Action to be Taken
Program Administration
Faculty meeting:
Curricular integrations
project, discuss strategies,
general check-in with
faculty.
Next Step administration,
record keeping and
correspondence with lead
school.
Next Step Faculty Institute
SUNY Canton – Verizon NEXT STEP Action Plan
August, 2009
By When By Whom
Update(s)
Comments
Spring,
2009
Fall, 2009
All faculty
Ongoing
Stacia Dutton
Reply to lead schools request within a
timely manner; maintain better record
keeping for program.
June 2007
All Faculty
Encourage faculty to attend so that all
disciplines are represented at the Faculty
Institute.
Program Coordinator’s
meeting
Curriculum Revisions
April
2009
Fall 2009
Stacia Dutton
Tutorial support: Encourage
additional tutoring
opportunities for students.
Fall 2009
Stacia Dutton
Ongoing
(as
needed)
Stacia Dutton
Faculty Development
New Faculty Orientation
SCAN Review, Fall 2009
Spring meeting held on May
5th at 4:00pm
Stacia attended PC meeting
on 4/20 and 4/21
Stacia Dutton and
faculty in each
discipline
Communicate curriculum revisions to
faculty. If necessary, move them through
the governance process.
Will attend faculty institute
workshops on Skype and
Dim Dim to determine if
these are viable options for
our long distance students.
Provide additional tutoring services for
current and accepted students. Will work
with faculty of each discipline to
communicate availability of tutoring
resources to students.
Will identify faculty “mentors”; faculty
orientation will be offered at the end of
each semester as new faculty are assigned
to courses;
Blackboard training for
faculty
Ongoing
Stacia Dutton
(as
needed)
Blackboard Course Management & Next Step email
Faculty to continue to use
Ongoing
All faculty
Next Step Blackboard site
and e-mail system
Participate in appropriate
Ongoing
All faculty
Next Step communities
within Blackboard.
Umbrella Competencies
Faculty discussions about
strategies, use,
implementation, and
evaluation of the umbrella
competencies.
Faculty discussions about
strategies, use,
implementation, and
evaluation of the umbrella
competencies.
Ongoing
All faculty
Ongoing
All faculty
In order to keep pace with new
information regarding curriculum changes
and the curriculum integration project,
faculty are encourage to visit appropriate
communities within the NSP Bb site.
Work on ways to make the umbrella
competencies more apparent to our
students; Will begin by each faculty
selecting a competency and exploring it in
their teaching;
Create a system for better documentation
of how competencies are implemented.
Will determine strategy for how to
connect competencies in courses;
Curriculum Integration Project
Curriculum Integration
Ongoing
J. Beider, R.
Bardeschewski, S.
Fetcie, S. Adams
Development of Curriculum
Integration Projects and
activities
Ongoing
All faculty
Laptops
SCAN Review, Fall 2009
Find pairs of instructors to
work together on the
integration project.
At Spring 09 faculty meeting, discuss this
topic with instructors. Especially
Integrating topics from Telecom I and
Electronics I with topics from Circuits,
Physics, Digital Courses and Computer
Apps
Dialog between teams of faculty in order
to create projects that cross semester
lines.
Installations of new
software, updates, and
maintenance
Ongoing
(as
needed)
Stacia Dutton
Use of laptops by students in
all courses
Ongoing
All faculty
Maintenance of laptops
records
Ongoing
Stacia Dutton
SCAN Review, Fall 2009
Working to improve record keeping
system inherited by past PC.