Accreditation
and Student Learning Outcomes Committee
Last Updated
February 3, 2008
Committee
Charge
The Accreditation and Student Learning Outcomes
Committee is charged to provide guidance for
faculty in areas related to accreditation,
outcomes, assessment and accountability. The
committee will gather effective practices for
outcomes and assessment and empower faculty
to create effective self-studies. The committee
will distribute information via the SLO listserv
and through institutes, papers and rostrum
articles, regarding faculty roles in accreditation.
The committee will interact with the Commission
and other appropriate organizations representing
faculty and their concerns in the Community
College System. The committee will also provide
SLO Coordinator training throughout the state.
Under the direction of the President, the chair
and/or members of the committee will provide
technical assistance to local college academic
senates and the faculty in general who request
assistance with accreditation and SLO issues.
Membership 2007-2008
Janet Fulks, Chair, Biology, Bakersfield College
Marcy Alancraig, English, Cabrillo College
Scott Lee, Library, Antelope Valley College
Janice Tomson, Geology, Long Beach City College
Kenneth Bearden, English, Butte College
Angela Caballero de Cordero, Noncredit Matriculation
Coordinator/Counselor, Allan Hancock College
Robert Pacheco, Basic Skills, Barstow College
Gary Williams, Faculty Researcher, Crafton
Hills College
Goal 1: The
Academic Senate will increase and make
more visible our service to local senates
Outcomes: Increased visibility
of the Academic Senate and local academic
senate to all faculty on the 109 California
Community Colleges
Objectives:
1.1
Examine and improve services to member
senates
Resolution
Number
Status
and Priority
Conduct research on the 2003-04 activation
by the ACCJC of its 2002 Standards and
create a report that considers its impact
on the system, colleges, administrators,
programs, courses, faculty, students
and local senates.
S06 2.02
In Progress.
In progress with present papers.
Committee will explore qualitative research
through surveys, focus groups and collection
of best practices. Committee will need
to clarify and define impact. This may
require two years of development. Priority: Moderate
Request of and work with
the ACCJC to evaluate accreditation team
training and college visitation schedules
to consider faculty assignments and accommodate
classroom obligations; and
explore training options such as interactive
online training, webinars, CCC Confer and
other distance options to accommodate accreditation
team training.
S07 2.01
In progress
The committee is working on a survey to
address this resolution (Survey Part
1: on accrediting teams Part 2: SLOs
on COR Part 3 ACCJC Annual reporting
format)
In addition a subcommittee of this
committee will schedule a meeting
with ACCJC to discuss, these
specific issues. Information distribution
may be accomplished in plenary
breakouts
at the Accreditation Institute
and in a rostrum article the ACCJC
response.
Actions to complete this resolution
will also address S07 2.02 (question
S98 2.02 and F96 2.01) Priority: High
Create a paper detailing
best practices for motivating and sustaining
effective faculty involvement in local
accreditation.
F06 2.01
In progress
The committee is gathering information
through its work with SLO Coordinators.
Tabled for now until next year when the
committee will have completed research
and reviewed past senate papers to determine
the need for revision of these or creation
of a new paper. One rostrum article was
written. See Resolution S95 2.02 Priority : Moderate
1.2
Increase personal contacts with each
campus
1.3
Reach out to new faculty and new
faculty leaders
1.4
Affirm
the importance of strong local senates
Goal
2: Strengthen our Leadership in Academic
and Professional Matters on behalf of
the Faculty of California's Community
Colleges
Outcomes: Increased external
recognition
Objectives:
2.1
Serve
faculty who serve students
Resolution
Number
Status
and Priority
Resolved,
That we insist that SLO design and development
remain exclusively a matter for local faculty
and senates; and that we insist that the
designs of all processes for measurable
objectives and/or outcomes remain exclusively
a matter for local faculty and senates
and that this principle be communicated
to the Accrediting Commission for Community
and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), the system
leaders of California’s Community
Colleges, and all of our intersegmental
partners, including the Intersegmental
Committee of Academic Senates (ICAS) and
the California Articulation Numbering (CAN)
Board of Directors.
F04 2.01
In Progress.
Addressed in the paper Agents Of Change:
Examining The Role Of Student Learning
Outcomes And Assessment Coordinators
In California Community Colleges and
in Rostrum Articles, as well as at the
SLO and Accreditation Institutes.
Copies of the paper will be sent to ACCJC,
CCLC, CCCO, ICAS and other partners deemed
relevant. Priority: High.
Urge the Accrediting
Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
(ACCJC) of the Western Association of Schools
and Colleges (WASC) to ensure that faculty
comprise a minimum of 25% of the site visiting
teams; and that the Academic Senate reaffirm
its support in the recruitment and training
of faculty for accreditation site visits.
F04 2.04
In progress
The committee will communicate to the Commission
and create a document encouraging CIOs
to provide institutional support and
for the ACCJC to consider academic calendar
schedules (16 and 18 week schedules)
when assigning faculty to accreditation
teams. This resolution has been partially
completed by communicating in meetings
with the ACCJC and making clear the mechanism
for faculty to volunteer for visiting
teams. Priority: Moderate
Work with the ACCJC to
establish a faculty presence in annual
updates that include qualitative measures
as well as quantitative, to provide feedback
on the reporting process and form, and
to consult about further reporting formats
concerning student learning outcomes, assessment
and curricular changes.
S07 2.02
In progress.
The committee is working on a survey to
address this resolution (Survey Part
1: on accrediting teams Part 2: SLOs
on COR Part 3 ACCJC Annual reporting
format)
In addition a subcommittee of this
committee will schedule a meeting with
ACCJC to discuss, these specific issues.
Information distribution may be accomplished
in plenary breakouts at the Accreditation
Institute and in a rostrum article
the ACCJC response. Actions to complete
this resolution also address S07 2.01,
S 98 2.02 and F96 2.01 Priority: High
Recommend that colleges
and districts provide adequate institutional
support for any faculty-driven process
that coordinates, manages, and integrates
Student Learning Outcomes.
F03 2.02
In progress
Will be completed by paper. The committee
communicated this at its January 2007
Accreditation Institute through SLO coordinator
paper for first reading at the June Exec.
Priority: High
2.2
Generate
resources for local faculty
Develop a
position paper on the outcomes/assessment
movement.
F02 2.08
In progress
Next Paper will focus on evidence, effectiveness,
and best practices concerning the use
of outcomes. High priority
Urge districts
to provide adequate reassigned time and
other necessary support to faculty assigned
to developing and editing self-study reports,
and, with approval of the Accrediting Commission
for Community and Junior Colleges, develop
a document that will provide guidance to
developers and editors of self-study reports.
S 98 2.02
In progress.
The committee is working on a survey to
address this resolution (Survey Part
1: on accrediting teams Part 2: SLOs
on COR Part 3 ACCJC Annual reporting
format)
In addition a subcommittee of this
committee will schedule a meeting with
ACCJC to discuss, these specific issues.
Information distribution may be accomplished
in plenary breakouts at the Accreditation
Institute and in a rostrum article
the ACCJC response. Couple with S07
2.02, S 98 2.02 and F96 2.01 Priority: High
2.3
Confirm
our focus on students in our decision-making
2.4
Build
relationships with other groups
Goal
3: The Academic Senate will provide
leadership and professional development
opportunities to faculty and other constituent
groups
