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:
ART
Campus:
Merritt
Mission
The Art Department at Merritt College seeks to generate and nurture the creative
element in human life. Artistic impulse is an intrinsic human necessity for holistic
health. The shared creative process of a class in painting or ceramics fosters, in
the warmest, most accessible way, a general communication that spreads out to
benefit the entire community.
Student Data
A. Enrollment
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Census Enrollment (duplicated)
521.0
570.0
464.0
Sections (master sections)
17.0
16.0
12.0
Total FTES
71.26
78.45
64.93
Total FTEF
4.35
4.28
3.39
FTES/FTEF
16.38
18.35
19.17
Enrolled
506.0
547.0
N/A
Retained
463.0
487.0
% Retained
91.0
89.0
N/A
N/A
506.0
413.0
81.0
43.0
8.0
547.0
438.0
80.0
60.0
10.0
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
1.55
1.81
0.03
3.39
45.67
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
0.0
1.25
0.0
1.25
0.0
1.67
3.93
0.0
5.6
29.79
2.55
3.85
0.44
6.84
37.25
1.55
1.82
0.03
3.39
45.66
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 offered
Art is essential to Merritt’s responsibility in
preparing students to be professionally and
personally qualified through completion their
educational goals. Art at Merritt is unique
because of its specific faculty members who
are well known and respected in the
community. Our hands-on art classes are filled
with a significant numbers of life-long learners.
Our two primary classroom layouts are also the
very finest in the district.
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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 beginning level classes in all mediums
target students with little or no art experience,
many who continue on through the sequence of
classes.
Merritt Art sets up an annual art display at the
district office which attracts a large populace
from the community. Students also display their
art in various community settings, at
restaurants and other businesses.
Our art faculty consists of well-known artists in
the community, targeting large audience of
non-matriculating students.
Art, by its nature, creates a culture of
innovation as it requires identifying aspects of
culture with human creativity.
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.
1. Communicate regularly at departmental and administrative levels through email.
2. Hold department meetings each semester.
3. Create an enticing Art Department website easy to locate from the Peralta website.
4. Designate an art history classroom with digital projection equipment.
5. Present the annual spring Art Show of Merritt at the Peralta District Offices.
6. Upgrade lighting in A-122 and A-133, most critical in art, to facilitate student success.
7. Expedite the completion of the building remodel projects, particularly for Building A.
IX. Needs
Please describe and prioritize any faculty, classified, and student assistant needs.
We would like to add more art history classes, taught by adjunct, as these classes meet GE requirements.
Please describe and prioritize any equipment, material, and supply needs.
Art continues to upgrade ceramic equipment with Measure A funds, but is limited because of the limitations
of Building A. Ceramcis requires a significant amount of supply funds for materials. Figure drawing classes
require funds for live models as approved in the course content.
Please describe and prioritize any facilities needs.
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Building A needs to be upgraded with sufficient electrical power pulled into the art classrooms, capable
of running the equipment. The kiln room needs to be expanded and upgraded as well.Lighting is
obviously very critical to art curricula.
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To ensure student success, lighting in both Art A122 and A133 needs to be improved in two ways: by
having the lights lowered approximately ten feet, to the bottom of the windows; and by replacing
ineffective mini-blinds and anti-solar film with a translucent white glazing material, to increase the light
level by a lampshade effect and eliminate direct sunrays.
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A133 needs an enclosed and ventilated spray booth for safe glazing. Also needed is the enlargement of
the kiln room adjacent to A133 to accommodate the new kilns now on our campus. Art also needs a
classroom with computer access for every student for digital art classes. This can be shared with other
disciplines as well.
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X.
Course SLOs and Assessment
Fall 2010
Number of active courses in your discipline
38
Number with SLOs
all
% SLOs/Active Courses
all
Number of courses with SLOs that have been assessed
to begin this semester
% Assessed/SLOs
Describe types of assessment methods you are using
exam, individual demonstration, portfolio review
Describe results of your SLO assessment progress
Beginning this 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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