Annual Program Review Update
*Be sure to include information from all three campuses.
Program/Discipline: Oceanography (OCEAN)_______
Date:
9/17/07______
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.
No.
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.
Approximately, 7-9 sections of oceanography have been offered throughout the
district over the past two years. The Mendocino campus offers Oceanography 10
(Introduction to Oceanography) and Oceanography 11 (Laboratory in
Oceanography) every year during the fall semester. The Mendocino campus
offers Oceanography 12 (Environmental Oceanography) every other year. An
associate faculty member at the Eureka campus has offered at least one section
each of Oceanography 10 & 11 every semester, and no oceanography sections
are taught at the Del Norte Campus.
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.
Not an occupational program – not applicable.
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.
Travel funds and professional development opportunities are available for both
tenured and associate faculty. To date, these needs have been sufficiently
addressed.
5. Does your discipline need additional support from Student Services beyond that
previously provided?
Student support services offered through the Academic Support Center at the
Eureka campus have been adequate for students in this discipline. Library
support of resource materials at the Eureka and Mendocino campuses are also
provided for the oceanography courses.
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
% 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.)
OCEAN - 4.5
Mendocino
100%
0%
No change
OCEAN Eureka
0%
100%
-3.0
Normal fall load
would be
9.0TLU, and the
F2005 load was
higher than
normal
12.0
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for
spring 2007
term
OCEAN – 0
Mendocino
OCEAN Eureka
7.5
% of Total
Teaching
Load by
Full-Time
Faculty
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by PartTime Faculty
Changes from
spring 2006
0%
100%
-4.5
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g.,
retirement,
reassignment, etc.)
Normal multiyear cycle on
two campuses
100%
0%
+4.5
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 needs for faculty are anticipated 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
(e.g., Math,
(classified)
English)
staff (give
Eureka – 1
number)
shared office
coordinator
1 –shared
for MSE.
office assistant
Mendocino – 1 (for division or
part-time
campus) at
science lab
Eureka
technician for campus
all science
courses.
Part-time staff
(1 – part-time
science lab
technician for
the Mendocino
campus give
number)
Gains over
Prior Year
None
Losses over
Prior Year
(give reason:
retirement,
reassignment,
health, etc.)
1 full-time
science lab
technician
retired in
S2007;
replaced by a
part-time
technician this
semester
Do you need more full-time staff? Part-time staff? If yes, explain why and be sure
to include data sheets justifying the need.
Current staffing is inadequate for this discipline. CRMC’s full-time science
technician retired at the end of spring 2007. A part-time replacement position of
12 hours/week has been approved for this semester only, and those few hours are
inadequate to meet the needs of all of the science course offerings this semester.
If a full-time position is not approved for next semester, CRMC will not be able
to continue offering the full spectrum of science courses that we have in the past.
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.
See comments in previous comments.
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.
The facilities at the Mendocino campus are out-dated and none are ADA
compliant. The seats are too crowded together for students to pass safely among
the isles. The laboratory classrooms do not have a safe place for students to
store their backpacks, so the aisles are crowded. Not all of the labs have sinks at
the benches, which limits which courses we can offer. The ventilation systems
are inadequate to exhaust formalin and other noxious fumes. These are all items
that could be covered with the funds from Measure Q. The science faculty sat
down with CR staff and architects to design modern labs. Those plans were
scrapped due to seismic concerns at the Eureka campus. No further input has
been solicited from science faculty regarding any new construction.
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.
Equipment needs have been constant at the Mendocino and Eureka campuses. Our
department budgets, National Weather Service compensation for weather observations
at the Mendocino campus, and Partnership for Learning Excellence grants have helped
to maintain these needs. The suspension of the PLE program and the removal of the
NWS weather station at the Mendocino campus will eventually impact this discipline as
equipment wears out.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Update
11. How has your area or program been engaged in student learning outcomes
assessment?
a.
Summarize your results.
Desired student learning outcomes have been identified this past year as part of
the revision of course outlines last semester. No additional assessment has been
undertaken beyond that which already took place in the classroom (e.g. papers,
tests, concept tests) During the lecture component of class, instructors actively
assess student learning using concept tests, small group exercises, and question
and answer. Examinations, laboratory exercises, and field reports allow
students to demonstrate their retention and comprehension.
b.
What did your program learn from these results that enabled you to
improve teaching and learning in the discipline?
The use of a variety of concept tests has allowed for clarification of concepts not
as well understood by the students and helped the department make small
content and time allotment changes accordingly.
c.
How have part-time faculty been made aware of the need to assess SLOs?
Revised course outlines with new student learning outcomes have been made
available for the part-time faculty member in Eureka.
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.
All oceanography course outlines have been recently revised to include new
student learning outcomes and assessment tasks.
13. Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives planned for
the next year.
Will continue to implement new student learning outcomes assessment.
14. Complete the grid below
Course
Oceanography 10
Introduction to
Oceanography
Oceanography 11
Lab in
Oceanography
Oceanography 12
Environmental
Oceanography
Year Course Outline Year Next Update
Last Updated
Expected
4/2007
2012
4/2007
2012
4/2007
2012
Goals and Plans
15. If you have recently undergone a comprehensive review, attach your Quality
Improvement Plan if applicable.
Not applicable to the oceanography discipline
16. If you do not have a QIP, what goals and plans does your area have for the
coming year?
a. Develop a student learning outcomes assessment plan (and methods) to assess
the outcomes present in each of the course outlines updated last semester.
b. Continue to assess enrollment trends.