Current Goals and Recommendations including Resource Requests

Summary of Current Goals and Recommendations

Goals and Recommendations are to appear in long-form in the narrative. Funding requests must also be entered in abbreviated short form (think: newspaper headline) on the online Resource Request Form which is currently embedded within the comprehensive program plan & annual update form in eLumen.

Describe your goals in terms that address improved student access and/or learning, and success in transfer or employment. Focus the goal on the desired learning outcomes and list the activities and resources as means to achieving the goal. For example, hiring an instructor, acquiring lab equipment, and increasing supply budgets are the means to improving students’ learning, and would be activities and resources required to achieve that goal. If possible, goals should be stated in a way that allows measurement of whether the desired outcome has been achieved.

Suggestions for writing goals and recommendations:

Describe the goal in an abbreviated form. Then list what is needed for your department to meet the goal and to address the challenges identified in the narrative background information. List your goals and recommendations in priority order according to their importance to students’ access and success.
Be as specific as possible in stating your goals. For example, rather than saying, “improve student success,” say, “increase one-on-one out-of-class assistance to ESL students having difficulty with the technical language of biology in order to improve their retention and success rate.” Consider all aspects needed to institute your recommendations over the next six (6) years. Each recommendation should include everything necessary to implement the stated goal. Describe how you will continue and refine ongoing initiatives and implement new directions. If applicable, include curriculum changes, methodology including distance learning, use of work-based and service learning strategies, scheduling, supplies, specialized equipment, facilities, and staffing.
If additional resources may be necessary to implement objectives of a goal, identify and quantify those resources and, when possible, identify potential funding sources. When there are multiple costs, sum the costs at the end of the list and note whether the cost is one-time, start-up cost or an ongoing funding need.
This program plan (and the Annual Update) is the starting point for requests for additional college resources. When requesting equipment from the annual State Instructional Equipment and Library Resources categorical funding, the fact that the equipment was noted and ranked in the program plan can be cited in the request.

Online Resource Request Form: (needs to be updated)

After writing your goals and recommendations narrative, enter each goal by abbreviated title and total cost on the online Resource Request Form. This form can be accessed from the PRO Program Planning Support Page Links to an external site..

The resource requests will be used by CIP to rank the goals from all departments and programs.

Cost Guideline Notes:

See the current CIP Cost Guidelines Links to an external site. in the BoardDocs Library.
For an IA or Program Specialist at less than 100%, contact the appropriate division Financial Support Specialist/Division Accounting Specialist for the estimated costs.
For accurate information about classified job duties, go to the Human Resources web pages and look under classified staff job descriptions for the appropriate title of the requested position, and then check the job description for that position.
For department-specific equipment, contact the purchasing office on estimated costs. Go to this link for more information: Links to an external site.https://www.cabrillo.edu/it/tech-standards/ Links to an external site..