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November 21, 2016 MEMORANDUM TO: Board of Trustees, Vermont November 21, 2016 MEMORANDUM TO: Board of Trustees, Vermont State Colleges FROM: Martha O’Connor, Chair Jeb Spaulding, Chancellor SUBJECT: Materials for Board of Trustees Meeting November 30, 2016 Attached are the agenda and supporting materials for the upcoming regular Board meeting, Wednesday, November 30th. Wednesday will begin at 9 a.m. sharp with a Finance & Facilities Committee meeting. The Board meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a presentation by President Joyce Judy and her staff. Materials for the Committee and Board meetings are available on your iPads and in the Board portal. Meetings will take place in the Great Room on the first floor of the CCV Montpelier Academic Center, at 660 Elm Street. Here is a link for directions: https://goo.gl/maps/scKvfCSfynA2 We will break for lunch at noon to hold a luncheon in honor of our retiring General Counsel Bill Reedy. We will resume the Board meeting at 1:30 p.m. cc: VSC Board of Trustees Council of Presidents Academic Deans Business Affairs Council Student Affairs Council Board of Trustees Meeting November 30, 2016 Community College of Vermont Montpelier, Vermont BOARD OF TRUSTEES Martha O’Connor, Chair (2/28/17) M. Jerome “Jerry” Diamond Karen Luneau, Secretary (2/28/19) (2/28/17) Rep. Eileen “Lynn” Dickinson Chris Macfarlane (2/28/20) (2/28/19) Morgan Easton Rep. Jim Masland (5/31/17) (2/28/18) Kraig Hannum Linda Milne, Treasurer (2/28/17) (2/28/21) J. Churchill Hindes Michael Pieciak (2/28/21) (2/28/21) Rep. Tim Jerman, Vice Chair Aly Richards (2/28/18) (2/28/19) Rep. Bill Lippert, Jr. Governor Peter Shumlin (2/18/20) (ex officio) Board Committees Education, Personnel Audit & Student Life Executive Linda Milne, Chair Kraig Hannum, Chair Martha O’Connor, Chair Lynn Dickinson, Vice-Chair Jim Masland, Vice-Chair Tim Jerman, Vice-Chair Church Hindes Lynn Dickinson Karen Luneau Karen Luneau Karen Luneau Linda Milne Michael Pieciak Mike Pieciak Morgan Easton Finance & Facilities Long Range Planning Church Hindes, Chair Jerry Diamond, Chair Chris Macfarlane, Vice-Chair Karen Luneau, Vice Chair Jerry Diamond Lynn Dickinson Tim Jerman Kraig Hannum Bill Lippert Church Hindes Linda Milne Tim Jerman Aly Richards Board Meeting Dates September 22-23, 2015 Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT December 2-3, 2015 Vermont Technical College – Randolph Campus February 12-13, 2016 Johnson State College May 25-26, 2016 Lyndon State College July 20-21, 2016 Castleton University September 28-29, 2016 Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT VSC Chancellor’s Office Jeb Spaulding, Chancellor Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Stephen Wisloski Vice President and General Counsel William Reedy Executive Assistant to the Chancellor Elaine Sopchak Chief Academic and Academic Technology Officer Yasmine Ziesler Chief Information Officer Dianne Pollak Director of External and Governmental Affairs Tricia Coates Director of Facilities Richard Ethier Director of Human Resources Nancy Shaw Director of Institutional Research Hope Baker-Carr Director of Payroll and Benefits Tracy Sweet Controller Deborah Robinson Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Community College of Vermont Montpelier Academic Center November 30, 2016 AGENDA All meetings to take place in the Great Room on the first floor 9 AM – 10:15 Finance & Facilities Committee Meeting 10:30 – 12 PM Presentation: Twenty Years of Online Learning at CCV To celebrate its 20th anniversary, CCV’s Center for Online Learning will offer a look at online education from the perspectives of both faculty and students. A long-time online faculty member will show how online courses can be as engaging and interactive as on-ground courses, and a panel of students will reflect on their experiences as online learners. 12 – 1:15 PM Luncheon in honor of Retiring General Counsel Bill Reedy 1:30 – 5 PM Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Reflections on 20 Years of Online Learning at CCV by Eric Sakai, Dean of Academic Technology When CCV ran its first online course in spring 1996, many of our current students had not yet been born. There was no YouTube, no Twitter, no Facebook—in fact, the public internet was barely five years old, and online learning was regarded warily by many in higher education. As CCV now celebrates 20 years of online learning, students move as easily from on-ground to online classrooms as they do from desktop computers to smartphones. Every semester, over a third of CCV students take an online course, and 83% of our 2016 graduates took at least one. At CCV, online learning has always been about access. Just a year before we launched that first online course, CCV’s President’s Council had been pondering the problem of not being able to deliver all of our academic programs to students at all 12 of our academic centers. Several of our centers served—and still serve—student populations too small to support course offerings in all programs. It appeared that we would have to advise some students of the need to limit their aspirations to certain degree programs or plan YEARS on driving long distances to a larger CCV center. Fortunately, at about the same time, CCV’s Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) was exploring a new approach to course delivery. Emboldened by the success of the 1992 Virtual Campus project, Center for which brought the transformative communication medium of email Online to our far-flung college, the ETC decided that it was time to test the Learning waters in the new field of distance education. Honestly, we had little 2 expertise in academic technology, but at the urging of then-Dean of Administration Tim Donovan, the ETC decided to venture a single online course for the spring 1996 semester. 0 At the time, there were few models to emulate. There was no Moodle or anything like what is now known as a learning management system, and only a handful of colleges and universities had developed online platforms for access to course materials and instruction. We ended up cobbling together an online course using electronic bulletin board software and a web page built by a tech- savvy CCV office manager, Megan Tucker. CCV’s first online course was Introduction to Political Science, taught by the late Bill MacLeay, a Johnson State External Degree Program mentor and faculty member. Because we were launching an untried delivery system, we decided to offer the course free to 25 pioneering CCV students. We were pleasantly surprised by the success of the course, which included a rather daring experiment with a guest “speaker,” Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who participated in an online chat session with students. Three more online courses followed in the fall, including a second offering of MacLeay’s Introduction to Political Science, along with The Constitution, taught by Anne Buttimer, and Science Fiction Literature, taught by CCV academic coordinator John Christensen. John became the guiding light of online learning at CCV, growing the program from those three initial offerings to what is now the largest provider of online courses in Vermont, with over 300 course sections offered each semester. Sadly, John lost a long fight with cancer in 2015, but he remains the inspiration for those of us who, as John liked to put it, “toil beneath the decks” at CCV’s Center for Online Learning. Anne, another inspiring online teacher, continues to teach criminal justice and business courses to this day. New technologies have expanded the curricular breadth of distance education. Who would have thought 20 years ago that CCV would offer courses like Anatomy and Physiology, Drawing I, and Effective Workplace Communication online? The majority of CCV’s 15 degree programs and seven certificates can now be completed entirely online, although most students mix on-ground courses with online courses that allow them to fit college studies into busy work and family schedules. Advances in the delivery of videoconference-based courses at CCV and the VSC promise another option to help students progress toward their degrees. As we celebrate two decades of online learning at CCV, we are also extremely proud of what has not changed. Our online courses are still small, averaging 14 students rather than the more typical 25 elsewhere, which allows them to be as richly interactive as our classroom courses. They still conform to the same College-prescribed learning objectives required of on-ground courses, and students benefit from online advising, tutoring, and other support services also available at CCV academic centers. Almost 80% of CCV online students complete their courses successfully—the same high rate as that of on-ground students and including nearly 200 high school students who learn online through Vermont’s Dual Enrollment program. One student’s reflections about an online course mirror the 20-year trajectory of this now- essential learning mode at CCV: “I’ve never taken an online class, and to be honest I struggled a bit in the beginning. However, as the weeks have gone on, I’ve gotten the hang of it. This course challenged me, which is good. I’ve learned so much in the past 13 weeks, it’s been a great experience.” We feel the same way and hope all of our online students do, too, over the next 20 years and beyond. Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Community College of Vermont Montpelier Academic Center November 30, 2016 AGENDA A. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION 1. Presentation: School-to-Work by Trustee Masland 2. Consent agenda a. Approval of September 28-29, 2016 Retreat & Meeting Minutes b. Approval of the July 14, 2016 Special Meeting Minutes 3. Approval of Name for Unified Institution 4. Report of the Education, Personnel & Student Life Committee a.
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