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Guidelines for
Service on Shared Governance Committees
Approved March 20,2008
New Committees Currently Forming.
Distance Education
From Gail Fail:
To Academic Senate
From Gail Fail, 9/20/07
In August this year we had a mini-conference at MPC, on
bargaining and quality issues in Distance Education (DE.) Attending
were faculty and administrators from several other community
colleges. The meeting was funded by a grant from NEA. The group
(along with some more
folks) will meet again in October in
Sacramento.
Attending the August meeting for MPC were: Gail Fail, Fred
Hochstaedter, Caroline Carney, Stephanie Tetter, John Gonzalez, and
Sharon Colton.
The October meeting will be attended by Jon Mikkelson, Alan
Haffa, Marianne Ide, AJ Farrar, Jonathon Osburg, Gail Fail, Susan
Steele, and Stephanie Tetter.
The MPCTA would like to work with the Senate and in
particular the CAC, to achieve the following goals, in no particular
order:
1. Establish a good working relationship between
Senate/CAC/MPCTA regarding DE issues. We have different roles, but
having more brains available to look at everything is always a good
idea.
2. Assure we are in compliance with Title 5, in
terms of instructor contact, Senate approval of DE courses, and
faculty hiring.
3. Establish some consistent faculty training.
4. Give input to administration on the
platform(s) we use for delivering DE.
(The anti-Moodle rumblings are already loud.)
5. Establish the role of the library in DE.
6. Figure out how to provide student services and
counseling for DE students.
7. Negotiate some important issues: workload,
class assignments, class size, pay for developing DE classes.
8. Plan for DE growth at department, division and
campus wide levels. (Do we want to grow in DE? Will we just be
diluting the enrollment of traditional
classes?)
9. Avoid repeating work that has already been
done, either here or at other colleges. Steal Shamelessly will be
our motto!
10. Assure that the quality of a DE class is as
good as a traditional class.
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