1. Sacramento/Central Valley Network Inaugural Regional Meeting
May 18, 2009
Activity: Find a pal from another college and discuss successes and challenges each of you has had on
your respective campuses. Then record your “pal’s” successes and/or challenges and include the
name of your pal.
(Even though this information is in a table, the Successes and Challenges are separate and do not align with one another.)
Successes Challenges
Through Title V grant, reached number of students served in Course alignment is true on paper, not in practice. Jim Barr and Kay
Writing Center in one semester, though projected to take five Lee
years. Melanie Sanwo
Use of focus groups as an evaluation methodology. Sacramento Buy-in from faculty and administration. Jim Barr, Kay Lee, and
City College Mario Cordova
Tutor for keyboarding class. American River College Buy-in! Brandon Muranaka and Shannon Pries
Student intervention assistance—Student intervenes prior to Seeing basic skills education as everyone’s (faculty in all disciplines)
student in class dropping out (emails, phone calls) Cosumnes River issue to address. Dennell Smith
College
Held workshop where faculty learned about programs. Workshop How do we assess programs? Eric Holland
was done as round robin. Full and part-time faculty attended.
Adjunct paid stipend. Marian Fritzemeier
Applied learning course—six units: one unit writing, one unit With a large campus offering many support services, it is difficult to
reading, two units math, two units lab to apply learning to coordinate them. Kirsten Corbin
welding, auto, and building inspection fields. Suzanne Gripenstraw
Student assistance program through which students act as an Lack of funding! MelanieSanwo
instructional assistant to developmental writing instructor. David
Weinshilboum
Create “early alert” full-time coordinator. Encourage faculty to Recruiting faculty and students for Supplemental Instruction.
refer students to early alert. Fresno City College Monica Brown
Writing and reading center under tutorial center. Fresno City Size of the campus and entrenched systems. Linda Christopher-
College Miles and Donna Cooper
Offer study skills and research skills workshops. Fresno City Impact of increased math/English requirements on vocational
College degree programs. Lesley Gale
Creation of faculty workshops focusing on developmental student Educating the campus about how to use data to improve student
needs. Brandon Muranaka and Shannon Pries outcomes. Help them see what they need, data-wise, to actually
measure what they’re doing, and what needs to change. Yeng Her
84% of student success rate in all courses for students enrolled in We are our challenge/enemy! Jim Barr and Kay Lee
RAD. Kirsten Corbin
SASP for student athletes. Monica Brown Providing basic skills students with workplace skills. Roietta
Fulgham and Billie Miller
Getting the braintrust together. Linda Christopher-Miles Teach basic keyboarding as a basic skill. Roietta Fulgham and Billie
Miller
Using student assistants in basic math, English, and ESL classes. Enough monies to purchase adequate technologies (PC tablet—
Camille Moreno teach math online) Sacramento City College
Linking developmental writing and reading courses (six units) State-wide computer competencies and information literacy
through team teaching. Paul Macias competencies for basic skills students linked in with READ.
Sacramento City College and Fresno City College
Study Skills workshops. Ginnie Gessford Numbering standards for curriculum—consistency across state.
Morgan Brynnan
Supplemental Instruction. Donna Cooper Articulating basic skills courses. Fresno City College and Los Rios
District
Making road to credit less daunting. Redefining success. Morgan
Brynnan