Office of Instruction and Student Development Update-Week 12-April 15, 2016
Education Master Planning Steering Committee
Progress continues in preparing the College’s Education Master Plan. Angelina Hill recently
summarized planning input from faculty/staff focus groups and student questionnaire responses.
Student responses emphasized planning to improve jobs training, technology (classroom and WiFi, and diversity/inclusion/equity) and combined with staff/faculty input identified technology,
student services, access/marketing, and the cafeteria as leading themes.
Institutional Effectiveness Summit
The 6th Annual Institutional Effectiveness Summit ended minutes ago (Saturday.) A total of 40
staff, faculty, and administrators discussed institutional planning processes and participated in an
“accreditation challenge”. Angelina Hill quizzed the participants on their understanding of
planning processes, finding: 70% have an understanding of program review, 75% can explain the
student learning assessment process, 50% identified the accreditation standards, and 43%
understood the resource request process. The “accreditation challenge” was a group competition
in demonstrating detailed knowledge about the accreditation standards. The winning group
members were Mike Haley, Wendy Riggs, Dan Dempsey, and Lee Lindsey.
Faculty Prioritization Debrief
The 2015-16 Faculty Prioritization Committee met Monday to review this year’s prioritization
process and make recommendations to next year’s Academic Senate Co-Presidents and VPISD.
While it was generally agreed that this year’s process was an improvement over past practices,
there were, nonetheless, areas of concern and ambiguity. First, there was too little time to review
the faculty requests. In addition, there were ambiguities in the prioritization process. Finally,
there was a lack of inclusion in defining, ironically, the “shared interest” category in the scoring
rubric.
To address these issues, the 2015-16 Faculty Prioritization Committee recommended that the
2016-17 Committee meet early in the fall semester (week 3 or 4) for:
 Training in the prioritization process with attention to the scoring rubric categories and
final rankings adjustments.
 Discussing the importance of, and providing access information to, program reviewbased requests for faculty. Committee members should be familiar with each faculty
request prior to the prioritization meeting.
 Determining, and later disseminating to all faculty the shared interest category (scoring
rubric.)
This preparatory meeting is consistent with AP 7217 step #6 “Each year, prior to the evaluation
of the faculty requests, members of the Faculty Prioritization Committee (FPC) will be trained
(normed) in using the criteria on the rubric.” It has been past practice for step #6 to be on the
same day as the actual prioritization.
Instruction/Student Development Personnel
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Wright (pending Board approval) as an
Earth Sciences, one-year/non tenure-track faculty member beginning August 2016. Emily is an
adjunct instructor at Front Range Community College in Colorado. She has taught at Yakima
Valley Community College, Central Washington University, and the University of Texas Pan
American. She has an MS from Central Washington University and a BA from Colorado
College. Emily brings a teaching philosophy that “…with a better understanding of the physical
world around them (students) will be better citizens and stewards of the planet earth.”
I am also pleased to announce the appointment of David Duberow (pending Board approval) as
a Chemistry, tenure-track faculty member beginning August 2016. David has taught at
Dominican University of California and City College of San Francisco since 2011. He has a PhD
from UC Berkeley and a BS from Penn State Erie. David has “a love of teaching instilled by
talented educators at an early age.”
Spotlight on Associate Faculty
Sandi Petersen is the Basic Law Enforcement Academy Coordinator. She has over 18 years of
experience in law enforcement and left HSUPD last year, as a police sergeant. In her off time,
she’s a professional photographer who runs a program giving free photography to deserving
folks (https://www.facebook.com/sandipayitforwardphotography/) and also fundraisers for
specific causes. She also volunteers for the River Life Foundation by participating in community
outreach and cleanup projects around Fortuna and with the homeless. She runs/admin the
Facebook page, “Eel Valley Crime Stoppers,” where she helps people learn what their safety
resources are as citizens (https://www.facebook.com/groups/501342146710525/). She’s helped
establish Neighborhood Watch Programs, gone to City Council meetings and held workshops,
had monthly meetings, and so much more. With almost 2,000 members it’s helped to solve
some local crimes and get people talking to each other. Sandi is a wife and mom of three
(daughter – 16, son – 13, son – 10), born and raised in Fortuna. Her kids attend local schools and
husband works for Caltrans. She has two dogs, a cat, and an African Gray parrot.
Dennis A. Schlotzhauer Sr teaches welding. Born in southern California, Dennis finished high
school and went straight into the work force. He fumbled around with several different menial
tasks before he found his passion in the welding trades. Dennis has 50 years building everything
from equipment for painting professionals to drilling rigs for water exploration. He built portable
pipe-rolling equipment that was used in the Arabian desert to form and weld their oil pipeline
that stretches hundreds of miles. He has built lighting supports for Hollywood movie studios.
After moving to Humboldt County, he worked in the local fabrication shops and lumber trades,
and for the last thirty-three years has worked at O&M Industries as a fabricator welder. His
favorite project for O&M was the Coke Bottle that is now in left field at the San Francisco
Giants stadium. He retired from fulltime work in 2013 and has since worked part-time for O&M
as a safety inspector welding consultant and welding inspector for SHN in Eureka. Teaching at
CR, according to Dennis “…is the best work I have ever done.”
Doc Stull, aka “Ricardo,” is unconventional and multi-dimensional. He is retired from HSU
after 26 years teaching in the Kinesiology and Recreation Administration Department. In
addition to teaching biomechanics (the physics of human performance), Tai Chi Chuan and large
enrollment health issues general education classes, he hosted a public radio show on radio KHSU
90.5 FM on Classic books for twenty years, hosted a podcast on jazz on the New Books
Network, writes, narrates a show on ESPN Sports Radio 1340 AM on sports history and is a
regular guest on the Humboldt Home Page on KHSU 90.5 FM radio on Athletes in the
Americans and Caribbean in popular and political culture. He is a docent and special events
leader at Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen, California. He is also a published author
and performance poet and a musician who sings, plays guitar and ukulele. In 2015, he studied
Spanish in Nicaragua and earned his ESL/TESOL certificate. Richard is a retired tenured
professor at Humboldt State University and previously taught at community colleges in Colorado
and Maryland. His current interests include studying boogie woogie/jazz/cocktail piano.