Opening Day Input

• Amazing students!

• Collaboration from other departments
• Quick News                                              

• Constantly exploring different ways to say or explain things to students
• Creating a dynamic and compassionate, multilingual, multicultural community
• Creating samples of assignments
• Creating safe spaces for students
• Creating transformative courses
• Creating various assessment tools to get specific information from students
• Creative, out-of-the- box thinking
• Creative/engaging course activities
• Discussion forums
• Enlightening and inspiring minds
• Evaluating teaching methodology
• Explaining how each assignment has value or utility in the everyday world
• Exploring numerous and different media sources
• Field trips
• Following up on students in class who seem to be struggling
• Getting to know students in first two weeks
• Grading
• Helping students feel confident in their skills and daily lives
• High success rates
• Increasingly higher standards for overall course design, accessibility, course navigation
• Individualized feedback to students
• Listening to students
• Listening
• Maintaining office hours
• Making students smile
• Noncredit classes
• Open labs
• Passion
• Providing emotional support to students
• Providing supplemental visual and written examples of course materials

• Adobe Sign
• Canvas
• Flexibility for students and staff
• Forming communities among faculty and students
• Guided Pathways
• Nurturing/supporting students and colleagues
• Prerequisite clearances
• Tenure process
• Working as a team

• Academic advising
• Answering questions to help students find information and resources
• Career fairs
• Clubs and student activities
• Connecting students to campus resources
• Counseling support
• Embedded counselors
• Embedded tutoring
• Ensuring ADA accessibility
• Financial Aid
• Flea Market
• Food Pantry
• Mental health resources
• MESA grant
• Outreach events
• Providing textbooks, calculators, iPads and laptops to students in need
• Redesigning academic probation
• Student transfers
• Study abroad
• Tutoring on Zoom
• Zero- and low-cost textbooks

• More collaboration across the different divisions
• More communication of changes taking place, regarding the college, district, MyPortal and ETS
• More recognition of staff, faculty and student achievements
• Outreach and advertising for individual departments
• Reddit or Slack for faculty members to post teaching questions and respond

• Canvas shells to share
• Large class sizes
• More guidance on curriculum development and revisions
• Official faculty mentoring program, through tenure

• Assigning ETS person to each department so there is consistency in services
• Automate awarding of certificates
• Automate messaging waitlisted students to keep checking open classses.
• Automate PGA tracking
• Automate SLO assessment
• Automate way to report zero cost textbooks
• Course scheduling – possibly block scheduling
• Fix corequisite registration issues, make it seamless
• Gatekeepers for eLumen
• Improve the add code process, allow faculty members to add, rather than make the student do it
• Improve attendance on Canvas to track positive attendance
• Improve/streamline academic integrity issues
• Increased flexibility and extended deadlines for course cancellations
• Long-range course scheduling
• Make PGA/PAA simpler
• More access to Pro Cards
• Speed up process for requesting key cards
• Update audit process for classes
• Using personal devices for work, e.g. cell phone

• Advertise or do more outreach to recruit scholarship readers
• Decentralized counseling
• More collaboration with adult schools
• Program orientation for students (automating/streamlining sign-up and facilitation process of orientation)

Better internet coverage

• Wi-Fi expansion is underway
• First phase of planning almost complete

More recognition of staff, faculty and student achievements

• Find more opportunities for celebrations
• For example: Events like “Celebrating Great Work” event in December

Translation on website

• Translate button now on webpages for ESL, Assessment
• Translated course descriptions posted on ESL noncredit page

 Faculty learning communities

• Partners in Learning Institute provides opportunities to learn and share effective practices
• Plans for expansion are being discussed

Response to AI

• Academic Senate working group on AI
• Developing resources and best practices
• Professional development underway

Curriculum process is too long

• Transferable courses must be reviewed by UC/CSUs
• Curriculum Committee is reviewing process and exploring new workflows

Easier ways to submit census

• Date is based on weeks of instruction, by state law
• No flexibility here

Flea Market payment processing

• In final stages of implementation

All-gender restrooms

• In design phase now
• Construction slated for spring 2025

Employee pub

• Alcohol not permitted
• Opportunities for community building in Village Centers

Part-time faculty mailboxes

• Removed from ADM building
• Divisions now have boxes or distribute

Services for homeless students

• Referrals for safe overnight parking
• Locker room showers
• Resource Hub (RSS 143) has toiletries, period products, baby supplies, service referrals