ECD
Appendix E: Proposal for New Initiatives (Complete for each new initiative)
Initiative #1
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?
“Increase the number of students that achieve their educational goal within a reasonable time by
clarifying pathways and providing more information and support.”
What is your specific goal and measurable outcome?
Increase student success rate for students who are at risk of not succeeding in ECD classes. Help
students to gain competent skills, complete coursework with success and therefore be employable.
What is your action plan to achieve your goal?
Activity (brief description)
Develop Community Learning groups for specific courses
which have higher withdrawal rates and low success rates in
which a Student Assistant supports student learning.
Target
Completion
Date
2013 Fall
Required Budget (Split out
personnel, supplies, other
categories)
2 Student Assistants (10
hours a week one
designated for day students
and 1 for evening students)
$3420
How will you manage the personnel needs?
X New Hires: Student Assistant
Faculty # of positions
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,
At the end of the project period, the proposed project will:
Be completed (onetime only effort)
X Require additional funding to continue and/or institutionalize the project
(obtained by/from): Fall 2014 & 2015
Will the proposed project require facility modifications, additional space, or program relocation?
No
Yes, explain:
Will the proposed project involve subcontractors, collaborative partners, or cooperative agreements?
X No
Yes, explain:
Do you know of any grant funding sources that would meet the needs of the proposed project?
No
X Yes Career Technical funds VTEA Grant for Student Assistants
Appendix E: Proposal for New Initiatives (Complete for each new initiative)
Initiative #2
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?
What is your specific goal and measurable outcome?
Students will gain competent skills and improve their performance as an Early Childhood teacher in the
Early Childhood Lab school at Chabot as they complete their lab hours and successfully complete the
program and therefore become more employable. ECD students will have the skills required to make
them more employable.
What is your action plan to achieve your goal?
Target
Completion
Date
An ECD Lab instructor will be given reassigned time to support Fall 2013
the EC Lab and collaborate with the EC specialist and EC Lab
manager to ensure that the Early Childhood teaching
pedagogical theory is put into practice in addition to teaching
the 2 Lab courses ECD 63 Early Childhood Curriculum and ECD
90 Practicum: Supervised Experience.
Support the ECD Lab Instructor/faculty in the Early Childhood Fall 2013
Lab to give feedback and support ECD lab students as they are
doing their required lab hours .
Re-instate infant and toddler programs in order to provide
Fall 2014
appropriate laboratory experiences and settings for students
which will make them more employable. Head Start requires
their Infant Toddler teachers to have 6 units of specific Infant
Toddler courses. Meet employability requirements. Chabot
ECD students have a deficit in their training by not having the
infant toddler program. WE have the classrooms, we need the
Early Childhood Specialist to staff the rooms.
Activity (brief description)
How will you manage the personnel needs?
Required Budget (Split out
personnel, supplies, other
categories)
Additional CAH 3.75 per
semester
6 student Assistant ( 12 hrs
per week ) for 2 semesters
$21,888
Employ 3 Early Childhood
Specialist ($300,00
approximately) and secure
funding from Head Start for
qualified children which
will offset some of the
costs.
X New Hires:
Student Assistants
X 3.75 CAH Faculty positions X Classified staff # 3 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)
X Other, explain Additional CAH for ECD Lab Instructor/Faculty
At the end of the project period, the proposed project will:
Be completed (onetime only effort)
X Require additional funding to continue and/or institutionalize the project
(obtained by/from): Fall 2014 & 2015
Will the proposed project require facility modifications, additional space, or program relocation?
No
Yes, explain:
Will the proposed project involve subcontractors, collaborative partners, or cooperative agreements?
No
X Yes, explain: Addition to Head Start contract
Do you know of any grant funding sources that would meet the needs of the proposed project?
No
Yes X list potential funding sources: Career Technical funds VTEA Grant for Student
Assistant