Subject: Instruction Notes 02/10/03
From: Claire Biancalana
Organization: Cabrillo College, Office of Instruction
To: faculty@REMOVE-BEFORE-SENDINGcabrillo.edu (All Faculty)

Instruction Notes 02/10/03

COLLEGE BUDGET
This is a miserable time to have to rely on the California budget process and its implementation. Cabrillo College will suffer drastic budget reductions this and next year. To make matters worse, we do not know the magnitude of this years reduction and will not know the precise reduction for next year until after the next academic year begins. CPC members made their best guess at next years deficit and concluded that Cabrillo needs to reduce the 2003-04 base budget by about 4.9 million dollars. They agreed to use $500,000.00 of the one-time funds as a bridge. This $500,000.00 comes from the reductions you made in December. The CPC also asked us to reduce our 2003-04 schedule by 6.3% or 720 FTES, which is a cut of about $960,000.00. At this time we feel that the 6.3% reduction in the schedule of classes is the maximum we can make and still reach our enrollment cap. Any deeper reduction would likely cause us to fall below our cap, which will put our state apportionment in jeopardy. To cut our schedule by 6.3%, we will reduce more in the spring than the fall. That will allow us to soften the blow to the fall schedule and, if the budget picture improves, we will reduce spring less than originally planned. Similarly, we can reduce further if necessary.

Every course we offer at the college is valuable. But, we simply are not able to offer all of them during these budget times. We must keep instruction alive, so we need to establish a core for our programs and services so that in the future we will be able to rebuild. I've asked the Program Chairs to work with faculty and staff to determine the core classes in each program. We are defining core as those courses transferring as major requirements to UCSC, UCB, San Jose, San Francisco, SLO and Monterey Bay; some courses in the GE patterns; courses essential for employment; basic skills; and ESL. As you work to define the core, set priorities. If we need to increase reductions, what else would you eliminate; if we were able to add back, what would you add first?

As I mentioned earlier, CPC identified a target of 4.9 million and agreed to use one-time funds of $500,000.00 as a bridge. The schedule reduction will provide at least $960,000.00. There remains a 3.4 million-dollar problem. CPC is considering assigning targets to components based on their percentage of the budget. Although it may change at this Wednesday’s CPC meeting, what was proposed at the last meeting was that the 3.4 million-dollar reduction be distributed as follows: 39.6% from Instruction, 15.4% from Student Services, 39.5% from Business Services, and 5.6% from the President’s component. The Instruction percentage was reduced from the 71% used during the last budget cuts in the early 1990s to 39.6% because we cannot reduce the schedule more than the 6.3% target in order to earn the apportionment we are allocated from the state and we are not going to lay off contract faculty in non-categorical programs at this time. So, the contract and adjunct salaries were removed from the base from which the percentages were derived. At 39.6%, Instruction’s reduction will be a hit of 1.3 million from about 6 million, and it will be in addition to the reductions in the schedule. This reduction is more than 20% of our operating budget, including supplies, student hourly accounts, classified staff, and administration. Our college will look much smaller.

WRITING CENTER AND CTC HOURS FOR SPRING 2003
Writing Center, Aptos Campus: Monday to Thursday from 8:00am to 9:00pm. You may contact the Writing Center at x6319.

CTC: Monday to Thursday from 9:00am to 9:45pm; closed Fridays; Saturday 9:00am to 4:45pm and Sunday Noon to 4:45pm.

FACULTY MEMBER RECOGNITION
Recently, our very own Joe Stroud was recognized nationally when three of his poems were read on Minnesota Public Radio by Garrison Keiller of the Prairie Home Companion show. Congratulations Joe!

EVENING AND SATURDAY ADMINISTRATORS FOR SPRING 2003
Attached is the Spring 2003 Administrative duty schedule for Evening Duty Administrators. Please note: Weekend duty is usually handled by Gabe Gutierrez. Faculty should have the cell phone number for their reference, which is 809-0363. It is the same number for both weeknights and Saturday duty.

To contact the Sheriff's Officer on duty at the Aptos campus, 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., Mon.-Sun., call 212-8464 (cell phone). If
there is no answer, call 421-5732 (pager). After midnight, dial 688-1117 and the Sheriff's Office Dispatch will contact the duty officer. For any emergency situation, anytime, call 911 (you do not need to dial a 9 before dialing 911 from campus).

REMINDER FOR FRIDAY CLASSES
Full term courses taught on Fridays only will meet only once during the late registration period, as Friday February 14, 2003 is a Board holiday.

BASIC SKILLS TASK FORCE
The Basic Skills Task Force met twice last semester and has been considering approaches to support students and instructors. One suggestion has been that faculty would benefit from access to paragraphs that have already been developed to lay out Tips for Success, or Study Skills Strategies that could be placed on their syllabus and discussed right from the beginning of the semester. If you have developed such a statement, please forward to Bette Hirsch right now at the beginning of the semester. She and the task force will put these together and make them available for general use.

ONLINE CABRILLO WEATHER STATION
Dave Balogh reports we now have an active online Cabrillo Weather Station available at http://www.aws.com/wx.asp?id=apts1 Thanks to M&O and Lee Shultz.

TRIBUTE
A distinguished composer in all genres of classical music, founder of the American gamelan movement and a leading exemplar of the marriage of Asian and Western music, Lou Harrison, 85, died last week. Lou lived in Aptos, right next to the college and was one of the founders of the Cabrillo Music Festival, and taught Javanese Gamalon here Cabrillo on and off since Fall, 1985. Lou will be missed by the Cabrillo Community.

ACT NOW
The Community College League of California has developed an online letter-writer to help you easily contact your legislators regarding the budget cuts. We need as many local contacts this week as possible, as your contacts could help the system avoid the additional $110 million in cuts the Governor wants from community colleges beyond what the Legislature approved last week. You may reach the advocacy center at http://www.ccleague.org/actnow.