Meeting Minutes: Committee on Physical Education, Health Education, & Recreation
HPER BOR Advisory Committee
Fall Meeting
Minutes of October 9, 1997 Meeting at Jekyll Island, GA
In Conjunction with GAHPERD
Present
Charlie Hardy, Charlie Ash, Debbie Dowdy, Wayne Cooper, Wendell Whiteside, Millie Usher, Tom Keating, Mamie Kennedy, Jeanette Arrington, Nancy Abraham, Jacque Harbison, Wil Campbell, Stan Andrews, Jim Lidstone, Greg Hawver, Bud Reiselt, Frank Spaniol, Jim Reedy (for Bob Gregor), Richard Harrison, Tom Ford, and Doug Tarver
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 3:05 PM by Chair, Charlie Hardy.
Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the previous meeting dated Thursday, May 8, 1997, held at St. Simons Island, were approved.
Group Discussions
All in attendance introduced themselves to one another.
Tom Keating spoke about his advocacy role at the Capitol for the GAHPERD organization, and extended his expertise to the HPER BOR Advisory Committee.
An announcement was made of the Board of Regents Advisory Committee meetings of all disciplines in Macon on October 28th. This meeting is being called by Dr. Jim Muyskens, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University System of Georgia. An Executive Committee of each Board of Regents Advisory Committee was invited to this meeting. However, since the HPER Advisory Committee does not formally have an Executive Committee, a motion was made to create an Executive Committee, with the composition as follows: The current Chair, the Chair-Elect, and the Past Chair. Motion passed.
Discussion was held regarding inquiries from the main office of the Board of Regents regarding the significant number of names of our disciplines in the field, and the reason given to the Board was that no one name captures the programs that each campus has specific to that campus. Charlie Hardy suggested a planning session, to include two primary areas: (a) management issues, and (b) leadership issues. Under the management issues, establishing a mission statement, an organizational chart, and policies and procedures. These should be presented at the next meeting. In the leadership area, the following was outlined:
- What does the Board of Regents want us to accomplish?
- Consider the breakout of the 2-year versus 4-year institutions.
- To increase the social interaction time for the purpose of increasing collegiality and comradery.
- Should we have greater committee involvement, such as: a Curriculum Committee, a Technology Committee, a Collaboration Committee, and an Executive Committee?
The Advisory Committee agreed with the establishment of these various committees, with the following memberships.
Curriculum Committee - Bud Reiselt, Chair; Greg Hawver; Jacque Harbison; and Nancy Abraham. Bud Reiselt wants all institutions to send him their semester curriculum. The deadline for this request is November 30th. He would also like to have semester conversion sheets to accompany the curriculum.
Technology Committee - Frank Spaniol, Chair; Stan Andrews, Jim Lidstone; and Jeanette Arrington. Charges to this committee were how to do web pages for students, report on impact of delivering a curriculum through the Internet, and a report on various new pieces of equipment specific to our profession.
Just a reminder of the ListServe: gaborhper@canes.gsw.peachnet.edu
Collaboration Committee - Millie Usher; Richard Harrison; Tom Keating, Liaison; and Mamie Kennedy. The charge of this committee is G-SAMS distance learning from multiple campuses, and the relationship of the Board of Regents Advisory Committee to GAHPERD. It was noted that in the past the Chair of the Board of Regents Advisory Committee should attend the GAHPERD Board Meeting and the President of GAHPERD should be invited to all Board of Regents Advisory meetings. Tom Keating suggested potential policy changes that might be occurring in the HPE requirements in the school systems.
Executive Committee - The current Chair, the Chair Elect, and the Past Chair. The charge to the Executive Committee will be to represent the Board of Regents Advisory Committee at the University System level and to establish items for discussion at the various meetings.
Break-out sessions were held for 2-year and 4-year programs. Each were charged with establishing goals for the next year. The 2-year program goals were sharing course syllabi; discussion of and sharing semester load issues; establishing motivational speaker workshops for faculty development, etc. The 4-year program goals were semester transfer: content functional equivalent courses; activity program delivery comparisons; begin using list serve more on all department issues; establishing a vision or projection regarding where our profession is headed in the state; attempt to establish a strategic plan for the Board of Regents; and personnel issues, such as faculty development, conflict management, etc.
The Advisory Committee agreed to have three meetings during this academic year. This one at Jekyll Island during GAHPERD constitutes the Fall meeting; the Winter meeting is tentatively scheduled for Little Ocmulgee State Park, and Wayne Cooper from ABAC is investigating this for Charlie Hardy. The Spring meeting will be held at North Georgia College and State University, time and date to be established.
Meeting adjourned at 4:30 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Charles W. Ash
Chair-elect