Quality Leadership Team Meeting
February 15, 2013, 9:00 a.m.
via Video Conference Rooms on each CBC Site
Present were:
Dr. Twila Johnson, Chair
Donna Atkins
Dr. Emmanuel Alvarado
Dr. Patti Candia
Kayla Jones
Amador Ramirez
Susan Smedley
The Minutes
of the meeting of January 25, 2013 were approved.
The My
COUGAR Course presentation was in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times which gave
additional exposure for the college. Dr. Alvarado stated that Heather Jackson
from Channel 6 called her for an additional interview on the program.
QEPardy was
popular at in-service and the faculty were very positive. Dr. Alvarado stated
that faculty told him they learned a lot and now know what QEP is. Moving the
screen a bit higher will make future games like this more visible.
Dr. Barry
Goldstein visited CBC for a preliminary review of the QEP with several faculty
members present. He made a number of suggestions that will be implemented. QEP
should be like a grand application, hypotheses, review of literature,
background, budget, assessment, etc. Dr.
Goldstein was especially concerned with data and he suggested maybe we should
just start with DE students. Write QEP in future tense with specific aims. Dr.
Candia is doing the literature review for this and Donna will be putting it all
together. This will not be a pilot but a course redesign. The college must
define student success. Redesign of EDUC 1300 will be the final goal and it will
be phased in with data collected at every stage for evaluation with comparisons
between the old EDUC 1300 and the new EDUC 1300. Ongoing professional development
will be conducted. The course will be taught fall 2013 as an elective. Data on
the current EDUC 1300 is being collected now to help determine the number of
sections needed for fall. Kayla Jones
stated the information could be pulled from ZogoTech. The committee discussed
whether or not the course should be hybrid. Susan Smedley stated that our data
showed students in developmental education performed better in face-to-face
courses. EDUC 1300 will be face-to-face
for developmental and hybrid as an elective. Offering the hybrid portion as
proctored in a scheduled lab was suggested. The student will meet one day in a
classroom and one day in a computer lab for the hybrid portion with the
instructor serving as the facilitator for the course
There is
still a question of sections needed. Claire Fletcher was to provide that
information and the committee is still waiting on that so the number of
sections needed is still unknown. Training of instructors will be discussed at
a future date.
My COUGAR
Course (now an acronym) will become My Cougar Course with COUGAR no longer
being an acronym.
For
Marketing and P/R we need to market and promote the course to gain enrollment
in the course. Schedules for fall 2013 will go live on March 25th. The first week
of April an activity will be held at all the sites to have a promotion of QEP,
My Cougar Course, display branding, start registering, provide prizes for
students, and other activities to jump start registration. The activity will
happen in Alice on Wednesday, April 3rd, in Kingsville on ____________, in Beeville
on _____________, and in Pleasanton on _____________. This will give Amador a chance to gather data
from students on local campuses to include in the QEP website for SACS. Information
on how we serve students, enrollment management, and other types of information
from students on what they want to see as a student could be gathered. Susan
suggested an official “landing page” for the QEP so it can be utilized for
student videos, student interviews, and student opinion. This information will
be available publicly for dissemination. Marketing materials for QEP can be
included there also.
Amador
Ramirez stated that he had already developed a landing page and Susan stated
that it needed a different template for consistency. Susan asked for permission
from the group to refine some of the language on the Fast Facts. Amador stated
that interviews from students are coming soon. He stated that the landing page
will be growing to include data collection.
Donna Atkins
reported on the curriculum committee. Since a committee is developing the
course, a standardized template for each class presentation and outline is
being developed. Content-area experts are developing the presentations and
lessons and the group will get back together on March 1st.
Susan asked
what the selling point is for this course. Could we market it for free? Why
would students choose this as an elective?
Wording must be such that students are attracted to the course. The
course must be marketed as a jump-start to your career.
The next
meeting was scheduled for March 8th but there are conflicts so it will be
rescheduled at another time. Twila
suggested March 1st during in-service.
Amador
displayed the QEP landing page. The data on the page does not match the Fast
Facts page. The committee made several suggestions for this page.
The
committee was then adjourned.