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Flex DayAugust 14, 2014
Strategic Priorities for 2014-15Taking Charge of our Future
Academic Excellence
• Quality Instruction
• Improving SLOs
Budgetary Competence• Measured growth• Productivity• Leveraging
Resources• Transparency
Community Engagement & Collaborative Partnerships• Shared
Governance• Extending the
Learning Community Model
Re-Affirmation of our ABC’s
The Vision of College of Alameda is that we are a diverse, supportive, empowering learning community for seekers of knowledge. We are committed to providing a creative, ethical and inclusive environment in which students develop their abilities as thinkers, workers and citizens of the world.
Vision
It is the Mission of College of Alameda to serve the educational needs of its diverse community by providing comprehensive and flexible programs and resources that empower students to achieve their goals.
Mission
Stabilized administrative leadership New faculty and staff hired Implementation of SSSPNew programs and initiativesRefinement of shared governance
committeesTAA and WIB grantsFacility repair and lighting upgrades
Accomplishments 2013-14
Enrollment Institutional Self-EvaluationIntegrated Planning and Budget Process
Participatory GovernanceTransition to Modular Facilities
Challenges and Opportunities
Responding to the Challenges
Campus Senior Leadership Team Advance Thursday, July 31, 2014
1. Goals, Objectives and Expectations2. Accreditation - Status report, timelines and
next steps3. Shared Governance: review revised
structure, and set timeline for filling vacant openings on campus and district committees
4. Integrated Planning and Budget 5. Enrollment Management Implementation
Plans6. Flex Day: Setting the theme and tone for
the year
AGENDA
To identify the strategies which engage the campus community for:
A successful institutional self-study.Implementing strategies that facilitate student success and educational equity.
Affirm an integrated planning and budget process that leverages resources to achieve outcomes
Build a inclusive and cohesive leadership team
Advance Goal
1. Expand campus participation in the Institutional Self-Evaluation process
2. Review, refine and reaffirm shared governance structure
3. Identify and engage faculty and staff to participate in shared governance committees
4. Implement an aggressive enrollment management plan that facilitate access, success and growth
5. Identify and leverage resources that promote student success and equity
6. Build institutional capacity through professional development opportunities
Objectives
Institutional Self-Study
Enrollment Management
Student Success Support
Programs
Institutional Priorities: 2014-15
Provide opportunities to educate the campus community by communicating the importance & value of accreditation
Take advantage of the existing structures & opportunities to meet & confer
Solidify & focus COA’s mission, vision, values, & goals Post these throughout the campus & in every
classroom Build positive themes on campus:◦ Empower students to become part of the community◦ Students should be able to “feel” the mission of the college
through the interaction with faculty staff and managers◦ If students feel cared for and loved, they are more likely to
support, understand, & embody the mission
1. ACCREDITATION
Maintain COA’s accreditation newsletter but utilize social media to “get the word out”
Document what we do well Document our successes, including those
of individual:◦Students◦Faculty◦Staff◦Administrators
All committees will include “accreditation” as an agenda item
ACCREDITATION
The mission statement should be posted in every classroom
Address the generational differences between students, faculty and staff - recognizing the need for change in pedagogy and practice. We must know and understand our students
Give faculty and staff the tools and support they need to be successful with students
Speak truth power - Hold people accountable for their actions
Every meeting should have action items and at the conclusion of the meetings names should be attached of who will take responsibility for specific tasks
Finalize faculty and professional staff appointments to campus and district “participatory governance” committees
2. ENSURING PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
Assess whether mission and value his driving unit plans
Academic program reviews - three-year cycle Structure process to help faculty with program
reviews - IEC Link IEC to curriculum committee Update technology to help support the process Work with department chairs who know the needs
of their individual units Process - Inventory and keep track of program
reviews submitted, develop reporting templates, provide data, conduct disciplined appraisal of the data submitted, provide feedback to all stakeholders
3. INTEGRATED PLANNING AND BUDGET
Short-term strategies: Increase the number of sections and offering through late
start classes, weekend courses and winter intersession Contact students taking 12 or fewer units Make sandwich boards displaying classes around census
date Post to TV monitors in the Welcome Center Create online listing of classes for the website Place adds in the CSU-East Bay and SF State newspapers
highlighting CSU Breadth courses available ,and contact community based organizations
Long-term strategies: Develop a comprehensive enrollment management plan –
appoint a Enrollment Management Task Force
4. Enrollment Management
Accreditation – On target to meet campus and district timelines
Student Center upgradesMeasure B fundingVeteran’s CenterLibrary AC upgradeOnline orientationComputer refresh and smart classroom
Technology
Preview – Fall 2014
College of Alameda
Time is of the Essence
No Silos!!!!
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