Request No. | 2017-06 |
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Date of Request | 10.13.16 |
Requester | Michelle Pena, Bakersfield College |
Application(s) | Standard & IA |
Section / Page | Majors /Administrator |
Steering Approval | Approved / Deferred to Admin 2.0 |
Steering Hearing Date | December 6, 2016 |
Proposed Change to Download File | No |
Proposed Change to Residency Logic | No |
Problem / Issue
CCCApply Steering Committee is being asked to take our Ed Goal > Majors alignment implementation one step further and incorporate further branching by meta major.
Steering will review this request during the December 6, 2016 meeting but anticipate it will be approved for future development. Planting the seed now so that our Admin 2.0 developer can consider the effort to implement this level of branching as we build out the Majors module in 2.0.
NOTE: Patty will gather more details and clarification on 'meta majors' and what is meant by 'tiered question'.
Request
from Michelle Pena, regarding Meta Majors:
<<I am being asked if a Meta Major can be added as a filter to the CCCApply Application for the major/program area. We are wanting a tiered question, first question shows Meta major and then the next question would display the majors in the Meta major that was selected.>>
<<To piggy back onto this topic, any ability to better organize the majors list would be nice. We have close to 200 majors now, with certificates, aa, as, and all the duplicate transfer specific degrees (UC and CSU).
I have also been approached several times by my Dean of Admissions and Records about meta majors, but responded that it is an issue that has not yet reached the steering committee (to my knowledge). Apparently, there is quite a bit of discussion on the topic of meta majors at the college level.>>
Proposed Solution
If Steering approves this request, the Administrator 2.0 development team will investigate the level of effort to do this work in the first version of the new tool.
12.06.16: The Steering Committee supports investigating how best to design the Majors module in the Administrator to provide more flexibility and functionality for the college.
Notes
The idea of displaying or grouping majors under a specified "Meta Majors" appealed to the majority of the Committee members, but there was caution in jumping on anything too specific.
There are no standard set of Meta Majors; they would vary from college to college. Therefore the college would have to decide how their programs are grouped. Some colleges describe wanting to group their programs/majors by the School they belong to.
The fact that there are no standards defined for Meta Majors, supports the decision to keep whatever we decide to develop very generic and not prescribe categories.
<< from William Diehl >>
I know we can sort the majors list every which way in Administrator, but has the issue with the actual display in the application been resolved? Last I checked, no matter what sorting was used in Administrator, the actual application still displayed the majors in alphabetical order based on the major_code field… We’d love to see this resolved as we have something like 200 majors with all the transfer degrees, certificates, as/aa degrees offered in our district and sorting them on the application by major type not by major code would be best for us.
Cheers!
https://www.ccctechnology.info/ccctc/topics/how-are-majors-organized-on-the-application
<from Rita Grogan, West Hills College>
Another email from Rita Grogran, July 11, 2016>>
Supporting Documentation
Here's a video from Florida College System that illustrates what meta majors are.
https://www.floridacollegesystem.com/students/programs/meta-major_academic_pathways.aspx
Here's some information from CSU system on Meta Majors:
https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/Meet-the-Meta-Major.aspx