{"id":266,"date":"2015-10-15T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ct-test-wp.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/?p=266"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:54:24","slug":"strategic-planning-september-18-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/strategic-planning-september-18-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Planning &#8211; Minutes September 18, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Minutes of the Strategic Planning Committee <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10 a.m. \u2013 12:00 a.m., Friday, September 18, 2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Caf\u00e9 Conference Room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members Present:<\/strong> Diane Baeza, Darcy Bogle, Agnes JEguaras, Greg Hawkins, Vicki Jacobi, Mark Williams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members Absent:<\/strong> Eric B\u00e9rub\u00e9<br \/>\n<strong>Guest:<\/strong> Sharyn Eveland<br \/>\n<strong>Secretary:<\/strong> Brandy Young<\/p>\n<p>The Committee welcomed Diane Baeza, the new CTE Director, and made brief introductions around the table.<\/p>\n<p>The Minutes from the September 4, 2015 meeting were approved without changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Comprehensive Program Planning\/Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark opened the discussion with an overview of the status of Comprehensive Program Planning\/Review. The Comprehensive Program Planning\/Review is mandated in our Strategic Action Plan. A suggestion was made to change the terminology of Comprehensive Program Planning\/Review to the Comprehensive Program Plan. The committee agreed to the new terminology.<\/p>\n<p>In order to \u201cfacilitate collaboration as per Board Policy with Academic Senate on all recommendations for new program creation and discontinuations,\u201d a proposal for a new committee was made. The committee would be a sub-committee of the Governance Council. The proposed name was Program Implementation Committee (PIC). A handout was distributed that outlined the charge, rationale, and structure of the committee. The committee would provide recommendations to Governance Council for program resource allocation, creation, planning assessment, and discontinuation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consideration of new program proposals, including assessments of resources needed, probable enrollments, required partnerships, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Oversight and implementation of program discontinuation, including periodic assessment of program viability based on the program discontinuation policy\/criteria<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of comprehensive program planning including periodic assessment of resource implications of programs, annual program reviews, division input, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discussion on the proposal was as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The committee would be operational in nature.<br \/>\n\u2022 The committee would not make policy.<br \/>\n\u2022 The committee would focus on implementation, \u201cthe Legislative Office.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 The committee would analyze information for programs.<br \/>\n\u2022 For program discontinuance, would current Academic Policy need to be changed?<br \/>\n\u2022 The committee would monitor the steps to inactivation.<br \/>\n\u2022 Need to integrate Program Review data to monitor graduation rates for program inactivation.<br \/>\n\u2022 Advocacy \u2013 not a decision making body.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Senate will initiate as well as the Governance Council \u2013 program creation\/inactivation.<br \/>\n\u2022 A suggestion to the wording of the first bullet on the proposal was made: Oversight and implementation of the program discontinuation process, including periodic assessment of program viability based on the program discontinuation policy\/criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion regarding how programs should be considered for inactivation using benchmarks and graduation rates took place:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We have not set benchmarks for programs, graduation rates, retention, persistence, and employment\/transfer.<br \/>\n\u2022 Institution Set Standards have been set, but how are we achieving them?<br \/>\n\u2022 PIC would also look at ISLO and PSLO data.<br \/>\n\u2022 We need to process\/inform so we can plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action Item:<\/strong> Define the processes and criteria in line with Academic Policies (program creation and discontinuation).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action Item:<\/strong> Start from the bottom and establish benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Meeting:<\/strong> Wednesday, September 30, 2015 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Caf\u00e9 Conference Room<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully submitted by Brandy Young<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ct-test-wp.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/10\/SPC-Minutes-09-18-20151.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">SPC Minutes 09-18-2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes of the Strategic Planning Committee  10 a.m. \u2013 12:00 a.m., Friday, September 18, 2015 Caf\u00e9 Conference Room Members Present: Diane Baeza, Darcy Bogle, Agnes JEguaras, Greg Hawkins, Vicki Jacobi, Mark Williams  Members Absent: Eric B\u00e9rub\u00e9 Guest: Sharyn Eveland Secretary: Brandy Young  The Committee welcomed Diane Baeza, the new CTE Director, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","category-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/committees.taftcollege.edu\/spc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}