CR Committee Digest
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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
Technology Planning Committee
The TPC discussed implementation of the proposed policy to automatically remove e-mails that are more than two
years old. The TPC was in unanimous support of this policy.
Update on the Storage Area Network (SAN) -- The SAN is in line for implementation after the servers for the student
planning module and e-mail servers are ready. The SAN will exponentially grow the colleges storage capacity and
will allow for off-site backups of information in the event of a catastrophe.
The TPC is exploring a new system to provide ID Cards for students and staff.
A tech survey was sent to students in the fall. The TPC had several take-aways:
A basic smartboard troubleshooting guide for faculty could be helpful, and possibly additional smartboard training
sessions.
The Ellucian Mobile app for webadvisor will be desired in the future as students want to be able to register for
classes and do most things on their phones.
Multicultural and Diversity Committee
1. Planning activity for Black History Month in support of Black Student Union.
2. Supporting WEHP with list of recommended protected courses to attract a wide range of candidates to open
positions.
3. Integrated Multicultural Heritage days and months onto the CR main page calendar.
4. Submitted Multicultural and Diversity Award process and procedures as well as nomination form to faculty
senate as a Discussion Item. Changes made to documents with senate input will be Action Items at next senate
meeting.
Institutional Effectiveness
The IEC has continued working on a draft of the 2015-2016 Annual Plan for constituent review. Campus
participation in dialogue sessions has been very valuable for planning. Action items are being added to the Annual
Plan as a result of your dialogue.
Based on discussion at the Student Success Summit, an action item related to professional development is being
added. From the ILO session at Flex, an action item related to enhancing communication and partnership between
instructors and counselors/advisors is being added.
The annual Institutional Effectiveness Summit is tentatively scheduled for April 11, 2015.
Expanded Cabinet
At the January and February meetings, Expanded Cabinet spent considerable time discussing campus climate. All
acknowledge that constituent groups pulled together to get CR out of its accreditation and fiscal crisis. Now that the
major crisis is over, how can we continue to work together as a healthy institution to identify common goals and set
priorities? And how does our goal of restoring salaries fit with our other goal of increasing FTES?
Other discussion topics included: enrollment trends over time, compared to other northern California colleges;
review of the Governor`s January budget proposal; the transfer of the Mendocino Coast campus to Mendocino
College; and the potential creation of Associate Deans positions.
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
Emergency Preparedness & Safety Committee
We will be having a test of the RAVE Alert system on Wednesday, March 25 between 11:30 and 11:40 a.m. This is
the same time as the Del Norte, Humboldt & Mendocino counties Tsunami Warning Communications Test, and
this time period was selected so it didn’t conflict with any class activities.
College of the Redwoods has implemented an emergency alert system. Everyone is entered already to receive a
message at their CR email address. In the event of an emergency on campus, you can also elect to receive an alert
through your personal email, and/or phones at your home, office, and cell. This emergency alert system will be
available to all students, staff, and other interested parties.
Registration is necessary in order to receive emergency alerts. Please go to
https://www.GetRave.com/login/Redwoods and use the "Register" button on the top right portion of
the registration page to create an account. During the registration process you can elect to add additional
information, such as office phone, home phone, cell phone, and personal email. Please use your CR email address as
your primary Registration Email. Your CR email address ends with "redwoods.edu."
College Council
In an effort to review/revise policies and procedures that haven`t been reviewed for many years, College Council
has increased the length of its agendas. At the February meeting, College Council reviewed 40 BPs and APs,
agreeing to send 11 to the Board for a first read, send 5 to constituents for sunsetting, and the others through the
constituent review process.
Additionally, the Council is revamping its committee description and membership, and reviewing its role in
adhering to accreditation standards.
Basic Skills Committee
At the end of fall semester, the Basic Skills Committee identified and forwarded intervention strategies for basic
skills students on probation to the SSSP planning group, as was outlined in the SSSP annual plan. At the first
meeting of the spring semester we reviewed initial success, retention, and persistence data related to the accelerated
English 102 class along with the changes in placement for Fall 2015 resulting from recent changes to the English
Placement Process. The preliminary data in both cases is positive. The data was shared at the Student Success
Summit as well as at the February Board meeting. A funding proposal for Margaret Campbell, who teaches GS
classes, to attend an On Course conference to learn various pedagogical strategies to support the First Year
Experience (FYE) program was also approved.
Assessment Committee
The Assessment Committee had their first meeting of the Spring 2015 semester on February 2nd.
The committee reviewed a proposal to update the membership list, and then discussed the assessment committee`s
role in providing evidence for the ACCJC matrix. The committee discussed "Assessment
Accomplishments" as part of considering accreditation evidence and to prepare for an upcoming report to the
Board of Trustees.
The issue of Administrative Assessments was reviewed and the committee agreed that all areas of assessment
(Academic, Student Services, Administrative) should be in a similar online format. The committee intends to work
more closely with administrative areas to work toward that goal.
A preliminary discuss was also held regarding the use of Canvas for assessment (or an option for those using
Canvas). Discussion of using Canvas will continue at future meetings.
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