Faculty Coordinator Information
A Western faculty member who coordinates, manages, and evaluates the curriculum of a WWU in the High School course as well as provides mentorship for a course or series of courses.
Faculty Curriculum Coordinators in the WWU in the High School (WWUHS) serve to support high school student access to higher educational opportunities while ensuring student success, academic rigor, and discipline integrity, and maintaining the adherence to Washington State regulation (established by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)) and university accreditation requirements.
Roles and Responsibilities
Western faculty members who volunteer to serve as Faculty Curriculum Coordinators agree to foster a culture of academic rigor, inquiry, and excellence in the following ways:
- Provide information on course curriculum, syllabi, outcomes, required textbooks, and assessments or grading policies to ensure courses taught in high schools are the same in quality, rigor and content as those taught at WWU.
- Align high school courses with the department’s documented standards and expectations to ensure the high school course has the same requirements as a course taught at WWU.
- Support high school teachers in course delivery and assessment through training on departmental approaches, techniques, and expectations.
- Provide documented feedback to the high school teachers on their course materials, content, methodology, etc.
- Collaborate with high school teachers to promote effective teaching and learning strategies.
- Ensure students in the high school meet the same levels of proficiency with the content material under the same evaluative standards as all other Western Washington University students based upon established and documented department standards.
- In accordance with Faculty Senate and department oversight, conduct a course evaluation (virtual or in-person) of each WWUHS course.
- Assist high school teachers in using available university facilities, and resources (example: Western Libraries, etc.), including demonstrating how to use these resources and connecting teachers with appropriate offices for further assistance.
- Serve as the liaison between the high school teachers and the appropriate department coordinator(s) on curriculum and instruction.
- Serve as the primary liaison between the Director of WWU College in the High School (Vice Provost for Outreach and Continuing Education), and the WWU academic department; attend scheduled WWU Faculty Curriculum Coordinating Meetings.
- Prepare NACEP documentation for the appropriate department/discipline in accordance with Outreach and Continuing Education protocols and procedures (as applicable).
Accreditation Requirements
The WWUHS Faculty Coordinator is responsible for completing the following documents for accreditation and compliance requirements:
- A Course Statement of Equivalency
- A Departmentally Approved Course Syllabus Template
- A Review of the WWUHS Course Syllabus
- A Course Training Plan
- An Observation for Each WWUHS Course
- A Marked Assessment, aligned with the high school assessment, and subsequent review