November 2025 Update

November Update from the trusty computer of the interim Vice President of Instruction:

This was a very action-packed month, weeks 13-16. Not only did I spend the weekend reflecting on what I experienced this past month, but I also took the time to pause and give thanks to those who, whether intentional or not, make my day a better one. I hope you had the time to do something similar.

Accessibility Capability Maturity Model (ACMM)

The Accessibility Center team received Clovis Community College’s completed Accessibility Capability Maturity Model (ACMM) reassessment survey submission for the 2024/2025 academic year and performed an updated assessment of the organization’s accessibility maturity. The ACMM is an ongoing cultural shift for the California Community Colleges. As Clovis Community College continues to implement its accessibility action plan to enhance the organization’s overall accessibility maturity, status levels and maturity scores will improve over time. Clovis Community College has an updated Organizational Maturity Score of 72.8 points which is an increase from the baseline Organizational Maturity Score of 64.6. The score is based on calculations used to determine status levels and will increase as the organization improves accessibility maturity. The target score is 267 points (!), which is fully “Established” maturity across all milestones.

We were given recommendations, which if followed over time, should help us increase our maturity scores.

  • Include accessibility in job descriptions/classifications for employees responsible for web accessibility process implementation
  • Develop a process to provide proactive accessibility training for digital content created outside the academic context, including documents, audio, video, and communication or marketing materials. These efforts help ensure accessibility knowledge extends beyond faculty and educational materials
  • Document existing accessibility efforts to formalize business processes and improve organizational maturity

The CCC Accessibility Center made a self-paced “Creating Accessible Emails” course. It’s open entry and free for CA Community College faculty and staff. Tracy Stuntz and I enrolled in it ourselves, here’s the link if you want to look and/or suggest it to anyone: CCCAC Creating Accessible Emails: A Case Study. (Creating an account was really easy, and the beginner course is only 20 minutes long!)

Embedded Tutors for Spring 26

Embedded tutoring supports student success and is most effective when Tutors, Instructors, and our Tutorial Center all work together! Put in your request for a Spring 26 tutor now. Reach out to Adelaide Mitchell or Stacy Ross for questions.

PFLAG donation to our Pride Center

PFLAG Board Member Madison Nield reached out to me offering a bookshelf stocked with books as a donation to our Pride Center. PFLAG is in the process of expanding the Main Library Branch and they asked us for our list of requested books. Tari Simpson, Brooke Ramos, and Alicia Diaz Wrest immediately acted and pulled together a list that I shared with PFLAG. We are hopeful for the new addition to the Center sometime in the Spring.

CBExchange Conference

In Mid(dish) November, I joined President Armstrong, Dean Whitney Menefee, Dean Laura Hill, and the AgTEC team: Faculty Juan Carlos Cervantes, Senior Program Specialist Brittany Zenz, and Student Success Coordinator Jose Mundo Tapia at the Competency Based Education Exchange (CBExchange) Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We met with several people from across the country who are doing CBE in different and exciting ways. I attended workshops on using AI to leverage tasks and competency building; and got some good pointers from the University of Nebraska, Omaha campus on building micro courses and working smarter with Advisory Boards and Industry partners (and several other workshops throughout the 3 days). Plus, we were treated to some decent BBQ (looked like Flintstone steaks) on the last evening.

Common Course Numbering, Phase IIb

Curriculum folk were back at it this semester, finishing Phase IIb (why not Phase 3?) in November. Anna Martinez, Kelly La Salle, Stacy McCarron, and Cristina Wells diligently worked with faculty on the CCN process, ensuring descriptions, outcomes, and everything else were perfect, approved, created or updated in Colleague, and ready to go for our students. Because of the four-character limit Sociology and Anthropology have changed their prefixes from SOC to SOCI and ANTHRO to ANTH respectively.

Here are the Phase IIb new CCN courses:

  • MATH-5A is now MATH-C2210
  • MATH-5B is now MATH-C2220
  • ANTHRO-1 is now ANTH-C1001
  • ANTHRO-1L is now ANTH-C1001L
  • COMM-2 is now COMM-C1004
  • SOC-1A is now SOCI-C1000
  • BIOL-3 is now BIOL-C1000
  • BIOL-10 is now BIOL-C1001
  • BIOL-10L is now BIOL-C1001L

(Whew)

ICE Protocol

We concluded a series of ICE Protocol trainings on our campus. The final training was recorded for use by the entire district (they are still working on the video, it should be released soon). I have attached our campus’ ICE Protocol. Please note that this document will continue to be revised as laws and policies change. Please make yourself familiar with it - hopefully, you will never need it. If you have not picked up a “blue card”, we have some in the President’s suite, AC1-260 at the Front Desk.

Other cool stuff

On November 21, the Diamond Learning Center hosted a Karaoke contes. Athletic Director, James Sewell and Women’s Soccer Coach, Orlando Ramirez, were official judges providing encouraging and enthusiastic feedback to all the contestants. I am proud of our Athletics Department taking the time to participate in these types of events, especially those events which are outside of the sporting realm.

Our Forensics team competed in the Rober Barbera Invitational held at California State University, Northridge. History was made as we competed in the large school division for the first time. The hard work and dedication paid off as the team took 3rd place overall in team sweepstakes points. The forensics team will be heading out on December 5th for the final tournament this semester if you know anyone on the team, wish good luck and show them your support as they reach for excellence.

Reminders

Scheduled Network Outage: December 21 - 9-11a (Main Campus); 11a-1p (Herndon Campus). This means you will not be able to do any work during those times on campus. You will still have access to all applications hosted at the District Office such as Colleague, Report Manager, and Tableau, as well as MyPortal, Canvas, Microsoft 365, and Zoom if you choose to partake away from campus during those hours.

Grades are due Monday, December 15, noon.

I wish you all an extra burst of energy, patience, grace, and humor. Just nine more school days. For some of your students, this might be the last nine days of their education experience at Clovis. Or maybe they are coming back on January 12. Regardless the situation, let’s give our students the best experience we can muster. As Gurdeep (single name, like Prince) always says (and should have trademarked long ago), We Got This.