Annual InStructional unit plan

annual InStructional unit plan UNIT: THEATRE Please give the full title of the discipline or department. You may submit as a discipline or department, as is easiest for your unit. CONTACT PERSON: Jodi Julian/David Nelson Due: May 17, 2013 Please send an electronic copy to: Vice President, Academic Affairs Dr. Wolde-Ab Isaac at wolde-ab.isaac@rcc.edu and send an electronic copy to your divisional dean. Form Last Revised: March 11, 2013 Web Resources: http://www.rccd.edu/administration/educationalservices/ieffectiveness/Pages/ProgramReview.aspx

http://www.rccdistrict.net/rcc-IE/accreditation2/self_study_2014/Data/Forms/AllItems.aspx

The data are disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, and delivery method (hybrid, online, face-to-face). Within these categories, course data are further disaggregated by transfer, CTE, and developmental categories. Note that you are only required to mention data relevant to your analysis or requests. Please utilize these data or data collected by your discipline to assess your goals and as rationale for resource requests.
The questions on the subsequent pages are intended to assist you in planning for your unit. The forms that follow are separated into pages for ease of distribution to relevant offices, councils and committees. Don’t let formatting concerns slow you down. If you have difficulty with formatting, the Administrative Support Center can adjust the document for you. Simply add responses to those questions that apply and forward the document to the Administrative Support Center with a request to format it appropriately.
If you cannot identify in which category your request belongs or if you have general funding request questions, please contact the Vice President of Business Services, Charles Wyckoff at 951-222-8307 or charles.wyckoff@rcc.edu. Within each resource request form, a recommended contact person is listed to assist you with estimating the cost of your requests. It is vital to include cost estimates in your request forms. Please cite the source for the cost estimates and indicate if the costs are one-time or recurring. If the costs are recurring, provide cost of a service contract and length of time needed. Also, please indicate if grant funds have been sought and denied. FAILURE TO PROVIDE COST ESTIMATES MAY RESULT IN YOUR REQUEST NOT BEING CONSIDERED. Please see Unit Plan Rubric for the prioritization criteria. TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM POINTS WRITE YOUR RATIONALES BASED ON THE RUBRIC CRITERIA. IF CRITERIA ARE NOT ADDRESSED IT WILL BE GIVEN ZERO POINTS.
The college mission is available on the RCC home page, and the goals and strategies are available at

http://www.rcc.edu/riverside/riversidestp/files/Aug2012RevRCCStrategicPlan200914100510.pdf.

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   Trends and Relevant Data
   

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   What is your unit’s mission statement?
   

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   Has there been any change in the status of your unit? (if not, skip to #3)
   

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   Has your unit shifted departments? No
   

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   Have any new certificates or programs been created by your unit?
   

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   Have activities in other units impacted your unit? For example, a new nursing program could cause greater demand for life science courses.
   
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      The deletion of our Summer Conservatory Program and loss of class sections due to budgetary cutbacks have affected our disciplines number of students involved in our program.
      
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      Performance Riverside will be integrated into Performing Arts FALL 2013. Obstacles still remain but a task force was assigned to try and solve some of these issues. It was determined by the administration that they will now be an integral part of Performing Arts. Next year will be the first time we integrate them into Performing Arts as a whole. There are still many facets with the integration (trying) to be solved.
      

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   How have environmental demographics and external factors affected your discipline’s enrollment? If there have been significant changes, please indicate those changes. If there are no significant changes in your unit’s opinion, indicate “None” and skip to question #4.
   

The table provides enrollment trends over the last 9 years. (Fall 2005-Fall 2012

Recognizing and accommodating the growth of the surrounding community, including socio-economic and ethnic issues, and to provide more diversity of choice for our students.

Although a task force has been organized with policies implemented in the next academic year, there are still some issues that need to be resolved or refined, implemented and this next academic year will be the implementation however, some of the areas are still undefined and misdirected but it’s a start! The move into (the) Academics will cultivate a strong relationship between students and working professionals in the field

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  The Theatre Arts Discipline is a facility driven program that requires specialized and dedicated space. Programs such as Physical Education, Art, Music, Dance, Culinary Arts, Vocational programs, etc., should be used as examples for comparison. Space as an integral part of this discipline, greatly impacts the program development and offerings. Specifics of this issue will be addressed in the Resource section of this document.
  

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  As our Discipline assesses its performance, we find that our strengths are in the following:
  

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  Audience Outreach
  
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  Production quality
  
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  Student Retention Rate
  
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  Discipline collaboration
  
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  Current in field
  
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  Quality of instruction
  
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  Opportunity for students to gain performance experience.
  

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  However, with every strength comes weakness, and we have discovered as a discipline that we need to address the following challenges:
  

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  The current quantity of additional non-instruction responsibilities assigned to full-time faculty required to build and maintain a proper theatre program, has an adverse effect on the overall success of the department.
  
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  Success Rate for GE courses
  
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  Ability to address the varied skill levels in performance and technique classes, maintain pedagogical integrity, and still meet district requirements for enrollment.
  
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  Ability to address and provide service to the vastly diverse socio-economic composition of our respective communities.
  

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   In reviewing your unit’s enrollment data, does your unit have plans to improve any aspects of enrollment management (ex: persistence, scheduling patterns, etc.)? If your plan necessitates resource changes make sure those needs are reflected in the applicable resource request sections.
   

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   Please report on the progress made on any of your 2012-2013 unit goals.
   

Exploring diversity in our productions and altering the date of our auditions to increase enrollments into our productions were implemented.

High School Tours were set up to increase awareness surrounding the community as well as performing downtown at the City of Arts and Innovations festival to increase audience awareness.

Groundwork for the integration of Performance Riverside will begin Fall 2013. Exploration of a showcase in Los Angeles has begun to gain ties to industry driven students.

Goal V has not been addressed this year as the new RCC website is being reworked at this time. We have assigned our Clerk Typist to help update the disciplines website.