Career & Technical Education

Purpose

The Career Technical Education (CTE) Committee is a sub-committee of the Taft College Academic Senate, is charged with making recommendations on the 10+1 areas of (4) educational program development, and (9) processes for program review, as related to career technical education. The committee serves as a resource in the development of CTE (1) curriculum including establishing prerequisites and placing courses within disciplines.

Role of the Career Technical Education Committee:

The Career Technical Education Committee, a standing committee of the Taft College Academic Senate:

• Reports to the Academic Senate on issues and activities related to 10 +1 responsibilities;
• Makes recommendations to the Curriculum and General Education Committee on curriculum and program needs as appropriate, and;
• Interacts with other College stakeholders to ensure collegial consultation and to support participatory governance processes.

Areas of focus for the Committee include:

• Recommendations for Program Review processes related to CTE data and decision-making processes;
• Aggregation of input from Advisory Committees across CTE programs;
• Development and evaluation of processes and practices for CTE program specific Advisory Committees;
• Evaluation of the effectiveness and processes of advisory committee meetings;
• Make recommendations to other Academic Senate committees, or college bodies as appropriate, about the sustainability of Career Technical Education programs as part of the evaluation process;
• Present information and make recommendation to Division Chairs on new and replacement faculty positions;
• Integrate and provide relevant CTE information to related committees and agencies about student, staff/faculty, community, District and program interests and performance;
• Refer issues to other Academic Senate committees in accordance with the scope of each committee;
• Respond to requests for action or recommendations from other committees of the College; and
• Make recommendations to appropriate committee/division using annual program review findings.

Membership Representation:

 The Career Technical Education Committee consists of:

• Chair: Academic Senate member appointed from the committee membership
• Seven Academic Senate Members with a preference for Academic Senate representatives from each division with CTE programming
• VP of Instruction or Designee (Non-Voting)

Resource representatives (non-voting, attendance not required but may be requested for some topics):

• Representative from Admissions and Records
• Representative from Counseling, preferably CTE-related
• Articulation Officer
• VP of Student Services or designee

2022

Date	Title
12/13/2022	2022_12_13 CTE Meeting
11/08/2022	2022_11_08 CTE Meeting
10/11/2022	2022_10_11 CTE Meeting
09/13/2022	2022_9_13 CTE Meeting
05/05/2022	2022_5_05 CTE Meeting
04/07/2022	2022_4_07 CTE Meeting
03/03/2022	2022_3_03 CTE Meeting
02/03/2022	2022_2_03 CTE Meeting

2021

Date	Title
11/29/2021	2021_11_29 CTE Meeting
11/04/2021	2021_11_04 CTE Meeting
10/07/2021	2021_10_07 CTE Meeting
09/02/2021	2021_09_02 CTE meeting
02/04/2021	CTE 2021_2_04