Law-Faculty-Meeting-7-27-15

Minutes of Law Faculty Meeting

7-27-15

Zoom.us meeting video  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbTFam6lGV0

Discussion

1. Program Improvements: 

• A week 0 - Orientation will be imbedded in each etudes law class. The orientation is voluntary, not mandatory. Barry suggested to add a sample test, a sample assignment to help students learn how to submit each one, and a place for the introduction to class so students are ready in week 1 to get started with class.  David will imbed a sample test/assignment as part of Week 0 - Orientation for each etudes shell.
  
  
• To foster  Instructor Contact (Title 5, section 55204) - "Each section of the course which is delivered through distance education will include regular effective contact between instructor and students" - our law instructors agreed to post subject matter videos, and links under the 'home" in etudes - see http://etudes.org/help/instructors/home-design-homepages/ - Barry suggested we use Cengage videos for those classes that use the Business Law Textbook (Law 1,2,10 &19). David said that Cengage has bundled the Business Law Textbook for $119 and will provide an access key to "Mindtap" CMS materials for our students. We will contact cengage and obtain access for our faculty who use this textbook in their class and videos can then be uploaded to their home page. The law faculty agreed to post a video every other week under home. 
  
  
• To foster "regular effective instructor-student contact" - our law faculty agreed to post announcements to class every other week providing feedback, general comments on subject matter for the class, on class performance, and the link, will grade assignments within 2-3 weeks from date of submission, and will respond to student emails/private messages in etudes within 72 hours.    

 2. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: 
 

• Law faculty discussed assessing Student Learning for Fall 2015, including summarizing an article, and case briefs. The Law faculty decided to adopt Case Briefs as the form of SLOS for Fall.  Each law faculty will take one "case brief" assignment in their class and grade it based on the following scale - excellent (25 points), good (20 points), fair (15 points), below 15 points (inadequate).  The assessment will include a random sample of 15 students. Faculty will then submit, no later than November 1, the results of their assessments (total number of students, total number of points, and whether the benchmark of 70% (375 total points x 70% = 262.50 points) was met or exceeded, and any comments, and analysis of the assessment.  At the end of the semester, the law discipline law faculty will meet to discuss the overall results of the "case briefs" assessment, and provide a list of ways to improve the results. 
  
  

 3. Faculty Evaluations - Fall 2015

• All law faculty will be evaluated for Fall 2015.
• Here is the list of relevant dates:
•          8/1/15 - Letters out to Faculty -  including schedule  

                    9/15/15 - Law Faculty Submit Narrative Self Eval          
                    10/15 - 11/15 - Visit Faculty Classrooms (on campus) and online 
                    10/15 - 11/15-  Student Eval of Faculty in Etudes  
                    11/15 to 12/15 - meet with each faculty to go over evaluations 

4.  For your information

• Bus. Law - 13 ed. to be adopted for Law 1,2,10 and 19 - it will be bundled - $113.28 - 13th ed. andMindtap
  
  

• Updates on Pathways - Advisory Minutes -  (1-19-15) (5-27-15)
  
  
• We no longer will be using Lexis. We are looking into Westlaw for our legal research and writing classes
  
  
• Two new faculty - Gina Zaragoza (will teach Law 10 at Northridge Academy)  and Jaime de la Garza (Law 12- Hybrid on campus)
  
  
• As part of the Pathways we are reaching out to our local high schools, and teaching Intro to Law classes at San Fernando, Northridge, and possibly Monroe H.S. for Fall 2015