Wisconsin Technical College System Board
310 Price Place, PO Box 7874
Madison, WI 53707
Dr. Richard Carpenter, President
Present:
Chairperson Karen Lawlor called the meeting to order at 1:11 PM. Sharon thanked Mark Kearns, Karen Lawlor and Bill Barribeau for their service on the Committee. The agenda was modified to accommodate the internet capability.
Minutes were reviewed. State Board staff still need to follow-up on use of the 869 number for Civics and the review of Foreign Language Instruction courses that would be considered acceptable. A motion was made by Bill Barribeau and seconded by Mark Kearns to accept the minutes of the March 1, 2002, meeting. Motion carried.
The rest of the afternoon was spent going through the workgroup recommendations for changes to the Guidelines. The draft changes from the March meeting were reviewed first, as well as the remainder of the Guidelines. Sharon will bring the revisions back one more time for review at the next meeting. It was decided to have a statement added to the website which will briefly explain the revision process and changes.
It was noted that Guideline #4 will need to be discussed again after Ed. Requirement #58 is revised.
A motion was made by Jan Jablonski and seconded by Val Roeser to adjourn the
meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 4:15PM.
Chairperson Karen Lawlor called the meeting to order at 8:30 AM.
The group decided to organize the index both by Guideline number and by Guideline topic. The index that the Southern Workgroup established will be utilized, but in the format that the Western Workgroup developed. Topics for new Guidelines were discussed. A draft "Counseling Guideline" was developed. It will be brought back for final work next meeting. It was decided to ask the workgroups to develop drafts for the following topics: Foreign Transcripts, use of collegiate transfer or other Associate Degree courses toward the academic area, minimum grades of course used toward the academic area, and Reading courses used for Basic Skills requirements. Bill Barribeau made a motion, seconded by Val Roeser to accept the changes to the Guidelines and to proceed with the new re-organization. Motion carried.
The Occupational Experience documents up for three year review were categorized by either "no changes", "minor changes", "significant changes", or "deleted". These were reviewed and minor language changes were made. Several documents were put on hold for further work and review. They were: 809, 816, 817, 50-435-2, 50-435-3, and 50-435-4. In addition, new documents reviewed and approved were: 10-631-2 Computer Industry Technician, 10-152-1 eCommerce/Web Administration, 31-530-1 Advanced Medical Coding Specialist, and 10-135-1 e-Business Management. Other changes were made to: 30-510-5 Medication Assistant-"BSN degree required" under Section I was removed. Also, 31-512-1 Surgical Technician, Section IV, the "and" in the sentence was changed to "or". A motion was made by Nick Triscari, seconded by Mary Halberstadt, to accept the Occupational Experience documents as revised. Motion carried.
The comments received related to the competencies of the Education Requirements
were reviewed. Some comments were minor or related to situational things. It
was decided that Requirement #51, #53, #55, and #69 competencies did not warrant
any changes. Requirements #50, #52, and #54 had enough significant comments
that deserve further discussion/attention. A motion was made by Mark Kearns,
seconded by Jan Jablonski, to have the State Consultant form a workgroup(s)
to further review #50, #52, and #54 and for those workgroup(s) to make recommendations
for changes to the Committee. Motion carried.
Review of Mississippi Valley Great Leaders and Great Teachers Seminar
The information provided for these seminars was reviewed. It was decided that
more information was needed to decide if the Great Teachers Seminar would achieve
the same competencies as Requirement # 52. Sharon will draft a letter requesting
more information from Rita Lease. It was also decided that a review of the Great
Leaders Seminar would need to be postponed until the new competencies for Requirement
#58 were received and approved.
The information received from Ms. Bundy and Dr. Hayes was reviewed. A motion was made by Mark Kearns, seconded by Bill Barribeau, to accept the Summer Institute on Family Literacy as meeting Requirement #52 Teaching Methods. It was also recommended that this type of information provided should be shared with Ms. Lease, as an example of what the group needs in order to make a decision.
1. Rehiring of Life Certificate Holders: it was decided that irregardless of
the fact that districts can no longer request a Life Certificate, if a person
who held one leaves the system and then returns, to teach in the same instructional
area or work in a related area, that person would still be considered as holding
a Life Certificate.
2. Question related to UW Stout changing courses to 3 credits. A provisionally
certified individual must complete 6 credits of renewal; it does not matter
if that consists of completing 2 or 3 courses.
3. Web site: Jan noticed that she has had printing difficulty in some places;
State Board will look into. Discussed the possibly of having a "printable
format" of documents that contain a lot of white space.
4. Mt. Senario College is closing this fall. Courses will need to be moved from
the current course list to the historical course list.
It was decided to have a July meeting, as there will be four new members, who will need orientation to Committee work. Also, the revised Guidelines will need to be reviewed a final time. Tentative dates selected were July 17th and 18th in Madison. Agenda items include: planning workshop for fall, reviewing workgroup recommendations on Ed. Requirements, reviewing new Guidelines developed, electing a chairperson, setting the schedule for the year, orientation, overview of the website and any other miscellaneous items. October 2nd and 3rd were selected for the fall meeting and workshop.
Mary Peters was unanimously nominated as Chairperson for 2002-2003. This will be voted on at the July meeting.
A motion was made by Bill Barribeau, seconded by Mark Kearns, to adjourn. The meeting was adjourned at 11:50AM.