LibraryC3 Cultural system3a Trust and communication between sending and receiving institutions
LTI-CUL-008
Run annual Curriculum Alignment Conferences co-governed by chief academic officers
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Mechanism
Faculty and advisors meet annually to go over course sequencing, discipline competencies and how students actually did. The chief academic officers co-govern it, which is what stops the agreements from staying in pockets.
Preconditions
A signed consortium agreement defining shared learning standards and committee roles.
Owner, by role
Chief Academic Officer / Provost
Who can act
Both institutions jointly
Effort
Medium, 6 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Course equivalencies updated and approved by both institutions each year
Failure modes
Conferences can fail to drive change if faculty do not follow through on aligning teaching practices post-conference.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-CUL-003 Convene annual full-day Academic Summits for cross-sector faculty relationship-building