Elvira Costa

Elvira Costa

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My institution requires high school graduation..ie diploma as a requisite for admission. We are encounting hard time with all kinds of diploma mills we have been receiving. Most of the students doesnt have any idea that they are paying for a diploma mills until they present it to an institution. Sometines is very hard to validate them, there is no list or database for private high school validation/accreditations as for a college or universities.
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Dr. Roerich: What do you think about inviting graduates from school to be members of the advisory board? I think they can contribute with a different but importante perspective. They were school students and now they graduate and are working in the industry.
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Is it a good idea to make an needs assessment or ask recomendation from the faculty and other key personnel in the institution? The purpose of gathering this information is to be use in defining statement of purpose.

Our part of term are of five weeks, because we are an accelerated program for adults.\We meet in all the part of terms. In the meeting is the director of the campus, the director of faculty and the assessment coordinator. It is supossed to have one representative for each course, but actually never shows all of them. It is volunteer...abd it supossed to be at one time in the semester. They have the opportunity to present all jinds of worries, comments or problems. It could be since for example about the parking up to the way of teaching of the… >>>

Let me explain you. The is lead by the director and record is keep about all the issues. After the meeting we contact the corresponding associate to answer the issie of its area and subsequently we give feedback to the students.\One of the most importante issue we take care very carefully is about the faculty. The studebt are the best ones to feedback us about whAT IS GOING IN THE CLASSROOM.

On our institution we use to place a meeting in every part of term. Student enroll in each course designates a student which will represent the group and will bring to the meeting the issues presented by the the group. Usually the student presents the issues (teacher, academic, administrative etc.)that cause their insatisfaction. After the meeting all issues are revised and whenver possible actions are taken. For the next meeting we present information about the issues and what actions were taken. This a way to deal with the insatisfaction of student and they feel very pleased :-)because not only has… >>>

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