HBCU Summit - Welcome and Overview: HBCU Opening Sessions on Affordable Learning Strategies and Initiatives
Workshop Session 1


Brief Abstract
The opening 90 minutes of the HBCU Summit will focus on a welcome by your HBCU Summit leaders, an overview of HBCU Strategy for Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$), presentation of a Southern University System's system-wide intiative to enable educational quality and college afordability, and Q & A discussion focused on issues and questions raised by these presentations.
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Extended Abstract
8:30am-8:45am Welcome: AL$ Vice President, CSU AL$ Project Director
8:45am-9:00am Overview HBCU Stragtegy for Affordable Learning Solutions and the HBCU Summit at Innovate:
- Challenges: Cost of textbooks and learning resources
- Solutions: Open Education Resources (OER) - AL$
- Goals: Short term and Long term for AL$
- Strategies: Supporting existing campus priorities and strengthening existing capabilities
- AL$ HBCU Model Campus: Recognition of Southern University
- Pilot AL$ Schools: Acknowledgements
- Tennessee State University (TSU)
- Bethune Cookman Univeristy (BCU)
- Fisk Univeristy (FU)
- Fort Valley State University (FVU)
- Morehouse University (MU)
- Southwest Tennessee Community College
- Volunteer State Community College
9:00am-9:40am Enabling Education Quality and College Affordability Through a System-wide Initiative
The Southern University System just received an Innovation grant funding from the Louisiana Board of Regents to develop a faculty development model for designing OER-based courses aligned to the Quality Matters Standards. The project, entitled "Enabling Educational Quality and College Affordability Through a System-wide implementation of Zero-Textbook-Cost Courses and Degrees", aims at offering an Associate degree in Criminal Justice at Southern University Shreveport campus, a community college member of the SUS. This presentation will discuss the project deliverables and lessons learned while implementing the innovation grant.
9:40am-10:00am Questions, Answers, Discussions
Focus on issues and questions raised from audience about the programmatic, policy, and political topics that need to be addressed when planning an Affordable Learning Solutions initiative