January 28, 2002
Minutes 01/28/2002

INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL

MINUTES

January 28, 2002

Present: Robert F. Agrella, KC Boatsman, Ed Buckley, Craig Butcher, Alex Drake, Toni Eaton, Brenda Flyswithhawks, Joe Friedman, Doug Garrison, Curt Groninga, Jeanne Johnson, Donna LaFollette, Molly Lynch, Jennifer Mann, Ricardo Navarrette, Ron Root, Deborah Sweitzer and Leon Wakefield

Absent: Lily Alexeyeva, Alix Alixopoulos, Lily Bergfelt, Kathleen Doyle, Greg Granderson and John Mercer

1. PLANNING COMMITTEE COORDINATION: The Academic Senate is reviewing 100 level course curriculum paths and proposed cut score revisions. The Budget Advisory Committee has discussed the proposed increase in non-resident fees and is reviewing the budget planning calendar. The District Facilities Planning Committee held discussions regarding planning for the proposed "Replacement Facility" and has asked that affected programs submit their space needs to Administrative Services. Educational Policies and Curriculum Committee is reviewing certificate program certification requirements in order to establish a recommended minimal unit completion policy at SRJC. EPCC is also looking at the 100 level curricular path as well as cut scores. The Strategic Enrollment Planning Committee is working on strategic enrollment planning issues.

2. ACCREDITATION PLANNING UPDATE: Ed Buckley reported that the Accreditation Self-Study Steering Committee met all day on January 18th to review and suggest preliminary edits for the Self Study first draft. Generally, the first draft is considered to be in excellent shape and the Steering Committee was impressed as to the quality and quantity of work performed by the standard committees.

3. Partnership For Excellence (P4E) District Self-Analysis Report: KC Boatsman reviewed the documents sent to the Chancellor’s Office and which has been reviewed by the component administrators. She will be making a brief presentation on this to the Board of Trustees at their February 12th meeting. Attached report.

4. INSTITUTIONAL RESERARCH UPDATE: KC reviewed the status of a number of project accomplishments completed thus far by the Office of Institutional Research and provided a brief commentary as to the nature and purpose of the study. Attached.

5. COMPONENT ADMINISTRATOR GOALS STATUS REPORT: Curt Groninga reported that the Component Administrators will be submitting their Mid-Year Component Area Goals and Objectives reports to the President on February 1st. The Components will be reporting on the status of the 2001-2002 goal attainment at a future IPC meeting. The Component Administrators will be submitting, by April 1st, their draft 2002-2003 Component Goals to the President. They will review their new goals with IPC later this Spring. Final 2002-2003 Component Goals are due to the President by June 1, 2002.

6. Integrated Master Planning Update: Ed Buckley reviewed the status and suggested revisions to the Integrated Master Planning process. He suggested to IPC how the Educational Master Plan, the Student Services Master Plan would integrate with the Business and Administrative Services Master Plans and become, in total, the Integrated Master Plan. (Not available on-line. Call Maria Gaitan for copy)

7. State Budget Update: Ron reviewed the status of the Governor’s budget and it s potential impacts on specific SRJC programs. He indicated the Governor’s budget, as it is most fiscal years, is at this stage a "works in progress". As the College receives further information it will be shared with IPC and other core planning committees.



Posted by mlinford at January 28, 2002 12:00 PM