APPENDIX W
Item:
MOU
Cape Fear Community College Marine Science Academy
Dept.: Instruction
Background/Historical Context: New Hanover County Schools is
working collaboratively with Cape Fear Community College to create
The Marine Science Academy at Ashley High School.
Recommendation:
Approval of the Memorandum of Understanding
Supporting Documentation: The attached Memorandum of
Understanding outlines their partnership.
Board Action:
_____ Recommendation Accepted
_____ Recommendation Rejected
_____ Tabled for Further Study
_____ Other
Memorandum of Understanding
Between
Cape Fear Community College
And
New Hanover County Board of Education
For The Marine Science Academy at Ashley High School
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE (sometimes referred to herein as
"College" or "the college") and NEW HANOVER COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION (referred to herein as "New Hanover County Schools") agree to
the following memorandum of understanding and for the terms of which
WITNESS THE FOLLOWING:
WHEREAS the parties to this Memorandum of Understanding partnered to
create The Marine Science Academy at Ashley High School designed to provide
students in the New Hanover County High Schools with an enriching education
in a coastal setting, equip the students with twenty-first century skills designed
to meet the challenges facing our global ocean, and to instill a lifelong love of
learning about the beautiful and dynamic North Carolina Coast; WHEREAS the
Marine Science Academy will provide a high quality marine science college
preparatory program for up to 25 high school seniors for the first year who have
the potential and desire to excel in ocean science; NOW THEREFORE, the
parties desire to enter into this Memorandum of Understanding and mutually
agree to the terms., conditions, activities, and services to be performed on behalf
of the Academy as the following:
Cape Fear Community College:
1. Will allow the Marine Science Academy coordinator to contact instructors
in seeking relevant content lectures and/or labs as well as the use of
small boats aligned to the established Academy coursework 2-4 times per
semester.
2. Will encourage instructors to allow Academy students to sit in
lectures/labs aligned to established Academy coursework.
3. Will provide College lab assistants to set up, assist, and break-down labs
used by Academy students 1-2 times per semester.
4. Will facilitate educational trips (one lecture/ one trip in the fall semester
and one lecture /one trip in the spring semester) on the R/V Martech in
accordance with the Research Vessel Charter Agreement.
5. Students who have received a high school diploma with the Marine
Science Academy Endorsement at Ashley High School are eligible to
receive credit for MSC 160 (Oceanography) in the Marine Technology
program.
Memorandum of Understanding
Between
Cape Fear Community College
And
New Hanover County Board of Education
For The Marine Science Academy at Ashley High School
New Hanover County Schools (coordinator):
1. Will research and implement high-quality, relevant instructional
practices.
2. Will develop a year-long, two-semester Academy curriculum rich in
hands-on scientific inquiry.
3. Will share the Academy course syllabus and curriculum with the College
faculty for review by January 30, 2013 and solicit feedback to ensure
challenging and rigorous course content.
4. Will supervise Academy students while at the College facilities.
Renewal and Termination of Agreement:
This Memorandum contains the entire agreement between the parties regarding
the subject matter hereof and may be amended only by mutual written
agreement of both parties. The Memorandum will be in effect from August 19,
2013 until June 9, 201S, following signing and is renewable based on the consent
of the signatory parties. Cape Fear Community College and New Hanover
County Board of Education reserve the right to terminate this Memorandum
upon service of written notice to the other party 90 days prior to the date of
termination. In this event, the date of termination will be the day after the end of
the semester during which the 90 day period expires.
CFCC shall conduct annual checks of all its employees and independent
contractors whose job involves direct interaction with Board of Education
students. These annual checks shall be of the lists and registries currently
specified in NCOS 115C-SS2.1.
CFCC shall prohibit all of its employees and independent contractors who are
listed on any of the list or registries currently specified in NCOS §115C-3S2.1
from having direct interaction with Board of Education students.
Memorandum of Understanding
Between
Cape Fear Community College
And
New Hanover County Board of Education
For The Marine Science Academy at Ashley High School
In witness thereof, the parties have duly approved this Memorandum of
Understanding in two original counterparts.
Dr. Amanda Lee
President
Cape Fear Community College
Date
Mrs. Melissa Singler
Date
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Workforce Development
Cape Fear Community College
Dr. Tim Markley
Superintendent
New Hanover County Schools
Date
Mr. Donald S. Hayes
Chairman
New Hanover County Schools Board of Education
Date
AGREEMENT FOR ARTICULATION OF CREDIT
Requesting Institution:
New Hanover County Schools Marine Science Academy (MSA)
Credit Awarding Institution:
Cape Fear Community College (CFCC)
Course Eligible for Articulated Credit:
MSC 160: Oceanography (4 class hours, 4 semester hour credits)
Course description:
This course provides a general description of the geology, chemistry, and physics of the oceans.
Topics include a history of oceanography, bathymetry, plate tectonics, seawater chemistry and
physics, atmospheric circulation, currents, waves, tides, sedimentation, and coastal geology.
Upon completion, students should be able to describe bathymetric features, the chemistry and
physics of seawater, atmospheric and ocean circulations, marine sediments, and coastal
processes.
Rationale:
As part of their curriculum, MSA students complete two units on oceanography. The first unit
includes the following topics: principal oceans, early explorations, scientific inquiry and method,
continental drift, plate tectonics, plate boundary features, mid-ocean magnetism, bathymetry,
hypsographic curve, continental margins, deep ocean basins, mid-ocean ridges, lithogenous
sediments, biogenous sediments, hydrogenous sediments, cosmogenous sediments, sediment
resource use, North Carolina coastal processes, man's impact on the North Carolina shoreline
and alternatives, and sea level rise.
The second unit of the MSA oceanography curriculum includes the following topics: chemical
and physical properties of water, comparison of fresh and saltwater, pH, ocean acidification,
depth, variation, Earth's seasons, unequal heating of Earth, atmosphere characteristics, Coriolis
Effect, global wind patterns, wind power, tools of a physical oceanographer, light and sound
transmission through seawater, surface currents, upwellings/downwellings, density driven
currents, thermohaline circulation, current power, wind driven waves (deep water, transitional, &
shallow water), rip currents, tsunamis, wave power, tides (causes, patterns, cycles), and tidal
power.
Both MSA oceanography units include substantial lab and field work components. For these
units, MSA students also use the same textbook, Essentials of Oceanography (Trujillo, Prentice
Hall), as students enrolled in CFCC's MSC 160 course.
The learning objectives of the MSA oceanography units also align with the course goals of MSC
160. The MSA oceanography units' objectives state that a student completing those units should
be able to:
• Identify and reproduce the typical vertical profiles for temperature, salinity, and density
AGREEMENT FOR ARTICULATION OF CREDIT
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Demonstrate an understanding of light, oxygen, and pH in the ocean.
Explain ocean heat budget and thermohaline circulation.
Identify planetary winds, oceanic response to steady wind force, and major ocean surface
currents.
Determine wave classification, wind waves, physical traits, mathematical traits, wave
shoaling, tsunamis, internal waves, and the deep sound channel.
Define terms used to describe tides, list and define the forces that cause tides, describe
tidal measurements and the use of harmonic tidal constituents to predict tides, describe
coastal and riverine tides.
Similarly, the goals of MSC 160 are:
• Students will be able to demonstrate how to use the scientific method
• Students will be able to explain ocean processes within the physical, geological, chemical
and biological realms
• Students will be able to explain thermodynamic processes that govern the formation and
distribution of oceanic and atmospheric circulation
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Students will learn how to apply and analyze applications of algebra in unfamiliar
oceanographic situations
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Students will learn how to apply their knowledge in future fields of employment as
Marine Technicians
AGREEMENT FOR ARTICULATION OF CREDIT
Given the similar content and expected outcomes of the MSA oceanography units and MSC 160,
CFCC has determined that students who successfully complete the MSA and earn the Marine
Science Academy Endorsement at Ashley High School are eligible to receive credit for MSC 160
(Oceanography) in CFCC's Marine Technology program per the memorandum of understanding
between CFCC and the New Hanover County Board of Education for The Marine Science
Academy at Ashley High School.
n./a.tgDr. Amanda Lee
Date
President
Cape Fear Community College
Mrs. Melissa Singler
Date
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Workforce Development
Cape Fear Community College
Dr. Tim Markley
Date
Superintendent
New Hanover County Schools
Mr. Donald S. Hayes
Chairman
New Hanover County Schools Board of Education
Date