President’s Office
Dr. Susan Sperling
President’s Report – November 18, 2014
AC Transit Program to Reduce Bus Costs for Students
The AC Transit Initiative has had several developments this fall semester. A meeting was held with Alameda County Transportation Commission Assistant Transportation
Planner/Communications Specialist, Laurel Poeton, and Cleo Goodwin, AC Transit Senior
Marketing Representative in October with students and faculty from the Passion and Purpose class, College President Sperling and Interim VPSS Kritscher to discuss the possible scope of the transportation fee proposal. Discussion topics explored included minimum units of enrollment for eligibility (e.g. 9 or more units), role and responsibilities of site coordinator, and term of referendum (e.g. 1 year pilot, 4 or 7 years). The proposed fee is for $30.50 per semester. The timing of the referendum vote, Board of Trustees request for approval, and actual implementation during a new registration cycle were also discussed acknowledging challenges associated with mid-semester implementation/fee assessment, and advantages of implementing at the start of a new registration cycle.
An article about the AC Transit Easy (Bus) Pass also came out in the campus newspaper, The
Spectator, on October 20th: http://www.thechabotspectator.com/passion-and-purpose-clubattempts-to-give-discouted-bus-fares-to-students/. According to the article, the initiative referendum has been approved by the SSCC so the next step is to advertise the issues and services the fee would support, and then conduct the referendum voting, most likely in the early part of the spring 2015 semester. Depending on the outcome of the student fee referendum, an affirmative vote would then be referred to the College President, Chancellor and Board of Trustees for approval. If approved, the fee and services would most likely be implemented with registration beginning in April 2015 for the fall 2015 semester.
Quarterly Report on Student Success Initiative
Chabot’s Student Success and Support Program (SSSP) Advisory Council developed and submitted its FY 14-15 Student Success and Support Program Plan and Budget to the State
Chancellor’s Office. The plan was carefully coordinated with LPC Student Services and shared with the Educational Support Services (ESS) district-wide committee as part of the development and review process. The SSSP Plan has also been coordinated with the college’s Student Equity
Plan that was shared tonight, to maximize efficiencies and to leverage the funding to best meet target the needs of the college’s most under-served student population groups. The groups that show the most need of SSSP and Student Equity support include students in the following groups at Chabot:

Chabot College
Susan Sperling, Ph.D., President
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•African American students
•Foster Youth students
•Students with Disabilities
•Chicano/Latino students
•Pacific Islander students
An example of the SSSP and Equity Plan coordination includes the provision for a Daraja
Counselor/Coordinator funded 75% SSSP, and 25% Student Equity categorical funds. This will allow the program to restore its previous counseling and coordination capacity, and with the addition of adjunct Daraja counselors, grow the program to serve more African American students. The Equity Plan also provides a much-needed line item for emergency student aid for under-served students for books, school supplies, transportation and child care expenses to attend classes. From a college-wide perspective, all Program Reviews were asked to respond to a question on how their program connects to the Strategic Plan Goal of increasing the amount of students that complete their course of study in a timely fashion. These Program Reviews are being shared with the Planning, Review and Budget Council (PRBC) for college-wide coordination and resource recommendations.
Nursing Student Pass Rate
The nursing program began in 1963 and has graduated over 1,500 RN's. This year we will be graduating the 50th nursing class. Our graduates have held very high positions in local hospitals: MariEllen Faria, current Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) San Leandro Kaiser, and recently retired CNO at Eden and ValleyCare Hospitals. Seven of our current faculty members were students in the nursing program at Chabot.
We have a very active simulation lab and each student participates in over 21 scenarios while in the program.
Our pass rate for first time takers on the NCLEX-RN licencing exam has been 95-100% in the past 5 years. The state average for BSN and ADN programs is 85% so we are well above the average
Spectator staff Attend Fall 2014 Northern, CA Journalism Conference
On Saturday, Nov. 8, several members of the Chabot Spectator staff attended the fall journalism conference hosted by the Journalism Association of Community Colleges at CSU-
Sacramento.
Colleges from Tulare county and north that have journalism programs attended a full day of workshops and competitions that allowed students to hear from and talk to professional journalists leading the workshops. They were also able to network with other community college journalism students and learn about other college programs.

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One feature of the conference is the "On the Spot" competitions that allow writers and photojournalists an opportunity to develop stories or images based on a conference activity that are then judged prior to the close of the event. The competitions are often very competitive sometimes with 40-50 students competing.
This year the Editor-In-Chief of the Spectator, Chris Booker, took third place in the news writing competition and the Spectator received the General Excellence award for their online publication.
Cal Humanities Veterans Events at Chabot
In partnership with the Hayward Public Library and the California Reads project, Chabot College hosted several events in recognition of Veterans. On October 6 th there was a campus reading from military veteran and author Karl Marlantes of his book What it is like to go to War. There were also two presentations of the Veteran Documentary Corp Film Showings that highlighted three productions of San Francisco State University’s Documentary Film Institute.
(L to R: Jesse Esquire, Student Senate President; Karl Marlantes, Author; Susan Sperling, President)