Mission Statement

The Butte College Health, Kinesiology, and Athletics Department offers quality education within a student-centered environment that provides comprehensive instruction through various modalities.  The curriculum incorporates innovative teaching methods and flexible scheduling that foster critical thinking and support the needs of our diverse student population. The uniqueness of our integrative discipline is that we work to empower students to develop healthy behaviors, engage in physical activity, and promote healthy lifelong modifications, which can enhance their quality of life.

Program Description

The Butte College Athletics Department offers a comprehensive, two year program consisting of 13 sports; 7 women�s and 6 men�s. They include: 

WOMEN�S                        MEN�S
	                        
Track and Field	           Track and Field
Cross Country	           Cross Country
Basketball	                   Basketball
Softball	                   Baseball
Volleyball	                   Football
Soccer	                    Soccer
Golf

This program allows student-athletes to compete in various conferences and be recruited by four-year institutions.

Accountability for Previously Funded Items

Student Learning/Administrative Unit Outcomes

The COVID pandemic has created a unique situation for the Health, Kinesiology, & Athletics Department.  We have had to reshape all of our normal practices to be able to offer our Difficult To Convert (DTC) courses under the new safety protocols.  Our department faculty and staff reviewed all SLO outcomes from our initial move to remote learning and adapted to a platform of remote learning and face to face in a social distanced style of instruction.  Despite the large differences in delivery, we as a department stressed the importance of covering all SLOs for a class to ensure each SLO was measurable through assessment, demonstration, short writes, discussion, or participation. In order to remain as current as possible and minimize instructional issues, the Health, Kinesiology, & Athletics Department will continue to have meetings to discuss delivery, safety, and SLO accomplishments for our students.

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (Instruction Departments)

The FTES generated in the Kinesiology and Athletics courses has remained consistent with a slight increase from last year.  In the past two years, our courses have increased by over 5% and is a direct reflection of our faculty and staff efforts to recruit students to Butte College.  Our department prides itself on continuing to generate FTES no matter the circumstances and will work to recruit in order fill class offerings. 


The Health, Kinesiology, & Athletics Department will continue to communicate with our students and support their needs in our courses.  Our retention and success strategies include guidance to our students through the levels of our courses.  This increases interest for students as well as sets them up for success since we build upon each level with our course progressions.  Our department will continue to strive for excellence and maintain the impressive retention and success rate of 98-100%.

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (All Other Departments)

Strategic Direction

The Athletics area of the Health, Kinesiology, & Athletics Department supports the college in meeting its Strategic Direction and Priorities by:

Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Goal Achievement
Supporting Student, Faculty, and Staff Success
Meeting enrollment targets
Meeting student achievement goals

The implementation of our programs with student-athlete success, goal setting, and tutoring all impact the success of our students.  In all of our courses, we have goal setting and presentations to students on the resources we have on campus to assist in degree completion and matriculation to 4-year institutes.  Our department provides study hall and grade checks for our student-athletes as well as weekly enrollment reports in order to maintain positive academic progress.  
In order to support our faculty, staff, and students, our department stays current on trends specific to Health, Kinesiology, and Athletics.  This has been something we have practiced for years since it has a direct impact on retention, success, and maintaining our FTES counts.  

Program Review

Program Review recommendations:
The department is still working on the following reccomendations:
1) Address safety concerns relative to Practice, Game and Educational Fields/Courts: as mentioned before the track is going to be updated sometime in the Spring 2016 semester. The fields have continued to be seeded, fertilized, aerating, and pest control but is still coming out of the department's budget instead of the districts as mentioned. The golf facility, upper and lower tennis courts, football press box have not been addressed.
Update:  The Health, Kinesiology, & Athletics have recently completed the addition of a renovated Stadium Press Box, new Scoreboard, and the new Kinesiology and Athletic Performance Center.  We are still in need of a golf facility and the installation of the covered multi-purpose field where the lower tennis courts were located.
2) Upgrade and Refurbish Facilities:  To my knowledge there has been no updates on GYM 110/111 HVAC update and the need to have separate thermostats, automatic bleachers for the Gym, replace accordion door for GYM 113/114, and air conditioning in the men's locker room.  We are on track to paint the Gymnasium the summer of 2016.
Update:  All items have been complete with the exception of a new wall between GYM 113/114.
3) Update Technology: Gym 110/111 technology update has been and still is in the Unit plan as well as IT has the update request on their list, but no mention of when this will take place.  There also has been no updates on the Wi-fi strength, currently the classroom cannot support student Wi-fi activity during a class session. The light switch modalities have been switch to variable lighting.
Update:  No action has been taken by our IT Department.
4) Hire Full-Time Faculty: The department continues to present the need to add another Full-Time Faculty member as recommended.
5) Develop and Enhance the Curriculum: The department is currently in the process of looking to change the A.A. degree and is currently offering an AA-t degree. We are also in the process of looking to add a Personal training certification and Sport Medicine Certification.
6) Obtain Additional Funding Sources: The department continues to explore how to raise additional funding as far as fundraising and grants.  However, this requires additional workload on an already stretched and overloaded staff.  The recommendation from the Validation team is the college needs to allocate more resources into the Health, Kinesiology, and Athletics budget to comply with safety issues and be ADA compliance.

Department Goals

Our departmental goals are to implement as many face to face opportunities for students and continue to adapt to the changing platforms of our instruction.  We will recruit students to our campus, explore new trends to increase enrollment, and generate additional revenue streams through fundraising and grants.
 

Future Development Strategies

Requested Non-Financial Resources

Current Financial Resources

Augmentation Requests