1I1 Improvements and Comprehensive Processes

Improvements

Recent improvements in the processes for addressing student learning include:

• A newly adopted negotiated agreement for evaluating online and hybrid course instruction.
• The creation of Faculty Guidelines for Hybrid and Online Learning.
• A student evaluation process for online and hybrid courses.
• A Comprehensive Faculty Training Action Project for 2010-2011.
• Initial Accreditation for Pharmacy Technician and ENDT programs.
• Reaccreditation in HVAC.
• Two full-time positions: Academic Instruction and Technical Support and Instructional Facilitator.
• State approval for nine new programs in the last five years.
• Requirement that faculty teaching online complete online training coursework.

Systematic Comprehensive Processes

The curriculum, course, and program development and review processes are well-established, systematic and comprehensive. The negotiated teacher evaluation process has also been in place for over ten years, with the most recent updates in the 2010-2011 professional faculty contract.

The processes for assessment (identifying program and institutional outcomes, identifying instruments to measure those outcomes, and conducting the annual checks on student learning) have been addressed since 1995. Reporting and documenting the results of program learning has been implemented and in place for the last seven years, with reporting in electronic database form for five years.