DILLARD UNIVERSITY REMINDER: MID-TERM GRADES ARE DUE BEFORE 12 NOON THIS FRIDAY!!!

MEMORANDUM

To:                        Faculty

From:                   Pam England, Registrar/Director of Records & Registration
Cc:                        Dr. Phyllis Dawkins, Associate Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
                           Dr. Toya Barnes-Teamer, Vice-President for Student Success
                              Dr. Alecia Cyprian, Assistant Vice-President for Enrollment Management
Date:                    Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Re:                        Spring 2012 Mid-term Grading

 The myDU portal for the entry of mid-term grades will open on Thursday February 1, 2012 at 9am.  Grades are due Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12 noon when the portal closes.

Guidelines for myDU grade entry:

• If a student does not appear on your roster please contact me immediately via your DU email account
• Enter the last day of attendance and the number absences for each student

·         Every student should receive a mid-term grade of either A, B, C, D, F, NC, or P

·         For students who fall into the Unofficial Withdrawal Policy (“WF”) please complete and submit the Unofficial Withdrawal Form by the grades due deadline.  The form is located on myDU:  Click on Faculty Tab then click on Office of Records and Registration on the left side of the page then select Unofficial Withdrawal Form.

• ALL mid-term GRADES ARE DUE at 12 noon on Friday, March 9, 2012.

Please contact me via email pengland@dillard.edu if you are unable to access your course(s) on myDU or if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation!

 
Pam England
Registrar/Director of Records and Registration
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70122
504.816.4705 (Office)
504.816.4391 (Fax)
pengland@dillard.edu

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Dear Faculty,

This is a reminder that mid-term grades are due before 12 noon this Friday.

Please see memorandum from Registrar below.

Since next week is Spring Break and faculty will be gone, it is imperative that all grades are turned in before the deadline so that we can comply with all federal government reporting timetables and avoid sanctions and fines.

Thank you for your help.

Robert A. Collins, Ph.D.

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Dillard University

rcollins@dillard.edu

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DILLARD UNIVERSITY REMINDER: MID-TERM GRADES ARE DUE BEFORE 12 NOON THIS FRIDAY!!!

DILLARD UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 STANDARD TIMES

This message is for Chairs, Program Coordinators, and Faculty who will be teaching during Summer School.

As you are aware, this year we will have one summer session that will consist of a four day week, over a five week period.

In order to comply with federal regulations, we must hold a minimum number of instructional hours, and in order to avoid class time conflicts, we must adhere to standard university times.

This summer, the standard university times for a three credit hour course that meets four days per week are as follows:

8:00am – 10:15am
10:30am – 12:45pm
1:00pm – 3:15pm
3:30pm – 5:45pm
6:00pm – 8:15pm

Please revise your course excel spread sheets for Summer Session, put in the correct times, and e-mail them back to Ms. England. She must have them before you leave for Spring Break.  

If anyone has any issues with courses with more or less than three credit hours, e-mail me and I will share the proper calculation with you. 

Thank you.

Robert A. Collins, Ph.D.
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Dillard University
rcollins@dillard.edu

DILLARD UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 STANDARD TIMES

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Inside Higher Ed: Cal State's Online Plan

 

March 5, 2012 - 3:00am

By Steve Kolowich

The California State University System on Friday released new documents describing its plans for a centralized online learning hub, moving the system closer to its vision of a top-flight virtual campus while drawing skepticism from some faculty.

The portal, called Cal State Online, will serve as a gateway to all virtual courses offered by the system’s 23 campuses. The goal is to increase capacity at California State, where massive budget cuts have coincided with a rising demand for higher ed degrees. System officials hope a centrally administered approach to online education will enable the university to enroll more online students and turn away fewer qualified applicants.

Cal State Online will not outsource course development or instruction to outside providers, focusing instead on promoting existing online courses being offered by individual campuses and encouraging California State faculty to develop new ones, according to the current plan.
The system is planning a “beta test” for the portal in the fall, followed by a full launch next spring. The long-term goal, according to the new documents, is to “enroll over 250,000 students over the next several decades." (The document does not indicate how many online students it hopes eventually to enroll at one time.)

While California State cannot be called a pioneer in distance education, its moves could have national significance. With more than 400,000 students, the system is the largest in the United States. And its online strategy, as well as the parallel efforts of the University of California, could serve as a test of whether a massive public higher ed system under extreme financial duress can use online education to expand access, streamline costs, and keep its faculty happy all at the same time.
Cal State Online on Friday posted an open letter to the university system from Ruth Claire Black, the recently appointed executive director of Cal State Online, along with a draft request for proposals (RFP) indicating what kind of services it plans to provide to students and faculty.

“The goal of Cal State Online is to create a standardized, centralized, comprehensive business, marketing and outreach support structure for all aspects of online program delivery for the Cal State University System,” says the draft RFP. In the open letter, the executive director offers assurances that “participation is optional” for each of the system’s nearly two dozen campuses, “all programs participating in Cal State Online are subject to the same approval processes as an on-campus program,” and “online courses will meet or exceed the quality standards of CSU face-to-face courses.”

Meanwhile, faculty members who develop and teach courses for Cal State Online will get extra pay and “will be recognized in the retention, promotion and tenure process where appropriate,” writes Black. The online administrators will respect current union agreements with respect to intellectual property

California State faculty have been suspicious of the system’s efforts to expand its online strategy, and for some the new documents offer little comfort.

“We have no confidence, based upon past mismanagement of our administration that such an expansive enterprise would be carried out without harm to the rest of the institution,” wrote Teri Yamada, professor of Asian studies at California State University at Long Beach and a faculty union activist, in an e-mail to Inside Higher Ed, after reading the open letter and the RFP.
“For example, we have no idea how the proposed online programs through Cal State Online will undercut funding that the 23 brick-and-mortar campuses now receive from their already established online programs run through colleges of extended education,” Yamada continued.
But Jim Postma, a professor of chemistry at California State University at Chico and chair of the systemwide Academic Senate, advised his colleagues against prematurely thumbing their noses at Cal State Online. Postma, who is one of three faculty members on the Cal State Online board, says the effort to centralize the university’s online offerings does not imply any changes that would threaten the interests of its faculty.

Despite occasional rumors among faculty that portentous administrative decisions had been made without their input, Cal State Online “is just now defining what it’s going to be,” says Postma. “I do feel like we’re at the table and have the ability to help shape it,” he says.
In an interview, Black emphasized that Cal State Online will not be hiring outside instructors to teach courses, nor will it be empowered to circumvent existing union agreements with regard to existing faculty. “My goal is not to ‘replace’ anybody,” says Black. “My goal is to add services and [to] augment” campus offerings.

Postma says his mild reaction to the implications of Cal State online has caused some tension with his more polemical colleagues. At the last meeting of the California Faculty Association board leaders, “I was somewhat awkwardly put in the position of defending [Cal State Online],” Postma says. “I’m not a big fan, but I know it’s not the devil incarnate or anything.”

System officials hope that centralizing its online program administration will help California State catch up to other large public university systems, such as Penn State University and the University of Massachusetts, that long ago assimilated online learning by routing individual campus efforts through a central hub. Penn State World Campus and UMassOnline are now running healthy surpluses.
“We’re about 10 years behind everybody,” said F. King Alexander, president of the California State University at Long Beach. “We’ve never put our heads together and said, ‘How much stronger could we be if we were unified on this front?’ ”

Alexander estimated that the Long Beach campus turned away more than 40,000 qualified applicants last year. The capacity issue is endemic across the system, he says.
In the future, Cal State Online could conceivably form partnerships with other state institutions’ online arms that would make it easier for spillover students to take equivalent courses with other public universities and then seamlessly transfer the credits to California State, Alexander said.
“What we’re not going to do,” he added, “is partner with existing for-profit universities to utilize their courses.”

Another thing California State is not currently planning to do is outsource to a state-endorsed version of Western Governors University, a nonprofit online institution that awards degrees based solely on demonstrated knowledge and skills, rather than seat time.

The California State chancellor’s office invited Robert Mendenhall, the president of Western Governors, to give a presentation to the Cal State Online board several months ago. But Postma says he and his faculty colleagues were not keen on the idea of making the Utah-based institution, which does not use courses or a teaching faculty, an adoptive stepchild of the California State system — as public institutions in Indiana, Texas and Washington State have done.

“There’s been a lot of discussion about Western Governors,” says Black. But she says she is sensitive to the faculty concern about that particular model, and “there’s no proposal on the table to partner with Western Governors or anything like that.”

Rather than eliminating all regimentation in favor of a self-paced model, Cal State Online is anticipating a more traditional academic schedule comprising eight-week-long terms, with a universal start date at the beginning of each term.

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CNN.com: Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- Preserving the Dream



http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-29/us/us_education---historically-black-colleges-and-universities----preserving-the-dream_1_hbcus-morehouse-students?_s=PM:US

February 29, 2012
By John Martin

(CNN) -- Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, Tuskegee, Xavier -- these are just a few of America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities, known as HBCUs. HBCUs are accredited historically black institutions of higher learning established before 1964. While many of these colleges are located in the South, there are HBCUs as far north as Michigan and as far west as Oklahoma. While some HBCUs are public and others private, all of them serve a principle mission to educate black Americans.

Several Morehouse and Spelman college students who we interviewed recently discussed the diversity they see on campus. They told us that HBCUs are "not exclusively black" and also serve international students and students from other ethnicities. Morehouse junior Jarrad Mandeville-Lawson, who comes from Matawan, New Jersey, identified himself as "Nigerian, Italian and Greek," and said, "My high school is majority Caucasian so I don't actually have those strong African-American traits that people would assume I would have." In 2008, Joshua Packwood became the first white valedictorian in Morehouse's history.

Students from both schools talked about their schools' nurturing environments. At Morehouse, one of America's few all-male campuses, the students talked about the school's strong tradition of a brotherhood. Mandeville-Lawson told us, "We're going to constantly have our brother's back and uplift them.....These are my brothers. I'm going to do everything possible to make sure they stay strong and to get them where they need to be." Spelman senior Gabrielle Horton echoed Mandeville-Lawson's sentiments. "When you think of Spelman you think of the 'Spelman Sisterhood' ... You're indoctrinated with that your first year ... They have their brother's back, we have our sister's back. And that's something we just carry with us every day," Horton said.

Today, more than 300,000 students are enrolled at the more than 100 HBCUs across America. HBCUs tend to be small schools. In 2009 only three had enrollments of over 10,000 students. Spelman and Morehouse each have between 2,000 to 3,000 students. The students we interviewed said smaller schools come with some advantages. Junior Kirstin Evans said, "At Spelman, I know every single one of my professors....So just like the intimate environment that Spelman holds, it's something that other students lack at bigger institutions."

The two Atlanta campuses are steeped in history and tradition. While neither school is the oldest HBCU -- that honor goes to Philadelphia's Cheyney University -- both schools were founded in the latter half of the 1800s. Horton remarked about Spelman's campus, "I think you have the sense of legacy that it's not just about you, and it is about your ancestors who came before you who were at these prestigious institutions and you have a legacy to carry on." Morehouse junior Reginald Sharpe said that the college's tradition and history were part of his decision to attend the school. "I knew that Morehouse was going to raise my appreciation for my heritage and cause me to take a trip back in time to realize who I am as an African-American, a young man in society," Sharpe said.

Sharpe mentioned that he likes to enter historic Sale Hall, where graduations were once held, and "breathe the air. It's a sense of belonging that I sense here."

We visited Sale Hall, and our guide told us that during Martin Luther King Jr.'s time, the big room upstairs was used as a chapel and that the students back then had assigned seats. As I stood in front of the room, I have never felt closer to history. Right in front of me was a teenaged Martin King's seat, who sat in the front row in Sale Hall more than a decade before he would become the foremost civil rights leader of the 1960s.

http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/29/historically-black-colleges-and-universities-preserving-the-dream/

CNN.com: Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- Preserving the Dream

Atlanta Business League: Library Director Loretta Parham Named to "Atlanta's Top 100 Black Women of Influence" List

February 2012

Loretta Parham, CEO and Library Director of Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, was recognized on February 21, 2012, for her selection to Atlanta Business League’s (ABL) 2012 list of “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence” at the ABL’s “Women of Vision” Breakfast Ceremony.

 Since 1994, the ABL has published its list of  “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence.” The list reflects the names of black women in the metro Atlanta community who have reached senior-level positions within their profession; are leading entrepreneurs in their industry; or have attained the ability to influence large public bodies politically and in government. In addition to professional accomplishments, the “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence” have demonstrated their commitment to citizenry of metro Atlanta by maintaining significant involvement and participation in community and activities.

In addition to naming “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence,” the ABL inducted J. Veronica Biggins, a Spelman University alumna, into the Women’s Hall of Fame.  

Follow link for more information: http://www.atlantabusinessleague.org/site/c.hwKXJgNVJrF/b.1066295/k.BED0/Home.htm

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Atlanta Business League: Library Director Loretta Parham Named to "Atlanta's Top 100 Black Women of Influence" List

Mediasite by Sonicfoundry FREE Webinar: Is room-based lecture capture better for 21st century learning?

Register today for our free live webinar Is room-based lecture capture better for 21st century learning? Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. Central (convert your time zone) In 2009, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business opened the doors to a new era of learning designed to enhance the digital culture that defines student life. Every room in the state-of-the-art 27,000 square foot building – from the large auditoriums to the intimate collaborative spaces – was equipped to support the most seamless use of integrated technologies while becoming a model of student learning efficiencies. Now integral in every function of the school, room-based lecture capture technology is used not only for recording traditional classroom instruction, but also webcasting interviews with The New York Times, faculty panels and even recruitment with prospective students. Join Sean Brown, vice president of education at Sonic Foundry, and his guest Edward Adams, chief technology officer at University of Michigan Ross School of Business, for an inside look at the decision-making process that helped the school get more faculty, classes and programs online faster with room-based video streaming. The presenters will take your questions live, and discuss: How to determine if a room-based webcasting solution for streaming video production and distribution is right for you? Why now is the time to embrace digital media, recording everything from lecture capture and team projects to special events and panel discussions? Ways to best support your school’s internal processes by integrating lecture capture with existing technology infrastructure? Why room-based lecture capture proves easier to use for faculty and other academic staff, and scales faster as a result? What should a streamlined quickstart interface look like, what features should it include for faculty choice and control, and what impact does it have on AV support, staffing and training? Who will benefit: Chief information and technology officers, academic deans and department heads, IT directors, facility managers and instructional technologists. Anyone may attend. About the presenters:
	Edward Adams, Chief Technology Officer, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, is an information systems professional with expertise in emerging technologies, application development, networking technologies, database, computer graphic, business intelligence and support services. Prior to joining the Ross School, Ed was a systems programmer with Unisys Corporation involved in early advances in personal computing and document imaging, an Executive Director with Schlumberger responsible for the software development and international marketing of all CAD software solutions, and was a principle in a successful startup company that developed Just-in-Time production scheduling enterprise software. Ed holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Business Information Systems. Sean Brown, Vice President of Education, Sonic Foundry
Moderator:
	JD Solomon, Web Seminar Editor, University Business Magazine

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HBCU Digest: Southern Leadership, Faculty at Odds Over Online Degree Offerings

Southern Leadership, Faculty at Odds Over Online Degree Offerings

February 21, 2012 By HBCUDigest.com

 

The Advocate is today reporting that faculty in the Southern University System are opposing plans for the system to develop online degree offerings.

The plans, which will create online access to degree programs currently being offered at System campuses in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Louisiana, will help build revenue and enrollment for the nation’s only HBCU system, according to system leadership.

But faculty say online offerings will limit Southern’s ability to nurture students with face-to-face interaction, and will put a financial burden on students.

Southern Faculty Senate President Sudhir Trivedi said the university system is failing to go through the proper faculty curriculum design processes to ensure the degree programs are thorough and stringent once transferred entirely online.
“We are not against doing online degrees,” Trivedi said. “But it’s not as easy as just saying, ‘Put them online.’
“We are doing everything under the table.”
Southern University System President Ronald Mason Jr. said the faculty claims are “just wrong.”
“All academic decisions are made by the faculty,” Mason said. “It really is just an online format of what’s offered in the classroom.” (The Advocate)

Several HBCUs nationwide have introduced fully-online degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate level in the last two years. Southern is the only historically black system of higher education in the United States.

HBCU Digest: Southern Leadership, Faculty at Odds Over Online Degree Offerings

HBCU Digest: LA Rep. Joe Harrison Authors Bill Proposing Elimination of Southern University System

http://www.hbcudigest.com/la-rep-joe-harrison-authors-bill-proposing-elimination-of-southern-university-system/
March 5, 2012
Louisiana Republican Joe Harrison last week filed House Bill 927, calling for the seizure of Southern University, Southern University at New Orleans, and Southern University at Shreveport from the Southern University System and placed under the University of Louisiana System.

The plan also calls for the removal of Louisiana Tech University, the University of Louisiana of Lafayette, and the University of New Orleans to be placed under the LSU System.

“It proposes the elimination of the only HBCU system in America,” says Southern University System President Ronald Mason Jr. “And it would be America’s loss.”

It is the second legislative push in as many years to dismantle the Southern University System. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal authored legislation in early 2011 proposing the merger of SUNO with the nearby University of New Orleans. That bill was pulled in May due to mounting local and national advocacy against the measure.

The measure has been forwarded to the state’s Committee on Education.

HBCU Digest: LA Rep. Joe Harrison Authors Bill Proposing Elimination of Southern University System

Dillard University Emergency General Assembly still on Wednesday, March 7th at 4 P.M.

To: Dillard University Faculty
From: Agwaramgbo, Lovell E. (Dr.)
Good morning colleagues, in keeping with our agreement at the last General Assembly, the corrected version of the Faculty Handbook was not available to faculty this weekend, therefore, the meeting on Wednesday will be for the discussion of the Faculty Handbook only and not for voting.  If you have any comments come with and share them and let us discuss them.  The comments will be incorporated into the documents that will be shared with the faculty before the voting meeting on March 21.  I have heard from only two colleagues as of today.

Dillard University Emergency General Assembly still on Wednesday, March 7th at 4 P.M.