| # | Name | Best Practice | Process Owner | Status | Recommendation |
| 1 | Honors Program | Honors classes are designed for students who enjoy active participation in the classroom. Instructors are discussion leaders and group facilitators more often than lecturers. Honors classes are smaller to encourage student involvement. Formats may include seminars, team-taught classes, accelerated courses, interdisciplinary courses, and courses with honors components. | Carole Lester | Step 7 | |
| 2 | Online Tutoring | In order to determine the most successful approach toward online tutoring, the Center for Tutoring and Learning Connections will study three institutions similar to ourselves who have already implemented online tutoring programs. Each of this college has gone about online tutoring differently. The three methods we will study are outsourced online tutoring via SmartThinking, the use of the third party platform AskOnline, and an in-house creation through BlackBoard. After evaluating the success to cost efficiency, we will determine the best practice available to the Center for Tutoring and Learning Connections. | Jason Wright | Step 7 | |
| 3 | Assessment of Institutional Core Values | Richland employees will assess how well the college demonstrates ThunderValues in their daily work at the personal level, the workgroup level, the supervisor level, and the ThunderTeam level. | Process Office of Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness | Complete | Adopt |
| 4 | TRIO Transfer Process | The transfer process that this school offers all trio students. It’s set up as a conference that these schools, department heads, and advisors and financial aide staff network with Richland’s students | Myron Laster | Complete 4/19/06 |
Adopt with revisions |
| 5 | Web Page for Prospective Students | Web pages for prospective students supply valuable information/steps on admissions, advising, program, careers, transfer information, core curriculum. Pages contain more than just office numbers, hours of operation and phone numbers | Donna Walker | Complete 6/15/06 |
Adopt |
| 6 | Online Tutoring for Distance Learning Courses | Online tutoring is available for most courses. | Donna Walkerr | Complete 5/22/06 |
Adopt |
| 7 | Developmental Reading (Class Time) | Students spent more time in class – 12 hours per week -- for the first level of development reading. | Donna Walker | Complete 5/7/06 |
Do not adopt |
| 8 | Developmental Reading (Placement Scores) | Lowest level developmental reading course has a limited range of placement scores. Students who score below the range of scores are referred to a literacy program. | Donna Walker | Complete 5/9/06 |
Do not adopt |
| 9 | Developmental Reading Exit Test | Students must complete a course with an “A” in order to take the developmental reading exit test. | Donna Walker | Complete 5/9/06 |
Do not adopt |
| 10 | Additional Counselors for Reading Classes | College has a Title V grant that funds additional counselors to reading classes. | Donna Walker | Complete 5/9/06 |
Adopt |
| 11 | College has a Title V grants that funds additional counselors to developmental writing classes | Donna Walker | Complete 5/9/06 |
Adopt | |
| 12 | Faculty-Student Interaction to Engage Students in Learning | Identify best practices to enhance faulty-student interaction (Austin Community College; Central Piedmont College; Phoenix College) | Zarina Blankenbaker | Complete 8/28/06 |
Adopt |
| 13 | Default Management | Limiting the amount students may borrow based on grade level. (Tarrant County Community College District; Collin County Community College District) | Bill McMullen | Adoption with Revisions |