January 10,2012 meeting

After a few emails going back and forth, I met with Janice Hickey, Ali Rabei, and Jim Garza about the specifics of the potential pathway. We discussed using the in place business sector pathway standards as the basis for the course that would need to be designed rigorous enough to meet the A-G credentialing requirements, while at the same time be accessible enough to the students who need the course for their A-G math requirements.

We talked about the Account-Banking- Business Management pathway as an option for the future. During the course of the discussion we can upon a plan.

Start with getting both the Accounting and a new hybrid Business- Economics course prepared for the upcoming fall semester. This would allow for students to take a year long course, focusing on the basics in the first semester, then applying what they have learned to a real-world setting in the second semester including the possibility of incorporating internships into the mixture.

The idea would be that for students needing two courses for math, the banking/financial pathway course would be added the following year. We would count the first two years of math as the initial pathway, then followed by Accounting and then the Business Economics course. The idea being that I would be teaching three Business Econ courses and two Accounting courses with the CELDT items on the side, as a stipend.

The goal is to: (1) get the accounting courses that have been UC approved and possile incorporate business algebra -- sample course descriptions. I have written to the two schools and will write to the UC folks themselves to see if they can also provide the sample course outlines. (2) Adapt the business economics courses that have been approved through other school sites and look at incorporating the virtual entrepreneurship aspects of the the sample course.

I also need to check on what is covered in my credential area to be sure that business will cover those areas. The goal is to get this prepared and to a reader with the UC system to be able to get it to the board as soon as possible for scheduling.

Another obstacle is to work on the scheduling since the BUsiness Economics would be a year long course.