HISTORY
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.
Instructions: Please provide the requested information, and fully explain the impact of the budget
decisions.
Category
Classified Staffing (# of positions)
Supplies & Services
Technology/Equipment
Other
TOTAL
2011-12
Budget
Requested
One
None
None
None
One
2011-12
Budget
Received
None
None
None
None
One
2012-13
Budget
Requested
One
None
None
None
One
2012-13
Budget
Received
None
None
None
None
One
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.
Our sole request has been for one new full time faculty. Chabot serves a “predominantly” Latino
populace and has been designated an Hispanic Serving Institution. Our classes for Chicano History are
large and two sections are insufficient. We have an Ethnic Studies program and courses. We should be
offering Latin American History courses. The discipline offers a travel studies program to Cuba: Faces of
Cuba. Finally, over the past several years, we have lost our two Chicano History professors. They have
not been replaced. Despite our rationale, we have been unsuccessful in advancing this requirement to
serve our students
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 have over the years worked to serve our students beyond the basic American Institutions
requirement. We have always maintained our African-American and Women’s History programs by
keeping full time faculty in these respective positions. We have fortunately kept adjunct on staff to
serve in Chicano History, but both instructors have retired years ago. Moreover, one no longer teaches
any of the courses and, in hiring a replacement, the other would be the first to say: It is time. Students
have stated, in the past, that they expect to see a full time faculty member in this position and that our
designation as Hispanic Serving Institution should place the hiring of said faculty member at the top of
the list of priorities. We are turning students away from our Chicano History and allowing our Ethnic
Studies to languish. These shortcomings compromise our ability to serve a population that historically
has been under-represented. The state’s demographic shift towards Hispanic majority renders this
inequity unsustainable.