Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Division services, programs, delivery strategies, and organizational structure. Every other
week, the managers from each program and unit in the Division of Student Affairs meet with
the Vice President as a group referred to as the Student Affairs Leadership Team. Combined,
these managers oversee all programs and services that comprise Student Affairs at the
college. These managers work together to review program operations, identify additional
data needs, construct and implement program and student surveys, review current research on
best practices in this professional field, and discuss any issues related to student learning and
success. This is the team that led the 2011-12 PEER comprehensive program evaluation of
all student affairs services and programs, and the team that reviews data derived from student
efficacy of service surveys and feedback forms, and once reviewed, helps to identify new
processes and procedures.
Throughout each academic year, campus personnel collect various enrollment, persistence,
success, graduation, and other data that must be reported to the Statewide Chancellor‘s
Office. These impact and outcomes data are reviewed to ensure that student support services
are identifying and addressing student needs and that College efforts are contributing to the
achievement of student learning outcomes. Both College and Division of Student Affairs
managers use these data to better organize and deliver student support services that make a
difference. As noted in an earlier section, review of these data resulted in the consolidation of
specific student support services under a new dean position, the creation of a one-stop service
center, and redeployment of crucial counseling and other support services to the two
education centers, the hiring of more bilingual part-time counselors, and a recasting of the
schedule of operations of key student support services so that they were available at times
and locations more convenient to all students, including distance learners.
In addition, specific ―categorical‖ and ―grant funded‖ student support services utilize
program-specific intake, survey, impact, and assessment processes mandated by funding
sources or state reporting policies. In this regard, the TRIO, GEAR UP, HEP,
EOPS/CARE/CalWORKs, and DSPS programs must collect additional information from
College students benefitting from their services and these impact data are reported in annual
and progress reports to those agencies and funding sources. To continue to receive funding
support, these important student learning support programs must demonstrate that they are
meeting student needs and contributing to student success. Further, many of our academic
student support services have implemented pre and post tests and program effectiveness
assessments. Examples include the Nursing Program and its Saturday Success Campus, the
Mathematics Department‘s two-week Math Academy, the Math Lab, and the Writing Lab.
Self Evaluation
The college is rewponsive to student needs and demonostrates through a variety of
assessment data that student support services addresses student needs. Student services are
evaluated in a consistent manner to ensure program efficacy and effectiveness in ahieveing
student success. The college can demonstrate that it continues to use these and other
evaluation and demographic data as the basis for program improvement both at the college
and Division of Student Affairs levels. Student services underwent a comprehensive
evaluation in 2005-06 (PEER), 2007-08 (Salinas Valley Vision 2020), 2008 (as part of the
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