The Office of the Dean of Student Services works with Student Equity and Achievement Program to provide quality educational support services aimed at enhancing student access, retention, success, and completion.
The Office of the Dean of Student Services provides leadership and oversight to the following departments: Student Equity, Career and Academic Assessment Center, Regional Testing Center, Counseling, Transfer Counseling Center, Admissions and Records, Financial Aid, and the Veteran's Resource Center.
1. Provide superior support to new incoming students throughout the application, assessment/placement, orientation, and counselign process that ensures stduent begin their college experience adequately prepared and connected to appropriate campus resources and support systems.
2. Provide exemplary ongoing academic advising, counseling, and transfer counseling support to students helping them navigate their college experience and complete thier academic programs in a timely manner.
3. Provide effective and regular intervention for students who are struggling academically. Connecting students with appropriate guidance and support resources. Work alongside students to improve academic outcomes, and ultimately, increase student success by improving student outcomes and persistence.
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Student Equity and Achievement Programs support the follwoing strategic initiatives:
1.a - Progress and Completion Model
1.b - Connection
1.c - Entry
1.e - Completion
1.g.1 - Implementing Degree Audit and Educational Planning
2.a.4 - Encouraging and supporting students to make decisions that support their success and completion.
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- Implementation of Hobsons - degree audit and online educational planning
- Support student completion
- Eliminate equity gaps
- Improve/refine onboarding experience for new students
- Expand access to educational planning, career counseling, and occupational/major exploration
- Provide academic supports for succesful completion of transfer math and transfer English
Strategy 1 - Maintain Support
Seeking financial resources to maintain support for existing staff, projects, activities, and services.
A variety of offices - Counseling, Student Equity, Transfer Counseling Center, Admissions and Records, Career Counseling, Veteran's Resource Center, and the Career and Academic Assessment Center rely on support from the SEA Program to sustain opertations, programs, and services to students.
The Student Equity and Achievement Program currently operates as a categorically funded entity with a $4.26 million dollar annual budget.
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | Dean's Office | Personnel | 12.277.712.1.645000 | 52368 | $150,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Student Assistant Pool - Supports various programs/areas | Money to support student assistants in the following offices: Counseling, Career and Academic Assessment Center, Transfer Counseling, Dean's Office, Student Success Services, etc. |
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| 2 | A&R Evaluators - Reclassification | Personnel | 12.277.701.1.620000 | 5XXXX | $0.00 | $35,000.00 |
| Funding for pending reclassification request (3 positions) | A&R staff are now performing critical tasks including the evaluation of incoming transcripts from CCC's, CSU's, and UC's as well as assisting with setup, testing, and configuration of Hobsons degree audit. It is customary in A&R offices to distinguish between those performing A&R tasks and those performing evaluations. |
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| 3 | Dean's Office | Operating Expenses | 12.277.712.1.645000 | 5XXXX | $0.00 | $30,000.00 |
| Hobsons/Starfish Annual License | Cost of annual fee for Hobsons/Starfish tools. |
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| 4 | Dean's Office | Operating Expenses | 12.277.712.1.645000 | 5XXXX | $38,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Professional Development Fund | Covers costs for Pro Dev in Counseling, Career and Academic Assessment, Dean's Office, Transfer Counseling, Admissions and Records, and Career Counseling. |
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| 5 | Dean's Office | Equipment | 12.277.712.1.645000 | 5XXXX | $28,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Computing Equipment Pool - Supports various programs/areas | Identified funding for new or replacement laptops, PC's, printers, etc. Maintains access to and reliability of essential equipment. |
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| 6 | Dean's Office | Operating Expenses | 12.277.712.1.645000 | 5XXXX | $0.00 | $10,000.00 |
| College Source - TES | Provides designated staff members access to other school catalogs and articulation information. |
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