2024 Conference Poster Session
We look forward to hosting faculty, staff, students, trustees, and administrators at the 2024 ACCJC Partners in Excellence Conference. This year, our theme explores how accreditation can support our institutions as they Foster Outcomes, Improvements, and Innovations in Equitable Student Success.
ACCJC is pleased to host a poster session at the 2024 Partners in Excellence Conference! Viewing will be available all day on Thursday, and the official poster session event will take place during the opening reception, sponsored by our Platinum Sponsor, the Lumina Foundation. Join us for the showcase of high-impact practices and outcomes throughout ACCJC membership and engage in conversation and networking.
2024 Poster Session Presentations
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| American Samoa Community College | Presenters: Rosalee Shoulders and Katrina Helsham American Samoa, a geographically isolated island south of the equator, is complex when coordinating resources similar to the Tsunami 2009 event. The federal support from the tsunami caused delays as many residents could not understand the language and cultural nuances between mainland and Pacific Islanders. Community and cultural resilience in the Pacific begins with residents. Building capacity through career pathway programs will have a broader impact that will maintain cultural and traditional knowledge and trust when disaster strikes. The 25 Navigators (students) of Project i-EMPLOY (inclusive - Emergency Management Program and Leadership Opportunities for Youth) will increase their knowledge and experience in Emergency Management to develop inclusive emergency operation plans, gain field experience leading and executing an exercise, identify stakeholders to coordinate resources, and familiarize with National Disaster Response Framework. The 30-credit interdisciplinary career pathway funded by US-DHHS Administration for Native Americans (ANA) will cover courses, textbooks, uniforms, technology, transportation, and travel, leading to Community Resilience. Government agencies have provided letters of committed employment to successful Navigators. |
| Academic Senate for California Community Colleges | Presenters: Manuel Velez and Juan Arzola Community colleges play a pivotal role in higher education by providing accessible and quality education to diverse student populations. Behind the scenes, faculty members are not just educators but also key contributors to the accreditation process, ensuring institutional quality and continuous improvement. This poster board presentation aims to shed light on the significant role community college faculty play in the accreditation process. Objectives: -To highlight the specific contributions of community college faculty to the accreditation process. -To emphasize the importance of faculty engagement and collaboration in maintaining accreditation standards. -To provide examples and case studies illustrating faculty involvement in accreditation activities. -To discuss strategies for enhancing faculty participation and empowerment in accreditation endeavors. |
| Cabrillo College | Presenter: Terrence Willett Assessing Equity with Traditional and Novel Metrics in Times of Changeis the fourth chapter I contributed to Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education, Volume Two: Strategies for a Changing Higher Education Environmentedited by Souza & Rose in 2023. The book revisits assessment in a post- 2020 context with the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and in my district a catastrophic wildfire and flood. Chapter 4 focuses on new ways to assess equity including reviewing equity metrics, completion rates of transfer level English and math after remediation reforms, determining support needs during a pandemic, geocoding student persistence in relation to natural disasters, and grading variability within and between departments. |
| Campus | Presenter: Kaari Casey In an era where the landscape of higher education is rapidly transforming, Campus has taken a proactive approach in expanding and enhancing its distance learning programs. Our session at the ACCJC conference will delve into the comprehensive changes and upgrades implemented in our educational delivery systems, focusing on our new program model integrated with the cutting-edge Campuswire technology. This discussion will outline the methodology, technology, outcomes, and future potential of our program, providing attendees with a detailed overview of a successful distance learning model. |
| Coastline College | Presenter: Aeron Zentner The poster session focuses on the evolution of the college's Program and Department Review and validation processes, in alignment with the new ACCJC accreditation standards. This session facilitates collaborative opportunities for attendees to exchange promising practices and insights about implementing these standards in institutional practice. Alongside these discussions, the poster will feature a comprehensive crosswalk framework that correlates the standards with the college's review and validation processes. |
| College of Marin | Presenters: Meg Pasquel and Cari Torres Our poster will provide an opportunity to examine COM's revamped program review process and notable improvements that include: • Mandatory data coaching for departments, to ensure appropriate focus on disparate outcomes and directing resources to address those disparities; • Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Council's (SLOAC's) formal participation in the program review steps, to ensure SLO review is fully integrated into the program review; • The Planning and Resource Allocation Committee's (PRAC) use of the Guidance Resources Integration and Transformation (GRIT) Committee's analysis and feedback to inform planning and resource recommendations and PRAC’s review of the impact of past funding on intended changes. |
| College of the Desert | Presenter: Corbyn Wild In academic governance, guided by AB 1725, each district orchestrates program enhancement and review. The Program Showcase, an annual tradition, is a campus narrative, weaving tales of triumphs and challenges across departments. Mandated by the Academic Senate, disciplines present program reviews every five years, aligning with five-year Program Enhancement Plans—a commitment to transparency. The showcase, beyond storytelling, guides resource allocation for Faculty Prioritization and Equipment Prioritization committees. It's a living resource, informing decisions and adding meaning to resource distribution. The showcase fosters collaboration, breaks down silos, and provides a structured platform for idea exchange. |
| College of the Marshall Islands | Presenters: Gade Maitokana, Karhlina Obed, and Cheryl Vila After recording a long spell of low completion rates in its FYE course, the College of the Marshall Islands revamped the curriculum and included Service Learning (SL). Since the inclusion of the SL in SP2023, there have been significant milestone WINS recorded, such as: - Fulfilling the mission of the college as students are responding actively to the needs of the nation (College Wins! Students Win! Nation Wins) - Increasing student success as shown by the improvement in the completion rates in FYE course for SP2023, and FA2024 (Students Win! College Wins! Community Wins!); - Strengthening partnership between the college, students, and the wider community achieved through the successful outcomes (Community Wins! College Wins!) |
| Folsom Lake College | Presenter: Caleb Fowler Jr. California Community Colleges face an ever-challenging landscape. Change agents strive to implement needed interventions but are often disappointed in the outcomes. Yet, the literature shows that the odds of successful change increase when interventions align with the organization’s identity. But how are these organizational elements identified? This study explores that question using two methodological approaches to extract these elements. Identity topics are conceptualized as latent themes embedded within artifacts produced by individual colleges. Latent Dirichlet Allocation extracted latent topics from a corpus of ISERs. Concurrently, a manual semantic analysis also extracted topics. Latent topics from both methods were analyzed. |
| Foothill College | Presenters: Elaine Kuo and Kelaiah Harris Foothill College re-imagined its program review process to better demonstrate program-level efforts in planning and resource prioritization. Previous evaluations documented a uni-directional process that was rigid, opaque, and did not promote meaningful engagement. Operation and process changes yielded a wraparound structure with defined trainings, data coaching, shared templates/review rubrics, along with intentional prompts emphasizing reflection and action planning toward equitable outcomes, and the opportunity to engage outside of their unit. Non-instructional units customize their program review templates to best reflect their function and operations. Ongoing evaluation informs continuous improvement efforts. |
| Fresno City College | Presenters: Ghada Al-Masri and Diana Day Just prior to the pandemic, Fresno City College had achieved significant enrollment recovery following the 2008-09 housing crisis and the resulting global economic downturn. At the heights of this recovery just before spring 2019, the college was experiencing strong enrollments of 142,150. In the depths of the pandemic, enrollments dropped to 114,628 with a loss of 2,981.5 FTES. Our journey to recovery is a story of our resilient community and the strength of our partnerships. Through implementation of strategic enrollment management practices, expanding partnerships to serve with greater intention, and continued deepening of pathways, FCC has regained enrollments to pre-pandemic levels. The key highlights include Ram Racial Equity Lab development and expansion, creative focused outreach, and expanding campus services to meet the needs of our regional employers and transfer institutions. |
| Irvine Valley College | Presenter: Loris Fagioli At Irvine Valley College (IVC) most of the English as a Second Language (ESL) courses include an Embedded Tutor (ET) to help them with their writing. ETs became particularly prudent in fall 2019 because of AB705, which lead to a shorter ESL sequence and an increase of ESL students directly enrolled into transfer-level English courses. ESL students have less time to learn English acquisition, and therefore, IVC has provided embedded tutors as academic support. Our data shows ESL students who met with an embedded tutor had higher pass rates. However, students who choose to meet with an ET are different from those who do not, therefore, we conducted propensity score models. It shows students who met with an ET were more likely to pass the From a practice perspective, attendees will leave a comprehensive understanding of how to evaluate their embedded tutors’ program. It is not enough to compare students who had an embedded tutors in their sections versus those who do not. Educators must collect individual data that shows who chooses to meet with an ET and how often do they meet, as well as conduct a rigorous analysis to account for differences between students who choose and do not choose to meet with an ET. We will also provide the student survey that was used to get students feedback on how we can improve our embedded tutor program, and why students found meeting with an ET helpful. |
| Irvine Valley College | Presenters: Angel Hernandez and Loris Fagioli As part of Irvine Valley College's (IVC) February 2024 campus accreditation visit the college received a core inquiry regarding it's reputation as a proven leader in transfer amongst California community colleges. The accreditation team stated the following, the team is impressed with the College’s reputation as a leading transfer institution in California and is interested in learning how College processes and services have contributed to this long-standing success.This led to a fruitful site visit that allowed IVC to showcase it's sustained comprehensive transfer institutional culture. During this site visit it was recommended that IVC share it's transfer success to inform and inspire best practices, which this session will do. |
| Los Angeles City College | Presenters: Nathaniel Lorentz and Anna Badalyan Undocumented students face numerous challenges that are unique from other student populations, including ineligibility for federal financial aid, limited access to scholarships and internships, and fewer income-generating opportunities without work authorization. In response to unique undocumented student needs, LACC has housed a Dream Resource Center (DRC) since 2018 to specifically support undocumented students with customized resources and academic and mental health counseling. Here we examine LACC DRC student achievement data, relative to the total LACC student population, on enrollment, GPA, retention, success, persistence, and transfer, which demonstrate improved outcomes for undocumented students. |
| Los Angeles Pierce College | Presenters: Mary-Jo Apigo and Yvonne Grigg LAPC’s poster will focus on innovation in instruction, with student services, and around the campus. We will highlight LAPC’s success with the Peer Online Course Review process, increase in dual enrollment, and development of new ethnic studies curriculum. Also, LAPC has received a California Community College Chancellor’s Office grant to update syllabi and curriculum with a DEI Culturally Responsive lens. Bridging student services and instruction, LAPC launched a MESA program to serve low-income, first generation STEM majors. Also, LAPC is committed to creating more equitable and student-friendly spaces such as the Multicultural Center. LAPC is most proud of the launch of Caring Campus for both classified professionals and faculty. |
| Mendocino College | Presenter: Debra Polak The Mendocino-Lake Community College District serves a large geographic area which includes many small rural high schools. Mendocino College works with all of the high schools in its district to develop dual enrollment opportunities for their students. This presents many challenges but mostly opportunities, especially for students to access courses and content that would not be available at their schools. Additionally, dual enrollment efforts at Mendocino College aim to develop a college-going culture among first generation and other traditionally underrepresented populations of students. The College has been recognized for its equitable outcomes in providing dual enrollment to students throughout the District. The poster will include a descriptive illustration of our district, showing the size of our district, and the number of small, rural high schools spread out across one and a half counties. |
| Merced Community College | The Downey Learning Resource Center: A Hub for Academic Support and Student Growth At Merced CollegePresenter: Jose Serena The Downey Center is a hub for academic support and student growth. We offer a comprehensive Student Success Program with services including, peer tutoring, faculty support, and an embedded counselor. Our center features specialized STEM group tutoring, study rooms, free printing, technology support, and the Blue Devil Brew Cafe. We also provide extended evening food pantry hours and 24/7 online tutoring with Brainfuse and library chat support. Our innovative scavenger hunt and workshops engage students holistically, fostering an inclusive environment. The center's embedded tutoring program and various discipline classrooms further enhance the academic journey, ensuring students have access to the resources they need for success. |
| Moorpark College | Presenters: Oleg Bespalov, John Forbes, and Ruth Bennington Recently, our college received a commendation for integrated planning: Standard I.B.1, I.B.9 (Commendation 1): The Commission commends the College for its strong culture of inquiry, integrating evidence-based approaches into decision-making, resource allocation, and instructional and student services practices. In this poster session we'd like to share some tips on integrated planning that other colleges can use as well. |
| Mt. San Antonio College | Presenters: Kelly Fowler and Allie Frickert Engaging the Mt. SAC community in the 2024 ISER development began with a campus call-out for an accreditation theme. The Accreditation Steering Committee reviewed several options and chose 'Weaving Our Story' from 80 submissions, symbolizing inclusion and diversity. A logo was created, and a student-narrated video explained the "why" of this theme. Starting in the f2021, the accreditation process replaced large writing teams with 13 smaller 'Weaving Teams,' each representing campus constituency groups. Finishing Teams refined drafts in fall 2022. The Accreditation Core Team liaisons facilitated communication and training. Outreach included Friday Forums, newsletters, and presentations to various campus bodies. |
| Norco College | Presenter: Tenisha James Norco College implemented a holistic student support process based on Achieving the Dream’s Holistic Student Supports Redesign toolkit. Utilizing existing technology and personnel, a successful program was launched at-scale for all incoming students leading to customized support plans for each student and improved student services throughout the campus. Since initial implementation in March 2021, the college has collected over 7,700 surveys and used the data to improve a variety of services throughout the campus. Early performance indicators related to enrollment and persistence have been monitored by an external evaluator and indicate positive effects of this intervention. |
| Palau Community College | Presenters: Jay Olegeriil, Derbei Meyar, and Johvanna Yaoch Created in 1993 as Palau’s only institution of higher learning, Palau Community College (PCC) is mandated by law to provide education and training opportunities to Palau and the surrounding region. It is also mandated by this same legislation to be accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. As such, the College’s Mission Statement and 15-Year Institutional Master Plan were established to fulfill this legislative mandate. Moreover, the 15-Year Institutional Master Plan was developed in alignment with Accreditation Standards. These are the 3 Pillars of Institutional Effectiveness at PCC: Republic of Palau Public Law 4-2 also known as Higher Education Act of 1993, Accreditation, and 15-Year Institutional Master Plan. |
| San Bernardino Valley College | Presenters: Dina Humble and John Stanskas SBVC Science faculty successfully collaborated to infuse DEIA into the curriculum for Biology 100. The curriculum was designed to Increased a sense of belonging for disproportionately impacted students. The pilot project closed achievement gap in BIO 100 for Hispanic/LatinX students and decreased the achievement gap for other disproportionately impacted groups. |
| San Diego City College | Presenters: Nydia Dominguez, Adan Sanchez, and Magaly Corro Flores This poster illustrates the collaborative cross-department approach to develop satellite emergency food pantries across campus to improve accessibility for minoritized student populations and remove the stigma associated with the use of basic needs services. Our food pantry saw an increase from 40-60 weekly visits to almost 1,000 weekly visits. We will share the strategies to identify key locations and the marketing materials we use. |
| San Diego Mesa College | Presenters: Kelly Spoon and Katie Palacios San Diego Mesa College has a unique model for teaching and learning support, utilizing a team of faculty across disciplines acting as liaisons to faculty groups as Mesa's Ongoing Support for Teaching (MOST) Team. This poster will highlight the composition of the team, projects that the team has led - including cohort-model courses, workshops, and day-long conferences, and measures of the impact of those efforts. |
| San Diego Miramar College | Presenter: Daniel Miramontez Every college struggles with how to fulfill their mission statements, especially in a post pandemic time. A college’s mission statement often provides the “Why” regarding the reasoning behind serving students. However, the “How” of serving students is very messy. By focusing on “how” things work together post pandemic, colleges can move forward in fulfilling their mission statements. San Diego Miramar College’s Pathway to Student Equity and Success Model is an example of how colleges can achieve their mission statement through the alignment of Strategic Planning, Guided Pathways, Strategic Enrollment Management, and Equity Metrics. Finally, each of the model elements are mapped to the State Chancellor’s Office Vision 2030. |
| Santa Monica College | Presenters: Chante DeLoach, Tyffany Dowd, and Marisol Moreno The Equitizing Gateway Courses (EGC) program offers comprehensive professional development for faculty, focusing on equity-centered pedagogical practices to support diverse student populations, especially African American and Latinx students. Spanning four semesters, EGC involves critical self-reflection, data-informed practices, culturally responsive pedagogies, and strategies for student retention. Faculty participate in speaker series and collaborative groups guided by Equity Coaches to foster transformative pedagogical changes. Notable impacts include varied increases in success and retention rates in departments post-EGC implementation. Ongoing evaluation informs program modifications and future directions for racial equity-focused professional development. |
| West Valley College | Presenters: John Hannigan and Shusaku Horibe Creating a sustainable institutional effectiveness program includes the following elements: Tri-ALO approach: Tri-ALO team structure includes the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Research, a faculty member, and a classified member. Culture development: Maintaining an accreditation process in which every five years to "do accreditation" can be replaced by an "accreditation as you go" approach. Structurally creating opportunities that foster innovation & improvement: The college restructured the AIE so that now it now Tri-ALO oversight of process effectiveness and improvement. Our Tri-ALO team leads the accreditation efforts that elevate classified and student voices to create an intentional and ongoing accreditation review. |