Transcript Recreating “Recreational” Programs

Recreating “Recreational”
Programs
Kale Braden, Cosumnes River College
Kim Harrell, Folsom Lake College
Michelle Pilati, Futures Committee
Overview
• Why “recreation”?
• Prioritization
– Demonstrating role of courses within the
existing priorities
– Within “recreational” offerings
• Education
– Data collection
– Messaging
Recreation
• What’s wrong with “recreational”
offerings?
• What makes a course “recreation”?
• “Recreation” refers not to the nature
of the course, but the reason it is
being taken.
• Our dilemma – we know this, but….
• How can we recreate “recreation” so
that our courses and programs can
withstand any and all scrutiny?
Prioritization
• We’ve been told to focus on?
• Where/how/when do
“recreational” courses fit into
these priorities?
• What should be done when
courses do not “fit”?
Los Rios Approach
• Senate Issues
– Credit programs &
courses
– CSERVE process
development
• Union Issues
– Faculty load
– Contracting Out
– Loss of LRCFT
members to
CSERVE
• District issues
– District-wide activation
of workload committees
– Los Rios Board
Requested papers to
provide “Cocktail
Ammunition”
Kinesiology - Think Like the
LAO
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Curriculum review
Collaborative streamlining
Changed course titles
Identified “red flag” courses
Culled red flag courses
Kinesiology - Think Like the
LAO
• Tied activity courses to degrees and
certificates
• Physical Education > Kinesiology
• Plan to adopt Kinesiology TMC
• Submit proposal to ASCCC to add
Kinesiology to the disciplines list
Enrollment Management
Considerations
• Prioritize offerings tied to degrees &
certs
• Ensure access at all sites and for 1
unit graduation requirement
• District coordination – scheduling
critical offerings
• Ensure load
District-wide Fine & Performing Arts
& P.E. Taskforce
• Impact on the local economy
• Los Rios Center for Excellence—data
mining
• How does kinesiology drive the
economy?
• Forget what the LAO says – what do
the data say?
Employment Growth in the PE/Athletics Sector
19,500
19,000
18,500
Jobs
18,000
17,500
17,000
16,500
16,000
15,500
15,000
2005
2007
2009
2011
Kinesiology & Athletics
23,000 jobs supported in Sacramento area
1800 new jobs & 1500 replacement jobs 2010-2015
2013
2015
Industry Description
2008
Direct
Impacts
Industry
Purchases
Employee
Spending
Total $
Sports Teams, Racetracks, and Other Spectator
Sports
164,264,736
47,881,749
124,638,298
336,784,783
118,176,888
63,332,700
58,446,744
239,956,332
502,383,269
241,224,177
159,434,915
903,042,360
183,704,864
80,424,236
79,632,246
343,761,346
968,529,757
432,862,862
422,152,203
1,823,544,822
Promoters and Agents
Golf Courses, Skiing Facilities, and Other
Recreation Industries
Fitness and recreational sports centers
Total Impact $
Kinesiology & Athletics - $1.8 billion impact
1.
2.
3.
Delivery of services
Purchases of support goods and services
Employee spending
FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Fine & Performing Arts
• Demonstrating that the courses are
not “recreational” and arming
yourself with data to Refute LAO
anecdotes:
– “Students just take these art classes for
fun!”
• “Over 85% of all Los Rios Fine and
Performing Arts Students are enrolled in
Fine Arts and other transfer/basic skills
classes!”
Arm yourself with Data
• “There is no practical
outcome for taking
arts classes”
– “Over HALF of the Los
Rios Fine and
Performing Arts
College programs
include– Career
Technical Education
(CTE)– Programs that
directly lead to jobs in
the Sacramento Metro
area!
Arm Yourself with Data
• The education requirements
of the Fine and Performing
Arts occupations range from
long-term on-the-job training
to a degree plus work
experience.
– Ten of the 23 occupations
require long-term on-the-job
training, nine require a
bachelor’s or associate
degree, three require a degree
plus work experience, and only
one requires work experience
in a related field.
Fine and Performing Arts and Education Level1
Associate's degree
5% 9%
Bachelor's degree
41%
32%
14%
Degree plus work
experience
Long-term on-thejob training
Work experience in
a related field
1Twenty-three
Fine and Performing occupations were
identified in the Sacramento Region by their U.S. Bureau
of Statistics Standard Occupational Classification codes
(SOC). (U.S. Bureau of Statistics, 2010)
Arm yourself with Data
• The Fine and Performing Arts Sector
supports over 25,000 jobs in the
Sacramento Region.
• Artists represent 1.4% of the United
States labor force
– a larger group than
• the legal profession (lawyers, judges, and
paralegals);
• medical doctors (physicians, surgeons, and dentists);
or
• agricultural workers (farmers, ranchers, foresters, and
fishers).1
1National
Endowment for the Arts, 2005
Arm yourself with Data
• Economic Impact
– The arts Sector generates
$1.7 billion annually to the
Sacramento Region
– Supports more than
27,000 jobs
– Los Rios’ spending alone
has created 1,250 local,
ongoing jobs.
Employee
Spending,
$485 million
Direct
Impacts,
$839 million
Industry
Purchases,
$401 million
Next step:
• The Arts Mean Transfer paper.
• Adoption of TMC curriculum in
applicable different Fine/Performing
arts areas
• Culling/renaming of “targeted”
courses
– “Theatre Games and Improvisation”
Take-home Messages
• Be proactive – review your curriculum
with a critical eye.
• Ask the really hard questions.
• Decide what hills you really want to
die on.
• Collect the data and make your case.
• Market your program.
Resources for your own
ammunition
• Americans for the Arts. (2007). Arts and Economic
Prosperity. Available from http://www.artsusa.org/
pdf/information_services/research/services/economic_i
mpact/aepiii/national_report.pdf
• National Endowment for the Arts. (2005). Artists in the
Workforce Executive Summary. Available from
http://www.nea.gov/research/ArtistsInWorkforce.pdf
• National Governors’ Association. (2008). Arts and the
Economy. Available from http://www.nga.org/Files/ pdf/
0901ARTSANDECONOMY.pdf
• United States Bureau of Statistics. (2010). Standard
Occupational Classification. Available from
http://www.bls.gov/soc/