Accreditation Steering Committee
Co-Chair: Jill Bauer
Co-Chair Contact: jbauer@cypresscollege.edu
Co-Chair: Bryan Ventura
Co-Chair Contact: bventura@cypresscollege.edu
Meeting Dates: 3rd Wednesday of the month, during the self-study; Post-commission action, the ASC will meet as needed
Meeting Time: 3–4:30 p.m.
Meeting Location: CCCPLX-414 & Zoom
Purpose
The purpose of the ASC is to guide all matters of accreditation, ensuring alignment with the ACCJC standards, eligibility requirements, and commission policies, for the ongoing improvement of the College. This includes but is not limited to coordinating the self-study, addressing compliance requirements, and completing ACCJC reporting.
Reporting Relationships
- The Accreditation Steering Committee is a Shared Governance Committee. The Committee makes regular reports to the Academic Senate, Planning and Budget Committee (PBC), and President’s Advisory Council (PAC).
- The ASC has one sub-committee, The Accreditation SLO Sub-committee.
- The ASC has one workgroup, the Shared Governance Workgroup.
Membership Composition
- Co-Chair, Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO)
- Co-Chair, Accreditation Faculty Chair
- Past Accreditation Faculty Chair
- College President
- Academic Senate President
- Academic Senate President Elect/Past President
- Vice President of Administrative Services
- Vice President of Instruction
- Vice President of Student Services
- Classified Professional Representative
- Confidential Professional Representative
- Student Representative
- Standard I Representative
- Standard II Representative
- Standard III Representative
- Standard IV Representative
Current Membership
Bryan Ventura | Accreditation Liaison Officer |
Jill Bauer | Accreditation Faculty Chair |
Liana Koeppel | Former Accreditation Faculty Chair |
Scott Thayer | President |
Kathleen McAlister | Academic Senate President |
Damon de la Cruz | Academic Senate Past President |
Kathleen Reiland | VP of Instruction |
Paul de Dios | VP of Student Services |
Stephen Schoonmaker (Acting) | VP of Administrative Services |
Ashlynn Smith Ashari | Student Representative |
Belinda Allan | Classified Representative |
Kristi Valdez | Confidential Representative |
Annette Letcher | Standard I Representative |
Celeste Phelps | Standard II Representative |
Jose Sanchez | Standard III Representative |
Damon de la Cruz | Standard IV Representative |
Accreditation Standard Leads
Accreditation Sub-Standards | Faculty Co-Lead | Co-Lead |
I.A. Mission | Annette Letcher, Language Arts | Kristina Oganesian, Senior Research and Planning Analyst |
I.B. Assuring Academic Quality & Institutional Effectiveness | Taylor Anderson-McGill, Science, Engineering & Math | Eileen Haddad, Senior Research and Planning Analyst |
I.C. Institutional Integrity | Craig Goralski, Social Science | Marc Posner, Director, Campus Communications |
II.A. Instructional Program | Kathy Wada, Language Arts and Sarah Jones, Language Arts | Janet Vera, Dean of Language Arts |
II.B Library and Learning Support Services | Leslie Palmer, Library & Learning Support Services | Treisa Cassens, Dean of Library & Learning Support Services |
II.C. Student Support Services | Kelly Carter, Counseling | Celeste Phelps, Director, DSS |
III.A. Human Resources | Jacqueline Aguet, CTE | Colin Preston, Dean of Kinesiology & Athletics |
III.B. Physical Resources | Maha Afra, Fine Arts | Allison Colburn, Manager of Campus Capital Projects |
III.C. Technology Resources | Peter Molnar, Business/CIS | Jose Sanchez, Director of Academic Computing |
III.D. Financial Resources | Margaret Mohr, Kinesiology & Athletics | Stephen Schoonmaker, Acting VPAS |
IV.A. Decision-making Roles and Processes | Thu Pham, Health Science | Bryan C. Ventura, Director of Institutional Research & Planning |
IV.B. Chief Executive Officer | Damon de La Cruz, Mortuary Science | Scott Thayer, President |
IV.C. Governing Board | Tony Maher, Fine Arts | Howard Kummerman, Executive Director Foundation & Community Relations |
IV.D. Multi-College Systems or Districts | Jane Jepson, Counseling | Scott Thayer, President and Marc Posner, Director, Campus Communications |
Terms of Membership
Per AP 3200, the President shall appoint the co-chairs (ALO and Accreditation Faculty Chair) for each accreditation cycle.
Committee representatives are selected at the beginning of the 7-year accreditation cycle by the ASC co-chairs. ASC representatives will serve throughout the self-evaluation and team visit. Following the Commission action, representatives may continue serving throughout the remainder of the accreditation cycle or decide to step down, in which case the co-chairs will select a new representative.
ASC Minutes
To request copies of archived agendas and minutes, please contact the committee chair.