Cora Agatucci
Professional Improvement Plan
Cycle:  1 September 2004 - 31 August 2008
Submitted 24 Nov. 2003
NOTE: This is my fifth Professional Improvement Plan since joining the COCC faculty in 1988.

ABSTRACT

For my fifth Professional Improvement Plan, 1 Sept. 2004 - 31 Aug. 2008, I propose the following:

I. SHORT-TERM PROFESSIONAL GOALS:

Goal 1 (short term): Webs Inventory, Editing, & Reorganization of my existing FrontPage instructional webs (2000+ pages), update Site Maps and subweb entry pages, implement Search function, update COCC “Community” [non-FrontPage] entry pages, request & analyze WebTrends tracking statistics, guided by IT Coordinator Barbara Klett, other web experts’ advice, and informal faculty/student reviews.  

Goal 2 (short term): Publication & Review Projects:  (a) Web Publication: (1) update/strengthen content of my pages attracting prestigious links & heavy World Wide Web traffic (2) repackage “chunks” of instruction and exemplary student writing, currently embedded in my course-specific subwebs, as multiple-use “learning objects” (i.e. free-standing web resources re-usable in multiple courses & learning environments to support instruction); (3) create new instructional web pages of multi-course or interdisciplinary value and of personal professional interest; (4) centrally locate and/or index these pages on Humanities Instructional Resources subweb of the Humanities Dept. web to make them easier to locate and access.  I am submitting Sabbatical Proposal for Winter-Spring 2005 to pursue short-term Goal 2.a web publication projects.  (b) Print Publication & Textbook Review: print publication opportunities and publishers’ invitations to review textbooks in my areas of expertise will be accepted and completed as time allows.

Goal 3 (short term): Curriculum Development: (a) participate in Writing curriculum review & revision to achieve seamless articulation between developmental and first year writing, reading, rhetoric course sequences and to prepare anticipated conversion to 4-credit course format; (b) if distance education is revived (Chairmoot Distance Education Task Force recommendations due Dec. 2003, per CM Discussion post: Kathy Walsh, “Distance Education Task Force,” 9/16/03, & attachment), volunteer to deliver entirely online web-based version/s of any of my courses to fill Humanities Dept. scheduling needs; (c) pilot special version of WR 123 or WR 199 - academic research-based writing for the World Wide Web – built on 1999-2001 & 2002 CCHA-NEH grant project outcomes.

II. LONG-TERM PROFESSIONAL GOALS:

Goal #4 (long term): Outcomes-Based Instruction, Assessment, and Related COCC Curricular Revision. Continue (a) to implement outcomes-based instruction, assessment, and curricular improvements based on assessment results, in my own courses; (b) to participate in departmental and interdisciplinary assessment projects; and (c) to contribute to outcomes-based assessment of COCC instructional programs and degrees, as College need dictates, opportunity arises, & time allows.

Goal #5 (long term): OSU-Cascades.  Continue to contribute to COCC articulation and instructional collaboration with OSU-Cascades, as opportunities arise and time allows.

ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1: Web Publications [previously submitted with PIP 2000-2004 Final Report, 3 Nov. 2003; when I requested that FPIRC retain this Attachment until receipt of this PIP 2004-2008 Proposal and accompanying Sabbatical Proposal for Winter-Spring 2005]
Attachment 2: Humanities Department Mission & Goals [this attachment is also referenced in accompanying Sabbatical Proposal for Winter-Spring 2005]

Attachment 3: Hit Count 2002 Report [this attachment is also referenced in accompanying Sabbatical Proposal for Winter-Spring 2005]

Attachment 4: Designated Evaluator’s Letter of Support from Prof. Margaret Triplett, Humanities Department Chair

I.  SHORT-TERM PIP GOALS

Rationale: Short-term Goal 1 serves COCC Mission, Vision, Board Ends #1, 2, 4 & 6; and Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals #1, 2, 4, 7 (see Attachment 2: Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals).  Web-based instruction is now integral to my teaching, provides my students with nearly 24/7 access to constantly updated course materials, and strengthens students’ computer competencies. My 2000+-page webs—I maintain six webs--have grown largely by accumulation driven by immediate instructional needs, rather than systematic planning which requires time investment I rarely have.  Eliminating dead(web)wood and redundancy, centralizing and indexing web locations of multiple-use instructional resources, will simplify the organizational and navigational structure of my webs, render them easier to search and navigate, and specific instructional resources easier to locate for my students and other users within and outside the COCC cyber-community (as well as reduce my course preparation time). My webs enhance the reputation of COCC: in 2002, my main web attracted 696,649 different visitors and 20% of total COCC web traffic (see Attachment 3: Hit Count 2002 Report); moreover, many of my web pages are honored as recommended links by prestigious regional, national, and international educational institutions (see Attachment 1: Web Publications).  The Fall 2003 COCC web conversion [www.cocc.edu] changed URL’s of all my Frontpage-generated webs [web.cocc.edu], thus making all my page footers & listed URL’s incorrect, sometimes breaking links to my pages recommended by external web sites: this situation needs to be rectified and external web sites notified of changes to my webs.

Goal 1 (short term) Documentation & Evaluation

1.  References: IT Coordinator Barbara Klett; other resident web experts, faculty and student web users engaged to review and evaluate reorganization and navigation of my webs.

2.  COCC WebTrends reports for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and/or 2007 (see Attachment 3: Hit Count 2002 Report).

3.  Web-research-based Report on external links to my web pages, particularly by reputable academic faculty and institutions (see Attachment 1: Web Publications).
4. Major Evaluation Year reports by Designated Evaluator and Peer Evaluators.
5.  Student Evaluations administered in all my classes during selected quarters in AY’s 2004-2008.

6. Annual Reports of Activities, and Designated Evaluator’s Comments, 2004-2008.

Rationale: Short-term Goal 2 serves COCC Mission, Vision, & all 6 Board Ends; and Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 (see Attachment 2: Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals).  Goal #2.a web projects will not only benefit my students, but will also provide my COCC colleagues, their students, as well as regional, national, and international web visitors, with a useful set of online instructional “learning objects” (see Staff Commlines post: Barbara Klett, “Learning Objects,” Nov. 15, 2003), easier to locate and easier to adapt to multiple learning applications.  Short-term PIP Goal #1 Rationale above is also applicable to short-term Goal #2.a.  COCC’s World Wide Web presence and reputation will be enhanced, locating or indexing these publications in the Humanities Instructional Resources subweb [web.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR] will strengthen the Humanities Dept. web, building upon web work completed for my 2002 CCHA-NEH Mini-Grant.  Short-term Goal #2.a and b projects will also deepen my instructional expertise, provide opportunities to collaborate with and learn from colleagues, broaden my interdisciplinary knowledge, and revitalize my professional enthusiasm and commitment – all of which will strengthen my future teaching effectiveness in writing, literature, world language arts, film, & cultures.

Goal 2 (short term) Documentation & Evaluation

1.  References: IT Coordinator Barbara Klett, Patricia O’Neill, and other faculty and student web users engaged to review and/or contribute to relevant pages in my webs.

2.  COCC WebTrends reports for 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (see Attachment 3: Hit Count 2002 Report).

3.  2004-2008 Web-research-based Reports on external links to my web pages, particularly by reputable academic faculty and institutions (see Attachment 1: Web Publications).

4.  Major Evaluation Year reports by Designated Evaluator and Peer Evaluators.
5.  Student Evaluations administered in all my classes during selected quarters in AY’s 2004-2008.

6. Annual Reports of Activities, and Designated Evaluator’s Comments, 2004-2008.

Rationale: Short-term Goal 3 Curriculum Development projects would serve COCC Mission, Vision, all 6 Board Ends; Humanities Dept. Mission & all 8 Goals (see Attachment 2: Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals).

Goal 3 (short term) Documentation & Evaluation

1. References: Humanities Dept. Chair, Composition Committee Chair, other participating Writing faculty.  

2. Review of Writing and other relevant course sequence outcomes & assessment, and relevant Academic Affairs Curriculum subcommittee proposals and actions.

3. Student evaluations administered in relevant courses.

4. Annual Reports of Activities, and Designated Evaluator’s Comments, 2004-2008.

II. LONG-TERM PIP GOALS

Rationale: Long-term Goal 4 serves COCC Mission, Vision, all Board Ends; Humanities Dept. Mission & all departmental Goals (see Attachment 2: Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals)

Goal 4 (long term) Documentation & Evaluation

1.  References: 2002-2004 Faculty Assessment Team Chair Kathy Walsh and member Jim Kress; Dept/Program Assessment Project team members: Stacey Donohue, Cat Finney, Tina Hovecamp, Patricia O’Neill, Rebecca Walker-Sands, Nancy Zens

2.  Review of FAT web and Dept. Program Assessment Project Reports: http://web.cocc.edu/FAT/

3.  Review of my course webs: Syllabi, Outcomes-based Assignments & evaluation criteria

4.  Major Evaluation Year reports by Designated Evaluator and Peer Evaluators.
5.  Student Evaluations administered in all my classes during selected quarters, 2004-2008.

6.  Annual Reports of Activities, and Designated Evaluator’s Comments, 2004-2008.

Rationale: Long-term Goal 5 serves COCC Mission, Vision, all 6 Board Ends; Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals # 3, 4, 5, 7 & 8 (see Attachment 2: Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals)

Goal 5 (long term) Documentation & Evaluation

1. References: Joint Curriculum Committee members, including Vice President for Instruction Kathy Walsh, OSU-Cascades Professors James Foster & Natalie Dollar; Prof. of American Literature Neil Browne.

2. Annual Reports of Activities, and Designated Evaluator’s Comments, 2004-2008.

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