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Student Referral Cards (SRC) are placed in faculty mailboxes or mailed to adjunct faculty at the beginning of each semester. Faculty members are encouraged to sign the SRCs and return the SRCs to the CAE. The SRCs are also located on the CAE’s website, Intranet, and the File Exchange (I Drive) for faculty’s use. Faculty may request additional SRCs as needed. Faculty may place pertinent course materials in the CAE for students to utilize.

Instructors also provide supplemental instruction or AE tutoring to students in the DREC or during office hours or by appointment. Faculty are required to document and complete the Student Attendance Record (SAR) after each tutoring session is completed. It is necessary to document tutoring sessions on the SARs (sign in sheet) for full time equivalency (FTE) purposes. All documented sessions will be given credit and included in the HCC FTE Report. Tutoring sessions must not be scheduled nor recorded during the student’s or instructor’s class or lab time. Forwarding the SAR by the end of each week is pertinent. The SAR can be placed in the CAE’s mailbox or returned to room 147/149.

Letter for Faculty

Greetings HCC Family,

The Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) staff looks forward to working collaboratively with Halifax Community College (HCC) administrators, faculty, staff and students. “Working together works” for everyone! It is my responsibility to be accountable and uphold the Employee Pledge, adopt the principle of “The One” and commit to the HCC’s Mission and Values.
We all have measures, plans and goals to obtain. Our students are at the forefront of everything we are employed to do. Those goals and plans are centered around our students, their progress, retention, learning outcomes, successful graduation/transfer rates and to help them become gainfully employed. So much work is required all while staying within compounds of budgets, grants, federal and state funding. In other words, doing more with less. I believe working together will ensure that all the above will come to fruition with the best possible results.
In the interests of our teamwork and collaboration, we will serve students with important benefits and positive educational outcomes.
Collaborating will help the CAE provide our tutors with a diversity of educational tools to better serve our students. Faculty’s knowledge of various learning resources, websites and pedagogy may be shared with tutors to provide supplemental instruction and academic enrichment. These tools may increase the usage of tutor/student time, best tutoring practices and positive learning outcomes.
CAE staff will request appropriate textbooks and supplemental learning materials necessary to provide quality academic enrichment tutoring to enrolled students. Faculty may donate extra textbooks to the CAE.
Collaboration will assist students in the promotion of getting the maximum use of the Center for Academic Excellence and other learning centers on Campus.
Collaboration will allow the CAE to advertise resources and services by conducting classroom visits and open communication with faculty and students.
Collaboration will help the communication and interaction process with department chairs, students, and faculty/staff to encourage and promote better student attendance, retention, successful graduation and transfer results, as well as, increase enrollment and FTE rates.
Collaboration with faculty/staff will help us maximize greater assistance and care/concern for our students.
The CAE works collaboratively with the counseling and academic success department to design individual classroom accommodations and tutoring goals/plans for students with special needs.
Collaboration will aide in the recruitment, orientation, interviewing, hiring and supervision of tutoring staff.
The CAE will arrange for new/returning tutors to participate in tutor orientation and training sessions. Faculty and staff input and recommendations are welcomed, needed, and are very important to us.
The CAE will provide continuous contact with the faculty, tutors and students. The CAE will set up monthly meetings and document scheduled tutoring sessions.
Faculty is invited to attend and participate in the CAE staff/tutor monthly meetings.
CAE will provide and inform faculty with feedback regarding student’s progress and monthly reports.
CAE will provide faculty with the Student Referral Cards (SRC). Faculty may sign the SRC in advance and forward to the CAE or sign them per student request or faculty referral.
Collaboration with the director of public relations and marketing will enhance communication among the HCC faculty, staff and students. Announcements will made: "Free Academic Enrichment Tutoring is available in room 147 - free to all enrolled HCC students. Please call or contact me for more information or how to sign up. Please contact me at 252-536-7204 or 252-538-4328; or e-mail: ijohnson973@halifaxcc.edu. Feel free to stop by for a visit in room 147 and 149/
I welcome the invitation to attend School Chairs, department heads, faculty and staff functions and meetings.
Please contact me if you have additional concerns. Thank you for your valuable services and support. We look forward to successful collaborative semester.
Respectfully Submitted,
Iris D. Johnson
Iris D. Johnson
Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) Coordinator
Halifax Community College
100 College Drive
P. O. Box 809
Weldon, NC 27890
252-536-7204
252-536-0474