Annual Planning Actions Progress | 2013 - 2014
Strategic Plan (SP)
Goal 1: Student Success
Education Master Plan (EP)
SP.1. Focus on Learners: Developmental, Career Technical,
EP.1. Ensure Student Success
and Transfer Education
Objectives
SP.1.1. Match student readiness with educational pathways.
SP.1.2. Continuously assess and evaluate programs to provide
effective educational programs and services for all learners.
SP.1.3. Students will be able to complete their desired educational
goals.
SP.1.4. Enhance student support and student engagement.
SP.1.5. Improve basic skills success.
SP.1.6. Support staff and faculty development and instructional
innovation.
EP.1.1. Provide structured academic pathways
EP.1.2. Improve support for students.
EP.1.3. Improve effectiveness of basic skills education.
EP.1.4. Increase transfers and degree and certificate
completions.
EP.1.5. Professional development programs will improve
educational effectiveness.
EP.1.6. Improve success among underrepresented populations.
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Counseling and Advising developed course packages that identify the basic/remedial
Develop degree plans
skills classes available to them. Students can build their elective course schedule
with course pathways
around the basic/remedial skills courses.
based upon students
entering at various
As part of new student orientations, all students regardless of educational goal are
math and English
provided with a recommended course package for their first semester that
placement levels.
includes a math and/or English class, a First Year Experience or College Success
Completed
class, major requirements, and/or general education. Course pathways may also
include career planning or non-credit options depending on the individual
student’s program of study or need for basic skills.
Offer peer
mentoring/suppleme
ntal instruction for
students.
Two surveys are being utilized to assess this outcome. The first survey was
handed out at the end of a Fall 2013 GS-6 course that was supported by
an EOPS Peer Mentor who worked directly with the instructor and
attended the course – a model similar to SI support in that the mentee
was a model student available for both one-on-one and group support in
and outside of the class as guided by the instructor. The question on the
survey asked the extent to which Peer Mentor/Tutor support for GS
enhanced the learning experience.
In progress
Another survey will be deployed twice during the 2013/14 year to assess
student satisfaction with EOPS Peer Mentor services, as well as several
other EOPS support services. Analyses of the results will be performed in
May/June 2014. Final report will be completed by September 2014.
Implement alternative
basic skills curriculum
(e.g., acceleration,
non-credit).
The Community of Practice in Acceleration is an initiative supported by the
California Community College Chancellor’s Office through 3CSN, which
assists faculty with examining English and math remedial curriculum
sequences and redesigning those sequences into accelerated pathways.
Last year the English Department was selected to participate with David
Holper, Peter Blakemore, and Jay Scrivner in the Acceleration project.
In progress
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The result was the creation of English 102, a course that takes English
350 students and prepares them for English 1A in one semester.
This year the English Department applied to participate again with a new
team and Todd Olsen applied for the Math Department to become a
member of the Community of Practice. The application process was very
competitive with 119 faculty members from 25 colleges submitting
applications. Both the English and Math teams were accepted in the
California Acceleration Project. The English team consists of Pam Kessler,
Susan Nordlof, Ruth Rhodes, and Deborah Gerth. The focus of the
English team’s project is to expand training in acceleration to faculty at
the Del Norte campus with Del Norte piloting English 102 in fall
2014. They also wanted additional faculty to participate in the training
to continue to invigorate the faculty and their curriculum.
Todd Olsen, Mike Haley, Steve Jackson, Erik Kramer and Richard Ries make
up the Math team. The Math acceleration project is designed to shorten
the developmental mathematics path to statistics. The accelerated
“Path2stats”course will focus on teaching the core
elementary/intermediate algebra concepts using data and statistical type
graphs. This course will be a departure from our traditional “one size fits
all approach” to basic skills curriculum in mathematics and will be geared
towards those who are non-science/math majors. The course is
scheduled to run as a pilot in spring 2015.
Late last spring, on the advice of CRFO leadership, the administration set up
a conference workshop for faculty leadership and interested English and
math faculty and administrators, facilitated by LeBaron Woodyard, Dean
of Academic Affairs for the Chancellor’s Office, to help clear up some
confusion about noncredit programs. The workshop touched on:
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The history of noncredit programs in the California
Community College system, the Education Code and Title 5
regulations governing noncredit and the different noncredit
apportionment models;
How credit-bearing courses have relatively strict rules
around the amount of work, the amount of time involved,
and the qualifications of the instructor while non-credit
courses are much more flexible; and
The idea of making courses or programs
“stackable.” Stackability refers to the idea that if you take
enough small noncredit classes in the right order, they can
(and should) add up to a certificate of competency or
completion.
Subsequent to the workshop, Julia Peterson, Erin Wall, Tracey Thomas
and Sheila Hall met with transfer, career technical education and
counseling faculty to discuss how noncredit courses can enhance student
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success and support our credit offerings. With a greater understanding
of the opportunity to use noncredit to better meet student needs, we
worked together to move our noncredit course development process
forward. The math faculty worked with Julia and Tracey to develop three
noncredit math courses that will provide much needed Math lab access
to students in credit math classes. Also developed were two basic skills
level noncredit math classes that will give students the opportunity to
learn math skills that will prepare them for credit math classes and credit
classes with a math pre-requisite.
The Manufacturing Technology Program developed a new noncredit
course in an area that the Manufacturing Technology Advisory
Committee had expressed an interest in offering. This noncredit
“Introduction to Mechatronics” is an introductory and low-risk class that
should promote growth in the district’s technology credit classes as
students learn more about applied technology offerings.
Last spring we also saw the first of the fall 2013 start community-based
English language learners (ESL) students take credit classes. These higher
level ESL students were very excited to be able to take a credit class
while continuing to work on their English skills in noncredit ESL. The
ability to take both noncredit and credit helped to smooth the transition
and we expect to see more noncredit ESL students attend credit classes
as their English skills improve.
The ESL credit students’ need for additional language support brought
credit English and ESL faculty and noncredit ESL faculty together to work
on aligning the credit and noncredit ESL with English classes. As a result
of that meeting, a noncredit ESL class has been added to the fall schedule
during the mid-day time period to support students taking daytime credit
classes.
“Ready, Set, Go to College,” and “Explore Your Career Options” are two
new noncredit classes developed around the needs that DSPS and
Counseling faculty see in new students. These classes will help students
get a strong start in their degree programs by teaching college success
skills, career exploration and helping students to learn to navigate the
higher education system.
This summer we will offer a noncredit Summer Bridge to College. This
idea was strongly requested by attendees at the Student Success Summit
held in January of this year. Summit attendees included College of the
Redwoods faculty and staff, high school faculty and administrators, and
HSU faculty and administrators who strongly expressed their belief that a
Summer Bridge to College would help students transition successfully
into college. This first Summer Bridge to College will include noncredit
classes that will help students learn about college, practice successful
study habits, career exploration, work readiness skills, and college
preparation math and English. Participation in similar Summer Bridge
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programs has been widely shown to improve student success in credit
programs during the regular academic year.
Julia Peterson and Kintay Johnson are also working with partners in the
community to bring our noncredit to community locations. We are
expanding our noncredit class offerings in the Humboldt County
Correctional facility and will develop additional classes that will be
offered to inmates so they can increase their skills and knowledge. Many
of the inmates have expressed interest in attending our credit classes
upon release and we are working with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s
Office to develop a pathway from the jail to the college. Kintay has
visited the jail to meet with inmates to explain how CR’s EOPS program
can help them succeed in college upon their release.
We’re also partnering with HSU and HCOE to expand our ESL classes in
many community locations this summer, including South Fortuna
Elementary School, the Fortuna Multigenerational Center, the Loleta
Family Resource Center, Pacific Union Elementary School, and Alice
Birney Elementary School. For this partnership CR offers the noncredit
classes and HCOE provides a location, childcare in an adjacent classroom,
and snacks for the students and children. HSU provides a paid parent
liaison to help coordinate each class. Together we are going to serve
over 200 ESL learners, predominantly at the very beginner level. We are
running ESL classes over the summer in Loleta, Fortuna, Eureka and at
the Garberville Instructional Site.
In 2014-15 noncredit curriculum will be developed to support the Adult
Education needs identified by the AB86 Regional Consortia, our faculty,
and local agencies. We expect to develop classes for Older Adults, Short
Term Vocational trainings that align with partner needs and/or feed CR
credit programs, College and Career planning, and Parenting classes and
create noncredit certificates in College Math Preparedness, Career and
College Advancement, Community ESL, Community and Career ESL, and a
Customer Service Academy.
Based on priorities
identified in the
Student Equity Plan,
develop a plan for
narrowing the
achievement gap for
underrepresented
student populations.
The 2014 Gateway Student Success Summit, a collaborative event, meaning
that stakeholders on the continuum from high schools through university
joined together to talk about ways to improve student access and
success, identified several actions that, when implemented, could help
close the achievement gap for underrepresented student populations:
In progress
1. Improve/create connections with current students and new students
via peer mentoring
2. Create a social community within an academic community
3. Find out what can be provided to a high school student to increase
connections to college
4. Offer tuition guarantees
5. Improve the bridge to education through parent interventions
6. Define who our students are: Student athletes, students out of
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
state/cultural difficulty, transition with age/culture, low income,
underrepresented students, etc.
Develop peer mentoring
Develop summer bridge programs for student success
Get key people together to improve transition from high school to
college
Investigate service learning opportunities
Build connections with workforce preparation and work experience
Get CR faculty out in the high schools connecting with students and
promoting their programs. They are not only the most
knowledgeable of their programs, but their personal connection
with students will go a long way to getting students to choose CR
and/or college in general.
EOPS has addressed items 1, 2, and 7.
Noncredit courses for inclusion in a summer bridge program has been
developed and are in the Chancellor’s Office approval process (item 8).
The Matriculation Pathways Task Force has been formed to address item 9.
The academic senate supported the recommendation to get more faculty
involved in outreach. Counseling put out a call for faculty participation.
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Strategic Plan (SP)
Goal 2: Community Education
Education Master Plan (EP)
SP.2 Focus on Learners: Community Partnership
EP.2 Develop Programs and Services to Meet Community
Needs
Objectives
SP.2.1. Provide workforce development training.
SP.2.2. Respond to business and industry short-term training
needs.
SP.2.3. Develop non-credit programs.
EP.2.1. Enhance community education program.
EP.2.2. Enhance incumbent worker and contract training.
EP.2.3. Develop not-for-credit programs.
EP.2.4. Career & Technical Education (CTE) Programs respond to
community training needs.
EP.2.5. Develop non-credit programs.
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Develop a new notfor-credit
training in an
area where
employees are
needed by local
employers.
Review business and
industry and
economic
development
survey data to
inform program
alignment and
identify potential
partnering
opportunities.
A new not-for-credit training in Business to Business sales was developed and is being
taught over the summer of 2014. This training was developed in partnership with
Humboldt County Employment and Training Department and local business partners
to help provide employers a pool of trained Business to Business sales people. The
shortage of people with the knowledge and skills in this area was identified by local
businesses and wages for such employees are well above the local median wage.
Completed
Humboldt County’s Targets of Opportunity report, the Humboldt County
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and Doing What Matters for
Jobs and the Economy were reviewed. A crosswalk between CR degrees and
certificates and the Targets of Opportunity was developed. Internal meetings
as well as meetings with key stakeholders in the community were held to
review the data, discuss program alignment and community needs, and to
identify partnering opportunities. Partnerships with educational, industry,
local government and other local agencies have been formed and are
expected to continue to strengthen and to provide additional information,
alignment and opportunities.
Completed
Hold conversations
with High
Schools to align
program
offerings and
career pathways
for students.
CR held our inaugural CR Student Success Summit on January 31, 2014. This
year’s theme focused on success through the pipeline of secondary and
college education. Through the combination of presentations and group
discussions this year’s summit addressed five significant “areas of concern”
that impact the success of our students. These five “areas of concern”
included: access and alignment; closing the achievement gap for
underrepresented population; academic preparation and persistence and
educational and matriculation pathways. Participants in the summit were
diverse audience of faculty, administrators and staff from the local high
schools, HCOE, HSU and CR.
Completed
The CR math faculty attended meetings, hosted by HCOE, this past summer to
discuss the K-12 common core standards and how those standards will
impact college level curriculum.
CR is partnering with Northern Humboldt Unified School District, Eureka City
Schools, Fortuna Union High School District, Humboldt County Office of
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Education, and the Humboldt County Workforce Investment Board to
provide courses for dual enrollment for career paths in Computer Science,
Engineering, Pre-medical and Accounting & Finance.
Michael Butler and Tami Matsumoto discussed the new idea of offering Math
50A as a dual enrollment class at McKinleyville High School with
McKinleyville High School instructor. They discussed the Math 50A
curriculum and the needs of the students and agreed to continue discussion
curriculum and assessment needs and offering the class in Fall 2014.
Develop job
readiness noncredit classes.
Local employer and employment training organizations’ needs for work
readiness certification were reviewed. WorkKeys® and CareerReady101
software have been purchased and implemented to support work readiness
classes and certification. Noncredit curriculum was developed for noncredit
work readiness classes over the spring semester and was submitted to the
CCCCO for approval at the conclusion of Spring Semester 2014. Upon
approval classes will be taught at various CR and partner organizations’
locaitons. This curriculum will address the industry need for a workforce with
21st Century Skills. Industry has indicated they will pay holders of a work
readiness certification a higher starting wage than new-hires without the
certification.
Strategic Plan (SP)
SP.3 Fiscal & Operational Sustainability
Goal 3
Completed
Education Master Plan (EP)
Objectives
SP.3.1. Reduce reliance on apportionment-based funding.
SP.3.2. Improve college operational efficiencies.
SP.3.3. Increase funding available for strategic initiatives
SP.3.4. Increase community support for the college.
SP.3.5. Practice continuous quality improvement.
SP.3.6. Practice continuous adherence to accreditation
standards.
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Implement Softdocs
e-forms for
business and
student service
processes.
Establish process for
submitting
delinquent
accounts to
collection agency
on a regular
basis.
The Softdocs project was put on hold while the system was migrated from the cloud
(Rackspace) to a local server on campus. Information Technology staff will collaborate
with the student service areas in fall 2014 to determine the best way to move
forward.
In progress
All eligible accounts have been referred to the collection agency. Very old accounts and
accounts with small balances have been written off and an adjustment made to the
student’s account by the Business Office. Each semester, new accounts will be
identified and sent to collections.
Completed
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Implement a budget
cycle for
equipment
replacement
(e.g., computers,
vehicles, lab
equipment).
Implement a budget
cycle for capital
repairs and
maintenance
(e.g., roofs,
HVAC, painting).
Increase resident
and non-resident
FTES.
Additional $50,0000 in instructional support categorical funds has been identified for
ongoing refresh of computer labs and classrooms. An additional $50,000 in physical
plant categorical funds has been identified for ongoing IT equipment replacement.
Old computers taken out of the labs will be reassigned to faculty and staff offices.
$35,000 in physical plant funds has been identified for ongoing replacement budget
for vehicles.
Completed
$90,000 in physical plant funds has been identified for ongoing repairs. A portion of the
net cash flow from facilities leases is being used for repair and upgrade of the leased
facilities. Realistically, the District will need another local bond measure in the next
10 years or so to generate sufficient funds to address capital repair and deferred
maintenance needs.
In progress/
Change in
direction
Based on current estimates, we are on track to meet the budgeted FTES number.
In 2012-13 we earned less than one FTES in noncredit. However, in 2013-14
we will report approximately 45 FTES.
In progress
Strategic Plan (SP)
Goal 3
Education Master Plan (EP)
EP.3 Practice Continuous Quality Improvement
Objectives
EP.3.1. Improve tools for assessment reporting.
EP.3.2. Student learning will be a visible priority in all practices
and structures.
EP.3.3. Student learning outcomes and assessment are ongoing,
systematic, and used for continuous quality improvement
EP.3.4. Systematically use data to inform decision making.
EP.3.5. Provide continual and inclusive training opportunities
regarding assessment.
EP.3.6. Increase number of institutional employees who have
accreditation experience.
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Refine the role of
assessment in
program review
and decision
making.
The planning and resource request sections of the program review template were
expanded in 2013-2014. The program plans section now contains instructions to
better inform authors to describe how their assessment results motivate the need for
program planning actions. The resource request section was changed to require that
each resource request is directly tied with a specific planning action, and each
planning action is required to be motivated by assessment results.
Completed
In addition, the program review committee implemented a new rubric to
evaluate each section of the submitted program review templates. The
committee systematically evaluated programs’ response to the assessment
section. They looked at the extent to which program improvements were
evaluated by the program’s reflection on a significant amount of assessment
activity that has taken place, and if program changes driven by assessment
findings were later evaluated for improvement.
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Develop
Institutional
Learning
Outcomes and a
plan for how they
will be assessed.
Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) have been developed, approved by the Academic
Senate, and presented to the Board of Trustees. Each outcome was accompanied by
several indicators to be used in evaluating the outcome. The majority of this
evaluation comes from data that is already collected, but assessing the ILOs allows for
that data to be reviewed and discussed by a wider audience to improve student
learning. The Assessment Committee outlined an annual plan for collecting data,
holding dialogue sessions, and reporting results to campus in spring 2014. The first
ILO dialogue session will be held at the fall 2014 Convocation.
Completed
Refine the
assessment
process with an
emphasis on
sustainability.
The Assessment Coordinator and the Director of Institutional Effectiveness met
with the Instructional Council in the summer of 2013 to discuss the nuts and
bolts of assessment and met again in the summer of 2014 to assess the
assessment process and the role and responsibilities of the Deans and
Directors in ensuring that assessments are conducted.
In progress
Evaluation and fine-tuning of organizational structures to support student
learning is ongoing. Work continues to make the assessment process more
efficient. Roles and responsibilities related to assessment are being clarified in
light of the administrative structure with Deans. The college made a
commitment to provide continued administrative support for assessment
tracking by adding a high level office coordinator to collaborate with the
Deans and Directors to support enhancement of the assessment tracking
process, help develop feedback loops in instruction assessment, and work
with the administration to develop a two year academic calendar to support
two year assessment planning.
A new planning feature has been added to the assessment software to make it
easier for instructors to plan for the future, and to track the progress towards
their plan. Programs can plan which outcomes they will assess and when for
their courses and programs through spring 2016. A new feature was also
developed to allow programs to map the outcomes of degrees/certificates to
each of the course-level outcomes. This tool allows programs to more easily
identify the course-level assessments to review when assessing program-level
outcomes.
Student learning improvement is a visible priority in all practices and structures
across the college. Ensuring that the college is at sustainability level is an
indicator that has been added as a general assessment item in the annual
plan, so we will need to explicitly evaluate our progress towards this rubric
level through the year. Student learning improvement is included in the
integrated planning resource and personnel decision making.
Assessment continues to be integrated into program review and institutional
planning. The program review template for this year requires authors to list
the number of course- and program-level assessments completed. The
template also requires a description of assessment-based changes made to
the program and associated courses, and it requires that program resource
requests are tied to assessment data. The Instructional Council, Student
Development Leadership Group and the Budget Planning Committee then
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uses the assessment data in their evaluation of requests, and our planning
process considers the assessment-based plans of programs to develop
broader institutional initiatives.
Identify candidates
to serve on
ACCJC visiting
teams.
Four faculty and three managers have submitted applications for consideration
as future ACCJC team members.
Strategic Plan (SP)
SP.4 Technological Relevance
In progress
Goal 4: Technology
Education Master Plan (EP)
EP.4 Maintain Technological Relevance
Objectives
SP.4.1. Improve technology infrastructure to support all college
operations.
SP.4.2. Improve instructional labs to support effective teaching
and learning.
SP.4.3. CTE programs will have technology relevant to their
disciplines
SP.4.4. Improve efficiency through technology.
SP.4.5. Improve data gathering and utilization to support
instructional, student service, & administrative decision
making.
EP.4.1. Lab equipment and technology effectively supports
instructional needs.
EP.4.2. Update the comprehensive technology replacement plan.
EP.4.3. Enhance distance education or eLearning.
EP.4.4. Effectively utilize technology in teaching.
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Expand wireless and
cell phone
network
capabilities.
Additional wireless nodes have been deployed and more are in the works. This last
group of wireless upgrades is expected to provide coverage across the District’s
facilities. A cell phone repeater was installed in SST building, and is working
well. Additional cell phone repeaters are in the works. It has been determined that a
special repeater is needed just for Verizon customers in addition to the generic
repeater that services most other major carriers.
In progress
Student wireless bandwidth expanded from 5Mb to 50 MB. Twelve new wireless
access points were also added. This work will continue as resources allow.
The AT building will be next.
Provide backup and
disaster recovery
capability with
storage-areanetwork (SAN).
SAN equipment has been ordered and is in the hopper to be installed. An agreement has
been struck with Lassen College to allow CR to co-locate a backup SAN device on their
campus for better site survivability.
In progress
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Update the college
website.
The existing CR website was moved into a responsive framework so that it displays well
on mobile devices such as phones and tablets. Several design changes have been
made to the website based on student feedback and usability training.
In progress
A web task force met throughout 2013-14 to advise a full redesign of the CR website.
Their work included advice on navigational structure and visual design. Working with
the task force, the webmaster and graphic designer have created a redesigned
homepage to be implemented in fall 2014. They will continue working with offices
across the district to revise pages with key information for students.
Implement Student
Ed Plan queries
in Colleague
(formerly
Datatel) to
inform
scheduling.
Counselors and Advisors now have the ability to identify the courses students plan to
take in future semesters in Colleague. The Office of Institutional Research has queried
this information and reported on the number of students planning to take specific
courses, by campus. This information has limited utility until it becomes available for
a larger number of students.
In progress
Finalize VOIP
implementation.
VOIP cutover has been completed so that nearly all phones have been converted to VOIP
phones. This project is substantially completed. Staff will continue to work trouble
tickets and to implement additional functionality and services, but the main upgrade
is complete.
Completed
Implement
minimum
technology specs
for all new or
retrofitted
classrooms.
Submit a revised DE
substantive
change proposal.
A standard technology package for classrooms has been developed and was recently
updated to include new smart board technology. The technology package will be
updated on a regular basis as technology advances and as prices change.
Completed
A DE substantive change proposal was developed in 2013-2014 to deliver more than 50%
of a program via distance education . The proposal was revised in summer 2014
following a significant amount of work by the DE committee in spring 2014 to
progress the college’s adoption of new policies and procedures related to distance
education. A draft of the DE substantive change proposal is being circulated and will
receive constituent review prior to being submitted to the ACCJC in October 2014.
In progress
In spring 2014 the college partnered with Ellucian (formerly Datatel) to implement their
Student Planning Module in Colleague. The planning module will allow students to
develop student education plans directly in Datatel on their own or with the guidance
of counselors and advisors. The college will receive consultation from Ellucian in fall
2014 to strengthen the quality of the information in the degree audit system for use
in the planning tool. Data integrity issues will be addressed in 2014-15 prior to
implementation of the student planning module.
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Strategic Plan (SP)
SP.5 Enhance Institutional Profile
Goal 5
Education Master Plan (EP)
Objectives
SP.5.1. Enhance support for the college community.
SP.5.2. Support/increase cultural activities at the college.
SP.5.3. Develop partnerships for utilization of the available
buildings.
SP.5.4. Reactivate the alumni association.
SP.5.5. Increase communications and outreach to the
community.
SP.5.6. Develop a governmental relations function.
SP.5.7. Increase public support for the college
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Lease available
buildings.
Additional space has been leased. However, attempts to lease the Redwoods Business
Complex C (Old library) revealed the need for costly repairs that prohibit leasing this
space due to negative cash flow concerns. At this point, the College has leased all of
the major spaces that are “readily leasable”.
Completed
Expand publicity and
marketing.
In addition to traditional commercial and public radio, TV, and newspaper ads, web ads
on local media have been extensively used. Lost Coast Outpost, North Coast Journal,
times-Standard and the Triplicate in DN.
Completed
Class schedule newspaper inserts have been used in Eureka, DN and KT.
Extensive use of radio interviews for events throughout the District has been used.
Our CR Facebook friends have increased from about 1,000 to almost 3,600. Extensive
posting of events and press announcements have been used. Paid boosts to specific
posting have increased.
A postcard, Ready for change, emphasizing short-term Career Technical Education
programs was mailed to 54,000 residents of Humboldt County. A new Ready for
Change landing page was created to capture traffic from the postcard.
Increase district
involvement in
outreach
initiatives with
local high
schools.
Extensive outreach efforts throughout the District occurred in 2013-2014. It
started in spring 2013 with President Smith, Student Services personnel and
faculty visiting some high schools. It continued with more involvement of
faculty and staff at the annual CR , counselor Day, including tours of the new
buildings. More visits were made by faculty and Student Services staff to high
schools. A widely attended Student Success Summit was held with many high
school administrators and counselors attending from throughout the District.
In progress
Reestablish an
Alumni
Association.
Between 50 and 100 new members have asked to be included in the Alumni association
they filled out the new member form.
In progress
Plan activities for
The date for a major celebration has been set for Saturday, Oct. 4 from 4-6 on
In progress
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the 50th
anniversary of
CR.
the Eureka Campus. A committee has been working on details for 4 months.
A hexagon tent will be used; complimentary finger foods provided; wine,
beer and non-alcoholic beverages will be sold; 50th logo beer and wine
glasses and clothing will be sold; the CR Jazz Band will perform; a postcard is
being sent to key alumni, former trustees, community members,
administrators, etc. Torus of the new academic buildings will be conducted.
The CR Football homecoming game will be held in the Community Stadium the
same day to attract more people.
Reinstate CR’s
Science Night.
Science Night will take place on October 24 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Strategic Plan (SP)
In progress
Goal 5
Education Master Plan (EP)
EP.5 Increase Student Participation in Campus Activities
Objectives
1. Improve student engagement among all students.
2. Develop a vibrant student center.
3. Increase student engagement in the community.
4. Faculty and staff will model positive engagement in the college
community
Annual Planning Actions
Annual Action Plan
Progress Update
Status
Develop a new
Multicultural
Diversity Center.
The Multicultural Center has been developed. ASCR will continue to encourage
faculty and staff to use the center for events and meetings.
Completed
Develop a new ASCR
office.
The new ASCR office has been developed. ASCR uses the space. A part-time staff
member has been hired and staffs the office.
Completed
COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS | 2013-2014