Attendance:

Corrections

Announcements

• Four or five people from LMC will be going to the Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) regional training June 9-10 at Cañada college. Any volunteers to represent math? If so, please contact Michael.
• Math 12 retreat this Friday 4:00-7:00.
• Myra and Richard went to the last SPECC meeting at Stanford last weekend. SPECC will publish a series of articles and produce a website:
  • institutional navigation to build a program (Tom DeWitt at Chabot has leveraged enrollment management to support instituional change. He is also involved in Umojah.) 
  • Faculty inquiry
  • assessment and research
  • student engagement
• Video interviews of faculty involved in teaching communities over the last three years.
• Newspaper article in New York Times about using symbolic instruction instead of prefacing with concrete examples first: see http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/320/5875/454/DC1/1 for more information.

Low student attendance during the second half of this semester

We reviewed "When Capable Students Fail: The Academic Sustainability Gap" at

http://www.cfkeep.org/html/stitch.php?s=19612639508781&id=61821706184951 

Next steps (pursuing grants)

If we had $3 million over the next five years, what would we want to do? Brainstorming:

• It depends on who is involved. Only faculty who want to change will change.
• Professional deveopment = faculty inquiry projects. Neither remediation for faculty nor extra credit for faculty.
• Many levels of professional development, from intense (e.g. lesson study) to mild (e.g. mentoring a few times a semester).
• Make faculty aware of their success and retention rates.

We will talk more about this next week. 

Next  DE meeting

2008 05-12

Possible future agenda items

Culminating celebration/sharing of work associated with SPECC grant? 2:00-5:00 on a Friday afternoon early in the Fall (before 10/13/08). Invite other dept's (Michael will follow up on planning)? Have a separate event for the math dept only?

Set aside a time to discuss Pasedna SPECC grant?

TLP website on the LMC intranet: OK for assessment reports available to the public.