2012-13 College-Wide Committee Assignments

Each year, KCC staff, administrators and faculty are encouraged to volunteer to serve on a committee. KCC's committees may advise the President and other administrators on matters of importance to the operation of the college.

Committee chairs are responsible for ensuring that recommendations of the committee are appropriately channeled through the college's organizational structure for further consideration.

For more information, such as members, AQIP categories and liaisons, review the 2012-2013 College Committees chart.

Academic Appeals

Purpose: To review requests for waiver of academic regulations.
Chair: Frances Hebert
Recorder: Judy Downey

Academic Assessment

Purpose: To develop, revise and monitor the implementation of the college's plan for measuring its effectiveness in meeting established learning outcomes for students.
Chair: Ken West
Recorder: Linda Berg

Administrative Communications (ACC)

Purpose: To promote two way communications. Representatives are encouraged to bring ideas and suggestions to the meetings. Representatives also need to share information with the employees that are being represented.
Chair: Vicki Gardner
Recorder: Michelle Weishaar

Behavioral Intervention

Purpose: To proactively review the behavior of individuals about whom concerns are expressed, determine if intervention is needed, and ensure that those interventions take place.
Chair: Michelle Driscoll
Recorder: Sharon Hoogstraat

Campus Safety and Security

Purpose: To promote a safe environment for all campus constituents; considers matters relative to emergency preparedness, risk management, and security.
Chair: Rich Soderquist

Campus Sustainability and Advisory

Purpose: To promote sustainability efforts on campus and provide input on initiatives to accomplish sustainability goals.
Co-chairs: Bert Jacobson, Rich Schultz
Recorder: Liz Becvar

Cultural Diversity

Purpose: To plan, implement, encourage, and monitor programs, activities and communications that enable the college to recognize and appreciate diversity throughout the district.
Co-chairs: Dan Harris, Penelope Stickney
Recorder: Kari Livesey

Curriculum and Academic Standards

Purpose: To review all programs and courses of instruction; to recommend additions, revisions and deletions of programs/courses.
Chair: Dennis Sorensen
Recorder: Penny Berger

Employee Morale

Purpose: To identify, recommend, and implement campus-wide programs and activities to increase employee morale and job satisfaction.
Co-chairs: David Cagle, Jessica Corbus
Recorder: Janet Fager

2012 Noel Levitz employee satisfaction survey summary.

Faculty Growth and Development

Purpose: To identify and implement programs and activities which assist faculty members in their continuing professional growth, including faculty in-service days and other avenues for professional growth.
Co-chairs: Nancy Ozee, Mary Steichen
Recorder: Amy Porter

Online Leadership

Purpose: To provide direction, leadership, and support to the college's instructional technology initiatives; to assist in providing support to faculty by shaping the guidelines, policy, and procedures regarding online and hybrid instruction and to serve as mentors to newer online instructors.
Chair: Rexann McKinley 
Recorder: Jennifer Pecora

Performance Quality Improvement

Purpose: To focus on student success, generate ideas, gather input from across campus, recommend a quality management system and create a process to develop a KCC quality improvement statement/philosophy. In the service of student success, the committee will oversee the quality review of data, quality planning, quality programming, quality improvement and quality assurance. 
Chair: Vicki Magee
Recorder: Liz Becvar

Recruitment

Purpose: To examine targeted strategies and opportunities to attract potential students to the college. Reviews enrollment trends and designs unique opportunities for outreach.
Co-chairs: Julia Waskosky, Michelle Driscoll
Recorder: Joyce Cochran

Strategic Planning and Oversight Committee (SPOC)

Purpose: To oversee the collaborative development and evaluation of the college’s strategic goals, and recommend new or revised quality improvement processes.
Chair: Bert Jacobson
Recorder: Liz Becvar

Student Success and Completion

Purpose: To develop a plan to review and implement strategies to improve student completion rates of courses and programs and improve student learning and successful achievement of educational goals. Examines and implements innovative ideas to maximize the institution’s role in enhancing the quality of the students’ overall college experience.
Co-Chairs: Trisha Dandurand, Courtnay Hornoff

Supportive Staff Communications (SSCC)

Purpose: To promote two way communications. Representatives are encouraged to bring ideas and suggestions to the meetings. Representatives also need to share information with the employees that are being represented.
Chair: Vicki Gardner
Recorder: Michelle Weishaar

Systems Portfolio

Purpose: To assist in the research, writing and periodic review of the Systems Portfolio, as well as general development and oversight of a regular Systems Portfolio process.
Chair: Vicki Magee
Recorder: Liz Becvar