A. Learner/participant outcomes:
Participants will:
1. Learn about the benefits of developing partnerships for recruitment and maintaining a
master’s degree program.
2. Learn about the policy and curricular issues involved in setting up the partnerhship.
3. Learn about the process and sequence of steps needed in order to form partnerships
for the delivery of a master’s degree program.
B. Methods:
In this roundtable session, participants will first be given an overview of the
Professional Development Graduate Credit Partnership developed with public schools.
The steps in the process of forming partnerships will be shared with the group. Policy
(financial and procedural issues), Curriculum (core courses and content courses) will be
presented and discussed by the participants.
The Strand I am submitting this proposal under is:
V. Discerning Quality
Roundtable
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Writ, A.C. (1999). Partnerships for Progress. Education, Vol. 119.
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