Metro Alliance Faculty Liaisons reviewed the suggestions made by faculty and identified the top four faculty priorities for the Metro Alliance for the 2001-2002 school year. Identify key transfer issues for each discipline in the Metro Alliance and work with faculty to address these issues to ensure that transfer works as smoothly as possible for students. Develop ISRS capabilities to help faculty to verify student placement scores and pre-requisite completion throughout Metro Alliance institutions. Create a common calendar for all Metro Alliance institutions. The predominant theme that carries across the faculty suggestions is the need for Metro Alliance institutions and their faculty to communicate regularly.
Communication needs to occur between all levels of institutions and in a variety of ways.
Behind this theme is the need to better explain Alliance purposes and processes. Overall, faculty want the structures, time, and resources to support inter-institutional collaboration between similar and related programs. Faculty think the Metro Alliance is a good idea if it facilitates sharing and collaboration between all levels of the Metro Alliance institutions. Faculty want the Alliance to continue events like this that facilitate the sharing of ideas and best practices. Since institutions are inseparable from the programs they offer, it is not surprising that faculty melded Alliance and discipline issues.