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Multiple Colleges One Degree Great Results!

Multiple Colleges One Degree Great Results!. Florida Council of Presidents Distance Learning Committee June 12, 2017. Michigan Radiologic and Imaging Sciences Consortium. Fondly known as “ MiRIS ”. What is the MiRIS Consortium?. A business model

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Multiple Colleges One Degree Great Results!

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  1. Multiple CollegesOne DegreeGreat Results! Florida Council of Presidents Distance Learning Committee June 12, 2017

  2. Michigan Radiologic and Imaging Sciences Consortium Fondly known as “MiRIS”

  3. What is the MiRIS Consortium? • A business model • A collaborative partnership that allows colleges to offer high cost medical imaging science programs in a cost-effective way • An effort to provide high quality advanced modality programs by sharing faculty, courses and students

  4. Why did MiRIS start? • Advanced modalities • Advanced technology and sicker patients • Movement toward MRI certification requirement by Medicare Part B and encouragement by the American College of Radiology • High cost equipment + high cost faculty + low number of clinical experiences + low number of jobs = low enrollment and financial burden for any one college to do alone!

  5. Founding Partners • Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI • Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI • Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI • Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI • Mid Michigan Community College, Mt. Pleasant, MI • Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI • Michigan Community College Association (MCCA) • Michigan Colleges Online (MCO)

  6. Addition of MCCA – MCO! • Third-party neutral service provider and cheerleader • Financial agent for consortium • Common LMS platform for courses from multiple colleges • Common registration for courses from multiple colleges

  7. How does MiRIS serve students? • Marketable certification in MRI • Quick to employment • Flexible delivery for time and place bound students • Equitable learning opportunities • All didactic coursework is offered online • All clinical work is completed regionally • Strong connection to employers through clinical experience • Ever-emerging MRI technology provides long-term career security

  8. How does MiRIS serve an institution? • Shared cost due to: • Shared curriculum • Shared faculty • Shared staff – MiRIS MRI Program Director • Shared students • Shared clinical sites • Less cost + greater collaboration = high quality programming and exemplary outcomes!  • Demonstrates innovation and good stewardship to all stakeholders

  9. How does MiRIS work? • MRI Collaborative Agreement • Mission • Leadership • Instruction • Students Supports • Fiscal Model • Program specific Addendums

  10. How does MiRIS work? • Consortium Governance Council • Administrative Representative (Dean/Vice President) from each college • Provides strategic and financial direction for the Consortium • Program Leadership Committee • Program Director/Coordinator for the college program • Responsible for executing policies, processes and procedures for successful student outcomes • Reports to the Consortium Governance Council

  11. How does MiRIS work? • Colleges • Determine need for program • Change mindset to a consortium team mentality • Committed dean-level champion and a program-level champion • Internal communication and support plan • Agree on common curriculum • Develop processes to advise and admit students into program • Facilitate clinical site matchups – must have solid clinical affiliations • Develop and deploy retention strategies

  12. How does MiRIS work? • MCCA • Facilitates the intercollegiate partnerships • Serves as fiscal agent for the Consortium • Employees the Director of Collaborative Programs • MCO • Provides the learning management system and the course design standards for the online courses • Course registrations run through the MCO with single tuition rate

  13. Program Specifics • General educations courses completed prior to entry • Four semesters long for program courses • Online offering for didactic courses • Clinical rotations within the student’s region

  14. What about those outcomes? • 93% completion rate! • 85% success on ARRT certification exam on first attempt – 100% overall • 100% job placement rate! • $3,700 surplus to EACH MiRIS partner last year!!

  15. Future opportunities for MiRIS? • Strategically add more partners serving other areas of the state • Add more modality programming: • Examples: • CT (Computerized Tomography) • EEG (Electroencephalogram) • Add required CEU training for practicing medical imaging technologists

  16. Future Opportunities for MiRIS-like Partnerships? • Any high cost, low enrolled courses or programs – all allied health programs?? • Frequent upgrades in curriculum development – IT?? • Arts & Sciences – courses and programs that struggle with enrollment but are valuable to the community and to the students they serve • International study or study abroad • Foreign languages • High 200 level courses in STEM • Possibilities are endless!

  17. Ronda Edwards, Executive DirectorMichigan Colleges Online (redwards@mcca.org)Amy Lee, DirectorCollaborative Programs/MRI Program Director(alee@mcca.org)

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