Collegial Program Review Summary
THEMES – 12/11/06
1. Facilities:
a. Dedicated work space for courses that have necessary equipment and/or supplies
or “first dibs” in scheduling dependent on program needs (see scheduling)
b. Dedicated classroom space or dedicated display space for student work and/or
discipline specific artifacts, etc.
c. Scheduling software to be able to determine larger lecture classes, etc and what
facilities are available when; many disciplines need more classroom availability
during prime time
d. Review of technology in classrooms that can be done on a 4 to 5 year basis to
ensure program quality
e. More office space for adjuncts
f. More discipline based storage needed both for instruction and administration
g. Need for a bibliographic classroom
h. Possible language lab
i. Additional storage space
j. Classroom space for collaborative learning opportunities versus traditional
classroom set up and furniture schemes
k. Additional space for academic resource centers
l. Increased access and/or numbers of technology labs for disciplines
m. All classrooms should be smart classrooms
n. Classrooms renovated to meet teaching needs based on best practices room
utilization and quality instruction
2. Scheduling:
a. More outside the box scheduling with a look at possible interdisciplinary
scheduling so that students may be able to take courses that link via a certificate
or degree pattern
b. Possible scheduling of learning communities
c. Increased sections in courses that have students waiting to get in
d. Increased analysis of math courses necessary for science students to be successful
(possible increase in sections)
e. Need to look at discipline connections that would require cross discipline
scheduling
3. Staffing:
a. Need for more fulltime and adjunct faculty in many disciplines
b. Need for more classified staff to support growing programs and growing support
services in academics
c. Look into teaching assistants and/or discipline readers, etc.
d. More efficient equivalency process for hires
e. Money and variety of ways to advertise for adjuncts, especially those in specialty
fields that may need unique advertising, etc
f. Should provide dollars for faculty who need to remain current in licensing and
field requirements necessary to provide instruction
g. All divisions noted a need for increased faculty and classified staff
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h. College needs to look into instructional assistants for any and all computer labs
including vocational programs that have minimal hours, etc.
i. Increased technology support staff
4. Budget:
a. Consensus that budget items that can be covered with discipline specific funding
should be increased to accommodate more students, more faculty and more
services
b. Consensus that the budget necessary for Master Plan goals and large ticket items
should remain in the PBC process; smaller items that can be accommodated via
the program review should be sent to the appropriate administrator for funding
whenever possible
c. Consensus that we all just need more money
d. Printers in offices
e. More supplies money for each discipline
f. Access to consistent methods of transportation
g. Reliance on dollars that are soft money need to be transferred to general fund
whenever possible to provide consistent and stable funding
h. Look at increased opportunities to work with disciplines in budgeting process and
development
i. Budget for outside maintenance work for discipline specific equipment that
cannot be fixed by institutional M & O
j. Budget that is more flexible for needs that come up or are not planned
5. Marketing and Outreach:
a. College should consider funding and marketing the internship program and
looking for areas of growth within the college and possibly the district
b. Many programs have noted needing additional high school outreach and would
like to explore doing that on a systematic basis
c. Portal for increased student access and student communication and marketing (see
technology)
d. Advertising plans for adjunct faculty beyond what the district is currently offering
e. Marketing requested by EVERY division: suggests a marketing criteria/template
for disciplines to fill out for program needs (what would best fit the need of the
program)
f. Better connections to the high schools in specific disciplines (i.e. Engineering) or
needs assessment from programs requiring specific types of outreach to secondary
schools
g. Possible district supplied resources for the college to create an LPC marketing and
outreach plan
6. Technology:
a. Need to work with institutional research on how data can be made available via
technology an how faculty can access needed data more readily (some possible
programming needs identified here)
b. Review of classroom technology on a 4 – 5 year cycle for program needs, etc
c. Consensus that some computer classrooms are not upgraded adequately to run
more robust programs, etc.
d. Need more computer labs and computers that are upgraded and rotated out on a 3
-5 year basis
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e. Need dollars for library databases and other technologies to support the
disciplines via the library
f. Need increased dollars for instructional equipment such as music, digital cameras,
etc.
g. Increased and sustainable dollars needed for software purchases and for faculty
training on new software, alone with maintenance and upgrades
h. Need regular maintenance of smart classrooms so that they are ready to teach in
and not needing repair, batteries, etc.
i. Need for a district / institutional software budget for college FTES generating
purchases and maintenance
j. Increased resources needed for additional software purchases that are program
based
7. Curriculum:
a. Consensus that all programs need to commit to working on the SLO process
b. Process is intensive for some faculty and has some issues with signatures begin
done in a timely manner
c. Hoping the college will upgrade to new forms with technology support
d. Need a centralized point of service for articulation transfer information that can be
technologically accessible
e. Need to look at bridges and connections with community education (themes that
might cross over)
f. Information competency discussions across the curriculum
g. Look at increased curriculum designs that integrate between disciplines
h. Training and developing curriculum for linked and/or learning community
courses
8. Community Connections:
a. Need to look at the competition from other colleges that are marketing within the
community or developing on the borders of our community
b. Programs may need to look at specific community connections; that may take a
centralized service to know what is being asked and requested
c. Feedback from the Tri-Valley business group should be disseminated to the career
programs
d. Work with community on bringing in speakers for discipline areas such as
science, psychology, etc.
e. Face to face meeting with counterparts at high schools
f. Workshops for local high schools (who are we at the college or what can we
partner in to increase student success)
9. Student Success:
a. Need for additional budget and staffing for our academic resource areas such as
the ILC, library, etc.
b. Need for additional space for academic resource support programs
10. Reassigned time:
a. Concern that there is a faculty and staff burn out on the many initiatives
undertaken and need to look at alternative methods for faculty to participate in all
those initiatives
b. Concern that all faculty may need to look at release time to complete many of the
institutional requirements demanded of faculty
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c. Need to work with faculty on reassigned time best practices
d. Increased reassigned time for coordinators
11. Research:
a. Foreign language requests research in trends in the discipline and in the
backgrounds and/or educational planning that occurs with foreign language
learners
12. Under-Prepared Students:
a. Need for more counseling options and/or communication for students who are
under-prepared in disciplines necessary for successful completion of outside
discipline courses ( i.e. Math for science)
b. Faculty dialogue on needs and strategies for under-prepared students in the
classroom
c. Academic resource support through tutorial services for other disciplines besides
math and English and ESL ( sciences, etc.); possible integration of all academic
resource programs for students to utilize within a centralized location
13. Staff Development:
a. Possible class visits to other faculty classrooms
b. Increased ability to work with adjuncts in the discipline
c. Increased resources for faculty to attend conferences and/or obtain substitutes for
professional development opportunities
d. Work with faculty on bringing in more speakers for the college faculty (see
community connections)
14. Planning:
a. Some big Red Book disconnect in timing for requests or requests that have been
in the Red Book for quite some time
(Rev. 12/11/06)
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