Round 4 of Our Review

Round 4 of our review of the Educational Master Plan Update moves on to the area of Academic Directions with focus of the following sections of the Discussion Draft:
12. Ten-Year Enrollment Growth Assumptions: 2008-2018
15. Local Commitment to Strong Contingent of Full Time Faculty
16. New Faculty Position Prioritization
06. Program Review Description (new section)

Please provide feedback on the following questions:

A. After reviewing Section 12 (Ten-Year Enrollment Growth Assumptions: 2008-2018), do you have any feedback on the assumptions being made? If so, please give as detailed an explanation as possible.

B. Section 12 also contains the following strategic question to consider: Is there an enrollment level at which Ohlone would be at the “right-size,” beyond which growth would be minimal? Given the current demographics and population density and growth projections, is it reasonable to assume that Ohlone should ever be a 10,000 FTES college? Or 12,000? Or more? Do you have any thoughts on this question?

C. Section 15 and related Appendix information present an argument for a local commitment to a strong contingent of full time faculty and setting a level of full time faculty positions based on a ratio with FTES. What are your opinions of this idea?

D. Does Section16 adequately describe the shared governance process for advising the President on priorities for new full time faculty positions?

E. A new section (Section 6) has added under Part B of the plan (Institutional and External Planning Context), which presents an overview of our Instructional Program and Services Review Process. Does this seem to be an adequate description of the process and how it relates to the overall college planning process?

Round 3 Of Our Review

We now enter Round 3 of our review of the Educational Master Plan Update, which is a continuation of review in the area of Institutional and External Planning Context with focus of the following sections of the Discussion Draft:

Section 9. Thirty (30) Important Indicators from the Environmental Scan
Section 10. Environmental Scan Gap Analysis

The deadline for input on this round is Friday, October 16.

A. Section 9 of the current Discussion Draft of the Educational Master Plan Update identifies “Thirty (30) Important Indicators from the Environmental Scan” related to teaching and learning programs and services. The full Analytical Summary of the College’s Environmental Scan is presented at:
http://www.ohlone.edu/org/research/envscan/
Are there other indicators from the full Analytical Summary besides the 30 currently identified that should be cited in the Educational Master Plan as relating to teaching and learning programs and services?

B. Section 10 of the current Discussion Draft of the Educational Master Plan Update identifies a list of gaps in our programs and services based on conclusions drawn from a review of the indicators in Section 9. Are there additional gaps that you would conclude from a review of the Environmental Scan?