Strategic Planning Team

May4, 2007 2:00pm-3:30pm KSC208

Minutes

Attendees: Judi Anderson, Bob Bendotti, Ken Clarke, Paul Dale, Paul Golisch, Kurt Hill, Patti Marsh, David Matus, Mary Lou Mosley, Laurie Pemberton, Jane Saldana-Talley, Michaelle Shadburne, Laurel Smith

Absent: Julia Devous, Casey Durandet, Shirley Green, Sandy McDill, JimPatterson, James Rubin, Rick Sheets, Greg Silcox

Guests: Dawn Higgins, Paul Marsh, Beth Newman, Jeanette Saxon, Jennifer Strickland

Special Guest/Presenter: Damita Kaloostian, District Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Damita Kaloostian gave a demo of the BrainKeeper wiki application, which will be used in a pilot project by MCCCD and PVCC for environmental scan. Handouts related to the demo included:

-Screen shots of application

-Rules of engagement

-Checklist for evaluating research sources

-Sample report (SCUP)

Some key features of BrainKeeper:

  • Workspace- Workspaces serve as the broad categories in which information is grouped and organized. All workspaces are maintained within the same BrainKeeper system, and permissions determine who can read, change or add content to the workspace.
  • Pages – Pages are the primary way of storing and sharing information in BrainKeeper.
  • Sub-Pages- Provide relevant information to pages.
  • Attachments- BrainKeeper allows you to attach files to any page. All attachments are fully versioned, with descriptions by their author – allowing you to understand why files were attached and for what purpose. Attached files are easily downloadable and can be linked like any other page in the system.
  • Searches- Everything in BrainKeeper is indexed by the search engine, which allows you to search within a particular workspace or across all workspaces included in your BrainKeeper system.
  • Alerts- BrainKeeper alerts you to new and updated content in your site by sending email and through RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

Attendees worked in small groups to discuss what information they feel needs to be collected and included in PVCC’s environmental scan on the following topics:

  • Economy / Workforce (Mary Lou-facilitator, Kurt, Patti, David, Beth)
  • MAG labor force data
  • Dist. Workforce Devel. Office data
  • Enrollment Trends
  • Population Growth
  • Housing Costs
  • National Workforce Data – Top Jobs (10 years), Job Trends, Shortages, Skills
  • Immigration Legislation
  • Unemployment Information
  • Influx of business/industry and locations
  • Retirement/Baby Boomers
  • Inflationary Trends
  • Federal & State Regulations impact on jobs and training
  • Priority Industry Clusters (District Workforce Development Office)
  • Salary Trends
  • Review of grant opportunities/job needs that can be addressed by grants
  • Global supply & demand
  • Outsourcing
  • Social, Political & Legislative (Laurel-facilitator, Judi)
  • District Government Relations – State & National
  • Legislative e-mail updates no longer sent district-wide
  • Social
  • Palomino area
  • Prop 300
  • Attitudes about community colleges – high school students
  • External Stakeholders (PaulD-facilitator, Dawn, Jeanette)
  • Employers (new or expanding in the NE Valley)
  • i.e., I17 Corridor; Deer Valley Airpark; Scottsdale Rd.
  • Feeder Students
  • Underprepared high school students
  • Underprepared feeder high schools in general
  • Potential students career needs, transfer intent
  • PVCC recruitment data (contacts vs. enrollees)
  • High school contacts
  • Charter schools
  • Private schools
  • Home schooled students
  • Campus role as community resource
  • First responder needs
  • Emergency response needs
  • Arts & Cultural needs of the community
  • Theater interests
  • Performing arts interests (dance, music)
  • KidsCollege
  • Needs of Non-Credit & Community Programs
  • Silver Sneakers
  • Personal development courses
  • KidsCollege
  • Community Service Program Needs
  • VITA Program
  • Non-Profits
  • Connects for service learning
  • General Community Demographics
  • Population demographics
  • Infrastructure issues (transportation)
  • Difference in ethnic composition
  • Difference in socioeconomic neighborhoods
  • Misc.
  • Local neighborhood associations
  • Local service clubs/groups
  • Local coalitions (i.e., Palomino Association)
  • New Service Needs
  • PVCC North
  • Education (Michaelle-facilitator, PaulM, Damita)
  • Ed Trends
  • State Department Reports
  • AACA
  • Board of Regents
  • National Groups
  • Use wiki to upload info such as Chronical; have someone dedicated to doing this so we know what will be posted to eliminate duplicative work (emails and paper articles)
  • Internal Stakeholders (Ken-facilitator, Bob, PaulG, Jane)
  • Students
  • Disaggregated – FT/PT, Day/Evening
  • Goals
  • Learning Styles
  • Post grad – what are they doing? Satisfaction?
  • High school?
  • CCSSE
  • What courses do they take?
  • Do they stay with a course of study? If not, why not?
  • Characteristics of students
  • Something about students who leave – attrition
  • iStartSmart – assessment
  • Learning space data
  • Employees
  • Groups
  • Goals/Aspirations

Laurie sent an email on April 27 containing the minutes from the April 3 SPT meeting. Please contact Laurie if you did not receive that email or notice any corrections that need to be made to those minutes.

Laurel Smith sent an email on April 18 containing the report from the Planning & Budget Review Committee about the FY2007-08 budget. Please contact Laurel if you did not receive that email.

Laurie announced that a Learning Week session will be held in the fall on Strategic Planning to inform the college about the strategic planning process, results of the progress measures for the 2004-2007 strategic issues, and preliminary look at the environmental scan efforts. Laurie asked for volunteers to help with the session (please contact her).

BrainKeeper training will be Tuesday, May 22, 2007 from 1-4pm in E154.

The next SPT meeting will be Friday, August24, 2007 at 1:30pm.