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The BacheloretteThe First Season

• Subtitle
• One institutions search for its Bachelor
• Nicole Harnett, MRT(T), ACT, BSc, MEd
• Dean, Diagnostic Imaging and Therapy
• The Michener Institute for Applied Health
  Sciences

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Choices

• Options
• close the program
• collaborate with a degree-granting partner

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Lets meet our Bachelorette

• Rae Gropper, former Vice-President, Academic
  Affairs

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Creating a Partnership

• Courtship - playing the field
• Engagement - confirming intent with potential
  partner
• Wedding - official recognition of mutual interest
  and direction
• Marriage - doing all the things you said you
  would!!

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The Courtship

• FIRST DATE QUESTIONS
• Where do you live?
• What are your hobbies?
• Have you been in a relationship before?
• Have you dated someone like me before?

• SPEAKS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF
• level of integration
• similar educational philosophies?
• experience with this type of collaboration
• similar programs already in existence?

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Narrowing it down to the One from Exclusive
to Engagement

• Negotiations for our future began in mid-1990s
• Approval received in 1998 (Therapy in 1999)
• Hammer out big picture administrative issues -
  what could this look like?
• planning, planning, planning.

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The Wedding

• Our Vows We promise to..
• First intake in 1999, first graduates in 2002
• Joint degree/diploma program offered by TMI and
  UT
• 3 disciplines nuclear medicine, radiation
  therapy, radiological technology
• 3-year, 2nd entry

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NOW WHAT?

• WEDDED BLISS??
• curriculum development
• creating buy-in
• administrivia!

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Curriculum Development

• Changing routines, altering goals
• .. but what about the SYLLABUS?
• Closet space
• .taking up valuable space in the curriculum
• If at first you dont succeed..

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Creating Buy in

• Gaining acceptance
• Persistence
• Involvement
• professional support
• Information!!

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Administrivia!!

• Registrarial Issues - application/enrolment
• Financial challenges - separate funding
  institutions
• Curriculum and quality control
• Student standing and promotion
• Student support services

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Administrivia!!

• Recommendations
• Project coordinator
• Strong committee structure including clear terms
  of reference

• Example
• Joint management
• Joint Curriculum
• Program review, Oversight and Board of Examiners

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The Secret ?

• People who believe in the project
• People who have similar philosophies
• Equal balance of commitment and decision making
• Acceptance of various needs
• Support from professional body(s)

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Happily ever after.??
Tune in next week.