In Attendance: Matt Carlton, Rachel Henry, Brad Kyker, Kris McKinlay, Charity Romano, Ellen Notermann, Patricia Ponce, Shannon Stephens, Helen Bailey, Kristi Weddige, Kim Marsalek, Martha Caldwell, Maureen Muller, Tammy Martin,
Absent: George Petersen, Cynthia Moyer, Tom Zuur, Debbie Nichols, Peggy Smith Andersen, Susan Sparling, Katie Tool, Matt Taylor, Stacey Breitenbach, Bonnie McKim, Wendy Spradlin
Guests: Mary Peracca
Kris McKinlay brought the meeting to order at 1:10. Brad moved to approve the minutes. Martha seconded the motion. The minutes were unanimously approved.
Items of Business:
Transfer Credit for Study Abroad Courses
- Cal Poly and CSU IP courses will appear quarter by quarter.
- Outside work will show as transfer credit.
Alcohol & Drug Use/Abuse Among Students – Mary Peracca, Counseling Services
- Mary handed out an informational sheet with signs of alcohol and drug problems and ways to intervene.
- In the first six weeks of Fall quarter 2005, 20% of missed classes were due to alcohol use.
- The amount of drinking and the number of drinks students have in one night is rising.
- Students who come in for appointments appearing foggy probably have a problem with marijuana. They may not realize they are foggy because they haven’t been smoking recently, but TLC is stored in fat cells and is still affecting them.
- Synthetic opiates are the third most used substance after alcohol and marijuana. There is also cocaine use on campus.
- White males, athletes, and students involved in Greek Life are groups that drink most heavily. Men engage in more high-risk behavior when drunk than women.
- There are three categories that students may fall into: use, in which they might have a problem, e.g. a DUI, realize the negative consequences, and stop; abuse, in which they chronically use drugs or alcohol, which causes a progressive decline over time, such as a drop in grades; and dependency, in which they are physically addicted and cannot stop using.
- Advisors should feel free to refer students to the counseling center at any point that they suspect a problem with drugs and alcohol.
- Students often don’t want to go to the Counseling Center because it means they have a problem. Mandating students to go to the Counseling Center can be helpful in this regard because it helps them with that first step.
- E-chug and E-toke are two online tools that students can use to do a self-assessment of their alcohol and marijuana use.
- Counseling Office staff do not need to sign withdrawals. Advisors can sign them.
Summer Brainstorming
- Patricia reviewed the marketing campaigns already underway: the website, e-coms, an announcement on the Portal, labels on blue books, sandwich boards, banners for sporting events and in UU Plaza, napkins, blank CDs with the summer label to give away as promo items in UU Plaza and Farmer’s Market, letter to parents.
- Possible populations to target: continuing students who are short on units; out of state freshmen who want residency
- Students make plans for summer in December and right before spring break, so those would be good times to concentrate on. Beginning in spring is too late.
- Deciding to stay for Summer term is too risky for students if they don’t know what classes will be offered.
- It would be helpful if departments across campus targeted the same population.
- Sophomores and juniors are more likely to stay, but they can’t get the upper-level courses they need in Summer. Offering more upper-level courses would also offer students something they can’t get at community colleges, which AAC members thought was important to a successful summer term. Students right now have the perception that mostly GE and lower-division classes are offered.
- One challenge to summer scheduling is that not all faculty are willing to teach, and that affects the courses that can be offered.
- AAC wondered about the Summer schedule. Patricia explained that the deans chose the 5 and 8 week terms because students like to have a break.
- Email may not be effective because students get so many.
- The summer logo on the main tab of the Portal would be eye-catching.
- A possible marketing point is to point out to students that they’ll earn more money if they graduate sooner and start working sooner. In addition, since they are paying for the lease on their apartment anyway, they might as well take advantage of it.
- Deans need to support Summer by creating a curriculum based on student needs and then finding the faculty to teach it, possibly by hiring instructors.
- The second 5 week term needs to include lower-division GEs for incoming freshmen admitted to Summer.
- The university could push new Fall students to come to Summer.
- Offering high fail-rate classes might attract students.
- A suggestion was made to give students a questionnaire asking them what courses they wanted in Summer.
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