Appendix E: Proposal for New Initiatives – Grow the Chabot Civic and
Community Engagement Center
Audience: Deans/Unit Administrators, PRBC, Foundation, Grants Committee, College Budget Committee
Purpose: A “New Initiative” is a new project or expansion of a current project that supports our Strategic
Plan. The project will require the support of additional and/or outside funding. The information you
provide will facilitate and focus the research and development process for finding both internal and
external funding.
How does your initiative address the college's Strategic Plan goal, or significantly improve student
learning?
The Chabot Center for Civic & Community Engagement (CCCCE) provides a physical and intellectual
space for Chabot students, faculty, campus departments and community partners to share knowledge,
skills, and resources for the benefit of student learning and community wellbeing. CCCCE will be a
catalyst and gateway for community leaders to find the campus connections needed for
partnerships/collaborations that will create the intellectual and social capital essential to the
educational, social, and civic development of our communities.
Internally, CCCCE will be a hub for academic and service learning programs such as the Law and
Democracy Program, Change It Now and other programs aligned with the civic aspects of our mission.
The Center will be a physical manifestation of Chabot’s commitment to the democratic purposes of our
mission, deep and powerful experiential learning for our students, and the integration of the diverse and
cultural context of the community in our teaching.
What is your specific goal and measurable outcome?
To enhance the visibility and programming of the Civic and Community Engagement Center.
What is your action plan to achieve your goal?
Target
Completion
Date
Continue to offer Campus Camp Wellstone to Chabot Students Fall 2013
each Fall.
Continue to offer the Law and Democracy Lecture each Fall
Fall 2013
Required Budget (Split out
personnel, supplies, other
categories)
$5,000
Continue to offer the Law and Democracy course each Fall
Fall 2013
N/A
Establish an Advisory Board for the Center
Spring
2014
Spring
2014
Spring
2014
Activity (brief description)
Develop a fundraising campaign to support Center projects
and operations.
Develop a web presence for the Center
How will you manage the personnel needs?
New Hires:
Faculty # of positions
$1500
Classified staff # of positions
X
Reassigning existing employee(s) to the project; employee(s) current workload will be:
Covered by overload or part-time employee(s)
X Covered by hiring temporary replacement(s)
Other, explain
At the end of the project period, the proposed project will:
Be completed (onetime only effort)
Require additional funding to continue and/or institutionalize the project
(obtained by/from):
Will the proposed project require facility modifications, additional space, or program relocation?
No
X Yes, explain: Currently, the Center is using space in the 700 building but could better
accomplish its mission with a larger, more centralized location on campus.
Will the proposed project involve subcontractors, collaborative partners, or cooperative agreements?
No
X Yes, explain: Community patners.
Do you know of any grant funding sources that would meet the needs of the proposed project?
No
X Yes, list potential funding sources: We are identifying potential funding sources
with the help of our grant writer, Yvonne Wu-Craig.
Appendix E: Proposal for New Initiatives – Create an Associate in Arts - (AA)
Pre-Law degree
Audience: Deans/Unit Administrators, PRBC, Foundation, Grants Committee, College Budget Committee
Purpose: A “New Initiative” is a new project or expansion of a current project that supports our Strategic
Plan. The project will require the support of additional and/or outside funding. The information you
provide will facilitate and focus the research and development process for finding both internal and
external funding.
How does your initiative address the college's Strategic Plan goal, or significantly improve student
learning?
When our new AS-T degree for Administration of Justice is approved, we will have played a part in
accomplishing one of the key objectives of the Strategic Plan – creating a clear pathway for students to
timely and efficiently complete their course work, transfer and accomplish their educational goals.
For students interested in law enforcement or corrections, this degree works well for those purposes.
However, there are substantial numbers of students in Administration of Justice and other majors across
the campus who have an interest in a legal career as a lawyer. For students interested in a legal career,
there is no clearly identified pathway from community college. Since many of our students do not have
a parent at home that has ever attended college, the task of identifying, defining, and achieving such an
educational goal is made more difficult.
When our AS-T degree is approved, our AA degree in Administration of Justice, as it is currently
configured, has limited usefulness for students. The AS-T degree is a better option since it provides
priority admission. Rather than let it lie dormant or eliminate the degree, we propose that the AA
degree be reconfigured to focus on a Pre-Law Curriculum. Creating this new “pathway” toward a legal
career is in alignment with the Strategic Plan.
One of the primary goals of this new AA will be to prepare students for the rigorous academic
curriculum they will encounter in college and law school by developing those skills particularly important
for the study of law. The program will use an interdisciplinary approach emphasizing the development
of critical thinking, writing, and analytical skills, all of which are part of our college-wide learning goals.
Most of the courses needed for this program already exist in our curriculum but have not been
organized as part of a coherent pathway leading to an educational objective.
The State Bar of California, through its Council on Access & Fairness (COAF), has established a Diversity
Pipeline Initiative designed to increase diversity in the legal profession. Even though California is a
majority-minority state, minorities make up only about 21% of the California bar. The State bar has
concluded that this imbalance in the proportion of minority lawyers to the general population affects
the level of trust the public has in the courts and the legal system.
The State Bar's Diversity Pipeline Initiative seeks to increase that diversity by partnering with California
educational institutions to develop an educational "pipeline" to support minority and other diverse
students seeking careers in the legal profession. The California Community College System is the most
diverse in the nation and one of the goals of the project is to establish a 2+2+3 articulation agreement
with community colleges, four-year colleges/universities, and law schools that would give priority
enrollment to students who meet certain criteria. Chabot is one of the community colleges participating
in this initiative.1
What is your specific goal and measurable outcome?
To have an AA-Pre-Law degree approved in time to enroll declared majors for Fall 2014.
What is your action plan to achieve your goal?
Target
Required Budget (Split out
Activity (brief description)
Completion personnel, supplies, other
Date
categories)
Develop new program proposal .
September
2013
Work with State Bar’s Diversity Pipeline Initiative to develop
Academic
articulation agreements with key colleges/universities and law year- 2013schools.
14
Develop program materials and begin program marketing
Academic
campaign.
year- 201314
Enroll students into the major.
Fall 2014
How will you manage the personnel needs?
New Hires:
X Faculty # of positions 1
Classified staff # of positions
Reassigning existing employee(s) to the project; employee(s) current workload will be:
Covered by overload or part-time employee(s)
Covered by hiring temporary replacement(s)
Other, explain
At the end of the project period, the proposed project will:
X Be completed (onetime only effort)
Require additional funding to continue and/or institutionalize the project
(obtained by/from):
Will the proposed project require facility modifications, additional space, or program relocation?
X No
Yes, explain:
Will the proposed project involve subcontractors, collaborative partners, or cooperative agreements?
1
On Friday, March 22, 2013, the Chabot College Law & Democracy Program, the State Bar Council on
Access & Fairness (COAF), the Law School Admission Council, and Street Law, Inc. will be hosting a
conference on Increasing Diversity in the Legal Profession. This will be the first public gathering of
COAF’s community college initiative.
No
X Yes, explain: The State Bar Association has hired a consultant to develop and
implement Articulation Agreements between Community Colleges, 4-year schools, and law schools that
will give priority admission to students who meet designated criteria.
Do you know of any grant funding sources that would meet the needs of the proposed project?
No
X Yes, list potential funding sources: Because this is a major initiative of both the
California and local Bar Associations including the American Bar Association, support from the various
bar foundations may be possible.