MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

receive error reports for two weeks following the upgrade. She stated that Bb is already working with the Presidents on a future contract and feels that the Presidents need to be informed about problems that are occurring. Several schools agreed that they had similar problems with the course copy function following the upgrade. Some schools are still experiencing problems with not being able to copy courses. f. Office Nominations and Voting – Terry has created a survey on survey monkey and he is pasting the URL for everyone to see. The following people have been nominated for the Vice President position: (1) Phyllis Johnson (2) Jennifer Powell. The following people have been nominated for the Secretary position: (1) LaMetrius Daniels (2) Buffy Matthews. The following people were elected to the Vice President and Secretary positions for 2009-2010: Vice President, Jennifer Powell; Secretary, LaMetrius Daniels. Congratulations to all nominees and to our elected officers. Buffy is thrilled to pass the torch of secretary to LaMetrius! Committee Reports a. Best Practices – Terry Pollard – His committee would like some clarification on best practices. Is this in terms of instruction, professional development, DLC association? Jennifer Leimer said that she always considered it to be best practices for online instruction. The ELT group has a meeting coming up on September 28 th at SBCJC. They will be working on re- vamping the MSVCC Teaching Effectively Course into one week sessions, rather than a full six week course. b. Technology – Chris Square - Tabled c. Quality – Jennifer Leimer – Would like to thank Beverlin, Phyllis, and Bruce for their participation and input in today’s breakout meeting. As mentioned at our last meeting, the quality committee has four main strategic plan goals. Her committee is currently focusing on Goals one and three. Last month Jennifer sent the association a survey for input on the current evaluation system. She has received several responses and appreciates all of those that have already completed the survey. If you have not done so already, please submit that to her as soon as possible. She will provide Phyllis with each survey so that they can be compiled for further review. This committee will meet again on September 23 rd via Wimba so that they will have more information to provide during the DLC boot camp. Goal two of their strategic plan is in reference to the orientation module. Her committee will work closely with Terry in the development of the student orientation module. Goal three is related to the student evaluation survey. They will work on this goal as quickly as possible so that other agenda items can move forward (Item IV.b.v .) The last goal is to ensure that we have highly skilled online instructors. Terry has helped with this goal through the development and implementation of the virtual professional development program and the academy. d. Support – Audra Leverton. Christian has a hard time holding Presidium to a fire when DLCs are not providing the documentation to back up the frustrations and problems shared with Christian. It is important that all of you notate when unneeded escalations are being sent from Presidium to you; provide the names, time of calls, and the length of holds that students are reporting to your office. Please note that Patrick will be on-site at the DLC boot camp for us to provide him with documentation. e. Administration – Tish Stewart and her team reviewed the current By-Laws. During this session LaMetrius made some very good points on what are the jobs of each officer, how long do you

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