REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Meeting of the Enrollment Management Committee (EMC)
Eureka: 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, AD 201 (Board Room)
Monday, March 28, 2011
1:10 p.m.
Draft
NOTES
PRESENT
Paul DeMark, Mara Chaykin, ASCR, Zach DeLoach, Anna Duffy,
Kathy Goodlive, David Gonsalves (phone), Melissa Green, Anita
Janis (phone), Allen Keppner, Geisce Ly (phone), Keith SnowFlamer, Juana Tabares and Bruce Wagner
ALSO PRESENT
Melissa Ruiz (phone), Lynn Thiesen, Michael Thomas, Cheryl Tucker
MINUTES
The minutes from the March 21, 2011 meeting were approved with the
addition of Lia Grijalva- Davis to the list of also present.
COMMENTS
Michael Thomas, Professor of Philosophy asked to make a comment
for the record regarding item 4.2.1 “Moving Registration from May to
June” on the agenda. He noted that faculty in Humanities and
Communications are concerned that if students go away for the
summer without registering first they will not return. He asked that the
committee plan responsibly and consider that we will probably not
know any more in June than we do now regarding the state budget.
ACTION ITEMS
APPROVE
SUMMER
SCHEDULE
CHANGE &
MOVE FALL
REGISTRATON
Discussion occurred regarding the approval of the Summer Schedule
and the number of FTES needed to meet this year’s target. At this time
between 80-127 FTES are still needed. There was also discussion
regarding the Fall Schedule and if it will be released with the summer
schedule.
It was also noted that there will be fee changes for the Fall semester
and the business office will need time to make system changes so that
the fees are reflected correctly on student accounts. Lynn Thiesen
volunteered to take the lead and communicate with the business office
regarding the changes that need to occur.
Concerns were expressed in regards to holding fall registration until
later and that by doing so it could result in students being seen twice
by the counselors or advisors.
Next Steps:
 Open the summer schedule for viewing on April 4
 The summer schedule will be released and priority
registration will begin on April 25.
 Target April 25 as the tentative priority registration for
fall or open schedule for viewing
 Get information back from the business office and IT
regarding summer fees.
DISCUSSION
DEVELOPMENT
OF THE 2-YEAR
SCHEDULE
Keith noted that the goal is to build a two year schedule for the
catalogue and the focus will be on degree and certificate programs.
It was also noted that most students actually take 3 years to complete a
2 year degree or certificate program. Lynn stated that we need to
redefine who we are as a college and keep in mind that it is time to
look at things differently and establish what the priorities are for
students to get into classes.
Mara informed the committee that she polled ASCR students
regarding the need for a printed schedule. She noted that students are
in favor of discontinuing the printed schedule and moving to an online
version.
TLU
ALLOCATIONS
& BUILDING THE
FALL SCHEDULE
Keith stated that there was a review of the part-time TLU allocations
regarding what was needed to initially to cut $750,000. The best case
scenario was based on $400,000 in cuts of which $381,000 was
identified and the remainder was a 5 percent across the board. .
Geisce noted that for the record he is responsible for the Southern
Humboldt site as well as for Mendocino and he will need to give
notification to South Fork High school regarding the reduction to the
courses that we will be able to offer there. He also requested that the
committee consider what the affect will be to the Southern Humboldt
community if these reductions are made. Geisce also noted that the
TLUs for Mendocino and Southern Humboldt are allocated separately
and he hopes that they will continue to be so.
It was decided to add 9 TLUs back into the allocations for Southern
Humboldt for next year.
It was noted that work continues to be done to clean up TLU
discrepancies and there are approximately 186 TLUs that are available
from grant funding that are yet to be allocated.
Bruce asked the committee if they were in agreement to allow him and
Keith to make the necessary adjustments to allocations without
bringing them back for further review by the committee and the
committee was in unanimous agreement to do so.
Melissa Ruiz stated that with Jolene currently away from the KT site
she will need to speak to someone regarding the cuts to the KT’s
allocations. It was reiterated that KT sustained a 5 percent cut which
was the minimum cut across the board incurred by all sites and
centers.
Next Steps for the Fall Schedule:
 Develop general guidelines to be used is planning for
Fall/Spring (50/50 TLU allocations and reducing overload)
 Release guidelines to the deans
 All courses in to Tiffany by next week
 Tentatively approve Fall Schedule at next meeting
FUTURE
AGENDA ITEMS
Report from Business Office regarding implementing fee increases for
fall semester. Lynn Thiesen
ADJOURNED
The meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.
SUBMITTED
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