Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
developed, as are hundreds of transfer agreements, financial aid appeals, and many forms
completed related to course substitutions, independent study, and the like. Counseling
Services, in real time, have been extended to the two educational centers and are offered to
online and distance education students with a turnaround time of several hours. Counselors
continue to teach a combined hundreds of students each term and provide them with
orientation, study skills, career exploration, and other educational topics that support student
learning and success. Full- and part-time counselors serving DSPS, EOPS, HEP, TRIO, and
other categorical and grant-funded programs provide additional support services to the
hundreds of students served by these programs.
Due to retirements over the past five years, coupled with declining state general fund
resources, the number of full-time general counselors and some ―categorical program‖
counselors has decreased. At times, this has strained the resources of the combined
counseling team. When, in 2011, two additional full-time counselors retired effective June,
2011, the President authorized the immediate hiring and training of nearly one dozen
additional part-time professional counselors. The combined time contracted with these parttime
counselors equals the counseling appointment time available from the current full-time
general counselors. This, in effect, has doubled the availability of counselors and counseling
appointments. While this does not address the need to find and fill permanent counselor
positions, it ensures the availability of professional counselors to serve the needs of Hartnell
College students at each campus and center location.
The college meets this standard.
Planning Agenda
None.
II.B.3.d
The institution designs and maintains appropriate programs, practices, and services that
support and enhance student understanding and appreciation of diversity
Descriptive Summary
Hartnell College has a long-held, well-established, and widely-known tradition and
commitment to diversity. The majority of residents in the Salinas Valley service area of the
college are hispanic, and the majority of students attending Hartnell College—at its Main
Campus and at each of its two educational centers—are Hispanic. The college is designated
as a Hispanic Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. Beyond this
predominant ethnic group, the service area and student body at the college is populated with
diverse cultural, race, and ethnic constituencies, including Mexican Indian (Mixteco,
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