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Peralta Community College District Colleges – PLACED ON WARNING (2012), WARNING REMOVED AND REAFFIRMED ACCREDITION (2013)
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Peralta Community College District Colleges – PLACED ON WARNING (2012), WARNING REMOVED AND REAFFIRMED ACCREDITION (2013)The ACCJC has been including judgments on Districts when imposing sanctions on colleges. This appears to be a new approach. One such instance is the June 6-8, 2012 sanctions on the colleges of Peralta. It must be noted that Barbara Beno was once the College President of what was then Vista College. She had many problems working with the district administration and governing board and eventually was forced to leave the district after she was unable to have Vista become its own independent college. Her husband continues to work at one of the district colleges and was on the visiting team for the City College of San Francisco evaluation that eventually led to a SHOW CAUSE sanction by the ACCJC which is led by his wife. It appears that she raised no conflict of interest concern related to her relationship with the Peralta district or to her husband being on the visiting team. The Peralta colleges were placed on Warning in part based on district “deficiencies.” These “deficiencies” included the need to resolve remaining audit findings, resolution of long term financial stability, completion of evaluation of Board of Trustees policies with regard to governance (micro managing the college presidents), and quality of programs after program reductions. These must be cleared up by March of 2013. One wonders if the Commission was aware of the tax increase proposed for the November 2012 election and the financial uncertainty that all of the California community colleges continue to feel. Even with the passage of the CFT/Governor compromise initiative (Proposition 30) to increase revenue to the state, community colleges will continue to wait until the final budget is passed to know how much state money will be flowing to provide district funding in any given fiscal year. At its June 2013 meeting the ACCJC removed the Warning sanctions on Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, Laney College, and Merritt College. Coast Community College District – PLACED ON WARNING (2013)Following the trend represented by the Ventura Community College District, all of the colleges in the Coast Community College District were placed on WARNING by the ACCJC at its June 2013 meeting. The two faculty members on the Orange Coast College 2013 Accreditation Visiting Team were both Coordinators - one of Planning and Program Review and the other Institutional Research. The Visiting Team for Golden West College three faculty members out of the ten person team. The Visiting Team for Coastline College included only one current faculty member - an Instructional Technology Librarian. The team also included Dr. Andrew LaManque, the current president of the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) and Ian Walton, a retired faculty member now serving as a Commissioner of ACCJC beginning in July 2013. The rest of the team members were administrators. The letter from Barbara Beno to the President of Golden West College dated July 2013 stated that "The Commission acted to issue Warning and require Golden West College correct the deficiencies noted. The College is required to complete a Follow-Up Report by March 15, 2014. The College must demonstrate resolution of the deficiencies noted in the 2013 Evaluation Report: District Recommendations 1, 2, 3, and 4, the Commission Recommendation 1, and College Recommendations 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The Report will be followed by a visit of Commission representatives. " The other two colleges in the district received a similar letter. The emphasis at all three colleges was on the following three District Recommendations: "District Recommendation 1: To meet the Standard, and as recommended by the 2007 Orange Coast team, the team recommends that faculty and others directly responsible for student progress toward achieving stated student learning outcomes have, as a component of their evaluation, effectiveness in producing those learning outcomes." The recommendation to include student learning outcomes as a component of evaluation is a violation of California law since evaluation is a collective bargaining issue. "District Recommendation 2: To meet the Standards, and as recommended by the 2007 team, the team recommends that the Board and district follow their policies regarding the delegation of authority to the Chancellor for effective operation of the district and to the college presidents for the effective operation of the colleges. Further, the team recommends that the district develop administrative procedures that effectively carry out delegation of authority to the Chancellor and the college presidents." We see once again from the Commission the reflection of a complaint that Beno had against the Board of Trustees when she was a president in the Peralta district. Once again we see the ACCJC attempting to dictate how the publically elected Board of Trustees is supposed to act. "District Recommendation 3: To meet the Standard, the team recommends that the Board of Trustees follow its established process for self-evaluation of Board performance as published in its board policy. Once again the Commission is attempting to dictate to the elected Board of Trustees "District Recommendation 4: To meet the Standards, and as recommended by the 2007 team, the team recommends that the Board implement a process for the evaluation of its policies and procedures according to an identified timeline and revise the policies as necessary." Nothing recommended on content, only process. "Commission Recommendation 1: To meet the Standards, the District needs to examine the role of the four board employees who report directly to the Board of Trustees to ensure there is no conflict with the delegation of authority of the Chancellor and the college presidents." This is a recommendation from the Commission not reflected in the Visiting Team report. 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