Annual Program Review Update
Program/Discipline: Industrial Technology
Date:
March 17, 2008
www.redwoods.edu/district/accredititation/Annual
Trends and Relevant Data
1. Has there been any change in the status of your program or area? (Have you
shifted departments? Have new degrees or certificates been created by your
program? Have you added or deleted courses? Have activities in other programs
impacted your area or program? For example, a new nursing program could
cause greater demand for life-science courses.) If not, skip to #2.
Note: curricular changes should be addressed under 12-14.
There has been no change in the status of Industrial Technology (IT) at College of the
Redwoods (CR). There are no degrees or certificates offered in IT. Thus, the IT
program is just a group of courses that support other programs that require IT coursework. The following courses were deleted in 2007.
IT120 Technical Writing and Documentation
IT150 Technical Assistance Lab
IT161 Technical Mathematics
IT31 Industrial Business Management
Activities in other programs have not impacted the IT program.
2. Have there been any significant changes in enrollment, retention, success rates, or
student demographics that impact your discipline? If so, please include data
sheets (Excel or Word format) showing these changes.
There have not been any significant changes in enrollment, retention, success rates, or
student demographics that impact the IT discipline.
3. Occupational programs must review the update of their labor-market data, some
of it provided by Institutional Research, to illustrate that their program:
a. Meets a documented labor market demand,
b. Does not represent duplication of other training programs (in the region), and
c. Is of demonstrated effectiveness as measured by the employment and
completion success of its students.
CR does not offer any degrees or certificates in IT. Therefore, labor market data is not
documented.
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Other Resources
4. Do you have needs (professional development, library resources, and so forth) not
previously required by the discipline or not previously addressed in budget or
equipment considerations? Please describe. ( see p. 54)
There are no current needs that were not previously required.
5. Does your discipline need additional support from Student Services beyond that
previously provided?
This discipline needs no additional support from Student Services.
Human Resource Needs
6. Complete the Faculty Employment Grids below (please list full- and part-time
faculty numbers in separate rows):
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for fall
2006 term
Industrial
12
Technology
% of Total
Teaching
Load by
Full-Time
Faculty
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by PartTime Faculty
Changes from
fall 2005
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g.,
retirement,
reassignment, etc.)
25%
75%
Fall 2005:
4.5 TLU
100% PT
Course offerings
differ each
semester.
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for
spring 2007
term
Industrial
9.75
Technology
% of Total
Teaching
Load by
Full-Time
Faculty
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by PartTime Faculty
Changes from
spring 2006
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g.,
retirement,
reassignment, etc.)
100%
0%
Spring
2006:
11.62 TLU
77.5% PT
Course offerings
differ each
semester.
Do you need more full-time faculty? Associate faculty? If yes, explain why and
be sure to include data sheets justifying the need.
No additional full-time or part-time staff are needed at this time.
7. Complete the Staff Employment Grid below (please list full- and part-time staff
numbers in separate rows:
Staff Employed in the Program
Assignment
Full-time
Part-time staff
(e.g., Math,
(classified) staff (give number)
English)
(give number)
Industrial
Technology
0
0
Gains over
Prior Year
0
Losses over
Prior Year (give
reason:
retirement,
reassignment,
health, etc.)
0
There are no dedicated IT faculty or staff.
Do you need more full-time staff? Part-time staff? If yes, explain why and be sure
to include data sheets justifying the need. (see Appendix B p. 55)
No additional full-time or part-time staff are needed at this time.
8. If necessary, to clarify your needs, please comment on current available staff and
distribution of FTE's for contract and part-time faculty. Describe strengths and
weaknesses of faculty/staff as appropriate to program's current status or future
development.
No additional full-time or part-time staff are needed at this time, therefore no comment
on current available staff is necessary.
Facilities
9. Comment on facilities the program uses, their current adequacy, and any
immediate needs. Have your discipline’s facilities needs changed? If so, how?
Please provide a data-based justification for any request that requires new or
additional facilities construction, renovation, remodeling or repairs. (p. 58)
The program uses classrooms and laboratory space in the Applied Technology
department. These facilities are adequate. The facilities needs have not changed.
Equipment
10. Have your discipline’s equipment needs changed? If so, how? Is equipment in
need of repair outside of your current budget? Please provide a data-based
justification for any request that requires a new or additional budget allotment.
The IT equipment needs have not changed.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Update (Appendix A - p. 48)
11. How has your area or program been engaged in student learning outcomes
assessment?
a.
Summarize your results.
b.
What did your program learn from these results that enabled you to
improve teaching and learning in the discipline?
c.
How have faculty been made aware of the need to assess SLOs?
There are no IT degrees or certificates offered at CR. Therefore, no SLO assessment
has been engaged in recently.
Curriculum Update
(Reminder: Send updated course outlines to the Curriculum Committee.)
12. Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives undertaken
in the last year.
The curriculum proposal for IT46, Computers in Industrial Management, was
approved in December of 2007. The following courses were deleted in 2007.
IT120 Technical Writing and Documentation
IT150 Technical Assistance Lab
IT161 Technical Mathematics
IT31 Industrial Business Management
13. Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives planned for
the next year.
IT62, Technical Mathematics is currently being re-written by a cross-functional team.
14. Complete the grid below
Course
IT25
IT46
IT60A
IT60B
IT62
IT152
Year Course Outline
Last Updated
2004
2007
1989
1989
1988
1992
Year Next Update
Expected
2009
2012
2008
2008
2008
2008
Goals and Plans
15. If you have recently undergone a comprehensive review, attach your Quality
Improvement Plan if applicable.
Not applicable
16. If you do not have a QIP, what goals and plans does your area have for the
coming year?
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•
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Continue offering IT courses to support other programs that require them.
Update all outdated curriculum proposals.
Consider changing all IT course to Manufacturing Technology program
courses.