Interesting Comments: (Some have been edited, Sub-comm)

1. General: Current goals do not adequately address the historical community aspect of SRJC. Dedication to lifelong learning and community outreach should be an equal, if not the primary, goal of SRJC. We must strive to reinforce the concepts inherent in a "love of learning". I believe that the 2001-2002 Institutional Goals are shortsighted, limiting and lacking in passion and therefore do not reflect the broader purpose of the Community College system.

2. # 1 and #2: No suggestions

3. #3: We should specifically address on-line education and address issues of: # of classes, class size, faculty load, testing, faculty evaluation, etc... (Isn’t this a planning issue? Sub-comm)

#3: We need to commit to the provision of reliable technical, and other support for all new ventures, including on-line classes. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

4. #4: Make an explicit reference to the institution’s commitment to developmental education.

#4: Include all levels of education. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

5. #5: Stress the institutional commitment to lifelong, continuous, learning for all parts of the educational program. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

6. #6: Gender vs sex in #6???

#6: Clarify that we want the same broad approach taken to recruitment of faculty as we do to recruitment of students. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

7. #7: I question if this is true. Most staff development for faculty doesn’t address specialized activities in discipline areas.

#7: Include reference to diversity in the delivery of services and in the design and implementation of curriculum... (See proposed revision and also Goal 3, Sub-comm)

#7: We are opening and supporting a Tech. Academy when our own staff are unable to get trained for these same skills, due to staffing shortages, lack of release time, lack of administrative support and mostly lack of understanding on the part of the administration... We are soon going to be unable to provide a consistently high level of technical support without picking up the pace and training our classified staff. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

8. #8: Perhaps information sharing and communication could be improved through shared directory files made available to all staff.

#8: Shouldn’t we include references to our various locations too? (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

9. #9: Goal 9 doesn’t make sense.

#9: Goals that simply specify a "plan" should be reworded and supported to include development and maintenance... To have a plan alone should not be a goal.

#9: Take this to the next level, and include reference to accreditation. (Wording that followed was incorporated into the revision for Goal 9, Sub-comm)

10. #10: The merger of Environmental Health and Safety into the District policy could result in better preparedness for disaster planning and responses. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

11. #11: Community relations should include the focus of service learning, community service and internships as aspects of developing positive relationships between the College and the community. (See proposed revision, Sub-comm)

12. #12: Does this include a commitment to building a new library?

13. New Goal idea: To make it a priority to consolidate adjunct faculty positions to reverse the current part-time/full-time faculty ratio so that the goals stated can be achieved. (This should be considered by IPC, but may more properly be considered a planning option in response to meeting some of the quality issues raised in the goals. Sub-comm)

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 and develop 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, and to provide reliable technical, clerical, instructional and administrative support for these new ventures.

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, at the program, or degree level until each student’s educational goals have been met.

5. Continuous Learning: To provide class offerings and activities that assist students of all ages and cultures with varying levels of academic preparedness in adapting to ever-changing conditions, and integrate those learning opportunities into all educational programs of the institution.

6. Outreach and Recruitment: To develop additional methods of recruiting in-state, national and international faculty and in-state, national and international students of both genders and diverse ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

7. Staff Development: To encourage and support continuous upgrading of skills and knowledge through the improvement of to improve the quality of programs and services that are offered through staff development activities that are designed to secure and maintain a faculty and staff who are knowledgeable and current in their fields, who practice diversity awareness, and who 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 which includes significant communication to, from and between all constituent groups and all locations.

9. Institutional Effectiveness: Research: To design and implement a comprehensive research plan for developing and maintaining an institutional database 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 through the integration of functions 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, including the development of service learning, community service and internships opportunities for students.

12. Resource Development: To design and implement a comprehensive resource development plan for assuring access to a quality education for current and future generations.