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Notes 4-28-2006

Prerequisite Implementation Committee April 28, 2006 Notes

Committee Feedback on Recommendations:

  • Include Library Services
  • Consider Narrowing the scope by implementing Rdg 80 + 90 first
  • Advance the option to retest the placement test
  • Maintain ideas for bridge courses, study skills, front-loaded classes
  • Involve faculty in all “narrowing the scope” decisions
  • Involve IT early in Enrollment Services
  • Focus on ENNL students’ transition
  • (Mth 111 – HPE 295 not) necessary for transfer
  • Human contact/live conversation right after placement as a goal
  • Triangulate placement test w/high school coursework, retest, other scores
  • Provide brush-up courses prior to placement and on-line preparation
  • The soft touch the mandatory advising
  • Keep open access/open admission – focus on value-added
  • Figure out how to intermingle progress/success with this
         → in many circles
         → the impact
  • Teresa
         → recognize critical partners
         → learn from Gateway to College
  • The HST + ENNL