Los Angeles City College
Institutional Research Advisory Council
Minutes
12:00-2:00pm
Thursday, May 24, 2007
President’s Conference Room
Present: Myra Siegel, Merrill Eastcott, Joyce Moore, Anna Badalyan, Rebecca Tillberg, Arax Cohen, Daryl Kinney,
Richard Arvizu, Maria Reisch
1. College Profile Modifications. Rebecca Tillberg presented the modifications to the College Profile fact
book which will be published mid September 2007. It was recommended to eliminate the “Service Area”
chapter as it is based on the Population 2000 Census data. The chapter will be inserted back after the new
population census data becomes available. A new chapter, “Accountability”, will be included in the College
Profile.
The new Accountability chapter addresses the questions: “What do we want to do?” and “How well are we
doing it?” The chapter is divided into three parts: local, state, federal.
 Local – College Strategic Plan Priorities and Vital Signs.
 State – ARCC (Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges)
 Federal – IPEDS (Inter-segmental Postsecondary Education Data System)
Discussion arose around college peer group members for LACC for different levels of comparisons. It was
advised to analyze in more detail the criteria for peer grouping.
2. Campus Climate Survey. The new Campus Climate Survey, Fall 2007 was presented. Anna Badalyan
prepared the survey using Cognition software which will allow marking (not bubbling) the answers. This
should make it faster and easier to complete the survey. A long discussion arose around eliminating the
Satisfaction factor for part 3 (Learning Outcomes). Some other minor changes were proposed: On page 5
change the order of questions A & B; in question 31on page 2 delete the word “union”; in the factor analysis
change the term for dimension 5 from “Student Connection” to “Student Engagement”.
There were a lot of questions and discussion about the report and analysis of the Fall 2005 Campus Climate
Survey. The data and graphs were discussed with high interest.
The other issue was to find the appropriate day and time for distribution of Fall 2007 survey. For faculty, the
agreement was to distribute on Flex day and devote the first 15 minutes of the meeting to the completion of
the survey. Rebecca proposed to manage the survey for the classified staff with a web survey, depending on
the response rate for Staff Development Survey.
3.
Technology Report. Anna Badalyan presented surveys and reports that have been developed using new
survey software (Cognition and eListen) and Crystal Reports application: ASO Election ballot and report,
Transportation and Class Schedule survey and analysis, Paralegal Program’s Student Survey, and paper
version of Staff Development Survey Spring 2007 were distributed.
Rebecca Tillberg presented information about the new LACC web side which will be part of a larger project
on the District level. It was suggested that an important feature is a calendar on the main page with clickable
days where pop-ups display the activities on the campus that day.
4. Program Review On Line. Rebecca Tillberg described the progress on the LACC Program Review online,
a project of the Educational Planning Committee, under the auspices of the Academic Senate. As an
example, the L.A. Trade Tech College Program Review web site was presented on a projection board. This
demonstrated how currently several colleges have already implemented on line program review.
5. Next meeting. The next meeting will be September 27th at 12 pm – 2pm.