I am extremely happy to report that our cohort loan default rates are continuing to decrease.  The 3-year default rate in 2010 was 29.9, in 2011 was 24.7, in 2012 was 23.8, and 2013 was 22.7.  The draft cohort default rate for 2014 is 13.8.

We asked the Fiscal Crises and Management Assistant Team, also known as FCMAT, to come in to review and provide guidance on our general fund budget and multi-year financial planning for the current and two subsequent fiscal years.  Another part of the engagement was for them to conduct a Fiscal Health Risk Analysis  and give us an overview of the fiscal condition of the District.

Lisa Sayles and Reno Giovannetti are rock stars! They are going to present at the 2017 Online Teaching Conference this summer.

The Academic Senate is the body empowered by law to have its say on all matters touching on what CR academics do, and what we need to do in the future if CR is to thrive.  As such, it is critically important that the faculty remain fully engaged and remain steadfast in their commitment to make our institution better for our students and community. 

We get a regular report about the State's budget, key legislation, and other information of general interest to community colleges from our advocacy firm, McCallum Group, Inc.  I think that it's important that you be aware of some of the information.

We held a meeting of the President’s Advisory Committee on Equity and Inclusion on February 17, 2017.  We had representatives from the community, faculty and staff from College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University, and students from our Black Student Union attend the meeting.  It was an incredibly powerful meeting.  I thoroughly enjoyed the passionate discussion, creativity, and profound commitment displayed by the members of the committee.  I want to share some the resultant ideas of the meeting with you.

Congratulations to Sean Herrera-Thomas and Levi Gill for being selected to serve as the Acceleration Coordinators for the 2017-18 academic year.

I haven't provided a budget update to the District in a few months--since November 2016 in fact.  Therefore, I want to post the message I sent out via email on Monday, February 13 to my blog in the hopes that by doing so, I can provide another way for people to get this information.