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Current Status of Minutes: Final
Date	February 23, 2024
Time	1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location	ACC Highland Make It Center

Members Present
May Wang, Kelli Blount, Jeffrey Brennan, Kimberly Cameron, Yolonda Holland, Kristy McDermott, Reed Peoples, Larry Stephens, Jay Thibodeaux, Virginia Hauser, Denise White
Guests Present
Nicole Bell

Item # 1:	Professional Development (PD) with Nicole Bell from HR
Presenter	Nicole Bell
Discussion	Department can enter PD event & employees can register or employees can just disclose PD as it occurs (self-report) All full-time faculty must have 12 hours of PD per academic year Must be approved by the Dept Chair All staff must have mandatory compliance training New faculty have 3 days after orientation to do mandatory training Cybersecurity - annually ADA/Title IX/Discrimination & Harassment - Every other year Tapestry/Meridians/Groundswell - Every other year To navigate Workday: Menu>Learning>My Learning>View Learning Transcript (will show expiration of mandatory training) Menu>Career>Training>Add (to self-report)

Item # 2:	Financial & Managerial Accounting Associate certification
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	IMA accreditation 80 Questions Facilitated through ProMetric Cost $299

Item # 3:	Assessments
Presenter	Kimberly Cameron
Discussion	ACCT 2301-Fall 2023 Assessment #1 did not pass with 80% It was a new edition and new assessment, so probably 1 question needs to change 2301 committee will look into the questions and make a new study guide to provide to all faculty to help with equity in the assessment ACCT 2302-New Assessment started in Summer of 2023 Students passed assessment #1, but not #2 The assessment was 80% of students had 70% or higher, changing it to 70% of students had 80% or higher

Item # 4:	Textbooks
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	First Day Access Summer Deadline is March 1 Fall Deadline is April 1

Item # 5:	Hiring Committee(s)
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	Adjunct Faculty: actively recruiting internally at ACC to grow adjunct pool Full-Time Faculty We are conducting interviews via Zoom on March 7 Then class demonstrations in person on March 28

Item # 6:	Mentors/Mentees
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	Dr. Peoples/J.D. Naranjo Kimberly Cameron/Lilian Spell Kristy McDermott/Darryl Houston Jay Thibodeaux/Chris O’Donnell Kelli Blount/Virginia Houser Johnny Howard (Dr. Howard)/LaWanna Brown

Item # 7:	Faculty evaluations are being updated
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	Discussed including class observations as part of evaluations

Item # 8:	Next Meeting-April 19th
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	Plan to discuss new faculty evaluation rubric, which will be developed by the department Reducing workload for the research courses (with extensive manual grading) Summer Scheduling Baseline Schedule (beginning in the Fall) Attendance: Larry Stephens; Reed Peoples; Denise White; Kimberly Cameron; Jay Thibodeaux; May Wang; Kelli Blount; Okera Bishop; Johnny Howard; Kristy McDermott; Germaine Randolph; Yolonda Holland (no absences) Adjuncts: Jeff Brennan; Lilian Spell; Virginia Hauser; Tina Bertucci; Darryl Houston; J.D. Naranjo; Claudia Rodriguez

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