PHONE CONFERENCES WITH FACULTY

Attendance on all conference calls is required for every class. Non-participation will affect your final grades. These calls provide students the opportunity to participate in two, one-hour group conversations with their professor during each academic term. Conferences include all students registered for credit for that course. During calls, students ask questions, explore issues and hear a variety of viewpoints. Topics and issues are also identified in advance in most courses. These calls challenge students, assist them in clarifying concepts related to the course, help them share meaningful experiences, learn from one another, and build a network of significant contacts.

For each course, the first conference is scheduled early in the term to assist students in clarifying their questions or concerns with the faculty member about the course requirements. Later in the term, a second conference call takes place to give students another opportunity to share insights about their experiences, ask questions and hear individual views and perspectives about the topics presented. The date and time of each conference call is set in advance by each faculty member. All call-in times are published and scheduled as Pacific Coast times. Please refer to the course syllabus for your class(s) in this Academic Program Guide to locate these important dates and times. The full schedule of conference calls and the call-in participant codes for the entire Spring Quarter are located in the Conference Call Calendar and Teleconference Codes and Replay Instructions section of this APG. For security reasons, this section is protected by a password. You will be given the password at the beginning of the quarter. Students need to plan their calendars and other commitments to be available for each conference call.

Typical agenda for a conference call

A planned call will begin, for example, at 5:00 and end one hour later at 6:00 P.M. Students call in prior to the start of the conference, usually 10 minutes in advance. During this time, student participation in noted by the moderator and an opening invocation is offered to ready the group for their conference experience. If a student comes in late to the call, they should stay till the end of conference and make their presence known during the general business items. Students can press * 6 on their touchtone phone to mute their voice and background noise and later press * 6 again to allow their voice to be heard by the other callers on the line.

PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR SECURITY REASONS, ALL TELECONFERENCING CODES ARE NOW ACCESSED BY PASSWORD ONLY. YOU WILL RECEIVE THE PASSWORD UPON REGISTRATION.