Student Success Council
- Approved creation of resource panel focusing on retention for employees of color
- Math chairs shared math dept concerns regarding test security
- Math, science, CIS and foreign language to begin discussing issues facing those departments regarding test security
- Question: something new because fully online or already existed?
- Some math faculty previously teaching “online” offered proctored tests; not available in remote operations

Operations Council
- Update from safety – break-ins
- Tech Ed – identifying equipment
- Natomas – equipment list
- A/R safety glass installed
- Ranch House being used to handout equipment to students/employees
- Tech – document cameras available for faculty; more chromebooks needed; will be getting more chromebooks and hotspots
- Budget – no change from anticipation (operating on x budget – 1.4 million deficit for ARC); no carryover
- Accreditation Standard III – a week or two behind; involves DO as well
- Second discussion re equity decision making tool – no feedback; OK moving forward
- Handshake – new job search platform for students across the district; ARC spearheading; requires that all student hiring be advertised on Handshake to make it a more equitable process; hiring paperwork must contain the advertised job and offer

Institutional Effectiveness Council
- Making progress on acquiring evidence for accreditation
- Update on program review; presentations done; next step to formally adopt those program reviews submitted
- DI project teams from last year requested research; Yuj delving into research and producing some interesting correlations; students not feeling like they belong correlate to lowered persistence, grades and increased drops; will be connecting with DI teams for follow up
- Modifying timeline for annual unit planning
- Equitable decision-making tool discussion; Nick presented; continued support
- PD collaborating with DI research to develop PD activities for Sp21
- Nick presented on religion

ASB
- Possible conjoining of ASB and CAEB
- Working on basic needs, BLM
- CAEB joining a new platform for virtual engagement
- Student participation in presidential impression panels
- Possibly creating a canvas course for training on being involved in the Senate

Classified
- No major activities happening currently

Academic Senate
- Credit for prior learning
- More we look at equitizing syllabi the more we find to dig in about; not just wording but policies, etc.
- Looking at a new way to conceptualize faculty handbook that address the faculty-student components as opposed to just a college orientation
- Shared equitable decision-making tool discussed; giving time for constituency group feedback

Management
- Introduced cranium café to managers; how to utilize for front counter staff
- Limited hiring – president, VPI, and some staff positions
- Hard time of the year with everyone being depleted (not just managers)
- Uptick in student discipline referrals – mainly integrity
- Question:  Would a best practices workshop for faculty be helpful?
- A lot of internet chatter about cheating – seems to be widespread including high school, etc.

- Goals/metrics originally presented to ELT in September
- Equitable decision-making tool:  just starting to utilize and operationalize; let’s start to use and be intentional about doing so
- Administrators champion:  no response from students contacted by the president; limited responses to other managers with varying degrees of success; next steps – collecting information and then what do we do with that info; helped to inform about the urgency of providing space at the college for students to access and engage with online courses; assists w/advocacy
- CTL workshops:  work is ongoing
- Deans supporting faculty
- Equity action data sets provided to faculty
- Publish final campus climate survey results
- Feedback from students:  need to follow-up and be more intentional
 - Office of Equity and Inclusion presence on HomeBase websites has created increased email traffic
- HomeBase:  success coaches reaching out to at-risk students
- Implement technology in learning community courses:  no one took advantage
- Moving forward with Black Cultural Center (soft launch party by end of semester to get feedback)
- Black Parliament:  Black / African American Resource Committee
- IYT (Improving Your Tomorrow):  working w/Art Jenkins, leading activities next semester
 - Permanently redeploying HR resources with some difficult-to-fill positions now advertised district-wide
- Advisory committees moving forward
- Syllabi:  by end of Spring hope to encourage everyone to take a look at their syllabi with samples and data; faculty will be thinking about their syllabi and as an important element of equity
- Question:  Any workshop support needed?
- CTL is continuing with existing workshops
- Any questions about when the student gets to see the syllabus?  Possible for students to see one before enrolling?
- Discussed outreach piece since we’re remote and that includes sending them a copy of their syllabi; not in a systematic way
- Some technology challenges – students not enrolled don’t have access to Canvas so can’t access syllabi
- Challenges in compensating employees for the extra work they’re doing
- Any sharing as each of the four colleges is handling; College Presidents shared at September Exec Staff meeting; possible collaboration on shared strategies in the Spring
- There’s a piece of culturally responsive teaching that is going on – using examples, images, etc. in the classroom that are culturally responsive; should have images that reflect the populations of our campus
Add to document – Alisa to share some possible language
- We should work on and track using culturally responsive examples and images

- Desire to summarize up front
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- Will be posted and continually updated