性奴调教

January 22, 2025

Dear Campus community,
In lieu of my usual 1-2-3-4-5 newsletter, I am writing today to share accreditation news.

On Jan 8th & 9th the ACCJC commission met to review the peer review Team Report before issuing accreditation actions. As you may recall, the peer review team visited the college in late September, 2024 for a focused site visit. The areas of focus were (1) Regular and Substantive Interaction (2) Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes, and (3) a district standard related to regular review of board policies.

After deliberation, the ACCJC commission voted to reaffirm accreditation for Foothill College for 18 months. A follow-up report is due no later than March 1, 2026, and a visit from a peer team soon after. The limited reaffirmation resulted from the Commission鈥檚 determination that the College must demonstrate compliance with standard I.B.2 and II.A.3:

• I.B.2: The institution defines and assesses student learning outcomes for all instructional programs and student and learning support services.
• II.A.3: The institution identifies and regularly assesses learning outcomes for courses, programs, certificates and degrees using established institutional procedures. The institution has officially approved current course outlines that include student learning outcomes. In every class section students receive a course syllabus that includes learning outcomes from the institution鈥檚 officially approved course outline.

In order to meet the Standards, the Commission requires the college to implement a procedure to regularly assess learning outcomes for all its courses, programs, certificates and degrees.

Please go to the Accreditation home page to review the ACCJC Reaffirmation Letter and Peer Review Team Report

The good news is that we anticipated this recommendation and preparation to make SLO assessment meaningful and systematic is well underway. An SLO Workgroup, led by the Academic Senate President, Voltaire Villanueva, has been formed with the following campus leaders:

• Allison Meezan
• Ben Kaupp
• Jordan Fong
• Judith Walgren
• Lynnette Vega
• Rosa Nguyen
• Sally Baldwin
• Voltaire Villanueva (chair)

I鈥檓 sure you share my confidence in this outstanding group of faculty members. They will no doubt build on past SLO coordination and support a process for assessment that will advance equitable outcomes and support continuous improvement to achieve exceptional learning.

Building on that good news, the peer team affirmed our responsiveness and approach to Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI). They wrote, 鈥淚nitiatives such as Faculty-Supporting-Faculty demonstrate a 鈥榗ollective step together to support students鈥� [. . . ] {and]} serve as evidence that RSI fits within 性奴调教鈥檚 mission by recognizing RSI is part of `a culturally responsive teaching practice.鈥欌��

Building on the RSI momentum, and with organizing work for SLOs well underway, we are set up for success!

If you have not done so already, please take some time to review the full ISER here. This document was truly the result of a collective campus-wide effort, so please join me in thanking everyone who participated in researching and writing our accreditation report. I would also like to thank the Accreditation Steering Committee - Joshua Agupugo (then ASFC President), Stacy Gleixner, Kurt Hueg, Simon Pennington, Adiel Velasquez, Voltaire Villanueva, writers, Katie Ha, Kas Pereira, and Vanessa Smith, and a special thank you to Elaine Kuo and Kelaiah Harris for leading the whole process!

性奴调教 is truly an exceptional community.

Yours in service,
Kristina

Dr. Kristina Whalen
性奴调教 President