City College of San Francisco Flex Day Agenda
September 12, 2012
Issues of Concern for Career and Technical Education Faculty
Beth Cataldo (bcataldo@ccsf.edu)
1. How do you and your department measure SLOs for CTE Programs?
2. How do you and your department use data?
a. Certificate Completion
b. Licenses
c. Completer/Leaver Survey (2012 first year/results due any day)
d. Core Indicator Data
e. Labor Market Information
f. Advisory Meetings
3. How and when to update certificates and curriculum to meet industry needs?
4. Discuss future Program Review process driving Perkins funding.
5. Overview of the CTE discussion in Sacramento (completion rates, relevance of shortterm certificates, standardized certificates, real-time labor market information,
program discontinuance).
6. Get feedback on ideas to implement this year. What do you and your department
need to understand and measure SLOs?
Other Topics to discuss if there is time:
1. Potential workshops to analyze Completer/Leaver survey results and use them for
program improvement.
2. Discussion of how to integrate Program Review with Perkins to make the process
more data-driven (using completer survey and other current data) and relevant to
faculty and departments.
3. Merge the CTE Student Success Initiative with Perkins Application to make it more
relevant to program improvement and not primarily about equipment.
Main Suggestions Where Faculty Need Help from the College for SLO Assessment:
1. Advisory meetings are becoming more and more difficult for departments to hold.
Attendees are competitive with each other and often won’t give real information.
Attendees are often too busy to come. Attendees only discuss their main
technology/process where industry is more diverse.
Ask: Is there a way that we can help standardize advisory meetings or have the
college help create a better format for gain relevant information from employers to
keep programs current?
2. Equipment to keep programs current is difficult (if not impossible) to fund.
Perhaps the college can help create relationships among employers to get more
donations (similar to what Bridge to Biotech does with the BioTech Depot). This
would help keep programs current and create a better alignment with employers.
Equipment is expensive and unfunded in almost all CTE departments.
Ask: Could CCSF make a more cohensive effort to seek out funding/equipment from
employers through broader relationships with industry?
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3. Finding students internships and jobs is challenging and time-consuming (and
often not funded). These faculty would like to see one contact to funnel information
about internships and jobs at CCSF.
Ask: Could CCSF create a central place where employers can call and arrange job
and internship postings.? Information about this centralized area should be easy to
find on our web site.
4. Many people do not know about our programs. Very strong programs, such as
Automotive, Graphic Communications and Bridge to Biotech, do not have visibility
in our community. If CCSF marketed them more cohesively and created
relationships with local agencies working with the unemployed or new students, the
classes would be full.
Ask: Could CCSF market our Career and Technical Education programs and create
relationships with relevant agencies and schools to make sure that our classes are
full?
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