The Office of Research and Planning conducts institutional research, coordinates program review and evaluation of all college units and provides information and technical assistance to college units and the collegewide planning committees. Specifically, the Office:

• Initiates in-depth, longitudinal studies which can support strategic institutional and programmatic decision-making.
• Produces smaller, selected reports for the college and individual departments.
• Performs environmental scans for college planning committees and individual departments undergoing program review and evaluation. (e.g. Bay Area, California and national labor force trends, population trends, college-going rates, projected enrollments).
• Provides technical assistance including data and/or referrals, information about research methodologies and data analysis, assistance with survey question development, response compilation and analysis, survey production and "number crunching," and other kinds of survey methods such as focus groups.
• Facilitates the implementation of Program Review including production of databooks and quantitative student satisfaction measures for each department/unit reviewed.