Sacramento County Grand Jury
• 2018-2019
LOS Rios Community College District's Student Achievement Challenge: the Premise and the Promise
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Findings and Recommendations 7 findings
F1
LRCCD administration and faculty are committed to improving student achievement rates and related goals encompassed within State Legislation, California's Community College Vision for Success, and State Chancellor's directives.
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R1
The LRCCD Administration and Faculty should be commended this year by the Board of Trustees for their commitment to improving student achievement rates.
F2
LRCCD's Guided Pathways module does not by itself allow for students to seamlessly transfer between Academic and CTE programs.
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R2
The LRCCD Chancellor should ensure, as part of its implementation, that Guided Pathways includes a seamless administrative system for students to switch between Academic and CTE programs.
F3
The success of Guided Pathways is dependent upon adequate counseling services and perhaps a change in the counseling model.
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R3
The LRCCD Board of Trustees should budget sufficient resources for case management/student advisor services to augment existing counseling services as needed to ensure the success of Guided Pathways.
F4
LRCCD lacks a formal survey process for students at entrance and exit in order to better understand student achievement issues.
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R4
The LRCCD Chancellor should ensure within the next 12 months that a survey process that includes entrance and exit interviews is developed to ascertain whether further actions are needed to address student achievement issues.
F5
LRCCD’s financial flexibility to adjust existing or new programs and services to meet student achievement goals is constrained by the fiscal requirements between the Fifty Percent Law and the collective bargaining agreements. 60
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R5
The LRCCD Board of Trustees should reconsider its 80 percent funding agreement as part of its collective bargaining negotiation with the goal of providing more financial flexibility to meet current and future student achievement rate challenges.
F6
The quantity of scope of Online classes are insufficient to meet the work/life issues of two large cohorts of LRCCD's students; those 25 or older, which comprise nearly 40 percent of students overall, and part-time students that represent approximately 70 percent of students.
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R6
The LRCCD Board of Trustees and Chancellor should work with the academic senate and faculty to enhance the number and scope of online classes offered.
F7
CTE Programs take an estimated six years to develop and produce the first graduates. This is too long to react to fast-changing demands in the labor market.
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R7
The LRCCD Chancellor should streamline the process for establishing CTE programs to reduce the number of years it takes to develop these types of programs over the next 12 months.