Monday, December 6, 2010 – 1-3pm, TE 113
DHLI Steering Committee and FAC Meetings (Strategic Planning Part 2)
Meeting Notes and Strategic Plan Notes - Unofficial
In Attendance
Yasmin Delahoussaye
Don Gauthier
Carl Friedlander
Bruce Anders
Vivian Price
John McDowell
Lou Siegel
Kathleen Yasuda
Zack Knorr
Patricia Rodriguez
Notes
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We went over the Agenda and did introductions.
We reviewed and came to a consensus on the strategic activities proposed by the subcommittee formed at the last meeting.
We broke out into 4 groups to go over details about the strategic activities that we agreed on.
Mission:
The Dolores Huerta Labor Institute (DHLI) educates students about workers and unions in America. DHLI assists LACCD faculty in
developing labor-themed courses, integrating labor themes across the curriculum, and developing other labor-themed activities. By
expanding awareness of labor history and the impact of unions, DHLI promotes critical thinking, enhances career prospects and
encourages civic participation among students.
Vision:
To educate all LACCD students about the Labor Movement.
DHLI Goals: 2011-2014
1. To integrate the issues and contributions of workers into the curricula and activities of the nine (9) of the Los Angeles
Community College District. (District Goals 2, 3, 4)
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2. To assist faculty in developing labor studies and labor-themed courses across the curriculum. (District Goals 2, 3, 4)
3. To provide non-credit courses, conferences, special lectures and programs in labor education and provide professional
development activities for faculty. (District Goals 2, 3, 4)
4. To provide students with information and current research on the changing workplace in the context of a global economy.
(District Goals 2, 3)
5. To develop partnerships and resources to promote and enhance labor education and provide LACCD students with
internships and service learning opportunities. (District Goals 2, 3, 4)
6. To developing strategic partnerships and resources for operational needs of DHLI. (District Goal 5)
Chosen Strategic Activities to Reach Each Goal
-Total Approx. Budget: $35,500 (does not include $50,000 to be raised for internship, and costs for Lou and Administrative
matters like web, overtime hours, other projects.)
-Total Approx. Staff Hours per year: 2220 (not including Lou’s hours)
1. Design and stage a couple of regional Curriculum Integration workshops to 1) familiarize faculty with DHLI, 2) introduce the
issue of curriculum integration, and 3) prepare faculty to create labor/work-themed "modules."
Activity
Stage 3 regional Curriculum
Integration Workshops per
year (recruit via email, flyers,
Academic Senate helps
promote and Faculty Advisory
Committee helps recruit)
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Target
Completion Date
June 15, 2012,
2013, 2014.
Trial for Spring
2011
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
$3000 per event ($9000 total)
to cover printing, food,
speakers, supplies.
-3 regional Curriculum
Integration Workshops
Held
-20 volunteers/module
creators recruited
-At least 100 faculty
attending per regional
workshop.
Approx staff hours: 300 (to
create flyer, attend meetings,
recruit, hold workshop,
planning, follow-up)
Assessment Method
-Stated commitment of
volunteers/module
creators
-Evaluations
-Attendance numbers
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2. Through these workshops, recruit 15-20 faculty to create as many one-week-long assignment modules on themes of labor
and work in the USA for a variety of disciplines (History, PS, Soc. English 28 & 101, ESL 5 & 6A, Humanities, general voc ed.
etc.) that can be easily “integrated” into existing courses and that provide 2-3 suggested readings, some media choices, and
sample questions for discussion and in- and out-of-class writing.
Activity
Week-long assignment
modules.
“Design something you would
use next semester” to use in
one of their classes.
Target
Completion Date
-Spring 2012
-Fall 2012 revise
for assessment +
revision built
into module
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
$250-$500 per module
Total: $5,000-$10,000.
-20 week-long modules
created
Assessment Method
-The modules
-Student evaluations
-Instructor observations
Approx. total staff hours: 300
(to edit, attend meetings,
promote, deliver, follow-up)
3. Web portal
a. Mount modules at the DHLI site.
4. Stage a series of traveling FLEX workshops featuring faculty module creators to get folks at the colleges using the modules.
Activity
FLEX workshops to get faculty
to use modules
Target
Completion Date
-Fall 2012, and
every semester
thereafter
Est. Budget/Hours
$3000 per year for food,
-9 FLEX workshops held
mileage and nominal expenses. per year (1 per campus)
Approx. staff hours: 500 (to
create flyers, attend meetings,
hold workshops, planning,
follow-up)
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Performance Metric
Assessment Method
-Evaluations
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5. Stage at least one major day-long District-wide DHLI event between now and 2014 designed to involve board members,
District senior staff, AFT leadership, college presidents and from 150-200 faculty from all nine colleges.
Activity
Target
Completion Date
-One half day event in Spring -Spring or Fall
2011 to kick-off (LATTC
2011
Reception, 11-2 film—Harvest -Spring 2014
of Loneliness, SB 1070, Dream
Act, introduce new Executive
Director)
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
$3,000 for Spring Event
$6,000 for 2014 Event
$9000 total
-2 major events held
-150-200 attendees for
Spring event
-200-400 for day-long
Approx. staff hours: 200 (flyer, event
meetings, planning, hold the
events)
Assessment Method
-Number of attendees
-Photos
-Evaluation
-Testimony
Major day-long event in 2014
6. Offer at least one DHLI Voices and Images lecture or program at each college each year.
Activity
Speaker event at each college
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Target
Completion Date
End of each
academic year
(2012, 2013,
2014)
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
$2,500 per year
-9 V&I events held per
year
Approx. staff hours: 500 per
year (flyers, planning,
meetings, follow-up)
Assessment Method
-Evaluations
-Program Learning
Objectives
-Increase in
participation by colleges
with historically less
activity (Trade, Harbor,
Southwest, West,
Mission)
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7. Publish Fact sheets/Moments in History/Approaches to Teaching guides
a. A series of short educational publications on specific topics
Activity
Publication
Target
Completion Date
Varies
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
-$2000 per year for design,
nominal print costs
-Moments in History or
Fact Sheets once per
month
-2 Teaching Guides per
year (varies depending
on what comes out of
flex workshops)
Approx. staff hours: 42 per
month (420 staff hours per
year) (for research, editing,
design, promotion, follow-up,
planning)
Assessment Method
-Number of publications
produced.
-Annual assessment—
ask users which
publications they used
that year.
8. DHLI annual report to BOT
9. Educational Videos/Media (*Tabled until administrative/resource capacity questions answered)
a. I.e. of speakers or particular topics.
b. Need closed-captioning
10. Develop labor- service-learning credit at Valley and Pierce and other colleges with service learning programs. (*Must
research which colleges offer Service Learning Credit and which instructors participate in order to determine what level to
pursue.)
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11. Fundraise with the other LACCD unions for permanent contributions
Activity
Fundraise from unions
Target
Completion Date
June 15, 2012
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
-$20,000 from AFT 1521
-$5,000 from other LACCD
unions total (Teamsters, SEIU
99, SEIU 721, AFT 1521A)
$25,000 raised by end
of academic year.
Assessment Method
% of goal amount raised
-(Lou’s hours?)
12. Recruit unions to offer paid internships
Activity
Summer and winter
internship through LA Fed
and AFL-CIO. Match AFL-CIO
interns with local unions
(Teamsters, IBEW, AFSCME
3299, AFT 1521, SEIU)
Target
Completion Date
-Early April 2011
(how much
money raised)
-May 15, 2011
(placement of
interns)
-End of summer-(August 30, 2011)
Est. Budget/Hours
Performance Metric
-$5,000 per student
-10 students recruited
and placed
-$50,000 total raised
from unions and LA Fed
-(Lou’s hours?)
13. Increase Administrative Resources/Capacity (To be determined)
a. Resources/labor for Website/Design/Media development
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Assessment Method
-Service learning
snapshots of students’
grades
-Qualitative summer
report
-Pictures + oral report
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Agenda
1. Quick updates
a. Review of where we left off (finished goals, vision and mission statements)
b. Hiring of new ED
2. Strategic Planning
a. Review Strategies for Each Goal
b. Choose strategies we all agree to go forward with
c. Determine target completion dates, budget, performance metrics and assessment methods for each strategy.
3. Set next meeting
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