LPC Mission Statement

Las Positas College is an inclusive, learning centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning.

LPC Planning Priorities

Equity: Establish a knowledge base and an appreciation for equity; create a sense of urgency about moving toward equity; institutionalize equity in decision-making, assessment, and accountability; and build capacity to resolve inequities.

Student Success & Completion: Increase student success and completion through change in college practices and processes: coordinating needed academic support, removing barriers, and supporting focused professional development across the campus.

Health and Wellness: Establish a knowledgebase and an appreciation for health and wellness in the workplace; create a sense of urgency about wellness in decision-making, assessment, and accountability; and build capacity to support wellness

Distance Education Committee
Meeting Minutes

MEETING DATE: 09/18/2026

1. Call to Order

Kat King called the meeting to order at 11:31 AM. Angelo and Kat welcomed new members: Angel Contreras Cardenas, Anita Bhatia, Kali Rippel, Lizzie Mayo, and Titian Lish. Quorum met.

2. Review & Approve Agenda

Kali moved to approve the September agenda; Angelo seconded. Agenda approved.

3. Review & Approve Prior Minutes

Angelo moved to approve the May minutes; Wanda seconded. Minutes tentatively approved, with members not in attendance at the May meeting abstaining.

4. Public Comments

No members of the public present.

5. Action Items

Kali nominated Angelo to serve as co-chair. Angelo accepted and approved unanimously.

6. Reports

Teaching and Learning Center (Kat and Wanda):
1. Weekly emails with Canvas/DE updates continue to keep instructors informed about important information, like recent updates to our DE templates (course shell template, syllabus, welcome letter), RSI tips, Zoom security tips, and the transition from Proctorio to Respondus for secure online exam proctoring.
2. Ongoing workshops continue to be added to our calendar to provide opportunities to learn about accessibility, AI, Canvas, and more. Recent highlights include a Canvas and ComplyBot workshop ahead of the new term and a new faculty Playlab workshop series Wanda is offering at the request of our Academic Senate, with opportunities to join an in person or online cohort this Fall.
3. Our RSI "road show" continues at division meetings, most recently at the A+H division meeting in September. These are meant to provide a refresher about Regular and Substantive Interaction requirements in DE courses and supplement ongoing workshops throughout the year and at Flex Days.
4. Ongoing conversations with senior leadership continue to finalize the new process for vetting Canvas LTI/software requests. We hope to see this process finalized ahead of future textbook adoptions, so faculty can make informed decisions about selecting digital materials/publisher integrations that align with higher ed standards for accessibility, data security, and privacy.

7. New Business

New Member Orientation
1. Kat provided a tour of the DE Committee web pages, including the Charge, Current Agenda and Minutes, Archive of Agendas + Minutes, and Completed Tasks.
2. Members discussed DE training and course review data:
  1. Online Course Development Program (OCDP): 315 completed
  2. DE Committee Course Reviews: 69 completed)
  3. HyFlex: 122 completed
  4. Peer Online Course Review (POCR): 2 finalized last year – with Quality Reviewed + ZTC badges on Exchange)
  5. Winter Intersession Training (WIT): 11 completed
  6. Redesigns are in progress for the OCDP, Intro to Canvas and Accessibility courses. The POCR course will also need to be updated at a future time to align with the new CVC Online Course Design rubric released over summer. No funding is available for a new POCR cohort at this time. Last year's cohort was possible thanks to one-time support from CTE. When we have bandwidth and funding, we'll need to train faculty POCR mentors in the new standards before reviving this training.
3. LPC DE Board Report 2025-26 + Data Analysis
  1. Kat shared the LPC Annual DE Board Report 2025-26, which was presented at the September Board meeting and provides a high-level overview of Distance Education during the past academic year.
  2. Members discussed promising data highlights, including:
    1. DE remains a major access point for LPC students. Half or more of enrollments involved DE, with higher online enrollment shares during summer and 100% online during LPC’s first Winter Intersession.
    2. For the 2025-26 academic year, DE success rates continued to increase or remained stable when compared to the same period in 2024-2025.
    3. Summer 2025 DE success rates increased to 82%, up 5 percentage points.
    4. Fall 2025 DE success rates increased to 76%, up 2 percentage points.
    5. Spring 2026 DE success remained stable at 77%.
    6. LPC's first Winter Intersession was fully online and produced strong results, with 1,369 enrollments and a 90.5% success rate.
  3. Kat encouraged members to review more targeted DE data at upcoming division and department meetings using the data dashboard provided by our Research Office:
    1. Visit Research, Planning, & Institutional Effectiveness: Course Outcomes.
    2. On the data dashboard, click "Program View."
    3. Select your Discipline.
    4. Select a Modality + Filter (e.g. Course Modality > Distance Ed)
    5. Filter by specific course if desired.
  4. Committee Goals for Academic Year 2026-27
    1. Members discussed potential goals for the coming year. Draft ideas below are under consideration and will be finalized at the next meeting, allowing members more time to review and process:
      1. Monitor and advise on changes to DE policy and practices. (This goal would be timely given efforts at the state-level to norm DE modality language and coding.)
      2. Advance accessibility and Universal Design for Learning in Distance Education courses. (This goal would be timely given the April 2027 federal deadline to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA web accessibility standards, and to help the college prepare for statewide efforts to incorporate UDL practices into the curriculum process.)
      3. Strengthen Regular and Substantive Interaction in Distance Education courses. (This goal would be timely given the college's current efforts to prepare for the next ACCJC review of our DE courses and our ongoing efforts to improve student success rates.)
      4. Modernize Distance Education training and faculty preparation. (This goal would be timely so committee members could provide feedback and expertise about updates to the OCDP training course.)
      5. Support effective and responsible responses to artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. (This goal would support AI efforts underway through CLPCCD's Chancellor's Office and Academic Senates.)
    2. DE Course Review Alignment with Updates to Faculty Contract
      1. Kat updated new members on work begun last semester to align the DE Committee Course Review Checklist to updated DE minimum standards negotiated in the 2025 - 2028 Faculty Contract. Members discussed a third redesign concept that more clearly maps to negotiated standards, with potential options to provide more suggested feedback. Members will take time to process and hope to finalize language on the new form in the next meeting. Members also expressed a desire to provide more feedback to bargaining members ahead of the next negotiation cycle to further clarify and align language to DE best practices.

8. Good of the Order/ Information Items

Kat promoted upcoming workshops that may be of interest to committee members, including workshops on accessibility, ZTC/OER initiatives, and AI.

9. Adjournment

Wanda moved to adjourn the meeting at 11:28 AM; Kali seconded. Meeting adjourned at 11:28 AM

10. Next Regular Meeting

Next meeting: October 16, 2026, 9:30 - 11:30 AM

Meeting Details

Dates: 3rd Fridays during the Fall + Spring semesters
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: LPC Teaching + Learning Center (Room 2410) + Zoom

Members Present

Co-Chairs:

Kat King (Instructional Technology Coordinator)
Angelo Bummer (English Faculty)

Voting Members:

Angel Contreras Cardenas (Faculty, STEM)
Kali Rippel (Library Rep)
Wanda Butterly (Classified Rep TLC)

Non-Voting Members:

Titian Lish (rep for Nan Ho, Vice President Academic Services)
Elizabeth Mayo (A&R Rep)
Richard Dry (Faculty, A&H)
Anita Bhatia (Faculty, STEM)

Members Absent

Michael McQuiston (Academic Dean)
Kimberly Tomlinson (Faculty, A&H)
John Ruys (Faculty, BSSL)
Michael Frith (Faculty, PATH)
Richard Dry (Faculty, A&H)
Vacant (Faculty, Student Services)
Vacant (Faculty, Adjunct)
Vacant (Faculty, BSSL)
Vacant (Faculty, PATH)
Vacant (Faculty, Student Services)
Vacant (LPCSG Rep)