Coppin State University
Technology Fluency Policy
Policy Statement
It is the policy of Coppin State University that the
graduates from its undergraduate programs possess the
necessary skills,conceptual understanding, and
intellectual capabilities to render them
technologically fluent.
Strategies
1) Immerse students in an information-technology-rich
environment. This includes their academic activities
as well as all their campus-related business
transactions such as admission, registration,
financial aid, billing, etc.
2) Produce policies and align current policies to
encourage faculty to integrate technology into
the curriculum
a) Recognize faculty efforts to integrate technology
into the curriculum as part of the post tenure
review, merit pay,promotion and tenure process
b) Modify academic program review documents to reflect
the degree of integration of technology into the
program and its outcomes as it relates to CSC
Technology Fluency policy
c) Require new faculty hires to be technologically
fluent
3) Insure that students acquire IT competencies
a) Devise a technology fluency course for all
first-year students
b) Provide systematic IT orientation and training
sessions for all students
4) Integrate technology into the curriculum
a) Link approved IT fluency requirements and
departmental specific requirements to the
curriculum
b) Rewrite curriculum and syllabi to reflect the
integration of technology into the curriculum
c) Faculty will integrate the current and
newly-acquired electronic resources in the
library into their courses
d) New programs will include appropriate technology
fluency requirements
e) Create a new minor in Information Technology
and make it available to students of all disciplines
5) Provide Adequate Institutional Support
a) Provide Faculty Development
i) Provide on-going faculty training
ii) Provide mechanism for faculty to collaborate, share
and be knowledgeable about other faculty experiences
in Coppin as well as other institutions
b) Assure student access to technology
i) Provide vehicles to enable students ownership
of laptops
ii) Provide Open labs
iii) Provide Computerized classrooms
c) Provide technical support to faculty
d) Insure adequate funding
e) Provide mechanisms to encourage faculty to integrate
technology into the curriculum, such as incentives,
release time, competitive mini-grants, etc
6) Assessment
a) Evaluate student technology fluency within the technology
fluency course.
b) Students will create an electronic portfolio of their
experiences as part of the technology fluency course
c) Departments will create their technology fluency
departmental requirement and assess it
d) Departments will include a technology fluency assessment
parameter and report on their student's technology fluency
preparedness annually
e) The college will produce an annual technology fluency
assessment report