Victor Valley College Educational Master Plan

3.4 Program Cluster Goals, Objectives, Resource Needs - Support Services


Long Term:	·	To work with the provided Academic Commons leader and cooperatively work with the instructional vice-president and instructional/academic deans as well as department chairs so the curriculum activities at the Academic Commons are indeed completely cohesive with approved curricular designs because teaching and learning activities are the rationale and major mission of the program (Goal 1).
	·	To separate the Basic Skills program into either:

		Þ	its own domain;
		Þ	a position with other closely related programs such as English as a Second Language, Educational Opportunities Programs and Services, Cooperative Agency's Resources for Education (CARE), and/or Welfare to Work activities (CalWORKs);
		Þ	or placed within the English and math departments so the quality and cohesion between the curricula is recognized, supervised and maintained in its own right but in continuity with all those appropriate academic programs on campus (Goal 6).

	·	To offer a continuously broader range of study skills instruction, including study skills required for best use of new technologies and instructional skills needed in essential content areas such as English and mathematics (Goal 7).
	·	To design and offer a range of online coursework such as in basic skills and study skills and other courses unable to be offered in other settings or with other departments on campus (Goal 4 and 3).
	·	To model and teach other departments alternative modes of using instruction to enhance learning, for example, to actively use two-way videoconferencing and satellite exchange between faculty and classes in national and international multiple geographic settings as well as in local and state environments (Goal 3).
	·	To expand the existing language program (in French and Spanish); to add instruction in a Pacific Rim language; to reinstate German instruction (Goal 5).
	·	To strengthen instruction in music, ESL, speech, theatre arts, sign language and other curricula as appropriate (Goal 5).