CR Committee Digest
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The CR Committee Digest provides important updates from the Planning and Senate Committees. Visit here for
detailed information about the committee: inside.redwoods.edu
Visit the committee calendar to see the next time each committee meets: CR's calendar of committee meetings
Multicultural and Diversity Committee
MDC activities,
The MDC Chair, Deanna Herrera-Thomas and committee member Kristey Carlsen met with the EEOAC to discuss
recommnedations to promote diverse applicant pools. Reviewing recommendations for the EEOAC (the Workforce
Equity in Hiring Plan) and so far these include, providing a safe well marked space for breast feeding, marking
gender neutral restrooms more clearly with appropriate maps to find them, recommending that the MDC be
consulted in creating selection forms, support additional training`s such as use of pronouns to address students in
the classroom and on syllabi, promoting more Area E curriculum development.
The MDC is promoting and facilitating community events and training such as, showing the Hunting Ground on
April 27th in conjunction with the English Department,Speech Communications and panel speakers. An additional
program includes a showing of "Tough Guys II" with panelist as well. Date to be determined.
The MDC chair )Deanna Herrera-Thomas will be providing a training for faculty with Philip Mancus on Stereotype
Threat and classroom dynamics on April 15th. These events support the Strategic Equity in Hiring Plan.
The MDC updated the Multicultural Heritage Calendar.
Management Council
This has been a busy month for Managers and Directors.
Youth Summit - The Northcoast Youth Summit was held on the Eureka campus on Saturday March 19. There were
about 200 high school students on campus with 40 workshops presented. Everything went well. Kintay Johnson
was the CR representative on the planning council; however, the event wouldn`t have been possible without
assistance from Steven Roper, Maintenance, Burk McBride and Public Safety.
New Initiatives - We are excited about the new initiatives – OneREG, Pelican Bay, Dual Enrollment, Concurrent
enrollment – as ways to grow the college, but these initiatives are also increasing the workload, impacting not only
Management Council members but other staff as well. They are presenting challenges, but we’re committed to
working to solve them. Special thanks to Rianne Connor, Tiffany Schmitcke, Shereen Cockrum (Admissions &
Records) as well as Paul Chown and Tom Cossay (Technology Services), and Sheila Hall and the entire counseling
staff for their work toward implementing OneREG.
Public Safety - Burk McBride and his Public Safety team have been preparing “Go-bags” for each building. They are
now ready – just looking for a place in where they are easily accessible when needed but also not where they can
easily disappear. Each bag has vests, hard hats, mini flashlights, whistles, cloth gloves, rubber gloves, laminated
evacuation map, paper, pen, pencil, marker, a roll of blue tape, glow sticks and a trauma kit (gauze, ace bandage,
trauma shears, tourniquet). Also each of the Public Safety vehicles are now equipped with a “Crisis box.” These
boxes include crowbars. cable cutters, bolt cutters, gloves, caution tape roll, markers, building plans for every
building, alarm codes, radio frequencies and safety reflective vests. Public Safety also has colored and labeled “Field
Command/ Incident Command System Vests” for the various ICS positions during an emergency and or Active
Shooter situation, and 20 blue police vests for firearms range possible responders.
The CR Committee Digest provides important updates from the Planning and Senate Committees. Visit here for
detailed information about the committee: inside.redwoods.edu
Visit the committee calendar to see the next time each committee meets: CR's calendar of committee meetings
Institutional Effectiveness
The Institutional Effectiveness Summit took place on Saturday, April 16th. Almost 40 people were in attendance.
Full- and part-time faculty in CTE, Health Occupations, Arts & Humanities, Behavioral & Social Sciences,
Sciences, and Math attended. Classified and confidential staff, managers, and administrators were also represented.
This representation lead to highly productive conversations about how to make the institution more effective.
Themes that emerged across the groups included enhancing the utility of assessment activity to make SLO work
more meaningful, providing additional learning opportunities and support for student services, and continuing to
make the prioritization of resource requests more transparent. While we continue to strive to make all of our
processes better, we were pleased to hear consistently positive feedback about many of our processes, including
program review. Thank you very much to those who participated in the summit to further our community and
institutional knowledge.
Expanded Cabinet
Expanded Cabinet met on April 11, 2016.
Topics discussed included accreditation, IEPI Goals framework, a campus expansion plan, an update on safety
upgrades, the mandated claims report, and medical rate increases.
Distance Education Planning Committee
We have rewritten the DE Curriculum form to make it more efficient (Telepresence course need now only fill out the
first 9 items). Have made multiple visits to the Deans to encourage more courses to be offered via distance education.
In particular impacted course or course that would allow us to offer an ADT completely online. This spring semester
saw 18 proposals go to curriculum and be approved: ECE 2, EDUC 225, EDUC 220, POLSC 10. KINS 65, BUS 18,
ECON 1, ECON 10, PSYCH 20, ENGL 17, PHIL 10, PHIL 15, GS 1, HIST 21, HIST 20, ADCT 10, ADCT 12, ADCT 38.
Work continues on doing a pilot study for EvaluationKIt and using etc Outcomes tool in Canvas.
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The CR Committee Digest provides important updates from the Planning and Senate Committees. Visit here for
detailed information about the committee: inside.redwoods.edu
Visit the committee calendar to see the next time each committee meets: CR's calendar of committee meetings
College Council
College Council met on March 28th and agreed to forward six policies and procedures to the Board for a first reading
in May:
AP 4025 Philosophy and Criteria for Associate Degree and General Education
BP 4231 Grade Changes
BP 4235 Credit by Examinations
BP 7387 Pre-retirement Reduction of Workload
AP 7387-P Pre-retirement Reduction of Workload (PERS)
AP 7381-S Pre-retirement Reduction of Workload (STRS)
The Council also approved sending twenty-four revised policies and procedures out for constituent review:
BP
BP
AP
BP
AP
BP
BP
BP
BP
AP
BP
AP
BP
AP
BP
AP
AP
BP
AP
AP
BP
AP
BP
AP
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Quorum and Voting
Agendas
Agendas
Public Participation at Board Meetings
Public Participation at Board Meetings
Speakers
Decorum
Minutes
Recording
Institutional Code of Ethics
Delegation of Authority
Delegation of Authority
Employee Microcomputer Purchase Program
Employee Microcomputer Purchase Program
Audits
Audits
Cellular Phone Program
Property Management
Property Management
District Vehicles
Disposal of Property
Disposal of Property
Capital Construction
Capital Construction
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The CR Committee Digest provides important updates from the Planning and Senate Committees. Visit here for
detailed information about the committee: inside.redwoods.edu
Visit the committee calendar to see the next time each committee meets: CR's calendar of committee meetings
Academic Senate
It Takes a Village
Faculty and the Academic Senate play a vital and extensive role in the functioning of the College district wide. Much
of this work occurs through committee participation. The following is just a partial listing of faculty involvement in
the first half of the Spring semester, and this does not include the standing committees of the Senate.
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Faculty Screening Committees (8 total with 3 faculty on each)
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Faculty participation on Administrative search committees
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Administration of Justice 4021 Task Force – revised recommendations – 2 faculty + Academic Senate Co-President
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Honors 4021 Task Force – 2 faculty + Academic Senate Co-President – in progress
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New SARTCO for Associate Faculty Participation in certain District Committees and Senate
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Education Master Plan development – 8 faculty + Academic Senate Co-President
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College Council (major push to update all BP/AP) – Academic Senate Co-Presidents
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Expanded Cabinet - Academic Senate Co-Presidents
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Appointment of CTE liaison with ASCCC – 1 faculty
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Administrator Evaluations – 10 faculty
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Academic Senate Co-President Nomination Ad Hoc – 5 faculty
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Participatory Governance (AP 3260) Ad Hoc – 3 faculty
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Formulation of Accreditation Oversight Committee (AOC) – Faculty Co-Chair with faculty co-chairs on
subcommittees for standards I-III
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Convocation Planning Team - 1 faculty
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Outcome – Jan 15 Academic Senate retreat focused on accreditation
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Outcome – Update and revision of the Senate constitution and bylaws (posted on website)
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Outcome – Input into Annual Plan for academic year 2016/17
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Outcome – Ongoing monitoring of Distance Ed and One-Year Scheduling
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Upcoming – Administrative reorganization - consequence to Senate representation
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