Part A.

1. What marketing plans does your college use to attract faculty and staff who are committed to and knowledgeable of learning-centered education?

• A one-liner, learning-centered tag added to and included in all college recruitment ads
• Organization is marketed as a learning-centered organization, highlighting what makes CCBC learner-centered
• We still need to develop some marketing language to encompass planning strategies to attract learning-centered talent to our college

2. What criteria are used at your college to select faculty and staff to ensure that they are learning centered? What criteria, beyond teaching competence and knowledge of subject matter, should your college establish for faculty?

• Employment application now requires an applicant to respond to the two following areas: "state your understanding of what a learning-centered organization is" and "briefly state what contribution you can make to our learning-centered institution"

3. What processes and procedures for interviewing and selecting faculty and staff have been implemented at your college to ensure that new faculty and staff will meet the learning-centered criteria?

• Potential faculty are asked to give a 10-15 minute class using a learning-centered approach.

• A search committee consisting of a cross-section of constituents participate in the selection process.

4. What policies and procedures at your college guide the appointment of selection committees, and how are these committees trained to ensure that they select learning-centered faculty and staff?

• Search Specialist training in place; on-line search specialist training developed and was implemented in Spring 2002.

5. What steps have been taken at your college to ensure that the selection of classified staff, part-time faculty, administrators, counselors, and other staff meet the same standards and rigor focused on learning as that established for full-time faculty?

• Examples of questions as to what a learning college are given in our Search Specialist manuals; all committee questions are reviewed for consistency.

• Candidates are evaluated on how they will fit into our learning organization and the team that has the opening.

Part B.

1. What best practices have been created at your college to orient new staff in each of the following employee groups?

1. Full-time faculty
2. Part-time faculty
3. Classified staff
4. Counselors
5. Administrators and other staff

a. Learning paradigm video is shown in Human Resources full-day orientation

• Campus orientation conducted for all new employees—Vice Chancellor for Learning and Student Development addresses the topic of learning colleges

b. Evening orientation is conducted

• Continuing Education deans are continuously explore practices at other Vanguard colleges

c. Full day Human Resources orientation is conducted and is available for classified staff.

d. Full day Human Resources orientation is conducted and is available for counselors.

e. CISL fairs throughout the year enhance the new employees understanding of our LearningFirst culture.

2. How does your college assess the skills and knowledge of current faculty and staff and create a program with goals, individual learning plans, learning options, learning portfolios, technical support—supported by experienced facilitators of learning—to meet the needs of the faculty and staff?

• Classroom assessment in place. Goal setting is done at the beginning of each year

• Performance evaluations focus on learning college principles

3. What are the critical core skills that should be required of all faculty and staff at your college to ensure that they will be learning facilitators of the highest caliber? Are additional core skills required for sub-groups at your college?

• An understanding of the college’s mission and vision statements

• The ability to apply the principals of the learning college principles in carrying out work-related functions

• The ability to create learning-college syllabi

4. How have faculty and staff evaluation programs at our college been designed to reflect learning- centered values and to measure the contribution of the individual being evaluated to improving and expanding learning?

• Faculty and staff are recognized for participation in college-wide learning-centered activity

• Evaluators look for learning-centered contributions as an evaluation criteria as the highest measure of performance

5. What best practices have been implemented at your college to reward and recognize faculty and staff who have made significant contributions to expand and improve learning? What learning-centered criteria on which to base reward and recognition have been established at your college?

• When a classified staff employee completes a degree, a $500 bonus is given.

• Tuition reimbursement plans

• A $1,000 stipend is paid to faculty who develop learning communities

• Contributors to our learning-centered approach are recognized at our CISL fairs

• Booths display outstanding learning-centered collaborative efforts

• CISL funds are available to learning facilitators who have innovative ideas for improving learning.

FUNDING

1. What are the key strategies your college has used to keep plans focused and to link resources to student and organizational learning?

• 2000-2003 Operational Plan objectives

• the tier development concept as part of the annual budget planning process

2. What reward structures have been created at your college to motivate faculty and staff to place learning first in their work?

• Release time

• CISL (Council on Innovation and Student Learning) projects

3. What strategies are being used to secure alternative funding for strengthening your college’s focus on learning?

• Grants

4. What successful mechanisms have been used at your college to eliminate policies programs, practices, and positions that are low priority, off target, outdated or inefficient?

• Program review

• Shared governance

5. What has your college done to keep faculty and staff from expending energy in blaming external conditions, such as funding by FTE or ADA as the reason they cannot make changes to become more learning-centered. What has your college done to concentrate efforts on what can be changed within the institution?

• Deans Leadership Academy is heightening awareness

• Virtual Academy