Design Team Retreat Agenda
Wednesday 3/13 from 1:15 – 2:30PM in Pavilion Room 1
1. Welcome and introductions of new members (5 min)
2. Progress Reports and Plan of Action (30 min)
3. Working Group Break-outs (30 min)
4. Closing thoughts (10 min)
Spring 2014 Working Groups and Goals:
a. Support and Resources
i. Chair or Co-Chairs: _____________________
ii. Secretary: _____________________
iii. Membership: Julie Fitzgerald (faculty), Ashley Howell (ad hoc member, adjunct
faculty), Megan Chan (student) Katie Maricic (Reference & Instruction Librarian),
Kat McGee (Co-Chair)
iv. Goals:
1. Web-site maintenance: evaluate website as a platform for sharing
information, experiences, and best practices working with the CEC.
Tasks needed: refreshing website content, creation of talking points
“What is CEC?” page.
2. Research systems of communicating CEC policies to Adjunct Faculty at
the beginning of each semester. Systems will be implemented in Fall
2014.
3. Discuss strategies for populating the CEC Calendar more fully and for
increasing faculty, staff, and student utilization of the calendar.
b. Integration
i. Chair or Co-Chairs: _____________________
ii. Secretary: _____________________
iii. Membership: Sarah Stackhouse (chairperson), Nicole Pulliam (staff), Joe Connell
(staff), Abbe Benowitz (staff), Anisha Banerjee (student), Tracey Pastorini (staff)
iv. Goals:
1. Train Peer Facilitators annually in August. These are students who will
inform and support first-year students in completing the CEC
requirements in First-Year Seminar and beyond. Assess 2013 training
curriculum and materials, outreach to fall 2013 peer facilitators to
determine what was most effective for them.
2. Identify best practices for early integration of CEC into the fabric of
academic life at Ramapo, i.e. at open houses with Enrollment
Management, Dean’s welcomes, etc.
3. Review Transfer Student orientation to CEC requirements and
engagement as a part of the student culture at Ramapo College.
c. Evaluation
i. Chair or Co-Chairs: _____________________
ii. Secretary: _____________________
iii. Membership: Lysandra Perez-Strumolo (chairperson), Alfred Prettyman (ad hoc
member, adjunct faculty), Emily Abbey (Co-Chair), Sridevi Shivarajan (faculty)
iv. Goals:
1. Evaluate student learning and satisfaction via short surveys.
2. Research CEC bundling: assess students and faculty experience
working on CEC bundle for Spring 2014.
3. Survey faculty with an emphasis on support needed to effectively
implement CEC in their classes.
4. Groundwork for FY15 focus groups- review Middlestates
recommendations, prepare to conduct focus groups overall effectiveness
of the CEC. Target date for focus group completion: Fall 2014.
d. Progress Report
i. Chair or Co-Chairs: _____________________
ii. Secretary: _____________________
iii. Membership: Eric Daffron (staff), Zac Brower (student), Mark Skowronski
(Faculty, ASB)
iv. Goals:
1. Collect and document the progress the Design Team working groups
have made at the end of each semester via a report to the Design Team
Co-Chairs which may be shared on the Design Team website.
2. 2015 Middle states report preparation.
3. Maintain ARC syllabus information on CEC: evaluate for updates
needed.