Internship Presentation

This Friday, the internship class will present to each other about their experiences. Because of the distance to the nearest ITV site, my professor has allowed me to send a narrated presentation. I have moved a non-narrated version to Google docs (located here).

This week has been very busy. I traveled to Florence Darlington Technical College in Florence, South Carolina to tour their Math Hub with nine others from HCC. The Math Hub is a lab-based learning environment we hope to simulate for our Quality Enhancement Plan. Along with learning about FDTC’s success in lab learning, I was very interested in learning about the differences between our two community college systems. In South Carolina, they are funded each year based on their fall enrollment, whereas our schools are funded based on fall and spring term. The FTE funds are distributed by the SC System Office to each of the 16 schools, and the colleges keep all proceeds from tuition.

Another interesting discussion I had with the VP of Academics was the notion of developmental education at the university level. I asked if the local four-year schools had remediation programs to which she replied, “Not ones they will tell you about.” While this policy is great for the community colleges, it can send some students into “provisional” purgatory while they try to get prepared for college work.

Back at the college, we are preparing for the SACS review with back-to-back meetings. I am able to multi-task other work items while the conversation is off of my areas, so it is working to my advantage.