College of the Redwoods
Basic Skills Committee
May 15, 2015 Meeting
Summary Notes
1. Called to Order: Present: Pam Kessler, Harry Pike, Clif Clendenen, Julia
Peterson, Liz Carlyle, Amy Berkowitz, Steve Jackson, Kristy Carlsen, Sheila Hall,
Angelina Hill, and Erin Wall
2. Approve May 1 Notes: Julia Peterson had a few minor edits to section 4.1
Basic Skills Noncredit Courses update. Notes were approved as corrected.
3. Action Item(s):
3.1 Noncredit Request for funds
 Amy Berkowitz talked about the changes she made to her proposal based on
the feedback she received at the last meeting. She made the following
changes:
o Removed the in-service training.
o Clarified the costs.
o Provided information about the ongoing costs and institutionalizing
of these costs.
 Angelina suggested that tracking FTES instead of headcount in the
assessment plan. This change was accepted.
4. Discussion Items
4.1 Review Membership
 A new member from English/Reading needs to be appointed to replace Pam
Kessler.
 Liz Carlyle will be the noncredit course staff representative next year.
 Julie Raich will not be on the committee next year.
 The committee thought it would be good to continue to have a CTE faculty
member and a member of Athletics on the committee. Erin will reach out to
Dean Marla Gleave and Dean Joe Hash about faculty interest in their areas.
If a faculty member joins there will be 6 at-large faculty appointments
instead of 4 as listed in the handbook.
 The following changes need to be made on the webpage:
o Erin Wall’s title is Dean, Arts & Humanities
o Tracey Thomas’ title is Dean, MSBSS
o Sheila Hall Director, Counseling and Student Development (Chair
SSSP Advisory Committee)
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Basic Skills Committee
May 15, 2015 Meeting
Summary Notes
4.2 Basic Skills Annual Report
 This year’s annual expenditure and action plan will be submitted online.
The expenditure plan is due 7/31/15 online and the expenditure plan is due
online 10/1/15. The narrative prompts this year are:
o What specific steps is your college taking to institutionalize your
basic skills funded programs and projects?
o What are the obstacles to doing so?
o What projects and programs have you been able to successfully
expand from a small program to a larger and more comprehensive
program within your college? (Please list the projects/programs)
o How were you able to successfully accomplish the process of
expanding or “scaling up” these successful projects and programs?
(Please provide descriptions for each project/program).
o How are you integrating your basic skills efforts with your college’s
SSSP plans?
o How are you integrating your basic skills efforts with your college’s
Student Equity plans?
4.3 Meeting Schedule- Summer?
 Given the Oct 1st due date for the Basic Skills Expenditure and Action Plan
it was decided that the committee should meet once in July over the
summer.
5. Other/Future Agenda Items
Next meeting: TBD
Meetings in the fall will resume 9-10am on first and third Fridays.
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