Report to the Board on the Accreditation Special Report

September 15, 2010

I am glad to present a draft of the Accreditation Special Report that is due on October 15^th to you for information. There are several key points that I would like you to keep in mind as you consider this document:

• It reflects the College's positive strides to address the five ACCJC recommendations relative to:    
  
  • Productive Dialogue
    
  • Institutional Planning
    
  • Institutional Effectiveness
    
  • Staffing and Organizational Stability
    
  • Governance
    
• It is the result of the collaborative efforts of our faculty, staff, administration and students.
  
• It is currently available on the accreditation wiki for comment by the campus community.
  
• As I mentioned in an earlier report to the Board, we have complied with the ACCJC's request that we address the Perry-Smith Audit of June 2009 as an addendum to the Special Report. We will contextualize the addendum in the "Statement of Report Preparation".
  
• The draft before was submitted last week Thursday and there have been changes in the most current version.
  

We are on track for the Special Report to move through our participatory governance approval process

• We will have a near final draft available on September 16^th.  This draft will be sent to the Academic Senate and Shared Governance Council so that they can include it on the agenda for their September 20^th Senate meeting and the September 22^nd Shared Governance meeting for information.
  
• We will hold a special joint meeting of SGC and the Senate on September 29^th to take action on the report. (Many thanks to Dr. Laguerre and Senate President Watkins for making this possible)
  
• Finally, the Board will include the Special Report for action during their October 6^th study session. (Dr. Laguerre will need to approve this.)
  

 

Last comments on the final draft will be accepted until Sept. 24, so that any appropriate changes can be made before the report is up for approval at the joint Shared Governance Council/ Academic Senate meeting on Sept 29^th (SGC/AS).

Initial post-production work will begin after Shared Governance approval and complete after Board approval on October 6^th.