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:
September 30, 2015
Submitted by:
Loraine Phillips
Progress toward goals for current reporting period:
August 31, 2015
Conference Call with Faculty Fellows and FC Steering Committee – Agreed that they
would respond to questions related to Susan’s form…first to share among each other and
then with Dr. Albertine, with final version completed by the February Project meeting.
September 2, 2015
Issued Call for Assessment Fellow
September 11,
2015
Faculty Fellow Doyle Carter volunteered to take the lead with the LEAP Texas Faculty
Fellows submitting an application to the DQP Assignment Library for the purposes of
sending a LEAP Texas Team to the Charette conducted in New Orleans in February. They
held a conference call and made assignments for First Year Experience, with the goal of a
timely submission by the deadline of Nov. 1, 2015.
September 15,
2015
George Siemens participated in the Hub Director Conference Call with Susan Albertine
Ongoing
Dr. Susan Albertine has initiated all communities of practice for HIPS, Assignments, DQP,
GEMS, and VALUE MSC. Our Faculty Fellows are represented throughout all communities
of practice.
September 22,
State Liaison Loraine Phillips and Hub Director George Siemens held a conference call to
discuss the Hub Director progress report format and the November Month-long Boot
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camp, which will focus on digital competencies. Both due September 25.
September 28,
2015
Received Applications for Assessment Fellows. Faculty Collaboratives Steering Committee
and LEAP Texas Executive Board members will review and evaluate the applications and
recommend a course of action to the LEAP Texas Board of Directors.
September 30
Faculty Fellow Terry DiPaolo volunteered 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:
Right now our largest challenge is lining out the structure of our Web site. From the progress we’re making
with our Hub Director, it appears that this Web site will be our “Hub.”
Continue to discuss Faculty Fellow Activities for both local and national needs.
Effective communication across a large state with busy people!
Suggestions or Questions for AAC&U FC Staff:
We very much appreciate the way that the Communities of Practice have been organized, which is very
helpful. For example, one of our Faculty Fellows, Terry DiPaolo, began his academic career in England where
Bologna is a mainstay of curriculum planning and review. With DQP origins in the Bologna process, seeing a
similar process unfold in a US Setting is illuminating and further articulates the purpose of DQP and Tuning.
Thanks AAC&U! And Thanks, Dr. Susan Albertine!
If our Web site is our “Hub,” how can we continue to enhance it to meet the needs of both our state and
AAC&U?
Please update your goals for the next reporting period:
Continue to enhance Web site.
Identify the Assessment Fellow.
Review Faculty Fellow Responses to Questions and Discuss.
Prepare for November Digital Boot Camp.
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Submit DQP Assignment Library application in a timely manner. (The Faculty Fellows will have a Conference Call
on October 9 at 10:00 to continue discussion on the application.)
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