Chair of Program Review Mark Fronke spoke on the importance of a joint review committee between the instructional and non-instructional members of the campus during Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting.

“The primary concern is that we end up with two different processes,” he said.

Also discussed was Student Learning Outcomes and the need for a committee to oversee the results from each division on campus.

The Instructional Program Review Committee is charged with ensuring students are learning what they are supposed to be learning.

It looks at whether the different educational departments on campus are teaching students what they say they are teaching them and evaluating the effectiveness of the programs on campus.

The non-instructional programs on campus such as information technology, maintenance and fiscal services have not until recently had a program such as the one the instructional side has.

The program review committee has looked at different programs from many of the community colleges around and decided that seven of the programs were worth a further look.

The program review process was one of the items that was mentioned in the report issued by the accreditation committee last summer and was one of the eight reasons that the accreditation committee placed Cerritos College on warning.

One of Fronke’s biggest concerns was that the research and development department needed to be more involved and take the lead the overall review of the campus.

The SLO program is another part of the program review process and the senate decided to form a committee to oversee the results of the SLO’s.

Only one senator objected to the formation of the committee.

That was Dean Mellas, computer information sciences instructor, and he said his main concern was that he wanted the committee to have more concrete instructions about what its job is.