DATE: September 17, 2001
TO: College Community
FROM: Dr. Brenda Collins/Dr. Curt Groninga IPC Co-chairs
RE: 2002/2003 Institutional Goals
Following the annual institutional planning process, the Institutional Planning Council is seeking college community input as to the development of the 2002/2003 Santa Rosa Junior College goals. All college community members and specific shared governance committees and groups [Educational Planning & Coordinating Council (EPCC), Budget Advisory Committee (BAC), District Facilities Planning Committee (DFPC), Strategic Enrollment Planning Committee (STEP), Department Chair Council (DCC), College Council, Academic Senate, Classified Senate and Management Team], are requested to review the 2000/01 Institutional Goals and make their thoughtful responses to IPC by October 3rd.
An institutional goal is a statement that sets forth a long-term, generalized direction toward which the institution should move, in some cases specific targets may be adopted. Institutional goals, though long-term in nature, will be reviewed annually and, if necessary, revised. One can view the college's institutional plan as consisting of the following:
Whereas the institutional goal is long-term and more generalized, the component operational goals provide a planned path to activate the institutional mission and goals. The component administrator's operational goals are designed to establish a desired outcome for a specific component area (Academic Affairs, Administrative Services, Business Services, Petaluma Campus, President's Office and Student Services) and to delineate an operational relationship to adopted institutional goals.
IPC's role is to ensure: a) effective planning; b) effective participation in planning by all who are affected by the plans; c) the college community is informed and educated about major plans and goals; d) college community-suggested institutional planning issues be considered, and; e) that an institutional planning theme is established each year.
2001/2002 Institutional Goals
IPC designated, Student Retention & Persistence (#4), Outreach and Recruitment (#6), Staff Development (#7) and Institutional Effectiveness (#9) as those to be emphasized during 2001/2002.
1. Instructional Quality: To maintain, improve and emphasize quality and comprehensive instruction in an environment of academic freedom and high academic standards in both departmental and student services programs.
2. Student Success: To help students improve in setting educational and career goals, and in accomplishing those goals, by providing comprehensive instructional and student support services.
3. Program Development and Delivery: To explore, develop and support new substantive offering, new modes of delivering educational services and new sites to better serve the evolving diversity of our student body and the evolving intellectual, economic and technical needs of our community.
* 4. Student Retention and Persistence: To identify and implement activities designed to increase student retention at the course level and student persistence from the developmental level through the certificate, program, or degree level until each student’s educational goals have been met.
5. Lifelong Learning: To provide a wide variety of class offerings and activities that assist students of all ages and cultures with varying levels of academic preparedness in adapting to ever-changing conditions.
* 6. Outreach and Recruitment: To develop additional methods of recruiting in-state, national and international faculty and students of both genders and diverse ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
* 7. Staff Development: To encourage and support continuous upgrading of skills and knowledge through programs and services designed to maintain a faculty and staff who are knowledgeable and current in their fields, practice diversity awareness, and demonstrate an appropriate level of technological competence.
8. College Governance: To maintain and enhance the governance of the institution through a well-defined participatory process and sharing of information to, from and between all constituent groups and at all locations.
* 9. Institutional Effectiveness: To design and implement a broad-based and integrated system of research, evaluation, and planning to assess institutional effectiveness and use the results for institutional improvement.
10. Institutional Quality: To improve the accountability and cost-effectiveness of all programs, services and facilities throughout the District while maintaining an environment that is supportive of a high quality educational experience.
11. Community Relations: To improve the two-way flow of information about the College vision, mission and goals to and from the total community and to establish a wide range of positive relationships within and outside the College.
12. Resource Development: To design and implement a comprehensive resource development plan for assuring access to a quality education for current and future generations.
As approved by Institutional Planning Council on December 11, 2000
As approved by the Board of Trustees on January 9, 2001
2002/2003 INSTITUTIONAL GOALS SURVEY
Please provide your comments and thoughts about the 2002/03 institutional goals. Please forward this form to Curt Groninga, c/o Administrative Services, 1344 Bailey Hall by Wednesday, October 1st. Should you so choose, you can e-mail them to cgroninga@santarosa.edu or to Brenda Flyswithhawks at bflyswithhawks@santarosa.edu
1. Are the existing goals acceptable to be carried over into 2002/03?
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2. If not, which goals would you modify and in what manner?
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3. Are there any goals you would add? delete?
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4. Further suggestions?
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Please note that the Institutional Planning Council agendas and minutes as well as institutional documents are posted on the college's web site.