Seattle, Washington, January 7 2007

 Thirty two people were in attendance.

 Began by introductions including recognizing Alex Dickinson.

1. New agenda items Dwain Desbien had some things
2. Went over Seattle to date.
   1. Keith went over the workshop on Teacher prep hosted (4 headcount) sponsored by CPTYC.  Grants workshop cancelled because of cost.
   2. Sponsored sessions:  Astronomy in TYC (19 people in attendance).  Good session.  TYC breakfast tomorrow in 213.  No idea about how many are registered.  Show of hands showed most in attendance will be there.
   3. Began of a review of media ready room and review of sessions from programs 1. 
   4. Went over deadlines for Greensboro.  Tipers with physlets, learning physics while practicing science for workshops.  Discussion should Grants II be run in Greensboro.  Changed to grants and will be offered.  Sessions of note will be a poster session in resource room.  Dwain will twist arms.  Innovation in TYC curriculum.  Done by Karim.  Computational physics in TYC by Steve.  This will be invited.
         Suggested a possible TYC open house at a local TYC.  Alex will check into the possibility with Hubiz.  Logistics need to be worked out.  At least try for Baltimore.

5. Moving on to Baltimore.  Workshops in Baltimore (Jan. 19-23): TIPERS led by Tom.  Theo for Civic engagement looking for a co-sponsor.  Karim EJS look for co-sponsor with ed tech.  Session in Baltimore:  Panel session  comprehensive Universities and TYCs for pipe lines for physics majors…  Emerging technologies for wind energy courses (Keith will preside and and Todd help set up).  Service courses for career programs (Karim will enter).  Project based physics in the TYC contributed (Martin will organize).  Bridging the community and TYC (Needs someone to preside).  Crackerbarrell on concerns and issue in TYC physics (Martin). 

3. New business:
   1. DD - there was an area chairs meeting on Friday. Maybe the TYC committee needs to move beyond planning the next meeting. There is an interest within AAPT in service. You will see things from DD asking for input on ideas that are probably coming down the pipe.  MBM: There will be newcomers on committees that don’t find support for their new ideas since the committees were occupied with sscheduling of programs. The TYC committee has done a good job of addressing its mission, but they need to work on service beyond the business of the mettings. SS: The conclusion of the recent board meetings appears to be that the TYC committee can stay as it is. There does not seem to be any push to get rid of the TYC committee. DD: Also share ideas on the list serve.
   2. Keith Clay congratulated Marv Nelson on having the Green River CC science building named after him.  And thanks to Mary Beth for serving on the board.

Syracuse, New York, July 27 2006

The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 8:00 AM by Steve Siegel

There were 14 members and friends in attendance.  Officers in attendance were Mary Beth Monroe and Dwain Desbien (TYC REP).  Committee members in attendance were Steve Siegal, Karim Diff, Tom Carter, Myra West and Scott Schultz.  Friends of the Committee in attendance were Larry Ward, David Weaver, Paul D’Alessandris, Alex Dickison, Todd Leif, Bill Wagoner, and Susie DiFranzo.

Scott Schultz agreed to take notes for the minutes.

Minutes from the meeting in Anchorage Alaska were reviewed and approved.

Steve gave a review of TYC sponsored events at Syracuse University, both those that had already taken place and those yet to come.

Committee membership was discussed in light of the fact that there are only 6 current members instead of the standard 9.  Both Todd Leif and Bill Wagoner from the nominations committee were in attendance.  It was also mentioned that there was one person removed for not paying their membership dues and a discussion to the process when this occurs.

Steve Siegel led a discussion on the idea of having a TYC breakfast at Seattle.  The idea of having the committee meeting in conjunction of the breakfast was proposed but it was decided that it would miss the goal of the breakfast to help connect new TYC attendees.  The discussion moved on to an invited talk from either the new executive officer or Paul Hewitt.  Finally it was decided that a less formal cracker-barrel would be more conducive to getting everyone involved and interacting and meeting each other.  It was decided that Tuesday morning might be the best time to avoid the new attendees’ breakfast and that the committee meeting should be Tuesday night so that it was afterwards.

Review of sessions and workshops scheduled at Seattle was given by Steve Siegel.

Lively conversation of poster session occurred with pros and cons discussed.  Bill Wagoner voiced his concern that we need to put in the number and type of sessions that we feel would be most beneficial for TYC attendees.  

This started a discussion of sessions and workshops for Greensboro.

Sessions                               

 1.  Computational Physics in introductory physics (???TYC???)  *Steve, I didn’t get this, was this session directed at TYC or just introductory physics)

 2.  Innovations in two year college physics (Introductory talk followed by poster session)

Short discussion on workshops with Steve needing to talk to those that gave the workshops this summer.

Committee members present voted 100% to ask Harvey Leff to extend Steve Siegel’s term as chair with Scott Schultz writing the email from the committee.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 AM

Submitted by Steve Siegel

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 Anchorage, Alaska, January 23 2006     

1.  Call to Order

Sherry Savrdra served as Chair for her last meeting as Chair of the TYC Committee

There were 15 members in attendance.  Officers in attendance included:  Mary Beth Monroe, Chuck Stone (Expiring TYC Rep), Dwain (new TYC rep), and our new TYC Committee Chair Steven Siegel

6.  Report on Anchorage meeting to date

a.  Session times were shortened as an experiment that is going to run through the Seattle meeting.  This should help encourage people to use to poster sessions.  It was thought that food being provided at the poster session would also encourage poster session attendance.  Bill thought that adding Beer would be an extra successful incentive.

Workshops:  Theo Koupolis’ workshop had only 1 participant.  He did run it anyway and enjoyed the discussion that ensued.

Curt H. had 8 participants for his TIPER’s workshop.

Sherry discussed new methods in divvying workshops amongst committees.

Each committee gets a total of two workshops.  But, if you share a workshop with another committee, your share of that workshop is only ½ of a workshop.

a.  Deadlines 

2/22 Invited Speakers list
      3/16 Abstracts
      3/25 Paper sort

Note:  Session minutes are reduced as an experiment that runs through the Seattle meeting.

b. Sponsored workshops

ISLE – I have no notes on this
Engaging Students – I have no notes on this
TIPERs – by Curt H.
Grants 101 – Have Sherry fill in notes about this one.

Mary Beth wanted to know more about the Council for Resource Development that is going to help out with Grants 101 – it sounds like this group specifically aids TYCs

c. Sponsored Session – Sherry reminds all people submitting abstracts to please make them clear as it helps during the paper sort.

8.  Seattle Meeting – this is a joint meeting with AAS.

a.  Deadlines

5/2 Session and Workshop requests: 
8/3 Invited speakers list
9/7 Abstracts

Discussion:  contributed talks are (8 + 2) minutes.  A lot of time was spent talking about his new time limit.  It was generally felt that the 10 minute model is better for research/technical organizations and not appropriate for us.

b.  Sponsored workshops

i.  Teach Prep – by Keith Clay and the Green River Comm. College gang  (sharing workshop allocation with the Teacher Prep. Committee)
ii. Grants part 2?
iii. Pat and Greg’s Energy Workshop (sharing workshop allocations with “Outreach” committee)

c.  Sponsored session: (these are 25 minute talks for the invited talks)

Astronomy and the TYC (Chuck’s idea)
Physics of Whales (Keith C’s idea)
Physics of Volcanos (Greg M’s idea)

8.5    Added:  Scott Schultz and Karim need TC Committee nom’s.  Talk to Todd Lief 

Sherry’s report and additional discussion:

Clempson University is working on a class called “How to become a TYC Professor”.
Sherry said she’d write an article for the “Physics Teacher” on “What it’s like to teach at the TYC”.
Alex and Steve said that they wouldn’t mind getting involved in creating a booklet oto help TYC Prof’s
It was pointed out that ACS has a booklet that might make a good template.
Chuck sys we should do a talk at the APS meeting on “What it’s like to teach at a TYC”.

Other news:  AAPT has assigned a staff member to each area committee to act as a liaison.  Marie Kouray is ours.  We should drop her a note or give her a call if we ever have general questions about AAPT.

Submitted by Greg Mulder

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2005

The meeting was called to order by Sherry Savrda at 7:30 PM.

Those new to the TYC Committee introduced themselves. They included  _?_ Erickson and Gerhart __?__ from NSF.

Minutes of the last meeting were approved and the agenda set.

Tom O’Kuma reported that application forms for the two workshops involving Introductory Physics in the 21^st Century (IPC21) are available.

Sherry noted her yearly report of Committee activities was printed on the back of the agenda.

Sherry reported the following Executive Board Actions:

Theme for Summer 05 will continue “Year of Physics 2005”.

• Poster sessions will be encouraged as a means of reducing the number of paper sessions.
• Strict enforcement of existing guidelines that limit presenters to 1 invited paper/year and 1 contributed paper/session.
• Invited sessions must have a minimum of two invited papers.
• Invited/Contributed sessions must have at least one invited and one contributed paper.
• Correctly distinguish Workshops or Tutorials when applying.

Plans for Summer 05 @ Salt Lake 

Confirmed sessions are: Teacher Prep, Ranking Tasks, Cracker Barrel of “Coverage of Material.”, Introductory Physics in the 21^st Century(ICP21), Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Physics.  There were no workshops listed in the preliminary print out but Sherry will check on those that were thought to be submitted.  Sherry will also check with Keith Clay on the status of a Teacher Prep Workshop or Tutorial.

Planning for Anchorage, Alaska Winter 2006

Sessions to be submitted:
    Physics and the Environment        (Sherry?)
    Connecting Physics to Emerging Technology  ( ?)
    Interdisciplinary Topics in Intro Level Physics  (A contributed session, Myra?)
    Physics of Winter Sports    (Pat Keefe)

A workshop on photography and the “Northern Lights” was discussed. Todd will consider.  Steve Seigel suggested that a Cracker Barrel session on “Keeping Integrity in Introductory Courses” be held at the Anchorage meeting.  He agreed to chair.

IT seems that NSF is viewing two-year colleges in a very favorable light and would like to see more proposals from them.  The Executive Board is encouraging the pre-proposal panel discussed at the last meeting.  It was moved, seconded and passed that a task force be created to decide on the best course of action for this committee.

Sherry passed out an outline for a possible proposal from Aaron Winger concerning enhancing physics programs through invigorated an engineering program.  Aaron will help anyone interested in pursuing such an endeavor.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.

Respectfully Submitted, Marv Nelson.

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Sacramento, California, August 3 2004

The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 8:00 PM by Sherry Savrda, Chair.

Those in attendance were committee members Keith Clay, Sheraz Khan, Greg Mulder, Sherry Savrda, Chuck Stone (ex-officio), and Jeff Watson; and friends of the committee Steve Robinson, Scott Schultz, Fred Goldberg, Marv Nelson, Dwain Desbian, Mary Beth Monroe, Curtis Hieggelke, Chitra Solomonson, Marie Plumb, Ajay Narayanan, Pat Keefe, Alex Dickison, Paul D’Alessandris, Tom O’Kuma, Bill Hogan, Tom Carter, Alan Van Heuvelen, Eugenia Etkina, and Myra West.

Keith Clay agreed to take minutes.

A call for new agenda items resulted in the following additions:

• Spin-up TYC report (Tom O’Kuma)
• PET project (Fred Goldberg)
• Nominating Committee (Dwain Desbian)
• Resignation of Pat Robberts (Sherry Savrda)
• History of TYC committee (Alex Dickison)
• ISLE project (Alan Van Heuvelen)
• Salt Lake meeting (Sherry Savrda)

Fred Goldberg (fgoldberg@sciences.sdsu.edu) provided a synopsis of the PET course (75 hour course for teacher training), and indicated that he felt that it would be valuable to TYCs.  He asked if there was interest in being involved with the project and if the CPTYC would be willing to co-sponsor a workshop.  Marie Plumb, Marv Nelson and Paul D’Alessandris expressed interest.  The CPTYC agreed to post information on the committee website, and agreed to co-sponsor a workshop.

The minutes of the Miami meeting were reviewed.  Bill Hogan noted that he was not present at the meeting.  Minutes were approved.

Ajay Narayanan indicated that some past minutes were missing and were thus not posted on the website.  Sherry Savrda indicated that minutes and agendas would be forwarded to Ajay for posting.  It was agreed that links to TYC projects, upcoming events, and World Year of Physics projects could also be added to the site.  The website URL is http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/aapt/tyc

Alan van Heuvelen provided information about the Investigating Science Learning Environment (ISLE).  Students in ISLE do experiments and look for patterns.  He asked that interested instructors contact him.  He is especially interested in hosts for workshops.  Contact information was provided: alanvan@physics.Rutgers.edu or http://paer.rutgers.edu/pt3

Participation in CPTYC sponsored workshops and sessions at the Sacramento meeting was discussed.  Curt Hieggelke indicated that the TIPERS workshop had 12 attendees and was successful.  Greg Mulder stated that the Energy workshop was also well received, with 15 participants.  The Modern Physics and Issues cracker-barrels both had about 15 people in attendance.

Sherry Savrda mentioned the out-of-the-way location of the Resource Room.  Bill Hogan indicated the need for someone to be in charge of signing people up to staff the room, to possibly meet on Sunday to plan staffing, or to have someone go to the First-Timers meeting to invite TYC instructors to visit.  It was agreed that Sherry Savrda would look into the possibility of scheduling a Resource Room open house during the hour prior to the opening of the Exhibit Hall.

Sherry Savrda reported the information provided during Programs I.  The theme for both the Albuquerque and Salt Lake meetings is the World Year of Physics, with the Anchorage meeting focusing on the anniversary of AAPT.  Most discussion centered on possible constraints on future meeting sessions.  The perceived difficulty of an expanding number of workshops and sessions, with the problems of overlapping sessions was discussed.  The problem of parallel sessions on similar topics was also discussed.  The draft constraints of a total of 40 workshops and 75 sessions were provided.  Draft limits for the CPTYC are 5 sessions and 2 workshops.  Poster sessions are also being encouraged.  Tom O’Kuma noted that poster sessions are more work than presentations.  Discussion centered around whether or not overlapping sessions are really a problem, the question of what people want from a meeting, and how to get around scheduling problems.  Paul D’Alessandris asked if an increase in papers was really a problem or a sign of success.  Suggestions to take back to programs were: 1) Choices in sessions is ok – why is this perceived as a problem?  2) Encouraging poster sessions means they must be better integrated into the meeting and be made more attractive to presenters/attendees.  3) Scheduling personnel should watch for potential problems, like overlapping sessions sponsored by the same committee.  4) Look at overall long-term trend – is this meeting an anomaly or part of an overall increase?

Albuquerque meeting

            Workshops

SENCER Project and Civic Engagement in the Physics Curriculum: Co-sponsoring with Professional Concerns

TIPERS: Currently listed as sponsored by PER – Sherry Savrda indicated that she would get the sponsorship corrected.

Remodeling University Physics did not get submitted.  Dwain Desbian indicated that he was still interested in doing the workshop.  It was agreed that the workshop should still be run, and Sherry Savrda agreed to get it in the program.  Dwain will submit abstract.

            Sessions

Modern Physics at the Introductory Level (Contributed): Sherry Savrda, Organizer

                        SPIN-UP/TYC (Invited): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer

                        TIPERS (Invited): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer

Other sessions that had been agreed on were not submitted: ICP/21, Physics and the Environment, Innovations in Introductory Physics.  It was agreed that Physics and the Environment would be moved to Anchorage; Innovations in Introductory Physics and ICP/21 would be moved to Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City meeting

Sherry Savrda related the prioritized list of possible session/workshop topics from the Issues in TYC Cracker-barrel, and suggested that they be considered in planning for future meetings.

1)     Teacher prep workshop or session co-sponsored with PER

2)     New faculty workshop or session

3)     Session or crackerbarrel on adapting curriculum/courses to active learning

4)     Interdisciplinary topics

Workshops for Salt Lake

Teacher Prep: Keith Clay will check with Green River CC faculty about doing.  Co-sponsorship?

            Energy in the 21^st Century: Greg Mulder and Pat Keefe

Workshop for New TYC Faculty: Paul D’Alessandris and Dwain Desbian will check on the possibility of doing this.

            Sessions

Innovations in Introductory Physics (Invited/Contributed): Myra West, Organizer.

Crackerbarrel on Active Learning and Coverage Issues: Scott Schultz, Organizer.

ICP/21 (Invited/Contributed): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer.

Ranking Tasks (Invited/Contributed?): Curt Hieggelke, Organizer.

Teacher Prep (Invited/Contributed): Marie Plumb, Organizer.  Will check with PER and Teacher Prep committees about co-sponsorship.                       

Bill Hogan agreed to be in charge of the Resource Room.

Sherry Savrda asked the committee to consider whether or not there were other projects the committee would like to take on.  She related the idea from the Crakerbarrel concerning a possible grant proposal review panel for TYC faculty.

Dwain Desbian, as a representative of the Nominating Committee, asked for nominations for committee membership.  Sherry Savrda related that Pat Robberts had resigned from the CPTYC, but that her term expired in 2005.  It was agreed to leave her position vacant until new members were appointed.  Dwain also noted that there was an upcoming vacancy for the TYC member of the board, and asked that the committee consider possible candidates for that position.

Item 11 on the agenda (possible grant sponsorship) was withdrawn by Sherry Savrda, based on incomplete information having been provided.

The meeting was adjourned at 10 PM.

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Miami, Florida, January 26 2004

The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM by chairperson, Marie Plumb.

Those in attendance were committee members: Keith Clay, Greg Mulder, Chuck Stone, Patricia Robbert, Steven Siegel, Jeff Watson, Martin Mason, Sherry Savrda and Marie Plumb; and friends of the committee:  Alex Dickison, Carolyn Haas, Bill Waggoner, Tom O’Kuma, Curtis Hieggelke, Myra West, David Wright, Mary Beth Monroe, Dwain Desbien, and Jack Hehn.

Martin Mason agreed to take minutes.  It was announced that Sherry Savrda will be the new chair of the committee.

Corrections were made to the minutes of the August 2003 meeting in Madison.  Curt Hieggelke indicated that he had discussed an invited/contributed session on Ranking Tasks.  The chair indicated that the session had been submitted.  There were also spelling errors that were corrected and then the minutes were approved as corrected.

There was a discussion about putting the minutes out on the website ASAP.

Ajay Narayanan from Green River CC is webmaster of the CPTYC website.  Keith Clay, also from Green River CC, will assist him.

The URL is ;  http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/aapt/tyc

Bill Hogan has agreed to tend to the list-serve for CPTYC.

Report on the Miami meeting to date:

1.        Largest attendance

2.        TYC sponsored workshops on ICP/21 and MBL were cancelled.

3.        TIPERS was offered under PER

4.        Physics and Civic Engagement was offered under Committee on Professional Concerns

5.        Seems there were problems listing committees as co-sponsors.  Marie will bring this up at Programs Meeting.

Sacramento Meeting:

1.        Energy Workshop will be offered by Greg Mulder and Pat Keefe

2.        Sessions:

a.        Teaching Physics for Health Careers-Contributed- Sherry Savrda

b.       SPIN-UP/TYC—Inv/Cont—Tom O’Kuma

c.        Modern Physics—Inv/Cont—Tom Carter

d.       Physics of Sports and Human Body in Intro Courses—Chuck Stone and Carolyn Haas (Greg Mulder will give an invited paper)

3.        Crackerbarrel:  TYC issues Bill Hogan

4.        TYC Resource Room—Bill Hogan

a.        Bill indicated a need to cover the room.  When it is manned it is utilized more.  John White said he would try to get people to sign up to cover the room.

                                                                           i.      The following people signed up to work on resource room in Sacramento:

1.        Alex Dickison

2.        Carolyn Haas

3.        Keith Clay

4.        Patricia Robbert

5.        Mary Beth Monroe

6.        Dwain Desbien

7.        Jeff Watson

8.        Martin Mason

9.        Sherry Savrda

10.     Marie Plumb

New Business:

1.        Sherry Savrda as a representative of Nominating Committee asked for nominations for committee memberships.

2.        Sessions and workshops for January 2005 meeting in Albuquerque, NM (January 8-12).

a.        Session:  Innovations in Introductory Physics—Myra West (Inv/Cont)

b.       IPC/21^st Century:  Alex Dickison and Tom O’Kuma (Inv/Cont)

c.        Physics & the Environment :  Carolyn Haas (Inv/Cont)

d.       Modern Physics at the Introductory Level: Sherry Savrda (contributed)

e.        TIPERS  Workshop: Curt Hieggelke

f.         Re-Modeling University Physics Workshop:  Dwain Desbien

Membership was asked to keep in mind that 2005 is the World Year of Physics.  Anything you already do for the community is possible material that can be tagged with WYP.  If you let APS know, they will provide posters and will add your activity to the database of activities.  The sub-theme is Einstein in the 21^st Century.

Meeting was adjourned at 9 PM.

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Rochester New York, July 23 2001
 

Bill Waggoner (Metropolitan Community College) welcomed the members and guests and called the meeting to order at 7:00. Introductions followed. Members of the committee that were present included Chair Bill Waggoner (Metropolitan CC), Bill Hogan (Joliet JC), Pat Keefe (Clatsop CC), Denise Wetli (Wake Technical CC), Sam Nalley (Chattanooga State Technical CC), Marie Plumb (James Town CC), Ben Shaevitz (Slippery Rock Univ.), and Carolyn Haas (Salem CC). Absent members Todd Leif (Cloud Co. CC), Chuck Stone (Forsyth Technical CC)

Others present included Greg Mulder (Linn-Benton CC) Keith Clay (Green River CC) Scott Schultz (Delta College) Peter Jeschofnig (Colo. Mountain College) Herb Retcofsky (Spect. Soc. Of Pitts.) Marilyn Atkins (Broome CC), Alex Dickison (Seminole CC), Tom O'Kuma (Lee College), Sherry Savrda (Lake-Sumter CC), Curt Hieggelke (Joliet Jr. College), David Ohlde (Pratt CC), Bernard V. Khoury (AAPT), Patti Hughey (Lansing CC), John White (Modesto JC), Paul D'Alessandris (Monroe CC), Dwain Desbien (Estrella Mountain CC), Martin Mason (Palomar College), William M. Duxler (Los Angles Pierce College), Mary Beth Monroe (SW Texas JC), Sina Knisely (AAPT), Peter Hopkinson.



Announcements were called for.

Curt Hieggelke announced the funding of new TYC workshop grant. The first workshop will be in Florida at Seminole Community College. It will involve partnerships between high school faculty and TYC faculty. There will be support for high school teacher's transportation to attend, as well as the usual meeting costs, room and board. The grant will be a 3-year grant program.

Tom O'Kuma announced that the second group of the Quantum Optics PEPTYC program was now getting ready to start. The Quantum Optics PEPTYC program involves a 2-week summer program (in May at Texas A&M University) with follow-up sessions at the Texas Section AAPT meetings in the Fall and Spring. The program is for 2 years and the TYC participants will receive 6 hours of graduate credit for each of the two years.



Agenda item Old Business-

Minutes of the San Diego meeting were circulated and approved with out correction.

Copies of the final draft of the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs were distributed.

Bill Hogan and Mary Beth Monroe were asked to give a status report on the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs.

Bill Hogan reported those revisions and updates to the 1990 AAPT guidelines have been completed and approved by this committee. They now have been submitted to the publications committee for review and approval. Mary Beth Monroe a member of that committee acknowledged that this committee has approved these guidelines for publication. They will be forwarded to the AAPT Executive board for their approval at their October meeting. The guideline will be published in booklet form pending board approval.

Bill Waggoner announced that the guidelines were available at TYC website as a word document, and that copies were also available in the TYC resource room at this meeting.


Agenda item --review of the workshops, and sessions at this meeting.

Bill Waggoner gave a brief review of the committees sponsored sessions and workshops for this, the Rochester, meeting. A list of sessions and workshops was included with in the meeting agenda that was distributed prior to the committee meeting.

Workshops included:

W03-Studio Calc/Physics: Combing Calculus, Physics, and Active Learning (Co-Sponsored with Physics in Undergraduate Education)W13-Successful Grant-Funded Projects W16-From Data to Action with the LabPro

W38-Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color, and Spectroscopy

W45-TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) in Magnetism Workshop
 

Paper Sessions

AN-Physics for the General Populace--Sam Nalley Presiding

CJ-Directions for Interdisciplinary Studies--Denise Wetli Presiding

DI-Success andn Failure Stories: Curriculum Adopters' Perspectives -- Todd Leif Presiding replaced by John White

FE-Identifying and Helping Under Prepared Students--William Hogan Presiding (It was noted that this had been mistitled in the announcer.)



Agenda item - TYC Newsletter – Martin Mason/Bill Warren

Discussion of the spring TYC connections newsletter occurred. Martin Mason now of Palomar Community College edited, and Bill Warren of Lord Fairfax Community College published and mailed the newsletter. Martin agreed to edit and help publish another Newsletter. Carolyn Haas volunteered her college as a possible publisher and will handle the mailing. Bill Waggoner committee chair indicated that the committee had some funds that could be used to help with the mailing costs. Possible topics might include; articles about the AAPT winter 2002 meeting in Philadelphia, minutes from San Diego meeting and Rochester meetings. Tom O'Kuma will write an article on NTFUP. Sherry Savrda volunteered to write an article on the ICP/21 project. Bill Duxler volunteered to write an article about lengthening engineering physics meetings. Greg Mulder volunteered an article on linking math and physics in a physics for non-majors class. Marie Plumb and Dwain Desbien volunteered to write articles. Pat Keefe volunteered an article as well.

Bill Waggoner volunteered to make issues of the newsletter available online at the committee web site in word and pdf format.



Agenda item - Other Business

Bill Waggoner brought up the TYC List Serve. AAPT hasn't been able to make the transition to hosting the list serve. The AAPT list serv doesn't work. You can post a message without an error message, but subscribers aren't getting the messages. This is an ongoing problem with the share ware AAPT is using, and they are working on replacing the software. The AAPT discussion board software is available and works. In the meantime we will use the old tyc21 list and the message board. To subscribe link to <http://www.aapt.org/discus/>. The committee will continue to pursue with Warren Hein of AAPT.



Agenda item - New Business

Nominations/Awards/AAPT web site. 7:40- 7:45

The need for the TYC community to participate in generating nominations for AAPT national offices and AAPT area committees was discussed. Bill Waggoner who is a member of the AAPT nominations committee for this year encouraged people to submit nominations for area committees as well as for the national offices. The nominations committee is still looking for members for the area committee on Physics in the Two-Year College. It was pointed out by Carolyn Haas that we will need to nominate for two-year college representative to the executive board during the fall/winter. This year’s slate of candidates was in the summer announcer. Next years candidates will be nominated by the early spring and will be published in next summer's announcer. As a result the nomination process for next year should begin now. Further, it was brought up that awards happen before the winter meeting, and in particular we should nominate people for these awards; Pre-college Teaching, and Undergraduate Physics Teaching. Nominations for awards should be sent in before October/November. If you are interested in nominating people, talk to Mary Beth Monroe to get forms or get them from the web at the following links.

(Nominations for offices and committees
http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/nominations.html)

(Nominations for awards http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/awards.html)

Peter Hopkinson who will be co-chairing the nominations committee for 2002 visited the meeting, and asked for help in finding nominees for both the national office, as well as the Two-Year College area committee. He should be the lead contact to send in nomination forms for the vice president, secretary, and two-year college representative board positions. Bill Waggoner who is on this years nominations



Agenda item - Efforts of the National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics NTFUP

Tom O’Kuma gave an over view of NTFUP. (see handout file NTFUP)

NTFUP, the National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics, is an effort to revitalize undergraduate physics programs. It is a joint effort of AAPT, AIP, and APS. Other partners in their efforts include Exxon Mobil Foundation and PKAL. The SPIN-UP (Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics) project of NTFUP has recently received funding from the Exxon Mobil Foundation. This project will survey physics departments at four-year colleges and universities to ascertain what changes are being made in their undergraduate physics program.

As part of NTFUP’s efforts, Tom, Mary Beth and Ruth are organizing a SPIN-UP/TYC effort. Part of this effort will be to organize site visits to 10 TYCs site visits by 3 individuals. Since most TYCs don't have departments of physics, what is the “unit of change” at a TYC? Who makes changes and who would finance it? As another part of this effort, a survey of TYCs will be conducted. This effort, if funded, would start in the fall of 2002. One of the outcomes of the project would be to prepare case studies from each site visit. This effort is the next step to TYC21 and could get an early indication of how TYC21, TYC workshops, and PEPTYC projects have impacted the classroom. If this effort is funded, the project would be seeking volunteers to serve on site visit teams. Another effort of SPIN-UP/TYC would be the training of future teachers. Since 60% of all teachers take their science at TYC, TYC have a major impact on how science is taught in K-12 schools.

Discussion proceeded. Curt Hieggelke pointed out that AIP would survey TYC with the workforce survey. He suggested that AIP should survey TYC every two years with this workforce survey. Tom O'Kuma responded that AIP needs external funding to conduct a full survey of TYC as they did in 1997-1998. NTFUP will work with AIP in this effort.

It was suggested that AIP should do a survey every 5 years of TYC colleges since they do the Four-Year Colleges every year.

The following motion was made and approved by CPTYC: The CPTYC supports the SPIN-UP/TYC project on Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges. It approves in principle this endeavor to determine the “unit of change” at TYCs. CPTYC encourages the development of a proposal for this project and the seeking of funding for this proposal.



Agenda item - Discussion of the Alarming rise Meeting costs and response to AAPT

Discussion focused on feedback over the spring and summer from Martin Mason, Tom O’Kuma and others to the chair Bill Waggoner about meeting costs. Some email discussion about this topic has already occurred via the list serve. Tom O'Kuma read a handout into minutes. Carolyn Haas the two-year representative to the executive board and ex officio member of the committee stated she would take copies of report to the executive meeting. Bill Waggoner proposed that we collect our personal data on how much it cost for us to attend meetings so we could make our case if the need arises.

A motion was made, and seconded. The motion passed to take to the board. The Committee on Physics in the Two-Year College is very concerned about the cost of meetings and its impact on Two-Year College members of AAPT.



Agenda item - Discussion of the Alarming rise Meeting costs and response to AAPT

Discussion focused on feedback over the spring and summer from Martin Mason, Tom O’Kuma and others to the chair Bill Waggoner about meeting costs. Some email discussion about this topic has already occurred via the list serve. Tom O'Kuma read a handout into minutes (see attached file).

Carolyn Haas, the two-year representative to the executive board and ex officio member of the committee, stated she would take copies of report to the executive meeting. Bill Waggoner proposed that we collect our personal data on how much it cost for us to attend meetings so we could make our case if the need arises.

A motion was made, and seconded. The motion passed to take to the board. The Committee on Physics in the Two-Year College is very concerned about the cost of meetings and its impact on Two-Year College members of AAPT.



Agenda item - Summary of Programs I Meeting

Bill Waggoner and Carolyn Haas gave a very brief description and report of the Programs I meeting. The Philadelphia meeting was discussed. One aspect of that meeting will be centered on the topic of 9th grade Physics 1st, and how many more teachers will be needed for HS. Also discussed at the programs I meeting was the new area AAPT committee on Teacher preparation. Len Jossen will be Chair. Mary Beth Monroe is an official friend. It was noted that that committee would be meeting at Rochester on Tuesday at 1:30. Several members of the TYC committee and friends of the committee volunteered to attend. Also, there will be an invited session on Teacher Prep for Philadelphia. This committee agreed to volunteer as a cosponsor of this session. Also in this regard Greg Mulder, and Ben Shaevitz will write articles for newsletter.

Agenda item - The 124th National meeting of AAPT, Winter Meeting Philadelphia Marriott, Jan. 19 – 23, 2002

Bill Waggoner gave a brief review of the committee's activities for the upcoming winter meeting.

Proposed sessions have invited Speakers list due 8/17, and an abstract deadline 9/4.

Invited/Contributed sessions in the program include;

Todd Leif (organizing/presiding)- Technical Physics a Different Breed of Cat? Experiences From Teaching a Technical Physics Class


Sam Nalley (Sam is organizing and Martin Mason is presiding)-Teaching Physics Online. Sam Nalley will be speaking.


Nader Noori (organizing/presiding) - A Conjecture Oriented Method in Physics Education - co sponsored with HS area committee



Invited sessions in the program include;

Martin Mason (Martin is organizing, and Sam Nalley is presiding)- Revitalizing the Physics Course for Non-majors. Louis Broomfield and Chuck Stone have agreed to speak. Martin Mason will speak.

At Philadelphia the area committee on Physics in the Two-Year College committee meeting is set for 7 or 8 PM Saturday night.

The question of whether we should request a resource room at the winter meeting was raised. The consensus was that do to the smaller attendance of TYC committee members and friends we wouldn’t have the ability to staff the room, or the interest necessary to make it viable.

Bill Waggoner reported that it was too late to add workshops for this meeting but we could still add session, in particular cracker-barrel sessions. Discussion proceeded to the topic of a cracker-barrel on NTFUP as well as having a generic Cracker-barrel on TYC issues. Tom O'Kuma and Mary Beth Monroe agreed to organize a Cracker-barrel session "Issues in two-year colleges. (NTFUP)"



Philadelphia Workshops in the program include;

Curtis Hieggelke - TIPERS in Magnetism

Herb Retcofsky - Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color and Spectroscopy co sponsored with pre-HS

Agenda item - Other New Business

There was no other new business brought up.


Agenda item -125th National Meeting - 2002 Summer Meeting Aug. 3 –7 2002 Boise State University

Bill Waggoner called for suggestions of meeting themes and action areas to be considered in planning next summers meeting at Boise. Discussion occurred.

Bill Hogan suggested that we have a cracker-barrel on TYC issues scheduled on a regular basis to identify issues that might become the focus of future sessions. Bill Hogan agreed to lead such a cracker-barrel at Boise.

Bill Waggoner suggested a day on distance education that would include, online courses, distance education courses, and hybrid classes. Discussion followed.

Teaching labs online was suggested as a great topic. Thoughts expressed by the audience included - "This day would include paper and cracker barrel sessions." "We would possibly use the success and failures format of some of our past session, and concentrate on hearing speakers who had the don'ts as well as the do's to talk about."

After the agreeing to revisit this later in the evening, discussion of this was tabled. The agenda proceeded to identifying workshops and sessions.

Agenda item - Call for sessions and workshops for Boise.

Call for paper sessions- (Note requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)

Proposed sessions discussed included:

A session on Integrating Pedagogy into Engineering courses focusing on pedagogy. Suggestions included (1) Get an ABET speaker. (2) Get a TYC faculty that teaches statics and dynamics. (3) Get engineering speaker. Martin Mason volunteered to organize/preside

Success and failures in Teaching Labs via distance Education. Bill Waggoner volunteered to find an organizer/or would organize. Peter Jeschofnig agreed to speak or help.

Innovative Grant Funded Programs in TYCs - Sherry Savrda will organize.

Session on assessment or assessing (this isn't clear but is on the transparency .. not in Martin's notes) John G. (John White?) and Patti Hughey (?) to organize.

Session on Energy/Energy Policy - Pat Keefe and Greg Mulder to organize

Call for Workshops- (Note Workshop Requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)

Proposed workshops discussed included:

ICP/21 workshop- Alex Dickison and Sherry Savrda

Successful Grant Funded Projects - co sponsored with undergraduate committee. - Curt Hieggelke and Duncan McBride

Basic Micro Computer Based Labs (MBL) - co sponsor with the Laboratories committee- Tom O'Kuma, Sherry Savrda, and Marie Plumb

Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research (TIPERs)- co sponsored with the Committee on Physics Education Research- Curt Hieggelke, Tom O'Kuma, and Dave Maloney.

Light and Color Spectroscopy - Herb Retcofsky co sponsored the Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education.

Computer Software for 1st Year College and High School Physics teachers-Herb Retcofsky co-sponsored by the Committee on Physics in High Schools

Herb Retcofsky proposed a computer software workshop that was well received by the committee. The workshop would include demonstrations of a variety of software programs such as Math Plot, FitKit, and Graphical Analysis as well as programs on radioactive decay, chemical and physical periodicity, atomic spectroscopy, and others. Workshop participants would receive their choice of programs (for retention) for use in their own classrooms. The workshop is tentatively titled “Computer Software for 1st Year College and High School Physics teachers” and would be co-sponsored by the Committee on Physics in High Schools. Ben Shaevitz volunteered to assist with the workshop and possibly be a co-presenter with Herb. Barbara Lotze will also assist. The software would be provided by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh.



Call for Cracker-barrels- (Note Cracker-barrel requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)

Proposed Cracker-barrels discussed included:

Cracker-barrel on TYC issues (Identifying action areas, goals and themes to base future CPTYC sessions to contribute to meetings) Bill Hogan to organize/preside

Cracker-barrel on online courses in physics and astronomy. - Bill Waggoner to organize/preside.

Call for TYC Resource Room- the community and committee unanimously agreed to hold a TYC resource room at Boise. - Organizer yet to be decided.

The time for the committee on Physics in the Two-Year College meeting was left to the chair's discretion.

Agenda item - 126th National Meeting –2003 Winter meeting Jan 11- 15, Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin TX

It was mutually agreed to table this item for online discussion as well as discussion at Philadelphia.

It was moved and seconded that the meeting be adjourned.


The meeting adjourned at 9:25

San Diego, California, January 9, 2001

Submitted by Bill Hogan
 

Curt Hieggelke had given a talk earlier in a session in San Diego about two-year college physics faculty involved in physics education research and various innovative physics programs at two-year colleges. It was suggested that it would be a good idea to sponsor a session in Boise with invited talks by some of the people mentioned in Curt’s talk. No one volunteered to organize this session.

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Minutes prepared and edited by  Todd R. Leif leift@cloudccc.cc.ks.us, and Bill Warren LFWARRB@lf.cc.va.us

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Submitted by Martin Mason
 

San Antonio, August 4, 1999

Annaheim, California, January 12, 1999