GC3Media: GCCC President's Cabinet

The following notes are from the January President's Cabinet meeting. Read the comments and take note of what is being discussed by the administration...NOTE...John Wheeler, county attorney, will be on campus Jan. 30 to speak about sex crimes.

PRESIDENT’S CABINET

JANUARY 11, 2008

SCSC CONFERENCE ROOM

9:30 A.M.

President’s Report

Board of Trustees Retreat will be held Saturday, January 12. Merilyn will lead the discussion with the community members; Deanna and Cathy will be “scribes.” The regular monthly meeting will follow.

Carol handed out a sheet entitled “Overview of the GCCC Planning Process.” She reminded everyone to send their plans (electronically) to Darla, who will forward them to Carol, and then they’ll be put on the web. Due dates for 2008 planning are:

Jan. 25 Department Level

Feb. 1 Division Level

Feb. 8 Unit Level

Feb. 22 Service Level

Early March College Planning

Carol handed out a DRAFT of some proposed changes to the Internal Governance process. She asked Cabinet to read it and then give suggestions/comments to Deanna, Cathy, Trent, or Tammy.

Datatel Update – no report today

Update on Electronic Brochures: Steve reported that they are in the process of reviewing bids from three vendors. They are also looking at MySpace and doing some specific program advertising.

Brief discussion was held regarding Website Committee’s responsibilities/control.

Question for Dee: Is it possible to see how many “hits” the web site gets?

No policies to review today. Lenora will have two next time (drug and background check)

Cabinet Retreat

Carol will review dates and try to find a date for a “team building” retreat.

College Plan Retreat will be held Thursday, March 13, all day in the Endowment Room

February 20 Board meeting: 2008-09 fees, tuition, course fees, academic calendar, etc., will be presented

Updates

Remodeling: The gym is done; work on Kate’s apartment should start sometime this spring

Report on Inservice and Staff Development: Everyone thought the Spring Inservice was good, although some of the skits were hard to hear and understand

Retention Study Committee Report – no report today

Member Reports

Cathy

Expressed appreciation to the HR Committee and the Employee Development Committee for their hard work on Inservice
Several vacant positions right now
One official retirement of a faculty member has been received (Cherie Perryman)
Working on IPEDS and other labor reports
She and Kathy Isaac are constantly looking for new training ideas—please send ideas their way!

Barb

Looking at expanding the Teaching and Learning Center this semester—thanks to three faculty members stepping up and helping with special trainings

Steve

The latest edition of the Legend magazine has a story on Doug Beyer and the orchestra program
Feb. 24 – Open house at St. Catherine Hospital (nursing lab)
March ? – Open house for fire tower training facility
March 14 – Home Show
Jan 21 – MLK in gym
Jan. 30 – woodwind quintet concert

Vic

This semester, the women’s basketball games will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the men’s will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Construction will begin soon at Tangeman Athletic Complex (softball fields, new scoreboard, etc.)
Would like to have a half day inservice/training for the athletic department because it’s hard for the coaches to attend an all-day inservice session

Ryan

Jan. 21: Martin Luther King Day celebration will be held in the gym; no classes will be held from 10 a.m. – 12 noon. A free, community luncheon will be held in the cafeteria at 12 noon; everyone is welcome
Jan. 30 – John Wheeler will be on campus to talk to students about sex crimes, date rape, etc. This activity will be held in the gym at 10 a.m.

Judy

Met with high school folk yesterday; they are moving to an AB schedule
Stewart Nelson is working on plans for renovating the science labs and the Penka Building (Title V grant)
Trying to finalize plans for the Impact grant with Palmer Mfg.
She is facilitating four mentorships with her new folk
She and Linda Morgan are working on a grant for police science
Still working with BPI
Cindy VenJohn will be handling Clint Alexander’s classes this semester while Clint is on sabbatical leave

Deanna

Focusing on program review data for Judy and others
Will be looking at a software demo for a new survey tool next week

Kevin

Calendar Committee is working on the 2008-09 academic calendar
Working on student evaluations of instructors
Will begin work on spring semester FLC soon

Lenora

Have evaluated the first semester of the new curriculum; this is the last semester of the “old” program
Gearing up for KSBN visit this fall for PN program
Working on an on-line CNA class

Beth