ACA courses

[Debra Ford]

Hello.

My school is considering making some changes to our  ACA course offerings. We currently offer ACA 090 and ACA 122. I have the following questions that I hope some of you can answer:

1. Does your college offer ACA 090 or a similar course (111, 115, or 118)?

If yes,

2. What is the population of students that takes this course?

3. Would you please share the name and email address of someone at your college who I can contact about additional questions regarding ACA courses?

Your time is greatly appreciated!

Debra

 

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[Tonya J. Greene]

Hello Debra,

I am the Department Head for the First Year Academy, which houses both ACA 090 and ACA 122.  I am happy to chat with you about our courses.

 1,  The college does offer ACA 111 for certain CTE programs, but that does not fall under my umbrella.  There is talk about expanding the ACA 111 requirement for all CTE students in the future. 

2. What is the population of students that takes this course?  ACA 090 students are FTIC, taking ENG 002 and/or MAT 003, with a GPA lower than 2.2.

Tonya Greene

Department Head

First Year Academy

Wake Technical Community College

tjgr...@waketech.edu

9101 Fayetteville Road | Raleigh, NC 27603

919.866.5303

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[Lynn Criswell]

Hi Debra,

We offer ACA 090, 111, and 122 at CFCC.  

• ACA 111 has very limited enrollment as we don't currently require it for CTE programs, but some students in CTE or pre-health sciences choose to take it. 
  
• We use ACA 090 as part of a success initiative under a Title III grant, so enrollment in 090 is currently required for any student on academic probation and is part of the financial aid appeal/reinstatement process.

I am happy to discuss anything ACA related if you'd like. 

Thanks!

Lynn 

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[Darrell Finney]

Greetings, Debra, and All,

At Wilkes Community College we use the ACA 115 class as the college success course for those seeking terminal AAS degrees. We do not use ACA 111.

Sheneele Wagoner, sfwago...@wilkescc.edu, is the Lead Instructor in ACA.  She will be happy to answer your questions about the course.  

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Dean of Arts & Sciences

Wilkes Community College

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[Christine Ziemba-Tolbert]

Debra,

Currently, Gaston College offers only ACA 122 and ACA 111, we phased out ACA 118 several years ago. 

• Currently only AA, AS, AE, AFA, AGE-Nursing are required to complete ACA 122 as part of their Plan of Study. AGE/AAS students have the option to complete ACA 111 or ACA 122 depending on their intentions upon completing their degree. Diploma seeking students' complete ACA 111 as part of their Plan of Study. 
• Beginning Fall 2021, all new students, beginning with 2021 -2022 catalog year, who are seeking an associate's degree will be required to complete ACA 122. 
• This change is due to the research indicating/showing that
• all students entering a community college can/should be seen as potential transfer students - they may not realize they need to transfer until later in their time 
• AAS students are the fasting growing population of transfer students
• ACA 122 is a transfer credit where any other ACA course does not receive transfer credit
  

If you have further questions, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Chris Z-T

Chris Ziemba-Tolbert

(preferred pronouns: her/hers/she)

ACA 122 Instructor

Gaston College

201 Highway 321 South

Dallas, NC 28034

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[Scott Byington]

Hi Debra et. al,

What Chris (at Gaston) said is being planned there is what we are doing now at Central Carolina and have been for a few years...

• All associate degree program students are required to take ACA-122.  Reasons why?  See her email. ;-)   We formerly taught ACA-115 for CTE programs and ACA-122 for transfer.  The only real wrinkle we had was that some of our faculty and staff who taught ACA-115 with bachelor's degrees could not teach ACA-122.  It actually motivated three of them to go back for their masters so they could teach it again.  We do offer "special ACA-122s" for groups of students, e.g,. we may have a section of ACA-122 reserved for BUS students so we can contextualize the content a bit more and make sure we have a BUS faculty member teaching that section. 
• All students on probation are required to take ACA-085 which we teach as an 8-week class.
• The only other ACA we currently offer is ACA-111 and this is only for early college students.  In their second semester of their ninth-grade year, they take ACA-111 and HEA-110 to ease them into college courses.

Scott

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[Donna Housman]

Hello Debra and ACA colleagues, 

At Central Piedmont,  Transfer degrees and some AAS degrees ( BUS, CJ etc) are required to take ACA 122. We have an ACA Student Success Action team looking at requiring a student success course for all students.  This is part of our Guided Pathways implementation.  Choosing 122 is due to the same reasons mentioned by Chris and Scott.   Our recommendation will be presented this fall and these changes will take place for Fall 2022.

We also offer 118 and 090 as open enrollment, as an elective in a few AAS programs and as a recommendation for students on warning or probation.  We do not offer ACA 111 anymore as of Fall 2020.

Let me know if we can help further.  I really appreciate this discussion!

Donna

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[Lee Ann Hodges]

TCCC requires an ACA course for all associate degrees except Nursing. 

Most AAS students take ACA 111, but some AAS programs give students the option of taking ACA 111 or 122, depending on the student's goals. Some programs (Welding, Computer Information Systems) also offer specialized-content ACA 111 courses. 

All College Transfer degrees (AA, AS, AFA, AE) require ACA 122.

The ACA courses are within my area, so I'm happy to answer any further questions you may have.

Lee Ann Hodges

Dean of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Public Service Technologies/English Instructor

Tri-County Community College

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Murphy, NC 28906

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[Lynn Criswell]

Hi All,

For those colleges who require an ACA in CTE degrees, have you had any difficulty working the credit(s) into the program?  Prior to my time in this role, a universal ACA requirement was on the table, but I think there were concerns about how to work the requirement into the credit hours.  Any help there would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Lynn 

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[Lee Ann Hodges]

Lynn, TCCC has only had difficulty working the ACA requirement into Nursing, and so that program is exempt from our ACA requirement. Other programs have enough leeway in their hours to accommodate a one-credit ACA course.

Lee Ann Hodges

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[Debra Ford]

Hello.

 

I greatly appreciate the large number of responses about your college's ACA courses! All of the information has been very helpful. I may be in touch again, individually, as the administration at Davidson-Davie revises our student success program. Thank you for your time!

 

Sincerely,

Debra

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[Gabrielle B. McCutchen]

Hi everyone,

I'm late to the ACA email discussion, but I wanted to share that at Durham Tech, ACA 122 is required on all of our associate degree plans of study, including AAS degrees. We have a comprehensive registration rule that guides the requirement and specifies the waivers students can qualify for to avoid the requirement. I hope this is helpful.

Thanks,

Gabby

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[Donna Housman]

Good morning, 

I had a follow up to our discussion.  Does anyone else require an ACA class in any of your diplomas and if so which class and which diplomas?  

I saw this from Gaston but wanted to see if there were others:  Diploma seeking students' complete ACA 111 as part of their Plan of Study. 

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[Darrell Finney]

Hello, All,

At Wilkes Community College, ACA 115 is required for all our Applied Associates Diplomas.  

R. Darrell Finney

Dean of Arts and Sciences

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[Sheryll Wood]

I would like to add a follow-up question to Donna's ACA question:

1. On your campuses, who is responsible for ACA 111 and ACA 122 course content development, and who is responsible for teaching the courses? 

2. For those of you who teach only ACA 122 to all students, I've had individuals tell me that for students who aren't planning to transfer, they change the final project to a career project rather than an academic plan to transfer to a senior institution. How do you fit that in with the course description that states: This course provides information and strategies necessary to develop clear academic and professional goals beyond the community college experience. Topics include the CAA, college policies and culture, career exploration, gathering information on senior institutions, strategic planning, critical thinking, and communications skills for a successful academic transition. Upon completion, students should be able to develop an academic plan to transition successfully to senior institutions.

As far as the first, we have not had a firm plan on the ACA course development and instruction process since we disbanded our Transitional Department in 2017 (moving developmental English to the English Department, and developmental math to the Math Department). I have talked to a few other campuses and gotten these types of responses:

•  Full-time person whose total responsibility is to develop and teach all sections of ACA; outside adjuncts are hired for extra sections when needed.
• Full-time person whose total responsibility is to develop and teach all sections of ACA; internal volunteers from other disciplines teach extra sections when needed (including in some cases, high school liaisons, success coaches, college counselors, student success or advising center personnel, other faculty)
• Advising Center or Student Success centers develop content and teach sections; internal volunteers from other disciplines teach extra sections when needed.
• A gen ed faculty member or a transitional department faculty member is given one course release time to develop content, and teaches half of his/her load in ACA and half in his/her discipline; external adjuncts or internal volunteers teach extra sections as needed.

Thanks!

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[Darrell Finney]

Hello, All,

At Wilkes Community College, the development of curriculum for ACA 115 and ACA 122 is the responsibility of our Lead Instructor in ACA.  She does this in conjunction with the ACA Instructors.  All ACA Instructors are part of our Advising Department, and a part of their duties is to teach ACA courses. 

R. Darrell Finney

Dean of Arts and Sciences

Wilkes Community College

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I would like to add a follow-up question to Donna's ACA question:

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[Donna Housman]

Sheryll, 

At Central Piedmont  we have a small ACA team with 2 FT faculty and then myself as the Discipline Chair.  We lost two FT instructors in Fall 2020 to retirement and moving to another department to teach.  I am responsible for curriculum development ( with assistance from the other 2 FT faculty) scheduling, hiring and training of ACA instructors as well as teaching a PT load.  We have a group of PT faculty, other FT faculty, staff from Student Affairs and staff from Academic Affairs who teach the remainder of our classes.  For fall we have 100 classes scheduled.

We do have students in our AAS Business and CJ programs who have ACA 122 as a required course in their programs.  What we have done is provide everyone with understanding about the transfer process so students all know what  the process would be if they did decide to transfer at a later date.  We also discuss 2+2 programs and transitioning to the workplace as well.  Let me know if I can help further.

Take care, 

Donna