College of the Redwoods 2008-2009 College Catalog

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ABOUT CR

FACILITIES

The College has three primary campuses and several additional instructional sites where courses and programs are offered to serve the educational needs of Humboldt, Del Norte, coastal Mendocino, and western Trinity counties.

The Del Norte campus serves approximately 1000 students and is located on a 34-acre site in Crescent City, 80 miles north of Eureka and 20 miles south of the Oregon border. The Del Norte campus offers university transfer programs as well as specific degree and/or certificate programs in Business, Business Technology, Early Childhood Education, and Licensed Vocational Nursing.

The Eureka campus serves approximately 7000 students and is located on a 270-acre site seven miles south of the city of Eureka. The college’s full range of university transfer, professional, personal enrichment, and community education programs are available on the Eureka campus.

The Mendocino Coast campus serves approximately 1000 students and is located on a 20-acre site at the southern end of Fort Bragg, 135 miles south of Eureka and eight miles north of Mendocino. The Mendocino Coast campus offers university transfer programs as well as specific degree and/or certificate programs in Addiction Studies, Business, Early Childhood Education, Fine Woodworking, Graphic Communications, Marine Science Technology, Natural History, and Real Estate.

The College also offers selected courses and programs at three additional instructional sites: the Klamath-Trinity site, approximately 40 miles northeast of Eureka on the Hoopa Indian Reservation, the Arcata Instructional Site, approximately seven miles north of Eureka, and the Eureka Downtown Instructional Site located on the corner of 6th and K St., in the heart of Eureka.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT
College of the Redwoods is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, (10 Commercial Boulevard, Suite 204, Novato, CA 94949 (415) 506-0234), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education.

Designated lower-division, baccalaureate-level courses at the College of the Redwoods are approved for transfer to all branches of the University of California (UC) and to all of the California State Universities (CSU). College of the Redwoods is approved for the education of veterans under the provisions of public law.

VALUES

A review of our mission and our philosophy, combined with a focus on the future, leads us to affirm these values as essential elements of this plan.

  1. As a good steward of public trust and public resources, College of the Redwoods is committed to measuring results and to being publicly accountable.
  2. College of the Redwoods is committed to responding to the needs of the community by addressing the educational needs of individuals because education
    can be a life changing experience. The College believes in sustaining multiple linkages among faculty, staff, students, administration, and the community. The College seeks to build awareness of education as a key to community growth and development.
  3. College of the Redwoods is committed to creating and sustaining a welcoming environment that celebrates the diversity of its students, faculty, and staff. The college environment will support behaviors and attitudes that maximize inclusion, personal responsibility, interpersonal respect, and multicultural understanding.
  4. The College will always strive for excellence, in managing its internal processes for maximum effectiveness and in producing measurable, valued outcomes. We recognize that excellence rests, in large part, in seeking and using broad-based involvement from internal and external constituencies.
  5. College of the Redwoods is committed to doing our part towards the improvement of society and the human condition. With this general goal in mind, we are committed to increasing persons’ awareness of education’s potential to help make a lasting difference in a person’s life. To this end, we recognize that everyone we serve has individual needs and aspirations. Thus, we are committed to helping our students meet their immediate educational goals, such as completing their lower-division education; earning an Associates degree; ensuring their ability to transfer to a four-year college or university; or obtaining gainful employment. Ultimately, all of our efforts on behalf of helping our students achieve their intermediate and long-term goals underscore our larger commitment to helping develop an informed, educated, caring citizenry—that is, a citizenry who, in part because of their experiences at College of the Redwoods, could help improve society and elevate the human condition.

PHILOSOPHY

The primary objective of the College is the success of each student. We consider education to be a process of intellectual and physical exploration that rests upon the mutual responsibility of the College and the student.

We recognize the dignity and intrinsic worth of the individual and acknowledge that individual needs, interests, and capacities vary.

In fulfilling these objectives and principles, we affirm our intention:

  1. To provide the highest possible level of learning opportunities and counseling to help students realize their personal goals;
  2. To provide opportunities for development of moral values and ethical behavior;
  3. To enhance self-esteem and a sense of individual responsibility; and
  4. To instill an appreciation of the values and contributions of other cultures and increase global understanding among all students.

We will continuously seek and support a dedicated, highly qualified staff that is diverse in terms of cultural background, ethnicity, and intellectual perspective and that is committed to fostering a climate of academic freedom and collegiality. We will encourage and reward professional development for all staff and will all share in the responsibility for student outcomes. College of the Redwoods affirms its responsibility to address the diverse civic needs of the many communities we serve and to provide leadership in the civic, cultural, and economic development of the North Coast region. Board Policy BP 1201

MISSION STATEMENT

The Redwoods Community College District has a commitment both to our students and to our community. We are committed to maximizing the success of each student with the expectation that each student will meet her or his educational goal, achieve appropriate learning outcomes in his/her courses and programs, and develop an appreciation for life-long learning. In partnership with other local agencies, we are also committed to enriching the economic vitality of the community whom we serve. The following are the three equally important, primary missions of the Redwoods Community College District:

  1. Associate Degree and Certificate Programs. The District will offer rigorous, high-quality educational programs leading to the Associate in Arts or Associate in Science Degree, Certificates of Achievement, or Certificates of Recognition.
  2. Academic and Transfer Education. The District will offer a high-quality core curriculum that will satisfy the lower-division general education and/or major preparation requirements for transfer to four-year colleges and universities.
  3. Professional and Technical Education. The District will provide high-quality professional and technical programs that will allow students to obtain skills necessary to enter or advance in the workforce or to be better prepared for further education. These programs will be continuously articulated with the private and public sectors and with other institutions of higher education.

In support of these primary missions, the District will provide the appropriate level of information, programs, and activities to assist students in:

  1. Gaining initial access and orientation to the College;
  2. Assessing their interests and educational goals and developing plans that will help them achieve these goals;
  3. Using current technological resources, innovative instructional resources, personalized tutorial services, and broad-based research tools; and
  4. Choosing coursework preparatory to college-level work, if necessary--specifically, pre-collegiate math and English courses and courses in English as a second language (ESL).

To the extent possible, under state guidelines or with local funding, the District will provide the following life-long learning opportunities, as well as opportunities for enhancing and promoting the general welfare of the community:

  1. Non-Credit Adult Education. The District will provide state-funded, adult education classes in response to local interests and needs and in cooperation with other local providers.
  2. Community Services. The District will provide selfsupporting avocational, recreational, and professional development classes, as well as cultural and community programs.
  3. Economic Development. The District will participate with local business and industry and other educational and government agencies to foster the economic vitality of the North Coast region. Board Policy BP 1200

Academic Freedom

The Board of Trustees and the Academic Senate of the College of the Redwoods District, in an effort to promote and protect the academic freedom of faculty and students, endorse the following policy adapted from the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure (including the 1958 and 1970 interpretative comments of the American Association of University Professors).

  1. Faculty members are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing issues germane to their academic discipline. Academic freedom inherently involves the right to introduce within the assigned teaching discipline controversial topics, concepts, issues, and systems as long as the method or manner of presentation involves objective reasoning and rational discussion.
  2. Faculty members are citizens, members of a profession, and employees of an education institution. When faculty members speak or write as citizens, thereby exercising their constitutional right of free speech, it should be as persons who are free from institutional censorship or discipline. In the process of making such utterances, faculty members have a responsibility to make a clear distinction between personal viewpoints and the college's official policies.
  3. Faculty members are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results, subject to the adequate performance of other academic duties; but research for pecuniary return should be based upon an understanding with the administration of the college.
  4. The protection of academic freedom and the requirements of academic responsibility apply to full-time probationary, tenured, and part-time faculty. Board Policy BP 4030