November 13, 2015 Meeting
Agenda
Access Committee
Nov. 13, 2015
Budget
- Review of what money has already been allocated for specific purposes and summary of how much will be left over.
AB86
- Plan for possible centers.
Cognos
- Update on what Cognos Club has been doing.
SSSP
- SSSP and Student Equity
Pre-collegiate Mentors
- Briefly discuss how we can encourage more students to apply
Minutes
Access Committee
Nov. 13, 2015
Attendees: Jen Altenhofel, Adam Bledsoe, Dan Hall, Lourdes Gonzalez, Vicki Jacobi, Danielle Vohnout, Mark Williams, Sharyn Eveland, Velda Peña, Fernando Lara, Tina Mendoza, Darcy Bogle, and Rebekah Horton.
Budget
- Review of what money has already been allocated for specific purposes and summary of how much will be left over.
There is currently $97k in the budget, with $57k projected spending on items like: Critical Thinking, Conversation, Campus Quad, ETO, iPads, and a possible trip to the Museum of Tolerance. After these expenditures there is an estimate of $40k leftover.
AB86
- Plan for possible centers
Mark spoke briefly on a plan to possibly develop centers around the local communities, Taft and outliers, to promote literacy, high school completion, and ESL and citizenship. This would offer not-for credit classes to communities and help funnel students back into Taft College. These centers would staff two learning assistants and a faculty member in order to help serve the community. The plans were recently completed and will be sent out campus wide soon.
Cognos
Cognos Club has still be meeting and implementing new training and skills. They have been looking at success data for educational plans.
SSSP
- SSSP was discussed in detail and a handout was given about bridging the gap for students
Darcy handed out a paper on Bridging the Gap for students. It explained how SSSP and Equity overlap in areas and how they can work together. Also, the handout explained out Core Services, Enrollment Management, At-Risk Follow-Up, and who would be served. It was discussed throughout the group that SSSP and Equity can rank DI students by how at-risk they are in order to organize and have a plan on whom to serve first. Equity was discussed as the first strategies in prioritizing the students who need help. There was an agreement that the word about different services needed to be campus wide so that students were not falling through the cracks. The slogan for SSSP was discussed to be ‘Equity First’ as that was a major group that both SSSP and Equity could help with. It was mentioned that SSSP might be able to aggregate their data at specific steps to help filter out Equity students so that Equity could follow-up with those students.
Pre-collegiate Mentors
- Briefly discussed how we can encourage more students to apply
Since few students have filled out the Peer Mentor applications, that the applications process will be opened up to any interested student who meets the hiring criteria. Previously it was decided among the group before that DI students should mentor other DI students. However, with the low number of interested students, the group decided to open mentor positions to other non-DI students and have the mentees be the prioritized DI students in need of help.