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Learning Initiative Teams:
Enhancing Systems and Processes (ESP)


ESP's Purpose
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ESP's Purpose

ESP’s purpose is to analyze college processes from a learning perspective. Its responsibilities include the following:

• Review all institutional processes and procedures
• Identify barriers to learning
• Recommended changes

In fall of 2002, Paula Gupton, Math Instructor, was chosen to chair the ESP Team. The Team’s main task was to plan mandatory college-wide forums for the purpose of reviewing college processes and procedures. Meeting regularly from December, 2002, through June, 2003, the ESP Team planned and conducted these forums, summarized the resulting data, and submitted recommendations to CISL. An ad-hoc committee on the "first year experience" was formed in the Spring of 2003 to address immediate advising and orientation concerns identified in faculty focus groups. This committee continues to meet. Two ESP sub-committees were formed and completed their tasks in November, 2003, in response to ESP Team.

In February, 2004, the Vice-President for Instruction formed a steering committee to investigate attendance policies, another focus group concern.

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Team Members

Purpose: To analyze college processes from a learning perspective.

The following people make up the members of the Enhancing Systems & Processes Team (ESP) which functions to:

  • Review all institutional processes and procedures
  • Identify barriers to learning
  • Recommend changes
Name, Title Contact Information Outcome Assignment
Paula Gupton
Instructor, Mathematics
guptonp@surry.edu
336-386-3345
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Chair, Enhancing Systems & Processes Team
Melissa Atkinson
Instructor, Psychology/Sociology
atkinsonm@surry.edu
336-386-3262
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Laura Bracken
Special Programs/ADA/Placement Testing Coordinator
brackenl@surry.edu
336-386-3443
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John Brame
Director of Planning and Institutional Research
bramej@surry.edu
336-386-3248
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Cindy Gallimore
Purchasing and Accounts Payable Technician
gallimorec@surry.edu
336-386-3277
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Sharon Kallam
Instructor, Nursing
kallams@surry.edu
336-386-3277
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Tom Parker
Instructor, Business/Accounting
parkert@surry.edu
336-386-3294
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Richard Pilukas
Instructor, Mathematics
pilukasr@surry.edu
336-386-33362
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Judy Riggs
Dean of Continuing Education
riggsj@surry.edu
336-386-3280
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Candace Ring
Director, Distance Education
ringc@surry.edu
336-386-3382
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