Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
cost of insuring each employee, regardless of bargaining unit, and would pay a percentage of
the cost of insuring dependents, with the employee paying the remaining percent of the cost
of insuring his or her own dependents. That percentage was proposed to be 95%, and has
since remained at that level. All unions were presented with the same proposal, and were told
that the District intended to treat all of its employees the same.
Finally, when the faculty group changed insurance providers, and after a rate increase from
the new provider, the District determined that the faculty insurance was more expensive to
the District that the insurance for all other groups, and the District went to the other groups to
offer a benefit of equal value—two additional paid days off—to compensate. (On January 1,
2013, the faculty group is returning to the provider that every other group is one.)
The college demonstrates, in big ways and small, that it is committed to fair treatment for all
of its employees.
Self Evaluation
The college has demonstrated that it acts with integrity in the way that it treats all of its
employees and its students, by being accessible and open to discussion all concerns and
issues, by respecting shared governance processes and engaging in collaborative decisionmaking,
and by fair, open, and consistent application of the rules that the groups have agreed
to live by.
The college meets this standard.
Planning Agenda
None.
III.A.5
The institution provides all personnel with appropriate opportunities for continued
professional development, consistent with the institutional mission and based on identified
teaching and learning needs.
III.A.5.a
The institution plans professional development activities to meet the needs of its personnel.
Descriptive Summary
The Hartnell College Board adopted six strategic priorities in October 2012. Among them
were ―employee diversity and development.‖ Over the next year, the college will develop a
Page 214