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Submitted by: Amy Mattern, Dean Academic Pathways and Student Success Date: 11/6/15
Find below goals, progress, accomplishments, and new initiatives in each category, aligned with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
(ACCJC) i Standards indicated, as documented in the Program Reviews. Please refer to the Excel spreadsheets for specific resource requests in these areas.
Progress/Needs on
Student Learning/Service
Area Outcomes
Standards IIA and IIB
Instructional Programs
Standard IIA
Library/Learning &
Student Support
Standards IIB and IIC
Human Resources
(FT fac, reassigned, classified, student assts)
Standard IIIA
Physical & Technology
Resources
Standards IIIB and IIIC
Financial Resources
(Services, Contracts,
Conferences)
Standard IIID
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First FYE Program offered 2014-2015 with 4 cohorts and collaboration with 1 existing learning community (CIN). 3 additional cohorts launched Fall 2015-
2016.

Expansion of Peer
Advising (PA) program with
Pathway and Inreach/Outreach PAs.

Career Pathways
Trust Grant (CPT) launched industry sectors pathways and began collaboration with industry partners and Unified
School District (USD) partners.

Work on pathway mapping, early college credit and
 placement through multiple measures.
SAO #1: Students in our programs will

Offered themed
English 102s for FYEs
 to meet goal of contextualized
English.
Wrote curriculum and offered eight
Math Jams sections leveled to Math assessment scores
(summer 2015), assessed pilot; prepping to offer again for summer
2016.
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Continue to develop and offer FYEs and
Pathways; develop
FYEs for Veterans and
Art.

Continue exploring development of
Freshman seminar course.

Collaborated with
Counseling to ensure

FYE students received in-person orientation, education planning, embedded math support, peer mentoring, contextualized English and efforts towards ensuring students complete basic skills courses by end of first year.

Learning Assistants in
Math and Math Jams supported student success.
Provided increased training, support and infrastructure for Peer
Advising program.
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Working on defining structure for and staffing of The
Collaborative Projects space to foster FYE and Pathways student success.

Provided permanent

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Need STEM Center
Director, Instructional
Assistant II (20 hrs),
Administrative
Assistant II.
Need 15 CAH
Reassigned time for
Pathways and FYE not covered by grant (see
PR detail).

Need Instructional
Assistant III for The
Collaborative Projects space.

Need 18 Learning
Assistants (LA) for all
FYE Math course and
Math Jams.

Hire approved positions: CPT
Administrative
Assistant; Equity
Director; permanent
FYE Staff Support
(SSSP funded); faculty
Summer Bridge
Coordinator; Work-
Based Learning

Specialist.
Need to work toward

Website revision support (in progress)

Transcript data share with support of IT (in progress)
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Need to set up system to gather student information from
USDs in order to track data.
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Supplies to assist in marketing and planning activities for students.
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Funds for instructors teaching FYE to attend conferences for professional development related to learning communities and first year experience.

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Outcome: FYE
Students persisting
(91%) and succeeding
(73%) at higher rates than non-participants
(v. 73% and 64% new student average).
Assessment/ discussion indicate need to better place students in FYE’s.
Linking FYE courses would help significantly. classroom for Passion and Purpose learning community.
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Need staffing in STEM
Center due to critical role of math completion in student success.
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Continue to work on recruitment of students into appropriate student support programs. institutionalizing A&R position, Articulation and Dual Enrollment position, Dean of
Pathways and Work-
Based Learning
Specialist.
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Need Permanent counselor assistant position for FYE
(submitted by counseling as
Veteran’s Equity proposal).
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Need Math Jam coordinator
(submitted in Math
Jam Equity proposal) i See Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (Adopted June 2014). Accreditation standards. Available: http://www.accjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Accreditation_Standards_Adopted_June_2014.pdf