General Reminders for CCCOnline Instructors

Greetings! Today, Terry Reeves, CCCOnline’s Dean of Academic Instruction, has a few reminders for instructors as we begin the semester.

Hello,
I hope this message finds you doing well. As we’re starting spring session 2 soon, here are some “fyi” updates:

· Spring session one enrollment is up about 4% from last spring; spring session two is currently 3% above from last year, but it may pick up a bit more before the second session starts.

· A great resource is our “Who to Contact” page if you need help within CCCOnline. Please see http://at.ccconline.org/faculty/wiki/Policies_&_Procedures_-_Who_to_Contact.

· For CCCOnline related business, you must use your CCCS email address; do not use your personal email address. For confidentiality purposes (e.g., FERPA) personal email is not secure.

· CCCOnline is conducting a search for an Executive Director. We hope to have someone on board soon and look forward to sharing that news with you.

· Course Signals is coming soon. Course Signals is software developed by Purdue University as an early alert system using Data from D2L and Banner to allow an instructor to set criteria for early alerts. More information will be forthcoming, but wanted to give you all a heads-up as this will help us to further help our students.

· Maria Schnell recently joined our Training Team as our eLearning Specialist; we’re happy she’s here! If you have questions about training, please contact Maria at maria.schnell@cccs.edu. If you would like to know more about her, please see http://cccoexcellence.blogspot.com/2011/12/introducing-our-new-elearning.html.

Thank you for being a part of CCCOnline and for the teaching expertise you offer our system students. I know many of you also do course development and training work with us. Please know your efforts are noticed and appreciated. I wish you all a smooth-going and successful semester.

Best,
Terry

Welcome to Our New Dean of Academic Instruction!

We at CCCOnline are very pleased to introduce our new Dean of Academic Instruction, Terry Reeves. Terry has been with CCCOnline since last fall as interim Dean of Academic Instruction, and when given the opportunity to stay with us, she was excited to accept.

Terry has an extensive teaching and leadership background with the Colorado Community College System; she was Math faculty at Red Rocks Community College for 18 years, mentored adjunct Math faculty for 10 years, served as Department Chair for five years, and was faculty adviser for RRCC’s Transfer Program to the Colorado School of Mines. Terry also served as state discipline Chair, representing Math for all system colleges, and in addition, served a four-year tenure as Co-Chair for RRCC’s HLC Accreditation Committee. Her faculty experience includes teaching with CCCOnline for several years before RRCC created its own online Math department.

At CCCOnline, “the quality is so high and the standards so high,” she says, “much higher than people realize.” She adds CCCOnline, beyond being devoted to online education, is devoted to all-around academic excellence, and teaching for us is an active, dynamic, and professionally rewarding experience.

Terry looks forward to collaborating with our state community colleges, impacting the quality of online courses system-wide. In her role as Academic Dean, she continues to strengthen this partnership, representing and advocating CCCOnline as a valuable resource to the entire community college system.

Terry earned her Bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University and her Master’s in Applied Math from the University of Colorado. She and her family are huge Denver Broncos fans.