COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE

COLLEGE PLANNING COMMITTEE

February 24, 2009
MINUTES

NEXT MEETING: March 10, 2009

3:00 pm, Orchard Room

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Avalos, Juan Gill, Blanca

Ball, Cynthia Huang, Sonny

Bloomfield, Anthony Le, Richard

Beachler, Judy Pr Marchand, Lisa Pr

Brazil, Brad McLain, Kathy Pr

Carney, Michael Pr Miller, Billie

Coelho, Roseanna Torres, Cynthia

DuCray, Linda Ursin, Peggy Pr

Edman, Jeanne Pr Wellsfry, Norv Pr

Ellis, John Pr Yamamura, Whitney

Emetarom, Chitoh

1. Call to order / Approval of minutes

Norv called the meeting to order at 3:12 p.m. The minutes for February 10, 2009 were approved by consent.

2. Review of Community and Economic Development Draft

Kathy asked the committee to revisit the Community and Economic Development draft and give feedback. Norv explained that, while they were reviewing our work, je and Kathy identified three major goals in the area of Community and Economic Development: 1) understanding community, 2) responding to our community, and 3) resource development.

The following edits to the draft were discussed.

Community and Economic Development Draft

We seek to promote the heath and economic vitality of the region. As a community resource, the College contributes to community life through partnerships, involvement in civic affairs, and programs that serve the community. The College also supports economic development through their career and technical programs and partnerships with business labor and industry.

Goal 1: Enhance our ability to Understand the needs of the community

Strategies:

a. Strengthen dialogue with the community about their needs for economic, workforce and community development.

b. Develop reciprocal relationships with community based organizations (civic, non-profit, business, governmental, etc.)

c. Enhance our ability to know about the future needs of the community and emerging technologies (forecasting/environmental scanning) understand our changing demographics, public policy, economic and educational environment

Goal 2: Ensure we are responsive to the needs of the community

Strategy:

a. Ensure that we have effective, innovative and responsive programs.

b. Ensure that we have effective, innovative and responsive programs, services and delivery methods designed to meet the needs of the community (e.g. career counseling, re-careering fairs, health fairs, partnerships with community organizations).

c. Ensure that we have effective, innovative and responsive delivery methods (e.g. workshops, seminars, scheduling, distance education, consortia with other entities, including collaboration with the training source and district).

Goal 3: Enhance resource development to increase capacity (facilities, FTE, RESOURCES personnel, supplies & equipment)

Strategies:

a. Expand the capacity and utilization of the CRC Foundation.

b. Develop new and expanded partnerships to support growth for existing and developing programs.

c. Increase the capacity to develop, utilize and manage grants and contracts.

d. Enhance governmental relations and advocacy efforts.

3. Next steps –

a. Developing an assessment and accountability mechanism/process

Norv talked about all of the work that goes into creating a Strategic Plan and raised the questions – How is it actually going to change the institution? How do we measure and assess the results and our progress in achieving our goals? Kathy indicated that this is critical because of the global and general nature of our new plan, which now makes this more difficult. There will be a need for the committee to build accountability and assessment mechanisms into the plan.

The committee was not able to reach any consensus on how we might do this, so further discussion about this is needed at the next meeting.

b. Integrating other planning processes with the Strategic Plan

Norv mentioned that there was a disconnect between the operational units and the governance structure and the strategic plan, and that we need to strengthen the connection between the strategic plan, which is supposed to be driving the direction of the college, with these other planning processes. Although the format of the new PrOF and the Management Goals provides some connection, this is for the most part a one way connection that needs to be strengthened and enhanced.

In addition, Kathy indicated the need to strengthen the feedback loop regarding activities that are conducted in support of the plan. It was suggested that a pilot feedback process be introduced in a non-structured manor. Several ways to do this were identified including inviting Executive Secretaries of the Shared Governance Committees to dialogue with the College Planning Committee and gathering feedback from the SG committees to see how their activities map on to the SP. This could be done formally or informally. It was suggested that it might be helpful to create a slide show/canned presentation that explains the strategic plan process and how all of the processes are intertwined.

The committee was not able to reach any consensus on how we might do this, so further discussion about this is needed at the next meeting.

4. Other

a. New Subcommittee to replace the Outcomes Assessment Task Force (OATF) – Norv introduced a newly created subcommittee, “Learning Outcomes Dialogue Subcommittee”, of the College Planning Committee. He explained it would function independent of the College Planning Committee, but would work through the CPC.

b. Revised College Planning Committee Charge – Norv also introduced a revised version of the CPC charge. The committee looked over the revisions and made minor amendments. It was M/S/P (Marchand/Carney) to approve the revisions to the charge.

The above recommendations will be forwarded to the Shared Governance Committee.

The meeting adjourned at 4:40 p.m.

Submitted by Neva Conner