Reading the Cabinet Highlights for May 2007

INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR THE 2007 TO 2008 ACADEMIC YEAR
No, it's not the rumored linking of FTES growth to faculty salaries, but, rather, a $100K Cabinet-funded program to be administered by the college presidents for increasing enrollment and/or retention. In order to get that money, the colleges have to work up a plan for allocation--how do we do that, especially now that faculty are going, going GONE for the summer?--and "[t]he chancellor will develop criteria for release of the funds." That part happens first, I guess.

COMPRESSED CALENDAR
"Based on the results of the voting done by the constituent groups"--we remember that election fondly, the bunting hanging outside the various offices, the lines of grinning voters going over our literature as we waited to be marked off by the volunteers sitting at the long tables--"the Chancellor's Cabinet decided not to implement a compressed calendar at this time." Good to know how that decision was finally made, because we kept thinking the academic calendar was an item to be negotiated with the United Faculty.

STATE-MANDATED ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING
Mojdeh Mehdizadeh, apparently as a function of her position as Vice Chancellor, Technology Systems Planning and Support, reports tonight to the district's governing board on the district's findings under the Accountability Reporting for Community Colleges framework, designed "to assess the effectiveness of the community college system as a whole and each individual college's progress and achievements." There are four general areas identified as "indicators": credential/degree/certificate; vocational programs; basic skills/ESL; and post-secondary participation.

If anyone goes to the Board meeting and wants to report on it here, please do so.

TELL ME WHO ARE YOU (I REALLY WANT TO KNOW)?
Hey, five out of eight members of the Chancellor's Cabinet are "interim." One way to stay nimble.