Jennifer Acfalle

This Student Equity Plan for 2025-2028 identifies disproportionately impacted student populations across key success metrics, including enrollment, persistence, completion, and transfer. Building on past learnings, the plan emphasizes an institutional shift towards structural transformation, increased diversity in hiring, expanded student engagement, and greater campus-wide accountability. Key strategies are race-conscious and data-informed, focusing on systemic change through major initiatives such as the establishment of Equity Resource Centers, Guided Pathways, Basic Needs and Economic Mobility Supports, and enhanced Transfer Pathways. The plan's goals are to eliminate disproportionate impact and fully close equity gaps by improving baseline participation and completion rates to parity, aligning with the California Community Colleges Vision 2030 benchmarks for equitable outcomes.

Key discussions and actions included the presentation and information sharing regarding the FY2025 Annual District and Measure MM Audit, which received an unmodified opinion. A sabbatical leave report from Professor Robert Kelley detailed efforts to increase accessibility and equity in coursework, including the development of a Zero Textbook Cost textbook. The Board ratified personnel actions, including resignations, new employments, and temporary reclassifications, and approved a request for catastrophic leave donations for one employee. Several Board Policies (3440, 3720, 4220, 6150, 6250, 5500) were adopted. Action items included approving the appointment of a Board Parliamentarian, appointing Independent Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee members, and approving the submission of the 2025 California Community Colleges Trustee Board Election Ballot. Consent items covered approving an increase to hourly pay rates for College for Kids Counselors, approving a reorganization within the Admissions and Student Support Department to enhance technical and administrative capacity, approving out-of-country travel for faculty professional development, approving FF&E purchases for the 3000 Series Building Project and for communications/utility items at Oceanside facilities, approving the transfer of Measure MM Bond Funds totaling $10,755,507 to various projects to free up General Funds, approving a budget of $1,079,412 for the Oceanside Emergency Responder Radio Coverage Project, and ratifying various contracts and purchase orders. Information reports included updates on an elevator repair at the Oceanside Campus, the Second Quarter Fiscal Report, and the Superintendent/President search update. College-related reports covered trustee activities, student government initiatives, classified employee senate updates, faculty professional development focusing heavily on Artificial Intelligence, and reports from Instructional Services, Student Services, Administrative Services, and Human Resources.

The agenda for this special meeting included procedures for public comment on items both on and not on the agenda, adhering to specified time limits. The body intended to declare the need for a Closed Session to address negotiations with labor representatives, employee discipline/dismissal/release concerning three potential cases, and anticipated litigation involving one potential case. The agenda also detailed the process for reconvening into Open Session to report any actions taken during the Closed Session. Announcements regarding future agenda items were also listed.

This document provides an overview of MiraCosta College's Academic and Career Pathways (ACPs), an initiative designed to guide students in career exploration and academic planning. The program organizes majors into six clusters—Health Sciences, Business and Technology, Languages, Communication and Humanities, Math and Sciences, Creative and Applied Arts, and Social and Behavioral Sciences—to help students discover their interests, set clear goals, and take appropriate courses. ACPs aim to support students' success in pursuing careers or transferring to four-year universities through academic programs, integrated career experiences, and support services.

The board convened for a closed session to discuss several sensitive items. Key discussion topics included a conference with legal counsel regarding one potential case involving a bridge claim settlement, which resulted in an approved settlement. Additionally, the board addressed two matters of employee discipline, dismissal, or release, resulting in the approval of a five-day suspension for an academic administrator. The session also included a public employee performance evaluation concerning the Superintendent/President and a conference with labor negotiators.