Goal 1 (a) Major activities completed

Date

Open Campus Training: FrontPage 2000 with Barbara Klett, Digital Imaging I & II (using Microsoft Image Composer & COCC Scanners) with George Jolokai, and Interactive TV with Jim Obert, June 14-15, 2000; and follow-up training with Eleanor Latham & Vickery Viles, Winter 2001. 

June 14-15, 2000
and
Winter 2001

ENG 103 WIC (Survey of British Literature III, 19^th & 20^th centuries) Open Campus, combining interactive telecourse, WWWebsite, FirstClass & Outlook delivery, E-mail and FrontPage discussion forums; 2002-2003 revisions included updating and identifying new instructional resources for course web, online course pack & PowerPoint presentations; training in and inauguration of new features: Micrograde upgrade & password-protected WebGrade; & FrontPage Discussion forums (for Seminars)

Prep: Summer 2000 –Winter 2001

Taught in Spring 2001

Revised: 2002-2003
Taught in Spring 2003

HUM 211 MIC/WIC (Cultures & Literatures of Africa) Open Campus, combining interactive telecourse, WWWebsite, FirstClass/Outlook E-mail delivery; Open Campus adaptations included updating and identifying new instructional resources for course web, online course pack & PowerPoint presentations; training in and inauguration of new features: Micrograde upgrade & password-protected WebGrade; & FrontPage Discussion forums (for Seminars).

Prep: Summer-Fall 2001
Taught in Winter 2002

Frances-Anne Solomon, director of I Is a Long-Memoried Woman, (email conversation Summer 2001 – Spring 2002): integrated student feedback online assignment into Winter 2002 offering of HUM 211, which features this film and poems by Grace Nichols on which the film is based.  Leda Serene Films, Toronto, Ontario: see: http://www.ledaserene.com/

Summer 2001,
Winter 2002

Goal 1 (a) Documentation & Evaluation

Regular & Open Campus Student Evaluations: ENG 103 Spring 2001; HUM 211 Winter 2002, & ENG 103 Spring 2003 available for review in my HR file.

References: Vickery Viles, Barbara Klett, Kathy Walsh (Open Campus coordinators); Eleanor Latham (taught Open Campus ENG 101-102 and tutored me in preparing ENG 103 in sequence); Margaret Triplett & Bill Buck (present & past Humanities Dept. Chairs)

Course Webs & instructional materials available for review online: 
AGAIN Please NOTE: Fall 2003 COCC web server transition has changed URL’s of all FrontPage-generated webs like mine!  If you can’t find or access webpages you want to review, please contact me and I will direct you to the correct URLs.  Thanks, Cora
ENG 103: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng103/

ENG 103 online discussion forums:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/sem1_frm.htm
HUM 211: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/
 http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/w2002OC/courseplan.htm
HUM 211 online discussion forums: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/H211w02/disc1_frm.htm

Goal 1 (b) activities completed

Date

Created new Humanities Dept. Web, including webpages devoted to Mission & Goals (from Humanities Dept. Self-Study draft); all available course competencies for all Hum Dept. program courses; Standards webpages including Oregon state PASS & PREP proficiencies, guidance for defining competencies, and Academic Plan outcomes for degrees and programs (Summer 2001). I have also continued to update selected sections and/or create new web pages of the Humanities Dept. Web:
NEW URL: http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/

Summer 2001
& ongoing

Proposed One-Quarter Sabbatical Leave Project, 26 Nov. 2001: while FPIRC initially approved my Sabbatical Project, it was ranked #5 and was not funded in Winter 2002. (Note: 2002 CCHA Mini-Grant Award--enabled me to complete one of my proposed Sabbatical web projects in Summer 2002).

Nov. 2001, Winter 2002

CCHA Mini-Grant Award ($3,000) by Community College Humanities Assn.’s expanded Advancing the Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; Spring-Summer 2002.  Key goals: develop Humanities Instructional Resources web, online forms & templates for student and faculty use. 
Humanities Instructional Resources: http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/
Final Report on completed activities, submitted to CCHA 1 August 2002, available online: http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/CCHA/report.htm
Mini-Grant feature: “Advancing the Humanities Through Technology at Community Colleges,” The Community College Humanist, Spring 2002: 2.

Spring- Summer 2002

Updated WIC and MIC Program guidelines and proposal forms web posted to the new Humanities Dept. web, and conducted webresearch to correct broken links and identify new webresources for WIC webpages.
URL:  http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/WIC/index.htm

2001-2002
& ongoing

Film Studies & Film Series online handouts are one feature of the new Humanities Instructional Resource [HIR] subweb of the Humanities Dept. web, prompted in part by community requests generated by Greg Lyons’s popular yearly film series.  Table of contents:  http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Film/index.htm

My own contributions include:
Offbeat Cinema Film Series: Host & public presentation for film showing of Oscar and Lucinda (dir. Gillian Armstrong, Australia) for Greg Lyons’ COCC “Offbeat Cinema” Film Series (free & open to the public), 3 November 2000, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., BEC 155.
Detective & Crime Movie Film Series: Prepared handout and hosted film showing of Usual Suspects for Greg Lyons’ COCC “Detective and Crime Movie” Film Series (free & open to the public), 16 Nov. 2001, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., BEC 155;  
Down Under Film Series:  Prepared handout and hosted film showing of Proof for Greg Lyons’ Film Series (free & open to the public), 16 May 2003, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., BEC 155;
I’ve also web posted most of Greg Lyons’s handouts and several study guides devoted to films I teach in my classes.

2002 – 2003

Panel Presentation: With Stacey Donohue and Karen Huck, “…Adventures in Instructional Technology,” Pacific Western Community College Humanities Assn. (CCHA) Conference, Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA; Nov. 21-24, 2002.  [I reported on outcomes of my 2002 CCHA Mini-Grant instructional web projects]  Professional travel supported by approved PIP funding request.

Prep & PIP Funding request: Summer 2002
Conference:
Nov. 2002

I have continued to update/maintain selected sections of, and create new pages for, the Humanities Dept. web (as time allows), collaborating with Kathy Williams, Humanities Dept. Secretary.  See Humanities Dept. Web Home Page:  http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/

2002-2004

ongoing

Goal 1 (b) Documentation & Evaluation

CCHA Mini-Grant Final Report (Aug. 1, 2002), submitted to David A. Berry, CCHA Executive Director [and copied to Pres. Barber, VPI Kathy Walsh, IT Coordinator Barbara Klett, Prof. Stacey Donohue (participant & editor of CCHA newsletter Community College Humanist ), Humanities Dept. Chair Margaret Triplett, and Grants Coordinator Brynn E. Pierce], is available for review online:
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/CCHA/report.htm

References:  Kathy Walsh, Barbara Klett, Stacey Donohue

My Mini-Grant project was featured in “Advancing the Humanities Through Technology at Community Colleges,” The Community College Humanist, Spring 2002: 2.  [Reference:  Stacey Donohue, editor]

Please review referenced webs embedded in outline above.

Goal 1 (c) activities completed

Date

Completion of 1999-2001 CCHA-NEH Grant, with Kathy Walsh & Bart Queary:
Project: “Cyber Rhetoric: Creating an Online Learning Community in the Humanities,” awarded by “Advancing The Humanities Through Technology At Community Colleges,” a National Education Project of the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH).  The core element of the grant was creating and delivering the special studies course Hum 299 in Spring 2000 & Spring 2001: Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers – Writing for the World Wide Web.  Grant project completion included COCC In-House Workshop with HUM 299 reviewers Jon Bouknight, Cat Finney, Barbara Klett, Jack McCown & Patricia O’Neill, to discuss outcomes & future interdisciplinary applications; 13 Oct. 2000.  HUM 299 course web:  http://web.cocc.edu/hum299/
CCHA Project Information: http://web.cocc.edu/hum299/ccha/ccha.html
CCHA Final Report (May-June 2001): http://web.cocc.edu/hum299/ccha/finalrpt.html
Brief interview with me on Hum 299 project also featured in COCC Instructional Technology PR videotape, developed by Barbara Klett and Kathy Walsh; 2001.

AY 2000-2001

Web Publication & Conference Presentation: With Kathy Walsh and Bart Queary, “Going Online to Develop and Communicate Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers,” presented at the panel “Making It Public: Putting Multicultural Research Online,” national Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association [ASA], Washington D.C., 8-11 November 2001.  Our ASA Proposal, ASA Panel Description & ASA web-presentation, developed Summer-Fall 2001, is available for review: NEW URL: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/ASA/

Summer – Nov. 2001

Presentation:  With Kathy Walsh, and HUM 299 students Dawn Hendrix and Mary Uhland:  “NEH Advancing the Humanities through Technology – Best Practices Workshop,” Facilitator: Judith Jeffrey Howard, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities; Community College Humanities Assn (CCHA) National Conference, 25 Oct. 2001, Portland, OR

Oct. 2001

Publication: “Case Studies: Central Oregon Community College, Kathleen Walsh and Cora Agatucci”; Community College Humanities Review, Special Issue: Advancing the Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges, 23.1 (Spring 2002): 23- 31

Spring 2002

Student Webpublishing: I continue to collect and webpublish, with students’ permission, good examples of my students’ writing in various genres from various COCC & OSU-Cascades/EOU English & Writing courses; Available for review on respective course websites. 

2000-2004
Ongoing

Participated in Email Project of Ms. Thompson’s Third Grade Class, Greenbriar Academy, Durham, NC (featured in 9 Mar. 2001 Weekly Reader and National Public Radio): Email correspondence Feb. 2001.

Feb 2001

Directed work of student research assistants (paid with personal funds)—including  HUM 299 student Dawn Hendrix-Smith and WR 316 student Lisa Lazarescu--on updating my webpages.

Summer 2001 &
Summer 2003

WR 123 Research Proposal of my student Lucy Burrows, displayed on my WR 123 course web, discovered & contracted for publication by Prof. Patsy Callaghan: forthcoming in A Meeting of Minds [rhetoric textbook], eds. Patsy Callaghan (English Dept., Central Washington Univ.) and Ann Dobyns (Univ. of Denver).

Jan. 2003

Dr. Matthew M. Roy (Associate Faculty, English/World Literature, Cascadia Community College, Bothell, WA): English 102: Writing from Research: 

Required reading & models Week 2 – Exploratory Research:

“Cora Agatucci’s Prospectus Assignment and Sample Student Research Proposals from COCC” [from my WR 123 course web: Research Proposal Assignment & Sample Student Research Proposals]:

http://freire.cascadia.ctc.edu/facultyweb/instructors/mroy/classes/english102.html

Online pages last accessed:
Oct. 2003

Internet Sites for the History of Africa - Dr. Kenneth Wilburn (Department of History, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC): History of Africa, History 3810 (Fall 2003):  http://core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/Africa/netah.htm
On Keita: The Heritage of the Griot:
The Past to Future Keita, Dawn Hendrix, Discussion Paper, Fall 1998, for Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) & Literature(s) of Africa, Central Oregon [sic]Community College
The Significance of the Griot, Eli Smith, Fall 2000, for Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) & Literature(s) of Africa, Central Oregan [sic] Community College

Fall 2003

Online pages last accessed:
Oct. 2003

Goal 1(c) Documentation & Evaluation

CCHA-NEH Grant Final Report (May-June 2001) is available for review online:
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/hum299/ccha/finalrpt.html

More detailed ASA conference Web Presentation “Going Online to Develop and Communicate Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers” is available for review online:
NEW URL: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/ASA/
References:  Kathy Walsh, Bart Queary

Please review referenced webs embedded in outline above.

Goal 1 Additional Activities completed

Date

·          Technology Training:

·          Software upgrades to MS FrontPage 2000, PowerPoint 2000, Image Composer 98

·          My new home PC (purchased with a combination of partial PIP funding + my own personal funds)

·          CD and video capabilities of my new home PC

·          Consulted with Peter Casey on improving the design of my websites.

AY 2000-2001

Technology Training:

·          Microsoft Outlook Training, March 21, 2002

·          Macromedia Flash MX Training, June 17-18, 2002

·          Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Training & CCHA Mini-Grant web project planning (individually with Barbara Klett), May-June, 2002

• Upgrades: COCC Office Computer to Windows 2000 OS; Home Computer (at my own expense) to XP Pro OS, XP Pro Office & XP Pro FrontPage software; Summer 2002

AY 2001-2002

Trained new Humanities Dept. Adjunct Instructor Jacob Agatucci in using FrontPage and Micrograde software so he could develop writing course websites, assist in locating new writing webresources for students, and use Micrograde for record keeping; Summer-Fall 2001.

Summer-Fall 2001

Technology Training:

·          upgrade to MS XP on my home computer

·          MS FrontPage XP software;

·          Microsoft FrontPage 2000 software (on my COCC office computer and on Cascades Hall 101 & 103 classroom computers);

·          Upgraded MicroGrade 5.0.3 software, and WebGrade capabilities;

·          Adobe PhotoShop.

AY 2002-2003

COCC email Participant, with Cat Finney and others: “Best Practices in Instruction: Cooperating and Collaborating with Faculty,” OLA Library Instruction Round Table Discussion –& reviewed follow-up web reports.

Fall 2002

Cora’s Online Reserve Articles: Given time constraints of COCC Faculty Librarians and problems with online reserve .pdf documents, Barbara Klett helped me create new password-protected web with limited terms of student use to adhere to U.S. Copyright law (Summer-Fall 2002); Course Research & Development:  conducted research, collected and webposted electronic versions of articles relevant to my course topics to support student research-based assignments for all my courses: 
URL:  http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/
Username:  reader;  password:  articles

2002-2003
& ongoing

As Chair of Promotions Committee (2002-2003), I created new COCC web page: Promotions & Emeritus Information (created Sept. 2002)
OLD URL: http://www.cocc.edu/faculty_evaluation/promotions.htm
Revised Spring 2003 & made Promotions Committee Report to Chairmoot: 18 June 2003; [posted to CM Discussion conference, 16 June 2003].

[new web location:] http://employees.cocc.edu/Faculty+Resources/Fac_Guides/Promotions_Info/default.aspx  

2002-2003

Goal 1(Additional Activities) Documentation & Evaluation

Please review referenced webs embedded in outline above.
References:  Barbara Klett, IT Coordinator; and others referenced in outline above.

Goal 2 Print Publications

Date

Assigned to write entries on Michelle Cliff, Gish Jen, & Michael Thelwell for Caribbean American & Chinese American Literature sections of Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (SUNY-Cortland), to be published by Greenwood Press, 2005. 
So far my “Michael Thelwell” entry has been completed & accepted for publication.  I plan to write Cliff & Gen entries in Winter 2004.

Aug. 2003: completed & submitted Thelwell entry;
[Cliff & Jen articles due in April 2004]

“Michael Thelwell” [& his novel The Harder They Come], accepted for publication in An Encyclopedia of African American Literature, ed. J. David Macey, Jr., and Hans Ostrom (Univ. of Puget Sound), forthcoming from Greenwood Press.

Aug. 2003: completed & submitted Thelwell entry

“Gish Jen” accepted for publication in Contemporary Women Fiction Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, eds. Rhonda Austin and Laurie Champion; forthcoming from Greenwood Press.

Book forthcoming in 2003 [per email communication with Greenwood Press, Nov. 2002]:

Entries on “Hopes and Impediments…,” “Morning Yet on Creation Day…,” and “Approaches to Teaching Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, ed. Bernth Lindfors” completed & accepted for publication in Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia, ed. M. Keith Booker (Prof. of English, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville); forthcoming from Heinemann Div.-Greenwood Press in 2003.

Summer 2001
Book forthcoming in 2003 [per email communication with Prof., Booker, Oct. 2002]

Recommended in: Weissinger, Thomas, comp.  “Ancient African Civilizations: Selected Publications,” Cornell University Library: Africana Library (30 Aug. 2002).  http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Library/civilization.html
Annotated Bibliographical citation: “Agatucci, Cora. "ANCIENT AFRICA & AFRICAN EMPIRES TIMELINE." The New Crisis, Jan/Feb 2000, pp.40A-40H.
”Great ancient African civilizations, in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth. An ancient Africa and African empires timeline is presented.”

Aug. 2002
Online citation last accessed:
Oct. 2003

Received honorarium for publication of my African Timelines [Parts 1 & 2]--“concept” and text-- in a study guide for Jubilee Legacy Bible, Townsend Press, Sunday School Publishing Board, National Baptist Convention, USA; from Dr. Charles H. Smith (Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union Univ., & former Deputy Director of NAACP); Spring 2001.

Spring 2001

Recommended in: ”Use of Collaborative Learning in the K-12 Classroom,” Penn State Univ., Jan. 2001.
URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/a/z/azs2/k12.htm

Bibliographical citation: “Agatucci, Cora. Empowering Students through Collaborative Learning Strategies. 1989. 14 p.; 1 microfiche card.”
URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/a/z/azs2/k12agatu.htm

Jan. 2001
Online citation last accessed:
Oct. 2003

Agatucci, Cora. "Eric Walrond (1898-1966)." African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport: Greenwood, 2000. 429-39.”
Bibliographical citation: In Rudolph Fisher Newsletter: Online News and Resources for Rudolph Fisher and the Harlem Renaissance.  Selected Articles about Harlem Renaissance Authors: Eric Walrond:  http://www.fishernews.org/articles/walrond.htm

Commended by Prof. Louis Parascandola (Long Island Univ. & Eric Walrond specialist), for my “Eric Walrond” article [Email Feb. 2001].

Greenwood publication
Fall 2000

Online citation last accessed:
Oct. 2003

Goal 2 Print Publications - Documentation & Evaluation

Reference: M. Keith Booker, Prof. of English, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR: My Achebe articles complemented as “fine contribution” [email 31 July 2001]  Email contact available upon request.

Reference: Emmanuel S. Nelson, Prof. of English, SUNY-Cortland; Email contact available upon request.

Copies of my articles, and/or the book collections which contain my articles, are available for review upon request.  Books can also be obtained locally or via interlibrary loan.

Goal 2 Web Publications

Date

World Wide Web publications: I am constantly creating, updating, revising my COCC instructional webs, most anchored to specific courses that I teach, plus Humanities Dept. webs.  I refrain from listing all my 2,000+ instructional web pages (not counting administrative webs for the Faculty Assessment Team and Promotions Committee that I have created and try to maintain).  Web maintenance for me is an ongoing, exhaustively time consuming but very rewarding professional improvement project.  My instructional webs continue to attract much electronic communication, requests for help, national and international recognition & commendations, requests for permission to link, & informal commendations from faculty, students, parents, independent learners

2000-2004
Ongoing

Goal 2 Web Publications - Documentation & Evaluation:

See Attachment: Web Publications for documentation & evaluation of national & international recognition, links, and commendations for my COCC instructional webpages.
NOTE: The list is lengthy, so I attach separately.

Goal 2 additional activities completed

Date

Prentice Hall Textbook & Website Reviewer, at request of Jennifer Migueis, Editorial Assistant-Literature:
(a) Companion website for Guth and Rico’s Discovering Literature, 3^rd ed., Dec. 2002;
(b) 5^th ed. of Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary, by Charles Bohner, Jan. 2003.

(a) Dec. 2002

(b) Jan. 2003

Bedford-St. Martin Textbook Reviewer:
(a) Reviewed Eighteenth Century section and complete table of contents for revised (2^nd) edition of The Bedford Anthology of World Literatures; Nov. 2001.
(b) Reviewed Anne Charters’ The Story and Its Writer, Compact 5^th ed., by invitation of Emily Goodall, Editorial Assistant [phone: (800) 779-7440, x. 4074; email: egoodall@bedfordstmartins.com], March-April 2001.

(a) Nov. 2001
(b) Mar.-April 2001

Longman Textbook & CD-ROM Reviewer: 
(a) Reviewed textbook proposal, “The Twentieth Century: Literatures in English,” for Michele Cronin, Longman Publishers-Literature (Boston), July 2002.
(b) Reviewed new CD-ROM Project Proposal, intended to augment Kennedy and Gioia’s Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 8^th ed., Feb. 2001.  

(c) Reviewed new research writing textbook proposal entitled “Building a Mystery: Inquiry and Writing Across Genres, Media, Genders, Disciplines, and Cultures,” at the request of Rebecca Gilpin, Longman publishers; July 2001.

(a) July 2002
(b) Feb. 2001
(c) July 2001

Humanities Dept. Composition Committee: 2000-2004 (as time allows)

Humanities Dept. Composition Textbook Committee, with Stacey Donohue and Eleanor Latham, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, & 2002-2003.

2000-2004
Ongoing

Humanities Dept. Literature/English/Humanities curriculum group meetings & discussions re: the desirability of proposing major curricular revisions to Humanities Dept. A-list (depth/sequence) and many B-list (breadth) course offerings, 2002-2003, ongoing.

2002-2004
Ongoing

College Hour: In the wake of “9-11,” prepared 2 extensive handouts & co-presented with Kathy Walsh, Stacey Donohue, and Patricia O’Neill: “What We Know About Islam,” Friday, 19 Oct. 2001

Oct. 2001

Northstar Seminars: Directed research & reading in post-colonial English-language African-Caribbean fiction & poetry, and Belizean cultures & Kriol orature during 10-day working-vacation (at my own expense) in Belize (formerly British Honduras) Central America, with Northstar instructor Lisa Cohen Snyder and 3 of her students, Dec. 2001.  [In Belize, I was also able to obtain Belizean literary & transcribed Kriol texts & music CD’s are unavailable in the U.S.]

Dec. 2001

Prepared & delivered Guest presentations:
(a) on I Is a Long-Memoried Woman in Rise Quay’s Winter 2003 Women’s Studies 101; 4 & 6 March 2003
(b) on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park in Eleanor Sumpter-Latham’s Winter 2003 English 102, March 2003.

(c) on “Feminist Literary Criticism in the 1990s” in Bill Buck’s Winter 2002 ENG 206 (Applied Literary Criticism);

(d) on “To Be a Woman and a Writer” (rev) in Stacey Donohue’s Spring 2002 Women’s Studies 102; and in her  Winter 2001 Women’s Studies 101.

{a & b) March 2003;

(c) Winter 2002;

(d) Spring 2002 &
Winter 2001

Keynote speaker on “African Story Telling” for Diversity Week assembly, Sisters High School, 22 Feb. 2002.

Feb. 2002

Consulted with, recommended and sent texts (at my own expense) for African literary studies with Ladi Toulgui, Lecturer in African literature and culture, Logements du Nouveau Technicum, Heliopolis, W. Guelma, Algeria (email correspondence), Summer-Fall 2001.

Summer-Fall 2001

Outside Adjudicator for doctoral thesis “Women Portraits in the Novels of African and African-American Women Writers,” Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, India; report submitted May 2002.

May 2002

Consulted with, recommended and sent texts (at my own expense) for English-language Post-colonial and multicultural literature & theory, to Khem Guragain, The New Summit Higher Secondary School, Maitideevi, Kathmandu, Nepal <kehmguragain@hotmail.com > Summer 2002.

Summer 2002

Memberships, Subscriptions, & Materials Acquisitions

·          Memberships: National Council of Teachers of English, Oregon Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Modern Language Association, African Literature Association, American Studies Association, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Library of Congress, Amnesty International, National Women’s History Museum;

·          Subscriptions: College English, CCC [College Composition & Communication], PMLA, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker;
Electronic subscriptions: Scout Report (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), PBS Ed-Previews, and TeachAfrica

·          Continued to purchase (with personal funds) books, journals, CD’s, & computer programs/software to keep me abreast of currents in my teaching subjects, to develop new instructional resources, and to support current and future professional development activities.

2000-2004
Ongoing

Goal 2 (Other Activities) Documentation & Evaluation:

Textbook, web, CD-ROM Reviews for national publishers: 
Editors may be contacted for references: Email contacts available upon request.
Copies of my submitted reviews can be made available for review upon request.

Feel free to contact COCC References for other activities reported above.

Goal 3 (a) activities completed

Date

Member, OSU-Cascades/COCC Joint Curriculum Council (JCC)

2002-2004

COCC member of OSU-Cascades Search Committee for new faculty position in American Literature/The West/Literature and Environment, under the direction of Prof. Kerry Ahern (OSU-Corvallis) and Vice Provost Henry Sayre (OSU-Cascades), Fall 2001-Winter 2002. (We hired Asst. Professor C. “Neil” Browne). 

Fall 2001-Winter 2002

COCC member, OSU-COCC Curriculum Coordinating Committee, Spring 2001-Summer-Fall 2001 – Spring 2002.

2001 - 2002

Goal 3 (a) Documentation & Evaluation

References:  James Foster, Natalie Dollar, Patricia O’Neill (past and present JCC chairs); Kathy Walsh (JCC member); Neil Browne, Asst. Prof. of American Literature, OSU-Cascades; Prof. Kerry Ahern, English Dept., OSU-Corvallis.

Goal 3 (b) activities completed

Date

EOU Senior Capstone instructor for 2 Discourse Studies students: ENGL/WR 403 in Fall 2003; ENGL/WR 407 in Winter 2004
Course Web: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/EOUcapstone/

Prep: Summer 2003
Fall 2003 &
Winter 2004

EOU ENGL 339 – Literary Genres [Historical Fiction]

New Course Development:  ENGL 339-E Literary Genres [double listed as OSU ENG 465 Studies in the Novel in Spring 2002]

Prep & Revisions: Summer 2001, Summer 2002
Taught in Spring 2003
Taught in Spring 2002

EOU WR 316 – Advanced Prose Writing (for the World Wide Web) major course revisions in Spring 2002 & Spring 2003.  Upgrades to FrontPage 2000 & FrontPage XP web editing software necessitated re-writing all FrontPage instructions for WR 316-E students in spring 2003.
WR 316-E Course Web Site: http://web.cocc.edu/wr316ca/
FrontPage 2000 directions: http://web.cocc.edu/wr316ca/FrontPage/index.html 
Example web page template: http://web.cocc.edu/wr316ca/FrontPage/template1.htm 
Assignments: http://web.cocc.edu/wr316ca/assignments/index.html 
Student Webs - Table of Contents: http://web.cocc.edu/wr316ca/studentwebs.html 

Prep & Revisions: Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Summer 2002
Taught in Spring 2003
Taught in Spring 2002
Taught in Spring 2001

Participant with WR 316 students, Collaborative Learning Research Study, administered by Rick Rantz, Ph.D. candidate, College of Education, Univ. of Houston; Spring 2002.

Spring 2002

New Course Development: OSU-Cascades  ENG 458 Comparative Literature: Postcolonialism, taught in Spring 2002

Prep in Summer 2001
Taught in Spring 2002

Content Consultant, Project Presentation faculty participant, and Reference (letters of recommendation) for EOU WR/ENGL Senior Capstone Project students in areas of my expertise.  Includes participation in a capstone presentation by COCC-EOU student Karen Kitt, on Multicultural Resources for Middle School Teachers, based on the website Karen developed in my course HUM 299, Spring 2001.

2000-2004

Goal 3 (b) Documentation & Evaluation

Student evaluations administered in all my OSU-Cascades/EOU courses: Spring 2000, Spring 2001 & Spring 2002 – available for review in my HR file.
References:  Kathy Walsh, Stacey Donohue, Eleanor Sumpter-Latham (past & present EOU Coordinators);
Barbara Klett, IT Coordinator (consultant and aid in web-based WR 316 courses)

Please review referenced webs embedded in outline above.

Goal 4 Major activities completed

Date

Faculty Assessment Team, 2002-2003 & continuing in 2003- 2004.

·          Assisted in development and review of COCC Dept/Program instructional Assessment proposals;

·          Created and continue to maintain COCC FAT web:
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/FAT/

• With Kathy Walsh, Rise Quay, Eleanor Sumpter-Latham, Maggie Triplett: developed sequenced Writing course outcomes chart to assist Chairmoot in interdisciplinary writing outcomes “matching” (Chairmoot, 10 June 2003)

Reviewed rev. AA Degree Outcomes drafted by Kathy Walsh, Summer 2003

2002-2003
2003-2004

Program for Excellence in Assessment (PEA) grant committee, with Bruce McClelland (chair) and Patricia O’Neill, spring 2003.

Spring 2003

Participant, Oregon Community Colleges Outcomes Assessment Workshop, held at COCC, Aug. 28-29, 2002. [I attended Aug. 28, 2002 sessions.]

Aug. 2002

Advisory Committee, COCC Self Study: [extensive review of Standards II & IV] in consultation with Stacey Donohue, 2001-2002.

2001-2002

Goal 4 Documentation & Evaluation

Faculty Assessment Team web: please review referenced web: http://web.cocc.edu/FAT/ 
References:  Faculty Assessment Team Chair Kathy Walsh & member Jim Kress

COCC Self-Study Reference:  Stacey Donohue

Goal 4 (a & b) activities completed

Date

Participant in the following inter-disciplinary Dept/Program Assessment Projects:
(a) WIC Program Assessment Project (submitted Spring 2003)
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/FAT/deptAP/humsswic.htm
Joint Project of Humanities and Social Science Departments
(b) COCC Library Assessment Project (submitted Spring 2003)
including Humanities & Social Science Dept. Faculty
FAT Web URL: http://web.cocc.edu/FAT/deptAP/library.htm
Source: the following COCC Library web page (dated 9 June 2003)
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/finney/assesscomplib.htm

Winter-Spring 2003
& ongoing

WIC Program Assessment Project & PEA grant:
Collaborated in developing approved interdisciplinary WIC Program assessment project & PEA proposal with Stacey Donohue, Patricia O’Neill, Rebecca Walker-Sands, & Nancy Zens.

Winter-Spring 2003

Revision of Course Learning Outcomes for Survey of Western World Literature (Eng 107-108-109) and Non-European Culture & Literature (HUM 210, 211, 212, 213) sequences, with Eleanor Sumpter-Latham, Terry Krueger, and Kathy Walsh; approved by Humanities Dept. Hum/Lit group (Chair: Greg Lyons), 6 Nov. 2003.

Oct-Nov. 2003

Drafted & web published new/revised WIC Program outcomes, plus recommended links & other resources on Humanities Dept. web.
URL:  http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/WIC/index.htm

2001-2002
& ongoing

New WIC Course proposals for ENG 103 and ENG 104 approved by AA Curriculum, Spring 2002.

Spring 2002

Informal WIC & WAD Program Activities:  Recommended websites on instructional topics across the curriculum via postings to Humanities Conference and e-mails to interested colleagues (when time allowed)

2000-2002

Outcomes-Based Course Instruction & Assessment:  Continue to publish in my syllabi, field-test, revise (as needed), redesign assignments and grading criteria referenced to Course Learning Outcomes in all my Writing and English/Humanities courses;
--Track selected Outcomes using instructor evaluations of targeted assignments;
--Administer student self-assessment surveys at course entry and exit in selected courses each quarter;
--Analyzed COCC Student Evaluations administered in all my classes during the following terms: (AY2000-01) Spring 2001, (AY 2001-02) Winter 2002, (AY2002-03) Winter 2003.

2000-2004
Ongoing

Goal 4 (a & b) Documentation & Evaluation

COCC Student Evaluations administered in all my classes during the following terms: (AY2000-01) Spring 2001, (AY 2001-02) Winter 2002, (AY2002-03) Winter 2003.  Available for review in my HR file.

Past and current Course Learning Outcomes, syllabi, course plans, assignments, etc., for all my COCC courses are available for review on my respective COCC instructional webs.

References for my work for Humanities Dept. Lit/Hum curriculum committee:  Greg Lyons (committee chair), Margaret Triplett (Humanities Dept. Chair), co-members Jon Bouknight, Bill Buck, Stacey Donohue, Eleanor Sumpter-Latham.

References for my WIC Program Assessment work:  Stacey Donohue, Patricia O’Neill, Rebecca Walker-Sands, Nancy Zens.