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Pathway to Improvement

Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI)- Ventura College

Greg Gillespie, Kim Hoffmans, Phillip Briggs

CCLC Mapping The Route: Re-envisioning California’s Community Colleges November 18, 2016

The Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI)

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Collaborative effort to advance the effectiveness of CA Community Colleges

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Provides technical assistance to colleges through Partnership Resource Teams (PRT’s)

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PRT – group of volunteer experts from other colleges

Has anyone here gone through an IEPI PRT visit? If so, how was your experience?

IEPI PRT Process

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College CEO submits letter of interest to IEPI

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Letter includes specific issues that would benefit from technical assistance

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Ventura College issues:

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Integrated Planning

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Campus Communication

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4 colleagues from CA community colleges

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Visited Ventura College in November 2015

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Met with 13 different campus groups/committees in one day

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Visit focused on understanding current integrated planning and campus communication processes

PRT Campus Visit #1

PRT Campus Visit #2

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4 colleagues returned to Ventura College in February 2016

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The focus:

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Selecting options from the menu that best fit our campus needs

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Developing an implementation plan for those options

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Visit #3 is scheduled for January 2017 to assess progress

The Menu of Options

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PRT gave Ventura College a custom “Menu of Options” for improvement

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6 best practices to improve integrated planning

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3 best practices to improve campus communication

#VCPirate Beacons of Success

Ventura College Fall Retreat October 28, 2016

Valued

Nurtured

Connected

Engaged

Focus

Directed

The $150,000 Question?

▶ Was it worth it? ▶ Would we do it again?

PRT Visit Outcomes

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Served as supportive mini accreditation visit

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Helped develop plans to improve accreditation-critical processes

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Kept our college on track during accreditation preparation

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The Menu of Options and implementation plan formed the basis for

• ur Quality Focus Essay

PRT Visit Outcomes

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Improved campus communication and collaboration

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Faculty and staff felt that the PRT actively listened to them about campus issues

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Planning retreats served to improve communication and improve planning

For more information:

Greg Gillespie: ggillespie@vcccd.edu Kim Hoffmans: Khoffmans@vcccd.edu Phillip Briggs: pbriggs@vcccd.edu