Committee
Charge
The Basic Skills Committee reviews policies and
recommends to the Executive Committee positions
and actions on issues related to meeting the
needs of under-prepared community college students.
In addition, the Basic Skills Committee gathers
information on best practices in providing instruction
and support services to under-prepared students
and conveys this information to the field through
breakouts, workshops, and papers. Members of
the Basic Skills Committee represent the Academic
Senate on such bodies as the Chancellor's Office
Basic Skills Advisory Committee.
Membership Lesley Kawaguchi, Chair, History, Santa
Monica College
Wade Ellis, Math, West Valley College
Ignacio Alarcon, Math, Santa Barbara City College
Jenny Redding, ESL, Oxnard College
Kathryn Schoenrock, Reading/Eng/ESL,
Ventura College
Jason Suarez, History, El Camino College
Barbara Illowsky, Math, De Anza College
Meeting Dates August 25, 2007 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. CCCConfer
September 29, 2007 10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Santa Monica College
October 18, 2007 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CCCConfer
January 17, 2008 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CCCConfer
February 14, 2008 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Santa
Monica College
March 13, 2008 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CCCConfer
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
Res. No.
Status and
Priority
Provide assistance to campuses that need
help in developing approaches to basic
skills and implementing effective practices.
Exec Action
09/04
Ongoing.
Committee will respond as needed to requests
for such assistance.
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
Res.
No.
Status and
Priority
Develop plans
for fall and spring session breakouts that
promote best practices and inform faculty
about current issues in basic skills.
Exec Action
09/04
Ongoing – High
Priority
Committee will meet to discuss potential
breakout session topics. Some ideas include
a follow up to reading competency and those
resolutions assigned from fall and spring
sessions.
Work
with the Chancellor's Office and the Board
of Governors to strengthen basic skills programs
and support for underprepared students.
F02 9.03
Ongoing – High
Priority
Committee will continue to work with the
Chancellor’s Basic Skills Advisory
Committee as requested and will continue
to be involved in the BSI.
Explore issues
related to reading competency as a graduation
requirement.
Research current practices and the need
for reading competency systemwide to develop
a position paper on this topic.
S05 13.06R
S06 9.08
Ongoing – Medium
Priority
Committee will follow up on survey and explore
possibility of broadening the research, a
project is proposed to pre and post test
students on committee members’ campuses.
Encourage timely
enrollment in Basic skills courses.
F04 9.05R
Ongoing- Medium
Priority
Committee should discuss what more can be
done in this area. Committee should liaise
with SACC and BSI members to keep abreast
of developments in this area.
Research approaches to
ensuring that students complete their developmental
coursework early and develop a paper including
best practices and recommendations to local
academic senates.
S07 9.05
To be addressed - High
Priority
Committee should meet to discuss the priority
of this new task.
2.2
Generate
resources for local faculty
Research the
feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages
of implementing common statewide assessment
tests for math, English, reading, and ESL
for the purpose of placement and report back
to the plenary body at the Spring 2005 Plenary
Session.
F03 13.01
Ongoing - High
Priority
Committee should keep abreast of BOG mandate
for common statewide assessment tests.
Compile an
annotated bibliography of relevant research
and other available resources for the use
of developmental education professionals.
S03 12.01
Ongoing – Medium
Priority
Committee has draft of bibliography and will
have a final draft available shortly. Committee
will continue to keep the bibliography current.
Collect information from
the field about successful practices within
existing noncredit basic skills programs
and disseminate this information in a paper,
and/or present some of these practices at
a future plenary session.
F06 9.07
Ongoing – Medium
Priority
Committee might consider breakouts and highlight
programs that have research.
2.3
Confirm
our focus on students in our decision-making
Express our appreciation
to the Research and Planning Group and System
Office for conducting the BSI lit review;
and
Research and recommend strategies to develop
additional indicators addressing student
equity in basic skills.
S07 3.05
To be Addressed - High
Priority
Committee will work with BSI and EDAC.
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
Outcomes: Increased number of informed faculty
Objectives:
3.1
Enhance
professional development opportunities
Res.
No.
Status and
Priority
Work with discipline professional
organizations to identify examples and develop
guidelines for ways that vocational faculty
and mathematics and English faculty can work
to develop mathematics and English course
materials that might better promote successful
completion of the new mathematics and English
graduation standards; and
Share these examples and guidelines and
ways to integrate curriculum at future
plenary sessions and institutes.
S07 9.02
To be addressed – High
Priority
Committee will hold breakouts that will help
faculty develop guidelines and curriculum
by facilitating discussions among English,
math and vocational faculty.
