ESL
Appendix F1: Full-Time Faculty/Adjunct Staffing Request(s) [Acct. Category
1000]
Audience: Faculty Prioritization Committeeand Administrators
Purpose: Providing explanation and justification for new and replacement positions for full-time faculty
and adjuncts
Instructions: Please justify the need for your request. Discuss anticipated improvements in student
learning and contribution to the Strategic Plan goal. Cite evidence and data to support your request,
including enrollment management data (EM Summary by Term) for the most recent three years, student
success and retention data , and any other pertinent information. Data is available at
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/ProgramReview/Data2012.cfm .
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Number of new faculty requested in this discipline: __2__
If you are requesting more than one position, please rank order the positions.
Position
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Full-time faculty
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Full-time faculty
Description
3 Rationale for your proposal. Please use the enrollment management data. Additional data that
will strengthen your rationale include FTES trends over the last 5 years, persistence, FT/PT faculty
ratios, CLO and PLO assessment results and external accreditation demands.
According to the enrollment management data, the overall FT/PT faculty ratio is 3.35 to 4.38. The FT/PT ratio for core
courses is about the same (3.08 to 3.55), while supplemental courses are taught by three times more part-timers (0.48
to 1.41).
We currently have 9 part-time faculty members and 4 full-time faculty members, which is two fewer than we have
historically had. This semester we have only 3 full-timers because one is on a medical leave. Level meetings have been
very instrumental in providing opportunities for both part-time and full-time faculty to come together and discuss the
CLOs and assessment results, promote material, and course content coverage and grading consistency, share
assignments, rubrics, and new ideas, and identify and resolve issues. However, in recent years, we have been holding
increasingly fewer meetings due to the full-time faculty’s shortage of time to coordinate such activities in addition to
part-timers’ time conflicts. As a result, it seems even the suggested changes based on the valuable insights gained from
the “Closing the Loop” Assessment Reflections can hardly be disseminated or implemented.
Ideally in the next 5-10 years, with the realization of our revised curriculum and the budget to regain the
classes that have been cut, we need a budget to hire at least 2 more full-time faculty members to help alleviate the
situation.
We also have a need for both an ESL coordinator and advisor/counselor dedicated solely to ESL students. It should
be noted that Las Positas College has retained their ESL coordinator position, even through the current economic
crisis.
4 Statements about the alignment with the strategic plan and your student learning goals are
required. Indicate here any information from advisory committees or outside accreditation reviews
that is pertinent to the proposal.
Our ESL program is crucial in supporting many non-native speaking students (at least 20% of the student
population) who work toward certificates, degrees, and transfer at rates higher than the overall population.
However, as noted above, one of the obstacles that ESL faces in best helping our students “achieve their
educational goals within a reasonable time” is that we are currently understaffed. At present, we have to fight to
keep our program coherent and on track because this semester we are trying to achieve with four faculty members
what we previously accomplished with five along with a program coordinator.
One of the requirements stated in the WASC “Eligibility Requirements” is that “The institution has a substantial
core of qualified faculty with full-time responsibility to the institution. The core is sufficient in size and experience
to support all of the institution’s educational programs.” We see this importance as we try to fully engage in
professional responsibilities and make sure our students are benefitting from our efforts.
We currently don’t have an advisory committee. However, we will explore the idea of creating one consisting of
former ESL students who have completed BA/BS degrees and/or reached their career goals. It will be voluntary, so
we won’t have to pay them.