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Current Status of Minutes: Final
Date	January 14, 2015
Time	11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location	Highland Learning Center

Members Present
Jeffrey Brennan, June Geppert, Cynthia Lovick, Tracie Nobles, Reed Peoples, James Pumphret, Larry Stephens, Jay Thibodeaux, Brian Voss, Denise White
Guests Present
No guest attendance has been recorded.

Item # 1:	Pearson Presentation
Presenter	Mary Beth Laye
Discussion	The Pearson representative brought the new addition of the Managerial Accounting book. She discussed some of the new features and added content to the new addition. Voting- Creating book committees for Acct 2301 and Acct 2302. Action: Propose to take suggestions back to the committee to make changes to the End of the Semester.

Item # 2:	Full Time Faculty Member Position
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	The request for a new faculty member has been completed we are waiting on a response from the President for approval. Discussed in detail what type of experience the department was looking for and what classes they would teach. Action: Follow up with the President about the approval for the new faculty member.

Item # 3:	Accounting Specialist- Tax
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	Dr. Peoples brought to the consideration of the Taskforce about changing the Accounting Specialist 2 Year Degree to specialize in Tax. Action: Tracie Nobles and Jay Thibodeaux agreed to work on creating another Tax class to satisfy the degree plan.

Item # 4:	Spring Schedule
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	Handed out the Spring Schedule to the faculty to review for changes or revisions. Action: None

Item # 5:	Fall 2017 Closing of RGC
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	The RGC campus will be closing the Fall Of 2017 for repairs and maintenance. Dr. Peoples thought that the committee should starting thinking about moving some of the class in the Fall of 2016 so we could acquire the rooms for the classes. Action: Dr. Peoples advised everyone to think about where they would like their classes from RGC to be relocated.

Item # 6:	Acct 2301
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	We talked about the assessments for Acct 2301; needed to review the questions for the assessments. Action: Chair on the committee will be Denise White including Tracie Miller-Nobles and Jay Thibodeaux.

Item # 7:	Acct 2302
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	We talked about the assessments for Acct 2302; needed to review the questions for the assessments. Action: Chair on the committee will be Cynthia Lovick including other volunteers.

Item # 8:	Adjunct Faculty
Presenter	Tracie Nobles and Denise White
Discussion	The review committee, Tracie Nobles, Jay Thibodeaux, Denise White and Larry Stephens met and discussed the evaluation process. They would like to have access to the information electronically. Action: The committee would like to receive copies of the Faculty Evaluation Form. Dr. Peoples mentioned that he receives the evaluations on disk and would share with this committee members via Google docs with the assistance from Joel to help create the Google folders.

Item # 9:	Advisory Committee Meeting
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples and Denise White
Discussion	The next Advisory Committee meeting will be sometime in May. Denise would like the Advisory Committee to meet more consistently because of the new members. Action: None Taken.

Item # 10:	Advising
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	Dr. Peoples will continue to advise all incoming Accounting students. Once he has advised them, the students needing further advising will be able to go to other Full Time Faculty for further advising. Advising should include the seriousness of the program. When advising the students into the program, they need to be aware of the rigor of the program and their expectations. Action: None Taken.

Item # 11:	Summer Schedule
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	Dr. Peoples asked the full time faculty members to send Mrs. Katy Gott their class request for the Summer semester as soon as possible.

Item # 12:	Fall Schedule
Presenter	Dr. Reed Peoples
Discussion	Dr. Peoples asked the full time faculty members to send Mrs. Katy Gott their class request for the Fall semester as soon as possible. Action: None taken.

Item # 13:	Accounting Student Club
Presenter	Larry Stephens
Discussion	Larry mentioned that the interest has been great for the Accounting Student Association. We have plenty of ladies that have gone through the program to come and talk about, however, we are still in need of male students.

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