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Expansion of Mandatory Placement for Developmental Education and ESL Courses

This document discusses the current issue of mandatory enrollment in developmental courses for students with specific Accuplacer scores. It examines the necessity for co-requisites or pre-requisites for college-level English and Math courses, based on benchmarking with peer institutions that enforce similar requirements. The proposal recommends a review of all 100 and 200 level courses across departments to identify necessary developmental or ESL prerequisites, ensuring they are enforced to support student success and retention. Feedback is requested by March 25, 2014.

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Expansion of Mandatory Placement for Developmental Education and ESL Courses

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  1. Expansion of Mandatory Placement for Developmental Education and English as a Second Language (ESL) Courses Academic Governing Council March 11, 2014

  2. Team Members Lori Cook-Director Enrollment Vikki Cooper-Assoc. Professor English/ Dev. Ed Director Shanna Goff-Assoc. Professor Math/ Dev. Math Coordinator Fatima Nieves-Professor Counseling Julie Parks-Director MTEC Michelle Richter-Professor Nursing Raynard Ross- Assoc. Dean Student Success and Retention Jason Schuler-Enrollment Michael Vargo-Assoc. Dean School of Arts and Sciences

  3. Current Issue Currently students who place into developmental coursesare mandated to take those courses. These students are also able to enroll into 100and 200 level courses before successfully completing developmental courseswith a C- or higher.

  4. Issue Should we examine all college-level courses for developmental and ESL co-requisites or pre-requisites and enforce them?

  5. Current Policy Statement: GRCC students whose Accuplacer scores indicate that they need developmental coursework (in English, Math, or Reading) will be required to enroll in and pass that coursework before taking college-level English and Math courses, and other specified college-level courses.

  6. Benchmarking Lansing Community College Macomb Community College Mott Community College Valencia College Washtenaw Community College

  7. Findings All five colleges have co-requisites or prerequisites attached to almost all of their 100 and 200 level courses. All developmental coursework must be completed with a grade of “C” or better for successful completion and/or to advance to the next level of courses work.

  8. Recommendations Every department should establish a departmental review of all one hundred and two hundred level courses to determine if there are developmental or ESL prerequisites that must be completedprior to enrolling subsequent courses. Where there are developmental and ESL prerequisites attached to a 100 or 200 level course we should enforce the prerequisite.

  9. Feedback/ Questions Please send feedback to Vikki Cooper by March 25, 2014 at vcooper@grcc.edu.

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