September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015

Access Committee – Agenda Notes – 9.11.15

Update(s) – 10 min

  • Equity template/plan
    • due dates for AS, Governance, Board, chancellor’s office (now Dec 18)
    • We’ve been asked to budget 170% of last years – or approx. $340K
    • Will send out current budget update
  • APR reports – DI reports

“Cognos Club” is meeting all day today and a half day tomorrow with Consultant Chad Harvey who wrote for us:

  • the two Annual Program Review (APR) reports that replicates Successful Course Completion and Successful Course Section Completion, and
  • the Disproportionate Impact (DI) report that identifies students in DI population cohorts

Practically speaking we are now able to use the DI report to identify students for interventions.

  • Adam’s data conference – report?
  • Hiring update(s)
    • Equity position hiring pool – review committee
    • Pre-collegiate full-time faculty

Mentoring conversation

  • Garden Pathways conversation
    • Trauma Informed approaches
    • Mentoring
  • (ESP meeting notes handout)

Review of strategy / overall plan (ID DI -> R&D -> SSSP)

  • Alignment with Student Success – enrollment management
    • Two year schedule of baseline/core offerings and optional/marginal offerings
    • Subcommittee for program discontinuation, offering/cancelling class sections
  • Equity Extensions to APR
    • Equity data/disaggregations in standard APR data
  • Equity DI
  • Equity “lens” to proposed CPC – Comprehensive Program Committee
  • Student Mentors – work of informal ESP group
    • Goal “get on the bike, start riding”
    • Engage student mentors now
      • Carefully define/limit the scope
      • Scale up quickly

Writing the next Equity Plan

  • Who would like to be on writing team?
  • Oct AS: Discussion of TC Equity model at Oct Academic Senate (Jennifer? Sharyn?)
  • Nov AS: Summary discussion/action
  • Nov GC: Discussion/action
  • Dec Board: approval
  • Dec 18: submission deadline

Agenda 9-11-15