使命宣言

The mission of the Butte College Department of Business Education (DBE) is to prepare students to be successful when entering the business world and to support their lifelong education. We value our students� success and hold respect, accountability, and excellence as our core values. Vision statements specific to each of the DBE programs are as follows.

�	The 会计 Program trains students to effectively record, analyze, and use financial data. 它教会学生实用的会计技能, enhances their probability of success in any business profession, and prepares them to complete their business goals. 
�	The General Business Program prepares students to succeed as they enter careers in fields such as small business management, 市场营销, and human resources in both profit and nonprofit organizations in today�s global environment.
�	The 经济学 Program provides students with the intellectual and analytical tools necessary to understand economic theory and policy as ways to address social issues. 
�	The 房地产 Program prepares students to take the California 房地产 Sales and Brokers exams and to list, 出售, 并成功投资房地产.

项目描述

DBE包括四个专业:会计学, 经济学, 一般业务(市场推广), 管理, 及小型企业管理), 及房地产. The department has two primary foci that are central to the college�s mission: the Business Administration Transfer Program and the DBE Career Program. 

�	The Transfer Program offers an Associate of Science (AS) degree and facilitates transfer to Bachelor of Science programs, such as the two degree programs offered by the Chico State College of Business: Business Administration and Business Information Systems.
�	The Transfer Program also offers an AS for Transfer (AS-T) degree in economics.
�	DBE职业计划(有证书), 成绩证书, and AS degrees) develop and enhance students� work-related competencies. These programs facilitate local economic development and workforce training by helping create a skilled, 专业, entry-level workforce and offering opportunities for skills enhancement. 

The following certificates are currently available:

�	会计 Program�会计 Certificate of Achievement, 会计文员证书, 税务人员证书, and Professional 会计 Certificate (pending a state catalog number)
�	General Business Program�Business 管理 Certificate of Achievement, 营销业绩证书, 网上业务证书, 人力资源证书
�	房地产 Program�房地产 Certificate of Achievement, 房地产销售人员证书, 及鉴定人证书 

The following AS degrees are currently available:

�	Business Administration AS (transfer degree to Chico State)
�	Business Administration AS-T (transfer degree to California State University schools, 包括Chio State)
�	会计 
�	Business 管理 (two options�business management and small business and entrepreneurship)
�	市场营销
�	房地产

学生学习/行政单位成果

DBE作为一个整体, 包括BCIS学科, has published a five-year student learning outcomes (SLO) matrix that we will follow over the upcoming accreditation cycle. 这个矩阵包括程序, 课程, and general education learning outcomes in consideration of the semester’s 课程 offerings. 因为SLO评估报告是艰巨的, the department has decided to assess in the spring and report in the fall to allow adequate time for accurate reflection and documentation.

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (Instruction Departments)

全国十大赌博官网和授予的奖项: 全州, enrollment in the California Community Colleges system fell an estimated 15 percent during the 2020–21 academic year. Serving on an already shaky foundation due to flood; significant fires, such as the Camp Fire (2018) and the Dixie Fire (2020); and PG&E公共安全停电, COVID-19大流行具有累积性, complex effect on enrollment and the certificates and degrees awarded. 虽然我们不确定, we assume these numbers will stabilize as we return to campus and can add a mixture of face-to-face, 混合动力, 以及完全在线的服务. Not all faculty 和学生 are able to teach or learn in an online learning modality most effectively, 特别是当复杂的家庭动态存在时, such as supporting children and the household sharing of internet bandwidth.
 


留存率和成功率: Through a wide range of complex community-based traumas, 包括目前的大流行, the department's retention and success rates over the past five academic years have been stable. This stability underscores that many of the intentional strategies faculty and staff have used to engage and support students continue to be successful. 
 
These strategies include, though not an exhaustive list: 

Faculty implement student contact management plans, where faculty track how many touchpoints and communications each student receives each week, 既有自动化的，也有个性化的. 
Having clearly defined communication and participation expectations.
Active review of student attendance and participation and engaging student service support, 根据需要. 

 
It should also be noted that faculty in the DBE has a depth of knowledge in our respective fields, which brings students real-world examples to breathe life into the theories in each 课程. The department intentionally hires for industry experience. 结果是, students are motivated to attend our classes because of their connections with faculty, 引人入胜的内容, 现实世界的经验, 以及良好的商业技能就业前景. 
(A related note that you will find referenced in this unit plan and the Business Computer Information Systems [BCIS] discipline is the importance of the lab technician role, 目前只支持BCIS. To help continue to build upon the department’s success in supporting students, we believe it is imperative to create a full-time lab technician role to support the entire DBE, 不仅仅是BCIS, a limiting factor of how the role is currently funded.)
 

 
 
 

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (All Other Departments)

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战略方向

Business education enhances a culture of competition and goal achievement in many ways. 我们正处于COVID-19大流行期间, which has necessitated a tremendous amount of additional work for our faculty members in terms of learning new programs and adjusting to online instruction. 感谢我们的教职员工, 尤其是我们的副教授, for their dedication to reaching out to students and keeping them engaged in classes; this effort speaks to our culture of completion and goal achievement.
关于目标实现, the DBE has led the way by piloting programs for guided pathways and SLOs before they were made permanent for the rest of the college. These pathways and maps are available on our website and promoted in our department. 
Business education also supports student, faculty, and staff success in multiple ways. Student success is heavily dependent on collaboration at Butte College. 例如, our online 课程s require collaboration among the department instructor, the Technology Mediated Instruction Department for training, 媒体部的视频, the California Community College Chancellor’s Office funded service for captioning and storing online resources, and the Center for Academic Success and library personnel for exam proctoring.
我们的教师定期与dsp合作, 退伍军人服务, bgi的, 安全的地方, 医疗中心, and Academic Counseling when they see that a student would benefit from these services. We offer access to guides with key contact information and summaries of services to support students. 
除了, we have recently collaborated with our BCIS colleagues to create a new Certificate of Achievement in Project 管理. BCIS is creating a new MS Project/Outlook 课程 to accompany our new certificate, 我们希望在2022年秋季投入使用.

项目评审

(***Note to BE colleagues: The validation report is with Teresa and she knows I need it for this unit plan. I will work with her to copy commendations and recommendations from the most recent validation report here. Otherwise, here is an edited and updated version from the last unit plan***)

The primary recommendation from our program review is to replace the recently retired accounting full-time faculty position. Although the replacement will not occur this year because of low enrollment, it must remain a focus for administration and this department. 
BE rooms 105A, B, and C are small, overcrowded, and poorly ventilated. Student seating is unconducive to efficient group work. We recommend these rooms be remodeled into two large rooms, like 成为111和120. This would allow for better social distancing and improve heating and cooling issues. 

部门目标

Replace full-time positions after faculty retirements so that we may continue to offer quality instruction.
Market the department to drive up full-time equivalent students (FTES); we also must work to increase FTES, not merely reduce class sections and associate faculty. 
改造BE 105A, B, and C into two rooms for social distancing; purchase active learning seating for all classrooms, 让这个空间安全高效.
Work with the agricultural department to return agricultural business 课程s to the DBE department, which would save the college money and resources; we are one of the only on-campus departments that faces intercollege competition for classes we teach, and we compete with the Small Business Development Center, 培训地点, 农业部门, 哪都教商科课程.
Expand associate faculty and focus on new faculty who can teach at the Glenn Center.
Move Business Computer Information Systems (BCIS) lab technician funds to district funds and expand the position to support the Department of Business Education (DBE), 不仅仅是BCIS.  

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