Sacramento City College
Unit Plans
Completed Spring 2005
Department Name: Cooperative Work Experience & Internship Program
Department Spokesperson: Wendy Slobodnik
Division Dean: Walt Sherwood
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Key Performance Indicators
Cooperative Work Experience & Internship Prog. Department/Accomplishments 2004 – 2005
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Goal 1: : Build one new learning community
Karen DeLira, WEXP SPA, served as a faculty intern
Establish academic
in Jim Hinerman’s HCD 310 (College Success) class.
Brainstorm with current WEXP SPA and
alliances with
Through her promotional efforts, she successfully
counselors which classes would be suitably other departments;
linked our WEXP classes to the HCD 310 class. The
linked with WEXP
assist students
result: a few students signed up for the online WEXP
retention
classes and investigated internships.
Goal 2: : Implement student, faculty, and employer testimonials on district wide WEXP website
To date, I have requested such testimonials, but to no
Establish links
avail. So, student testimonials are currently housed
among the WEXP in our WEXP Manila website at
Internship Program http://web.scc.losrios.edu/workexperience. In
and various
addition, student profiles of success are showcased in
Establish meeting with Sally Wong, current
academic
our glass cases in Rodda North and the Business
programmer, to achieve this goal.
departments, as
Building; and Career Services, the WEXP Internship
well as community Program, and Job Services are currently discussing
alliances in the
doing a quarterly newsletter, to be distributed on
workplace.
campus, that will showcase successful interns and job
placements.
Goal 3: Promote the Work Experience classes in the business communities
Within the last six months, both the current SPA and
Coordinator have done at least two employer
Establish links
presentations/site visits a month. In each case, the
Identify two employers a month to do
between
WEXP classes have been promoted as a viable way
presentations to regarding the online WEXP community
for current employees of these organizations to build
classes.
workplace and
their soft skills. The result: Employees representing
SCC programs.
some of these organizations have signed up for the
WEXP online classes.
Action Plan
Cooperative Work Experience & Internship Prog. Department/Accomplishments 2004 – 2005
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Year-End Status and Accomplishments
Plans
Goal 4: Continue to build internships in underrepresented areas
Establish close
link between
WEXP Internship
Program and
To date, the Coordinator and SPA have developed 25
various SCC
new internships in Telecommunications/Installers; 10
departments. Also new internships for the Nursing majors; and 15 new
Identify which majors are underrepresented;
permit students to
internships in CIS. In each instance, the dean and/or
meet with department chair to discern if that
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validate their
the instructors of these areas were consulted
department wants internships.
academic choices
regarding potential leads; or the dean/instructors were
via internships
involved in employer presentations to build said
(work based
internships.
learning).
See Goal 2 in 2005
Program Review
Goal 5: Continue to participate in the district wide placement database
The Coordinator continued to attend meetings
regarding the roll out/publicity of the Job
Connections database. Currently both the
Continue to attend meetings on the roll-out
Coordinator and the SPA continue to market the Job
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and maintenance of this database
Connections database to individual students as well
as to classes (“Don’t Cancel That Class” and the
“Roadshow.”)
Other Accomplishments:
 Better internship placement rates—less attrition in classes
 Extended appointment/walk-in hours, to service and be available for students.
 Increased internship development for targeted areas---better employer follow-up
 Designed new assessment tool for evaluating and tracking internships
 Consistently full classes for all WEXP instructors.
 More development of “Summer specific” Internships
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Greater internship representation in Career Fair
Better tracking, follow-up, and clean-up of Internship database
Three-Year Plan
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Long Range Plan
Build learning communities with other
faculty that would utilize internships as
part of their students’ last semester
curriculum requirements.
Continue to promote the Work Experience
classes in the business communities as a
way of re-introducing working
professionals into the academic setting
Continue to build internships in
underrepresented areas
Continue to promote testimonials of
students, faculty and employers
Continue to create innovative advertising
tactics to recruit students into the Work
Experience classes (See Goal 2b in 2005
Program Review)
Continue to increase internship placement
rates
Continue to expand the audience of
WEXP students to include working
professionals in need of academic credit
for their workplace hours. (Goal 1 in 2005
Program Review)
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Cooperative Work Exp. & Internship Prog. Department / Action Plan 2005 – 2006
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Year-end Status and Accomplishments
Plans
Goal 1: Promote the Internship Assessment form to all WEXP instructors
Establishing a stronger
link to other
departments offering
internships;
Email the AJ, ECE, Sociology, Library Tech,
establishing
and Journalism, and Real Estate instructors of
consistency in the
all WEXP 298, 497 and 498 classes
quality of internships
offered.
KPI: Student
Learning Outcomes
Improving the quality
of internships offered
through various
Based on the Internship Assessment form,
departments at SCC.
begin making more site visits to determine the KPI:
eligibility of organizations currently offering
Industry/employment
internships through Los Rios.
measures
(See Goal 2 in the
1005 Program
Review)
Goal 2: Establish a Flex Day district annual update for all Coordinators and WEXP instructors
Through meetings, emails, establish an
agenda of changes and implementations to
KPI: Training and
share with our WEXP instructors district
development activity
wide. Such a meeting would be a tri-chair
event.
Action Item
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Goal 3: Partner with Career Services and Job Services to create a newsletter that advertises new economic trends and
student/employer testimonials
Establish an initial meeting with the heads of KPI: Unit
Career Services, Job Services, their
publication which
supervisors, and the WEXP Internship
would revive the
Coordinator and SPA to map out the layout
One-Stop Center
and timeline of such a newsletter.
concept.
Goal 4: Build one new learning community with another faculty
KPI: Program
Start researching possible courses with which development:
to link the WEXP class.
establishing another
learning community
KPI: Program
Research another class that would offer
development:
internships as pat of their students’ last
establishing another
semester curriculum requirements.
learning community
Goal 5: Continue to promote the WEXP classes in the workplace/business community
KPI: Community
Dovetail employer presentations for
partnerships with
internships with marketing the WEXP classes
various businesses
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Year-end Status and Accomplishments
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Goal 6: Continue to build internships in underrepresented areas
KPI: Establish new
alliances with
community partners;
establish new
Cold Calls
internships for
students.
(See Goal 2a in 2005
Program Review)
KPI: Community
partnershipping via
Attend appropriate networking groups and
internships
career conferences
(See Goal 2b in 2005
Program Review)
Goal 7: Add a report to the district wide Internship database that identifies students’ ages, ethnicities, and genders
Linked to statistical
pool shared by the
WEXP Internship
Contact Programmer that can create such a
Programs at ARC and
report and commission her to do so.
CRC. KPI: Program
level measures.
(See Goal 3a in 2005
Program Review)
Action Item
Cooperative Work Exp. & Internship Program Department Budget Request 2005 - 2006
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Description
Marketing Materials
Career Conference
Student Assistant
Supplies, Office
Copying of Title Vs,
other Work Experience
documents
Computer
Operating
Budget
Increase
250
300
Instruction
Supplies
Computers
Equipment
Furniture
New
Program
Start-up
Marketing
Materials
Remodel
Space
Faculty
Hires
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Student
Hires
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1500
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1500
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3000
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Budget Narrative 2005-2006
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Marketing Materials
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Career Conference
300
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Student Assistant
3000
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Computer
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Justification
The program cannot grow without additional advertising materials to recruit
new employers and students. The materials, which are reproduced through
Graphic Impressions, are used in Employers’ Packets mailed out to new
internship sites, student recruitment in internships and Work Experience
classes, as well as at employer presentations.
Each year a series of career conferences are held in California. The $300
would cover the registration fee only.
Currently the WEXP Internship Program has extensive data entry for student
intakes, employer internships—intakes and updates, completed WEXP Title
Vs submitted by WEXP instructors. In addition, assembly of employer
packets, running copies, making calls to employers for updates on their
internships (active or inactive) and to students (who are applying for
internships) to discern what their status is (placed or still searching for
internships) is overwhelming. A student assistant could aid us in keeping up
with the voluminous amount of data that we must continually process.
Office supplies are a necessary factor in any program; in addition, documents
must be reproduced for the Work Experience classes. Such reproduction
involves all Work Experience classes, which number hundreds of students
each semester.
One year ago, the C drive on my computer crashed. Fortunately, I had saved
most of my data to a shared drive; however, that data that was not in the
shared drive could not be retrieved. The technician, Robert Cohen, who
worked on my computer, stated that my current computer needs to be
replaced. Hence, the request.
Key Performance Indictors for Cooperative Work Exp. & Internship Program Department
Student Applications for Internships:
2004-2005
Semester
Summer 2004
Fall 2004
Spring 2005
Total
Number
71
137
133
341
Internships by Division
Division
Business
Behavioral/Social Science
Humanities/Fine Arts
Language/Literature
Library Technology
Math/Statistics/Engineering
PE/Health/Athletics
Science/Allied Health
Technology
Total
Number
431
215
127
75
4
46
15
53
110
1076
WORK EXPERIENCE CLASSES: STUDENT GENDER
Male
Fall 2002
Fall 2003
Fall 2004
Female
62
59
79
Undeclared
137
124
144
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WORK EXPERIENCE CLASSES: ETHNICITIES REPRESENTED
Fall 2002
African American
Asian
Decline to State
Hispanic
Native American
White
Other
Filipino
Pacific Islander
Fall 2003
41
24
6
34
2
80
8
3
4
Fall 2004
37
26
6
32
8
63
5
6
1
51
32
13
39
6
67
7
7
3
WORK EXPERIENCE CLASSES: AGE GROUPS
Fall 2002
18-20
21-24
25-29
30-39
40+
Fall 2003
57
55
36
37
19
Fall 2004
52
60
26
30
16
44
67
39
40
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