3.4    Program Cluster Goals, Objectives, Resource Needs - Support Services

Support Services
Academic Commons

     
3.4A.1    Programs In This Cluster · Academic Commons: an Instructional/Technological Centering Point for VVC Students, Faculty and Community (Goal 1).
     · Certified Tutoring in approximately 45-55 Subject and/or Content Areas (Goal 2).
     · Media-Based Technological Delivery Systems (Goal 3).
     · Instructional Support Staff Training for the VVC Campus (Goal 4).
     · Language Laboratory Course Development and Delivery (Goal 5).
     · To study the health and nature of the Basic Skills program and consider improvements and growth alternatives (Goal 6).
     · General Study Skills Instruction and Distance Learning Study Skills Instruction to students involved in either or both, on or off, campus academic venues (Goal 7).
3.4B.1    Overall Goals For This Cluster    
Short Term:     · To facilitate a seamless psychological as well as physical move from the 1997-8 interim space to the Academic Commons so the instructional work there more fully complements the academic curriculum as approved by the faculty (Goal 1).
     · To introduce and use a more sophisticated and thorough registration and reporting program which reflects the range of Academic Commons' services (Goal 1).
     · To use that registration system to provide precise and readily available information for administration, faculty, students and special services as needed for the welfare of students and to gather FTE, ADA, and research information (Goal 1).
     · To model and teach other departments alternative modes of using technology to enhance learning, for example, to actively use two-way videoconferencing and satellite exchange between faculty and classes in multiple geographic settings, within the local communities, and within the state (Goal 4 and 3) [Cooperative activity with Instructional Media and the Learning Resource Center or Library].
     · To offer teaching and instructional assistance to teachers, full and part time, according to their needs through a certificated staff developer leader; to continue and improve tutor training services and in fact initiate volunteer and then required training for tutors and aides from all departments (Goal 2 and 4).
     · To configure the Language Laboratory; provide training for existing language, speech, theatre arts, sign language, ESL, music and other instructors and aides; set curriculum guidelines and then review all appropriate multi-media materials for selection; to select and install final materials (Goal 5).
     · To reexamine the course content, delivery and department or division role of the basic skills program currently offered through the Academic Commons (Goal 6).


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