The Planning Review and Budget Committee have come up with a new Strategic Plan to better serve Chabot students through 2013 and 2014.

The PBRC has one goal to achieve from the Strategic Plan. That is, “Increase the number of students that achieve their educational goal within a reasonable time by clarifying pathways and providing more information and support.”

Jan Novak, business instructor here at Chabot, explained, “The plan is all about students.  Helping you to figure out what you want to do with your life, finding your passion, trying to provide the classes you most need when you need them, learning more about students and their goals, providing more information and support.  It has helped us to refine our class schedules as we try to offer more of the classes that almost all students need and that are often difficult to get.”

The Strategic Plan involves strategies and tactics such as, “Learn more about our students: their goals (and the intensity of commitment to those goals) and their time frames for completions, provide information/training to everyone in the Chabot community to help our students achieve their goals, help the undecided to define a goal, and get students on to their ‘critical path’ quickly.”

To support these four goals, the PBRC suggest modifying Class-Web registration so that it is up to date on student goals, pointing out the main keys to student success and to create public web tools to help students make career decisions.

Novak also explained that it is required for Chabot to have a strong planning process.

“More importantly, though, is that we always want to be thinking about how we can improve to better serve our students.  The college exists for students, and we need to keep working to make it great.  It also helps us to focus our money and our time on those things that we think will best serve students.”

Tactics of the Strategic Plan also include, “Help students to monitor their progress along their pathway, integrate and streamline, (where possible) those pathways, build pathway learning communities to support students and to secure funding to support this goal.”

Solutions to support these tactics include implementing DegreeWorks to automatically award certificates and/or degrees and seek ways to make “bottleneck” courses more available to students and provide more seats in those courses. The PBRC also hopes to develop a funding plan to support this strategic goal.

Despite their 2-11 record entering their game against Ohlone on Feb. 26, 2013, Chabot maintained a fin and positive attitude with a final score of 21-1 in favor of Ohlone. Read the full story

On Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, the first tennis match of the season against Modesto showcases another bright year for Brook Workeneh. Brook devastated his opponents on that weekend match. Read the full story

On Feb. 1, 2013, the Chabot College Men’s Basketball team defeated Cañada College with a final score of 74-59. This victory halted Chabot’s two-game losing streak as it puts them back into their winning ways. Read the full story

On Friday, Feb. 1 2013, Chabot baseball kicked off their 2013 season against Santa Rosa College. With a 2 p.m. start, both teams showed how ready they were to play. Read the full story

A new semester has begun and students need text books for their classes. Read the full story

Chabot’s Planning, Review and Budget Council (PRBC) meeting was held Thursday in building 400 at Chabot College. Read the full story

Physical fitness at Chabot College is not to be mistaken and limited to sports only. In fact, the wide variety of options might overwhelm some people. Read the full story

Last week on Oct. 17, 2012, Chabot hosted its annual Transfer Day in Building 2300. The event hosted undergraduate admissions faculty from University of California and state universities, private colleges and vocational schools spanning California. Read the full story

Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) members set up at Chabot College cafeteria on Tuesday, Oct. 16, to share vital details about Propositions 30 and 32. Read the full story