Appendix A: Budget History and Impact
Audience: Budget Committee, PRBC, and Administrators
Purpose: This analysis describes your history of budget requests from the previous two
years and the impacts of funds received and needs that were not met. This history of
documented need can both support your narrative in Section A and provide additional
information for Budget Committee recommendations.
Instruc t ions: Please provide the requested information, and fully explain the impact of the
budget decisions.
Category
2011-12 Budget
Requested
2011-12
Budget
Received
Full-time Faculty (Acct Cat 1000)
Classified Staffing (# of positions)
(Acct Cat 2000), including Student
Assistants
Supplies & Services
Technology/Equipment (Acct Cat
6000)
1 FT
3 Learning
Assistants
0
0
$0
$600 (laptop)
$2,000 (movable
shelves for 503)
$24,871 (lab
specimens: 21,271
+ S/H + tax:
3,600)
Shelves
(Cost?)
$14,088.07
(specimens)
Peer Tutors
TOTAL
4
$27,471.00
(incl tax & S/H)
2
$14,088.07
plus shelves
2012-13
Budget
Requested
1 FT
3 Learning
Assistants
$0
$28,236.67
(specimens
& measuring
instruments)
4
$28,236.67
(incl tax &
S.H)
2012-13
Budget
Received
0
0
$3,409.96
(specimens)
2
$3,409.96
Note: The requested amounts are based on PR 2010 Resource request for 201112, and on PR 2011 Resource request for 2012-13. The amounts for Budget
received match the receipts for the materials received.
1. How has your investment of the budget monies you did receive improved student
learning? When you requested the funding, you provided a rationale. In this section,
assess if the anticipated positive impacts you projected have, in fact, been realized.
We have been requesting specimens with the intent to increase student access to handson learning, to encourage collaborative work and group discussion, and to facilitate the
development of analytical and critical thinking skills.
In March 2011, we submitted a large request for 2011-2012, in anticipation of a new
class that we wanted to offer (Anthropology 13) and the development of our AA degree.
We also needed to replace damaged specimens (our classes are over-enrolled, and there
is a significant amount of wear and tear), and wanted to keep up with new fossil
discoveries. In March 2012, we requested additional specimens to complement our small
collection of forensic specimens for 2012-2013.
Our specimens are used in Anthropology 1, 1L, 2 and now 13, but primarily in
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Anthropology 1L (3 sections every semester; cap of 25, but sections are over 100%
enrolled), and Anthropology 13 (first offered in fall 2012; cap of 44). Success and
persistence rates for both courses are higher than those of the other Anthropology
courses. Anthropology 1L success rates are consistently above 80% and its persistence
rates are consistently above 90%. Anthropology 13 success rate was 75%, and persistence
rate was 91%. After taking our courses, students can identify individual human bones,
determine age and sex, identify pathologies and, in the case of Anthropology 1L, they
can correlate dental and bone morphology with function, and identify different primates
and fossil humans. Students also state that they enjoy the activities and learn from them
(sources: institutional surveys and student surveys of instructors).
Lab and Forensic Anthropology students will be recruited to assist with a
lecture/workshop on forensic anthropology on April 9th, 2013 presented by Mireille
Giovanola and Nancy Casqueiro. Lab specimens will be used in the hands-on workshop.
The event is part of the Spring 2013 Public Lecture Series spearheaded by Kathy Kelley to
thank the district attendance area’s taxpayers for their support of Proposition 30.
2. What has been the impact of not receiving some of your requested funding? How has
student learning been impacted, or safety compromised, or enrollment or retention
negatively impacted?
We requested approval of funds for the purchase of measuring instruments in 2011, with
a follow-up request in 2012. We have not received any funds to replace instruments that
are in disrepair, and to acquire new ones that are needed in Anthropology 13. At this
point, there are not enough working instruments for the students enrolled in our lab
classes and Anthropology 13. Also, students in Anthropology 13 do not have the
instruments needed to calculate stature and other important demographic markers.
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