NEWS FROM AROUND THE REGION . . . .
updated 3/15/07

  • Several Members of MRADE serve on the newly formed Missouri Developmental Education Consortium, a grassroots effort, formed to assist in developing a framework for consistent approaches to developmental education in Missouri two-year colleges.
  • The Fall 2007 MRADE Conference will be held in St. Joseph Missouri at the Stoney Creek inn.  The conference will be Thursday and Friday September 27th and 28th. Check back for more details.
  • MRADE elections will be held in September for  President-Elect. and historian.  If you would like to nominate someone, or nominate yourself please contact Todd Phillips phillips@eastcentral.edu
  • Future sites and ideas for MRADE conferences?  Please send your recommendations and ideas to Melody Shipley at MShipley@mail.Ncmissouri.edu
  • R.E. Moore from Missouri Western State College is the new MRADE Awards Chair.       
            
  • The MRADE fall 2005 conference, October 19-21, 2005, will be a joint conference with the Arkansas Association for Developmental Education at the  University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield, Missouri.
     
  • The fall 2006 conference will be a joint conference with the Iowa Developmental Education Association in Kansas City, Missouri.
     
  • MRADE elections will be held in September for Secretary and President-Elect.  If you would like to nominate someone, or nominate yourself please contact Yvonne Mitkos at yvonne.mitkos@llcc.edu.

  • The 2007 NADE conference in Nashville, Tennessee will be hosted by the NADE Board and several chapters have stepped forward to handle various aspects of the conference for the Board.  MRADE has volunteered to help with the Opening Reception.  If you would like to volunteer, please contact Karen Tompson-Wolfe at tompsok@westminster-mo.edu.

  • Future sites and ideas for MRADE conferences?  Please send your recommendations and ideas to Karen Tompson-Wolfe at tompsok@westminster-mo.edu.
     

  • from Karen Patty-Graham (March 21, 2005):

The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) is a consortium of 37 professional associations that are committed to promoting quality programs and services that enhance student learning and development in higher education.  NADE has been a member association since 1992, and Karen Patty-Graham is NADE�s current representative to CAS.

CAS produces standards and guidelines for self-assessment and self-regulation of higher education programs in 30 functional areas.  These standards and guidelines help professionals define student learning and development outcomes, as well as conduct program self-assessment, using a set of self-assessment guides for each of the 30 functional areas.  One of the functional areas is �Learning Assistance Programs,� the set of standards and guidelines NADE representatives helped develop and used as a basis for creating the NADE Self-Evaluation Guides.

The �Learning Assistance Programs� standards and guidelines will be revised soon, so it is important for each of us to review those standards and guidelines so we may have a direct impact on any revisions as we shape the future of such programs.  To learn more about CAS and its work, explore the CAS web site at www.cas.edu or follow the links from NADE�s web site at www.nade.net.  If you have questions about CAS or would like to offer comments on revision of current standards or suggestions for additional sets of standards, contact Karen Patty-Graham at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Instructional Services, P.O. Box 1630, Edwardsville, IL 62026; 618-650-3717; kpattyg@siue.edu.

  • from Shirley VanHook (March 28, 2005):

The Missouri Developmental Education Consortium (MoDEC) is a grassroots effort to bring developmental educators in Missouri together to discuss concerns facing developmental education in Missouri.  Paula Glover, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at Moberly Area Community College, received a grant from the Council of North Central Two Year Colleges and The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association to form The Missouri Developmental Education Consortium (MoDEC).  Membership in the Consortium includes developmental education faculty, institutional researchers, and administrators as well as other professionals with an interest in developmental education. 

The objective and activities outlined in the grant include the following:

  • The consortium will provide a statewide forum for the study of issues in developmental education
  • Serve as a liaison between the Department of Higher Education and two-year colleges
  • Collaborate with other entities with an interest in Developmental education. 
  • Compile and review placement policies and assessment instruments used in Missouri two-year colleges as well as study success rates such as graduation rates, persistence, and performance in subsequent courses of students in developmental education. 

These goals were modified to include four year colleges and the Ozark Rural Systemic Initiative that have indicated an interest in the consortium.

The first meeting was held in December 2004 and three goals were identified.  In order of importance and subcommittees formed.  These subcommittees and their goals are:

  • Developmental Reading Issues � Compiling information from two and four year schools including testing, curriculum, required reading level for college classes, faculty requirements to teach reading, research and tracking methods, etc.
  • Statewide developmental education database/sharing research � Exploring a statewide study concerning students in developmental math in Missouri community colleges Informing high schools about developmental education and students in Developmental Education courses.
  • High School Information � provide and/or improve avenues of communication between secondary and postsecondary institutions.

MoDEC has met three times with the final meeting for 2004-2005 to be held the end of April and a final report due the end of May.  It has been suggested that MoDEC be continued and organized similar to the Missouri Assessment Consortium that meets one or two times each semester.  Different institutions volunteer to �host� or �facilitate� meetings.  Host institutions are responsible for setting the meeting date, time, and location, as well as finalizing the agenda. 

Plans are being made to share this information with various professional organizations, including presentations at the October 2005 MRADE conference and the February 2006 NADE conference.

 

    
   
 

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