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=Development of the CCT-CCDE partnership= (Draft of memo for CCT faculty comments, 10/22/08)

1. CCDE-funded assistant position increased to 50% time, including teaching responsibilities.
> Develop & implement marketing plan to increase enrollment in existing CCDE-funded CCT courses (but without drawing students away from state-funded courses). > Attend to the myriad day-to-day administrative tasks of a graduate program and the CCT-CCDE partnership. >> Without this administrative assistance and continuity, the CCT-CCDE partnership at its existing level takes the CCT Director beyond the limits of his time and attention. With this administrative assistance: >>> CCT-CCDE courses can be marketed to achieve the necessary enrollment and new courses/sections added; >>> the “Science in a Changing World” certificate emphasis can be promoted.

To cover costs of the 50% position, enrollment per course, not number of courses offered, is the key issue for budgets and thus for marketing. Based on 2007-08 figures, a 25% increase in enrollments needed, from an average of 11 to 14, is needed if the 50% person starts with a 1&1 teaching load (as proposed in #3 below).

2. CCT certificate offered online for school teachers and administrators through the elite Renmin High School in China.
a) Eventually this would require a CCDE-funded coordinator over and above the 50% position under #1, but the 50% assistant would contribute time and experience on the necessary administrative work.

b) In the short-term (for the first year, or until the CCDE-funded coordinator is hired, whichever comes first) CCDE-funded assistant assists the CCT Director in arranging 2 online courses for Spring '09 and additional courses for subsequent semesters to complete the certificate: // (possible instructors & dates to be confirmed)// > CCT601, Critical Thinking (Bob Schoenberg) > CCT602, Creative Thinking (Delores Gallo? and Luanne Witkowski) > CCT611, Seminar in Critical Thinking > CCT612, Seminar in Creative Thinking (Suzanne Clark) > CCT616, Dialogue Processes (Olen Gunnlaugson) > CCT655, Metacognition (David Martin)

c) Job description, search and hiring of the CCT China coordinator expected by end of 2009. Hiring recommendation made by CCT faculty.

3. Timing and budgets. Spring '09. For work under 2b, CCDE provides additional funds for CCT assistant to cover additional 5 hours/week (18 weeks @ $90/week = $1620) and transfer to ESS of $2000 for CCT Coordinator's contribution (as discretionary funds for Coordinator's Science in a Changing World initiatives).

Summer '09 onwards. 50% position with benefits begins, teaching one course each semester, while undertaking the work under #1 and #2a & b.

Fall '10. Evaluation of whether the 50% position has yielded the desired results.