Institutional Effectiveness Plan: Gunsmithing

Mission:

To provide quality educational opportunities needed to operate machine tools related to the gunsmithing trade, refurbish metal and wood as applicable to firearms, to diagnose malfunctions for repair and accomplish more complex custom gunsmithing tasks.

2009-2010 Assessment Outcomes & Use of Results

College Goal: Provide an environment that supports employing and retaining a quality faculty and staff and promotes enhanced student learning, achievement, and development.

Division Goal: Provide access to and guidance in professional development opportunities to strengthen instructional delivery and to prepare for accreditation initiatives.

Program Goal: Gunsmithing Instructors will enhance their effectiveness and strengthen their instructional delivery through professional development activities to enhance student learning, achievement, and employability.

Objectives: Instructor and Students will attend the SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas to learn about the changing trends in the firearms industry Students will attend the SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas to learn about career path options within the firearms industry. Program Head will attend the Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair in Iowa in April 2010. Program Head will attend the NRA Short-term Gunsmithing Schools Coordinators meetings at the Annual NRA Meetings in May 2010. Gunsmithing Faculty will attend all MCC professional development work shops

Action Plan: 1/10 Program Head and students will attend the SHOT SHOW 1/10 Program Head will attend the American Pistolsmiths Guild meeting in Las Vegas held during the SHOT SHOW. 4/10 Program Head and interested students will attend the Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair. 5/10 Program Head will attend the annual NRA Meetings. Gunsmithing instructors will attend MCC professional development training offered by MCC

Assessment Strategy: Verification that instructor and students attended the SHOT SHOW and have students fill out a survey on what they learned about changing trends and career choices at the SHOT SHOW. Verification that Program Head and students attended the Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair and that Program Head attended the NRA Short-term Coordinators meetings.

Assessment Outcomes: Program Head and 19 students attended the SHOT SHOW January 18-22, 2010. Program Head did attend the American Pistolsmith Guild meeting on January 17, 2010. Out of the 16 students available to be surveyed, 100% strongly or agreed that the SHOT SHOW helped prepare them for a career in Gunsmithing and helped them understand changing trends in the firearms industry. The Brownells Career fair is scheduled for April 23-24, 2010. Due to the budget being cut severely and no students interested in attending the career fair we won’t be going. Gunsmithing instructors attended MCC seminars on financial aid, advising and registration.

Use of Results: continue as an educational goal for 2010-11

College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications.

Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery.

Program Goal: Maintain machine tools that operate within industry standards and that support educational program delivery. Supply students with the needed supplies and tooling to complete their projects.

Objectives: Request the needed funds to replace 1980’s Lagun Milling Machine that the table is loose and no longer works within industry standards. Request the needed budget to supply students with supplies and tooling needed to support quality educational delivery.

Action Plan: Replace one Lagun Milling Machine Replace worn tooling Replace used supplies

Assessment Strategy: Verify the new equipment and tooling was installed and/or replaced and students are successfully using it to complete their assigned projects.

Assessment Outcomes: Although, we didn’t replace the milling machine, we are in the process of replacing the Clausing Lathe. The bid is out for review by the NC Equipment Contracting Board and we should have the lathe replaced in about six weeks providing no unseen problems. We replaced the lathe instead of the mill due to the damage done during fall semester 09.

Use of Results: continue as an educational goal for 2010-11

College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications.

Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery.

Program Goal: Improve the physical learning environment in the Gunsmithing Shops

Objectives: Improve the cleanliness in the Gunsmithing Shops and organization of the Gunsmithing tools used by the students.

Action Plan: Paint the walls in the machine shop, machine shop classroom, room 156 and the wood working room. Add block to the top of the office wall in room 156 and replace the office door with a vault door to secure the firearms used as student training aids.

Assessment Strategy: Verify that the requested shops and rooms were painted and that the office was secured.

Assessment Outcomes: The shops, classrooms, and wood working rooms were not painted due to the local budget being severely cut.

Use of Results: continue as an educational goal for 2010-11

College Goal: Develop and implement instructional programs and services, both traditional and distance learning offerings, consistent with the assessed needs of the constituent groups in the College's service area and with state and national standards, including training and retraining of the workforce.

Division Goal: Provide credit and non-credit programming to enhance economic development of the service area.

Program Goal: Investigate the possibility of expanding the Gunsmithing programs size.

Objectives: Add a second section of Gunsmithing classes in the late afternoon and evening effectively increasing the enrollment by 40%

Action Plan: Work on a plan with student services and the Vice President of instruction to see if this is a viable option aimed at decreasing the waiting list for acceptance into the Gunsmithing program. If a viable plan will implement Fall Semester 2009. Due to expected budget deficits for 09-10 we will need to request funding from an outside source through donations.

Assessment Strategy: Verify if the second sections were added or if not, why.

Assessment Outcomes: The second sections of Gunsmithing classes are not going to be added due to the lack of funding. During the 2010 SHOT SHOW, the President and the Program Head approached the NSSF, Brownells and Midway USA for funding and were turned down. Currently we do have a waiting list of 26 people after accepting our full capacity of 15 students for fall 2010-11.

Use of Results: Due to the projected state budget short fall for 2010-11 will not continue as an educational goal

Institutional Effectiveness Plan
2010-2011

College Goal: Provide an environment that supports employing and retaining a quality faculty and staff and promotes enhanced student learning, achievement, and development.

Division Goal: Provide access to and guidance in professional development opportunities to strengthen instructional delivery and to prepare for accreditation initiatives.

Program Goal: Gunsmithing Instructors will enhance their effectiveness and strengthen their instructional delivery through professional development activities to enhance student learning, achievement, and employability.

Objectives: Instructor and Students will attend the SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas to learn about the changing trends in the firearms industry Students will attend the SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas to learn about career path options within the firearms industry. Program Head will attend the Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair in Iowa in April 2010. Program Head will attend the NRA Short-term Gunsmithing Schools Coordinators meetings at the Annual NRA Meetings in May 2010. Gunsmithing Faculty will attend all MCC professional development work shops

Action Plan: 1/10 Program Head and students will attend the SHOT SHOW 1/10 Program Head will attend the American Pistolsmiths Guild meeting in Las Vegas held during the SHOT SHOW. 4/10 Program Head and interested students will attend the Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair. 5/10 Program Head will attend the annual NRA Meetings. Gunsmithing instructors will attend MCC professional development training offered by MCC

Person(s) Responsible: Gunsmithing Instructors, MCC Administration and Dean of Continuing Education

Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: 5/20/11

Assessment Strategy: Verification that instructor and students attended the SHOT SHOW and have students fill out a survey on what they learned about changing trends and career choices at the SHOT SHOW. Verification that Program Head and students attended the Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair and that Program Head attended the NRA Short-term Coordinators meetings.

Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Will request funding for out of state travel to attend the SHOT SHOW and Brownells Gunsmithing Career Fair from state travel funds $3000.00. Will request the travel funds to attend the NRA Short-term Gunsmithing Coordinators Meeting from the MCC Short-term Gunsmithing Program under Continuing Education.

Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed May 2011

Use of Results: Will be completed May 2011

College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications.

Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery.

Program Goal: Supply students with the needed training aids for updated training in the firearms industry

Objectives: Request funding out of the Potterfield grand to purchase more firearms to be used as training aids.

Action Plan: Purchase several variations of SxS shotguns Purchase Springfield XD pistols for training Purchase M&P Smith and Wesson Pistols for training

Person(s) Responsible: Program Head

Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: 05/2011

Assessment Strategy: Verify the new firearms are on campus and have been added to the sign off sheets for the various Gunsmithing courses that use them.

Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: $10,000

Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed May 2011

Use of Results: Will be completed May 2011

College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications.

Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery.

Program Goal: Improve the physical learning environment in the Gunsmithing Shops

Objectives: Improve the cleanliness in the Gunsmithing Shops and organization of the Gunsmithing tools used by the students.

Action Plan: Paint the walls in the machine shop, machine shop classroom, room 156 and the wood working room. Add block to the top of the office wall in room 156 and replace the office door with a vault door to secure the firearms used as student training aids.

Person(s) Responsible: Program Head, MCC Administration

Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: 5/11

Assessment Strategy: Verify that the requested shops and rooms were painted and that the office was secured.

Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: Request local funds to complete painting and securing of the firearms $10,000.

Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed in May 2011

Use of Results: Will be completed in May 2011

College Goal: Provide facilities for student learning that capitalize on state-of-the-art instructional applications.

Division Goal: Provide facilities, staffing, and services that support educational program delivery.

Program Goal: Maintain machine tools that operate within industry standards and that support educational program delivery. Supply students with the needed supplies and tooling to complete their projects.

Objectives: Request the needed funds to replace 1980’s Lagun Milling Machine that the table is loose and no longer works within industry standards. Request the needed budget to supply students with supplies and tooling needed to   support quality educational delivery.

Action Plan: Replace one Lagun Milling Machine Replace worn tooling Replace used supplies

Person(s) Responsible: Gunsmithing Instructors, MCC Administration

Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: 05/2010

Assessment Strategy: Verify the new equipment and tooling was installed and/or replaced and students are successfully using it to complete their assigned projects.

Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: $25,00 for a new milling machine, $12,00 for Instructional Supplies

Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed May 2010

Use of Results: Will be completed May 2010

College Goal: Provide an environment that supports employing and retaining a quality faculty and staff and promotes enhanced student learning, achievement, and development in a global society.

Division Goal: Provide access to and guidance in professional development opportunities to strengthen instructional delivery and to prepare for accreditation initiatives.

Program Goal: To increase the size of the Gunsmithing Program from 25-30 full-time students to 50-60 full-time students.

Objectives: Request the funding to change the work benches in the first year classroom to accommodate the extra students. Request the funding to add 18 new lockers to the first year classroom for storage for the additional students Request the funding to add 48 tool chests on wheels for student storage Request the funding to replace the old vises in the classroom with new ones Request the funding for one full-time faculty member or the needed adjunct faculty needed to teach the second section of Gunsmithing courses.

Action Plan: Replace old benches with new benches that accommodate the tool chests. Purchase 48 Kennedy tool chests. Replace 16 worn out Craftsman vises with new Wilton vises. Hire faculty to teach 02 sections of Gunsmithing Purchase18 Edsal gray lockers

Person(s) Responsible: Gunsmithing instructors, MCC Administration

Anticipated Date for Achieving Objective: August 2010

Assessment Strategy: Verify the new items are purchased and working as planned.

Budget Needs to Accomplish Objective: 8 new work benches $6500 48 roll out tool chests $30,000 16 Wilton vises $2200 18 lockers $3200 Faculty costs?

Assessment Outcomes: Will be completed May 2011

Use of Results: Will be completed May 2011