Building New Baccalaureate Programs

1. Building New Baccalaureate Programs Dr. Amy Brown Asst. Professor of Elementary Education Kay Burniston Assoc. VP for Baccalaureate Programs

2. ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGE • SPC is the oldest 2-year college in Florida: 80 years • Comprehensive Community College mission • Fall enrollment: 26,165 • Annual enrollment: 61,930

3. BACKGROUND • Unique needs of Pinellas County: • Employer needs identified for IT managers, teachers, BSN trained nurses • Pinellas 67 of 67 counties in Baccalaureate access • Geographic uniqueness: a peninsula with heavy traffic volume • Need for AS graduates to have a smooth AS to BAS transfer option

4. STATE AND FEDERALRESPONSE • CCS strategic plan on Baccalaureate access solutions: branches; partnerships; distance learning; community colleges directly (Florida 47th, Pinellas 67th among counties) • Two hundred AS programs statewide and only five AS to Bachelor’s articulation agreements • AS success lowered Bachelor access if no AS to BAS route

5. STATE AND FEDERALRESPONSE • Legislature chose to also support a few niche Bachelor’s directly in high need areas: IT (22,000), Nursing (critical), Teacher Education (162,000 shortage in ten years)

6. SPC CHALLENGE • How to implement Bachelor’s and be true to historical Community College Mission of workforce, 2+2, remedial and University Partnership missions • How to expand the open-door and keep instruction as a top priority as niche bachelor degrees are added • How to serve our “community” with 4-year bachelor’s in high demand areas

7. KEY TO IMPLEMENTATION • Becoming 4-year across the College e.g. Institutional Effectiveness, faculty criteria, student services, library services • SPC’s challenge: become one College, one faculty, one Curriculum and Instruction Committee, etc. • Planning funds provided to develop a full upper division at SPC by the legislature; upper division to focus on teacher education, BSN nursing and AS to BAS articulation programs

8. DEGREE STANDARDS • SUS academic policies for quality • Time to degree: 120 hours • Common pre-requisites • Specialized accreditation • Ability of graduates to transfer into state/private graduate programs

9. FINANCE FORMULA • State University per student-research plus upper division SPC fees • Fees less than SUS, more than fees in our 2-year programs. Special fees less than USF • Began at 20% less than SUS, and will widen each year (37% in total fees in Fall 2006) • CCS approach now at 85% of SUS upper division direct cost • $3,872 per FTE

10. THREE AREAS OF INITIALEMPHASIS • Technology Management • BSN Nursing • Teacher Education • Elementary Education • Exceptional Education • Secondary Mathematics • Secondary Science

11. New Program Analysis • Needs Assessment • Outline or describe the need • Student interest (survey), Employer interest (survey or other) • Job projections (local; statewide) Positions available for graduates, salary • Current and projected labor marker analysis (number of current and needed professionals in field)

12. Program Description • How does this fit into SPC’s mission • Why is this program distinctive • Quality measures that will be used to assess success of program • Identify tentative program goals/outcomes • Proposed curriculum

13. Cost of Program • Faculty • Equipment • Facilities/On-Line possibilities • Other expenses • Proposed Campus Location • Projected Enrollment • 1st year – headcount (unduplicated); FTE Subsequent years

14. Other private/public institutions offering program: Local; Statewide • Differentiation between currently offered programs and SPC’s proposed program • Potential Partners (UPC proposals) • Narrative Rational (SPC direct offering)

15. New Bacc. Programs added to Existing Colleges… • College of Education • Middle Grades Mathematics (5-9) • Middle Grades Science (5-9) • Educational Studies • E.P.I. programs now in 6 areas: Elementary, ESE, Secondary Math, Secondary Science, Middle School Math, Middle School Science • Future Additional Majors?: Foreign Language, Secondary English, Secondary Social Science, majors within Ed. Studies

16. Utilizing resources for new Education Programs… • Undergraduate programs: • Core Courses • Sharing between secondary/middle school programs • Educational Studies courses within COE and other Bacc. Colleges • Then assess “new” courses to be developed and approved through C & I • E.P.I. programs: • Approx. 27-credits • Took existing course syllabi to create “Topics” within courses with reduced credit hours • Similar structures/forms for Practicum experiences and e-portfolios for completion requirements (Livetext)

17. New Bacc. Programs added to Existing Colleges, cont… • College of Dental Hygiene • Health and Human Services • College of Technology Management • Managerial and Organizational Leadership

18. Once a program is approved… • What are the other costs, processes, or issues? • Curriculum development • Admission/Graduation Requirements • Advising • New recruitment/Marketing Campaigns • Program added to state/internal reporting system • Communication with student commons • Outcome measures • Other Accreditation

19. Shared Resources • Faculty • Courses • Baccalaureate Specialists/Advisor • Existing Dean

20. Course Utilization Across Majors

21. New Programs • Biotechnology Management • Sustainability/Green • Foreign Language Education • Social Science Education • English Education

22. Thank you • Q & A • Discussion