Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
expensive outside speakers to engaging discussion and work led by faculty and staff.
(IV.A.29)
Hartnell personnel energetically pursue innovation and excellence in instruction. Much of the
support for this activity is derived from grants, notably in STEM fields (IV.A.30). The most
successful grants were those developed with input from faculty and staff who would perform
the work. In many cases, grant activity directors are faculty with reassigned time funded by
the grant.
At the beginning of the 2011-12 academic year, a dean-level grant director position was
created to administer two Title V grants awarded to Hartnell College. The creation of this
position was an acknowledgement by the college that complex responsibilities are best
overseen by an administrator for whom this is the principal priority. A second grant director
position was added in 2012 (IV.A. 31, 32). In 2012. the Title V grant director position was
reverted to a faculty-level position and is filled by a faculty member with 100% reassigned
time. Program assistants and other administrative staff have also been hired to assist with the
execution of the grants.
For all the activity that has been happening, the documentation, sharing, and implementation
of results have been difficult to sustain. In these times, Hartnell can expect to rely heavily on
grants to support its program. Indeed, the grant narratives articulate specific infrastructure
needs and contain proposals designed to satisfy them.
The college has been extremely successful in obtaining grants, thus is able to articulate and
support innovation and experimentation. The lack of consistent infrastructure, however, has
been a source of frustration for faculty, staff, and administrators alike: not just for grant
execution, but also for carrying out the operations of the college. With respect to grants, the
college is working to develop a process by which grant applications are properly vetted,
personnel and facilities needs are clearly defined, and the long term obligations of the grants
are fully considered.
There is not a lack of ideas at Hartnell College, nor the willingness to express them, nor the
ability to obtain outside funding to implement them. The challenge is to define the resources
required to sustain the work, organizational as well as financial, and to make the institutional
commitment to sustain them.
The college meets this standard.
Planning Agenda
The new Superintendent/President will lead a collegial review during the 2012-2013
academic year of the administrative structure to support the District‘s infrastructure and
sustain its commitments.
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