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Issue
Cross-functionality and Separate Disciplines
Convener
Denise Menchaca
Participants
Betsy Hertzler
Linda Wegener
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Discussion:
Educational Structure Inherited From Industrial Age (Compartmentalition) - Need to move to information age (Linkages)
Integrated Studies
Engineering
Learning Communities - separate disciplines Group people who need to be dialoguing with each other. Social Science and ?
Ancient History, Anthropology and Archeology,. Into - student persistence and retention. Informal dialogue and get students together. Miss old days of handing out class cards and talk to colleagues. Kaleidoscope. Community faculty staff and students. Not only separate disciplines who could work together. Should be about people and not only disciplines.
MCC & GWCC - learning communities. Curriculum connections Research a specific topic - co-enrollment. Integrated studies class- a good way to dialogue with other faculty.
Establish communities - encourage informal dialogue, tutoring center, student center.
Possible model - current issue from perspective of a variety of disciplines.
How do we get cross functionality when I haven't even been in other areas for a long time?
Instructional issues addressed in a non-disciplinary perspective, e.g. collaborative learning, instructional techniques. Instructional issues that unite disciplines. Diversity, collaboratively, new instructional techniques,. Hear about issues that other disciplines are having - may find out other groups are having the same problems. Richard Levy article on six basic skills in the workplace. 50% of high school graduates do not have 9th grade level reading and math. These students are at our institutions. The other 50% go to the university.
Information age requires that students see linkages between areas (such as those on Internet). Student is the center - many other areas will find means of being connected. Information age - Internet - forms links between different pieces/forms of information. We are in a new age where we have to make linkages.
Believe that have a lot of information to teach them. Faculty say, "How can we do group learning?," or other new teaching methods. History - better to make connection of what happened with no dates.
Linkage is the important concept that needs to be promote.
Recommendations:
- Learning communities of various faculty, staff, students who are connected informally (tutoring center informal patio). RECOMMENDATION
- Interdisciplinary course such as IGS. RECOMMENDATION
- Kaleidoscope - faculty projects with informal discussion. RECOMMENDATION
- ENG 102/ discipline connections (co-enrollment). RECOMMENDATION
- Possible model - current issues from perspective of a variety of disciplines. RECOMMENDATION
- Colloquia (physical sciences) - professional, students RECOMMENDATION
- Professional dialogues between disciplines about application of learning from one discipline to another. RECOMMENDATION
- MESA project and other special projects which bring disciplines together for special mission. RECOMMENDATION
- Use of faculty governance committees to have purposeful dialogue. Some senate committees are not functional. Should be eliminated. Have committees that actually do things. Possible ACTION PLAN
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