Industry and Technology

Division Council Meeting Minutes March 18, 2008

Welcome

Tom Jackson welcomed everyone to the first Spring 08 Division Council.

Library Purchases

Vince Robles said the Library has received $100,000 to purchase books, periodicals, publications. The money is allotted by division -He asked faculty to make suggestions for purchasing books for students to use -The Library can do orientations and tailor them to the appropriate subject

Grade Change Petitions -Faculty are to keep records for at least 18 months. -The Records Office keeps all copies on microfiche

CCE -Due to budget cuts, CCE will not be available to part-time instructors -CCE budget was submitted in Fall 07 but nothing was heard from the VP -At the VP Staff meeting this morning Dr. Arce said there will be a CCE budget for Spring 08 and for Fall 08

Budget and Cut-Off Dates -The budget is being cut by 5% -Lois distributed the budget cut-off dates -Purchase Requests need to go to Lois as soon as possible -Grants and Foundation money are exempt -TJ will talk to each department to plan for next year’s budget -Open P.O.s need to be submitted as soon as possible -There will be no budget for mileage -Faculty should refrain from buying out of pocket materials because there may not be any petty cash

On-Line Plan -On-line process is designed to plan for each department, budget, SLO’s -The on-line plan cannot be accessed off-line, only on campus and using certain computers -TJ talked with Sheryl and computers are now accessible -Faculty are to put in all their information on-line since there may not be a budget next year -TJ is available to help faculty -Suggestion to cut and paste information

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Reports

Academic Affairs – Steve Cocca -Have a 3-4% enrollment, trends look good -Selection process for District Fach is due March 28 -Library, programs on line look at old will have 2 terminals -SLO reports have been finished, moving on to Certificates and Degrees -SLO is for fall -Have 380 SLO’s complete -Do more advertising for our programs. -I&T under advertised -Susie Dever new Dean at Compton -Checking into Health Center being available for evenings

Counseling – Valencia Rayford -Handout for Walk-in counseling was distributed -Wednesdays are slow and asking faculty to send students to Valencia -Valencia is also available for classroom visits

Division Office – Carol Quiroz -Faculty are to prepare for evaluation visits, etc -Faculty are to continue to check emails. Messages, meetings are now on-line -We are going paperless

Other -1st Robotics will be at the LA Sports Arena (Friday, Saturday, Sunday – 8:00-5:00pm) -Robots did better than USC. One of our Robots won

-Westec Conference LA Convention Center (March 31 to April 3)

-TJ toured Robinson Helicopter who are looking to employ students. -TJ met with the President of the Federal.. On January 1st they layed off 200 security officers. Their ages are between 30-55yrs -They will be coming to ECC starting Summer and Fall to be retrained in Electronics, Machine Tool, Automotive, and Construction

Tops Lab? -The Tops lab is closed, but will be converted t a MAC lab and service the entire campus -I&T has 2 fashion programs that use MACs -Dr. Arce agreed to fund the MAC lab

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Lockdown? -Classroom doors should be locked from the inside. Let Mike know to change the locks in the Automotive areas

Winter Session? -We will know in 2 weeks whether we will offer a Winter session

The meeting ended at 4:58p.m.