Subject: Instruction Notes 10/24/03
From: Claire Biancalana
Organization: Cabrillo College, Office of Instruction
To: All Faculty

Instruction Note 10/24/03

Deadlines for Curriculum Submission
This is a reminder that the deadlines for submitting curriculum is the last day of the Fall and Spring semesters. There will be situation-based extensions upon discussions with the Dean. For the last day of Fall deadline, there could be an extension for faculty who want to work on curriculum over the holidays. The deadline woul dthen move to the end of the first week in January. For Spring Semester there will be an extension for faculty who want to work on curriculum in Summer. Submission must be by August 1st. In emergencies, special topics should be used if all deadlines have passed.

Faculty Resource Guide
The Faculty Resource Guide is now on-line and can be found at:
http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/instruction/facultyresource/index.html

Changes in Cooperative Work Experience Education (CWEE) Leadership
Anita Lande has been coordinator of the CWEE program for the last three years. During that time she has done much to strengthen and grow the program. Among her accomplishments are a tripling of CWEE enrollments and the development of processes and procedures to support the larger number of students. The position has been recently restructured due to budget reductions. Anita will be leaving the CWEE position, but taking on additional teaching assignments with the CABT department. Leslie Read, who coordinates the very successful College and Career Night and other career education projects, is now also serving as the CWEE coordinator. Many thanks to Anita for all her great work in expanding and supporting work based learning opportunities at the college!

Upcoming Deadline for A&R
Please remind your students that the last day to withdraw from a full-term course is November 25, 2003. LAST WITHDRAWAL REPORTS ARE DUE TO ADMISSIONS AND RECORDS ON THAT DAY.

CCLDI Policy Seminar Schedule 2003-2004  (10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Below is the 2003-04 schedule of Community College Leadership development Initiatives Policy Seminars, for your information and consideration.
Thursday, November 6, 2003 (Claremont) Friday, November 7, 2003 (Sacramento)
Claremont Graduate University Los Rios CC District Office
Topic: What’s Happening to the Community College Curriculum?
Speaker: Dr. Betty Duvall, Professor, Community College Leadership,
Oregon State University

Thursday, December 11(Sacramento) Friday, December 12 (Claremont)
CSU, Sacramento, University Union Claremont Graduate University
Topic: Policy Issues Regarding Workforce Education and Vocational Education
Speaker: Dr. James Jacobs, Dir., Center for Workforce Development and Policy,
Macomb Community College, and Assoc, Dir., Community College Research Center, Columbia University

Thursday, January 22, 2004 (Claremont) Friday, January 23, 2004 (Sacramento)
Claremont Graduate University CSU, Sacramento, University Union
Topic: New Expectations for Assessment and Accountability
Speaker: Dr. Kay McClenney, Director, Community College Survey of Student
Engagement, and Faculty Member, Community College Leadership Program,
University of Texas, Austin

Friday, February 13 (Claremont) Friday February 20 (Sacramento)
Claremont Graduate University Los Rios CC District Office
Topic: State Resource Allocation Models and the Policy Implications
Speaker: Dr. Patrick M. Callan, President, National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education (tentative)

Friday, March 12 (Claremont) Friday, March 19 (Sacramento)
Claremont Graduate University Los Rios CC District Office
Topic: Balancing on the Digital Log
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth C. Green, Director, Campus Computing Project

Thursday, April 15 (Sacramento) Friday, April 16 (So. California)
Los Rios CC District Office Claremont Graduate University
Topic: Maintaining Institutional Vitality During Financial Hard Times
Speaker: Dr. Mary B. Marcy, Co-director and Senior Administrator, Project on the
Future of Higher Education, Antioch University

Cost: Seminar series is free for all 2003 Academy Fellows; $50 per session for all others.

Wait Lists - New Process
The college has experienced problems with the current waitlist process. For example, when a waitlist is started for any section of a class, the class is closed. Even if there are drops to the class, students cannot add. In addition, students are able to register for one section of a course and sign on to waitlists for multiple secions of the same course. A small group of very talented people have attacked the waitlist problems. They have devised a new process which we believe will benefit students and which we will test during Spring 2004 registration. This is the information to be printed in the Schedule of Classes:

If the preferred section of a course is full at the time you register, you may choose another section or keep trying to see if space opens up. This process will continue until Monday, January 26, 2004, when waiting lists will be available for all classes that are filled at that time. You may then add your name, without charge, to the waiting list. Once you are on the waiting list, you must attend the first class meeting of the section to be considered for admittance to the class. If you are admitted to the class, you must register with an add slip and complete the registration process by the registration deadline.

Wait listed students in full-term Distance Education courses must contact their instructor during the first week of the semester to maintain their wait list status. This contact may be via email, written note, telephone call or presence at the first class orientation session. At the end of this first week, if no contact has been made, students my be dropped from the active wait list, and those on the active wait list or who have contacted the instructor may be added in their place. Deadlines for short-term courses are different for each course; ask your instructor or Admissions and Records at the Aptos or the Watsonville Center.