District Planning Committee
December 17th, 2010
District Office [Board Room]
Present: Adrianna Barrera (District), David Beaulieu (District), Karen Daar (East), Ran Gust (East),
Deborah Harrington (Trade-Tech), Alma Johnson-Hawkins (Mission), Deborah Kaye (District), Darryl
Kinney (District), Maury Pearl (District), Jim Stanberry (Harbor), Hanh Tran (Mission)
1. No action on Oct. 22, 2010 and Nov. 19, 2010 meeting minutes was taken.
2. Accreditation Update: Deborah Kaye discussed her meeting with the accreditation teams from the
City-side colleges at WLAC on 11/29/10. To maintain momentum she is planning quarterly follow-up
meetings with the Seaside Colleges, with the next one scheduled for Feb.-March 2011. These meetings
will provide opportunities for colleges to ask questions, share practices and information, and request
District assistance. She also discussed becoming aware of ACCJC’s expectations (via a letter from Jack
Pond), using websites for displaying accreditation documentation and evidence, and maintaining currency
with SLO information by subscribing to the SLO listserv.
3. IES Update: Maury provided an update of the IES system. In several meetings in November, Phase II
(Planning) was reviewed in detail in by an IES work group and system programmers. The review
examined the functionality of system features (such as setting up planning objects and conducting system
setup). Through this process software bugs were identified and placed on a list of fixes for the
programmers to address. An updated interface is being developed and there will also be additional testing
after this is in place. A review of Phase I (Program Review) was also done, with additional fixes identified
by the review team, and it is now available for user testing. A Phase I training session for college IES
system administrators was scheduled for Jan. 27th, 2011.
4. SLO Update: Daryl Kinney presented a preliminary report on the work of SLO programs toward
meeting the ACCJC 2012 deadline of identifying and assessing learning outcomes in all courses and
programs (academic, student services, and administrative services). She reported that colleges are at
varying degrees of completion, although quantitative information on completion status was not available.
More colleges have identified and assessed the SLOs in academic areas compared to other college
areas, but work on defining and assessing SAOs in these areas is getting underway.
5. College Effectiveness Report: Maury discussed the current College Effectiveness Report and
suggested streamlining it in a way that would display fewer and different indicators. He presented a draft
Core Measures Report which had graphical representations of some current indicators and also included
indicators for milestones of student achievement. Following discussion, the consensus of the committee
was that the current Core Measures format should be maintained as it was important to demonstrate that
the District was adhering to its planning efforts and reporting consistently on existing core indicators
within the current planning cycle.
Next Meeting:
Friday, January 28, 2011, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
District Office, Board Room