Regular Meeting
March 8, 2006 – 3:00 p.m.
Building 1800, Room 1506
M i n u t e s
IPBC Membership
2005-2006
Laurie Dockter, Chair
Faculty
Carolyn Arnold
JoAnn Galliano
Chad Mark Glen
Joe Kuwabara
Cristina Ruggiero
Classified
Jessica Amato
Catherine Powell
Karen Silva
Rachel Ugale
Administrators
Robert Carlson
Tom Clark
Marcia Corcoran
Robert Curry
Marge Maloney
Melinda Matsuda
Daryl Minus
Gerald Shimada
Attending: Jessica Amato, Carolyn Arnold, Tom Clark, Laurie Dockter, Jo Ann
Galliano, Chad Mark Glen, Melinda Matsuda, Catherine Powell, Rachel LePell,
Cristina Ruggiero, Ron Taylor, Gerald Shimada, Karen Silva, Rachel Ugale, Dale
Wagoner
Absent: Bob Carlson, Bob Curry, Joe Kuwabara, Marge Mahoney, Daryl Minus,
1. Laurie Dockter discussed the elements of Harper College's Long Range
Strategic Plan with IPBC. SWOT: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and
Threats were discussed as a tool for assessment for the college.
2. There was a discussion of the assignment to incorporate the goals and
objectives of our strategic plan into the accreditation standards. Catherine
Powell and Rachael LePell turned in their work on the particular standards in
the Accreditation Document. JoAnn Galliano felt that this merge of the
standards and the strategic plan was not very straight forward. She tried
matching the list of evidence with our goals and objectives. Ron also said that
this was a difficult task. After much discussion the group decided to review the
Accreditation Standards again with the idea of identifying items in the
accreditation standards that are left out of the strategic plan.
3. There was a discussion on unit plans. Units included academic areas and well
as other cost centers. The areas of interest to IPBC from the unit plans where:
1) Description of units, achievements and special activities; 2) Goals and
Objectives of units with list of activities; and 3) Relationship of unit plans to the
2006-2007 Strategic Plan. These parts of the unit plan are 2a, b 3a, b and 4.
Ron has asked Deans for a summary of the units in their divisions. A summary
of the other unit cost centers and their plans are needed.
Ron Taylor
Dale Wagoner
4. Cindy Hicks came to IPBC to give us a report on the building 100 project. This
project includes the library, learning and teaching center. Cindy gave a report
on Flex Day. The planning for this project has included visits to other colleges.
One major goal of the project is to improve retention of students in classes.
The group is looking at an hour of lab for gateway classes, Peer Lead Learning
as used at San Jose City College, self-placement in English and Math and links
to Program Review.
5. Rachael LePell gave a report about the ad-hoc Budget Committee that held its
last meeting that day.