February Minutes - draft AA/AS degree requirements Jerry and Keith will meet to develop a plan on how and DwD’s to proceed with implementing new DWDs and 2:4 Faculty to Faculty reviewing older DWDs. Proposed action: Meet meeting: April 24, 2015 with college advisors to talk about intricacies of the Dwd and that are being granted. “exceptions” Academic Council Updates 10:00a I Diane Hegeman/Jerry Migler February Minutes Draft – March Minutes Draft – CCCS Summary of AP Scores 10:15a I Jerry Migler Informational item: Universities still not able to decide what standard score should be for AP scores. Stay tuned. PLA updates 10:20a I Jerry Migler/Bitsy Cohn How the system is moving forward with PLA. How do we recognize previous learning? Writing the PLA manual and a cross-walk matrix Disruptive Trends 10:35a I Jerry Migler/Keith Howard Propose that from this group we identify one disruptive trend that may help us to address the CCCS strategic plan. Identified issues that need attention: We need to address and students’ needs some of our faculty do not see urgency. Could we discuss with faculty at 2:2 what trends are upon us credit for prior – learning, apprenticeships, flexibility in our parts of term, offering courses when and how the student needs them, etc… Our infrastructure is outdated and we can’t react quickly enough Review our policies and procedures to see which is creating a barrier to student success. Can we use a grant for this? Items to look at: length of terms, credit/non-credit and how to use non-credit for competency-based learning, etc… We need to identify our “population” better. Why do we think that is our population? It’s not hard to save the good students, but to move the needle we need to work with
February Minutes - draft AA/AS degree requirements and DwD’s 2:4 Faculty to Faculty meeting: April 24, 2015 Jerry and Keith will meet to develop a plan on how to proceed with implementing new DWDs and reviewing older DWDs. Proposed action: Meet with college advisors to talk about intricacies of the Dwd and “exceptions” that are being granted. Academic Council Updates February Minutes – Draft March Minutes – Draft 10:00a I Diane Hegeman/Jerry Migler CCCS Summary of AP Scores 10:15a I Jerry Migler Informational item: Universities still not able to decide what standard score should be for AP scores. Stay tuned. PLA updates 10:20a I Jerry Migler/Bitsy Cohn How the system is moving forward with PLA. How do we recognize previous learning? Writing the PLA manual and a cross-walk matrix Disruptive Trends 10:35a I Jerry Migler/Keith Howard Propose that from this group we identify one disruptive trend that may help us to address the CCCS strategic plan. Identified issues that need attention: We need to address students’ needs and some of our faculty do not see urgency. Could we discuss with faculty at 2:2 what trends are upon us – credit for prior learning, apprenticeships, flexibility in our parts of term, offering courses when and how the student needs them, etc… Our infrastructure is outdated and we can’t react quickly enough Review our policies and procedures to see which is creating a barrier to student success. Can we use a grant for this? Items to look at: length of terms, credit/non-credit and how to use non-credit for competency-based learning, etc… We need to identify our “population” better. Why do we think that is our population? It’s not hard to save the good students, but to move the needle we need to work with
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