ERIC ED139446: Clustering at Oakton: Some Observations.

	ERIC ED139446: Clustering at Oakton: Some Observations.
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	This paper reviews the student-centered cluster college
	concept of organization employed at Oakton Community
	College (Illinois) and compares this approach to
	traditional organization by academic department or
	division. The advantages offered by the division
	structure include intradisciplinary interchange among
	teachers, coordinated budget building, student counseling
	for majors, specialized facilities, curriculum
	coordination, and "peer" faculty evaluation. But such a
	structure has major disadvantages, including uneven size,
	pressure groups, insularity, hindrance of
	interdisciplinary teaching strategies, and higher costs.
	The cluster concept results in lowered administrative
	costs, achievement of new levels of interpersonal
	relations by removal of artificial barriers, effective
	coping with rapid institutional change, student benefits
	derived from competing cluster offerings, and the
	positioning of important student services near students,
	rather than in remote centralized facilities. The cluster
	concept at Oakton, while unquestionably presenting many
	challenges, has proven to be efficacious and consistent
	with the philosophy of the college, which holds that the
	student is the prime factor in the educational mission of
	the college. (JDS)

	Date Published: 2015-04-29 11:42:23
	Identifier: ERIC_ED139446
	Item Size: 17889884
	Language: english
	Media Type: texts

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