(Issue #19)

The Planning and Resource Development Newsletter
for November and December, 2004

The Planning and Resource Development Electronic Newsletter is sent to you to keep you informed about accreditation, planning, program review, and grants development activities at Victor Valley College.

Accreditation Self-Study Open Forum
November 8, 2004

On November 8, 2004, 2:00pm - 4:00pm, forty individuals participated in an Open Forum on the Accreditation Self Study. Dr. Pat Spencer, Superintendent/President, and Margaret Kagy, C.A.R.E. Specialist and CSEA Chapter 584, gave a warm welcome. This forum is one of the many steps the College has taken to provide training about accreditation and to obtain the broad participation in the self study.

The agenda focused on the following:

Standard I - Institutional Mission and Effectiveness
Co-chair Presenter - Mark Clair
Co-chair Facilitator - Donna Derryberry

Standard II - Student Learning Program and Services
Co-chair Presenters - Jeff Cooper, Dr. Leonard Crawford, John Akins

Standard III - Resources
Co-chair Presenters - Michelle Messer, Mary Pringle

Standard IV - Leadership and Governance
Co-chair Presenters - Dr. Tom O'Niel
Co-chair Facilitators - Patti Jennings, Margaret Kagy, Greta Moon

Based on the Accreditation Activity Evaluation for November 8, 2004, 100% of the participants said they were provided the opportunity to give input for the self-study.

During the Break Out Group Sessions, individuals provided additional input for the Self-Study

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Accreditation Evaluation Visit
is scheduled for
March 8 - 10, 2005

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Master Plan Goals

The input for the Master Plan was obtained from the Online Master Plan Goals survey, Goals Setting for the Master Plan Forum on January 29, 2004, Emails, meetings, and planning sessions. The goals focus on the following:

1. Organizational Excellence - The College's governance roles and processes are structured to maximize institutional effectiveness.

Concepts For Objectives:

• For the purpose of effective student learning, the College will develop, promote, and continuously improve a collegial environment based on collaboration, respect, encouragement, integrity, and empowerment among and between students, board members, administration faculty, classified staff, and the community at large.
• Offer leadership training for students, faculty, administration, staff, and board members that focuses on effective collegial participation by Fall, 2005.
• Offer a semi-annual campus-wide retreat focusing on institutional collaborative communication by Fall, 2006.


2. Institutional Commitment to Student Learning and Student Success through Educational Excellence - Student learning will be the central focus in the development, implementation, evaluation, and improvement for all courses, programs, and services.

Concepts For Objectives:

• The College will develop and implement plans for learning outcome assessment in all courses, programs, and services and as a basis for resource allocation.


3. Economic and Community Development - The College will effectively meet changing community needs for education leading to employment, cultural enrichment, civic, political and social responsibilities.

Concepts For Objectives:

• The administration will identify a college entity charged with addressing community economic needs by June 30, 2004.


4. Diverse Populations - The College will increase access opportunities by improving programs and services to better serve an increasingly diverse campus population.

Concepts For Objectives:

The Research Office will initiate a cohort tracking methodology to identify the number of diverse student populations who:

• Are transfer ready
• Successfully complete courses in basic skills
• Successfully complete certificate programs
• Successfully complete degree applicable and transfer level courses
• Increase the quality and quantity of the learning experience
• Increase the number of course completions
• Increase the integration of services throughout the college
• Increase outreach to the community


5. Technology - The College will integrate and utilize technology and provide quality technological training for the creation and delivery of instruction, support of programs and services, and the improvement of institutional effectiveness to enhance student learning.

Concepts for Objectives:

• Implement college-wide technology plan to further the development of the use of technology in information technology, management information services, telecommunications, instructional technology, technology training for all employees and making technology accessible to every classroom.
• Will develop a sustainable master technology plan to serve as a model for all departments and programs to use in developing, upgrading, and maintaining campus-wide technology-based services.
• All new facilities will be added to the campus unless the design supports information technology resources.


6. Learning Centered Resource Management - Through utilization of prudent fiscal policies and the proactive entrepreneurial pursuit of increased revenue, the College will work diligently to secure solid financial resources to meet current and future enrollment growth, community learning needs and learning outcomes.

Concepts For Objectives:

• More aggressive resource development and fund-raising strategies
• Utilization of student and community resources
• Increased faculty pursuit of research, teaching, service contracts and grants
• Actively support legislative (state, federal, local) and other efforts to increase base support and funding formulae for California Community Colleges.

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Board of Trustees Goals

College's Goal 1 – Organizational Excellence

The college's governance roles and processes are structures to maximize institutional effectiveness.
Board of Trustees' Goals:

• Direct college to continue work on mission and vision statements.
  1. Use only the bold sections in the first part when brevity is important, e.g., on the back of business cards.
  2. Develop a vision statement that is succinct, inspirational, and separate from the mission.
  3. Consider using oasis of learning as a theme for the vision statement and capitalize/build on the meaning of oasis: growth, refreshment, life-giving, safety, comfort, beauty, vitality.
  4. Encourage and support exploring ways to use the mission statement, such as using the first part as the mission/purpose and the second part as the values statement of the college.
• Be a learning organization in which individual growth is the goal.
• Use the growth of the college to maximize organizational effectiveness and excellence.
• Continue the Board's learning activities.

• Ensure that students are learning and are successful, as defined by graduation and employment rates, learning assessments, and other measures.
• Assure that the college is inclusive and has comprehensive support services.

• Commit resources to fund an office of planning, research, economic, and community development.
• Respond to community workforce and economic development needs and establish partnerships to meet these needs.
• Establish community partnerships that involve community support.
• Maximize the College as a cultural center.
• Utilize the Foundation as a community resource.

• Assure that employees care deeply about students and are flexible and able to respond to diverse learning needs.
• Assure that the college is actively inclusive.

• Protect resources to secure and update technology for purposes of teaching and learning and conducting college business

• Set the global priorities for the budget within the mission to meet community needs, e.g., transfer, workforce development, economic development.
• Enhance planning for facilities and program delivery. The planning may include: (1) buildings, (2) land use, (3) a second campus, (4) 24/7 education, (5) alternative delivery systems such as online learning, and (6) new instructional programs.
• Evaluate how many students can be served with our current facilities.
• Evaluate how many students the College anticipates serving in 2010/2014 (including non-traditional students), and what will be needed to serve those students.
• Maximize state funding through grants, federal programs, and the Foundation.
• Be legislatively proactive and assume an advocacy role to increase state funding.

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Timeline of Events:

Click here to review the self study.  Please recognize that this is a "draft" and that close editing will follow at a later date for grammar, punctuation, word selection, format, etc.   The College community worked as a team and devoted a lot of time, effort, and hard work for the preparation of the Draft.  We will post more drafts and revisions as they become available. If you wish to give input for the Self-Study, please contact Dr. Freeman, Accreditation Liaison Officer.

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PROGRAM REVIEWS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 17, 2004: Click here to see if your department is due for a Program Review.  Contact Dr. Fay Freeman with any questions on the Program Review Report.

Khalid Rubayi Chair, Program Review Committee

The Program Review Committee is making revisions to improve the program review and planning process.  The Program Review Guide is available on the Planning and Resource Development website (Click Here) . If you have any comments or suggestions to improve the Guide, please contact me or Dr. Freeman, Planning and Resource Development Office.

Click here for more information on Program Reviews.

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Announcements:

Victor Valley College has submitted a Caltrans Grant Proposal for Environmental Justice: Context-Sensitive Planning for Communities.

These are a few of the upcoming grants

Chancellor's Office, California Community Colleges

• NSF Opportunities for Community Colleges
• Advanced technology education (NSF) - April 26, 2005: preliminary, October 18, 2005: full proposal
• Mathematical geoscience (NSF) - March 14, 2005; February 1, 2006; and February 1, 2007
• Multi-user equipment in bioscience (NSF) - July 6, 2005
• Poplar genome-based sequestration (DoE) - January 18, 2005: pre-application; March 18, 2005: full proposal
• Fusion Energy Science (DoE) - March 8, 2005
• Biotechnology risk assessment (USDA) - February 24
• National Technology Centers (NIH) - Ferbraury 1, 2005; June 1, 2005

U.S. Department of Education: Upcoming Competitions for TRIO Funding

• Educational Opportunity Centers - Fall 2005
• Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement - Fall 2006
• Talent Search - Fall 2005
• TRIO Dissemination Partnership - Spring 2006
• Upward Bound - Fall 2006
• Upward Bound Math-Science - Fall 2006

Click here for more information.

We welcome any suggestions to improve the Newsletter.
For questions or suggestions about Accreditation, Program Review, Integrated Planning, and Grants Development, please contact Dr. Fay Freeman at 760 245-4271 ext. 2414, or Pamela Penland at ext. 2431.

Resources:
Khalid Rubayi, Chair, Program Review Committee
Paul Tonning, Technology Plan Facilitator
Pamela Penland, Administrative Secretary
Dr. Fay Freeman, Director