Transcript Document 7291364

The Great Rollercoaster Ride
Or: SM
in the Math Department
Down we go!
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Increasing class sizes (80-120)
Decreasing evaluation factors
35 week teaching
Multiple grievances at workload
monitoring committee
Several grievances to arbitration level
Hitting bottom!
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January 29, 2004: Whole department met
with the President in her Board Room to
state our concerns with “our poisoned work
environment”.
She challenged us to come up with a
solution that addressed both our work
environment and student retention.
Starting up!
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January 30, 2004: arbitration cancelled
as a sign of good faith to President.
On the way up!
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Feb. 10 – March 3(2004): intensive and
frequent brain storming meetings to
meet her challenge
Working hard to climb the hill
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March 4, 2004
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presented Report to President proposing
that we self manage with no Chair and that
we be removed from Engineering
Technology
requested a 2 month period in May – June
to research and develop a viable self
management model with math department
no longer under current Dean.
We think we can
We think we can
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March 31 President informs us that our
pilot project has been approved.
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We understand this to mean that we will
have release time for two people in
May/June to see if self management is
feasible.
Reality!
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April 3 at Business Awards Night
President informs us that the pilot
project to self manage has been
approved and is to start immediately!
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the Math Department will be removed from
Engineering Technology and be a Self
Managed Team.
The devil’s in the details
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April 13 meeting with President and other
managers to work out transition
By June 30 we are to be totally removed
from Engineering Technology
Transition team created
President will appoint a “champion” at the
Dean level for our department
Working hard
(April 13 to May 16, 2004)
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Revised spring/summer SWF’s
Interviewed and hired 2 new part time
faculty for Spring semester
Found office space, computers for new
part time faculty
Prepared Fall SWF’s
Prepared Winter SWF’s
Had way too many meetings!!
A frustrating glitch:
no champion
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May 20 - requested a meeting with President
to find out who our “Champion” would be.
May 31 – meeting with Executive Dean of
Health Sciences and Human Resources
June 8 - meeting with Vice President
Community Services and Economic
Development
Still no resolution!
Still climbing: summer 2004
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Ran ad to hire 6 more part time faculty
for fall – we will have 11 in total
Locating office space, computers, keys,
etc.
(18 full time + 11 part time)
Prepared a team structure
TEAMS
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Student Success
Team
Continuous
Improvement Team
Courseware Team
Credits (Credentials)
Team
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Math Centre Team
Mentoring &
Monitoring Team
Workload and
Schedulling Team
Job Jar and Public
Relations Team
Coordinators
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MLC Coordinator –
carryover from previous
structure
Student Success
Coordinator
Courseware and Credits
Coordinator
Workload and
Scheduling Coordinator
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Non Fennell campus
coordinator
Continuous
Improvement and
Technical Math
Coordinator
Administrivia and
Business/Statistics
Coordinator
High points (fall 2004)
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Faculty enthusiastic and engaged
Money to reduce class sizes in first semester
to single sections
Started our retention strategy initiatives and
the data collection
Hired a student to enter our data
Department morale at an all time high!
Low Points early fall
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1 department member not on side
Push to remove MLC from Department
Union concerns
Still no Senior Lead Team Champion
Communication with the rest of the college
Rumours about cost of our project
The Learning Curve!
Team Of Champions
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President
Executive Dean of Health Sciences and
Human Services
Vice President of Staff Services
Chair of Business
OUR RESOURCES BUT WE DO NOT REPORT
TO THEM!
High Points: Late fall 2004
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Results of our student success strategies:success
rate up 5.5% or 103 additional students passed
All faculty involved in at least 2 teams
KPI Report Card completed-math one of few
areas above all college average and Mohawk
college average for student satisfaction
KPI strategies developed
Low Points fall 2004
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Acquiring the appropriate portion of the budget
from Engineering Technology
Struggling to ensure we were on all the
necessary communication channels
President promoting Durham model with math
faculty contained within program departments
Fighting rumours about the cost of our project
MLC no longer part of Math Department
Off the coaster for Christmas
One final meeting
of all faculty to
wrap up the semester
High Points winter 2005
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Presented a report to Team of Champions
on the fall work of the Math Team
President hosted a celebration for Math
Department to recognize the success of our
project
Consolidated fall strategies
Started new strategies in business math
Presented our results at the Student
Success Symposium
Low Points winter 2005
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President continues to promote
decentralizing the math department
Budget crunch
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$10 million deficit
new Activity Based Budgeting implemented
POS cuts which seriously impact math hours
KPI results – math good but Mohawk…
Redefining relationship with MLC
Higher summits ahead?!
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Practicing what we preach – continuous
improvement and student success form
the backbone of our model
Streamlined teams
Surviving as a math department
Thank you
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More info?
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Contact Gary Helmer or Gillian Leek
[email protected]
[email protected]