Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Date _____12/12/12____________________
Department ____Journalism_____________________
Division __BELA
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met?
Goals / Recommendations from six-year plan In progress
Goal Met
Comments
(identify source
of funding)
More content in Spanish and outreach to
Latino students
yes
Make the Cabrillo Voice newspaper pay for
itself
yes
Get Students into the working world
yes
In a program that was almost 100 percent non Latino four
years ago, we are now between a third and a half Latino. We
are covering and reaching out to the Watsonville campus and
community. We are writing articles in Spanish. We have a
mentor plan where people who move up and into good
positions help those behind. Two examples are Juan Reyes,
who got a journalism scholarship from Cabrillo, moved on to
San Jose State and is now helping Tony Nunez do the same.
Yolanda Lovato worked for Univision and based on her good
work, Arturo Ayala is there now. That is an accomplishment
I’m really proud of. We’ve become representative of the
community.
It’s a constant struggle, but we are making progress. Last
semester we sold about $2,500 of ads, which covered much of
the publication. The semester before we hit about $4,000. We
were offered a program to put up newsracks and earn $4,000 a
year, but we hit a snag on that from the Cabrillo Building
committee. We are working on reversing this or getting some
other support from the campus. Ideally, we would get the racks
and be self-sufficient.
Step by step, we move toward it, but the market is really bad
right now. We have graduated so many talented students.
Frankly, I see work by San Jose State and Santa Clara
University submitted to my other job at Santa Cruz Patch and
my Cabrillo students are light years better. But are they getting
the fulltime jobs they are capable of? Sadly, no. A few have:
Zach Stoloff is working fulltime in Boston; Kevin Johnson has
offers all over but is still finishing his degree at San Jose State.
Laura Copeland is at the Sentinel, but chooses to work part
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Grow the Department
yes
Get students prepared for four year schools
yes
New Goals and Recommendations
Goal/Recommendation
New laptop
More integration with digital media
department
time. Too many, such as Daniel Wootan and Juan Reyes are
only working part time or freelance. To change this, I send
students to internships and have speakers from media outlets
speak at the class and interact with them.
The other thing I do is continue networking with all my past
students on Facebook and Linked In. The social media help
connect them to professionals and those seeking employees.
We no longer have enough units to offer a certificate and we
only have two teachers. If we could get the units, I would love
to add another mass communications class and a radio/TV
class. We had those and lost them and there are some great
journalists with teaching experience who would love to work
for us.
In my other job I have contacts with the journalism
departments at San Jose State and Santa Clara University, as
well as professional contacts in four year programs across the
country. Our students are as good if not better than many of
the four year students, and the ones we send there have had
great success. I have many of them come back to our classes to
talk to them about what to expect in a four year program. Our
chains to San Jose State and San Francisco State are strong.
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
$2,000
Our five-year old laptop is on its last legs. We use it in class and for
assignments.
We have students taking classes in both departments…we really need
to link up and work together.
SLO Assessment Progress: In a sentence or two, describe where your department should be on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment (what
assessment you should have done in the last year) and what was actually done. If not every thing was completed, explain why.
I met with Marcy Alancraig and began discussions on the next steps. We filed the first SLO report. We will meet again during the break to
outline my SLO plan for the Spring Semester.
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Fill out the Assessment Results section below.
SLO Assessment Results: List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below. Attach
Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters.
Core Competency, Course
Date of meeting where
SLO, or CTE Program SLO analysis / dialogue took
Assessed. Example: all course place. Example: Department
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2 Meeting 8/27/10
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment. Example:
Develop strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share
rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of
class.
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