COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE
COLLEGE PLANNING COMMITTEE
February 24, 2009
MINUTES
NEXT MEETING: March 10, 2009
3:00 pm, Orchard Room
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Avalos, Juan
Ball, Cynthia
Bloomfield, Anthony
Beachler, Judy
Brazil, Brad
Carney, Michael
Coelho, Roseanna
DuCray, Linda
Edman, Jeanne
Ellis, John
Emetarom, Chitoh
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Gill, Blanca
Huang, Sonny
Le, Richard
Marchand, Lisa
McLain, Kathy
Miller, Billie
Torres, Cynthia
Ursin, Peggy
Wellsfry, Norv
Yamamura, Whitney
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1.
Call to order / Approval of minutes
Norv called the meeting to order at 3:12 p.m. The minutes for February 10, 2009 were
approved by consent.
2.
Review of Community and Economic Development Draft
Kathy asked the committee to revisit the Community and Economic Development draft
and give feedback. Norv explained that, while they were reviewing our work, je and
Kathy identified three major goals in the area of Community and Economic Development:
1) understanding community, 2) responding to our community, and 3) resource
development.
The following edits to the draft were discussed.
Community and Economic Development Draft
We seek to promote the heath and economic vitality of the region. As a community
resource, the College contributes to community life through partnerships, involvement in
civic affairs, and programs that serve the community. The College also supports
economic development through their career and technical programs and partnerships
with business labor and industry.
Goal 1: Enhance our ability to Understand the needs of the community
Strategies:
a. Strengthen dialogue with the community about their needs for economic,
workforce and community development.
b. Develop reciprocal relationships with community based organizations (civic,
non-profit, business, governmental, etc.)
c. Enhance our ability to know about the future needs of the community and
emerging technologies (forecasting/environmental scanning) understand our
changing demographics, public policy, economic and educational
environment
Goal 2: Ensure we are responsive to the needs of the community
Strategy:
a. Ensure that we have effective, innovative and responsive programs.
b. Ensure that we have effective, innovative and responsive programs, services
and delivery methods designed to meet the needs of the community (e.g. career
counseling, re-careering fairs, health fairs, partnerships with community
organizations).
c. Ensure that we have effective, innovative and responsive delivery methods
(e.g. workshops, seminars, scheduling, distance education, consortia with other
entities, including collaboration with the training source and district).
Goal 3: Enhance resource development to increase capacity (facilities, FTE,
RESOURCES personnel, supplies & equipment)
Strategies:
a. Expand the capacity and utilization of the CRC Foundation.
b. Develop new and expanded partnerships to support growth for existing and
developing programs.
c. Increase the capacity to develop, utilize and manage grants and contracts.
d. Enhance governmental relations and advocacy efforts.
3.
Next steps –
a. Developing an assessment and accountability mechanism/process
Norv talked about all of the work that goes into creating a Strategic Plan and raised the
questions – How is it actually going to change the institution? How do we measure and
assess the results and our progress in achieving our goals? Kathy indicated that this is
critical because of the global and general nature of our new plan, which now makes this
more difficult. There will be a need for the committee to build accountability and
assessment mechanisms into the plan.
The committee was not able to reach any consensus on how we might do this, so further
discussion about this is needed at the next meeting.
b. Integrating other planning processes with the Strategic Plan
Norv mentioned that there was a disconnect between the operational units and the
governance structure and the strategic plan, and that we need to strengthen the
connection between the strategic plan, which is supposed to be driving the direction of
the college, with these other planning processes. Although the format of the new PrOF
and the Management Goals provides some connection, this is for the most part a one
way connection that needs to be strengthened and enhanced.
In addition, Kathy indicated the need to strengthen the feedback loop regarding activities
that are conducted in support of the plan. It was suggested that a pilot feedback process
be introduced in a non-structured manor. Several ways to do this were identified
including inviting Executive Secretaries of the Shared Governance Committees to
dialogue with the College Planning Committee and gathering feedback from the SG
committees to see how their activities map on to the SP. This could be done formally or
informally. It was suggested that it might be helpful to create a slide show/canned
presentation that explains the strategic plan process and how all of the processes are
intertwined.
The committee was not able to reach any consensus on how we might do this, so further
discussion about this is needed at the next meeting.
4.
Other
a. New Subcommittee to replace the Outcomes Assessment Task Force (OATF) –
Norv introduced a newly created subcommittee, “Learning Outcomes Dialogue
Subcommittee”, of the College Planning Committee. He explained it would function
independent of the College Planning Committee, but would work through the CPC.
b. Revised College Planning Committee Charge – Norv also introduced a revised
version of the CPC charge. The committee looked over the revisions and made minor
amendments. It was M/S/P (Marchand/Carney) to approve the revisions to the charge.
The above recommendations will be forwarded to the Shared Governance Committee.
The meeting adjourned at 4:40 p.m.
Submitted by Neva Conner