Charge:
The Committee shall be responsible for creating a five-year comprehensive educational master plan and maintain the five-year educational master plan through yearly updates. The five-year plan and yearly updates will be used to identify items that have been completed, that are on-going, and that have not yet been addressed as well as add new goals and strategies annually to meet emerging needs.
Methods:
- Analyze data provided by the institutional effectiveness office on course and program enrollment trends over time
- Analyze data provided by the institutional effectiveness office concerning trends in student enrollment related to gender, ethnicity, age, ability, economic status, and other demographic changes over time.
- Analyze data trends provided by the institutional effectiveness office concerning student program enrollments, class time preferences (day, evening, on-line, correspondence, hybrid), and other changes in enrollment patterns
- Utilize the analysis derived above to facilitate the improvement of student access, success, and equity in the schedule of classes.
- Utilize the analysis derived above to facilitate productivity improvement.
- Review and incorporate recommendations from instructional program reviews and non-instructional program reviews into academic planning.
- Integrate academic planning with student services and budget planning to ensure successful implementation of the goals and strategies.
- Commitment to data informed decisions to ensure inclusiveness and equity when creating and implementing the long range academic plan.
Committee Structure:
- 4 Administrators (Chief Instructional Officer, Chief Student Services Officer), Deans of Instructional Services (2)
- 5 full-time faculty (Accreditation Chair, 2 division chairs, lead counselor, Academic Senate president, 1 faculty representative from the Curriculum/Academic Standards Committee)
- 2 management/confidential appointed by the group including an individual representing Institutional Effectiveness
- 2 classified representative involved with instructional or student services; appointed by CSEA
- 1 student representative. ASB will have the first opportunity to select a representative, but if not available, faculty or staff may recommend a student representative to the chair(s) for approval.
As of Decmber 2018 Academic Planning Committe Minutes can be found in BoardDocs.
