We just finished meeting with our respective contacts from UWI. Toree and I discussed Orientation and the First Year Experience Program with Ms. Lynch and Ms. Pollard. We learned a lot about their programs and even discovered that the students from both our campuses face similar challenges when transitioning to college. We even have similar challenges such as staffing and reaching out to the wider campus community. It seems that higher education in Barbados is similar to higher education in the United States even though they operate from the British model of higher education. I’m not sure how to explain it in its entirety, but for the most part students entering into UWI come from the 5th form or 6th form of education. 5th form would be similar to high school and earning a diploma and 6th form would be similar to a junior college and earning an associates degree.
Tomorrow we will give our presentations. So this afternoon we will be working on those and reflecting on the discussion from this morning. The project I will be presenting will be on their First Year Experience Program and the ideas they came up with from our discussion. Their program is similar to a First Year Seminar or a GEN 101 course at UofL except that it is not for-credit. However, it does have elements of the First Year Initiatives Program at UofL in that they do have a Book-In-Common program.
It seems that it’s time to get back to work. Today is a work day afterall.
Carrie Harris, 2nd year Graduate Student
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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