKILL CODE ENFORCMENT: Bill would like to get input from faculty to see, as a department, if we should enforce Skill Codes for math-english-writing before a student can enroll in our classes? If you're interested in replying email Bill directly.

NEW ADJUNCT FACULTY: Jonathan Allen will be teaching Advanced Imaging Lab and rehire-Stacy Sodolak will be teaching Fundamentals.

NEW HOURLY: Cristine East will be our new hourly this spring. Kyle Woods accepted a full time photography position at the State Capitol. We wish them both luck..

REPAIR REQUESTS: If faculty submit work orders for phone/internet or facility repairs at NRG or SPS please send that request through the department first.

LIGHTHOUSE: Faculty add supply lists and End-of-Course Outcomes to your Lighthouse pages. Outcomes is listed in your printed syllabus under the course description.

LOST AND FOUND: Student lost and found will be located in Lori’s office in the bottom black file drawer. Please make sure your students remember their hard drives and jump drives in labs. Last semester there were at least a dozen hard drives turned in. If you find something and plan to put it in the lost and found please put when and where you found it and your name so we can try and track student down. Shouldn’t have to tell students but seems we need to remind them…PLEASE have your students put their names on their supplies.

BLOG PAGE/BLACKBOARD: if faculty want to add a blog page or Blackboard page to your faculty page send Kat the link and she will add it.

ADDITIONAL CLASSES: Bill anticipates enrollments to continue to increase and has added classes to next year’s schedule including an extra Fashion, Expressing, lab classes and 5 Intermediates.

BUDGET CUTS: The college has cut equipment and repair budgets for next year so there won't be purchasing any new equipment but will be able to repair broken equipment.

Please reference back to this blog located on the Site Map under Resources on department web site.

Important Dates Fall 2010

Thursday, September 9th, Equipment check out starts on 9th but not before. There are changes that Lori will be announcing soon so please look for her email this week. We will tell students about changes but will need your help to implament the new changes.


Monday, September 27th, Art Center School of Design here for a visit in afternoon / evening NRG Campus. Specific time TBA
http://www.artcenter.edu/accd/index.jsp


Wednesday, October 20th, Jack Reznicki will be lecturing at SPS. Afternoon for ACC students only. Evening is open to public and ASMP members. http://www.reznicki.com/ More info TBA.

Fall 2010 Meeting Information

FALL PRECISION STUDENT DISCOUNT DAY

Tuesday, August 31st during regular business hours 9am-6pm.

LABOR DAY
School closed Monday September 6th

A NEW SERVICE FOR FACULTY AND STAFF: GOOGLE APPS FOR EMAIL
We are pleased to announce that we have an email solution that will provide greatly improved functicity for Austin Community College at the best possible value. Starting immediately, Information Technology will begin the planning and conversion process to move all ACC email and calendar services to Google Apps for Education, a service very similar to that offered to ACC students, but focused to meet the institutional and administrative needs of the college.
This decision was not made lightly. For the past year, a team of faculty and staff at Austin Community College have been evaluating the limitations of the college's current email system and examining alternative systems offered by various vendors. The team spent a great deal of time researching and testing many different email products. They examined the process by which each of these solutions would integrate with ACC’s existing systems and evaluated the expense, both monetary and otherwise, in implementation and support. Feedback was gathered from internal faculty and staff groups, as well as other community colleges and universities, about their email systems. Google Apps rose as the clear leader in every category.
Among other features, the new system will offer greatly expanded online storage; larger attachments; less spam; a better web interface; a calendar that integrates with the email system; online document, chat, audio, and video collaboration; enhanced security; and a contractually guaranteed level of service.
The transition to Google Apps will occur during the Fall Semester 2010. Faculty and staff will retain their current email addresses before, during, and after the transition. For example, if your current e-mail address is mailto:mjones@austincc.edu, it will remain the same after the transition to Google Apps. In the coming weeks and months, we will send out additional information about the new features and services our email system will provide, and instructions and training to help users prepare for the move.
For additional information or questions, please contact Stan Gunn, Associate Vice President for Information Technology, at sgunn@austincc.edu or 223-1200; Richard Smith, Associate Vice President for Instructional Resources/Technology, at rlsmith@austincc.edu or 223- 7667; or Mary Hensley, Executive Vice President, College Operations, at mhensley@austincc.edu or 223-7618.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
General Assembly will be on Friday, August 20, 2010. Please follow this link for details for the event. http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/events/generalassembly/index.php

ACC STAFF WIRELESS ACCESS CHANGE
For the past several years ACC staff and faculty have been using the ACCstaff wireless network on mobile devices such as laptops. Recently, ACCNet has been piloting a new system that is now ready to deploy. This system has many improvements including, ease of setup, usability, better security, and it is OS platform independent. The new system works well with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and iPads.
All that is required to convert to the new system is the Cisco VPN client that is easily downloaded from the ACC Helpdesk website, a wireless capable device, and an active ACCEID account. Directions to setup the new service can be found at: http://www.austincc.edu/helpdesk/docs/wireless_doc.html
Please, contact the ACC Helpdesk if you need assistance in setting up the new service.

EMPLOYEE INFORMATION CARDS
To enhance the level of safety and security on all campuses , ACC distributes Employee Identification Cards to all employees. Each identification card will have a photo of the employee on the front. The back of the ID will have an electronic strip with information containing the staff ID #, library barcode data, and card issue number.
Employee Identification Cards will be distributed to all Staff, Faculty, and Hourly employees. ACC employees may obtain Employee Identification Cards in the Office of Human Resources located at the Highland Business Center. Employee ID’s may also be obtained in the Admissions and Records offices located at all ACC campuses.
To obtain an ACC ID Card, employees must present a government/state distributed picture identification card i.e. a driver’s license. Employees must also provide a Datatel account number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.
Hours of Operation:
Employees may obtain ID’s in the Office of Human Resources, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. New Staff and Faculty are able to obtain Employee ID’s on their first day of employment during New Employee Orientation. ACC’s Admissions and Records offices will distribute ID’s according to each scheduled campus business hours.

LIGHTHOUSE
Good afternoon. In the last legislative session the Texas House of Representatives passed House Bill 2504, referred to as ”Public Access to Course Information” or the “3 clicks rule.” This legislation imposes various reporting requirements on public institutions of higher education in Texas. ACC, along with all other public colleges and universities, is required to comply with HB 2504 mandates beginning in Fall 2010. Among other things, the bill requires that the websites of such institutions provide the following information for every course:

1. Course Syllabus, and
2. Curriculum Vitae (CV) for each instructor, including education, professional experience, and significant publications

This information must be accessible no more than three links from the ACC homepage and available no later than the seventh day after the first day of classes.

In response to this requirement, Austin Community College put together an ad-hoc faculty-staff committee this past spring to work with our IT department on developing the least disruptive solution to this mandate. We recognize that Implementation of this mandate will be a significant imposition on both the institution, and on individual faculty members. However, as noted, this is a legislative mandate. So, our IT group, working with this committee, has developed an application for faculty called Lighthouse that provides what we think will be a simple, easy to use interface that faculty can use for placing their syllabi and CV information online. A website has been developed for this project and information related to this issue, including the Lighthouse application and online tutorials, can be found at this site, http://www.austincc.edu/ITdocs/lighthouse/ . The data entry forms are operational and available for use now. IT is continuing to work on the part of the application that will make the syllabus and CV information available to students. This phase of the project will be complete in a few weeks.

Additionally, two Lighthouse training sessions are currently scheduled and more will be available soon. You can sign up here: https://www3.austincc.edu/it/workshops/www/eventenroll.php?Source=Calendar&EventID=2304

If you would like to learn more about this legislation, the full text of the Bill can be found at http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/HB02504F.htm, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board codification into rule can be found at http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectid=3BBA5600-AB9B-55C7-1A1C6ED6B09A1FD7, under Subsection N.

If you have questions related to this mandate, you can direct them to your Department Chair, Dean, or to me. Technical questions related to the software application should be directed to Stan Gunn.

Thanks. Mike Midgely

CELL PHONE CALLS
If students are in class 3118 and get a cell phone call please ask them to take it outside and not in hallway by office.


Facebook
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other topics discussed by Bill:
New classroom displays
Print show rules