Laurel's Enrollment Services Listening Tour
Date: Friday, 09/13/13
Room 202
How do you define the Cabrillo Way?
• It’s about community and people
• Serendipitous and excellent
• Well intentioned but discombobulated
• Whatever it is at the moment
• Sometimes not logical but often delightfully so
• Flexibility with rules
• Complex and old school
o Historical precedent that has grown with the college
• Don’t know what it means
• Go to outer limit of the rule without breaking the law to serve the student community of our
campus ultimately
What has been your vision for Cabrillo?
• Met the needs of the community
• Life changing education
o Study art and personal interest
o Personal enrichment
• Building synergy
o Great people doing great things – bring them together
• Positive educational environment
o Community values Cabrillo as the best place to start
• Sustainability as a core educational premise
• Responsive to change
What would each constituent say is the best thing about Cabrillo?
• Faculty
o Classroom excellence
o Dedicated
o One of the best things at Cabrillo
• Classified
o Willingness to serve and go beyond
o Agree faculty are best part of the college
o They are the excellence in worker bees and peer success
o Flexible in what they do
o Serve beyond their job description
• Students
o Faculty
o Quality of education
o Shared governance
• Administrators
o Positive working environment
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o Great faculty and staff
o People who care
o Strong commitment
o Faculty/staff
o Helping to make Cabrillo the best college
Community
o Jewel of the community
o Diversity of offerings
o Good facilities
o Part of their community
o Premier place to improve
If we could be the perfect Cabrillo what one thing would need to be added?
• Beautification on campus
• Become more of a community
• Staffing and resources
o Increased faculty and counseling
o Stable budget
• Email technology
• Repeatability issues as it relates to community interest and need
• Consistent Innovation and Leadership should be acknowledged and respected
What is the one we could improve at Cabrillo?
• Improve safety on the campus
• Grounds improvement
• Parking
• Becoming more united/learning about each other
• Being sensitive to needs
• Making sure we have support for workers especially with reductions
• Involvement of students on campus
• Process improvements
• Understanding of prioritization and workload
• Availability of response
• Communication
o Voices heard
o Understanding what we do inter-departmental
o Opening lines of communication
• Resource support
o Includes our Mission: classes (high demand) and what we do as a college
o Staffing (counselors)
o Outside of class work/responsibility
 Faculty doing classified jobs
What are the 2 words you would use to describe Cabrillo?
• Vibrant
• Life changing
• Successful
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Opportunity
Family
o United
o Valued
o Cooperative
Quality education
Complex
Consistent themes
• Resources
• Faculty
• Community
• Legislative changes