Recommendations for Student Success Task Force: Consolidation, Investment, Flexibility, and Innovation

1. Resources, Issues and Additional RecommendationsStudent Success Task Force Recommendations Chapter 8 Kevin Bontenbal, South Representative Michelle Pilati, President Jane Patton, Task Force Member

2. Session Goals • Process the recommendations and resolutions (existing & proposed) • Consider the intent of the recommendations. Disagree? What would you propose? • Missing recommendations? Revisions to argue for?

3. Chapter 8 Overview 8.1. Consolidate select categorical programs 8.2  Invest in new Student Success Initiative 8.3. Promote flexibility & innovation in basic skills through alternative funding mechanism 8.4  Do not implement outcome-based funding at this time

4. 8.1 Consolidate select categorical programs into four groups/“Initiatives” Note: 9 of 18 programs slated for consolidation are already subject to“flexibility” • “Student Support Initiative” • Faculty Support Initiative • Workforce Development Initiative • Other programs

5. 1.Student Support Initiative • Basic Skills, Financial Aid, *CalWORKs, *Foster Care, Matriculation • Physical Plant and Instructional Equipment • Child Care Tax Bailout • Fund for Student Success = MESA, Middle College High School, and Puente

6. Student Support Initiative • Note – Shifting of resources is not mandated. • “This fund would then be augmented as the first priority for new state monies.”

7. Existing Positions • OPPOSE consolidation of categoricals • > eight existing resolutions

8. Proposed Positions • None • Consider the intent of recommendation • If you agree with “what” but not “how,” what would you propose?

9. 2. Faculty Support Initiative Combine four existing programs into one consolidated faculty support program. • Equal Employment Opportunity • Part-Time Faculty Office Hours • Part-Time Faculty Health Insurance • Part-Time Faculty Compensation Note: All programs are currently subject to“flexibility”

10. 3. WorkforceDevelopment Initiative Combine: • Economic & Workforce development • CTE • Nursing Support • Apprenticeship

11. Workforce Development Initiative Career Technical Education and Nursing Support would be“consolidated”. • Neither is currently subject to “flexibility”. • Economic Development and Apprenticeship are already subject to “flexibility”. (According to the 2010-2011 report on the use of categorical flexibility, there was no statewide funding for career technical education).

12. 8.2  Invest in the new Student Success Initiative (SSI) • SSI established in 8.1 • Beginning with 2012-2013 budget, new system monies would be used to augment SSI • Funds to be used to support student success

13. Conditions for receipt of SSI Funds • Develop and submit a plan consistent with goals established in Chapter 7 – “and address student equity impacts”. • Implement 2.1 (common assessment) • Implement 7.3 (accountability score card)

14. Existing Positions • S 11 5.01 Metrics & Performance Based Funding: “assert that the best approach to increase all measures of student success is to support students in meeting their goals and that colleges should be incentivized to ensure the provision of such services.”

15. Proposed Positions • 5.03 Endorse Student Support Fund • 13.05 Support for Student Success Courses

16. 8.3. Establish alternative funding model to encourage innovation & flexibility in basic skills instruction • The Story of “Eddy” • Progress-based funding • Requires adoption of 2.1 (common assessment) in order to “ensure the fair and uniform implementation of this alternative funding model”.

17. Existing Positions • F97 05.02 Performance Based Funding (direct opposition) • F98 05.05 Oppose Performance Based Funding (direct opposition) • F97 06.02 Appropriate Funding Per FTE (Support FTE based funding instead of performance based)

18. Proposed Positions • 5.01 Oppose Student Success Task Force Recommendation on Basic Skills Funding • 9.01 Encourage Local Flexibility and Innovation in Revision of Basic Skills Delivery • 13.03 Support Centralized Assessment Instrument with Local Cut Scores for Placement

19. 8.4  Do not implement outcome-based funding at this time • “Split decision” • Recommendation 7.3 – Accountability Score Card

20. What does the SSTF need to know?

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