Collin County Community College District

Provide forums for discussion about the meaning of scholarly community

Review “scholarly community” as it relates to the “district restructured system”

TOPIC: Faculty Council position paper, “Academic Freedom, Closing the Gaps, and Course Redesign”

Note:

·Retention Subcommittee Chair: There is a district group so the FC sub-committee has been disbanded

·Academic Freedom Subcommittee Chair: This sub-committee has also been disbanded

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Committee on Technology

Address college technology selection, use, implementation, and review

Chair: George Jackson

Members: Mary Weis, Mary Jane Tobaben, Linda Thompson, Elizabeth Pannell, Sharon Hirschy, Rich DeRouen, Tebring Daly, Ann Cervantes, Deborah Cardenas, Pete Brierley, Bob Benavides, and Mindy Bailey

Research past procedures for technology feedback from faculty and technology decision-making
Work with Collin administration and faculty to establish well-known published procedures for decision-making regarding technology
Enhance faculty awareness of technology use to accomplish college goals and meet accountability measures (e.g., student learning outcomes and retention).

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Committee on the Collin Community

Chair: Julie Turnbow

Members: Brett Burkett, Candace Belanger, Carlton Clark, Dulce de Castro, Ellen Bell, Gerald Sullivan, Gloria Cockerell, Jeff Allen, Jennifer Brooks, Kathleen Mixson, Kemal Moula, Kim Parker, Lesley Snelson, Lupita Tinnen, Martha Chalhoub, Marti Rosenfield, Sherry Rhodes, Steven Rizzo, Sunita Rangarajan and Susan Grimland.

Monitor changes in legislation and the impact they have on both the college community (faculty, students, and staff) and/or the greater community and make recommendations to the Faculty Council Executive Committee accordingly on a course of action.
Develop ways to encourage faculty and students to become more politically and civically active.
Consider community oriented practices (e.g., Adopt-A-Highway, etc.) that demonstrate our commitment to the local community.

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Committee on Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom Position Paper.pdf

Chair: Kyle Wilkison

Members: David Cullen, Joan Jenkins, Jerry Smith, Charlene Green, Sam Setterlund, Steven Rizzo, Kemal Moula, and Greg Sherman.

Review and recommend actions related to issues of academic freedom that affect the Collin County district

Faculty Council on Academic Freedom

A flourishing scholarly community requires academic freedom. In order for students and faculty to pursue shared inquiry and learning, there must be a free environment in which it is possible to discuss controversial issues, employ a variety of different pedagogical techniques, and explore a diversity of points of view. In such an environment, critical thinking skills are honed and enhanced, and students enter into an apprenticeship with faculty, actively contributing to the production and expansion of knowledge and learning rather than passively receiving information. For such a community to prosper it is necessary that students and faculty alike be able to explore ideas freely, frankly, and critically without fear of reprisal. The fruits of such an atmosphere encourage civil exchange of ideas and promote the goals of a free society.

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Ad hoc Committees

Online learning procedures

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