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College of San Francisco
City
College of San Francisco City College of San Francisco
Office of Research, Planning, Grants and Title III
Adopted by Board of Trustees—December 1997
Part I: Setting a Direction: CCSF Vision, Values and Mission 3
Part II: Measuring Success: Goals and Performance Indicators 6
Part III: Moving Forward: Strategies for Change 12
Part V: Managing the Change Process--On-Going Planning and Implementation Processes 36
1. A Quality Service Strategy . . . to continuously improve the educational experience of students and the working environment of the CCSF community.
2. A Continuous Program Improvement Strategy . . . to cultivate and support innovations in educational programs and student services.
3. A Supportive Workplace Strategy . . . to build positive college relations and improve working conditions at the college.
4. A Technology Strategy . . . to provide students, faculty, and staff with the tools, training, and technical support to fully benefit from educational, communications, and management technologies.
5. A Facilities Strategy . . . to maximize the contribution of the physical environment to productive learning and working experiences.
6. A Resource Development Strategy . . . to diversify and increase the stability of CCSF's revenues.
7. A Planning and Budgeting Integration Strategy . . . to base budget allocations on long-term planning priorities.
CCSF will track the implementation of these strategies by maintaining a set of completion measures for each change strategy. These completion measures will track the important investments required for successful implementation of the strategies.
This planning process began in Fall 1995 with a comprehensive effort to interview and gather concerns from the college leadership including faculty, classified staff and student leaders, and the Board of Trustees and administrative staff. Based upon the information gathered from college leadership, the college’s Master Plan Committee established seven strategy development teams comprised of representatives from faculty, administration, classified staff and students. Each team focused on identifying strategies and action plans to support one of seven proposed collegewide strategies during the Spring semester 1996. The proposals from the strategy teams were assembled into a draft strategic planning framework and circulated to all CCSF faculty, staff and administrators during the flex professional days in August 1996.
Additional input and feedback from faculty, staff, administrators, and students resulted in two additional drafts of the plan from Fall 1996 through Spring 1997. At each stage, the plan has been refined and aligned with the concerns of our diverse college constituencies.
The Board of Trustees adopted the college strategic plan at its December 1997 meeting.
City College of San Francisco will continue to be a leading center for teaching and learning. Students from all backgrounds and cultures will have access to affordable, high quality programs that meet their lifelong educational needs. The college will continue to build upon its commitment to educational excellence, service to our diverse communities and preparation for civic engagement.
VALUES
We Value Education
We value education as critical to improving the quality of life, and we are committed to providing learning opportunities that are accessible, affordable, and of the highest caliber.
We Value Learning
We value learning as a dynamic and continuing process, nurturing inquiry and continuing dialogue within an environment that encourages cooperation and collaboration.
We Value Students
We value students as the foundation of our institution. We appreciate their contributions and respect the varied perspectives and challenges they bring to our learning community.
We Value Each Other As Members of a Community
We value and respect each other’s skills, knowledge, and life experiences that add to the richness of our workplace. We value the participation and contributions of each member of the college community.
We Value Excellence
We value excellence in all aspects of our educational mission.
To this end we encourage risk-taking, teamwork, persistence, creative problem-solving
and innovation.
We Value Diversity
We celebrate the diversity of the students and communities we serve, and we strive to reflect that diversity among our faculty, staff and administration.
We Value Freedom of Thought
We value academic freedom and respect the right of each individual to his/her opinions. We encourage a lively, on-going interchange of views among students, faculty, staff, and administration, and a tolerance of differences.
We Value Responsibility
As a community of educators and learners, we are responsible for fulfilling our roles and duties to the best of our capacities. Every member of the college community is responsible for making the learning process nurturing and meaningful, and for fulfilling our duties with honesty and integrity. We are also responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective use of our college’s resources.
We Value Service to the Community
As an institution with deep roots in many communities, we value our commitments to them and strive to respond to their needs in timely and appropriate ways. We prepare our students for civic engagement for the betterment of the entire community.
We Value Public Trust
We value the public trust and support we receive from the residents of San Francisco to prepare our students to be productive world citizens.
CCSF MISSION STATEMENT
To fulfill our vision, City College of San Francisco provides
educational programs for
To ensure that students reach their educational goals, the college
provides academic and student support services, basic skills programs,
continuing education programs, and training for workforce needs of public
and private sector agencies and businesses.
INSTITUTIONAL GOALS
To achieve its mission and fulfill its vision, City College
has six primary goals:
City College is dedicated to maintaining an open door for all who can benefit from enrolling in our programs. Entering students should have easy access to information needed to enroll in the appropriate programs and courses. CCSF will continue to respond to the needs of our students and will schedule programs and classes throughout the City of San Francisco to ensure maximum access for the diverse communities we serve.
2. Promote Student Success in Achievement of Educational Goals
The college is a learner-centered environment which develops and encourages essential learning skills and relevant knowledge students need to achieve their educational goals including the associate degree, transfer to baccalaureate institutions, career skills, English as a Second Language instruction and other adult education programs.
3. Improve Satisfaction with College Services
All students should receive educational services of the highest quality, and faculty, staff and administrators should be able to rely upon the most efficient and effective college operations to fulfill their professional commitments to providing those services. College operations and services will rely upon a collegewide program review system as well as quality improvement processes to ensure that all students and CCSF employees receive the most reliable and efficient possible services.
4. Promote a Supportive and Positive Workplace
To better serve our students and our communities, CCSF will promote a supportive work environment which fosters collaboration and communication, builds effective staff development programs, ensures healthy working conditions, and strives to be among the most productive and best compensated workforces in the California community college system.
5. Manage Resources Effectively
To increase the college’s fiscal stability and effective management of its resources, CCSF will continue to pursue the highest standards of efficiency in delivery of educational services. The college will also aggressively pursue alternative sources of revenue including grants, alumni support and capital campaigns.
6. Pursue Highest Standards of Educational Excellence
City College promotes educational excellence by supporting
faculty, administration, staff and student participation in national,
state and local professional organizations, by building partnerships with
other educational organizations , and by pursuing the highest standards
of excellence for its programs and services.
ASSESSING GOAL AREA PERFORMANCE
1. Access to City College of San Francisco
The primary indicators of access to City College are the total numbers of adults served within the City and County of San Francisco, the college service area, as well as the diverse communities within its primary service area.
Primary Indicators
1. Percentage of SF Adult Population Served by the College Compared
to Total Adult Population in the City and County of San Francisco.
2. Numbers and Characteristics of Student Population Compared to Adult
Population of the City and County of San Francisco..
Secondary Indicators
1. Numbers and Characteristics of Recent High School Graduates Who
Are First Time Students Matriculating at CCSF (Fall term)
2. Numbers and Characteristics of CCSF Non-Credit Students Matriculating
into Credit Programs
3. Numbers and Characteristics of EOPS and DSPS Students Receiving
Services (Annual)
4. Number and Characteristics of Students Receiving All Types of Financial
Aid and Scholarships (Annual)
5. Total Number of Students Enrolled in Basic Skills and ESL Courses
(Fall term)
6. Total Number of International Students Enrolled at the College
(Fall term)
7. Number of Students Attending CCSF from Outside the Service Area
(Fall term)
2. Student Success
Student success is measured by the numbers of students achieving their educational goals.
Primary Indicators
1. Numbers and Characteristics of Students Receiving AA/AS Degrees,
Certificates of Completion and Awards of Achievement in Semi-Professional
Programs
2. Numbers and Characteristics of Students Transferring to Baccalaureate
Institutions
3. Numbers and Characteristics of Students in Non-Credit Programs Passing
a Program Exit Test
Secondary Indicators
1. Percentage of Credit Students Successfully Completing a Course With
a C or Above Within the Same Semester
2. Percentage of Non-Credit Students Retained in a Class to the End
of Semester
3. Percentage of New First-Time Community College Students Persisting
From Semester to Semester/Year To Year
4. Percentage of Students Persisting From Semester to Semester/Year
To Year
5. Numbers, Characteristics and Percentage of Students Annually Passing
the GED Examination
6. Numbers, Characteristics and Percentage of Students (by program)
Annually Passing License Examinations
7. Level of Compensation for CCSF Students Exiting Selected Programs
after One Year and Three Years in the Workforce.
3. Satisfaction with College Services
Students and CCSF employees comprise the major groups that use college
services. Indicators of how well the college provides services will
rely upon satisfaction surveys developed collaboratively primarily through
the program review process.
Primary Indicators
1. Percentage of Students Surveyed Indicating Satisfaction with
College Instruction and Student Support Services
2. Percentage of CCSF Employees Indicating Satisfaction with College
Services.
Secondary Indicators
1. Percentage of Students Satisfied with Scheduling and Availability
of Classes
2. Percentage of Students/CCSF Employees Indicating Satisfaction with
College Learning Environment (e.g. campus climate; facilities; access to
technology, etc.)
3. Numbers and Types of Formal Grievances Filed by Students Annually
and Upheld by the Student Grievance System.
4. Supportive and Positive Workplace
The primary indication that the college is meeting its goal of developing
a healthy workplace is the satisfaction of all of its employees.
Indicators of employee satisfaction will rely upon surveys developed collaboratively
with college organizations.
Primary Indicator
1. Percentage of CCSF Employees Indicating Satisfaction with College
Working Environment (e.g. facilities; access to technology; levels of compensation;
working conditions; communication; interactions with other employees; staff
development)
Secondary Indicators
1. Numbers of Formal Grievances Filed by CCSF Employees and Resolved
by the College
2. Rank of College Among Bay 10 Community Colleges in Salary and Fringe
Benefits.
3. Number and Characteristics of Administration, Faculty and Staff
Compared to Adult Population in 30 Mile Radius of City and County of San
Francisco
4. Ratio of Full-Time to Part-Time Faculty and Classified FTE Staff
Compared by College, School and Department
5. Satisfaction Ratings of CCSF Employees with Shared Governance System
and Staff Development Programs
6. Satisfaction Ratings of CCSF Employees with Career Ladder Opportunities
by Employee Category; CCSF Employee Satisfaction Ratings with Level
of Collaboration and Civility Within the College
7. Number of Workers Compensation Claims Awarded Annually.
5. Managing Resources Effectively
The two primary indications of effective resource management is the
capacity of the college to find funds from alternative sources including
foundations, corporations and alumni, and the level of efficiency in utilizing
institutional resources to fulfill the college mission.
Primary Indicators
1. State Ranking of College by Program-Based Funding Categories
2. Annual Amount of Funds Received from All Sources including Alternative
Funding Sources (Foundations; Capital Campaigns; Grants)
Secondary Indicators
1. Weekly Student Contact Hours per Full Time Equivalent Faculty
2. Administrative Expenditures per Full Time Equivalent Student
3. Maintenance of Prudent Reserve as recommended by State Chancellor’s
Office
4. Utilization Rates of Campus Buildings
5. Rating of Fiscal Stability by State Chancellor’s Office
6. Extent of Compliance with Fifty Percent Law
6. Standards of Excellence
Excellence indicators include student achievement and student ratings
of the college. They also include recognition of the college and
its faculty, administrators, students and staff by national, state and
local professional organizations. Other indicators are the extent
of participation and leadership of the college and its faculty, staff,
administration and students in national, state and local professional organizations,
and recognition of the achievements of its students in academic, creative
and workplace activities.
Primary Indicators
1. Numbers of Students Achieving CCSF Dean’s List
2. Student Ratings of College from Exit Interviews
3. Employer Satisfaction Ratings with CCSF Students
4. College Ranking in Number of Transfers to Baccalaureate Institutions
5. College Ranking in Rate of Transfer as measured by UCLA Transfer
Assembly Project.
6. College Ranking in Number of AA/AS Degrees Awarded
Secondary Indicators
1. Numbers of CCSF Employees in Leadership Activities within National,
State and Local Organizations.
2. Numbers of Students on College Board’s Annual Talent Roster of Outstanding
Minority Transfer Students for Two-Year Colleges
3. Public Opinion Surveys Within the San Francisco Service Area.
4. Awards and Recognition to CCSF by Professional Organizations
for Program Excellence
5. Awards and Recognitions from Professional Organizations for Achievements
by Faculty, Staff, Administrators and Students in Educational and
Creative Activities. Publications and Presentations at Conferences
by Faculty, Classified Staff, Administrators and Students.
6. College Ranking in Number of Transfers to baccalaureate Institutions
7. College Ranking in Number of AA/AS Degrees Awarded
2. Continuous Program Improvement
The College will promote continuous program improvement and innovations
to respond to the changing needs of our students and the communities we
serve.
3. Supportive Working Environment
The College will create a supportive working environment for faculty
and staff including building collaborative practices, improving communication,
providing a safe, healthy and modern workplace, and increasing involvement
of part-time faculty and staff.
4. Technology
The College will invest in technology to enhance teaching excellence,
facilitate student learning and productivity, and ensure administrative
efficiency, and will make this technology available to all segments of
the College community.
5. Facilities
The College will enhance the learning environment by modernizing and
renovating current facilities and, where feasible and appropriate, build
new facilities.
6. Resource Development
The College will expand alternative revenue sources to support current
programs and planned innovations. Use college current resources effectively
to ensure the highest levels of efficiency within college operations.
7. Integrated Planning and Budgeting System
The College will establish an integrated planning and resource allocation
system to ensure that college strategic priorities are supported.
Key Issues
City College needs to improve its “student friendliness” and its “user
friendliness.” For students, the enhancement of “student friendliness”
translates to higher levels of student progress and success at the college.
Students endure too many lines and must rely on too many offices to obtain
the information and complete the paperwork necessary to attend classes.
The concept of “customer service" at CCSF incorporates two views of the student: 1) as “learners" requiring instruction and guidance from faculty, staff, and administrators; and 2) as "customers" requiring prompt, efficient and responsive administrative services, information and support.
Customer service also includes the internal customers of college services--faculty,
staff members, and administrators. CCSF employees are often diverted from
serving students because they need to devote an excessive amount of time
to obtaining necessary operational support such as simple maintenance items,
personnel services, equipment, etc.
A “user friendly system” will counter the frustration over lengthy
delays in obtaining supplies, equipment and staff.
Six Objectives
Six key objectives support the quality service change strategy. They are:
Strategies/Actions
A1: Using a continuous improvement process, analyze systems, procedures
and resource utilization related to admissions and records, financial aid
and matriculation. Evaluate delivery of information and services during
holiday, summer and other times when college is not in session to ensure
that students receive accurate and timely information and services.
A2: Investigate alternative ways for students to access services and
information (e.g. video orientation, Internet registration).
A3: Expand child care programs for CCSF students wherever feasible
to ensure that students can schedule courses and programs needed to complete
educational goals.
A4: Improve and expand college services and students enrolled in evening
and weekend programs.
B: Streamlined College Operations
Improve college operations’ processes and procedures to make them “user
friendly” for college administrators, faculty and classified staff.
Strategies/Actions
B1: Conduct an institutionwide review of college procedures to analyze
time on tasks and to identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks encountered
by college administrators, faculty, staff. Ensure that service providers
participate in the reviews. The review shall include all college
administrative, student support and instructional services.
B2: Develop customer-service standards and build in accountability
measures with the advice of users of the service, staff and appropriate
shared governance committees.
B3: Develop processes to streamline inefficient college operations
and include “ripple effects” (i.e. impacts of changes upon other
departments and units) in the streamlining plan.
B4: Consider equipment upgrades to support quality service improvements.
C: Quality Service Training
Ensure that faculty, administrators and classified staff (including
student workers) are trained in the principles and practices of customer
and user-friendly service in cooperation with appropriate college organizations
(e.g. shared governance and employee organizations).
Strategies/Actions
C1: Require an ongoing, long-term quality service training program
and courses as part of staff development, including,
D: Adapt Quality Improvement Processes for Instruction
Utilizing the ideas and concepts of continuous quality improvement,
develop programs which will support the continuing delivery of quality
instruction and student services.
Strategies/Actions
D1: Expand programs and seminars to continue to train faculty in the
use of classroom research and assessment techniques.
D2: Provide institutional processes to recognize achievements of faculty,
administrators and classified staff who have achieved high levels of excellence
in instruction and/or provision of student services.
D3: Increase professional development opportunities to promote excellence
in instruction and student service delivery.
E: Communications and Information Exchange
Develop communication/information exchange processes and systems that
are consistent, accurate, timely, and courteous for all service interactions
(e.g., personal interfaces, forms, and telephone contacts).
Strategies/Actions
E1: Improve new student, staff and faculty orientations to the college
and include periodic updates of new information. Update handbooks on college
systems, policies and procedures on a regular basis. Expand the mentor
program to include all new faculty, classified staff and administrators.
Establish annually-updated service directories for CCSF employees and students.
E2: Create a Master Calendar of important events to integrate and coordinate
information. This would include start/stop dates for key processes
(matriculation, drop/add, semester, exams) and for counseling and other
student support service programs.
E3: Provide voice-mail for all faculty and staff.
E4: Provide student information desk(s) in a central location at each
campus, with a designated person to coordinate information flow and
ensure consistency and accuracy.
E5: Maintain telephone operators as opposed to automated call directing
systems.
E6: Provide e-mail accounts and/or e-mail opportunities for faculty,
classified staff and students.
E7: Consider converting marquees to electronic "billboard" and student
kiosks.
E8: Establish on-line communications among all campuses and a protocol
for information exchange/dissemination regarding important college policies,
programs, projects, etc.
E9: Improve accuracy and presentation of information exchange during
contract negotiations.
E10: Improve college mail services within and among the campuses.
F: Research to Support Continuous Improvement
Recognize the changing face of CCSF customers through on-going research.
Survey programs and services, at regular intervals, to continuously improve
service to students, faculty and administration.
Strategies/Actions
F1: Coordinate continuous improvement (CQI) research efforts through
the Office of Research and share findings with all departments.
F2: Conduct research in collaboration with service providers to determine
customer needs through bias-free surveys (both electronic and hard copy),
suggestion boxes, focus groups. Survey results shall be subjected
to review and discussion by affected user groups. Emphasis should
be to research both student and employee needs and satisfaction.
F3: Research class availability and student completion rates on a regular
basis.
F4: Encourage and support departmental and program-level customer service
research.
Key Issues
City College serves a broad and very diverse array of communities requiring
the continuous monitoring and revision of the content and delivery
of instructional and student support services. The college needs
to be responsive to changing student and community needs. CCSF has already
produced a number of planning initiatives including CityWorks, the Student
Equity Plan, an education technology plan and transfer enhancement plan.
These plans are the source of many ideas for program innovations which
must include the development of new ways of promoting student learning
as well as providing student support services.
Six Objectives
Support for innovation includes forums to explore ideas, grants-making initiatives to support faculty, classified staff and administrators implementing, evaluating, and disseminating their ideas. Two exemplary innovation support programs are the national Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the CCSF VATEA special projects awards.
Strategies/Actions (Priority order for implementation)
A1: Develop an inventory of existing model programs by
department, school, and campus.
A2: Working with schools, campuses and departments, establish roundtables
to stimulate broad-based participation in the development of both interdisciplinary
and discipline-specific innovations to promote teaching excellence and
higher levels of student learning. The roundtables would utilize student
feedback, best practice research from other institutions and other types
of information to support roundtable discussions.
A3: Expand and formalize the college program innovation
process. Such a process would include a fund for innovation with
clear criteria for awarding short-term and long-term grants, technical
support for individual and group projects, evaluation of the project, and
dissemination of successful projects to other CCSF faculty and staff. Innovations
could include a vast array of instructional, student service and learner-centered
projects (e.g. peer tutoring, service-learning programs; supplemental instruction).
A4: Establish a support system to enable CCSF employees
to develop innovations including tuition-free enrollment in CCSF classes;
faculty and classified staff utilization of more flex professional hours
for innovation activities; support programs and classes between semesters
for disciplines that use intensive learning or learning in a concentrated
period of time;
A5: Provide staff development opportunities to all faculty
and classified staff to support the best and most successful learner-centered
programs within the college and in the nation.
A6: Encourage and support faculty to experiment with and
implement new pedagogies that enhance teaching excellence and student learning.
A7: Encourage schools and departments to review and adopt
one or more models of a successful learner-centered, interdisciplinary
program.
B: Enhance Outside Classroom Learning Experiences for Students
Enhance opportunities for students to build their competencies through
outside classroom experiences such as peer tutoring, student activities,
service-learning, and internships.
Strategies/Actions (Priority order for implementation)
B1: Promote faculty and classified staff discussions and
awareness of how extra-classroom activities support student education plans
and student achievement.
B2: Expand student activity programs which build student
learning in subject matter areas (e.g. ecology; astronomy; music performances;
computer technical assistance projects).
Strategies/Actions (Priority order for implementation)
C1: Strengthen and expand collaborative activities between
student services and instruction.
C2: Improve communication and develop collaboration among
all units (e.g. advisors, counselors, admissions and records, financial
aid, etc.) that are involved in matriculation in order to support the matriculation
of new students, undecided students and continuing students. Enhance
follow-up services for probationary students.
C3: Establish collegewide career and job placement services
integrating all current college programs under one office with the mandate
to coordinate all work-based programs and to link directly to college workforce
instructional programs.
C4: Train instructors following statewide counseling guidelines
in the role of faculty advisors to provide discipline- or program specific
support to students to complement student services. The training would
be coordinated by the General Counseling Department with participation
from all student services units.
D: Enhance and Expand Delivery of Student Support Services
Strategies/Action Plans (Priority order for implementation)
D1: Improve the current delivery of matriculation services.
Redesign the current approach to orienting new students to include the
use of current students as orientation leaders; small group presentations;
a student handbook; and multi-media and on-line Web presentations.
Broaden initial assessment to include learning styles, real work experience,
academic preparation, as well as student skills in Math, English and ESL.
D2: Expand the matriculation process to the non-credit
college programs and high schools to facilitate an easy transition to the
college’s credit programs.
D3: Provide students with electronic access to degree audit
information about their progress toward transfer and graduation requirements.
Use kiosks and the Internet at all college locations and at high schools
to provide ready access to: course schedules, catalogue information,
individual student grades, unofficial transcripts, degree audits, and prerequisites.
D4: Expand campus child care programs for students with young children.
E: Promote Flexible Delivery Systems
Strategies/Actions
E1: Provide flexible scheduling of courses and programs
including tri-semesters, short-term semesters, etc.
E2: Expand competency-based courses in both the credit
and non-credit modes as instructional options.
E3: Link non-credit courses to supplement instruction in
credit mode.
E4: Expand co-linked courses where appropriate to promote
both collaborative and cooperation teaching and learning programs.
E5: Expand the college’s use of distance learning where
appropriate.
F: Expand Institutional Partnerships
Strategies/Actions
F1: Expand partnerships with community organizations, other education providers, labor and business to bring education to students at a time and in a place that conforms to their needs. Deliver learning at work-based sites. Provide college credit for work and life based experiences based upon competency criteria (see glossary).
Key Issues
During the last four years, the College has allocated resources toward
the reconstruction of its management information system, a project which
will be completed within the next two years.
During the next five years, the College must address the application of technology to instruction and student services. Educating students in the 21st century will require access to a much more comprehensive set of technological tools including the Internet, multi-media technologies, and state-of-the-art computers. Yet, all campuses currently lack relatively basic information tools and equipment, such as easy access to fax machines and computers. The overall result is that students are being underserved.
For faculty, staff and administrators, information technology should mean on-line access to student records resulting in better customer service and more efficient departmental management. A line item for technology in departmental budgets may facilitate more effective planning for and distribution of technological capacity.
Three Objectives
CCSF’s education technology plan entitled Creating Opportunities:
Using Information Technology in Education identifies three primary
objectives for the college to pursue. They are,
A: Build a Collegewide Technology Infrastructure to Make Technology
Accessible to Students, Faculty and Staff
B: Increase Opportunities for Students, Faculty and Staff to Use Information
Technology for Educational and
Administrative Functions
C: Create a System for Planning, Evaluation and Continuing Funding
of Technology
A: Build the Physical Infrastructure for Technology
Strategies/Actions
A1: Install a secure, college-wide communications network
infrastructure, including video cabling as appropriate, between buildings
and campuses as well as offices and classrooms
A2: Provide technical support for offices, labs, and classrooms,
including a fully-staffed help desk, on-site support in labs and traveling
support for classrooms
A3: Expand access to information technology for students
by investing in “state-of-the-art” end user computers and related equipment
in labs and classrooms
A4: Expand access to information technology for all faculty
and classified staff, including the creation of a Technology Learning Center
for staff development and training
B: Increase Opportunities for Technology Use
Strategies/Actions
B1: Implement a systematic staff development program for faculty and
staff
B2: Train students in the use of computers and other information technology
B3: Improve and enhance the delivery of student services as enumerated
in Objective D
C: Create a System to Plan for, Evaluate and Fund Technology
Strategies/Actions
C1: Continue and strengthen education technology by creating an Education
Technology Office and a Teaching and Learning Technology Round Table comprised
of students, faculty, classified staff and administrators to discuss and
recommend college policies related to application of information technology
to teaching and learning
C2: Establish and maintain funding for information technology; the
college should explore the feasibility of supporting a modification of
state law which would allow the college to establish a student technology
fee.
C3: Establish annual and ongoing planning and evaluation system through
schools and departments
C4: Develop guidelines on critical legal and usage issues related to
information technology and disseminate to the CCSF community
C5: Develop a hardware acquisitions plan which standardizes purchases
whenever possible and plans for cyclical upgrades and replacements
C6: Develop a software acquisitions plan to standardize software purchases
and subsequent upgrades of the selected software. Develop a list
of software that will be “official” software for which CCSF will provide
extensive technical support. (More modest support will be available
for unofficial software.)
C7: Make standardized computer and software packages available at discount
to students and disseminate purchasing information to students
C8: Examine distance education options and determine long-term goals
and expand where appropriate based upon student and faculty needs and preferences.
D: Improve Student Services
Strategies/Actions
D1: Provide on-line data to improve college decision-making
D2: Enhance information access to students through information kiosks,
web sites, multi-media orientations
D3: Develop additional enrollment options for students through the
application of technology
D4: Develop electronic counseling support systems
D5: Improve interactivity of counseling support services among campuses
by establishing common data systems
D6: Develop systems to support distance orientation and on-line counseling
D7: Support data collection and processing to evaluate counseling services
delivery system
D8: Review the feasibility and desirability of creating a shorter,
more responsive computerized testing process to reduce test anxiety for
new students
D9: Shorten the award processing time to financial aid applicants using
an improved data system
Key Issues
Improving facilities is a top priority for City College. The college
has many owned and leased facilities which are thirty to fifty years old
and are in need of major renovations. The condition of the physical
environment is one of the important determinants of how well the college
can fulfill its educational mission. Facilities can send positive (or negative)
messages to students, messages which can help or hinder learning.
This same effect applies to CCSF's employees. The modernization and
renovation of facilities can markedly improve the learning and working
experience providing opportunities to create places for students to congregate
with each other and with faculty, interactions which are an integral part
of the educational process.
To ensure that facilities are modernized, renovated and built to meet the needs of the users--the students, faculty and staff, this plan proposes to implement five objectives which address the facilities planning processes. As funding from the state, the SF bond issue and college capital campaigns becomes available, the college will use these planning processes to determine the most appropriate types of facilities for students, faculty and staff.
Five Objectives
Strategies/Actions
A1: Revise the new Facilities Committee composition to ensure a range
of expertise and representation from varied disciplines and campuses, and
from constituency groups of faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
A2: Designate a "facilities needs coordinator" for each building including
bungalows to consolidate requests for facilities improvements.
A3: Provide opportunities for community input on projects that have
a clear impact on neighborhoods adjacent to CCSF facilities, including
input from established community organizations.
A5: Establish a standard form for project evaluation and assessment
that conforms to the educational plan and strategic plan principles.
A6: Continue the Design Review Board under the new Facilities Committee,
including an outside community member.
B: Adopt Facilities Planning Principles
Adopt a set of facilities design principles to guide facilities development
and improvements. The planning principles will provide broad parameters
and guidelines for facilities planning, and describe prototypical solutions
to a range of facilities needs at CCSF (a "pattern language".) The
Facilities Committee will use the principles to review proposed projects.
User groups and units seeking facilities improvements will also use the
principles and guidelines in defining their facilities needs and developing
possible solutions.
Strategies/Actions
B1: The new Facilities Committee will review the principles included
in the "master plan" produced by the Facilities Master Plan Subcommittee
for possible inclusion in the facilities principles.
B2: Review the planning principles periodically at the Facilities Committee
to determine their success in providing guidance on facilities development.
Use various inputs in this review, including user groups' post-occupancy
evaluation of facilities that are built or renovated according to the design
principles.
C: Integrate User Groups into Facilities Design and Construction
Support users in programming and design of facilities as full participants
throughout entire process including evaluation of facilities by users after
occupancy.
The objective is to establish a participatory, user-driven facilities process that is open to change; inclusive; empirically driven; and information based. The process will rely upon a productive communication system and accepted protocol for facilities needs, including: feedback and review; education of stakeholders; clear information on how a project progresses from idea to reality.
Strategies/Actions
C1: Establish a process for project sponsorship by user groups representing
broad constituencies and conduct ongoing communication with sponsoring
groups.
C2: Provide assistance, education and training to user groups in establishing
project goals and preliminary program as outlined in the planning principles
document established under Objective B of this section, including graphic
rendering of goals and preliminary program.
C3: Program and design facilities employing an interactive process
between users and architects.
C4: Create a structured participation program with milestones and deadlines
to involve college community in prioritizing projects for recommendation
to senior administrators.
C5: Conduct user group post-occupancy evaluation of new or renovated
facilities.
D: Evaluate Projects on Basis of Educational Needs
Evaluate facilities projects with participation of the college community
in light of the CCSF Strategic Plan and other collegewide education plans.
Strategies/Actions
D1: Establish evaluation criteria based on the CCSF Strategic Plan
and other collegewide and campus planning documents.
D2: Maintain flexibility in the facilities plan to be responsive to
unforeseen developments and opportunities.
D3: Define user groups for each project through an open process, and
provide opportunities for them to participate meaningfully in the programming
and design process.
E: Fund Projects on Basis of Facilities Process
Develop a process for funding projects recommended by the new Facilities
Committee.
Strategies/Actions
E1: Consider all projects for funding equally, regardless of size.
Define small, medium, large, and maintenance projects based on criteria
such as costs, benefits, and disruption. Develop guidelines for funding
facilities projects.
E2: The College Capital Improvement Program will utilize the Committee's
recommendations in the development of an annual plan.
E3: For planning purposes, consider college-wide block grants for deferred
maintenance, renovations, infrastructure, and capital projects, etc.
Advocate changes in state law to create this approach.
Key Issues
CCSF faces several challenges in creating productive working conditions
for its 2,700 employees. Effective communications are difficult due
to the necessary complexity of a multi-campus institution offering a wide
range of educational programs and services. This organizational complexity
can also hinder efforts to promote collaboration and teamwork. The
College must also address critical issues of health, safety, facilities
and part-time employment.
This strategy area outlines strategies to build a productive workplace
environment that promotes service to students, productivity, teamwork,
and a spirit of mutual trust and respect. An over-arching goal is to improve
and increase employee satisfaction.
Five Objectives
A: Improve Working Conditions
Improve physical working conditions that impact the well-being and
productivity of classified staff, faculty and administrators.
Strategies/Action Plans
A1: Develop a transportation plan that increases availability of parking
and evaluates the feasibility of an inter-campus shuttle.
A2: Provide for the facilities needs of faculty and staff, including:
Strategies/Action Plans
B1: Provide part-time faculty adequate space for meetings with students
and storage of instructional equipment.
B2: Explore inclusion of non-instructional activities (e.g., orientation;
office hours; and committees) of part-time faculty within the 60% limit.
B3: Ensure that all CCSF employees receive the same basic information,
e.g., schedules, catalogues. Establish a handbook for part-time faculty.
B4: Integrate part-time CCSF employees into staff development activities.
B5: Conduct collegewide surveys and studies of the status
and working conditions of part-time faculty and classified staff through
the establishment of two special task forces with representation
from all college constituencies (students, administrators, faculty,
classified staff ) and AFT 2121 and SEIU 790. The task forces--one
to focus on classified staff and the other on faculty--will report
findings to the College Advisory Council.
Objectives of the study include, but are not limited to,
| Faculty TF | Classified TF | ||
| 2 administrators | 2 administrators | ||
| 2 classified staff | 6 classified staff | ||
| 2 students | 2 students | ||
| 3 AFT reps | 3 faculty | ||
| 3 Academic Senate reps | |||
| 2 DCC reps | |||
| Total: 14 | Total: 13 |
Strategies/Action Plans
C1: Conduct college educational programs to develop positive shared
understandings on diversity and affirmative action.
C2: Recruit qualified diverse applicants to college hiring pools for
administrators, faculty and classified staff.
C3: Pursue diversity hiring
C4: Create institutional ground rules for diversity, civility and communication.
C5: Provide regular venues for dialogue on diversity issues.
C6: Support training in diversity issues in race, gender, sexual orientation,
disabilities (e.g. active listening, consensus building skills).
C7: Provide diversity and communication training for leaders of unions,
student groups, and college professional associations to support leadership
on diversity issues.
D: Build a Team Orientation
Develop small working teams to build trust and community and to enhance
productivity.
Strategies/Action Plans
D1: Conduct flex day classes and other professional development activities
on teamwork and team formation
D2: Encourage and support team building.
D3: Integrate team message, skills, and concepts in faculty and classified
staff orientations.
D4: Provide leadership training to all those involved in managerial,
supervisory positions and constituency group representatives to complement
team orientation.
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Key Issues
College funding depends upon state allocations which continues to be
uncertain. Given the constantly shifting state budget priorities, the college
must diversify its long-term revenue sources while maximizing revenue from
the state. Efficient and effective allocation of all resources must
also be addressed, if the college wishes to build the needed resource slack
for innovations and other college initiatives.
Three Objectives
A: Maximize Revenue from Public Funding Sources
B: Expand Revenue from Non-State Sources
C: Promote Efficient Allocation and Use of College Resources
A: Maximize Revenue from Public Funding Sources
Strategies/Actions
A1: Optimize enrollments throughout the college to ensure that
the college receives the maximum level of funding from the state in all
categories--cost of living, growth, categorical programs and categorical
grants for equipment, technology, etc.
A2: Build awareness among faculty and staff of the mechanisms
through which the college receives its funding from the state including
regular reports on state funding, orientation sessions and reports on college
enrollment goals, and strategies to support full classes, student retention
and timely submission by faculty of enrollment sheets.
A3: Expand existing database and Web site information on
sources for public funding grants from both state and federal sources.
A4: Encourage CCSF employees to participate in public government
agencies, commissions and boards which have access to public funds related
to postsecondary education. Develop direct links with these participants
to make them aware of opportunities to promote partnerships with the college.
A5: Support the passage of the CCSF bond referendum in
June, 1997 for funding for capital improvements in technology infrastructure,
modernization, renovation, health and safety and child care center.
A6: Explore the feasibility of issuing participation bonds
to fund specific capital improvement projects.
A7: Investigate opportunities to utilize local redevelopment
funds to support projects at specific college campuses.
A8: Expand partnerships initiatives with other educational
institutions including community colleges, SFUSD, SFSU, and UC, to compete
for public partnerships grants from local, state and federal agencies.
A9: Utilize college media including Telecourses, Channel
52 and KCCSF to market and enhance enrollments.
B: Expand Revenues From Non-State Sources
Strategies/Actions
B1: The Office of College Development will be responsible
for the planning and implementation of a comprehensive resource development
program to provide increased funds from private sources for college programs
and services, facilities and equipment.
B2: Implement an alumni development plan to identify and
involve alumni in the resource development programs of the college.
B3: Increase the operations of the Office of Contract and
Continuing Education where appropriate to widen the scope of educational
offerings to the public.
B4: Expand enrollments where appropriate in the international
students program and the student services affiliated with this program.
Add short specialized programs for international students as needed.
Ensure that the expansion program meets the following criteria:
1. Enrolled students will get the appropriate amount and level of services
needed to conduct a successful program.
2. Students enrolled in credit and non-credit programs
will not be displaced as a result of the expansion of the international
students program.
3. Expansion of the program will result in added value
to the overall function and operation of the college.
B5: Establish resource development activities in coordination with
the Office of Development within college departments, schools and
campuses to encourage expanded fund-raising initiatives.
C: Promote Efficient Allocation And Use Of College Resources
Strategies/Actions
C1: Establish Financial Accountability Center agreements
with college units, departments and programs which will promote efficiency
incentives by allowing units to carry over part of the savings in their
budgets to the next fiscal year.
Key Issues
The college currently has a complex and cumbersome planning and budgeting
process. First, there is a lack of connection between planning, budgeting
and the assessment of the college’s progress toward meeting its goals.
Too often, budgets do not reflect planning priorities, and conversely,
planning efforts do not always attend adequately to budgetary considerations
nor assessments of college performance.
Second, CCSF lacks a clear and consistent communication channel between shared governance committees concerned with facilities, educational planning, equipment, and budget. For example, facilities planning can sometimes go forward without adequate consideration of educational objectives, or educational plans may be established without the requisite discussions about facilities. There is no comprehensive forum to examine and resolve any differences with cross-cutting planning and budgeting priorities.
Third, the college lacks clear communication channels among college constituency groups resulting in a low level of trust in the planning and budgeting process. There is also a lack of clarity about the basic timelines and parameters for the planing-budget cycle, leading to confusion about how and when decisions were made on budget priorities.
To address these concerns, the college proposes to integrate its budgeting and planning system into a two-year budget cycle, improve linkages between shared governance committees, and establish clear and consistent timelines and cycles for the budget/planning process.
Two Objectives
A: Integrate Planning, Budgeting and Assessment
B: Improve the College’s Accounting System
A: Integrate the College Planning, Budgeting and Assessment
Functions
The integrated planning and budgeting system contains the following
characteristics:
1. The Planning and Budgeting Council
Upon agreement of the college organizations in the CCSF Shared Governance
System, the PBC will become the new shared governance body with the responsibility
to establish priorities for the college based upon the college strategic
plan.
The Council will ensure an equal voice for all college constituency groups--students, faculty, classified staff and administration. All collective bargaining units will be directly represented in the Council as well.
The Council membership will be facing the difficult task of balancing two competing and compelling interests: the long-term planning priorities of the college and the continuing needs of all college employees for fair compensation and fringe benefits. Council members will be responsible for establishing realistic priorities and a timetable for funding and implementing those priorities.
A number of committees will make recommendations on specific planning priorities to the Council. Two of these committees are the Master Plan Committee and the Facilities Review Committee. The Council will also receive planning priority recommendations regarding institutional investment in technology and staffing (faculty and classified staff). The specific committees responsible for making those recommendations remains to be determined.
Representatives from the Master Plan and Facilities Review Committees as well as the technology and staffing committees will sit on the PBC. The PBC also has the responsibility for reviewing the recommended budget developed through the planning/budgeting process to assess how well it fits with the college’s strategic funding priorities.
2. The Budget Framework
Based upon planning recommendations, the PBC will establish a budget/planning
framework consisting of recommended “setasides” for resource allocations
above and beyond the on-going college commitments for staff and operations.
Setasides are defined as a percentage of the total college budget that
is kept separate from the rest of the college funds to be used to fund
college priorities. The following categories are primary examples
for setaside funds: Equipment/Supplies; Technology; New College Operations;
New and Replacement Staffing; New Facilities; Deferred Maintenance;
Renovations of Existing Facilities; and Program Innovations.
3. Development of Department/Unit Budgets
All college units will assemble a two-year budget based upon two major
guidelines. The first guideline is the funding needed to maintain
on-going operations and educational services. The second guideline is determined
by the priorities established by the PBC from the college strategic plan.
The unit budgets will be forwarded to the School and Campus Deans, and
Directors who will work with the budget managers to reconcile differences
or conflicts among departments within schools, or other student service
or administrative college units.
4. Role of College Senior Administrative Staff
The unit and departmental budgets with recommendations for augmentations
based upon the college planning priorities will then go to the senior administrative
staff--the Provost, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice Chancellor.
The senior staff has the responsibility for developing the collegewide
budget with recommendations for using the funding setasides based upon
college planning priorities . The proposed budget and recommended
funded planning priorities goes to the Planning and Budget Council for
review and assessment of its fit with the strategic planning priorities
of the college. The senior staff and the Council will seek to resolve any
differences on funding priorities. The budget then goes to the Chancellor
who will make a final recommendation to the Board. The Board makes
the final decision on all college budgets.
5. Program Innovation Track
Based upon the Planning and Budget Council’s recommendation, a percentage
of the college’s funding allocation will be held as a Program Innovation
Fund. Faculty, administration and staff may compete for funding based
upon criteria established by the Program Innovation Roundtables (see program
innovation section for more details).
6. Program Review, Collegewide Assessments and Other Feedback
To assess and evaluate how well the college budgeting and planning
system is working in terms of meeting goals and objectives, a variety of
assessment vehicles will be used. The college will rely upon a set
of performance indicators to evaluate college progress in reaching its
desired institutional goals (see list of CCSF’s six major goals).
In addition, the college will annually assess the status of the completion
targets established for each of the college’s seven change strategies.
Other instruments may include department and committee reports, constituency
focus groups, environmental scanning, accreditation self-studies, community
based surveys.
The Planning and Budgeting Council will be responsible for receiving regular assessment reports on progress toward reaching completion targets and level of institutional performance as measured by the college performance indicators. The assessments will be among a variety of measures utilized for planning priorities for the next annual (or biannual) cycle.
B: Improve the College’s Accounting System
Strategies/Actions
B1: Ensure accuracy of data.
B2: Ensure that budget reports are on-time.
B3: Use life-cycle costing.
B4: Establish a modern on-line accounting system for all college units
accessible to all budget managers.
LEADING THE CHANGE PROCESS
Administrators facilitating the implementation of each strategy are:
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