<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Hi All,<BR>
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I look forward to our getting together, first on Wednesday, and then at the board meeting. Truman, like most places, is facing a financial cruch, so we had to abort our search to hire one more full time faculty member. Our department membership is now down to 18, from a high of 42 in 1990. But we're soldiering on, with a great many developmental classes being taught in studio classrooms, continuing our combined six-hour reading and writing developmental classes, and our department wide portfolio assessment, which stresses summary response and incorporation of source material in essays. <BR>
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On another note, as Director of Assessment, I'm busy moving ahead with the college's General Education Portfolio project, which assesses our general education goals through committees reading 50 papers for each goal taken from upper division courses and judged through weighted rubrics. we plan to extend the project to first-year courses next year and developmental the year following. It's pretty exciting.<BR>
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Cordially,<BR>
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Alan</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT><BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID%3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)</HTML>