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Articulation 101

Articulation 101. Or, How Articulation Officers Can Help Strengthen Your Curriculum. 2008 Curriculum Institute Berta Cuaron, Palomar College Pam Deegan, Mira Costa College Kate Clark, Irvine Valley College Dave DeGroot, Allan Hancock College. Today’s Objectives.

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Articulation 101

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  1. Articulation 101 Or, How Articulation Officers Can Help Strengthen Your Curriculum 2008 Curriculum Institute Berta Cuaron, Palomar College Pam Deegan, Mira Costa College Kate Clark, Irvine Valley College Dave DeGroot, Allan Hancock College

  2. Today’s Objectives • What articulation means and how it’s achieved • How AOs serve your students • How AOs can broaden curriculum perspectives • How AOs can serve your curriculum process and promote its integrity • How AOs can further curriculum development • How AOs promote the quality, comparability, and currency of Course Outlines of Record (CORs) • How the institution can support AOs

  3. Articulation Defined • High School to College • CTE • Early College • Basis for Transfer • General Education: IGETC or CSU GE-Breadth • Transferable Major Preparation Courses • 4-2-4 Transfers • Intrasegmental Transfer (CC to CC) • Bilateral Agreements between CCC and baccalaureate granting institutions (public and private): C-to-C • Course-to-Course • College-by-College • Contact-by-Contact

  4. Tools of the Articulation Trade • CIAC (California Intersegmental Articulation Council) http://ciac.csusb.edu/ciac/ • List-serv http://ciac.csusb.edu/ciac/mailinglist.html • Handbook http://ciac.csusb.edu/ciac/handbook.html • Mentors • Regional and State Meetings http://ciac.csusb.edu/ciac/calendar.html • ASSIST: www.assist.org OSCAR • Transfer Center Website: www.cacctcw.org • Local or Regional Memberships

  5. Articulation Officers Assist Students • Access to current information needed for smooth transfer • Changes in major preparation requirements impacting readiness • Advisement information • Connections to counseling faculty • Advocacy for students’ best interests

  6. AOs Bring Another Perspective to Local Curricular Decisions • Emergent Trends • Broadened Intersegmental Contacts • Catalogue Contents • External Deadlines • ASSIST Updates • UC Transfer Course Agreements (TCA) • IGETC/CSU GE-Breadth • System Office Curriculum Summaries • Multi-College District Restrictions

  7. AOs Promote the Integrity of the Curriculum Process • Contributions to a Technical Review • Expectations of UC, CSU • Responses to IGETC (Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum) Guidelines • Compliance Issues and Appropriateness as a Lower Division Course • Awareness of other published expectations • LDTP www.calstate.edu/acadaff/ldtp/index.shtml • UC Transfer Pathways www.uctransfer.org • C-ID • Professional organizations

  8. Articulation Officers Can Promote Curriculum Development • Suggest new courses or programs • Negotiate with university AOs on behalf of departmental faculty • Identify similar courses at other colleges (OSCAR) and provide models • Work one-on-one with faculty • Encourage interdepartmental collaboration • Assist in development of curriculum management systems

  9. Course Outlines of Record (CORs): Quality • Elements of Quality • Papers and Handbooks in Binder • Rigor • Integrated Outline • Accurate Reflection of Actual Course • Special information • Honors, dated texts

  10. Need for Comparability Comparable lower division UC/CSU Courses Units Prerequisites Content Currency and nature of books Comparability to other CCC courses Assignments and Methods of evaluation Learning outcomes/Course objectives Explicit lab components and lab manual Course Outlines of Record (CORs): Comparability and Currency

  11. Need for Currency of CORs Student Right-to-Know Accreditation Stipulation for Articulation Institutional Support and Enforcement Course Outlines of Record (CORs): Comparability and Currency

  12. Institutional Support for Articulation • Articulation Assistance: Human and spatial resources • Replacement of Lost Grant $5000 • Memberships • Travel • CIAC Meetings, Counselor Conferences (UC,CSU, USC) • Regional Meetings (2-7 times each year) • ASCCC Institutes and Plenary Sessions • Training • Duplication and Training of Faculty/Flex • Supplies and Equipment

  13. Other Questions? Thank you for coming.

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