The Butte College Public Safety Education & Training Center educates and trains students to serve and protect the public in a highly competent and professional manner.
The Fire Science (or Technology) Program generates approximately 101 FTE. One full-time instructor is currently budgeted. He is assisted by three associate faculty positions. The total associate faculty workload is slightly less than one full-time instructor load. Program culmination opportunities in this discipline include: 1. AS Degree in Fire Technology (Career/Technical) 2. Certificate of Achievement in Fire Technology (Career/Technical) 3. Certificate of Completion in BASIC 32 (Basic Wildland Firefighting) All pedagogical caps have been reviewed and are appropriate.
Recommendations implemented: 1) Restore P/T secretary back to F/T.
Recommendations to be implemented: 1) develop online versions of our face to face FSC course offerings.
Strategy 1 - Faculty Resource Enhancement
It will be a priority in the near future to identify and employ additional part-time faculty, but ultimately to pursue the addition of a second full-time faculty member for this popular major.
This entire degree program is operated, essentially, on the back of one full-time faculty member. Although there is limited use of part-time faculty, the nature of the fire service is such that their availability cannot be depended upon.
Strategy 2 - Department Administrative Support
Create new half time (.5) Secretary I position to provide administrative/clerical support to the PSETC.
The workload in the PSETC has reached a point where the 2 full time secretaries are each responsible for three academies a year + an academic discipline (either AJ or FSC), and the program Assistant is perpetually immersed in processing employment applications, managing the budget and paying bills for all of the Department's programs. As such, the Department has come to depend on Student Assistants to provide front counter/receptionist coverage in the PSETC office. As the Department is very fast paced, and there are a myriad of confidential records related to academy students that must be handled, processed and filed it has been challenging to find students who can keep up with the pace. The addition of this lower level clerical position would insure that there is receptionist/counter coverage during peak hours and reduce the challenge of trying to find students who can keep up with the pace of the office.
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| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | PSETC - Fire Technology | Personnel | $0.00 | $37,000.00 | ||
| .5 Secretary I | As noted in Future Development Strategy #4, the workload of current admin support staff in PSETC limits the ability to provide front counter/receptionist coverage for the very busy PSETC office. The intensity and load of activity makes it especially challenging to find student assistants who are able to keep up. The addition of this position would allow for solid, reliable coverage in the office during peak activity hours. |
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