February 11, 2009
Vol. I, No. 8
Wheeler Notes
On Growing Summer School Part I – Becoming
Transient Student Friendly:
For a variety of reasons it is important to grow the
summer school. On the one hand, more healthy summer
enrollments will provide more opportunities for faculty
members to teach in the summer. On the other hand, with
healthier enrollments, we can provide broader
opportunities for students. One route to growing summer
school would involve increasing the number of transient
students who return home for the summer and choose to
take courses at Gordon College. [This is a particularly
nice group to have on our campus because, should they
have a good experience with Gordon instructors, they
might choose to return as our students later.] In an effort
to become a more transient friendly campus we are taking
the following steps:
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Ms. Barras is soliciting names and addresses of
local students who matriculate at some of our sister
institutions (UGA, Valdosta, Georgia Southern
University, …). We will use this information to
send letters or emails to these students reminding
them of our summer offerings and our convenient
location.
As each transient student is accepted, he or she will
be able to register on-line as soon as all current
Gordon students have had a shot at pre-registration.
[Transient students are advised by their home
institution and arrive with specified courses that
they can take.]
Division heads are going to work to be flexible
with enrollment caps for non-lab courses that are
popular with transient students. [It would be
unfortunate to recruit a transient student but not be
able to provide courses when they arrive. Healthy
transient enrollments in this summer may mean
more sections in future summers.]
On Growing Summer School Part II – Encouraging
Summer Enrollment of New Freshmen: Over the next
few years we are going to work on ways to encourage
new freshmen to begin their studies in the summer after
high school. This year we are going to focus on getting
students with heavy learning support requirements to
address some of those requirements in the second summer
session. We believe that it would serve the students if
they had the opportunity to remove learning support
requirements before the Fall and, more importantly, to
sharpen critical learning skills.
Lessons from GPC: Our offices recently received the
advising handbook developed at Georgia Perimeter
College. Though much inferior to the handbook created
by our own Drs. Schliecker and Aiello (tongue partially
in cheek), there are two tidbits that are worth including in
our advising conversation:
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The theme of the GPC work is: “Advising is
teaching!” For institutions that serve a
population of first-generation college students,
this is an essential concept to understand.
Withdrawing from a course has the potential to
affect financial aid. Students must pass 67% of
courses attempted to continue to receive financial
aid and a withdrawal after the drop/add period is
counted as an attempt. We need to make this part
of our conversation with students who too
casually seek to drop a course.
Taking a Look at Post-Tenure Review: This winter,
Dr. Hyde has led a committee through a careful
examination of the Faculty Statutes, and, in the process,
she has discovered some interesting items. One such item
lives in Section B-7 of the Statutes, the section that
describes the post-tenure review process. It reads, “Not
later than five years after these procedures [post-tenure
review procedures] have been initiated, they will be
reviewed … the VPAA will appoint a committee of at least
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one faculty member from each division to evaluate these
procedures and report to the full faculty. The full faculty
will vote to revise or keep these procedures.” We clearly
have missed our five year deadline, but the principle still
needs attention. We need to review the procedures put in
place and make sure that they are accomplishing all that
we would want them to accomplish.
With this goal in view, I have asked Dr. Mayo to
chair a committee consisting of himself and Professors
Adams, Barnard, Glenn, McCormick and Patton to
review the post-tenure review materials in the Statutes
and report to the faculty on any modifications they would
suggest to the process. If this distinguished group looks
familiar, it is because these are the same folks you elected
last Fall to serve as your post-tenure review appeal
committee. I think that this committee is uniquely well
situated to perform this task. The committee will hold its
first meeting in mid to late February. If you have any
ideas on this issue, please communicate them to the
committee in the near future.
Gen Ed. Faculty:
Group conference
Librarian:
Conference
Tour of Library/Learning Resource
Center
Plant Ops:
Transportation from airport
HR:
Review faculty records
All:
Extend a hearty welcome to the
visitors
Thank you all for your continued support of the nursing
program.
Moore Notes
Members of the M&NS Division have been busy judging
area Science Fairs. Those judging at Griffin High were
Dr. Richard Tsou, Dr Beike Jia, Dr Cathy Lee, Dr.
Joscelyn Jarrett, Dr. Theresa Stanley, Dr. Marwan
Zabdawi, and Dr. Cris Ennis. Those judging at
Spalding High were Dr. Alan Gahr, Dr. Richard
Schmude, and Dr. Cris Ennis.
Baskin Notes
The Bookstore will host a book signing for Dr. David
Janssen and Dr. Ed Whitelock’s book, “Apocalypse
Jukebox” on February 18, 2009, 2:00-3:00.
Clarification of item in the DeaNotes January issue:
“Advisors: New Regents’ Test Information,” third bullet:
“All students who sign up for the test but do not take it will
suffer the same penalty as described in the item above.”
Cranford Notes
The Division of Nursing & Health Sciences is very
pleased to announce that after a full nine-year
accreditation by the National League for Nursing
Accrediting Commission we are about to engage in the
reaccreditation process. The nursing faculty self-study
group led by Anne Purvis who served as Chair and editor,
spent many long and intense hours in preparing a quality
document. We would like to thank Sue Gilpin and Linda
Littiken for their patience and the many hours they spent
in preparing the self-study book.
What are expectations of the Gordon College faculty and
staff?
Administrators:
Conf lasting thirty minutes to an
hour
Support Personnel:
Group conference
Nursing Faculty:
Group conference
Classroom observation
Visit to clinical sites
Dr. Richard Schmude just had another publication. This
one was in the 2009 edition of the Journal of the
Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. It was
“Mars: Photometric and Polarization Studies in 20052008”.
Deadlines and Dates
Feb 14(Sat)
Call for Proposals—Paragraph
Summaries due for Teaching Matters
Conference
Feb 26(R)
Southern Culture Series
Mar 5(R)
Midterms
Mar 6(F)
Residence Halls Close for Spring
Break
Mar 9-13(M-F)
Spring Break for Faculty & Students
Mar 15(Sun)
Residence Halls Reopen
Mar 18(W)
Graduation Fair
Mar 18(W)
Ga History & US Constitution Exam
Mar 23, 24, 25
Regents’ Testing Program
Mar 26((R)
Southern Culture Series
Mar 30-Apr 17
Early Registration for Continuing
Students
Apr 17-19(F-Sun) Alumni Weekend
Apr 20-May 21
Open Registration
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Deadlines and Dates cont’d
Apr 28(T)
May 4(M)
May 5-8(T-F)
May 7(R)
Regents’ Test Results Available
Last Day of Classes
Final Exams
New Student Orientation
Group Advising & Registration
May 16(Sat)
Graduation
May 21(M)
Early Registration/Open Registration
Payment Deadline for 1st Session &
Full Session Classes
May 25(M)
Memorial Day Holiday
May 26(T)
Open Registration & Last day to
Withdraw & Receive Full Tuition for
1st & 2nd Session Classes
May 27(W)
1st Summer Session & Full Session
Classes Begin
May 27-28(W,R) Drop-Add & Late Registration
May 28 (R)
Last day to receive a Refund for
Reduction of Hours for 1st & 2nd
Session Classes. Payment deadline
for Late Registration & Drop/Add
May 28(R)
Last Day to Registrar for Regents’
Test
June 8 (M)
Midterm for 1st Session Classes
Last Day to Withdraw & Receive W
June 17(W)
New Student Orientation
Group Advising & Registration for
Fall Semester
June 17 (W)
Ga History & US Constitution Exam
June 17-24(W-W) Drop/Add
Open/Late Registration (2nd session)
June 18 (R)
Regents’ Testing Program
June 19(F)
Midterm for Full Session Classes and
All Evening Classes
Last Day to Withdraw & receive W
June 22 (M)
Final Exams for 1st Session Classes
Last Day to Withdraw & Receive full
Tuition Refund for 2nd Session
Classes
June 23 (T)
2nd Session Classes Begin
June 24(W)
Last Day to Receive Refund for
Reduction of Hours for 2nd Session
June 24(W)
July 3 (F)
July 6 (M)
Last Day to Receive Refund for
Reduction of Hours for 2nd Session
Classes. Payment Deadline &
Deadline for Late Registration and
Drop/Add for 2nd Session Classes
Independence Day Holiday
Midterm for 2nd Session Classes
Last Day to Withdraw & Receive W
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