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This group is for community college program directors, coordinators, and faculty to discuss the special challenges of MT in the academic setting.

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I am curious if anyone has issues with the same volunteers coming in for their "free" massages from the students and not giving constructive feedback. Also , what kind of scheduling software/ system…Continue

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Comment by Tina Holt on February 20, 2012 at 7:12pm: Would love to have an article about training in a CC rather than traditional massage school...Pros, Cons, etc. Really just need 5-7 paragraphs. Please let me know if anyone can do this!

http://www.massage-education.com

Comment by Lisa Mertz on September 27, 2011 at 5:39pm: Hi Chris,

At my college, we're using these rubrics created by the Association of American Colleges and Universities:

http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/index_p.cfm?CFID=35144844&CFT...

They are not about hands-on massage, but integrative learning, critical thinking, and so forth.

I hope this helps.

Lisa

Comment by Chris Vettel on September 26, 2011 at 10:39pm: Hi everyone. I teach at a CC in California. We're doing program reviews and I need to come up with rubrics for teaching and program evaluation.

Do any of you have any rubrics that you would be willing to share for our discipline?

Comment by Lisa Mertz on August 15, 2011 at 4:06pm: One of the best things about having a Massage Program in a CC is collaborating with other departments on projects, obviously Nursing but even History. I'm doing cross-discipline ePortfolio projects. At CCs, students get important aspects of an academic education plus massage training. Many of the younger grads go on for 4-year degrees. CC MT education truly raises the education standards for the profession.

Comment by Lisa Mertz on August 15, 2011 at 1:51pm: I hear you, Tara -- my college does not market individual programs that I know of, and they certainly don't market massage.

But the university system does market programs in some of the colleges, but not this one. I don't know why.

I have been to numerous meetings about promoting the program, but endlessly discussing it of course doesn't make it actually happen.

We also have an on campus clinic that our clients are very happy about, but the college won't even include it on the website. It took an enormous effort to make it available to clients because we didn't get to market or advertise it either.

Comment by Tara McManaway on August 15, 2011 at 11:55am: Marketing is a huge deal for me. We are not *allowed* to have separate brochures for our programs, just all of allied health bundled together. I go to conferences, meetings and service learning events and all I have to hand out are catalogs for the whole college and my business card. We get lost in the marketing of nuclear science, nursing and transfer credits. Everyone loves our program and sees it as the best 'perk' about working at the college because of the on campus clinic- but marketing- I cannot apply what I know about marketing to my program because of constraints of policies and time ( I am the only faculty member in massage).

Comment by Lisa Mertz on August 15, 2011 at 8:50am: I've been hearing from community college program coordinators in New York, where I am, as well as from other states, that their programs are under-enrolled.

What are your thoughts about this? Is the CC program ahead of its time? Or is it mainly that colleges' marketing policies preclude promoting the programs?

Comment by Lisa Mertz on April 7, 2011 at 1:51pm: Hi Sue,

I'm with you, I love it when students learn to integrate their intuitive knowing with energywork in their massage.

My college does have Shiatsu and Thai massage and we're discussing the possibility of offering Polarity. The college's curriculum complies with New York regulations.

Comment by Sue Heldenbrand on April 7, 2011 at 10:01am: I teach subtle body energy at a local massage college and also offer CE hours for Louisiana Massage Therapists. I enjoy my work when I have students that have embraced their intuition and integrate using energy work with their massages. My question is to find out how many other colleges have a subtle body energy program as part of a massage curriculum. Your comments and questions are welcomed.

I also wanted to extend an invitation to join my holistic directory for massage therapists..the basic listing is free.
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