League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Santa Clara County, CA November 2, 2010 Election
	Richard Hobbs Answers Questions Candidate for Trustee; San Jose/Evergreen Community College District; Trustee Area 6

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Questions & Answers

1. What experience and training would you bring to this office?

# As Chair of the Board Policy Committee and with our new Chancellor I have strengthened fiscal policies including tight, multi-faceted review of expenditures, regular operational audits, and demonstrated accountability reports

# Board President twice, currently Vice-President

# Guided policies and budget decisions to help San Jose City College with booming transfer rates, closing the achievement gap and offering the first California Construction College

# Guided policies and budget decisions to help Evergreen Valley College, which has the highest percentage increase of graduation rates in the entire Bay Area

# Guided policies and budget decisions to help the Workforce Institute offer innovative green job initiatives, retraining for ex-NUMMI workers, and the first-ever simulated nursing program

# Past Board Chair: Budget, Diversity, & Workforce Education Committees

2. What do you see as the role of the board in labor negotiations?

# The Board needs to bargain in good faith and focus budget expenditures on students

# Our workforce deserves fair compensation, benefits, and working conditions

3. What are your goals for the college? Are students, faculty and staff currently meeting those goals?

# Quality accessible curriculum for transfer students. Our students deserve the best and we are giving them the best. With our Institute for Teaching and Learning, we are constantly renovating pedagogies that will motivate and challenge our students to be successful. We are meeting these goals with booming transfer and graduation rates. Evergreen Valley College has the highest percentage increase in graduation in the Bay Area.

# Closing the achivement gap. Under-performing students need the tools they need to succeed including counseling, assessment, tutoring, mentoring, and college prep classes. We are very successful in these endeavors with middle colleges, Achiveng the Dream, the Equity Scorecard, San Jose Promise, the College Connection, and special ethnic-specific programs, among many others.

# Retraining the workforce. Our Workforce Institute is the best in the United States with the first ever Calfiornia Construction College, simulated nursing, green jobs training (500 new training jobs alone with a $2 million grant from the Department of Education), retraining of ex-NUMMI workers, etc.

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