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Geography’s programs
1)
2)
3)
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Instructional gaps
Associate in Arts for
Transfer (A.A.-T)
Associate in Arts (A.A.)
Certificate of Proficiency in
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
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 0 graduates since
establishment in 2006
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4-5 Geography courses are
in ‘core’ or electives Lists
B or C in these disciplines:
GEOG 1L-Physical Geography
Lab
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GEOG 12-Geography of
California
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a “core” course with high
demand
sometimes a ‘bottleneck’-more
sections needed
popular elective course-we lost
our expert instructor in 2013
GEOG 21, 22, 95, 96

required 4-course sequence for
our GIS Certificate program
Anthropology
Elementary Teacher Ed.We have insufficient faculty to offer
International Studies Sociology
the needed courses that fulfill a
Political Science
Environmental Studies student’s pathway in a reasonable
Liberal Arts
Social Science
timeframe.
Full-time : Part-time FTEF by semester 2012-2015
Fall 2012 Spring
2013
0.95
1.1
FTEF
(Contract)
FTEF
(Temporary)
# of Contract
Faculty
Fall 2013
0.95
Spring
2014
1.1
Fall 2014 Spring
2015
0.95
0.90
1.2
1.4
1.4
1.2
1.4
1.4
1
1
1
1
1
1
Geography has had only ONE full-time faculty member since Fall, 2011.
Full-time faculty : enrolled students ratio:
Fall 2012
1:532
Spring
2013
1:559
Fall 2013 Spring 2014
Fall 2014
1:495
1:490
1:490
Spring
2015
1:449
WSCH, FTES, and WSCH/FTEF by semester 2012-2015:
Fall 2012
WSCH
FTES:
WSCH/FT
EF
1596
Spring
2013
1755
Fall
2013
1485
Spring 2014
Fall 2014
1554
1470
50.7
55.83
47.0
49.88
742.33
702.00
631.91
675.65
Spring
2015
1358
46.8
43.95
625.53
590.43
Geography has an average WSCH of 1536 over the last 6 semesters.
Student demand for Geography courses as part of program pathways
across many disciplines appears likely to increase in light of contemporary
global issues ……
global change research
environmental conservation
urban and regional planning