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.
II.
Overview
Date Submitted:
Oct 18, 2010
Dean:
Stacy Thompson
BI Download:
10/07/2010
Dept. Chair:
David Morales
Discipline:
MUSIC
Campus:
Merritt
Mission
Through our music course offerings, we strive to foster an understanding and
appreciation for music that will enhance our understanding of history and our place
in today’s world. Through study, rehearsal and performance we seek to motivate
and develop the best corporate ideas and efforts of the whole in order to inspire
and entertain in creative ways unique to humankind.
Student Data
A. Enrollment
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
280.0
263.0
210.0
8.0
7.0
5.0
Total FTES
30.37
28.49
21.22
Total FTEF
1.57
1.37
0.97
FTES/FTEF
19.3
20.75
21.8
Enrolled
272.0
261.0
N/A
Retained
229.0
213.0
% Retained
84.0
81.0
N/A
N/A
272.0
211.0
77.0
43.0
15.0
261.0
189.0
72.0
48.0
18.0
Census Enrollment (duplicated)
Sections (master sections)
B. Retention
C. Success
Total Graded
Success
% Success
Withdraw
% Withdraw
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N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
III.
Faculty Data (ZZ assignments excluded)
Fall 2010
Contract FTEF
Hourly FTEF
Extra Service FTEF
Total FTEF
% Contract/Total
0.7
0.0
0.27
0.97
71.92
IV. Faculty Data Comparables F2010 (ZZ assignments excluded) (Z assignments excluded)
Contract FTEF
Hourly FTEF
Extra Service FTEF
Total FTEF
% Contract/Total
V.
Alameda
Berkeley
Laney
Merritt
0.93
0.43
0.08
1.43
64.82
0.0
1.63
0.0
1.63
0.0
3.8
2.69
0.64
7.13
53.3
0.7
0.0
0.27
0.97
71.94
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.
No vocational degree is offered at Merritt.
As a liberal art, music frees (liber) music frees
students to further explore and understand
themselves and their world in the context of
history through its musical/artistic output. Music
is therefore essential to Merritt’s strategy in
preparing students to be professionally and
personally qualified through completion of their
educational goals. The music classes we offer
are required for AA and Bachelor’s degrees at
UC, CSU and private colleges and universities.
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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
Our classes engage a full diversity of Merritt's
population, while maintaining above average
retention rates.
Our college orchestra and college choir both
collaborate with two separate community nonprofit organizations in attracting audiences from
the Bay Area community at large.
We are the only college in Peralta that offers a
full orchestra and a choir with such high music
standards.
These performance ensembles continually
learn and perform new music, from a variety of
cultures, past and current.
Each of them secure funding from their
respective collaborative partners in order to
advance and sustain the mission of continuing
education and service to the community at
large.
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
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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.
• Add back additional course offerings immediately to meet the demands of students and achieve our
strategic goals listed above. Currently Merritt has the lowest music FTEF in the district, yet the highest
productivity.
* Maintaining regular music departmental communication via meetings and email.
• Implementation of a Music Department website for prospective students.
• Communication with administration, particularly Academic Deans and the Office of Instruction.
• Regular communication between Merritt faculty and music faculty at our sister colleges in
coordinating schedule of classes and course offerings.
• Create a new class offering in Hip-Hop Music and a voice class in popular, blues, rock, country and
R&B music styles in conjunction with CSU and UC and other universities.
IX. Needs
Please describe and prioritize any faculty, classified, and student assistant needs.
We need to add adjunct faculty in order to meet the demands of students in completing a variety of classes
that meet their G.E transfer requirements.
Please describe and prioritize any equipment, material, and supply needs.
Supply needs are minimal, but ongoing each year. Equipment needs include smart classroom equipment, in
addition to a new sound system and additional electronic keyboards, the latter which can be purchased with
Measure A funds.
Please describe and prioritize any facilities needs.
The A building is in drastic need of remodelling. There is little heat and no air conditioning and poor
ventilation. A metal roll up door negatively effects the temperature of the room, as well as the aesthetics.
We are using a space never designed as a classroom. The piano lab has no windows at all, no
ventilation. A major remodel sooner than later is essential.
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X.
Course SLOs and Assessment
Fall 2010
Number of active courses in your discipline
7
Number with SLOs
7
% 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
Exam. Essay, Class Presentation, Individual Demontration
Describe results of your SLO assessment progress
First assessments will take place later in the F10 semester.
XI. Program Learning Outcomes and Assessment
Fall 2010
Number of degrees and certificates in your discipline
0
Number with Program Learning Outcomes
0
Number assessed
% Assessed
Describe assessment methods you are using
Describe results of assessment
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