February 2015
Whether it's the George Polk Awards in Journalism or the American Library Association Youth Media Awards (including the Newberys and Caldecotts and Coretta Scott Kings) or the Academy Awards, awards season is upon us!
To take part in the season, we would like to take a moment to announce the 2015 RP Awards recipients. The RP Awards recognize excellent work in community college research and planning. These projects were selected, by the Awards committees, for their innovative approaches and their potential to be useful to other colleges in the system. The efforts of these individuals, teams and organizations increase our collective knowledge about our colleges and our students, and provide us with additional approaches to strengthen our ability to act on this knowledge.
The articles in the March issue of Perspectives will dive into their work and we will formally celebrate them at the RP Conference in April.
We also acknowledge all of the Awards applicants and thank each of them for their continued commitment to our students and institutions across the state. Whether they are publicly recognized or not, they are all moving research and planning forward in our system.
Drumroll, please. The recipients of the 2015 RP Awards are:
EXCELLENCE IN COLLEGE RESEARCH (2 Awards)
Let Them In: Increasing Access, Completion, and Equity in College English
Recipients: Leslie Henson, Co-Chair, English and Journalism, Butte College; Katie Hern, Co-Founder and Director, California Acceleration Project; Myra Snell, Co-Founder and Math Lead, California Acceleration Project; Eric Hoiland, Director of Assessment, Butte College; Wim McSpadden, Office of Planning, Research, and Organizational Development, Butte College
Performance Outcomes of First-Time, No Prior College Experience Students by Self-Reported Student Hope Levels
Recipient: Jim Fillpot, Dean of Institutional Research & Resource Development,Chaffey College
EXCELLENCE IN REGIONAL/STATEWIDE RESEARCH
Curricular Redesign and Gatekeeper Completion: A Multi-College Evaluation of the California Acceleration Project
Recipients: Craig Hayward, Director of Research, Planning and Accreditation, IrvineCollege; Terrence Willett, Director of Planning, Research and Knowledge Systems,Cabrillo College; Vinod Verma, System Sofware Specialist, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
EXCELLENCE IN PLANNING
Decision Support System
Recipient: Daniel Lamoree, Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer, Mt. San Antonio College
EXCELLENCE IN DISSERTATION/THESIS
Efficacy of the California Basic Skills Initiative
Recipient: Erik Cooper, California State University Sacramento
Congratulations and thank you!