Linn-Benton Community College

The college’s year-seven accreditation evaluation is complete, and the accreditation team shared their commendations and recommendations from their site visit (the full report should be out by end of January): Commendations 1. The faculty and staff's commitment to student success! 2. MAC's work on course level outcomes 3. The progress with OERs 4. LBCC Board of Education's active engagement in using data to make decisions 5. The creation and use of our Strategic Initiate Funds 6. Our strong engagement with external partners   Recommendations (what we need to work on) 1. Learning outcome at the program level that tie to our core themes and mission 2. Review and update the report cards that track our progress on our core themes 3. Create an integrated, systematic planning effort that is clear for our campus to understand The Family Resource and Education Center was one of two Oregon programs chosen to present at Left to right: Jerri Wolfe, Kris Wessel an...

If you missed the President’s Winter Forum on Thursday, Jan. 14, President Hamann covered several interesting topics, including the rollout of a new college budget model, which will be presented at the Board meeting Jan. 20. The new model will provide information to the board on college needs, and then guidance on how to go about funding those needs - a slightly different approach from the current budget model. A solution to the Benton Center parking and expansion project will also be presented at the board meeting. The project is projected to provide an additional 268 much-needed parking spaces at the center, along with an additional 20,000-square-feet of instructional space. President Hamann also shared that at the end of this year the college will no longer be part of Achieving the Dream, but will move instead to the new Guided Pathways partnership, which includes 30 community colleges nationwide. The new partnership will provide support for initiatives already developed in part ...