Peralta Community College District
Annual Program Update Template 2010-2011
Each discipline will complete this form to update program reviews developed in 2009-2010. These will
be reviewed at the college level and then forwarded to the district-wide planning and budgeting
process. The information on this form is required for all resource requests – including faculty staffing
requests – for the 2011-12 budget year.
I.
Overview
Date Submitted:
10/13/10
Dean:
Linda Sanford
BI Download:
10/07/2010
Dept. Chair:
Tamika Brown
Discipline:
MLAT
Campus:
Laney
Mission
The mission of the Laney College Ethnic Studies Department is to educate the
community on critical race and resistance studies. Our department offers an
interdisciplinary curriculum that advances the General Education goals of the
college. We provide students with knowledge and skills to respond to the
challenges facing a multicultural and globally interdependent world.
The Department is comprised of four areas of study:
•
African American Studies
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Asian/Asian American Studies
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Mexican/Latin American Studies
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Native American Studies
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II.
Student Data
A. Enrollment
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Census Enrollment (duplicated)
84.0
110.0
134.0
Sections (master sections)
3.0
3.0
3.0
Total FTES
8.7
11.51
13.4
Total FTEF
0.6
0.6
0.6
FTES/FTEF
14.5
19.18
22.33
Enrolled
80.0
105.0
N/A
Retained
72.0
89.0
% Retained
90.0
84.0
N/A
N/A
80.0
47.0
58.0
8.0
10.0
105.0
60.0
57.0
16.0
15.0
B. Retention
C. Success
Total Graded
Success
% Success
Withdraw
% Withdraw
III.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Faculty Data (ZZ assignments excluded)
Fall 2010
Contract FTEF
Hourly FTEF
Extra Service FTEF
Total FTEF
% Contract/Total
0.0
0.6
0.0
0.6
0.0
IV. Faculty Data Comparables F2010 (ZZ assignments excluded) (Z assignments excluded)
Contract FTEF
Hourly FTEF
Extra Service FTEF
Total FTEF
% Contract/Total
Alameda
Berkeley
Laney
Merritt
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.6
0.0
0.6
0.0
0.6
0.0
0.0
0.6
100.0
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V.
Qualitative Assessments
CTE and Vocational: Community and labor market
relevance. Present evidence of community need
based on Advisory Committee input, industry need
data, McIntyre Environmental Scan, McKinsey
Economic Report, licensure and job placement rates,
etc.
Transfer and Basic Skills: Describe how your
course offerings address transfer, basic skills, and
program completion.
N/A
MLAT offers 5 CSU/UC courses. M/LAT 20
renamed “Civic Engagement in Latino
Communities, and the Articulation Agreement
with the CSU System as been restored.
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VI. Strategic Planning Goals
Check all that apply.
Describe how goal applies to your program.
Advance Student Access, Success & Equity
Engage our Communities & Partners
Build Programs of Distinction
Create a Culture of Innovation & Collaboration
Develop Resources to Advance & Sustain Mission
Advance Student Access, Success and Equity:
Ethnic Studies is one of the few programs that
offer emancipated space for historically
marginalized student populations. This is
demonstrated by our commitment to work
collaboratively with academic and student
support programs to offer workshops on
Identity Development, Gender Equity, and
Cultural Awareness.
X Engage Our Communities and Partners:
The Department has engaged the community in
several ways. We have offered a Fall
Speakers Series with a diverse selection of
lecturers. The Asian American Action Fair are
also sponsored by the Ethnic Studies
Department.
X Build Programs of Distinction: Laney’s
Ethnic Studies Department is distinguished by
its commitment to civic engagement. The
Department offers community-based service
learning courses. Students are able to apply
theory to practice, as they serve in the
community, and strategize ways to improve the
social conditions of those most in need.
ASAME offers community-based course.
X Create a Culture of Innovation and
collaboration: MLAT/Ethnic Studies has
reached out to our sister colleges in the district
to create new course offerings in Ethnic
Studies. We have also worked with the
Department Chairs of the CSU system to
create seamless course offerings in Ethnic
Studies transferable to a 4-year institution.
X Develop Resources to Advance and Sustain
our Mission: MLAT/Ethnic Studies would like to
develop a certificate in diversity/cultural
sensitivity training for the professional
employees (e.g. Nurses, Police Officers, nonprofits etc.). This would advance our mission
and provide a service directly to the community.
We need faculty support to offer certificate
programs in diversity training.
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VII. College Strategic Plan Relevance
Check all that apply
New program under development
Program that is integral to your college’s overall strategy
Program that is essential for transfer
Program that serves a community niche
Programs where student enrollment or success has been demonstrably affected by extraordinary
external factors, such as barriers due to housing, employment, childcare etc.
Other
VIII. Action Plan
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Please describe your plan for responding to the above data. Consider curriculum,
pedagogy/instructional, scheduling, and marketing strategies. Also, please reference any cross district
collaboration with the same discipline at other Peralta colleges.
Include overall plans/goals and specific action steps.
• Create a survey to assess student needs (i.e. course offerings, location/time, barriers to college
success)
• Update existing courses
• Create new course offerings based on survey results
• Develop a recruitment plan to attract students in M/LAT program
• Assess SLOs for the core curriculum
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IX. Needs
Please describe and prioritize any faculty, classified, and student assistant needs.
The lower productivity rates may be the result of not having a full-time faculty in this Unit. One suggestion
would be to hire a full-faculty member with a joint appointment in M/LAT and another discipline such as
Sociology/Ethnic Studies/Humanities or History. More attention needs to be given to student
recruitment and curriculum development. The needs of our Latino/a student population are not being
fully served with two part-time faculty members with other responsibilities. The sustainability of the
major will be in jeopardy without immediate attention to staffing needs. Creative situations are
necessary to build this academic unit. Another possibility is sharing a full-time faculty member with one
of our sister colleges.
Please describe and prioritize any equipment, material, and supply needs.
Smart classrooms to integrate media technology in class lectures
New laptop computer for Ethnic Studies adjunct faculty
Resources to create a DVD/video library
Please describe and prioritize any facilities needs.
N/A
X.
Course SLOs and Assessment
Fall 2010
Number of active courses in your discipline
5
Number with SLOs
5
% SLOs/Active Courses
100%
Number of courses with SLOs that have been assessed
0
% Assessed/SLOs
0
Describe types of assessment methods you are using
N/A
Describe results of your SLO assessment progress
N/A
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XI. Program Learning Outcomes and Assessment
Fall 2010
Number of degrees and certificates in your discipline
4
Number with Program Learning Outcomes
3
Number assessed
0
% Assessed
0
Describe assessment methods you are using
N/A
Describe results of assessment
Goal is to assess the program learning outcomes by Spring 2011
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