ACC BOARD POLICY-DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR 1998

1. Bring the operation of the College fully into compliance with Board policy.

2. Institutionalize an institutional effectiveness and planning process that integrates effectiveness evaluation or assessment, planning, and budgeting. [now covered by E-1, Master Planning]

3. Develop a future facilities-development master plan and update the renovation and maintenance plans, based on the analysis of academic needs of students and community needs. [would be covered by proposed amendments to E-2, Facilities Planning]

4. Implement an evaluation system for faculty based upon an assessment of instructional quality, which shall be used in decisions concerning retention and advancement of faculty and to develop a professional development plan for faculty. [covered by F-7, Performance Evaluation, with possible extensions]

5. Develop a program quality review system for all programs and disciplines which shall be used to guide curriculum revision, accreditation agency response, program expansion or elimination, and to prioritize areas for resource allocation including personnel. [will be covered by proposed policy on Program Review]

6. Develop a strategy including use of technology to serve areas within the ACC service region, both inside and outside the taxing base area, while prioritizing services to those within the taxing base area and expanding services to those areas which voluntarily seek and vote to associate themselves with the taxing base area. [now covered by A-5, Service Area Responsibilities]

7. Develop a set of options for using full-time and adjunct faculty, giving priority to improving instructional quality and to hiring the number of full-time faculty needed to ensure adequate quality and capacity in each program. [will be covered by proposed policy on Use of Adjunct Faculty]

8. Develop an outreach, recruitment, and marketing plan to serve the educational needs of the residents of the ACC district and service area and to increase the diversity of the ACC student body, faculty and staff.

9. Develop and implement a pro-active retention and student success plan for each ACC student (full- or part-time) to reach his or her individual educational goal. [add to policy-development agenda: Student Goal Completion]

10. Implement a resource development acquisition strategy from both public and private resources to support the college in meeting changing student and community needs. [add to policy-development agenda: Resource Development]

11. Develop internal capacity and utilize budgetary and cost analysis to identify areas of operating efficiency including course scheduling, equitable expenditure distribution, and program and unit expenditure analysis. [now covered by A-4, College Ends; E-3, College Budget]

12. Develop an analysis of the usage of distance education technology including the Texas Virtual College and outline the challenges this technology represents for ACC. [add to policy-development agenda: Distance Learning]

13. Develop a system of management Administrative Rule, procedures, and guidelines implementing Board policy, which would be accessible through an electronic system and which clarifies responsibilities including the authority for exceptions to any provisions. [now covered by C-12, Open Communication and Information]

EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION [leftover from 1998 list]

State principles, standards, and process for employee-compensation decisions.

EMPLOYEE WORKLOADS (amendments to D-3) [already placed on 1999 list]

State principles and standards for employee workloads.

Identify those aspects of College operations on which the Board wishes to receive regular reports, specifying when and/or how often.

State both the process and the basis the Board will use in its annual evaluations of the performance of the College President.

Declare that the College will provide students assistance in making the transition to the next stage in their careers. This could cover both job placement and college-transfer placement.

HARASSMENT NOTIFICATION (amendment to F-2, Prevention of Harassment)

Specify that College employees must report to appropriate supervisors any complaints students make to them about harassment by other employees or students.

State principles for using student input to improve College operations, including both effective, efficient student grievance processes for individual problems and input to the Board, administration, and faculty on more general issues.

State principles (and perhaps a minimum budget allocation) for professional development.

EMPLOYEE RECRUITMENT (amend F-3, Posting of Position Openings)

State standards for employment-recruitment efforts.

RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT [on 1998planning-directive list]

State strategic guidelines for resource development.

DISTANCE LEARNING [on 1998 planning-directive list]

State principles for distance-learning activities.

Specify that meeting-presentation materials be provided beforehand in the agenda materials and not use unnecessarily-expensive methods, and that presentations be relevant to topics on which the Board will make decisions.