From Michelle Myers, Department Chair of Business Studies
We are inactivating the Enology & Viticulture AAS and
Certificate, effective Fall 2017 based on the findings of the program
review. Current students have been notified via e-mail and
“snail mail,and Michele Kieff and I created a teach out schedule for the
current students based on the CAPPs. The teach out schedule is
designed for the college-ready, full time student and runs until Fall
2019. You will notice on the teach out schedule that I left Fall 2019
open because I want to work with the deans to develop the schedule on actual
student needs at that time. The teach out schedule lists the
courses each term, the adjunct faculty usually assigned, whether it’s online or
blended, and the academic dean responsible for scheduling.
I will be sending your assigned CAPP’s with the teach out
schedule so you can help your students get through the program. I have or
will do the following:
1)
I will submit a blanket course waiver for HRIM
100 (currently CULI 100) – The World of Wine - 1 credit for those
students who have not taken the course yet. The 1 credit course
duplicates what the students learn in ENVI 183 – Sensory Evaluation I and was
deemed superfluous by the current adjunct faculty. This course is only
taught on the Harrisburg Campus and may be a hindrance to completion and the 1
credit waiver will help expedite completion. (I hope!)
2)
I have identified the students who have taken
fewer than 9 credits in ENVI courses and those who have not matriculated at
HACC for at least two years. You will see my notes on the CAPP’s
and you may want to contact those students to determine whether they intend to
complete or present them with other options. Michele: you
have the bulk of them and I only separated yours, but did not write individual
notes on the CAPP’s.
3)
The ENVI program will move to Workforce
Development (WFD) with a tentative start date of Fall 2018. If students
ask, the program will continue in the current online/blended format, hopefully
with the same instructors, and the curriculum will be modified to be more
flexible to accommodate those who wish to take the courses for personal
enrichment only. I am working closely with WFD to ensure that the content
of the program does not sacrifice academic integrity or rigor. The
overlap between credit and WFD implementation is intentional to allow
those students who were not able to enroll in all of their credit courses when
they were scheduled to take them on the WFD side and articulate them back into
their credit programs. In the future new students will be
able to articulate a WFD certificate into the Business AAS program (details
still in progress).
