Updated 9/26/2022

Updated fall schedule

Click here (opens in a new tab) to view the latest fall schedule. 

Amber's class information PowerPoint

Click here (opens in a new tab) to provide Amber and the front desk team with the days, times, and log-in information for your fall 2022 Zoom classes. Again, this information is critical, as the front desk receives lot of calls and emails about how to access your classes. 

Email Greta to help with the library collection

Thanks to Greta, Charlotte, Maggie, and Patricia for joining our BTS division meeting this morning. As a reminder, the library is looking to work with a small group of English language faculty to update and possibly refresh our ELL collection. If you're interested in helping out, please email Greta. If this effort needs support in terms of a stipend, I'll ask the faculty librarians and BTS faculty to put together a proposal that I can consider for funding. 

Assessment 

Thanks to everyone for participating in our discussion of assessment in today's meeting. I wanted to share a link to the August 16 accreditation update from Greg Dempsey. You can access the email here (opens in a new tab). 

To affirm, our accreditation remains in good standing and the college managed to fulfill three of the four recommendations from earlier accreditation visits. We are now redoubling our efforts to meet the expectations of the four recommendation, which focused on developing and using effective assessment practices to plan and improve our instruction. That's where you get involved!

We'll revisit this topic in our winter 2023 meeting where you'll have a chance to complete the faculty assessment survey based on work you did in one of your fall 2022 classes. We'll walk through the process in the meeting with the expectation that we can make this something you do every quarter.

Recordings of the division meeting

The division meeting was recorded in two parts. Click here (opens in a new tab) for the first. Click here (opens in a new tab) for the second. 

BTS emergency contact info

In addition to what the college has on hand, we have always kept a list of emergency contacts in our division. This allows us to follow up more quickly in cases where the dean (me) might not be available, as I'm the only one in our division who has access to your contact info in the college's ctcLink system. We'd welcome it if you were willing to provide your emergency contact info for the team to use in cases when I'm not available. 

Click here (downloads) to access the form. We'd like the form for everyone, even if you're a long-time BTSer whose info hasn't changed. You may need to set your browser setting to allow this form to download to your computer.