Report of the Semester Conversion Task Force - California State ...

Semester Conversion Task Force ReportTable of ContentsExecutive summary....................................................................................................................................2Background and organization..................................................................................................................4History.......................................................................................................................................................................4The Task Force and its committees..........................................................................................................................5Charge, guidance, principles and priorities.............................................................................................................7How to think in semester units..................................................................................................................................9Conversion outcomes (CONV)..............................................................................................................12Calendar.................................................................................................................................................................13Curriculum..............................................................................................................................................................16Advisement.............................................................................................................................................................16Communication.......................................................................................................................................................19Infrastructure (student services).............................................................................................................................19Information technology...........................................................................................................................................20General education..................................................................................................................................................21Transformation........................................................................................................................................................22Converting University operations (OPER) .........................................................................................23Overall coordination................................................................................................................................................23Consolidated timeline.............................................................................................................................................24Curriculum conversion............................................................................................................................................25Information technology...........................................................................................................................................26Infrastructure (student services).............................................................................................................................26Policies and procedures.........................................................................................................................................27Additional considerations: Faculty workload.....................................................................................29Supporting activities (SUPP)..................................................................................................................31Advisement.............................................................................................................................................................31Communications.....................................................................................................................................................31Rough estimate of transition costs........................................................................................................34Concluding remarks.................................................................................................................................36Appendix: List of recommendations............................................................................................... 37-43List of TablesTable 1.Table 2.Table 3.Courses of various sizes combined with terms of various lengths..............................................................11The possible fall terms. The example years represent all possible Labor Day dates.................................12Possible 2013-2014 dates...........................................................................................................................14Tables 4. and 4a.Sample class scheduling modules and options...........................................................................15Table 5. Student workload and time to degree completion for entering freshmen............................................. 18-19Table 6.Table 7.Table 8.Overview of transition timeline.....................................................................................................................24Faculty allocation of effort with various teaching percentages and term lengths..............................................30Summary of estimated transition costs........................................................................................................351