Semester Conversion CPP Academic Senate March 12 th by F.A.Neto Semester Conversion Director 3/12/20141FAN

Semester Conversion Info Important information – Organizational Timeline – Committees – Assigned time distribution for committee work – Types of Curriculum development – Semester conversion support / funding 3/12/20142FAN

Organizational Formation Semester Conversion Director: Lina Neto – Serves as a link to all stakeholders – Leads the Steering Committee – Coordinates work Project Manager: Carol Gonzales – Schedule, task and budget coordination/tracking – Projects team communication and tools Steering Committee – Membership (total 23) – being formed Subcommittees – 7 subcommittees – being formed 3/12/2014FAN3

Steering committee membership Conversion Director, Chair of Committee Project Manager Chair of Academic Senate At-large students (2) At-large university staff member At-large academic dean At-large faculty members (2) Co-chairs of conversion subcommittees 3/12/2014FAN4

Conversion subcommittees (7) Administrative Services Advising Communications Curriculum Coordination Enrollment Services Faculty Affairs Information Technology 3/12/2014FAN5

Committees descriptions link committees.shtml#C2 committees.shtml#C2 3/12/2014FAN6

Assigned time distribution for calendar conversion committee chairs and co-chairs documents/Assigned%20Time%20Summary.pdf documents/Assigned%20Time%20Summary.pdf 3/12/2014FAN7

Possible Curriculum Actions Direct conversion Re-vision Addition of High Impact Practices (HIPs) that Link Theory and Practice documents/Revision%20descriptions.pdf documents/Revision%20descriptions.pdf 3/12/2014FAN8

Department funding requests Refer to – uments/curriculum-funding-form-instructions.pdf uments/curriculum-funding-form-instructions.pdf – uments/curriculum-funding-form.pdf uments/curriculum-funding-form.pdf 3/12/2014FAN9

Funding requests for staff / non-faculty support Currently being calculated Including – Administrative support work – Advising and student services – Report development – Information & logistics – etc. 3/12/2014FAN10

(Draft) Timeline – Working backwards Fall 2017 – – will be a semester, not quarter! September 2016 – – Advise students with finalized semester curriculum November 2015 – all program changes need to be ready for PeopleSoft and Catalog January 2015 – Departments submit last set of changes to Colleges End of Summer 2015 – Departments finish curriculum changes/revision 3/12/2014FAN11

When do we start? NOW! Call for the 1 st Steering Committee meeting during 2 nd week of Spring quarter – At the latest, Friday April 11 th, 2014 Steering Committee to decide on several items, e.g. – Semester calendar (length of terms) – timeline details and tasks coordination Departments submit application for curricular work by mid Spring quarter 3/12/2014FAN12

Next update… Update to the Senate on April 16 th on – Work started by Steering Committee – Proposals for semester calendar as guidance for curriculum development – Updates to timeline – Updates to budget 3/12/2014FAN13