Attending: Gaye Lynn Scott, Amber Archuleta-Lucero, Karry Evans, Lisa Perez, Ed Mullen, Judy Nwachie, Lynn Lehle, Frank Garrahan, Stefan Haag, Marilyn Mote-Yale, Greg Garlow, Glen Hunt, Hugh Moore, Carrie Laughlin, Cecile Durish, Hope Williams, Charles Miles, Paz Pena, Greg Harrison

1. The Faculty Hiring Committee is still interviewing candidates for the full time position in Government. The committee should be finished interviewing next week.

2. Staffing of sections for Summer 2002 is continuing. Full time faculty and Adjunct choices have been made. There are approximately 30 sections yet to be staffed.

3. Staffing of sections for Fall 2002 is continuing. Full time faculty have made their choices. Adjunct faculty are being assigned sections, starting with the MSTAs and HPHs.

4. The Spring 2003 schedule is being developed and is in the draft stage.

5. Texas maps have been ordered for two classrooms on most campuses.

6. The Fall General Assembly will be on August 23, 2002. It will be via video conference to save money. Each discipline will have its own faculty development activities in the afternoon.

7. Carole Keeton Rylander, Comptroller of Public Accounts, will conduct a performance audit of ACC. The audit will commence during May 2002 and be completed by November 2002.

8. An "End of Semester" party will be held on May 11, 2002, at Stefan's "ranch" so that members of the Task Force and their spouses or significant others could meet socially and participate in volleyball, croquet, and badminton. Stefan has coerced his wife into fixing fajitas, guacamole, pico, and other condiments. There will be an invitation sent to faculty members soon.

9. The committee chairs were thanked for their efforts during the academic year.

10. The Government Department will conduct a program review during the 2002-2003 academic year. Lynn Lehle will chair the review.

Adjunct Faculty Committee: The Committee interviewed five applicants and made their recommendations.

Faculty Evaluation Committee: Stefan reported that this committee has completed the adjunct faculty evaluations and the full time faculty portfolio evaluations. Dean Peebles will distribute the evaluations to faculty members. The committee is also developing a list of excellent projects, policies, and ideas from the evaluation materials. These will be shared with members of the Task Force.

Assessment of Student Learning Committee: Marilyn distributed the results of the assessment instrument. There were several questions concerning the assessment instrument and scoring the assessments that will be addressed at future Task Force meetings. Marilyn indicated that embedding the assessment questions in a test and giving more points for the assessment questions may affect the results on the assessment. Also, some people noted that the assessment questions varied in their degree of difficulty. Finally, there were questions about grading the assessment questions. For example, if incorrect information were provided in addition to correct information that covered the grading rubric, how should the incorrect information be assessed?

The Task Force adopted the following plan as a result of the assessment results:

1. A brown bag seminar will be held on local government.

2. A brown bag seminar will be held on public policy.

3. A Developmental Writing instructor will be invited to a Task Force meeting to provide assistance in teaching students how to write essays.

4. Greg Garlow will collect and distribute articles on teaching and learning to Task Force members.

5. The assessment instrument will be refined before it is administered next year.

The Task Force added the following textbooks to the approved list:

GOVT 2305, United States Government, Minorities, Open Campus (PCM)

McCain and Stewart. 'Can We All Get Along?' Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics. Third edition. Westview Press, 2002.

GOVT 2305, United States Government, In class

Stephenson, Bresler, Karlesky, Friedrich, and Turner. Introduction to American Government. First edition. Northwest Publishing LLC, 2002.

Ed Mullen provided Task Force members with flyers advertising the Texas Government Internship course during the Summer 2002 semester.

Judy Nwachie's travel request was approved.

The Government Department's degree plan was revised to comply with ACC's core curriculum requirements.