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COMPREHENSIVE STANDARD CS P12:
The institution places primary responsibility for the content,
quality, and effectiveness of its curriculum with its faculty.
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Compliance |
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Partial Compliance |
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Non-Compliance |
Collin County Community College District (CCCCD) faculty
have primary responsibility for the content, quality, and
effectiveness of the curriculum (References
1, 2). Proposed changes to the credit-earning curriculum
at CCCCD are reviewed by the Curriculum Advisory Board (CAB)
(Reference 3). The CAB is comprised
of faculty representatives from each division, who are appointed
to serve three-year rotating terms. The CAB is charged with
reviewing all changes in curricula or Catalog listings,
including the addition of new courses and programs in any
division, and making curriculum recommendations to the Vice
President of Academic Affairs. The CAB deliberations result
in a further strengthening of the proposed curricular changes.
A comprehensive review of the CCCCD general education core
curriculum was conducted from Fall 2001 through Spring 2003
by the General Education Outcomes (GEO) Forum, a task force
consisting of faculty members from all instructional divisions
that offer courses in the core curriculum (Reference
4).
The Faculty Online Group reviews new online courses, following
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) guidelines
(References 5, 6) and CCCCD internal
guidelines. At CCCCD online courses are approved only if
the faculty member proposing them has already taught the
course on-site. In addition, experienced faculty members
collaborate to write generic syllabi for each course within
a discipline (Reference 7). Syllabi
are reviewed annually by department members for accuracy
and currency. These generic syllabi outline the expected
learning outcomes of the course, in order to ensure course
transferability. Faculty may also utilize individual instructor
syllabi, which provide greater course-section specifics
to students.
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