August 29, 2007
Colleagues:
At the direction of the Academic Senate Co-Presidents, the Curriculum Committee is treating curriculum-related accreditation work as its highest priority during the Fall 2007 semester. The
Committee needs to be able to submit for inclusion in the October 15, 2007 accreditation report hard evidence that CR has made meaningful progress toward rewriting all official course outlines to incorporate Student Learning Outcomes and meaningful progress on the task of course outline inventory maintenance. We need to be able to demonstrate further progress still on these tasks when the Accreditation Team performs its mid-November 2007 site visit to CR, and our last opportunity to provide evidence of our work before the Team renders its final conclusions regarding CR’s accreditation status will be early December 2007.
To these ends, we request that division chairs and area coordinators/department chairs strongly urge their faculty to begin the following immediately:
1.
Complete the attached “Discipline/Department Curriculum Review Worksheet” and submit it to John Johnston, Curriculum Committee Chair, by Friday, September 21,
2007 . The completed form should provide an inventory of all active courses in the discipline as well as a description of who is doing what to each outline and when. I have attached a sample worksheet to use as a model. Also, I have attached a course inventory spreadsheet that lists all active CR courses and approval dates. Note that the sheet tabs at the bottom of the screen in this file list disciplines alphabetically. Simply click on the relevant discipline tab to access a list of all active courses in that discipline. All of these documents are available at the CR Accreditation Information and Evidence website at http://www.redwoods.edu/district/accreditation .
2.
Submit to the Curriculum Committee proposals to inactivate appropriate courses. The
Curriculum Committee suggests that one of the easiest ways for disciplines to show real progress on course outline inventory maintenance is to propose inactivation of courses that have not been offered for a number of years on any campuses and/or courses that are not to be offered in the foreseeable future on any campuses. Faculty proposing courses for inactivation should feel free to use the “Sample Course Inactivation Memo” attached to this email as a model. The sample memo is also linked on the CR Accreditation
Information and Evidence website. http://www.redwoods.edu/district/accreditation
IMPORTANT: In order for progress in this area to be included in the October 15 accreditation report, all proposals to delete courses must be received by the Curriculum
Committee Support Staff by 11:00am on Friday, October 5, 2007.
3.
Revise and submit all active official course outlines that have not been revised for more than five years to integrate Student Learning Outcomes by converting courses to the current outcomes-based official course outline form.

IMPORTANT: In order for progress in this area to be included in the October 15 accreditation report, all course outline rewrites must be received by the Curriculum
Committee Support Staff by 11:00am on Friday, October 5, 2007.
IMPORTANT: In order for further progress in this area to be demonstrated before the mid-November Accreditation Team site visit, course outline proposals must be received by the Curriculum Committee Support Staff by 11:00am on Friday, November 2, 2007.
IMPORTANT: To demonstrate evidence of progress in this area before the
Accreditation Team renders its final conclusions, course outline proposals must be received by the Curriculum Committee Support Staff by 11:00am on Friday, December
7, 2007.
Also, please remind faculty working on these projects of the resources available to them: a.
The Public Folders>Curriculum folder contains helpful documents on language for stating course objectives, a catalog description style sheet, flow charts illustrating the curriculum process, interactive official course outline forms, and many topics relevant to course outlines and Student Learning Outcomes. b.
Division Curriculum Committee members are knowledgeable and ready to help on any curriculum-related task. The majority of committee members have been on the
Curriculum Committee for at least a year and can provide valuable assistance to those working with course outlines. A list of Curriculum Committee Division representatives is included at the bottom of this email. c.
The Curriculum Committee chair is available to provide curriculum workshops for departments or divisions, to work individually with faculty submitting deletion proposals and/or course revisions…to do just about anything to make steps #1, #2, & #3 above happen as soon as possible.
Finally, please forward this email to all area coordinators/department chairs in your division, and communicate to all of your faculty colleagues that this work is extremely important and completing it is an essential step in securing CR’s continued accreditation. Err on the side of choosing to forward this to too many people rather than too few, and urge faculty in your division/discipline to begin this work immediately.
If you or your faculty have questions or would like to work closely with a Curriculum
Committee representative or the chair, please do not hesitate to contact me.
John Johnston
Curriculum Chair

Chair: John Johnston (2007-2009)
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