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College Goal: Provide an environment that supports employing and retaining a quality faculty and staff and promotes enhanced student learning, achievement, and development. |
Division Goal: Provide access to and guidance in professional development opportunities to strengthen instructional delivery and to prepare for accreditation initiatives. |
Program Goal: Enhance instructional faculty performance through the appropriate professional development opportunities |
Objectives: Provide opportunities for Associate of Arts/Sciences instructors to gain new teaching methodologies and participate in workshops geared toward their instructional area. |
Action Plan:
- The Associate Dean will request a budget for professional development for the academic year.
- Each instructor is to attend a workshop/conference or take a course that is in his or her instructional area.
- Submit the appropriate travel forms
- Coordinate with the Dean of Education Technology for technology training for faculty members of the AA/AS department
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Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and faculty |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2010 |
Assessment Strategy:
- Department budget
- Professional development log for all AA/AS faculty members
- Departmental travel forms
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Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Department budget |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2010 |

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College Goal: Develop and implement instructional programs and services, both traditional and distance learning offerings, that are consistent with the assessed needs of the constituent groups in the College’s service area and with state and national standards, including training and retraining of the workforce. |
Division Goal: Provide credit and non-credit programming to enhance economic development of the service area. |
Program Goal: Provide a variety of seated course offerings each semester within a limited budget. |
Objectives: Offer 25% more course offerings than the previous academic year via the NCIH. |
Action Plan:
- Request that the Dean of Educational Technology investigate the possible course offerings via NCIH.
- Schedule those courses.
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Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and the Dean of Educational Technology |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2010 |
Assessment Strategy:
- Emails
- Fall and Spring schedules
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Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: none (The offering community college pays for the instruction.) |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in May 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in May 2010 |

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College Goal: Develop and implement instructional programs and services, both traditional and distance learning offerings, that are consistent with the assessed needs of the constituent groups in the College’s service area and with state and national standards, including training and retraining of the workforce. |
Division Goal: Provide credit and non-credit programming to enhance economic development of the service area. |
Program Goal: Promote student learning and achievement by offsetting college’s shortage of writing tutors and supporting instructors across the college who would like to add writing assignments to their courses. |
Objectives: Explore feasibility of establishing an online writing center. |
Action Plan:
- Survey faculty and students to gauge need and interest.
- Consult Distance Learning to determine possibility of using a common Blackboard site for an online writing center.
- Survey faculty to determine ability and willingness to participate as writing coaches.
- Determine if student tutors could help staff online writing center.
- Develop tentative plan to staff online writing center.
- Determine tools and content of Web site, possibly including chat room, instructional PowerPoints, handouts, videos, External Links, etc.
- Formulate tentative statement of purpose for online writing center, including limits of service.
- Work with Distance Learning staff to arrange in-house training for writing coaches on use of Microsoft Word review tools (i.e. Track Changes, Comment balloons, Voice Comment recordings, etc.)
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Person(s) Responsible: English Department faculty |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: May 2010 |
Assessment Strategy: Written feasibility study |
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Regular budget |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in May 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in May 2010 |

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College Goal: Develop and implement instructional programs and services, both traditional and distance learning offerings, that are consistent with the assessed needs of the constituent groups in the College’s service area and with state and national standards, including training and retraining of the workforce. |
Division Goal: Meet training needs for current and expanded employment opportunities of the service area as a result of changing workforce demographics. |
Program Goal: Expand the use of Excel spreadsheets, research papers, and introduce a differential calculus concept. |
Objectives: Students will utilize an Excel spreadsheet to graph the various type of equations discussed in class, a differential calculus technique to find maximums and minimums, and a research paper will be added. |
Action Plan:
- Students will be taught how, and required to complete and present a research topic in Statistics I (MAT 151)
- Students will be taught in all algebra related classes (MAT 121, MAT 161, and MAT 175) to compute the first derivative of a polynomial for the purpose of finding maximum and minimum points.
- Students will be taught how to implement the newest version of the Excel spreadsheet program for the purpose of graphing the various equations discussed in class.
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Person(s) Responsible: Math faculty |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: May 2010 |
Assessment Strategy: Course exams, Research paper presentation |
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Department |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in May 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in May 2010 |

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College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications. |
Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery. |
Program Goal: Increase the number of supplemented courses by 25% from the previous academic year and decrease the number of copies made by 25%. |
Objectives: Decrease the number of copies made by department’s faculty by supplementing courses on the Blackboard and posting course materials on this site. |
Action Plan:
- Email the department with proposal.
- Complete the “Distance Learning Request Form”
- Post all possible handouts onto the Blackboard course sites
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Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean, Distance Learning staff, department faculty |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2010 |
Assessment Strategy:
- Emails
- Distance Learning Request Forms
- Review the courses on the Blackboard
- Review the course list issued from Distance Learning
- Survey faculty as to the percentage of course work posted on the Blackboard
- Compare copier budget lines to the previous academic year.
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Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Departmental |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2010 |

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College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications. |
Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery. |
Program Goal: Purchase the equipment needed to provide the most up-to-date educational activities for students. |
Objectives: Identify and provide the equipment necessary to meet the current and future instructional needs of the biology courses |
Action Plan:
- The biology instructor will assess the current equipment and make recommendations to the Associate Dean.
- The Associate Dean will compare the recommendations to formerly submitted ones and will coordinate with the biology instructor to make the final choices.
- The Associate Dean will prepare the appropriate EJFs and submit them to the Vice President.
- Requisition the approved equipment.
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Person(s) Responsible: Biology instructor, Associate Dean Vice President of Instruction |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2010 |
Assessment Strategy:
- Recommendations
- EJFs
- Requisitions
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Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Equipment |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2010 |

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College Goal: Develop and implement instructional programs and services, both traditional and distance learning offerings, that are consistent with the assessed needs of the constituent groups in the College’s service area and with state and national standards, including training and retraining of the workforce. |
Division Goal: Provide credit and not-credit programming to enhance economic development for emerging workforce needs. |
Program Goal: Expand course offerings in political science & sociology to better meet the needs of college transfer students. |
Objectives:
- Offer additional seated sections of SOC 210 and SOC 213 every term. Other SOC classes to be added on an as needed basis.
- Offer additional seated sections of POL 120 and/or POL 130 every term. Other POL classes to be added on an as needed basis.
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Action Plan:
- Continue to utilize NCIH until a faculty member becomes SACS credentialed to teach these courses.
- Attempt to recruit a member of existing faculty to pursue 18 graduate hours in sociology (SOC) and/or political science (POL).
- Petition the Associate Dean to complete personnel justification to request an additional faculty member to teach SOC and POL.
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Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and Department Faculty |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2010 |
Assessment Strategy:
- Review course schedules and enrollment data.
- Review progress toward recruitment of faculty to required coursework required by SACS to teach SOC and POL courses.
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Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: $2,800 for faculty upgrades; $60,000 for full-time faculty member |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2010 |

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College Goal: Develop and implement instructional programs and services, both traditional and distance learning offerings, that are consistent with the assessed needs of the constituent groups in the College’s service area and with state and national standards, including training and retraining of the workforce. |
Division Goal: Provide credit and non-credit programming to enhance economic development of the service area. |
Program Goal: Provide high school students enrolled in either Huskins and/or Learn & Earn courses with information to help the students be more successful in their college courses. |
Objectives: Have orientation sessions with the high schools students at their respective campuses and review the steps they need in order to successfully pass their courses. |
Action Plan:
- Survey current Huskins/Learn & Earn instructors to find out the problems they have encountered.
- Coordinate with the high school administrators a date and time to meet with the students.
- Prepare handouts for students detailing the expectations of instructors.
- Survey the students at the end of the mid-terms of each semester to determine if the orientation sessions were helpful.
- Survey the instructors to see if there was an improvement from the previous academic year.
- Compare the grades to the previous academic year.
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Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and Instructors |
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2010 |
Assessment Strategy:
- Survey the students.
- Survey the instructors.
- Final grades
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Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Department |
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2010 |
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2010 |