Faculty & Staff
Self Governance » Curricular Affairs Committee
Minutes
5/26/04
Committee members present were: Drs. Craig Cox, Jim Stoll. Jeanie Jaramillo, Kalkunte Srivenugopal and David Allen
Dr. Marge Weis was out of town performing research at the NIH.
Dr. Craig Cox, Committee Chair introduced the 2004/05 Curricular Affairs Committee and welcomed the new members.
Dr. Cox reviewed the progress of last years' committee and the curriculum mapping project and presented a brief overview of the intent of the curriculum mapping and what will need to be done by this year's committee. The SOP ability statements and the ACPE ability competencies have been mapped to each other as well as linked to the courses they are covered in. All of this information is now linked to each other and ahas been entered in the curriculum mapping data base.
Dr. Cox asked the new committee members to take some time to familiarize themselves with the mapping database. Dr. Cox and Dr. Mehvar will compare the list of ability statements on the data base to those posted on the web for conflicting numbers to make that sure the data base and those posted on the web are consistent.
The committee then reviewed the flagged and non-flagged courses. This information is important for leveling of the ability statement and recommendations which will be taken to the faculty for proposed changes in response to these. The flagged courses are those offered after the Assessment exam and the non-flagged are those offered before the exam. If the exam is moved to a later date in the semester this would change. In the past when the exam was held in January flagged courses would have included all spring courses. Now that the results of the assessment exam have been automated, somewhat the assessment exam may be moved to later in the semester.
Only six ability statements appear to not be covered in the curriculum. There is some discrepancy in the numbering of the ability statements listed in the data base and those on the Web. Dr. Cox will get with Dr. Mehvar and review those and make sure the two lists are consistent with one another.
Dr. Cox suggested that we send the data base back to the team leaders for their review now that we have made so many changes., as well as requesting input on the six ability statements that appear to not be covered. There was much discussion about asking the faculty to review it, again. It was decided that there have been a lot of changes to the data based on their original input that the faculty should have a chance to review it again and provide further input before we consider it finalized.
The committee decided to send out an e-mail to faculty and send six ability statements not sufficient covered in the curriculum. After we receive response from the faculty on these six ability statements and if they are still not covered anywhere we will consider sending it to the Assessment of Learning committee so that they can consider deleting the ability statement
Dr. Cox then reviewed the Dean's Charge to the Committee and this Charge was discussed by the committee. This committee needs to determine how we can use the data base to determine why and where students are failing and find a correlation between performance on our Assessment exam and performance on the NAPLEX exam. This committee would also like to map the The NAPLEX competencies have been mapped to the SOP ability statements by Drs. Allen and Busti and will enable evaluation of these areasto our competencies and courses using the curriculum mapping data base.
The Nnext order of business was the review of the four new proposed courses that will be considered at December faculty meeting. These could be offered Fall 2005 but probably will not be until fall 2006. This committee had a lot of concerns about these proposed syllabi.
Dr. Cox asked that the committee members were asked to review proposed syllabi for new courses and submit comments, questions and concerns via e-mail to all committee members and then we can let the team leaders address these issues and defer a decision on these proposed courses until the next CAC next meeting, which will probably be later this month.
Request for post course reviews have been sent to Spring team leaders. Post course review are now going to be required for all courses except for clerkships Drs. Cox and Allen will review these and bring it to the CAC for committee review and action. These post course reviews will be made available to CAC members so that they may review them at any time. Team leaders will be allowed additional time to submit post course reviews sto that they may receive their course evaluations and include that information in the post course review.
Final order of business is the assessment of teaching strategies within each course, another charge by the Dean. This committee needs to develop a process/method to make sure each teaching team has defined objectives for their course. We need to get the team members together to discuss and decide what they feel needs to be covered within the course. Over the years the courses have we evolved to where we are not actually covering those objectives listed in the syllabi. Some courses have evolved to where the objectives are either vague, not being covered or they are meeting objectives not even listed.
The Faculty Development committee will be putting together workshops for writing course objectives. Assessing teaching strategies should be relative to the content and objectives of a specific course. A clearly defined course objective makes this process easier to develop. This committee needs to determine whether the technique for delivery of course material are proper for a course and effective method to meet course objectives. However this committees needs to be careful so that we are not dictating how a faculty member should teach a course. Committee members were asked to develop propose ideas on assessing teaching techniques and strategies and we will brainstorm on this portion of the Dean's charge at the next CAC meeting.
The proposed minutes will be sent to all committee members for their review and suggested revisions will be made prior to submitting the committee minutes for posting on the Web.
Dr. Cox will talk with Dean Nelson to get a better understanding of how this committee interprets the Dean's Charge to the Committee and the Dean's intent of the Charge.
Would like to schedule the next meeting for the last week in June. Committee members were asked to review their calendars and provide dates available for next meeting.