The department that I reviewed using the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) was the East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Transfer Center. I am currently doing my graduate assistantship at the ELAC Transfer Center. Therefore, I thought it would be a more meaningful experience to choose this department to review using the CAS standards because it offers the opportunity to learn more about the department and probably provide my supervisor suggestions that can help improve the department to be more effective in serving students. I interviewed two individuals in the department in order to get some insight on how well of a job the department is dong in adhering to the CAS standards. The first person I interviewed was the Transfer Center …show more content…
I would recommend that the ELAC Transfer Center mission be disseminated throughout the office space to reinforce the message of their mission statement every time one of the employees views it.
Program
The primary elements of the department are academic advising, transfer application assistance, transfer assistance, academic counseling. As a strength, the program is intentional in providing students with reliable information to transfer, since the information is always changing. Also, the department is strong in implementing services such as conferences, workshops, summer programs, and campus tours that with assist students in the transfer process. Another strength of the department is a consistent collaboration with other programs within the institution to benefit the students such as collaboration with programs like Puente and EOP&S in which these programs bring their student to the Transfer Center to attend Transfer 101 workshops. An area in which the department was inconsistent with the CAS standards was in not having established student learning outcomes. In addition, the department was also inconsistent in their program design not using multiple formats to deliver the information, for example lacking a video presence, not doing enough to engage with parents, therefore being unconsidered of their student population.
Organization and Leadership The leadership practices of the department are consistent with the CAS standards in that its practices
The CACREP standards are divided into three main areas of focus: the learning environment: structure and evaluation, professional identity, and professional practice. The first area, the learning environment: structure and evaluation, provides details and parameters on the institution itself accredited by CACREP, the academic unit, faculty, and evaluation. This area of the CACREP standards is aimed at ensuring that the learning environment provides encouragement, support, and diversity. It also dictates that the academic unit must be clearly defined, consist of approved graduate-level study and that a faculty advisor must be assigned to each student at all times during their enrollment. Some guidelines regarding faculty include but are not limited to adequate experience, professional development, and activities related to the counseling profession, and clearly defined sufficient leadership.
This standard requires exhibiting ethical behavior in relationship to good leadership, to clarify, this can be done through; reflection, self-awareness, and transparency (2011). The leader should provide consistency in the context of the behavior him /her models, in addition to being concerned about their staff will impact faculty relationships in a positive manner.
all staff are able to meet the standards expected of them to comply with all the
College Access Foundation of California (CAFC) is based in California State and the non-profit foundation came into being in 2005 after the sales of student loan company Chela Education Financing, Inc. The endowment fund of College Access Foundation of California is approximately $400 million. College Access Foundation of California was established to provide the low-income and underrepresented populations of current and prospective students to seek higher education. The foundation is currently progressively engaged in California State to provide educational funds for deserving students.
Despite that the transfer and non-traditional students aren’t traditional students, they are in fact new and might not know every building. It would be my job to help them get situated. I will treat them like any other freshman student and provide my full attention to their needs. A transfer student may have transferred from another school in the country and being there for them will make the transition will be easier. They are different from traditional freshman even if they are first year students, they might’ve know their old campus perfectly well, but it would be my responsibility to make sure they can remember our campus as well. All campus aren’t the same, so I would personal show the transfer student around and make sure they know when
An accreditation audit was performed by Carl Anderson, Director of Quality. We were only in 100% compliance in December throughout the year in one of the priority focus areas of the Joint Commission standard: Communication; Standard:
It is our hope that this correspondence finds you in pleasant circumstances. It is with great trepidation and frustration that the cohorts of the Dangriga Galen center have found the need to write this letter. After the end of our first year in the Galen Bachelor 's in Education program we find that there are circumstances and situations that have persisted to the disadvantage of the cohorts and have failed to be addressed by the administration of Galen and its staff. Galen recruited us under the guise of "excellence" and with every course we are reminded that it is "excellence" that is also demanded of us. It is with this in mind, that we hope to effectively articulate our concerns and find prompt resolution in order to ensure that we all draw closer to this "excellence". The following are the pressing and urgent matters that we feel must be addressed not only for the betterment of our center cohorts, but for all the cohorts that have entrusted Galen with their valuable time, hard earned money, and academic careers.
15). The commission has chosen, rather, to use a seven-year accreditation cycle consisting of several groups of self and peer evaluations. This process allows the accreditor more flexibility “because institutions of higher education are complex and dynamic systems that exist within changing environments” (Accreditation Handbook, p. 14). The first step in the reaccreditation process is the Comprehensive Evaluation also known as the Year Seven Evaluation, despite the fact that it begins the
This unit is about being able to define and show an appreciation for key leadership principles in setting and communicating organisational direction, and the application of leadership styles in the achievement of organisational objectives. It is also about being able to differentiate between the leadership and management aspects of a job role and show an understanding of how these are integrated to enable effective performance.
I saw the Coordinator for Transfer Student Success position on the University of Maryland Baltimore County website. As a former transfer student to UMBC, I understand the support and information needed to make this transition easier. During my first semester at UMBC, my Interdisciplinary Studies degree proposal was completed and accepted before the board the first time it was submitted. Due to a furlough the following year, some of the classes I needed to graduate where no longer offered and I made the decision to change my major. After graduation, I used the information and experiences I received to join Teach for America. During my final year in teaching, my students out performed the region and the district on a district mandated end-of-year
The program is evaluated based on secular criteria as is used when students are transferring credits (Carnegie units) from a private school to a public school and vice versa, and
The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) uses standards and guidelines to promote, develop, and assess the quality of programs and services for student affairs professionals in higher education (Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, 2015). Founded in 1979, the CAS approach is to ensure excellent educational practices secure in the belief that its standards and guidelines are to be used in a variety of ways to enhance institutional quality. The CAS standards influence practice in the following manner including assessing a current program, expanding existing programs, creating a mission statement and goals, justifying existing
* act in line with its values of professionalism, innovation, pragmatism, team spirit and integrity.
As per our conversation yesterday, I have sent a consideration for a hardship transfer to Miami FL. At the begging of April, Mrs. Haynes sent me an email confirming that the port has received the request and they will start reviewing it. However, I have not receive an answer and my situation has worsen. As I have mentioned, I am a single mother of a six years old boy that has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), and Aggressive behavior. Due to these conditions my son needs to see a psychiatry and psychologist for behavioral modification to a minimum of once a week. Prior coming to JFK, my ex-husband (father of my son), took temporary custody of our son and agreed to taking him to all of his appointments as well
Student personnel point of view encompasses the student as a whole. The concept of education is broadened o the student’’s well rounded development- physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually as well as intellectually. (sppv) Student affairs not only emphasize on academic excellence but to shape each individual as a unique human by providing a holistic learning and living environment. Student Affairs professionals play a pivotal role in the development of the students. By applying different theories in student development, they can foster student learning to help them shape their identity. Student affairs staff members must view themselves as educators to refute the belief that learning is held only in the classroom. (contested issue, 29). Learning does not only occur in the classroom but through out of class activities as well. Student affairs staff should talk about student learning and development to enhance the multiplicity of growth areas for students in higher education. These learning and development experiences do not simply happen to students. They happen with their active involvement. There are numerous branches of fields in student affairs that attend to the unique needs of each individual. Residence Director trains Residence assistance to cater to the needs of first year students who are new to the college environment. RA plays a major role of introducing the life of college through building relationships and community to help them develop their sense of