Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
around distance education, trains staff in the technology it provides, and anticipates the needs
of the future and provides leadership to meet the technology needs of students, faculty and
staff.
In addition, the college has shared governance decision-making bodies that coordinate
technology purchases and implementation: the Technology, Human Resources, and Facilities
Committee (THRFC), under the direction of the Vice President of Technology and
Information Resources, the Associate Vice President of Human Resources and Public
Information Officer, and the Director of Facilities coordinate technology, human, and
physical plant resources to channel and assess requests that emanate from program reviews,
SLOs, division, department, and program-level needs, for college wide review, prioritization,
funding and ultimate approval. To accomplish this effort, the THRFC also involves the
voices of the dean of curriculum, distance education, and representatives from the academic
and classified senates.
At Hartnell, the THRFC operates within the planning and budget process and ultimately
reports and makes recommendations to the college‘s top administration and informs the more
comprehensive Resource Allocation Committee (RAC). RAC acts as a clearinghouse of
information regarding resource use and allocation to ensure we are leveraging every dollar
wisely. As RAC and THRFC orchestrate their efforts, the college gains an understanding of
the full scope of needs and issues, and how technology can be used as a vehicle to address
them. With the recent hire of a new Vice President of Information and Technology Resources,
the THRFC has mapped out an active Technology Task Force (TTF) to routinely conduct
surveys, elicit input from program reviews, and develop analyses of system performance to
understand deeper technology needs of the college.
Additionally, the Hartnell College Technology Master Plan 2011-2016 (III.C.3, Hartnell
College Technology Master Plan 2011-16) provides overall direction, goals and definition of
college processes for decision making around technology. The THRFC in concert with other
shared governance committees, address the following issues and tasks on an ongoing basis:
College priorities related to technology projects and implementations.
Classroom technology needs, including instructor computing hardware
standards, priorities and planning;
Individual faculty and staff computers, including replacement, priorities and
hardware/ software standards;
College website and web technology needs
Hartnell College Foundation and grant technology needs
Requests for new technology implementations and purchases beyond regular
technology projects and implementations.
The TTF discovered needs are brought forward to the THRFC, which has the primary
responsibility for watching over the college strategic plan for technology and monitoring the
ongoing implementation effort aimed at achieving the goals of this plan. THRFC is a
participatory governance committee designed to be as inclusive as possible of all
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