Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Developing a sustainable resources allocation process - The FIS (Financial
Information Subcommittee) affirmed that it will report to the RAC, and that
priorities should drive funding and not the other way around. By determining our
college-wide priorities through 2009-2020, our goal is to provide the resources to
satisfy those priorities. We will develop a process that is guided by the
Educational and Facilities Master Plan and the Salinas Valley Vision 2020 Plan.
The shared governance committees are meeting and developing their priorities,
operations and analysis based on the shared governance paradigm. Processes for
data gathering and analysis, communication channels between committees and
within the Hartnell community, decision-making and assessment of results will be
developed over time. The RAC specifically will work to determine timelines,
information gathering and analysis, and criteria for decision-making.
RAC continues this work at present, and periodically evaluates its own effectiveness as well
as the effectiveness of other college processes. For example, the February 8, 2012 meeting
minutes include three discussion items, one showing the link between research and planning
(―Discuss working with committees to schedule reports of findings to implement planning for
next year‖), and two showing evaluations of effectiveness (I.B.29).
Major input to RAC comes from the Program Planning and Assessment Committee.
Replacing the old Program and Services Review model, Hartnell‘s Program Planning and
Assessment Committee (PPA), which has been in existence since 2007, developed starting in
2009 and implemented in the 2010-11 academic year, a new planning and assessment model.
Student Services has already applied the new program planning and assessment model in Fall
2011. Administrative units are scheduled to utilize the new process starting in Fall 2012.
Resource requests from planning are forwarded to RAC. The new process will be evaluated
by the PPA in the 2012-13 academic year.
Along with facilitating development of Student Learning Outcomes for all of Hartnell‘s
courses, the Student Learning Outcomes Committee has, in the last two years, overseen
assessment of the college‘s Core Competencies. This process has led to changes in how the
assessment is conducted. (I.B.30) And because of the availability of measureable outcomes,
the recommendations were used in the budget planning. All hiring needs and equipment
requests are tied to the program planning, which makes it an integral part of the strategic
planning, even when financial difficulties may impede the implementation of the
recommendations.
Self Evaluation
The hiring of the Dean of Institutional Research and Effectiveness will provide the ability to
identify and improve processes and augment the knowledge of all constituencies. In the
absence of this position, the most important data was still being collected, analyzed, and
applied to the improvement of instruction, but not as pervasively or concertedly as it could be
given increasing reliance on data for all college processes.
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