Office of Instruction and Student Development Update October 4
Basics Skills Planning
The California Community College Chancellors Office, in partnership with the statewide Academic
Senate, developed the Basic Skills Initiative to provide basic skills and ESL education to community
college students who are underprepared for college-level work. The initiative has five main goals:
1. Research and data collection- Demonstrate student progress through basic skill objectives towards
basic skill outcomes.
2. Professional development-Train community college faculty, staff, and administrators to implement
BSI action plans on their own campuses.
3. Student equity– Incorporate college student equity plans with basic skills initiatives.
4. High school to college transition– Strengthening the connection.
5. Web site and electronic sharing– A central repository for strategies for working with ESL and
basic skill students.
Our basic skills efforts are supported by two committees: The Enrollment Management Committee
(EMC) and the Basic Skills Sub-committee (BSSC). If you’re unfamiliar with the BSSC, it may be
helpful to know that upon the April 2013 recommendation of the Committee to Reduce Committees
(CRC), basic skills was subsumed into the EMC as a sub-committee recognizing that mandated reporting
for basic skills and funding allocation will require task force work. The BSSC, composed of faculty and
administrators from Math, English, Career and Technical Education, Counseling, DSPS, and Institutional
Research, meets regularly throughout the year. It is responsible for developing the Action and
Expenditure plan, reviewing faculty and staff proposals, setting and implementing a research agenda,
reporting basic skills information back to respective departments, and participating in campus-wide basic
skills events.
Many of the planning strategies and activities in the Action and Expenditure Plan are updated on an
annual basis to improve the college's ability to serve basic skills students. This year, the Academic Senate
and administration approved a 2013-2014 Action and Expenditure plan that is more directive in its
approach, clearly linked to program review and the college’s institutional planning initiatives, and
contains important activities to address our low student success numbers.
Activity
Continued support for tutoring of
basic skills students
Support acceleration efforts in
English and Mathematics
Target Date
for
Completion
May 2014
May 2014
Responsible Person(s)/
Department(s)
Measurable Outcome(s)
Director of LRC, DSPS,
and Institutional
Research
A survey of basic skills students utilizing tutoring
services indicates students feel the tutoring helped them
be successful in their courses.
Associate Dean of
Humanities, Associate
Dean of Math, Science,
and Social Science,
English and Math faculty
All basic skills tutors receive training on working with
basic skills students. A survey of the tutors indicates the
training was helpful.
Pilot two sections of English 102 (accelerated English
350-150 course) Spring 2014.
Support 3-4 more English faculty attending trainings in
accelerated through 3CSN
Support 3-4 Math faculty attending trainings in
acceleration through 3CSN to develop curriculum for a
Pre-Statistics course to be piloted Fall 2014
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ESL placement, articulation,
curriculum refinement, and outreach
May 2014
Associate Dean of
Humanities, English and
Languages faculty
Director of Business
Training Center
Support for basic skill non-credit
course development and
coordination
May 2014
Director of Business
Training Center, DSPS,
Associate Dean of
Humanities, Associate
Dean of Math, Science,
and Social Science,
English and Math faculty
Basic Skills Committee,
Professional
Development Committee
Provide Professional Development
activities at the College to improve
basic skills student success.
May 2014
Peer Mentoring for basic skills
students
Spring 2014
VP of Instruction and
Student Development
Associate Faculty: Basic Skills
Counselor
Fall 2013
VP of Instruction and
Student Development
ESL faculty in collaboration with the English faculty
will develop a plan to articulate students completing the
ESL course sequence into English 1A.
ESL placement process and course sequence
schedule is implementation for fall 2014.
Non-credit courses are developed and offered in
collaboration with for-credit, discipline faculty.
Professional development activities are offered during
Spring flex for faculty and staff who work with basic
skills students. Survey of faculty and staff who
participate perceive these activities as beneficial.
Survey of mentored students indicates that they feel their
participation increased their connection to
resources at CR.
Pathways for basic skills students are created.
Update on AP 4021 Process
Five Program Analysis Requests were submitted to the President/Superintendent for review and approval
in accordance with Interim AP 4021 Program Revitalization, Suspension or Discontinuance Process. The
President/Superintendent reviewed the requests and approved the formation of five task forces to make
recommendations regarding the revitalization, suspension, or discontinuance of the Addiction Studies,
Fire Technology, Hospitality/Restaurant/Culinary, Historic Preservation and Restoration, and Marine
Science Technology.
The Administration is working with the Academic Senate Co-Presidents to finalize the task force
membership. The work of the five task forces is important and task force members clearly understand that
making recommendations on the future of a program is difficult and will require frank examination of the
quantitative and qualitative information. Thank you to our colleagues for agreeing to serve.
DEAN
HOSPITALITY
RESTAURANT
CULINARY
Jeff Cummings
Co-Chair
FIRE
TECHNOLGY
Jeff Cummings
Co-Chair
MARINE
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
Tracey Thomas
Co-Chair
ADDICTION
STUDIES
Joe Hash
Co-Chair
HISTORIC
PRESERVATION
Jeff Cummings
Co-Chair
ACADEMIC
SENATE COPRESIDENT
Mark Renner
Co-Chair
Bob Brown
Co-Chair
Mark Renner
Co-Chair
Bob Brown
Co-Chair
Bob Brown
Co-Chair
FACULTY WHO
TEACHES IN THE
PROGRAM
Leigh Blakemore
To be
determined
Tanya Smart
Stuart
Altschuler
Bill Hole
FACULTY WHO IS
NOT A MEMBER OF
THE PROGRAM
Shannon Sullivan
Ruth Moon
Ed Macan
Marcy Foster
Tony Sartori
APPOINTED BY
PRESIDENT
Julia Peterson
Ron Waters
Sheila Hall
Cheryl Tucker
Lynn Thiesen
Institutional Research will provide data to the task force co-chairs within the next few days. The cochairs will begin scheduling task force meetings once the data is received. Subsequent to review of all of
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quantitative and qualitative information, the task forces, working with the Office of Institutional Research,
will forward a report with their findings, including a recommendation on a course of action, and a
timeframe for resolution to the President/Superintendent by December 1. The written report will consist
of 1) a summary of the data, 2) an analysis of the data, 3) the recommendation, 4) the factors used to make
the recommendation, and 5) a detailed assessment of the recommendations’ impact on the college’s
overall educational program and budget, as well as its impact on students, faculty, and staff involved.
Revised Associate Dean (CTE) Search
We’ve started the recruitment for the Associate Dean (Area of Responsibility - Career and Technical
Education). Although our goal to have the new associate dean in place by the beginning of spring
semester hasn’t changed, we’ve had to revise the screening process timetable slightly:
Start the recruitment process:
Finalize the screening committee:
Close the position for applications:
Conduct interviews:
Submit final candidate to the Board for approval:
Completed
By October 18
October 25
November 4-15
December 10
Welcome to new division colleagues
The Board of Trustees took action on October 2 to hire several new employees in our division:
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Alison Cebula—Instructional Support Specialist III – Laboratory Technician in Mendocino
Angela Winkle—Assistant Professor in Counseling in Eureka
Jeroen Dragten—Assistant Professor in Counseling in Eureka
Robert Losacco—Associate faculty in Administration of Justice in Del Norte
Sally Roy—Associate faculty in Counseling in Del Norte
Brett Watson—Associate faculty in Forestry-Natural Resources in Klamath-Trinity
Emmanuel Yennyemb—Associate faculty in Computer Information Systems in Klamath-Trinity
Teal Richards-Dimitrie—Associate faculty in Biological Sciences in Eureka
Jason Barnes—Associate faculty in Forestry-Natural Resources in Eureka
Terri Bonow—Associate faculty in Library Sciences in Eureka
Michal Clark—Associate faculty in Non-Credit – English as a Second Language in Eureka
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