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President's Welcome Address Glenn Roquemore, Ph.D. President, Irvine Valley College. Tuesday, January 8, 2008. Personnel Actions. August 2007– January 2008. Welcome Aboard. Will Glen. Chief of Police Office of Safety and Security. Welcome Aboard. Karl Stenske.
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President's Welcome Address Glenn Roquemore, Ph.D. President, Irvine Valley College Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Personnel Actions August 2007– January 2008
Welcome Aboard Will Glen Chief of Police Office of Safety and Security
Welcome Aboard Karl Stenske Director of Production Management School of Fine Arts
Welcome Aboard Rachel Manders Grants Analyst Office of Institutional Grants/ Career Tech Ed. & Workforce Development Sharon Kennedy Sr. Administrative Assistant Career Tech Ed. & Workforce Development
Welcome Aboard David Wang Accounting Assistant Bursar’s Office
Reassignment John Edwards Director Facilities and Maintenance
Reassignment Dan Rivas Acting Dean Humanities and Fine Arts
System Wide BASIC SKILLS Initiative
BASIC SKILLS • Only 41% of our Latino and African American • students earn a degree, certificate, or • transfer in 6 years. • Statewide 52% of our degree seeking students • earn a degree, certificate, or transfer in • 6 years.
BASIC SKILLS • More than 70% of entering students • cannot read, write, or do math at the • college level. • Over 90% of students who need basic skills • instruction but do not get it will not survive in college.
Student Success/Basic Skills Initiative • Strong leadership and collaboration from Statewide Academic Senate, CIO’s, CSSO’s, and System Office • Completed review of the literature – identified 26 things colleges can do to improve student success • Self assessment tool was developed • 20 regional workshops conducted – 1,200 faculty attended. IVC was host college.
Basic Skills As A Top Priority • $33.1 million in this year’s budget • Action and expenditure plans for use of • money – due May 1 • $50 million more next year possible
BASIC SKILLS • Basic Skills should become an institutional priority • I am committed to this project • Faculty must take the lead but I am there to support them. I will be an active, interested, • participant in the process.
BASIC SKILLS • We should strive to hire faculty who are • knowledgeable and enthusiastic about basic • skills, care about students, and mirror of diversity • of the student population. • The self assessment is a priority between now • and May 1 when the Action and Expenditure Plans • are due. • Institutional Effectiveness Committee • Wendy Gabriella & Sibylle Georgianna Co-Chairs
Update on Basic Skills Process Academic Senate President, Wendy Gabriella
2006-2012 Strategic Plan: Update on Year One 2007-2008 Glenn R. Roquemore, Ph.D., President of Irvine Valley College Wendy Gabriella, J.D., President of the Academic Senate Sibylle Georgianna, Ph.D., Office of Research and Planning
Implementation • Strategic Planning integrated since Fall 2007 within • the fabric of the college. • Budget Development Committee as revised Steering • Team to oversee integration of 2007-2008 Objectives • and Strategies.
Terminology • IVC’s Goals -set by the College • Research -read by the Steering Team (now Budget • Development Committee)and Focus Groups (now • Strategic Planning Committees) • Planning Assumptions – • derived from research by Focus Groups (now • Strategic Planning Committees) • Objectives -derived from Planning Assumptions • Strategies -to accomplish the Objectives
Definitions • Planning Assumptions are interpretations of the planning environment as it relates to IVC’s Goals. • They are derived from research. • Objectives, time sensitive and quantifiable, are set • to attain IVC’s goals. • Strategies are the way/agents to achieve a specific objective. An objective can be achieved by one or • more strategies. • http://intranet.ivc.edu/sp/default.aspx
Objective I • OBJECTIVE: To increase alternative ways of education by • offering an online degree and/or certificate in 2008; • offering training in creating online classes to faculty; and • providing funding to develop an online distance education orientation template. (Linked to IVC Goals: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; and District Goal 1) • Rationale: • IVC will increase enrollment through online classes
Objective I: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 1: The instructional designer will assist • faculty in the development of online courses. • (Lead Person: Joseph San Juan) • Update on Implementation: • Analysis of online degrees and certificates due January 7, 2008 • Joseph San Juan responsible to train faculty in creating online courses • DE committee to define specifications for online orientations for VPI by January 28, 2008
Objective I: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 2: Establish a faculty technical skills • certification for instructors. • (Lead Person: Bob Urell) • Update on Implementation: • VPI Craig Justice to coordinate effort with Professor Bob Urell, Dean Susan Corum, and DE Committee in Spring 2008
Objective I: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 3: Identify and allocate funds for • developing an online distance education • orientation template. (Lead Person: Davit Khachatryan) • Update on Implementation: • VPI Craig Justice to meet with Joseph San Juan by January 7, 2008 to discuss accelerated production of DE online orientation template
Objective I: Outcome • Expanded online course offerings, including • full degrees • Increased and better organized faculty support • for online course development • Evaluation: February, 2008
Objective II • OBJECTIVE: To support new program development to meet student and community interests through a community needs-assessment. (Linked to IVC Goals: 1, 3; and District Goals 1, 8) • Rationale: • IVC to develop programs which will best serve • the surrounding community
Objective II: Strategy 1 • Strategy 1: Conduct a community needs-assessment • to identify programs with strong community interest. • (Lead Person: Susan Cooper) • Update on Implementation: • In spring 2008, Dean Susan Cooper and faculty to review current certificates • Dean Susan Cooper to propose new certificates to meet identified community interests and needs
Objective II: Outcome • Obtain research data that indicates programs/ • courses that best support the educational needs of • the community • Incorporate this research into “data driven • decision-making” when developing new • programs/courses • Evaluation: February, 2008
Objective III OBJECTIVE:To increase course completion rates for (a) credit basic skills courses by 0.5% to 73.5%; (b) credit vocational courses by 1% to 75.9%; and the number of (c) degree awards by 10% to 383 in 2007-2008, to 421 in 2008-2009, and to 463 in 2009-2010; (d) certificate awards by 10% to 81 in 2007-2008, to 90 in 2008-2009, and 99 in 2009-2010. (Linked to IVC Goals: 1, 3; and District Goal 1)
Objective III (cont.) Rationale: • A steady increase in the Asian, Hispanic and • Persian populations at IVC • A significant increase in educationally and • environmentally disadvantaged students with or • without limited English skills • Students will take longer to receive certificates • and degrees • Students will incur a larger debt burden during • college
Objective III: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 1:Establish the Scheduling And Reporting System (SARS) early alert program. • (Lead Persons: Andreea Serban, Tran Hong) • Strategy 2: Develop a Degree Audit program (i.e., • notifying students of their eligibility for degree • completion). • (Lead Persons: Andreea Serban, Tran Hong) • Strategy 3: Review and revise the AA and AS degree requirements. • (Lead Person(s): Craig Justice, Kathy Schmeidler)
Objective III: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 1: Establish the Scheduling And Reporting • System (SARS) early alert program. • (Lead Persons: Andreea Serban, Tran Hong) • Update on Implementation: • District meeting to review SARS Early Alert • SARS Early Alert to be paid for and ordered by SOCCCD in spring 2008 • Date TBA by VC Andreea Serban
Objective III: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 2:Develop a Degree Audit program (i.e., • notifying students of their eligibility for degree • completion). • (Lead Persons: Andreea Serban, Tran Hong) • Update on Implementation: • VC Andreea Serban to gather vendor information and to host a meeting for product review • Date TBA
Objective III: Strategies 1-3 • Strategy 3: Review and revise the AA and AS degree requirements. • (Lead Person(s): Craig Justice, Kathy Schmeidler) • Update on Implementation: • On January 10, 2008,GE and Curriculum committees to • Review IVC's degree requirements • Compare to other colleges' degree requirements
Objective III: Outcome • Develop, publish, and regularly evaluate • instructional planning and student support • Support students in meeting their educational • goals • Evaluation: February, 2008
Objective IV • OBJECTIVE:To increase student success and retention rates by 2% and to increase persistence rates from 69.8% to 71.8%. • (Linked to IVC Goals: 1, 3, 7 and District Goal 1) • Rationale: • Additional Basic Skills curriculum as an answer to • the increasing need for remediation among college • students
Objective IV: Strategies 1-6 • Strategy 1: Implement paper and computer formats • of the College Test for English Placement (CTEP). • (Lead Persons: Andreea Serban, Tran Hong, • Donna Sneed) • Update on Implementation: • CTEP validation is completed
Objective IV: Strategies 1-6 • Strategy 2: Review the Math assessment test and implement recommended revisions. • (Lead Persons: Dixie Bullock, Math Faculty) • Update on Implementation: • Consultant to put locally developed test in computer based format • Timeline: after implementation of computer based CTEP test in spring 2008
Objective IV: Strategies 1-6 • Strategy 3: Increase tutorial services by building the Learning Assistance Program Center (see 5-year • Facilities Master Plan). • (Lead Persons: Brandye D'Lena, Glenn Roquemore) • Update on Implementation: • VPI Craig Justice to complete space utilization analysis of IVC classrooms and labs by January 14, 2008
Objective IV: Strategies 1-6 (cont.) • Strategy 4: Increase counseling services through • group advising and group workshops. • (Lead Persons: Elizabeth Cipres, Counseling Faculty) • Update on Implementation: • Counseling faculty to develop workshops in spring 2008
Objective IV: Strategies 1-6 (cont.) • Strategy 5: Review the Basic Skills math program to ensure that curriculum, course sequence, and all services are best serving the students needing this academic support. Increase course completion rates. • (Lead Persons: Dixie Bullock, Math Faculty) • Update on Implementation: • Professor Ilknur Erbas-White developed Math Basic Skills course utilizing modules • MATH 350 reoffered in fall 2008
Objective IV: Strategies 1-6 (cont.) • Strategy 6: Establish a calendar of student activities. • (Lead Person: Helen Locke) • Update on Implementation: • The ASIVC Events Calendar is online at www.ivc.edu/asivc/pages/calendar.aspx
Objective IV: Outcome • Develop, publish, regularly evaluate and improve a • student support model to maximize • Student success • Student retention • Evaluation: February, 2008
Objective V OBJECTIVE: To increase the number of ESL students that successfully complete the ESL sequence and enroll in college level English courses. (Linked to IVC Goal: 3; and District Goal 1)
Objective V (cont.) • Rationale: • A steady increase in the Asian, Hispanic and Persian • populations at IVC • A significant increase in educationally and • environmentally disadvantaged students with or • without limited English skills • Additional Basic Skills curriculum to meet the • increasing need for remediation among college • students
Objective V: Strategies 1-2 • Strategy 1: Review and redesign the ESL program • to ensure that the curriculum, course sequence, • and all services are aligned with the students most • in need of this academic path. Increase • completion rates for progression to college level • English courses. • (Lead Persons: Karima Feldhus, ESL Faculty) • Update on Implementation: • VPI Craig Justice, Dean Daniel Rivas, and Professor Susan Fesler to propose curriculum changes in pre-collegiate ESL curriculum to ESL faculty • Expected completion date: January 18, 2008
Objective V: Strategies 1-2 • Strategy 2: Explore the establishment of an • ESL lab within the Learning Assistance • Program Center. • (Lead Persons: Karima Feldhus, ESL Faculty) • Update on Implementation: • VPI Craig Justice’s space analysis of IVC classrooms and labs to include ESL lab space • Expected completion date: January 14, 2008
Objective V: Outcome • Develop an ESL program with enhanced student • support strategies • Maximize the opportunities for non-English • speakers to • Complete the ESL sequence of courses • Successfully enroll in college level English • courses • Evaluation: February, 2008
Objective VI • OBJECTIVE: Expand curriculum offerings for Lifelong Learning and Work Force Development. (Linked to IVC Goals: 1, 3, 6, 8; and District Goal 1) • Rationale: • A sizeable increase in the service area’s • population over the age of 45 by the year 2012
Objective VI: Strategy 1 • Strategy 1: Evaluate the currency of curriculum as it • applies to Lifelong Learning for populations seeking • experiences in personal enrichment. • (Lead Persons: Dave Anderson, Kathy Schmeidler) • Update on Implementation: • Dean Susan Cooper, Dave Anderson, and VPI Craig Justice to discuss offerings, budgets, and ideas for noncredit offerings • Expected completion date: January 31,2008