CBE at KU Updates 01.24.2024


Wed, 01/24/2024

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Alicia Rosa Marksberry

Highlights

  • Notice anything new with this week’s update? That’s right, CBE at KU is now Jayhawk Flex!

  • Assessment Workshop took place this week! Flex programs began with competency sets and built out performance indicators - then started aligning an assessment strategy with each.

  • Sprint 4 will begin on February 1. Milestones to be shared in upcoming strand meetings. To preview, see here.

  • Business Process Mapping exercise taking place this Friday, Jan 26.

Flex Learning Outlines Workshop (Virtual): February 12-13

Next Steering Committee: February 16

Next Leadership Advance: April 25

Strand Updates

Business Processes & Systems

Leader: Nick Stevens

Next Meeting: Feb 8

Working draft of 10-year Academic Calendar complete.

Credit Equivalency Workgroup met and made a working decision: CBE Programs should have 3-6 competencies per 3 credit-hour course. Total competency count should not exceed 120% of total program credit-hour equivalent.

Curriculum & Learning

Leader: Kelli Feldman

Next Meeting: Jan 31

Iteration on the Curriculum strand’s working decisions reviewed:

  1. Mastered / Not - need to have a designated "Not Mastered" grade for Financial Aid purposes
  2. Instead of using NP/LP/SP grades, we will create a single "In Progress" (IP or PR) grade for CBE programs

In today’s meeting, we began discussions on final grading policy. We’ll continue discussing this & begin exploring credit for prior learning in our next meeting.

Information Technology

Leader: Ed Hudson

Next Meeting: Feb 8

Unicon’s Final Recommendations can be found here. Next step is to complete the Business Process Mapping exercise. That will inform our process for evaluating current system functionality and initiating demos for solutions needed to fill CBE functional gaps.

Policy & Regulatory Compliance

Leader: Jennifer Roberts

Next Meeting: Feb 5

Working across strands to gather the components of the HLC application, with goal of submitting the CBE Project Management program to HLC in February.

HOPE & STEM to be submitted to KBOR together. Drafting a second iteration of the CBE at KU 2-page document to attach to applications.

Student Journey Supports

Leader: Misty Chandler

Next Meeting: Feb 5

Service audit is complete, awaiting guidance from broader fees workgroup to inform next steps.

Working on proposal for staffing model.

On December 18, began work to define the ‘Coach’ role - shared with Faculty Model workgroup on 1/12.

Wed, 01/24/2024

author

Alicia Rosa Marksberry