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2011 Annual Report - Kankakee Community College

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Increased employee recognition, e.g., the celebration of record-breaking Fall enrollment<br />

Adopted a tobacco-free campus policy and offered smoking cessation classes<br />

Promoted 21 employees to positions of increased responsibility during the past year<br />

Completed 1 st phase of AQIP Action Project to align performance forms with core values<br />

Hosted a campus-wide training on customer service and positive thinking<br />

Process improvement recommendations for next year<br />

1. Improve the process for encouraging employees to take the Employee Satisfaction Survey<br />

2. Establish a process to assess effectiveness of new personnel evaluation form<br />

3. Establish a process to use employee feedback to establish professional development training<br />

Faculty Growth and Development Committee (based on mid-year report)<br />

Selected achievements<br />

Evaluated the Pathways series by surveying faculty<br />

Presented a workshop on dealing with problem students at the Fall faculty in-service<br />

Added senior faculty members as Pathway session facilitators<br />

Initiated a mentoring project (new faculty with senior faculty) that includes office sharing; anecdotal<br />

evidence shows positive outcomes<br />

Reviewed institutional data for use in planning and assessment<br />

Process improvement recommendations for next year<br />

1. Establish a process to create a survey to evaluate the Fall <strong>2011</strong> in-service and analyze results<br />

2. Establish a process to create a survey to assess effectiveness and make process improvements<br />

to the pairing system with new and senior faculty<br />

3. Establish a process to bring faculty from various fields and backgrounds to discuss positive instructional<br />

practices as well as workshop seminars designed to educate and review innovative<br />

teaching methodologies (possibly a new set of online courses faculty could access to improve<br />

student outcomes and add to professional knowledge base)<br />

Online Leadership Committee<br />

Selected achievements<br />

Upgraded ANGEL from version 7.3 to 7.4<br />

Created faculty access to ANGEL documentation on the Teaching and Learning Center webpage<br />

Offered ANGEL group training to 42 faculty members, facilitated by ANGEL 7.4 mentors<br />

Met one-on-one with some faculty to provide ANGEL 7.4 instruction<br />

Held almost 40 meetings to train ANGEL 7.4 mentors<br />

Created an online “Independent Study” option to learn ANGEL 7.4; in pilot test phase<br />

Surveyed faculty on quality of ANGEL upgrade<br />

Process improvement recommendations for next year<br />

1. Establish a process to assess new online system<br />

2. Establish a process to strongly promote the use of online gradebook with a target of 90% participation<br />

among full-time faculty and 50% of adjunct faculty<br />

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