Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Descriptive Summary
Through Measure H bond, BTOP and STEM federal grants and some Foundation funds,
Hartnell has been able to build a beautiful Learning Resource Center (LRC), a Faculty
Resource Center (FRC), upgrade a world class language learning lab, build a new one-stop
center for counseling and student services, modernize 15 classrooms, and provide for
professional development in critical areas for our students, staff and faculty. While these
resources are helpful in providing the technology and facilities to provide training, there still
remains a gap between the need and the college‘s ability to develop its constituents at a
satisfying level, which gap the college intends to bridge.
The professional development program is a robust series of workshops and events, and
numerous online training opportunities that are all designed to support the continuous
development of knowledge and skills in Cognos (data intelligence/reporting), Astra (facilities
management), Datatel , SARS (appointment scheduling), eCollege/Etudes (LMS), Google
Apps, Drupal Content Management, Microsoft Office, and others for The college community.
The FRC programs have been and will be open to all Hartnell employees, and include many
technology-related and many software applications related to teaching and learning.
Hartnell College has and is planning several methods of assessment to ensure that technology
training needs are identified and that students, faculty and staff expectations are met or
exceeded. The college plans to use surveys of faculty, staff and students as a primary means
of identifying their satisfaction level with its array of technology services and functions. In
addition, the college has a program review process that is tied to its budget allocation model.
Through assessment of program review and SLO data, the college can identify needs related
to technology and assess the progress and success of ongoing technology services and current
implementations to identify areas where training is deficient or technologies are
underutilized.
As funding for California community colleges has been reduced through several years of
budget cuts, providing sufficient human resources for training faculty, staff and students has
become challenging. Staffing reductions in the Hartnell IT budget has reduced the
availability of resources to provide training support to the levels Hartnell would prefer, but
focus and dedicated resources are being provided to enable and support training and
professional development. Because the college Measure H bond has provided resources for
equipment purchases and the new Faculty/Learning Resource Center, the college has been in
the difficult position of adding new technologies with limited resources.
To ensure that technology assets are appropriately utilized by all members of the college
community, Hartnell College provides training for its employees in the use of technology.
The programs are open to all Hartnell College employees, and include technology related
training, such as in the use of Datatel, Microsoft Office, Adobe, student and faculty portals,
and software applications related to teaching and learning. The FRC offers a program of
classes, technology training workshops and related activities. (III.C.4; FRC Schedule of
Training Classes)
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