The March 2001 visit by the Accreditation Team yielded
ten commendations and seven recommendations. The recommendations
are listed below. Under each recommendation are the individuals
and/or committees responsible for follow-up and implementation.. |
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The college should develop
a system that links research, planning, outcomes, and the budget.
Further, the college needs to continue to develop and implement
a broad-based integrated system of research, evaluation, and planning
systems to assess institutional effectiveness and use the results
for institutional improvement.
(Standard 3A1, 3A3; 3B2; 3B3; 3C)
Associate Dean Research and Planning
Budget Committee
VP Administrative Services
VP Academic Affairs
The college should develop
and refine the current review processes for all academic and student
services programs in a predetermined cycle. The team recommends
that the college implement criteria to measure institutional effectiveness,
which overarch and extend beyond the current Program Review process.
Further, the college needs to develop comprehensive student learning
outcomes assessment programs and make greater effort to improve
quality and achievement of institutional purpose through its evaluation
and planning activities. (Standard 3A3; 3C1; 3C2; 3C3)
Student Services Committee,
VP Student Services
Institutional Planning Committee
VP Academic Affairs
Associate Dean Research and Planning
The college should develop
comprehensive student learning outcomes assessment programs and
make a greater effort to improve quality and achievement of institutional
purpose through its evaluation and planning activities. The college
needs to set as a primary educational goal a new focus on identifying
learning outcomes at the class program, and discipline level, train
its faculty in the areas, and hold itself accountable for progressive
movement in desired student outcomes. (Standard 4B2; 4B5; 4D1; 4D3)
Institutional Planning Committee
VP Academic Affairs
Associate Dean Research and Planning
Staff Development Committee
Director, Staff Development
The college should provide
sufficient and consistent financial support for the acquisition,
maintenance, and technical resources to facilitate the educational
goals and objectives of the institution. Planning should address
a process for funding and implementing a facilities improvement
plan which includes established criteria for prioritizing space
utilization and equipment acquisition and replacement, and expanded
technological infrastructure for instruction, student support services,
and faculty and staff. (Standard 4A4; 5.3; 6.2; 6.4; 7A1; 9A1, 9A2)
Budget Committee
Technology Committee
Space and Work Committee
VP Administrative Services
The college assess information
resources in view of the changes in information technology and provide
the budget to build a library collection that will support faculty
and students with the resources and skills to operate in the information
age. (Standard 6.2; 6.3; 6.4; 6.7)
Technology Committee
Information Learning Resources Committee
Budget Committee
VP Administrative Services
That appropriate shared governance
bodies develop long-range staffing plans which are linked to the
college mission/program goals and diversity needs. This is a recommendation
dating back to the 1989 Accreditation Report and therefore is reiterated
here with the additional stipulation that such staffing plans be
developed for faculty and staff, with particular emphasis on classified
personnel, and that they be tied to specific time-lines and objectives.
(Standard 7D2; 7D3)
Staffing Task Force
Budget Committee
VP Administrative Services
The college should move swiftly
and deliberately to complete the planning process begun years ago,
develop relative strategic plans, and identify financial, enrollment
and efficiency standards and criteria that will guide the college
through a clearly defined budget development process. (Standards
3B1; 3B2, 8.4; 8.5; 9A1; 9A2; 9A3, 9A4)
Budget Committee
Master Planning Consultants
Space and Work Committee
VP Administrative Services
As Los Angeles Valley College worked with the standards reports
on our journey toward reaffirmation of accreditation, we came across
two main obstacles that were impeding our progress to improvement.
These were the two cousins:
, the tendency to
hold interminable meetings without linking outcomes to any coherent
or consistent overall vision, and
, the tendency among
our constituencies to believe that nothing ever gets done.
Our self-study, therefore, led us to recognize that we needed to
work in two major areas to further our success. These are
1. institutionalizing a process of review, assessment, plan, implementation,
and outcome, and
2. developing a culture of good communications and consultation
among all our constituencies. And in working on these two agendas
as part of our master planning, we need to continuously bear in
mind our mission and our commitment to diversity.
Consequently, the planning agenda that we are committing ourselves
to in every standard of our self-study report of 2000-2001 is linked
in some way or another to moving Valley forward in this direction.
1. As part of master planning (see standard 3), the College Council
in coordination with the President will develop strategies to link
the mission statement to college decision making and planning. These
strategies will be included as part of master planning, with an
annual progress report starting in Summer 2001.
(Standard 1)
College Council and President, and ALL Committees
2. The Chair of the College Council and the President will jointly
oversee a system to link budget to planning. They will produce a
working document for the college to be published by Spring 2002.
(Standard 3)
3. The Staffing Task Force will develop a long-term and short-term
administrative and classified staffing plan. A written plan with
implementation goals, including equity and diversity, will be presented
to the College Council in Spring 2003. (Standard 7)
4. The Budget Committee, in coordination with the Institutional
Technology and Space and Work Committees, will assess, establish,
prioritize, and implement a scheduled maintenance and equipment
acquisition and maintenance program that will be included as a line
item in the budget for the 2002-03 Operational Plan. (Standard 8)
5. The Budget Committee will take primary responsibility for developing
a long-range financial plan to implement the facilities plan as
part of our master planning. The plan will include a cost-revenue
analysis for determining growth. A working document for long-range
financial planning will be prepared in Spring 2003 in coordination
with the completion of this stage of master planning in Spring 2002.
(Standard 9)Assessment and Accountability
6. The Valley College Curriculum Committee (VCCC), together with
the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Departmental Council,
will assess whether or not the curriculum approval process is working
adequately and develop any strategies needed for further improvement.
Starting in Fall 2001, they will publish a flow chart for process
and analysis for fixing glitches by Spring 2002. (Standard 4)
7. The Institutional Technology Committee will make recommendations
for increasing and expanding alternate course delivery systems and,
in conjunction with the VCCC, delineate and refine procedural and
assessment mechanisms for online courses. They will produce an online
document that specifies these mechanisms by Summer 2001.
(Standard 4)
8. The area Dean and Academic Senate President will establish an
Information and Learning Resources Advisory Committee to study and
report on Valley’s changing needs for resources in information
and learning by Fall 2001. Their plan will include:
a system for assessing programs and staffing needs for all information
and resource centers
training programs and support structures for faculty, staff, and
students
a financial plan for maintaining and upgrading the centers
(Standard 6)
9. The AFT Chapter Chair, the Academic Senate President, and the
Vice President of Academic Affairs will review faculty evaluation
practices. They will work with the Staff Development Committee to
institute training for evaluators at every level in keeping with
the AFT Faculty Guild Contract in order to improve evaluation compliance
and accountability. They will publish a report outlining these measures
by Summer 2002. The Chapter Chairs or Representatives of the remaining
bargaining units and the Staff Development Director will work with
supervisors and administrators to provide parallel training for
all other college employees by Summer 2003. (Standard 7)
10. The Vice President for Academic Affairs, working with Departmental
Council, the Academic Senate, and the Instructional Program Committee
(IPC), will take primary responsibility for developing a plan to
implement findings from program review. This process, beginning
in Spring 2001, will be completed in Spring 2002. (Standard 4)
11. The Valley College Curriculum Committee (VCCC), starting in
Fall 2001, will articulate desired student outcomes for certificates,
degrees, and general education and publish these outcome objectives
in a report to the Academic Senate and College Council in Fall 2003.
These outcomes will be included in all appropriate college publications
and be reviewed annually. (Standard 4)
12. On the basis of District survey results on campus climate, the
Associate Dean of Research and Planning will report to the College
Council and the campus at large the status of student perspectives
on campus climate by the end of Spring 2001. The College Council
will then charge the appropriate shared governance committee to
respond to the findings and implement changes for improvement by
Spring 2002. (Standard5)Communications and Consultation
13. The Public Relations Specialist will be responsible for refining
and implementing a regular schedule and process for reviewing all
college publications for content, readability, and accuracy. Work
will begin during the 2001-2002 academic year and be completed by
2002-2003.
(Standard 2)
PR Director
14. The Public Relations Specialist will have primary responsibility,
working closely with College Council and the President, and coordinating
with representatives from all areas of the college, to restructure
Valley’s information communication network, to develop a communication
and support network for integrating planning and implementation,
and to develop and provide necessary support structures for public
communication channels. Work will be staged over a five-year period,
with an annual report to College Council on steps taken to achieve
outcomes. (Standard 3)
College Council
PR Director
President
Technology Committee
15. The Staff Development Committee will provide (1) workshops for
classified staff to provide a forum for supervisors and staff to
better understand job responsibilities and evaluation procedures,
and (2) training sessions for classified staff to prepare them for
promotional examinations. The Committee will develop a schedule
of workshops and training sessions as a regular component of the
classified staff development program by the end of Fall 2001. (Standard
7)
Staff Development Committee
16. The Academic Senate, all bargaining units, the Offices of Student
Services, Administrative Services, and Academic Affairs, and the
Associated Student Union will each develop a plan to increase participation
of their constituencies (faculty, staff, and students) in shared
governance. Work will begin on the plans in Spring 2001, with a
draft ready to present to the College Council at its retreat in
Summer 2002. (Standard 10)
Academic Senate
Bargaining Units
VP Student Services
VP Administrative Services
VP Academic Affairs
Associate Dean Student Services (ASU), and
ASU board
17. The College Council together with the Staff Development Committee
will improve accountability for all decisions made on campus by
developing a plan to orient and train faculty, staff, students,
and administrators for effectiveness in committee work. The plan
will include a schedule for ongoing activities and be completed
by Fall 2002.
(Standard 10)
College Council and
Staff Development Committee
18. The Chair of the College Council will take responsibility for
1) reviewing shared governance policies and procedures, 2) developing
and publishing a written policy for the election and rotation of
committee members and chairs, and 3) publishing a plan to ensure
that opportunity exists for broad based participation from all constituencies
by the end of Spring 2001. (Standard 10)
College Council Chair
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