Spring 2023
Resolution Number: 2022-6
Contact: Dan Clark
  
Resolution Affirming Support of the Ventura College East Campus and the Processes for Selecting its Course and Program Offerings

WHEREAS, the Ventura College East Campus (VCEC) serves the communities of the Santa Clara River Valley including Fillmore, Santa Paula, and unincorporated areas such as Piru, with a combined population size of around fifty thousand residents; and

WHEREAS, the VCEC is this semester offering 37 in-person sections of 26 courses in 14 disciplines, and VCEC represents enormous enrollment opportunity for Ventura College and the District to explore and share with the community how we can better serve them in the future; and 

WHEREAS, the VCEC has undergone several programmatic and other major shifts, at times disconnected from East Campus staff and community requests. These include an advanced Computer Assisted Machining program that was built and shut down within several years in the late 1990s due to low enrollment and cost overruns, as well as the portion of the VCCCD’s 2002 Measure S bond which promised some of the funds earmarked for building an education center in Santa Paula (see footnotes); and

WHEREAS, the Ventura College Executive Team is drafting a proposal for a Major Initiative request for district funds to be spent on real estate in the Santa Clara River Valley, and the Ventura College Academic Senate voted in October of 2022 not to support this proposal at that time,

RESOLVED, that the Ventura College Academic Senate affirms its support for the communities of the Santa Clara River Valley and the Ventura College East Campus; and

RESOLVED, that the Ventura College Academic Senate recommends to the VC Executive Team that it partner with faculty in developing a vision for East Campus. This vision includes developing a process to identify current and future course and program offerings with faculty and community input, and

RESOLVED, that the Ventura College Academic Senate recommends this vision consider all potential opportunities for service to the communities served by East Campus, including building leases, HS facilities, industry partners, as well as any potential new facilities.

http://santapaulatimes.com/news/archivestory.php/aid/3169/College_bond_measure,_$25_million_SP_facility__discussed_with_Rotary.html 
https://santapaulatimes.com/news/archivestory.php/aid/10632/VCCCD_records:_Promised_East_Campus,_SP_voters_strongly_supported_Measure_S.html

Approved on 2023-05-04