| UNIT | GOAL | OBJECTIVE | COST | FUND SOURCE |
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR |
SLRP PRIORITY |
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| 200-02-02 | Bedford Center Lease | $ 10,000 | M&O | 1 | |||||
| Institutional Advancement | 102-03-00 | The Marketing and Public Relations Committee with the Dean of Enrollment Management will develop strategies to increase enrollment. | 102-03-01 | Increase enrollment by 2% through four cycles, admission and curriculum cards, admission events, course schedule, advertising and web page. | $ 10,000 | M&O | Increased enrollment will result in additional funds for the institution. | A 2% enrollment increase. | |
| Institutional Advancement | 102-05-00 | Marketing and public relations will communicate with current and past students and the citizens of Region 2000. | 102-05-03 | Increase marketing and public relations budget in order to expand the College's marketing reach to Region 2000. | $ 10,000 | M&O | With Centers in five locations throughout Region 2000 additional funding is required to meet expanded marketing demands. | Increased enrollment at CVCC and at its outreaching centers. | |
| Information Technology | 103-01-00 | Additional instructional equipment to enhance the delivery of instruction | 103-01-01 | Increase the network connection to 3 Mbps for Altavista, Appomattox and Bedford. | $ 25,000 | M&O | The limited connection speeds to our off-campus centers; limits our ability to expand the number of compressed video classes that can be received to one, provides less bandwidth to the Internet than students with high-speed Internet connections at their homes, and does not provide the ability for IT to manage PCs remotely--thus requiring a trip to the center for support calls. | ||
| Information Technology | 103-03-00 | Maintain sufficient level of trained and equipped personnel. | 103-03-03 | Hire a Network Administrator | $ 55,350 | M&O | The network redesign that is currently being implemented is more complicated and labor intensive than our current network design. The network is being redesigned to enable teaching faculty retain administrative rights to their PCs. If this position is not filled, IT service will be negatively impacted. | ||
| Information Technology | 103-03-00 | Maintain sufficient level of trained and equipped personnel. | 103-03-04 | Cross-train existing IT staff, increase compensation. | $ 20,000 | M&O | The college is very dependent upon on our current SIS Analyst for daily operations and other tasks. Without another analyst our business continuity is vulnerable if our SIS Analyst has to be out of work for an extended period of time or finds another job. This position is also taking on more AIS responsibilities--with HR responsibilities soon to follow. We have a single point of failure for a mission-critical position. We cannot afford not to address this vulnerability. | 2 | |
| Information Technology | 103-04-00 | Comply with SEC 501 | 103-04-01 | Fill the Policy and Security Analyst Position. The objective is combined with 103-04-02 because the position is split coded. | $ 32,000 | M&O | Our current staffing level is not sufficient to comply with security requirements. | ||
| Information Technology | 103-05-00 | Maintain current instructional and administrative software | 103-05-06 | Provide funding for hardware and software systems to support instruction. Important specifically is continuation of the (25 seat) license for Elluminate Live! ($17,000) | $ 17,000 | M&O | Since initially licensing 3 years ago, this web conferencing tool has become an essential part of some online courses; a supplemental part of some traditional courses; and a back-up for compressed video courses. Faculty have come to rely on Elluminate for weekly sessions with their online students; office hours; class "make-up" days for inclement weather; to conduct classes when faculty might be out-of-town (conferences/meetings). Additional funds to support other instructional needs that might arise. | Elluminate License will be renewed 7/1/08. Other purchases made after needs identified and evaluated. | 1 |
| VP Workforce Development & Continuing Education | 200-01-00 | Develop and implement programs in response to workforce needs in the region | 200-01-02 | Provide support for annual Summer Academies | $ 5,000 | M&O | Summer Academies is one of the best strategic Workforce initiatives in Region 2000. It is an excellent partner building endeavor and provides excellent PR throughout the region. | Five year growth pattern and participation #s | |
| VP Workforce Development & Continuing Education | 200-03-00 | Increase staffing to support delivery of specialized credit and noncredit workforce development programs for Region 2000 business community. | 200-03-01 | Staff for new Amherst center projected to open Aug. 2008 include: Director (PT -1500 hours) - $30,000;Administrative Assistant (FT) - $32,000; Counselor (PT-1200 hrs) -$24,000 | $ 46,000 | M&O | Provides a college presence and outreach to a regional community. | Growth/utilization over a three year period. | 1 |
| VP Workforce Development & Continuing Education | 200-03-00 | Increase staffing to support delivery of specialized credit and noncredit workforce development programs for Region 2000 business community. | 200-03-02 | Provide a part time program specialist to oversee the coordination and logistics of the College for Living (+) program (PT -1000 hours) | $ 20,000 | M&O | In two years this program has grown to 40 FT students (with special needs), 3 FT teachers, 4 teaching assistants and approximately 10 college mentors from local university's special education programs. We currently have four school districts participating and wanting to expand. We also anticipate Amherst joining when the new satellite center is established. A presence and focal point is needed for the long term survival and expansion of this program. | ||
| VP Academic Affairs & Student Services | 300-06-00 | Maintain the graduation ceremony standards. | 300-06-01 | Increase funding to cover the cost of graduation. | $ 3,500 | M&O | We need to maintain funding adequacy for graduation to sustain alumni goodwill. | Graduation ceremony for 2009 will be properly funded. | |
| Admission & Records | 301-01-00 | To upgrade old equipment so that we may more easily handle the influx of admissions applications and be able to create and maintain student files in a more timely manner. | 301-01-01 | Lease a multi-function printer/ copier/ fax/ scanner for the A&R office | $ 4,000 | M&O | 2nd Request carried over from last years SLRP Presently, we have a small desktop copier in which we use to copy all student files for counseling. With increased enrollment we have even more files to photocopy. Our present copier does not copy front & back so staff have to manually place each application onto the printer. Very time-consuming. Our fax is over 5 years old and print quality is poor and often illegible. | ||
| Admission & Records | 301-03-00 | To improve the layout of the A&R office to make it ADA compliant. | 301-03-01 | Redesign the front entrance in Admissions and Records and the front service counter to comply with ADA standards and Office of Civil Rights requirements for compliance. | $ 17,000 | M&O | Presently, ADA students have a difficult time entering the office, wheelchairs will not fit through the doors. The front counter needs to be re-designed to better serve all students. Tear down the wall in front of the counter and install a custom counter and secure area to serve students in an alcove. | ||
| Business & Allied Health | 302-01-00 | Create and offer associate degree programs, diplomas, certificates and courses to prepare individuals for advanced education and occupational technical careers. | 302-01-01 | *Implementation of Dental Hygiene Program in Fall 2008. | $ 3,000 | M&O | Program accreditation fee as agreed to in articulation agreement. | Fee paid by August 1, 2008. | |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-01-00 | Create and offer associate degree programs, diplomas, certificates and courses to prepare individuals for advanced education and occupational technical careers. | 302-01-02 | Transmission cost between sights and annual billing of didactic delivery. | $ 28,750 | M&O | Budget required for operation of Dental Hygiene program as agreed to in the articulation agreement. | Budget established. | 1 |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-01-00 | Create and offer associate degree programs, diplomas, certificates and courses to prepare individuals for advanced education and occupational technical careers. | 302-01-03 | Funding for Dental Hygiene supplies/clinical supplies and support services/uniforms and laundry facilities. | $ 18,000 | M&O | Budget required for operation of Dental Hygiene program at clinical site. | Budget established. | 1 |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-01-00 | Create and offer associate degree programs, diplomas, certificates and courses to prepare individuals for advanced education and occupational technical careers. | 302-01-08 | *Maintain CVCC's certification as a Human Resource Certified Instruction Provider. | $ 800 | M&O | In order to continue offering SHRM certification courses as part of the Human Resource Management Career Studies Certificate program, CVCC must be certified by the Society for Human Resource Management. | Annual certification fee paid to the Society for Human Resource Management. | |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 302-02-01 | *Recruit and hire P-14s to be Dental Hygiene clinical faculty. | $ 26,000 | M&O | Dental Hygiene clinical faculty are required for the implementation of the Dental Hygiene Program in Fall 2008. | Clinical faculty hired no later than October 1, 2008. | 1 |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 302-02-02 | *Advertise, recruit, and hire Emergency Medical Services full-time faculty. | $ 55,000 | M&O | The EMS program has continued to grow exponentially since its inception in 2004. This has resulted in an unacceptable faculty to student ratio. Accreditation status through CAAHEP is dependent upon a second full-time position. The college must become fully nationally accredited before January 31, 2010, or the Paramedic program will be terminated. | Full-time faculty hired by August 15, 2008. | |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 302-02-03 | *Advertise, recruit, and hire new full-time Emergency Medical Services Clinical Coordinator. | $ 50,000 | M&O | The continued increase in EMS students has doubled the demands of the 2 P-14 clinical coordinators. Clinical locations continue to increase and it has become difficult for the part-time coordinators to oversee students. This position is considered a key component of EMS programs by accrediting bodies to ensure successful programs. | Clinical coordinator hired by August 15, 2008. | |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 302-02-04 | Advertise, recruit, and hire Cardiovascular Sonography full-time faculty. | $ 31,500 | M&O | Full-time Cardiovascular Sonography faculty needed to plan implementation of program in Fall 2009. Salary request represents salary from January 1 - June 30, 2009. | Faculty hired no later than January 1, 2009. | |
| Business & Allied Health | 302-04-00 | Provide the finest educational equipment and facilities to achieve excellence in education. | 302-04-05 | Procure supplies in order to meet training guidelines established by Department of Criminal Justice Services for the ADJ curriculum. | $ 1,150 | M&O | Funds to provide ADJ supplies will afford students the opportunity to participate in required hands-on training exercises in Criminal Investigation courses. | All supplies will be procured annually no later than June 1 of each year. | |
| Counseling | 303-01-00 | To effectively and efficiently run the counseling department including services to students, needs of the counselors and staff; the department needs an adequate budget. | 303-01-01 | As the Bedford building is currently being renovated, students are using the computers in the Counseling Department more to do research and typing of papers thus putting the Carousel Printer in higher demand creating more of a need for office supplies. In addition, the Department receives a monthly newsletter on ADA compliance. | $ 612 | M&O | To run an efficient department, required office supplies for the counseling department need to be increased because of the higher student traffic using the computers. A subscription for the new monthly ADA newsletter, Disability Complaisance for Higher Education used by the Counselors is also needed. | ||
| Counseling | 303-02-00 | To provide an up to date testing center that meets the needs for an increase of entering students, dual enrolled students and meet the requirement for English and math faculty. | 303-02-01 | Increased funding will be required to meet increased demand of new students, dual enrolled students and purchase two site licenses; and to meet the new requirement of English faculty to use the new e-write test that has a higher cost. | $ 8,420 | M&O | With increased enrollment on campus, dual enrollment and to keep up with increased costs of the placement test, increased funding will be necessary. English faculty are requiring a new writing test that is more reliable which costs more than the old version. In the past year, CVCC tested approximately 3100 students with Compass resulting in $14,750 including $470 license fee and an additional 1200 through Asset for a total of $4670 including $470 for the license fee. | ||
| Humanities & Social Sciences | 305-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 305-02-00 | To offset cost of travel, provide mileage reimbursement for full-time Early College faculty required to travel between the Offsite Centers and the CVCC main campus. | $ 2,000 | M&O | Currently, the full-time Early College Spanish instructor is required to travel between the Bedford Center and the CVCC main Campus to teach Early College as well as on-campus students. With the anticipated growth of the Early College Programs (to include Amherst) and the rising cost of gas, a dedicated dollar amount is required to cover mileage reimbursement for this increase in travel. | ||
| Humanities & Social Sciences | 305-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 305-02-01 | Advertise, recruit and hire a full time Political Science instructor. | $ 33,000 | M&O | With the increase in number of Early College and dual enrollment students, it has become increasingly more difficult to find qualified instructors in the area of Political Science who can meet the required class schedule. Additional, traditional college students would also enroll in the Political Science class as a social science elective. | 2.2 | |
| Humanities & Social Sciences | 305-02-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) capable of providing instruction at all levels in all content areas. | 305-02-02 | Advertise, recruit and hire a full time Program Administrative Specialist to coordinate the Student Success Center. | $ 20,000 | M&O | The Student Success Center has experienced a significant workload increase from students requiring tutoring and testing services. Additionally, future need is anticipated with the introduction of new programs requiring tutoring support. | ||
| Humanities & Social Sciences | 305-03-00 | Access, evaluate, and implement improvements for existing programs to maintain educational quality. | 305-03-01 | To pragmatically support student retention at CVCC by increasing the P-14 budget for the Student Success Center in order to support additional tutoring and testing in broader disciplines across divisions as well as Early College. | $ 10,000 | M&O | The Student Success Center has experienced a significant workload increase from students requiring tutoring and testing services. Additionally, a growing need is anticipated with the introduction of new programs requiring tutoring/testing support including the Amherst Early College Program. | ||
| Distance Learning Center | 306-01-00 | Build Distance Education Center resources to introduce and optimize the application of technology in the teaching/learning process | 306-01-03 | Maintain the P-14 position for support to students and faculty focused specifically on the development and maintenance of online courses. Additionally, this position supports other activities of the Distance Ed Center. (previously funded though QEP) | $ 18,327 | M&O | Established to support online courses -- course development, maintenance/troubleshooting, faculty, and students -- it has become an essential position in the DE Center. The person in this position responds to the "help desk" calls; builds all Blackboard course sites for faculty; provides support to the BB Administrator. | The position will be funded as a reoccurring P-14 position within the DE Center. | 1 |
| Distance Learning Center | 306-03-00 | Provide ongoing support for all DE course delivery (on-site, online, off-campus centers, students & instructors) for quality improvement of the DE program. | 306-03-04 | Provide funding to pay stipends to maintain ISP connection in faculty member's home when teaching online courses. (previously funded through QEP) | $ 7,500 | M&O | 1 | ||
| Science, Math, & Engineering | 309-03-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) and staff capable of providing instruction and support for all levels of instructions in all content areas. | 309-03-01 | Hire 1 full-time Engineering Instructor to begin Spring 09. | $ 33,000 | M&O | The engineering program will begin its major engineering content in the spring with at least 2 sections of 3 new classes and 3 sections of the first year class. The number of students is over 160 with only one current faculty member in engineering and engineering technology. | Hire 1 full-time Engineering Instructor | 2.1 |
| Science, Math, & Engineering | 309-03-00 | Recruit, train and retain faculty (including adjuncts) and staff capable of providing instruction and support for all levels of instructions in all content areas. | 309-03-02 | Hire 1 full-time Mathematics Instructor | $ 33,000 | M&O | With the strong demand for Dual Enrollment faculty at Jefferson Forrest, Early College in Bedford, the engineering degree, and the Accelerated General studies Degree in Lynchburg, there are many new sections of math classes. A large number of our courses(over half) are already taught by adjuncts and the pool of adjuncts is very limited in the region. | Hire 1 full-time Mathematics Instructor | 2.3 |
| Enrollment Management | 311-01-00 | Design, develop and implement strategies and tactics to achieve recruitment objectives. | 311-01-01 | As recruitment is a critical component of the Enrollment Management Office it will be necessary to hire a consultant to build PeopleSoft functionality and set up the required tables in the current SIS system for the prospect database to utilize the recruitment and tracking portion of the SIS system. * | $ 7,500 | M&O | In order to reach prospective students, and track these prospects until they enroll, PeopleSoft has a functionality whose purpose is to recruit and track students. This functionality has never been set up nor tables built for such purposes. Currently the VCCS does not have anyone who has taken on this responsibility thus a PeopleSoft consultant would be required. | ||
| Enrollment Management | 311-03-00 | Provide leadership, advice, and resources to the academic Deans and the Workforce Vice President in their recruitment and retention activities. | 311-03-01 | Support the academic Deans and the Workforce Vice President in recruiting and retention efforts. | $ 2,500 | M&O | In order to assist the academic Deans and Workforce Vice President in promoting programs and classes within their division, recruitment and retention activities would include advertisements and brochures. | ||
| VP Financial & Administrative Services | 400-01-00 | Continuous improvement of College Physical Plant | 400-01-04 | Install Back Flow Preventors to meet code in Appomattox, Amherst and Campbell Halls. This is required by code and the College is obligated to provide these. This is in support for the objective in the Facilities Management unit and funding requirements | $ 32,000 | M&O | It is required by law! | Installation of back flow preventers | |
| VP Financial & Administrative Services | 400-01-00 | Continuous improvement of College Physical Plant | 400-01-06 | Convert college phone system to VOIP | $ 30,000 | M&O | We don't have any choice!! This is a VCCS mandate. In fact it may cost up to $275,000 if the VCCS requires us to switch from the existing system to CISCO. The current system is a NEC which can be upgraded to VOIP. Awaiting VCCS approval | VOIP system on campus. | 1 |
| VP Financial & Administrative Services | 400-02-00 | Improve Safety and security on the college campus | 400-02-02 | Development and testing of revised COOP plans and first responder programs, training of all faculty and staff and staff, desk top drills and live drills designed to test the plans. | $ 25,000 | M&O | COOP is a state and federal requirement and the first responder plan is essential to the safety of the campus. | The performance indicator for the COOp is the state reviews of the COOP plan, and the testing and exercises performed to test the plans. | |
| Human Resources | 403-02-00 | Improve our employee recruiting process | 403-02-01 | Obtain funding for an applicant tracking system (ANNUAL COST) | $ 2,500 | M&O | This system, designed specifically for VCCS, would improve the entire search committee process and reduce the amount of time, effort, and expenses associated with searches. | ||
| Purchasing | 404-01-00 | Provide world class procurement services to the college community | 404-01-01 | Additional staff in the Purchasing Department | $ 17,000 | M&O | Convert one part time position into a full time position to assist with the additional data entry required with the new AIS system. | ||