MELA Minutes 2020-2021

b. Tuition for Summer: Tish Stewart questioned how the free tuition being offered by a few of the institutions is going to work for the students and if there are any limitations on hours. Katherine Puckett noted that all fees, books, and tuition are being offered to all students. The balance will be posted to the students accounts and then will be zeroed out by the CRRSSA monies. There is a limit of 12 hours per student. Buffy Matthews asked which institutions were offering free tuition. The institutions offering the free tuition are NEMCC, Hinds and Coahoma. This is being offered to the students that are actually registering at that specific college. Jennifer James stated that she understands that nothing will change for a student from another college taking a class at her college. Phyllis Johnson asked if there will be a limit to the number of students for which the promotion will be offered. Katherine Puckett stated that this promotion is a way to get students back on campus and that there is no limit as to how many students can take advantage of the promotion. Some of the colleges are skeptical of using the monies in this way. c. Course Surveys in ET: Kim Steinman asked how each college is utilizing the course surveys in MSVCC Enrollment tool? Are they still being used since all online students are no longer being added into ET. Dr. Hood explained that the process of adding students into ET has changed over the past years for the newer eLCs that were unaware of how ET was used previously. When the funding changed, the consortium did not need to enter every student in ET that is taking an online class. Now only the students that are taking a course at another college is added into ET. Some colleges are still using the ET surveys if they do not have another way to get their specific colleges surveys to their shared students. Other colleges are using software that is capable of being used within Canvas so that all students can participate and therefore do not utilize the ET surveys. There are some LTI’s available in Canvas that could be used for surveys. This could be something the consortium might want to look at in the future. d. Withdrawal Dates: Kim Harris asked what is the history and reason of the MSVCC withdrawal date and does anyone else think the date is too