Los Angeles Mission College
Essential Skills Committee
Request for Basic Skills Initiative Funding
Please complete this document and submit it to the Co-Chairs of the Essential Skills
Committee (Diana Bonilla or Cindy Luis) for review by the committee. It is important to
demonstrate how your request for funding forms part of the substantive planning as
outlined in the Basic Skills Planning Matrices. You can review the matrices at
www.lamission.edu/eduplanning/forms/Final%20Matrices%20with%20Revised%20Date
s%2010-15-08.doc . You must also connect your request to your unit assessment, show
how budget and planning are connected, and indicate how you will evaluate the success
of your plan or activity.
Name of Requestor/Department or Unit
Date
Department Chair or Unit Supervisor
Signature
Amount Requested
1. Describe your plan for the funds in detail. Please itemize proposed expenditures.
What is the duration of the funded activity?
2. Please identify any other departments or programs that offer a similar resource on our
campus. How is your concept different? (How can your plan be described as an
innovative intervention to advance basic skills student success?) How does it help to
create efficient use of resources?
3. In what ways is your idea aligned to the Basic Skills Planning Matrices? Please
specify the relevant Sections, Planned Actions, and/or Effective Practices and
Strategies.
4. In what ways does your plan promote or accomplish the goals and objectives of the
Educational Master Plan and Strategic Plan?
5. Explain how your request is connected to your program review/unit assessment.
Please include a brief plan summarizing how you propose to collect qualitative and/or
quantitative data to evaluate the success of your plan. Outcome data must be
provided to the ESC co-chairs by the end of the current fiscal year.