SSTF: Accountability & Centralization RecommendationsPhil Smith, FacilitatorDan Crump, North RepresentativeRichard Hansen, Student Success Task Force Member Lesley Kawaguchi, Area C Representative

What We Hope to Accomplish

Review the Relevant Recommendations from Chapter 7, Enable Efficient Statewide Leadership & Increase Coordination Among Colleges

Review Existing Positions of the Academic Senateand Proposed Resolutions

Gather feedback and discuss possible options, responses, and strategic directions.

And Before We Begin…

Take a deep breath

Relax…

And Try Not to Panic

OMG! We’re All Going to Die!

Recommendation 7.1 Develop and Support a Strong Community College System Office

Recommendation 7.1 Develop and Support a Strong Community College System Office

The state should develop and support a strong community college system office with commensurate authority, appropriate staffing, and adequate resources to provide leadership, oversight, technical assistance and dissemination of best practices.

Further, the state should grant the Community College Chancellor’s Office the authority to implement policy, consistent with state law.

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions F06.07.01 The System Office Strategic Plan and Faculty

Primacy

—although focus of this resolution was on faculty primacy in academic and professional matters in relation to the System strategic plan with an eye toward having more faculty on Goal Area Implementation Teams (GAITs), the resolution also opposed weakening local curriculum committee and curriculum approval processes.

S06.07.01 System Office Procedures for Calendar Approval

—resist efforts to impose systemwide guidelines for an academic calendar before collegial consultation with local unions and senates

F04.06.06 Elimination of Board of Governors and Reduction of System Office

—Senate opposed the elimination of the Board of Governors and moving the functions of the System Office to the Office of the Secretary of Education; there was special concern that the CSU and UC system were being left untouched in this reorg proposal)

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (cont’d)

F04.07.01 Technology Reorganization in System Office

—supported a reorganization to create a more effective technology oversight and budgeting structure among others

S00.07.01 System Policy and the Grant Process

—sought greater system transparency related to RFA processes and expressed desire to involve Academic Senate earlier in the system policy implications of grants

S94.07.03 Consultation with the Chancellor’s Office

—recommended that consultation processes with faculty at the system level be codified more formally as “joint agreement” or “rely primarily upon”

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (Overview)

Resolutions related to the State Chancellor’s Office (System Office) seem to value its importance (i.e., don’t merge it with the Office of the Secretary of Education; keep it roughly parallel with UC and CSU organizations); however, there have been regular calls for greater faculty involvement and consultation at the system-level, greater transparency of processes, and maintenance of local curriculum processes.

The SSTF report uses the terms strong and robust in this recommendation, but the report often focuses on ways to make the System Office more autonomous, with less oversight by the governor and DOF, rather than strong in the sense of powerful or efficient.

The SSTF recommends more statewide initiatives and greater statewide coordination. The body doesn’t appear to have a clear position on the role of centralized versus decentralized decision making between the State Chancellor’s Office and local CCC districts.

Recommendation 7.1 Develop and Support a Strong Community College System Office

What are some of the

challenges And

OppORTUNITIES

related to this recommendatio

n?

Recommendation 7.2 Set local student success goals consistent with statewide goals.

Recommendation 7.2 Set local student success goals consistent with statewide goals

In collaboration with the CCC Chancellor’s Office, districts and colleges will identify specific goals for student success and report their progress towards meeting these goals in a public and transparent manner (consistent with Recommendation 7.3).

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions S05.03.01 Student Equity Plan

—supports creation and use of review teams to evaluate equity plan

S10.13.04 Improving Noncredit Accountability Reporting through Progress Indicators

F08.09.02 ARCC Reporting on Basic Skills

—seeks faculty primacy in developing and setting metrics concerning basic skills

S08.17.02 Responding to ARCC Reports

—seems to indicate a desire to provide local faculty feedback in the ARCC process

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (Overview)

The Academic Senate has numerous positions on data driven goal setting and decision-making.

The Academic Senate does not appear to have resolutions that directly call for accountability systems; however, when such systems have been created, the Academic Senate has asked that faculty be involved with the development of such measures along with their evaluation and interpretation.

Recommendation 7.2 Set local student success goals consistent with statewide goals

What are some of the

challenges And OppORTUNITIES

related to this recommendation?

Recommendation 7.3 Implement a student success score card

Recommendation 7.3 Implement a student success score card

Score cards would include success metrics, successfully reaching “momentum points,” such as completion of a basic skills sequence and reaching a threshold of units.

Colleges will be compared against their own past performance, thus neutralizing differences associated with local economic and demographic variables.

Score cards would be built on top of the existing Accountability Reporting for Community Colleges (ARCC), but the new score card will present a distilled subset of data in a brief format to focus attention on the system’s current student success efforts.

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions F08.09.02 ARCC Reporting on Basic Skills

—assert discipline faculty primacy in developing and setting metrics concerning basic skill levels. ASCCC concerned about the quality of data (CB21 codes) for the ARCC Report.

S08.17.02 Responding to ARCC Reports

—indicates a desire to provide local feedback from faculty in the ARCC process

F10.06.05. Accountability Measures of Student Success

—among other things, opposes the use of simplistic accountability measures of student success.

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (con’td) S10.13.04. Improving Noncredit Accountability Reporting

Through Progress Indicators

—supported pilot project to allow reporting of student progress in noncredit basic skills instruction.

S11.18.03 Collecting Drop/Withdrawal Data

—suggests that Academic Senate gather and make available data from students about their reasons for dropping/withdrawing.

F02.05.06 Generating Consistent Statistical Data

—data about resource allocation is only as useful if it collected in a uniform manner across districts; recommends that Chancellor’s Office develop and implement clear guidelines for colleges to report information for the Staffing Report.

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (con’td) S09.13.04 Develop Guide(lines) for Using Data

—asks the Academic Senate to provide guidance on the effective use of data for decision-making. Seems to have a local college focus, but could be extended to statewide data initiatives also

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (Overview) Through resolutions, the Academic Senate

seems to be in favor of the collecting and reporting of performance data.

There does appear to be some concern about the use of simplistic measures and resolutions advocate for faculty involvement.

Recommendation 7.3 Implement a student success score card

What are some of the challenges AND OPPORTUNITIES

related to this recommendation?

Recommendation 7.4 Develop and support a longitudinal student record system

Recommendation 7.4 Develop and support a longitudinal student record system

The state of California should develop and support a longitudinal student record system to monitor student progress from elementary through postsecondary education and into the workplace.

Existing Academic Senate Resolution F97.09.08 Prerequisite Research

—supports longitudinal research designs related to the use of math and writing skills to predict student success in other general education courses

Existing Academic Senate Resolutions (Overview) SSTF proposes a linked system for longitudinal

research that tracks students from K-12, CCC, CSU, and UC as well as into the workforce.

It does not appear that the Academic Senate has a position on such a system, although it has been generally supportive of data collection and tracking for specific purposes.

Recommendation 7.4 Develop and support a longitudinal student record system

What are some of the

CHALLENGES AND opportunities

suggested by this recommendation?