FC Progress Reports
FACULTY COLLABORATIVES
Academic Year 2015-2016
Phase 1 and Phase 2
Please complete and send to Susan Albertine at albertine@aacu.org by the following dates:
2015 Dates: September 30th; October 31st; December 18th
2016 Dates: March 31st; April 29th; May 27th
August 1, 2016– Phase 1 Final Report DUE; Phase 2 – Annual Report DUE
Please indicate in your email if we may post your report to the public Toolkit.
State/Collaborative:
LEAP Texas
Date submitted:
December 18, 2015
Submitted by:
Loraine Phillips
Progress toward goals for current reporting period:
November 5
Planning Committee Conference Call for the 3rd Annual LEAP Texas Forum to be held
February 22-23, 2016 in San Antonio.
November 10
Faculty Collaboratives State Liaison Conference Call
November 16
LEAP Texas Fellows Conference Call to solidify Meeting plans for the LEAP Texas SACSCOC
Affiliate Meeting in Houston, Texas on December 7.
November 20
Loraine Phillips visited with George Siemens. He has decided to stop work on the Faculty
Collaboratives initiative. He wants the project to move forward.
November 30
Faculty Collaboratives State Liaison Conference Call
Early December
Terry DiPaolo of the LeCroy Center of the Dallas County Community College District
agreed to serve as the Hub Director. (He was a Faculty Fellow.)
December 6
The Faculty Fellows, Assessment Fellows, Hub Director, and State Liaison met in Houston
at the Hilton Americas across from the Convention Center to further discuss our plans
now moving forward. Very productive.
December 7
LEAP Texas held a SACSCOC Affiliate Group Meeting in Houston at the George R. Brown
Convention Center. SACSCOC covered our meeting room costs. See here:
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http://leaptx.org/events/2015-sacscoc-affiliate-group-meeting/.
We had an excellent agenda and heard from the following:
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The State Liaison, Loraine Phillips
Assessment Fellows, Chris Duke and Larry King
Faculty Fellows, Doyle Carter and Jennifer Edwards
GEMS Pathways Project (UNT, Collin College, DCCCD), Dani Day and Karen Mongo
THECB and the MSC, Rex Peebles
Handouts are posted!
December 10
We discovered that the LEAP Texas Faculty Fellows’ DQP Charrette Application: “A Texas
Perspective on the Freshman Seminar Course,” was accepted by the National Institute for
Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). Everyone is excited about this! The event will
take place on February 20, 2016 in New Orleans.
December 14
A few of us participated in the VALUE/MSC Twitter Chat, especially Chris Duke and
Loraine Phillips. It was a chance to interact with others on this topic!
On-going
Our new Hub Director, Terry DiPaolo, continues to work with Tiffany Hearne and State
Liaison Loraine Phillips on the Faculty Collaboratives Web presence. So far, we have this:
http://leaptx.org/faculty/. More work is needed.
Please describe any current challenges you are facing in meeting your FC Project goals:
We are now doing a better job identifying the deliverables for the Faculty Fellows. We will continue to do this
over the next month or so, especially now that our Hub Director is in place and can help. In addition, we are
interested in having a one-to-one match of the Faculty Fellows and the Proficiency Initiatives so that we can
be more specific about the work of the fellows, as well as our Web and content development.
Suggestions or Questions for AAC&U FC Staff:
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We are hoping for Team Time during our New Orleans trip. We’re very excited for this chance for us to all be
together! We will want feedback on our plans as they are now coming together.
Thanks for helping us get our Assessment Fellows, Larry King and Chris Duke, to the Project meeting!
Please update your goals for the next reporting period:
Continue to enhance the LEAP Texas Faculty Collaboratives Web site.
Participate in an excellent Project Meeting in New Orleans in February! (Thanks for including our Assessment
Fellows!)
Hold the 3rd Annual LEAP Texas Forum in San Antonio, Texas on February 22-23, 2016: The LEAP Challenge:
Signature Work and VALUE-able Assessment. See here: http://leaptx.org/events/third-annual-forum/.
The State Liaison and the Hub Director, Terry DiPaolo, wish to work with the Fellows to line out the Fellows’
work in more concrete ways, especially now that the Hub Director is on board.
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