Mission/Purpose Statement

The Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) reports to the College Planning Committee (CPC) and serves as an Accreditation Steering Committee. The committee improves program planning and resource allocation processes to support student learning by:

• Ensuring program planning processes are documented

• Providing technical assistance to units developing program plans, including establishing baseline data, designing measurable outcomes connected to college strategic plans, and utilizing findings from evaluation efforts

• Reviewing and analyzing goals to identify institutional themes to aid the integration of planning and resource allocation efforts

• Recommending improvements to processes to ensure efficacy in fulfilling the college's mission, and that the campus meets accreditation standards

• Communicating trends and findings with the campus community and visiting accreditation teams

• Ensuring adherence to accreditation standards.

Goals

2026-27 Goals:

Goal One: By the end of 2026-27, IEC will strengthen institutional communication around governance and decision-making in ways that reflect Cabrillo's identity as an HSI and commitment to servingness by:

• Completing the collection and centralized publication of Governance/Operational Group Charter forms for all groups that report directly to CPC, and expanding charter collection efforts to other campus governance and operational groups, ensuring governance structures are accessible to all community members.

• Establishing a consistent protocol for communicating governance decisions and findings beyond committee contexts with attention to amplifying the voices of Latinx and other historically marginalized communities.

• Actively participating in and providing equity-focused input to the IEPI-PRT team tasked with developing a comprehensive communication plan for the institution.

Goal Two: By the end of 2026-27, IEC will systematically use disaggregated data and relevant metrics to evaluate institutional progress toward serving Latinx and other historically underserved students, reflecting Cabrillo's commitment to servingness, by:

• Completing its annual KPI and ACCJC Institution-Set Standards review using disaggregated data, including student surveys and other available assessment data, and identifying at least one actionable improvement step tied directly to closing an identified equity gap.

• Reviewing and approving a new set of KPIs aligned with the incoming Strategic Plan, ensuring that metrics reflect the college's HSI designation and commitment to servingness, and that disaggregated data is embedded in how progress is measured.

Goal Three: By the end of 2026-27, IEC will evolve and align program and institutional planning processes to reflect Cabrillo's HSI designation and commitment to servingness by:

• Producing a concrete recommendation through the program planning task force, drawing on members from CNIP, CIP, and IT, for a sustainable document storage and workflow solution to address gaps created by the BoardDocs transition and the sunsetting of eLumen.

• Supporting CNIP through its first full planning cycle, ensuring non-instructional units have an equitable and structured pathway into the college's planning processes.

• Receiving regular updates on CourseDog and Canvas Insights implementations, including progress on campus training and rollout, with attention to how these tools can support more inclusive, student-centered, and transparent planning practices beginning in Fall 2026.

Goal Four: By the end of 2026-27, IEC will support the activation of Cabrillo's updated Strategic Plan as a document that reflects the college's identity as a serving institution by:

• Formally reviewing the plan for alignment with existing governance and planning structures and recommending integration points within program planning templates and KPI review cycles.

• Supporting broad and inclusive dissemination of the adopted Strategic Plan across the campus community, and working to ensure that other institutional plans and planning processes align with its priorities, with particular attention to equity and servingness as central organizing principles.

Goal Five: Support FA26 Accreditation visit and communicate findings to the college community

Committee Charter - Updated November 2025

Who They Report To

College Planning Committee (CPC)

Meetings

2nd Thursday 9:00 am - 10:30 am

usually in Zoom or in TLC Rm 1096

Link to Agendas and Minutes in BoardDocs

(Brief) Highlights of IEC committee orientation

Participatory Governance Survey Dashboard

Biennial Governance Survey for members of committees reporting to CPC