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Title: St. Petersburg College


1
St. Petersburg College
  • The Baccalaureate Experience
  • An Update and New Endeavors
  • March 5, 2005

2
Office of Baccalaureate Programs and University
Partnerships
  • Dr. Thomas E. Furlong, Jr., Senior Vice
    President, Baccalaureate Programs and University
    Partnerships
  • Kay Burniston, Associate Vice President,
  • Baccalaureate Programs

3
ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGE
  • SPC is the oldest 2-year college in Florida 77
    years
  • Comprehensive Community College mission
  • Fall enrollment 24,384

4
BACKGROUND
  • Unique Needs of Pinellas County
  • 1. Employer needs identified for IT managers,
    teachers, BSN trained nurses
  • 2. Pinellas 67 of 67 counties in Baccalaureate
    access
  • 3. Geographic uniqueness a peninsula with
    heavy traffic volume
  • 4. Need for AS graduates to a have a smooth AS
    to BAS transfer option

5
STATE AND FEDERAL RESPONSE
  • CCS strategic plan on Baccalaureate access
    solutions branches partnerships distance
    learning community colleges directly (Florida
    49th Pinellas 67th among counties)
  • Two hundred AS programs statewide and only five
    AS to Bachelors articulation agreements

6
STATE AND FEDERAL RESPONSE
  • Legislature chose to also support a few niche
    Bachelors directly in high need areas IT
    (22,000), Nursing (critical), Teacher Education
    (162,000 shortage in ten years)
  • Federal support for the online and partnership
    responses at St. Petersburg College (Project
    Eagle)

7
SPC CHALLENGE
  • How to implement Bachelors and be true to
    historical Community College Mission of
    workforce, 22, remedial and University
    Partnership missions?
  • How to expand the open-door and keep instruction
    as a top priority as niche bachelor degrees are
    added
  • How to serve our community with 4-year
    bachelors in high demand areas

8
UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP CENTER
  • 43 Bachelors degree programs
  • 29 Masters and Doctoral programs
  • 15 Partners public/private example 24 with
    University of Florida Pharmacy
  • SPC funded to provide support Partners provide
    direct instruction
  • 2,136 students currently enrolled

9
UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP CENTER PARTNERS
  • Barry University
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Eckerd College
  • Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
  • Florida AM University
  • Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Florida Institute of Technology

10
UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP CENTER PARTNERS
  • Florida International University
  • Florida State University
  • George Washington University
  • St. Leo University
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Florida
  • University of South Florida

11
UPC BACHELORS DEGREES
  • Business Administration, Accounting, Human
    Resources, Professional Administration, General
    Business
  • Construction Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
    Engineering Technology
  • Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology
    Management
  • Elementary Education, Exceptional Student
    Education, Secondary Education Math and Biology

12
  • Emergency Health Services, Health Sciences,
    Nursing, Dental Hygiene
  • English, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences,
    Social Work
  • Criminal Justice, Legal Studies
  • Sports Management, Exercise Science
  • Public Administration

13
IMPLEMENTATION BEGINS WITH ACCREDITATION - SACS
  • Consultant (April 2001)
  • Legislature approved 1 million to develop help
    with faculty, library, etc.
  • Document in October
  • December 2001 annual vote of SACS Commission on
    Colleges on 4-year status
  • November Team Visit recommended overall
    commendation to SACS

14
DEGREE STANDARDS
  • SUS academic policies for quality
  • Time to degree 120 hours
  • Common pre-requisites
  • Specialized accreditation
  • Ability of graduates to transfer into
    state/private graduate programs

15
KEY TO IMPLEMENTATION
  • Becoming 4-year across the College e.g.
    Institutional Effectiveness, faculty criteria,
    student services, library services
  • SPCs challenge become one College, one faculty,
    one Curriculum and Instruction Committee, etc.
  • Planning funds provided to develop a full upper
    division at SPC by the Legislature upper
    division to focus on teacher education, BSN
    nursing and AS to BAS articulation programs

16
THREE AREAS OF INITIAL EMPHASIS
  • Technology Management
  • BSN Nursing
  • Teacher Education
  • Elementary Education
  • Exceptional Education
  • Secondary Mathematics
  • Secondary Science

17
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
  • AS to BAS
  • Dean/Faculty
  • Corporate support for Coop paid training
    Capstone Projects
  • Early Partners Raytheon, Raymond James, Franklin
    Templeton, Transition Optical, Brighthouse,
    Telecommunication Services, Concurrent
    Technologies, IBM

18
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
  • Develop curriculum blended/online
  • Advisory group
  • Enrollment goal 75 and 300 enrolled first year
  • Modmester Demographics promote short, intense
    evening classes
  • Current enrollment is 372
  • Total graduates to date 92
  • USF articulation agreement BAS to MBA

19
BSN NURSING
  • 22 AS to BSN only the RN is an admissions
    requirement
  • BSN needed for management positions, to go for
    MSN, and specialized hospital positions
  • NLNAC accredited on first try in 2004
  • Dean has PhD and 5 PhD Nursing faculty
  • Cohorts at 2 Morton Plant Hospital locations and
    at Oak Hill Hospital in Hernando County

20
BSN NURSING
  • Hospital scholarships
  • Enrollment in first year 104
  • Current Enrollment 228
  • LPN, ADN/RN at SPC has increased its enrollment
    from 400 to 700 since the BSN program began
  • Current graduates to date 48
  • Career Ladder RN BSN MSN, DSN and PhD in
    University Partnership Center

21
TEACHER EDUCATION
  • Science Biology Education Math Education
    Elementary Education and Exceptional Child
    Education
  • 70 courses to develop
  • State program approval 2003 on first try
  • NCATE currently initiating application process

22
TEACHER EDUCATION
  • Alternate certification proposal near completion
    for credit approval in cooperation with Pinellas,
    Pasco, and Hernando School Boards
  • Enrollment in first year 175 students
  • Current enrollment 428 students
  • Graduates to date 85

23
LIBRARY
  • Add two librarians and cross train all staff
  • Books and service currently at 5 locations
  • Courier service
  • Community College statewide automated library
    tied to 4-year automated library

24
FINANCIAL AID
  • USDOE approval
  • Bright Futures
  • FSAG need based
  • Community College Minority Teachers Fund
  • Financial Aid Fee

25
STUDENT SERVICES
  • Three 4-year Baccalaureate Specialists hired
    initially
  • Each assigned a different site
  • Each cross-trained in all 2 and 4 year programs

26
RECORDS AND REGISTRATION
  • Earlier admissions cycle
  • Process and workload change from open door at
    lower division to restricted admission at upper
    level
  • Work with three Deans on admission status by major

27
FACILITIES
  • COE building renovation at Tarpon Springs
    Bilirakis College of Education in two locations
  • Clearwater portables plans for new facility
  • Nursing renovations in Allied Health facility
  • Capital outlay through CCS and SUS by statute

28
FACULTY
  • All four-year faculty have same pay schedule as
    all SPC faculty
  • Twelve month contracts
  • Faculty advising as part of responsibility
  • All initial hires had a PhD in field

29
PASCO-HERNANDO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
  • Unique working outside our service area
  • Common course helps students across the
    twenty-eight colleges
  • Joint logos on marketing ads
  • Courses at New Port Richey and Oak Hill Hospital

30
FINANCE FORMULA
  • State University per student-research plus upper
    division SPC fees
  • Fees less than SUS, more than fees in our 2-year
    programs. Special fees less than USF
  • Began at 20 less than SUS, and will widen each
    year (30 next Fall)
  • CCS approach now at 85 of SUS upper division

31
NEW PROGRAMAPPROVAL AND PROCESS
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Public Safety Administration
  • Veterinary Technology
  • USF Career Transfer Programs
  • Orthotics and Prosthetics
  • Proposed
  • International Business
  • Legal Assisting

32
Determining 4-year Eligibility
  • Needs assessment
  • Student interest survey
  • Job projections of positions available for
    graduates
  • Current and projected labor market analysis
  • Cost of program includes faculty, equipment,
    facilities, on-line possibilities and other
    expenses

33
  • Proposed campus location
  • Projected Enrollment includes 1st year
    unduplicated headcount and fte and subsequent
    years
  • Other private/public offerings of program both
    local and statewide
  • Differentiation between currently offered
    programs and proposed program

34
  • Potential partners UPC proposals
  • Narrative Rationale St. Petersburg College
    direct offering

35
CURRENT ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS
  • Daytona Beach CC Dental Hygiene
  • Hillsborough CC Technology Management
  • Manatee CC Dental Hygiene
  • Pasco-Hernando CC Dental Hygiene, Education,
    Nursing, Technology Management.
  • Santa Fe CC Public Safety Administration,
    Technology Management

36
PROPOSED ARTICULATION AGREEMTENTS
  • South Florida CC Technology Management
  • St. Johns River CC Technology Management
  • University of South Florida MBA Business
    Administration

37
Unique 4-Year Opportunities
  • 4-year eligible special area for example Kresge
  • Unique federal grants at Bacclaureate level
  • NCTT
  • ECS

38
FINALLY
  • Key ingredients to early success have been
    respect for community college mission funds for
    planning and implementation and program majors
    selected were in high demand areas

39
  • We are offering Baccalaureate degrees at a 4-year
    open admission college at freshman level
  • SACSs position is that if you have any upper
    division courses you change your name and seek
    accreditation change to higher degree
  • Admission criteria are at the junior level e.g.
    BSN requires RN for admission

40
OUTCOME
  • Baccalaureate access greatly expanded in Pinellas
    County by the leveraged approach of the niche
    4-year degrees offered by St. Petersburg College
  • Expanded online offerings
  • Bachelor's degrees offered on our sites by our
    University Partners
  • And expanded upper division offerings at the St.
    Petersburg branch of our regional university
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