Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Counselors are available daily at the Main Campus and at the two education centers.
Counselors have access to all student records and assessment results. They have the option of
directing the student to additional assessment and testing and can prescribe an education plan
that will best meet the needs of the student. Every student seeing a counselor first completes
a Hartnell College Student Counseling Worksheet form that allows the counselor to assess
that student‘s counseling and information needs, determine basic skills needs, and helps them
to identify the range of support services (both on the campuses and in the community) that
each student may require. (II.B.19)
The college operates a Transfer/Career Center staffed by a full-time technician and a general
counselor provided assigned time to stay abreast of the latest transfer requirements and best
practices. Through this Center, students can access career inventory assessments, career
aptitude assessments, and skills inventories. The results of these assessments are interpreted
by full-time counselors who then provide students with services and counseling specific to
their career interests.
All key student affairs services provide students with the opportunity to assess the
effectiveness of the student learning services received. The Counseling Services survey
instrument allows a student to rate the efficacy and impact of the guidance, educational plan,
placement, service referrals, and general counselor assistance received. In addition, the
survey allows students to assess the effectiveness of the technical assistance, information,
quality, and professionalism of the services received. Thus, the college uses data to not only
provide student learning services but to improve the delivery of those services, as well.
Some of these assessments and feedback have created, piloted, and funded new services such
as the following:
EOPS Progress Report workshops (II.B.20)
TRIO Progress Report (II.B.20)
Math Academy (II.B.21)
Reading/Writing/Mathematics Labs (funded by grant support now concluded)
(II.B.22)
Tutorial Services (II.B.22)
Title V Student Retention-Early Alert program now under development
(II.B.23)
Basic Skills Initiative – Facts learning communities
http://www.hartnell.edu/bsi/Blueprint.pdf (II.B.24)
Self Evaluation
The 2007-08 Salinas Valley Vision 2020 study surveyed a body of students in our service
area and the results indicated that there was room for improvement in the area of providing
student learning and support services. Since then, the college has reorganized some of its
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