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Institutional Effectiveness Plan: A.A./A.S.

2009-2010 Assessment Outcomes & Use of Results

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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:
  1. Offer additional seated sections of SOC 210 and SOC 213 every term. Other SOC classes to be added on an as needed basis.
  2. Offer additional seated sections of POL 120 and/or POL 130 every term. Other POL classes to be added on an as needed basis.
Action Plan:
  1. Continue to utilize NCIH until a faculty member becomes SACS credentialed to teach these courses.
  2. Attempt to recruit a member of existing faculty to pursue 18 graduate hours in sociology (SOC) and/or political science (POL).
  3. Petition the Associate Dean to complete personnel justification to request an additional faculty member to teach SOC and POL.
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Review course schedules and enrollment data.
  2. Review progress toward recruitment of faculty to required coursework required by SACS to teach SOC and POL courses.
Assessment Outcomes: The NCIH classroom was utilized to offer POL and SOC courses. Due to increased teaching loads and budgets constraints there were no faculty interested in obtaining additional graduate hours in POL/SOC. Due to budget constraints no PJF was submitted.
Use of Results: Given budged restraints allocating funds for a new position is doubtful. Therefore, in the interim the department will continue to utilize the NCIH classroom and online delivery of SOC and POL.
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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:
  1. Email the department with proposal.
  2. Complete the “Distance Learning Request Form”
  3. Post all possible handouts onto the Blackboard course sites
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Emails
  2. Distance Learning Request Forms
  3. Review the courses on the Blackboard
  4. Review the course list issued from Distance Learning
  5. Survey faculty as to the percentage of course work posted on the Blackboard
  6. Compare copier budget lines to the previous academic year.
Assessment Outcomes:
  1. The number of supplemented courses only increased by one (1) course from the previous year. However, four (4) biology courses were added in the 2009 fall semester. This was a 25% increase from the previous fall semester. There was a 18% decrease in the spring semester.
  2. There was a 69% decrease in copies made.
Use of Results: Continue to utilize the Blackboard as much as possible to keep copier costs down due to the expected tight budget again for the 2010-11 fiscal year.
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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:
  1. Survey faculty and students to gauge need and interest.
  2. Consult Distance Learning to determine possibility of using a common Blackboard site for an online writing center.
  3. Survey faculty to determine ability and willingness to participate as writing coaches.
  4. Determine if student tutors could help staff online writing center.
  5. Develop tentative plan to staff online writing center.
  6. Determine tools and content of Web site, possibly including chat room, instructional PowerPoint, handouts, videos, External Links, etc.
  7. Formulate tentative statement of purpose for online writing center, including limits of service.
  8. 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.)
Assessment Strategy: Written feasibility study
Assessment Outcomes: Consulted Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development and determined feasibility of establishing an Online Writing Center site on Blackboard; developed prototype for Blackboard site; collected instructional PowerPoint from Internet; developed handouts. Will be completed in May 2011.
Use of Results: Will revise current plan to continue the implementation of a writing center.
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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:
  1. The Associate Dean will request a budget for professional development for the academic year.
  2. Each instructor is to attend a workshop/conference or take a course that is in his or her instructional area.
  3. Submit the appropriate travel forms
  4. Coordinate with the Dean of Education Technology for technology training for faculty members of the AA/AS department
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Department budget
  2. Professional development log for all AA/AS faculty members
  3. Departmental travel forms
Assessment Outcomes: The budget constraints did not allow for instructors to travel to off-campus professional development activities unless the instructors paid for the activities out their own pockets. For example, the biology instructor did travel to a publisher sponsored workshop in Raleigh on February 13, 2010, but she did not receive any travel money. There were several professional development sessions provided by the Dean of Educational Technology during the fall break.
Use of Results: The budget will determine the possibility for participation in off-campus professional development activities during the next academic year. Otherwise, the associate dean will continue to request the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development for technology training for the department in the upcoming academic year.
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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:
  1. The biology instructor will assess the current equipment and make recommendations to the Associate Dean.
  2. The Associate Dean will compare the recommendations to formerly submitted ones and will coordinate with the biology instructor to make the final choices.
  3. The Associate Dean will prepare the appropriate EJFs and submit them to the Vice President.
  4. Requisition the approved equipment.
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Recommendations
  2. EJFs
  3. Requisitions
Assessment Outcomes: Equipment funds were used to purchase 16 binocular microscopes and one (1) trinocular microscope.
Use of Results: The students can use these in all A&P, general biology, environmental, and microbiology courses in the future.
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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:
  1. Survey current Huskins/Learn & Earn instructors to find out the problems they have encountered.
  2. Coordinate with the high school administrators a date and time to meet with the students.
  3. Prepare handouts for students detailing the expectations of instructors.
  4. Survey the students at the end of the mid-terms of each semester to determine if the orientation sessions were helpful.
  5. Survey the instructors to see if there was an improvement from the previous academic year.
  6. Compare the grades to the previous academic year.
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Survey the students.
  2. Survey the instructors.
  3. Final grades
Assessment Outcomes:
  1. The associate dean surveyed the full-time faculty regarding concerns they had. It was determined that some of the concerns were plagiarism, discussion board participation, and submitting work on time.
  2. The full-time faculty and the associate dean visited both county high schools and held an orientation session with LEO students. The faculty discussed the above mentioned issues and explained their individual expectations.
  3. The high school students were surveyed about the orientations. 83% agreed that the orientations were helpful. 78% agreed that the orientations provided a better understanding of the course(s).
Use of Results: It is planned to continue orientations will continue at the high schools each semester.
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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:
  1. Students will be taught how, and required to complete and present a research topic in Statistics I (MAT 151),
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
Assessment Strategy: Course exams, Research paper presentation
Assessment Outcomes: Action Plan (1) was implemented (Summer 2009 semester). The topics selected by the students were innovative, but the student presentations need to be refined. Action Plan (2) was implemented in the Fall of 2009 (MAT 175) and Spring 2010 (MAT 121 and MAT 161) semesters. Most students were able to perform the procedure. Action Plan (3) was implemented for MAT 175 (Fall 2009 semester). Students successfully generated graphs with the latest version of Excel.
Use of Results: Based upon student results, the MAT 151 research assignment will be refined and continue to be used. The “first derivative” method to find MAX and MIN points will continue to be used in the algebra related classes
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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:
  1. Request that the Dean of Educational Technology investigate the possible course offerings via NCIH.
  2. Schedule those courses.
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Emails
  2. Fall and Spring schedules
Assessment Outcomes: There was actually a 10% decrease from the previous academic year. Some of the courses were not offered because there were conflicts with the courses being sent to SCI from MCC.
Use of Results: The Associate Dean of AA/AS will continue to work with the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development and try to find more courses that can be offered via the NCIH. Also, the Associate Dean of AA/AS will confer with the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development regarding the possibility of MCC offering a course in the next academic year via the NCIH.

Institutional Effectiveness Plan
2010-2011

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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. Year one of a two-year plan.
Objectives:
  1. Offer additional seated sections of SOC 210 and SOC 213 every term. Other SOC classes to be added on an as needed basis.
  2. Offer additional seated sections of POL 120 and/or POL 130 every term. Other POL classes to be added on an as needed basis.
Action Plan:
  1. Continue to utilize NCIH until a faculty member becomes SACS credentialed to teach these courses.
  2. Given the proximity of retirement of several faculty members in the department, will seek to recruit potential replacements who are dual credentialed with 18 graduate hours in sociology (SOC) and/or political science (POL).
  3. Review current staff and faculty (both full and part-time) as well as members in the community who may be interested in future positions and discuss the advantages how being dual credentialed would be beneficial to MCC. Administration and faculty will approach/discuss the potential future positions with viable candidates and develop a list to present to the Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and Department Faculty
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Review course schedules and enrollment data.
  2. Review list of viable candidates.
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: $0
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011.
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011.
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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: Add a skill and preparation drill for MAT 175, and a calculator drill in all classes except MAT 140.
Objectives: Students will be taught how to correctly and more effectively use some functions on scientific calculators, and Precalculus students will be provided with a drill for improving some basic algebra skills.
Action Plan:
  1. Students will be required to complete a drill (outside of class time) to increase their skill set in the areas of combining rational expressions, signs and factoring.
  2. Students will be taught how to correctly and more effectively use the parenthesis available on scientific calculators.
Person(s) Responsible: Math instructor
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy: Success on course exams will be used to gauge effectiveness.
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: none
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011
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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:
  1. Due to the anticipated state budget restrictions, the associate dean and each instructor will attend the general faculty meetings in Fall 2010 and Spring 2011.
  2. The associate dean will forward any professional development opportunities that become available that are cost-free (those that are sponsored by publishers, etc and possibly provide a stipend for registration or those that can be done over the internet).
  3. Coordinate with the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development for technology training for faculty members of the AA/AS department
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and faculty
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Emails
  2. Professional development log for all AA/AS faculty members
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: none
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011
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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 percentage of AA/AS faculty participation in supplemented courses on the Blackboard to 100%.
Objectives: Each permanent faculty member will have at least one supplemented Blackboard course in both fall and spring semesters.
Action Plan:
  1. Email the department with proposal.
  2. Complete the “Distance Learning Request Form”
  3. Post all possible handouts, grades, and necessary announcements onto the Blackboard course sites
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean, Distance Learning staff, department faculty
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Emails
  2. Distance Learning Request Forms
  3. Review the courses on the Blackboard
  4. Review the course list issued from Distance Learning
  5. Survey faculty to determine the practicality of the supplemented courses.
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Departmental
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011
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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.
Objectives:
  1. Schedule with a providing college at least five (5) courses via the NCIH and offer at least two (2) evening courses during block times in the fall and spring semesters.
  2. Schedule with a providing college one new course during the year that has never been offered before.
Action Plan:
  1. Request that the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development investigate the possible course offerings via NCIH.
  2. Schedule the courses via the NCIH.
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean and the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Emails
  2. Fall and Spring schedules
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: none (The offering community college pays for the instruction.)
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011
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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: Increase FTE by providing a course via the NCIH from MCC.
Objectives: Offer from MCC at least one (1) course via the the NCIH during the 2011 Spring Semester.
Action Plan:
  1. The Associate Dean will meet with the instructor and Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development about developing a course for the NCIH.
  2. The Associate Dean of AA/AS will assist the instructor as needed.
  3. Schedule the course via the NCIH.
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean, instructor, and the Director of Distance Learning/Faculty Professional Development
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Emails
  2. Notes of meetings
  3. Spring schedule
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: none (The offering community college pays for the instruction.)
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011
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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: Investigate the viability of adding the Associate Degree in Environmental Science to the AA/AS program.
Objectives: Expansion of the AA/AS program by adding Environmental Science.
Action Plan:
  1. The Associate Dean will work with the new Vice President of Instruction to properly notify SACS.
  2. Survey potential employers, potential students, and current students of the interest in this program.
  3. Complete the application process.
  4. If results are positive, submit program application by February 1, 2011.
  5. If results are positive, work with the grant writer and submit grant proposals to obtain funding for start up costs
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean, the Vice President of Instruction, and the Foundation Executive Director
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Notes of meetings
  2. Survey results
  3. Application
  4. Grant proposal
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Grant money
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011
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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: Improve the AA/AS programs and strengthen ties with the public and private schools and the community in the county by implementing an advisory council for the department.
Objectives: Get feedback and suggestions for the improvement of the department from a formed advisory council.
Action Plan:
  1. Reach out to school officials and community members and invite them to be a part of the advisory council.
  2. Meet with council members and elect officers.
  3. Meet as a council and discuss departmental issues
Person(s) Responsible: Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences
Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: March 2011
Assessment Strategy:
  1. Copies of letters sent to potential members
  2. Minutes of meetings
  3. Advisory Council report
Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: departmental
Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in March 2011
Use of Results: Will be completed in March 2011

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