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<h1 id="proposal">Proposal</h1>
<p>Date: November 3, 2024.<br />
To: Elizabeth Parrish, M.A.<br />
Director of the Writing Center.<br />
From: Ramon Medina Student at Tarrant County College.<br />
Uriel Martinez, Student at Tarrant County College.<br />
Benjamin Zimmerman, Student at Tarrant County
College.<br />
Noah Sanchez, Student at Tarrant County College.<br />
Subject: Proposal for Making Resources More Accessible at TCC
Northeast Campus</p>
<p><strong>Presentation available <a
href="/static/proposal/presentation.pptx">here</a></strong></p>
<h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2>
<p>Our purpose is to do research as to how to make resources at
the TCC Northeast campus more accessible to students for their
academic work.</p>
<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>On October 15, 2024, Dr. Stuewe requested that we conduct a
proposal for an issue we want to resolve. The current way to
access the student resources is not convenient for students at
Tarrant County College. The current way to access the student
resources takes too many clicks. By having too many clicks to
access, students lose interest and do not use the sources
properly.</p>
<p>Surely, this is an issue for Tarrant County College students;
especially for those students who have attention deficits.
Students will completely ignore the students resources or they
just would not even know about its existence.</p>
<p>Therefore, our group wanted to determine the need for easier
and faster access to the student resource page for Tarrant
County College students at Northeast Campus. We propose to
research the need for a user-friendly TCC student access to the
student source, as well its benefits. To perform these tasks, we
would perform primary and secondary research.</p>
<p>Specifically, we developed a plan to perform four tasks: Our
first task is to research information about how student
resources can be accessed easily that would benefit the students
academic development. The second task is to send out an online
survey to TCC students to determine how they would like the idea
and what benefit they think is helpful for them. The third task
is to conduct an interview with the writing center director to
understand their cost and benefits of this idea. After we have
gathered our information, we would analyze the collected data
and prepare a recommendation report.</p>
<p>Finally, if this proposal is authorized, we will begin our
research immediately, submitting our proposal to Dr. Stuewe
October 15, 2024. Then, we would conduct our recommendation
report, submitting our report to Dr. Stuewe on November 3, 2024.
Our recommendation report would include all the data of our
research and recommendations regarding having easier and faster
access to the student resources for TCC students at the
Northeast location.</p>
<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>October 15, 2024, our class was tasked with creating a
proposal to resolve an issue or make an improvement for TCC
Northeast campus.<br />
The current issue that a lot of students face is the lack of
accessibility to resources that are provided to the students at
the Northeast campus. An example of this can be the Writing
Center at the Northeast campus. The online portion of the North
East Writing Center allows students to submit their work to the
center for advisors to peer review the work. Here is how the
process works:</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Go to the TCC website and search up: learning commons</li>
<li>Click on the virtual learning commons on canvas</li>
<li>Then you select which campus you are accessing</li>
<li>After click on the Writing Center</li>
<li>Click on TracCloud to upload your documents</li>
</ol>
<p>Accessing to the writing center, however, is very complicated
as it takes students to go out further to access the writing
center than it should have to be. Rather than having to go
through all of those clicks and links that students have to
follow, it should be a whole canvas tile for the students.
Having a canvas tile for the learning commons will be a lot
easier to access and make students' time more flexible. This
does not only apply to the writing center, but other centers
that the Northeast campus has.</p>
<p>In order to resolve the issues, we have employed the
following tasks:</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Conducting research to see how accessible resources for
students to access is beneficial.</li>
<li>Get with one of the learning center employees such as the
writing center and interview them. Interviewing them about the
idea of having a more accessible way of accessing learning
commons</li>
<li>Creating a survey to get an idea of how resources at the
Northeast campus could be better.</li>
<li>Analyze and interpret the data that we gathered throughout
the proposal.</li>
</ol>
<h2 id="proposed-tasks">Proposed Tasks</h2>
<p>With approval from Dr. Stuewe, we will conduct 4 tasks that
will determine if we can make student resources more
accessible.</p>
<p><strong>Task 1</strong>: Research for the benefits of
accessing resources for education.</p>
<p>We conducted the research and found a lot of articles
supporting the benefits of students accessing resources. From
our findings, we found that students who have easier access to
their resources boost their interest in the topic of research
(Newpath Learning). Giving them this boost also encourages the
students to read the articles that are easy to access (New
England BOE). The studies clearly show evidence that having
easier access to resources keeps students engaged which is what
colleges want.</p>
<p>We also researched articles that covered university budgeting
for allowing to have resources provided for the students. From
our findings, we found that universities place roughly $20
million dollars on facilities that provide resources to students
(TopUniversities). This does include the writing center, and the
online portion of the student resources.</p>
<p>We concluded that the school provides a lot of funding for
accessible resources, and that having easier access to resources
is beneficial.</p>
<p><strong>Task 2</strong>: Interview with the director of the
TCC Northeast Writing Center.</p>
<p>For the interview, these will be the questions that are going
to be asked: How do you feel about the quality of access to the
writing center? Would making a canvas tile for the writing
center be an option that the center is willing to do? Will
creating a canvas tile dedicated for the writing center be
beneficial for TCC and TCC students?</p>
<p><strong>Task 3</strong>: Creating a survey and sending it
out</p>
<p>We conducted a survey to ask TCC students at the Northeast
campus the following: How easy is it to access student resources
such as the writing center and etc… Would you prefer a better
way for it to be organized? Would having a canvas tile for
student resources on canvas be a consideration?</p>
<p><strong>Task 4</strong>: Analyzing our survey and drawing
conclusions</p>
<p>We will meet together to discuss our findings with each
other. Then we will write our findings down on a separate Google
doc and summarize the responses. That way we can find a
correlation to the answers given to us from the TCC students on
the Northeast campus.</p>
<h2 id="schedule">Schedule</h2>
<p>The Gantt chart below shows our task schedule:</p>
<figure>
<img src="/static/proposal/schedule.png"
alt="Gantt chart showing the schedule" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Gantt chart showing the
schedule</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 id="experience">Experience</h2>
<p>As TCC students, we understand that the Northeast campus
provides the resources that it gives to students. However, we
are aware that finding those resources online can be quite
tedious and not easy to access like submitting your work to the
writing center. Frankly, if the accessibility of the resources
are not there, students will not bother to find those resources
or lose interest in finding them.</p>
<h2 id="works-cited">Works Cited</h2>
<p> - “5 Ways Open Educational Resources Can Help Students
Succeed This Fall.”, New England Board of Higher Education.
<em>New England Board of Higher Education</em>, 21 Sept. 2020,
<a
href="https://nebhe.org/journal/5-ways-open-educational-resources-can-help-students-succeed-this-fal">nebhe.org/journal/5-ways-open-educational-resources-can-help-students-succeed-this-fal</a>.<br />
- NewPath Learning. “What Makes Supplemental Educational
Resources Valuable to Students?” <em>What Makes Supplemental
Educational Resources Valuable to Students?</em>, 11 Nov. 2021,
<a
href="https://www.newpathlearning.com/the-latest-news/what-makes-supplemental-educational-resources-valuable-to-students">www.newpathlearning.com/the-latest-news/what-makes-supplemental-educational-resources-valuable-to-students</a>.<br />
- Parrish, Elizabeth. Personal Interview. 23 Oct. 2024<br />
- TopUniversities. “University Budgets: Where Your Fees Go.”,
<em>University Budgets: Where Your Fees Go.</em>, 5 Aug. 2024,
<a
href="https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/university-budgets-where-your-fees-go">www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/university-budgets-where-your-fees-go</a>.<br />
- Zimmerman, Ben, et al. Students View of Resource
Accessibility. 21 Oct. 2024</p>
<p><strong>Presentation available <a
href="/static/proposal/presentation.pptx">here</a></strong></p>
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