ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
PROGRAM PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SPRING 2015
I.
Service Area Name: Social and Behavioral Sciences and Fine and Performing Arts
II.
Date of Review: May 2015
III.
Service Area Mission Statement (optional):
IV.
Service Area’s key duties, responsibilities, functions, activities, and tasks:
The Social and Behavioral Sciences area provides instruction and resources to insure access to the basis of
knowledge, skill development, and critical thought necessary to enable students to achieve their
educational and professional goals. This area supports student transfer, degree and certificate acquisition,
workforce training, as well as enrichment and professional growth. The disciplines in this area provide a
diverse selection of courses that satisfy general education requirements in the social and behavioral
sciences.
The Fine Arts area provides instruction and resources to insure access to the basis of knowledge, skill
development, and critical thought necessary to enable students to to apply their creativity successfully to
the arts and their lives beyond the arts. This area supports student transfer, degree and certificate
acquisition, workforce training, as well as enrichment and professional growth.
V.
Greatest strengths and most significant accomplishments during the past three years:
The most significant accomplishment for the Social & Behavioral Sciences area and Fine Arts is the
development and approval of degrees for transfer:
As of Fall 2014, Hartnell College now counts 177 students that have graduated with AA-T/AS-T
degrees, and the number of completers is growing quickly. Of these 52 graduated with Psychology
degrees, 48 graduated with Administration of Justice degrees, and 40 Graduated with Business
Administration degrees. Go Hartnell!
Hartnell College offers 17 Transfer Model Curriculum degrees, designed following state guidelines
to facilitate transfer to California State University, with two more in the pipeline for approval.
Number of Student Completers
Number of Student Completing
Associate Degrees per Year
800
Associate Degree for Transfer
Traditional Associate Degree
600
400
200
0
2010-11
2011-12
APPROVED
PROGRAM
Administration of Justice
Business Administration
Communication Studies
Early Childhood Education
Elementary Teacher Prep.
English
History
Kinesiology
Mathematic
Music
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish
Studio Arts
Theatre Arts
Music
2012-13
2013-14
Academic Year
AS-T
AS-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AS-T
AA-T
AS-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
AA-T
2014-15*
*projected
STATUS
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Approved
Student Success Story on Hartnell’s AA-Transfer Degree in Business Administration: Jose Vasquez,
Hartnell business student, recently explained how he believes his AA-T in Business Administration
helped him get accepted into San Jose State. Jose noted that “I have a similar GPA as my friends,
but my friends did not have the transfer degree and were not accepted into San Jose
State.” Reported by Bob Maffei.
Also noteworthy are the efforts to annotate courses in the catalog, assigning semesters at which
time each courses will be offered. This is complement with an initiative to embed short semesters
clearly packaged back to back within the larger semesters, providing alternative start dates
(stepping stones). Not only will this structure supports enrollment growth, it also serves as a welldefined alternative gateway and pathway for students whereby promoting access, success and
accelerated completion.
The greatest strength of the Social & Behavioral Sciences and Arts area is the dedicated faculty, who
continue to assess course-level outcomes and to develop and apply interventions to improve student
retention and success. The disciplines in this area support students pursuing associate degrees in all
disciplines and/or transfer by offering courses that fulfill general education requirements. In addition,
accomplishments of several disciplines are noted below.
Administration of Justice — The Administration of Justice program is the only discipline that offers a fully
online degree program, a fully online certificate program and a fully online Fast- Track program. One
faculty member has completed extensive research on open educational resources and has presented at
the Online Teaching Conference, the American Association of Community Colleges conference and CAAJE
(California Association of Administration of Justice Educators). The program has produced five
valedictorian graduates over the past five years. The faculty recently developed a new Introduction to
Forensics course, which created an option in the degree electives for students interested in the career
track.
During 2013-2014, the proposed Administration of Justice (ADJ) MOOCSICLE was developed and it is now
being used to remediate, to assess all ADJ course-level student learning outcomes, and to assess all ADJ
program-level student learning outcomes. MOOCSICLE materials will include PowerPoint, printable study
notes, discussion boards, assessments, interactive exercises, puzzles, games, and videos designed to
support student mastery of course and program-level student learning outcomes. MOOCSICLE is providing
an example to other disciplines and programs at Hartnell College, and also to other California Community
Colleges in the state system.
Alcohol and Drug Counseling — One significant strength of the Alcohol & Drug Counseling program is the
full participation of adjunct faculty in course SLO assessment and broadbased discussion. Interventions
have been identified and implemented. The program was accredited for 3-year period by the California
Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC). This certification is considered to be highly
desired by those who would hire our graduates. CAADAC approval successfully completes one of the
activities identified in the previous Program Review Report.
Anthropology — Some areas of student performance have been addressed to facilitate student success in
the courses in physical and cultural anthropology, such as assessing students in diverse methods like
portfolios, projects that include presentations, individual and group discussions and choice and essay
exams. The anthropology program was the first to offer distance education classes and has consistently
expanded this component to provide an equally competitive environment for students.
Business Education — The Business Administration program outcomes have been reviewed and
analyzed for several years. The SLOs in the core classes for the Business Administration degree have
been assessed and reviewed for effectiveness and applicability to the Program Level Outcomes.
Early Childhood Education — The ECE program is supported by an active advisory committee that meets
several times per year. Members represent several agencies in Monterey County that support child care
providers, such as First 5 Monterey County.
Economics — A full-time faculty member was hired in 2011 and as a result, obtaining and maintaining
data for SLO assessment has been easier and standardized. All Economics courses are now offered
online. In order to address student success in online courses, some classes were offered this year in the
hybrid modality.
Theatre – A full time faculty member was hired and has been developing a plan for the new Theatre
degree as well as processing courses through curriculum to get the degree up and going.
VI.
Major challenges during the past three years—that is, the aspects that are most in need of
improvement:
The major challenge for the Social & Behavioral Sciences and Fine Arts area is the need for full-time faculty.
Classes in some disciplines are taught entirely by part-time faculty—Alcohol & Drug Counseling, Fine Arts,
and Philosophy. Other disciplines, such as History and Political Sciences, offer dozens of sections of general
education and required classes that are taught by part-time faculty.
The consistent assessment of course- and program-level outcomes without coordination of full-time
faculty has been difficult in these disciplines. As a result, courses in these disciplines have not been
adequately assessed. Broad-based discussion about assessment data must include part-time faculty,
especially in the disciplines with only one or without any full-time faculty. Three disciplines—
Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sociology— were not defined as programs, so no program-level outcomes
were developed. Lack of historical course-level assessment data remains reported as a challenge, for
example with Ethnic Studies.
Distance Education — Several disciplines noted that enrollment and success rates are lower in distance
education classes than in face-to-face classes: Administration of Justice, Business Administration,
Economics, History, and Political Science. A variety of issues were identified, such as more students drop
online classes and lack of support for online students, and all of these disciplines noted that further
analysis of the trend is necessary. Some disciplines have added classes in the hybrid modality and note
that enrollment and success data for the current year will support analysis of the effectiveness of the
hybrid modality. An associate dean of scheduling/curriculum and distance education will help lead efforts
to address student success in online classes.
Other challenges were identified in Annual Plans for the following disciplines:
Alcohol and Drug Counseling — The limited number of facilities available for student placement in
internship/practicums in work-experience facilities, which meet the requirements of the California
Association of alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC)
or other certifying agencies, creates a bottle-neck for students and sometimes interferes with degree
completion.
Business Education —Connections with local business and industry would improve if there were an
active advisory committee. Faculty included in the Annual Plan a new activity to recruit membership for
an advisory committee.
Early Childhood Education —State requirements have been raised for child care workers to complete a
college degree. English language learners and students with low English language proficiency need time to
complete transfer-level college courses. ESL and ECE faculty are working to provide the lowest level ECE
classes in Spanish and require students to co-enroll in ESL classes. As well, as noted in the PPA, new
requirements are now in place for certifications for ECE faculty.
VII.
Brief summary of continuous quality improvement actions to be taken that will help to build
upon strengths and address challenges.
Resources, training and time are needed for both part- and full-time faculty to better understand data
and outcomes assessment, as well as goal-setting and other planning techniques. As well, we distributed
3 years trend data on enrollment to inform scheduling. The annual academic plans demonstrate faculty
lack experience in data analysis and the level and quality of data available to us remains inadequate.
Further resources are needed for effective planning, including better and more accessible data. As well,
more staffing is needed to help coordinate data cleanup, pull and reporting effort in coordination with
curriculum and scheduling for student success with face to face and online classes.
Faculty in many disciplines have identified and implemented interventions to improve student success,
based on the assessment of course student and program learning outcomes. These interventions need to
be highlighted in public forums so that faculty in other disciplines may emulate their behavior.
Most disciplines are working effectively with part-time faculty to complete and analyze assessments at
the course level. In order to fully engage all faculty in the broad-based discussion of assessment, at
both course- and program-level, Hartnell College needs to provide adequate resources for discussions
to take place, including compensation either within the faculty contract or as stipends.
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Resource Requests 2016-2017
PROGRAM
Activity No.
Personnel
1
Photography
2
3
4
Digital Arts
Supplies/Equip
E Studio
lighting,
DSLRs and
green
S/E Ephemeral
supplies
Contract
Training
Travel
Material
s
Facilitie
s
H/S
$6,000
$5,000
STEMART
supplies
(photography)
$500
F:Part time
faculty to teach
Art 73 Fall 2o15
and Art 77 and
Art 84: Spring
2016
S; Remote
Desktop for
32 stations,
Deep freeze
renewal for
32 stations
$160
($79.99 per
20 seats)
$575
Prescribed
rate for
three 3unit
courses
(lecture
and lab)
F
1,2,3,4
E: Flat screen
projector for J216
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4
1,2,6
Costs
$40,000
Maintenance
1,2,3,4
1,3,4
Technology
Maintenance
STEMART
Equipment
maintenance
$6,000
S; Adobe
Creative
Suite
Upgrade for
32 stations:
J216 and J
204
S; Deep
Freeze for 32
stations in
J216
$18,000
$600
Mainten
ance
$5,000
$5,000
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Visual Arts
1
2
F Full time
art faculty
replacement
for previous
retired
faculty
member
3
$2,000
Prescribed
salary rate
Supplies for Art
13 course (S)
$2,500
Replace worn out
ceramic lab
equipment,
including kilns €
4
5
$45,000
Maintenance
(E) Replace
lighting control
boards for
theaters
(E) Replace
masking
draperies on
Mainstage
1
TWS
2
Theatre
STEMART
supplies
$10,000
$40,000
$15,000
New
curriculum
and program
development.
0
Student
services and
travel,
mileage,
outreach
Enrollment
managemen
t and faculty
developmen
t
$1,000
$1,500
Facilities
Yes,
registration
0
$2,850
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and
deposit
fees
Equipment
(cameras)
Music
1.#1
enhanced
performance
opportunities
for the choirs
(money for
dresses, ties)
(purchasing
cameras,
replacing stolen
equipment,
purchasing tiedown
technology)
2. #2
enhanced
security for
music
computer lab
3.#4
enhanced use
of computer
lab, music
library
4.#4
Enhanced
performance
opportunities
for the music
department
ensembles
$5,000
$2,160
($4316 for
the cameras,
$3758 to
replace
equipment
stolen,
$1350 for
the tie-down
technology
to secure
computers to
the
workstations.
$9,424
C (hiring of lab
technician to
help with
music library
and electronic
music lab)
$5,000
Use of
main
st
stage 1
week of
Decemb
er, each
fall - $5
thou to
remove
items
$35,000
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from pit
and $30
thou to
remove
sets
from
stage
5. #5
enhanced
collaboration
among music
instructors.
Funds for
faculty to
meet.
$1,200
Est:
1 $110,00/year
F
Alcohol &
Other Drugs
1
$110,000.
00
stipend
per course
per
semester;
$8000
total
Faculty
Economics
Bussiness
1
2
3
History
1Hiring 2 new
Full time
faculty
2. Wide angle
lens
3.Travel to
Missions
4.Digital
Camera
Carol
Hobson (F)
Robert
Maffei (F)
Carol
Hobson (F)
Yes
Yes
$6,000
Yes
Yes
$6,000
Yes
$9,500
Faculty
Varies
Equipment
1500
Travel
Equipment
1500
3,000
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Resource Requests 2016-2017
1. Sociology
speaker series
Office supplies,
water for
speaker,
stipend for
speaker
Coordinate
with AV &
Tech staff
N/A
N/A
2. Professional
Development
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
4. Marketin
g and
outreach
Sociology
banner,
Sociology
(infographic)
posters
Will obtain
estimates
from local
shops in
Salinas for
the best
deal
3. Media
Library
Documentaries,
educational
N/A
videos
Sociology
Psychology
1. Hiring of
FT PSY &
AOD
Instructor
Political
Science
Ethnic Studies
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Coordin
ate
room
reservat
ion
NA/
N/A
$500
N/A
N/A
Banner
for
campus
and
commu
nity
activitie
s
$500
N/A
Yes…me
dia
resource
s
N/A
$500
Office
space
Faculty
1 new
faculty
1 new
2
faculty
another full
time
instructor
Outreach
and
recruitment
Conference
1
1.
33
N/A
Transportat
ion
reimburse
ment for
speaker
HR
faculty/staf
f travel
application
Use of speaker
system
Faculty
office
Faculty
office
Stipend
$200-300
$110,000
(estimate
salary +
benefits)
$65,000
(same as
above)
$90,000
Supplies
Travel
2000
3000
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attendance
Chicano
44 Collection
1
Books,
magazines,
videos, etc.
(F)
(S)-Digital
editing center
(H)Computer;
(S)-video
editing
software
like Final
Cut Pro; (H)
Hard drives
to store
video
(F)
(E)-Camcorder
with
professional
microphones,
Eheadphones
(S)-Included
in Final Cut
Pro
Anthropology
2
5000
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
YesRecordi
ng
studio
$10,000.0
0
No
YesRecordi
ng
studio
$5,000
yes
Early
Childhood Edu
3
(F)
1
ECE instructor
2
Certification
training for 2
instructors
3
Consultants
(E)-Skeleton of
entire human
body (real or
synthetic)
None
No
No
$300
No
No
No
1500
90,000
ECERS,
CLASS,
DRDP 15
Facilitate
ECE
meetings
to develop
action plan
and
assessment
Flights,
mileage,
Per diem
30,000
10,000
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4
5
SI assistants
Recruitment
and marketing
Flip cameras
Admin of
Justice
Provide SI
services for
ECE
students,
attend
ECCE class,
orientation
meetings,
and study
sessions.
Office supplies—
note pads,
Hartnell pencils,
portfolios,
Printing of
brochures, fliers,
and information
sheets, website,
Tool for students
to review their
skills working
with children
Batteries
/charger for flip
cameras
Reimburse
mileage
Stipend to
organize and
conduct
informationa
l meetings
10 X 65.00 =
$1,000.00
$650.00
1. MOOCSICLE F
2.Instructor
travel
3.Instruction
al Supplies
and
Equipment
for ADJ 102
4.Instructional
Supplies for
$10,000
each
academic
year
F
S/E
S
$5,000.00
$3,500
each
semester
$10,000
each
academic
year
$5,000
each
academic
year
$1,000
each
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academic
year
ADJ 76
Philosophy
Hiring of a full
time
instructor
Bussiness
Office
$110,000
S
1
1, 2,3
MAIN OFFICE
X
Assistant Dean
(DE,
scheduling,
catalog,
curriculum)
2500
1400
2500
50000
1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3
C–
Curriculum/
C – Functional
AAO
Administrative
Assistant I
1, 2, 3
1,2,3
STAFFING
REQUESTS
C–
Programmer
Analyst for IT
$82k +
benefits
$105,000.0
0
$50,000.00
5000
2500
$57,500.00
5000
2500
$57,500.00
$20,000.00
50,000
e.g.
Colleague
$50,000
$5,000
$2,500
$107,000
(a) More closely support student access, success, persistence, completion in DE and other classes, promoting use of data to
tweak offerings and grow SS metrics, and by propagating instructional best practices to up metrics.
(b) More closely support development and automation of an enrollment management system and related fiscal benefits . Assistant
JUSTIFICATION Dean position will end up paying for itself within two years or so.
(c) To more closely facilitate and follow up with needed data reports, cleanup , auditing, and accreditation (e.g. more reliable headcount
data, ensuring classes in the catalog are active).
(d) Provide support needed for development, automation and promotion of tight systems and processes to schedule based on ed plans,
effective compressed calendaring, and inform further curricular directions aligned with needs.
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