1. Accreditation Update Board of Trustees Meeting June 14, 2016
Vice President Keith Aytch
Faculty ALO Lynette Apen

2. Substantive Change Proposal Update
Approved by ACCJC
May 2016
Distance Education
A proposal to offer 50% or more courses through online modalities.

3. Accreditation: A Quick Review What’s Different This time?
New Standards & Cycle
Quality Focus Essay (QFE)
Forward Thinking
New Standards:
Effective visits beginning in spring 2016,
No examples to look at
so our colleges are “paving the way” in addressing new standards. Just starting to get examples from LA schools up for spring 2016 visit.
Accreditation cycle now for 7 yrs with midterm at year 4
Forward thinking:
Since standards are all new, colleges are not addressing any previous recommendations; however, we will ensure any previous issues are corrected.
Changes in Mid-term reporting, as colleges will address any planned changes and provide updates on QFE
Quality focus essay:
commission focusing on quality improvement and asks colleges to ID 2-3 action projects that are cross standards, multi-year projects that cannot be added with current infrastructure & will require college/DO support
Midterm report will be updating status on QFE
QFE is a separate essay included in the self evaluation that will be vetted by the campus and BOT

5. EVCs Writing Process- Who’s involved?
Standard 1- RJ Ruppenthal, Lynette Apen, Bob Pacheco
Intro- Lisa Kalenda, YingFang Chen
Standard 2- Merryl Kravitz, Keith Aytch, Janice Toyoshima, Liza Kramer, Emily Banh, Brad Carothers, William Nguyen, Abdie Tabrizi, Lorena Mata, Julie Vo, Angelina Duarte, Victor Garza, Sithparran Vanniasegaram
Standard 3- Michael Highers, Tina Xiao, Kim Garcia, Doug Smith, Sherri Brusseau, Owen Letcher, Linda Wilczewski, John Ives, Colleen Cuen, Yesenia Ramirez, Eugenio Canoy, Ben Seaberry, Peter Fitzsimmons, Lena Tran
Editor- Lisa Kalenda
Standard 4- Mark Gonzales, Henry Yong, Michael Hernandez, Eric Narveson, Jack Baker, Lisa Bell, RJ Ruppenthal, Tamela Hawley, Rosalie Ledesma
QFE- Lynette Apen, Keith Aytch, Sylvia Min
Evidence Team- Rita De La Cerda, Shashi Naidu, Lynette Apen, Vicki Brewster, Lorena Mata, Cathy Kost, Colleen Cuen, Yesenia Ramirez, Eugenio Canoy, Penny Garibay

6. EVCs Progress on the Current Draft
Current DRAFT includes
Plan for July DRAFT
Refinement of narrative
Improve flow
Adding in evidence and begin linking in narrative
Populating placeholder pages (org charts)
Refinement of QFE and changes and plans
Inclusion of all required elements
Narrative in all standards
Collective Voices
EVC & DO
Evidence lists
Reference to QFE
Campus Endorsement

7. Planning- Institutional Effectiveness
What EVC Learned as a result of Self Evaluation- Action Projects for QFE
Planning- Institutional Effectiveness
Communication
For more on EVCs QFE:

8. Next Steps Next board draft Finalize draft Mail to ACCJC 8/9/16
July 12th
Finalize draft
Mail to ACCJC 8/9/16
Ready campus for visit
Post necessary docs
Website review
Mock interviews
Accreditation games
Prepare for the visit
October 10 – 13, 2016
EVC visiting team chair – Dr. Robert Kratochvil, President of Los Medanos College

9. Q & A