NOCCCD Chancellor Doffoney memo on accreditation published

The following text of a memo to staff from North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD) Chancellor Ned Doffoney was published in @Cypress online (PDF), Cypress College’s online newspaper.

When Fullerton College and Cypress College were put on warning by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) last spring, not many of us thought about what the positive outcomes of that action might be. As it turns out, some good reorganization and refocusing has come out of the work the recommendations prompted, and I am proud to announce that three new District documents have now been completed and are ready for use:

The North Orange County Community College District Budget Allocation Handbook 2012 which provides a detailed description of the process used by NOCCCD to allocate resources.
The North Orange County Community College District 2012 Integrated Planning Manual which is a guide to integrated institutional planning at the District level. The processes it describes identify the ways that constituent groups participate in and contribute to District-level long-term and short-term planning.
The North Orange County Community College District 2012 Decision-Making Manual describes how decisions are made in the District and has been developed with the goal of improving communication and trust across NOCCCD.

If you have not already seen these documents, please take a moment to look them over. They are the result of many hours of diligent effort put forth by their respective workgroups as well as campus and District administration. Included in this email, the documents are also available on the District website and on MyGateway.

Still to come is the North Orange County Community College District District-Wide Strategic Plan 2012-2014, which should be completed in April. The District-wide Strategic Plan will use the District Strategic Directions identified in the NOCCCD Master Plan to derive District Strategic Objectives.

These Objectives will describe specific initiatives that require collaboration and coordination among District Services and campus administration, faculty and staff.

We have come so far in the space of a year and I have every confidence that when the ACCJC team comes to revisit our campuses this April all of this hard work will pay off. I want to thank everyone involved with putting these documents together, especially the members of the three workgroups, District Director of Information Services Deborah Ludford, and our incredible consultant Eva Conrad. Their collective wisdom, perspective, and foresight have made NOCCCD a better District.