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Standard 4: Integrity in the Award of
Academic Credit
Action Plan
Timetable
February –April, 2007:
Meet to discuss standards, assign responsibilities to each
member, and identify information needs for “Description”
section.
May – June 14, 2007: Gather and submit info.
for “Description” section of standard. Identify information
needed to develop “Appraisal” section. Identify how data will
be collected for “Appraisal” section (interviews, focus groups,
survey), and generate questions for Web-based
University Survey.
June – August , 2007:
Writing team generates “Description” section.
Jerry
Jarrett, Patty Root, Jennifer Hedlund, Susan Petrosino
June – November, 2007: Gather and submit data needed
for “Appraisal” section.
November – Dec. 31, 2007: Writing team generates
“Appraisal” section.
November
– March, 2008: Gather data for “Projection”
section.
March – April, 2008: Writing team
generates “Projection” section.
Committee
Member Assignments (Description & Appraisal)
Rob Rak can generate reports from Banner
4.09, 4.10, 4.51 Jerry Jarrett
4.29 Jacob Kovel – Needs list of peer
institutions.
4.30 Jerry Jarrett - Survey
questions for faculty and former students.
4.31 Patty Root – Needs info on
admissions process (Rich Bishop), transfer evaluation process
and articulation, retention (institutional research), academic
advising (accessibility), FYE’s, warning and probation policies
and data.
4.32 Jennifer Headlund
– Information regarding the grade
appeals process.
4.33 Jennifer Hedlund –
Needs information on
accredited programs.
4.34 Jacob Kovel –
Needs information on
interaction with Charter Oak.
4.35 Susan Petrosino
4.36 Susan Seider – needs info. on
Institutional Committee on Academic Misconduct
.
4.37 Jerry Jarrett
4.38 Susan Seider –
Needs information regarding Off-campus courses and courses offered through
technologically mediated instruction (online courses?). –
Anesthesia program, student teaching, and other programs that
have placements off-campus.
4.39 Susan Petrosino –
Needs data on
policies for faculty-student interaction for off-campus or
distance-learning courses.
4.40 Jerry Jarrett
4.41 Jerry Jarrett
– Needs information from
Myrna Garcia-Bowen: Procedures for developing and maintaining review of articulation
agreements.
Doug Benoit:
How are transfer equivalencies determined?
4.42 Drina Lynch
4.43 Drina Lynch
Information Needed for Each Standard
4.09 Institutional academic planning and
evaluation. How is it accomplished? How are programs reviewed,
added, and/or deleted? Are resources allocated on the basis of
academic planning, needs, and objectives? Information on deleted
programs.
4.10 Process leading to Ed. D., Nursing, and
Engineering programs. How were these major changes researched
and developed to assure academic integrity? How were resource
requirements assessed?
4.29 Professional accreditation of schools
(i.e. Education), degree programs (i.e. Chemistry), and certificate
program information. Compare with peer institutions (like Montclair).
4.30 Online and printed catalog, cycling
patterns, frequency of substitutions in the major, frequency
with which courses are cancelled, flexibility in course
requirements of majors. Determine what percentage of degree
programs offer courses frequently enough to allow student to
complete in four years (Graduate programs? Two years?). Survey
questions about course offerings. Survey of faculty and
former students.
4.31 Faculty and courses: Department DEC’s,
Curriculum Review Process, Grants for Faculty Development and
Curriculum Development.
Students: Admissions process (Rich Bishop),
transfer evaluation process and articulation, retention
(institutional research), academic advising (accessibility), FYE’s, warning and probation policies.
4.32 Undergraduates: Capstones, learning
outcomes, course syllabi, grade appeals process.
Graduate Students:
Thesis standards and course
syllabi.
4.33 No credit allowed for pre-collegiate
work. Demonstrable academic content for all credit bearing
experiences. Program accreditation.
4.34 Credit for prior experiential or
non-collegiate sponsored learning. Describe the interaction
with Charter Oak.
4.35 Student handbook,
Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog, University Webpage.
4.36 Institutional Committee on Academic
Misconduct, Undergraduate (p. 41) and Graduate (p.18) catalogs.
4.37 Standards for courses offered in an
abbreviated time period and distance learning courses?
Contractual policy on minimum duration of winter and summer
session courses. (Data Mining program as an example.)
4.38 Off-campus courses
and courses offered through technologically mediated instruction
(online courses?).Anesthesia program, student
teaching, and
others that have placements off-campus.
4.39 Students taking
off-campus or distance-learning courses can interact with
faculty.
4.40 Courses in
certificate programs all go through the curriculum process.
4.41 Myrna Garcia-Bowen:
Procedures for
developing and maintaining review of articulation agreements.
Doug Benoit: How are transfer
equivalencies determined?
4.42 Residency
requirements.
4.43 Policy on page 17 of
the
graduate catalog.
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