Title III -- Strengthening Institutions Program
November 2005 Progress Report

Objective	Action Required to Meet Objective	Personnel	Outcome
Revised description and salary for Director of Institutional Research position	Updated position description and salary to reflect current trends in educational institutional research area	Amy Daily, Danielle Petersen	IR Director position description refined to attract qualified applicants
IR department clerical support position filled	Offer and acceptance by candidate Dana Wymer	Amy Daily, Danielle Petersen	IR Department support in place
Informational sessions offered to college groups	Present Title III activity updates and discussions at college division, senate, faculty and staff meetings	Danielle Petersen, Cathy Dickerson	College is aware of Title III activities underway
Title III survey on data use and perceptions revised and distributed	Survey questions updated, survey formats prepared, survey distributed	Danielle Petersen, Cathy Dickerson	Baseline data collection started
Institutional Research Advisory Committee structure and membership determined	College-wide representation participates in formation meeting for advisory committee for Institutional Research	Danielle Petersen, Cathy Dickerson, Casey Crabill	College participates in IR Advisory Committee development
Publications and member organizations for educational institutional research identified	Research of Vanguard Colleges and leading California College IR Departments conducted	Danielle Petersen	List of materials for IR department compiled
External Evaluation contract for services secured	Gelinas James, Inc. sign contract for services	Cathy Dickerson, Kathie Simas, Casey Crabill	External Evaluators on contract
Grants management documentation system developed	Forms and procedures established for tracking activities, expenditures, and time and effort documentation	Cathy Dickerson, Danielle Petersen	Grant progress files organized