1. Educational Master Plan (EMP) Online Feedback: College Mission + EMP Goals
PaRC
December 3, 2015
E. Kuo
FH IR&P

2. Online Form Administration
Online Form Administration
November 19-30, 2015
invite with embedded link
Campus-wide feedback:
FH employees and students
Feedback sought regarding:
College mission revise
EMP goals

3. Online Participation Respondents: 284*
Online Participation
Respondents: 284*
Administrator: 8
Classified Staff: 14
FT Faculty: 22
PT Faculty: 10
Student: 229
Online perspective: 21% work/take classes mostly or all online [52 out of these 58 are students]
*Respondents include feedback (Classified Staff=1; FT Faculty=3)
S15 EMP online input:125 respondents

4. EMP Awareness Aware of EMP revise: 52% (Yes/Somewhat)
EMP Awareness
Aware of EMP revise: 52% (Yes/Somewhat)
78% of employees responded Yes
Aware of mission revise: 41% (Yes/Somewhat)
82% employees responded Yes/Somewhat
EMP revise N=276; College mission revise N=277

5. Proposed Mission Feedback
Proposed Mission Feedback
Do you support the proposed changes?
Yes: 49%
No: 12%
Majority of employees support changes
(Yes: 60%)
N=269; Unsure=39%

6. Proposed Mission Feedback
Proposed Mission Feedback
What elements do you like about the proposed mission statement?*
“Empowering students”: 68%
“Core values”: 51%
“Equity”: 40%
“Democratic society”: 30%
“Student population type”: 22%
All items resonated with employees
Multiple options could be selected so totals do not add up to 100%. N=264

7. Proposed Mission Feedback
Proposed Mission Feedback
What elements do you not like about the proposed mission statement?*
“Student population type”: 43%
“Democratic society”: 37%
“Equity”: 23%
“Core values”: 23%
“Empowering students”: 14%
Multiple options could be selected so totals do not add up to 100%. N=190

8. Proposed Mission Feedback
Proposed Mission Feedback
All “disliked” elements received less than half of the total responses.
“Student population type” may be unclear.
“Democratic society” received approximately similar response for like and dislike (~1/3 of responses)
Concern regarding language
“We don’t live in live in a democratic society. We’re in a republic.”

9. Proposed Mission Comments
Proposed Mission Comments
Top Concerns:
Shorten statement (“so all stakeholders can remember it”)
Drop the word “Believing” (“grammatically awkward”)
Remove core values (“mission and values are two separate ideas”)
Confusion about “California students” (“international students may view that statement as excluding them”)

10. Proposed Mission Comments
Proposed Mission Comments
Several comments discussed conciseness of current compared to proposed statement.
Confusion remains about changes related to repeatability.
Some discussed inspirational approach of proposed statement.

11. EMP Goals Feedback
Goal 1: Create a culture of equity that promotes student success, particularly for underserved students.
Should a focus on “equity” be a college goal?
Yes: 68%
N=273

12. EMP Goals Feedback
Goal 2: Strengthen a sense of community and commitment to the College’s mission; expand participation from all constituencies in shared governance.
Should a focus on “community” be a college goal?
Yes: 78%
N=273

13. EMP Goals Feedback
Goal 3: Recognize and support a campus culture that values ongoing improvement and stewardship of resources.
Should a focus on “improvement” and “stewardship of resources” be a college goal?
Yes: 76%
N=271

14. EMP Goals Comments “Equity” as concept is vague
EMP Goals Comments
“Equity” as concept is vague
“Equity” conflated with other concepts (equality, opportunity, etc.), including a preference for certain student groups over others.
Comment regarding other goals focus on lack of clarity
Does “community” include local community?
“Stewardship of Resources” should focus on environment, not budget
Not explicit enough for specific metrics to be instituted
Confusion reflected as several comments discussed goals as part of mission statement.

15. Summary
General support for the proposed college mission statement among employees
Additional communication needed as one-third of respondents are unsure
All three goals received a majority of support (more than two-thirds in agreement)
Consider information dissemination process to increase support from all constituents