{"id":1570,"date":"2022-03-10T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2022-03-10T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:15:03","slug":"chancellors-priority-3-spring-2022-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/chancellors-priority-3-spring-2022-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor\u2019s Priority 3 spring 2022 update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) continues to make progress on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/chancellor\/priorities\"> <strong>Chancellor\u2019s 2021-22 Priorities<\/strong><\/a>. The ACC Board of Trustees received an update on <strong>Chancellor Priority No. 3: Provide an Exceptional Online Education<\/strong> at its March 7 regular meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The priority aims to provide accessible and quality online education to everyone to promote equitable outcomes, expand professional development, and close the digital divide with increased support for online students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic highlighted the growing digital divide. With the support of a $2.5 million Hispanic Serving Institute Grant, the college took a three-pronged approach to close the gap. It included enriching high-risk courses, improving academic support, and providing intensive advising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The college also increased the number of programs available fully online to 40 degrees and certifications with a 70 percent completion rate. ACC continues to increase completions on the number of staff and faculty with Quality Matters (QM) training to 956 with a goal of 1,050. The college also exceeded its goal to develop 10 courses that are QM-certified. Currently, there are 26 QM-certified courses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACC is working toward adding more options to its online and distance learning courses. Currently, the college offers:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Online<\/strong> \u2013 All instruction and services are provided online asynchronously<\/li><li><strong>Distance Learning Campus<\/strong> \u2013 Instruction is offered online, but some services, like lab or testing, are offered on campus<\/li><li><strong>Hybrid<\/strong> \u2013 Instruction and services are provided partly online and partly face-to-face.<\/li><li><strong>Online Synchronous<\/strong> &#8211; Added during COVID-19 pandemic, offers Instruction fully online with required online meetings during the specified days and times listed<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The college is now exploring Hy-Flex instruction options which offer both online and on-campus opportunities simultaneously, giving students the choice to attend any particular class either in-person or virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) continues to make progress on the Chancellor\u2019s 2021-22 Priorities. The ACC Board of Trustees received an update on Chancellor Priority No. 3: Provide an Exceptional Online Education at its March 7 regular meeting. The priority aims to provide accessible and quality online education to everyone to promote equitable outcomes, expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55,13,52,49],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chancellors-priorities","tag-data","tag-employees","tag-online-teaching-learning","tag-students","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}