Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline Van Ingen-Dunn, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

community college.1 When the student has chosen amajor, a second major decision needs to be made: to go on to a university and to select auniversity.Each fall, for many years some 300 students transfer in the fall into the Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering at Arizona State University (ASU) with additional students transferring in thespring. Over half of these students transfer from the MCCCD. This decision is not an easy one.The community college students leave a small, friendly environment to major in engineering orcomputer science at the largest single college campus in the nation with over 53,000 students.On this campus they feel like freshmen all over again: parking is a nightmare, the pace of theclasses is fast, the easy courses have already

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

student surveys show overwhelmingly positive studentperception of the effects of this model of classroom environment on their learning experience.These results indicate that the interactive classroom environment developed using wirelessTablet PCs has the potential to be a more effective teaching pedagogy compared to traditionalinstructor-centered teaching environments, and should be applied to math, science and otherengineering courses with traditionally high attrition rates.1. INTRODUCTIONThe fundamental problem addressed by this study is the lack of active participation of studentsduring classroom instruction in the traditional 50-minute lecture setting. Studies have longshown that the traditional instructor-centered lecture format is an

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Robert Alldredge, Allan Hancock College

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Two Year College Division

Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; James Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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Two Year College Division

“in-house,” whichlimits the number of automotive service technicians available for the growing hybrid market.There is a clear need for a systematic training program on HEV. The goal of the project is to fillthis need by developing an integrated learning environment for HEV technology.In order to develop this program, a partnership was formed between faculty of MCC automotivetechnology program and the engineering technology program at WSU. The partnership alsoincludes industrial partners from major automobile manufacturers and suppliers. The activitiesfor the project include (1) Developing an HEV curriculum and integrating it with the existingAssociate of Applied Science program in Automotive Technology; (2) Revising existing coursesand

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Richardson, College of the Canyons; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Joseph Gerda, College of the Canyons; Floyd Moos, College of the Canyons

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Two Year College Division

permanentlylost to the program. The problem may even undermine the efforts of department chairs to build asuccessful program or even to sustain the success of one. Arguing that some programs live ordie on the success of their adjuncts is not overreaching.Part-time faculty members have long been fundamental to the operation of community colleges.According to the American Association of Community Colleges, part-time teachers compose upto 66 percent of the public community college faculty across the nation.1 Even though we knowthem more as a shadowy campus presence, operating more in the background than theforeground, we have come to understand how collectively crucial they are to the education of ourstudents. And, when we think about it, we know how

Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Ellen Hause, AACC; Benjamin Taylor, Seminole Community College

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Two Year College Division

year 2002 somesixty-three community colleges had received grants that directly addressed the IT workforcetraining needs of their local communities [1]. To a great extent, the success of this program wasdue to the vision and generous philanthropy of the Microsoft Corp., the expertise of the AACCmanagement team who oversaw the program on a day-to-day basis, and the dedication of thecommunity college faculty and administrators that took part in the mentoring process.It should be noted that prior to the Working Connections program and the start of the NationalScience Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program in the early 1990’s, mostcommunity college faculty worked in relative isolation with very little contact with colleaguesthat

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

offered to all qualified current and previousEDGE students, with the possibility to continue with a Pre-Calculus course offered onSaturdays during the spring 2007 semester.Program DetailsAs in previous years, EDGE students were required to meet the same admission requirements asother college-level students, and paid only a $25 entry fee. And like the previous eight week Page 12.1426.2programs, students attended the two classes in the morning from 9:00 AM to noon, Mondaythrough Friday with afternoon activities consisting of supervised study (SS1) and student success(SS2) sessions from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. This year the program accepted one group of

Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

-year programs9 as guidelines would have multipleadvantages.1. It would provide a structured framework for assessment, evaluation, and continuous Page 12.1449.4 improvement of the program. This is especially important with the multitude of programs offered by various community colleges and within community college districts. Objective standards would serve both transferring and receiving institutions when making comparisons among collaborating or between competing programs.2. It would help students and their families choose the most effective programs that would be transferable to four-year institutions and prepare them for lifelong

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Duane Akroyd, North Carolina State University

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Two Year College Division

whichworking professionals can be recruited to fill shortages in community college faculty teachingpositions in STEM fields. It also provides a means whereby current community college facultycan upgrade their instructional skills.Project GoalsThe key goal for the online Community College Teaching certificate program is to provide highquality content and instruction for the systematic development of instructional expertise forregional community college instructors. Questions addressed during the first three years are:1. Does the program meet the educational needs of adult and distance learners from diverse backgrounds and cultures?2. Does the Program develop and enhance knowledge and skills for understanding the diverse ways and settings in which