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Mode A Faculty Evaluation-Year 4 Accomplishments Spring '08, Summer '08, Fall '08 (Also Personal Goals for years 4.5-7) – Jay J. Hargis
1. In-class teaching/counseling/support services Organized Spring '08 class fieldtrips to Manzanar & Nixon Library (History 118) Successfully taught three Summer '08 classes online from Mexico (History 117, 118, & 119) Organized Fall '08 fieldtrip to Olvera Street in LA for Day of the Dead (History 108)
2. Curriculum review/development Researched and prepared new Liberal Arts major (including Social Science, Math/Science, and Humanities emphases) Spring 2008 Developed a new History class (including course outline, text, SLOs): History 107 (California History) Re-wrote Course Outlines for History 104 & 105 Continue to encourage and aid Social Science Division members to revise and submit updated course outlines
3. Education Research Activity A. I attended a BC faculty development workshop presented by Dr. Mary Ellen on SLO assessment in Spring '08 B. I attended a BC faculty development workshop on "Classroom Assessment Techniques" on Wednesday, August 20, 2008. C. I continue to keep current with the profession through: 1. my membership in the Organization of American Historians and reading its professional publications; 2. being on H-Net's Latin America (very busy) list serve of Latin American historians' current research, discussions of teaching techniques, conference reports, and book reviews; 3. being on UCLA's Latin American Center mailing list for announcements & presentations
4. Community Work I prepared and gave a multimedia presentation during Spring '08 "Spent Victory: The US & the Origins of the Cold War" as part of the CHAP 1940s program for '07-'08; I prepared and gave a multimedia presentation during Fall '08 "Mexican Lives/American Dreams: Mexican Americans in the 1950s" as part of the CHAP 1950s program for '08-'09 and the start of Hispanic Heritage Month; CHAP 1950s presentations for Spring '09 on "The Legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education" & "It Came From the Cold War: ."
6. Recruitment of new student populations Manned the Social Science Division table for most of the Fall 08 Senior Day (high school visitation) program.
7. On-Campus Committee Work Student Learning Outcomes Committee (continuing from September '07 to present): - For most of Spring '08 this was mostly training and working to revise course outlines to meet WASC reevaluation deadline - Starting Fall '09, PC Student Learning Outcomes Coordinator/Committee Chair ('08-'09). - As such, I introduced our Fall Flex Day's speaker, Dr. Mary Allen. - Because of position, I now attend Faculty Senate & CLC (College Learning Council) - Organize bi-weekly meeting agendas, copy and distribute working materials - Consult on occasion with Curriculum Committee Chair & Acting VP for Instructional Services - Creating a new monthly newsletter: "Student Learning FOCUS" to inform and promote the campus community "dialoging" about SLOs
Curriculum Committee (continuing from Feb '07 to present as Social Science Division representative; unofficial SLO Committee representative): Spring '08 and Fall '09 continued or recent heavy work load in reviewing the large number of course revisions where I have become the principal reviewer for SLO compliance; C.H.A.P. Committee (continuing)
10. On-Campus Activities Continuing support for and participation in some of the Anthro Club's activities
GOALS FOR YEARS 4.5-7 1. Develop new History courses: (World History, History of Great Britain, change Latin American History into two semester classes: Early Latin America & Latin America Since Independence); 2. Develop a new online History class (History of the Middle East); as well as continue to adapt my existing online classes to focus on student learning success; 3. Move the College forward in meeting our SLO timelimeContinue to actively participate in Curriculum & SLO (though not as PC Coordinator/Committee Chair after May 2009) committees; 4. Continue to be actively involved in CHAP organization, meetings, and presentations ("Cold War Monsters"-Spring '09, "La Causa: Remembering Chicano Activism of the 1960s"-Fall '09, "JFK's Cold War: the Berlin & Cuba Crises"- Spring '10; "Chicano Spring-Remembering the Vietnam Moratorium of 1970"-Fall '09; "Nixon's Cold War"-Spring '11; etc.) 5. Organize an on-campus "History Club" restoring the brownbag speakers lunch programs, introducing students to a wider range of cultural & historical resources through special evening programs and fieldtrips outside of the class environment. 6. Participate in a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) summer workshop.
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