All –
A topic that has come through the CCN ongoing discussions has been re-using course numbers that have been ‘retired’ and if you have a time limit.
Recently, there were changes made to titles of courses and credits of courses; but the rubric and number were not changed. I expressed concern that these would cause historical issues; but in fact, learned that in banner – we can set changes of this nature to be term based so history is preserved.
However, we ran across a situation where in ‘teaching out’ the existing program (AAS) the titles and credits needed to stay put for a bit longer than what the new curricular changes (CAS) call for… so the change, while not historical was still truly problematic in implementation.
I believe I’d indicated in one of the CCN conference calls that I would seek your collective counsel at our meeting and I clearly failed to do so --- :0
Thus, if you would weigh in on your experiences/protocol for reusing course numbers that would be most appreciated.
1) Do you ever reuse (or never) – if so, is there a time limit between (due to repeats, degree teach outs etc…)
2) If you could set a policy or change your existing policy – what would you recommend ?
3) Advice and counsel ?
Thank you!
Cheri
At MSUB, my preference is never. If we have to, I would like a 10 year minimum because love it or hate it… many of our students take 6+ years to finish a bachelor’s degree and reuse of anything has been challenging at best, especially with repeats and loss of credits toward graduation totals etc….
