COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT 9
MINUTES OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETING
STUDY
SESSION
Executive
Session
AACC Report
2004-05 Budget
Planning
S & A
Budget Overview
Third Quarter
Financial Report
Community Perception
Survey
Commencement
Update
MEETING
Call to
Order
J. Michael Emerson, Chair, called the meeting to order
at
Roll Call
Members Present: Michael
Allan
Ed
Davila
J.
Michael Emerson
Arun
Jhaveri
Attorney General Representative:
The fund priorities for the next two years”; and
under the third bullet “. . . other
colleges in the Staff Training for Community and Technical and Community
Colleges . . . ”
Correspondence
·Lisa Skari introduced Renee
Paulsen, student recipient of the
·
Associated Students of
Kolesta Moore reported and distributed a report to
the Board.
·The Student Awards Ceremony will be held May 26 at
·The Student Government elections process is underway
and elections will be held May 19-20.
·Spring Fair is coming up and ASHCC will be hosting a
forum introducing high school students to student leadership within the
community college atmosphere and in the future.
·The First Friday’s Leadership Institute was
cancelled because of the Students of Color Conference. It will resume in June.
·Strike Back has been a big issue in student
government this year with the focus on safety and security. There will be a three-hour self defense
workshop on May 20 from
·Student Government helped to finance some of the
events on campus through the Multicultural Student Services department for the
Unity Through Diversity Week and the Brown v. Board of Education week
activities. Dr. Peggy Macintosh spoke
during the Unity Through Diversity Week and Leonna Welch will speak at the Brown
v. Board week.
·One of the Student Senators, Christopher Monfort,
resigned.
·Student Government recognized Natasha Burrowes,
Yoshiko Harden, Fred Capestany, and Toni Castro in Multicultural Student
Services Department for doing a great job and for their work on the Unity
Through Diversity, Students of Color conference, and the Brown v. Board
celebrations. They make sure that people
stay aware of issues and appreciate diversity and continue to get the campus
involved in diversity issues.
The Board appreciated the students recognizing staff
who are working on their behalf.
No report.
Ruth
Windhover reported.
·Contract negotiation teams continue their work and sometimes
meet twice a week. Thanks to Laura
Saunders and
·HCEA is also one of the co-sponsors for the campus
celebration next week marking the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board
of Education, a decision finding school segregation to be unconstitutional. Ruth will be speaking at the Thursday
reception about the role of the National Education Association in promoting
equal access to public education at all levels.
·Dr. Windhover has been re-elected as the Higher Education
Chair for the Washington Education Association for another term. In that role she serves on the State Board
for Technical and Community Colleges Compensation Task Force which recently
met. The Task Force agreed that there
would be a very aggressive request to the legislature which is hoped to be
approved by the Board and continue to be successful in every respect. The Task Force put together a request which
included a salary increase for both faculty and exempt college employees to
catch up on the COLA that they didn’t receive last year and are not receiving
this year; to include COLA in the next biennial budget to bring both exempt and
faculty salaries up to the western state average in the next two years; to make
faculty increments part of the maintenance budget so we don’t have to ask for
them every biennium; to ask for $20 M for part-time faculty funding which has
been the standard request from the State Board although it was only funded at
$2.5 M over the last biennium; and to ask for $2 M for conversion from
part-time to full-time salaries. SBCTC
staff is preparing that request with dollar figures attached and will present
to the full Board in June.
Faculty
Senate
No report:
Action
Continuing Probation and Tenure
Recommendations
Dr. Bell, having given due
consideration to the recommendations of the Tenure Review Committee recommended
to the Board:
THAT
Probation be continued for the following second-year probationer:
Laura Manning - Speech
and, further MOVE
THAT Tenure be
granted for the following third-year probationers:
Rolita Ezeonu - Speech
Ravinder Kang – Computer Science
Amelia Phillips – Computer Science
It was moved by
Motion carried.
REPORTS
Engineering
Scholars Program
Rebecca
Sliger, Engineering Department Coordinator, attended the National Science
Foundation Sugar Lake Conference in 2002 as one of two community college
faculty from
At
the conference Dr. Sliger discovered there was a National Science Foundation grant
available to provide scholarships to students with financial need to get
engineering education. After researching
it on the web, Lisa Skari took the lead in writing the grant that Highline
received in February and was awarded in late August. The team of faculty that worked
collaboratively on the writing of the grant with Lisa Skari, were Bob
Maplestone, Han Lim, and Igor Glozman. Since
it was so close to the beginning of the school year, the first of the scholarships
couldn’t be given out until this past winter quarter. The basic idea behind the grant for $100,000
per year for four years is to give academic scholarships to students interested
in getting their Associate of Science and Engineering degree and continuing on
to get their Bachelor’s degree at a four-year university.
The
main goal of the Engineering Scholars Program is to establish and promote a scholarly
program for students with a financial need. The students turn in financial aid forms and
the Financial Aid Department determines how much money can be given to the
student from the grant. The student must
have a 2.5 G.P.A. or better. Once the students
have been selected and they seem interested and academically prepared, they can
get this scholarship. To help the students
become successful and that they do not feel out on their own, they are
considered part of a cohort or part of a community. They are helped to progress into their
Bachelor of Science degree in engineering.
They are made aware of the other programs available at Seattle U, UW,
WSU, and Gonzaga, by taking trips to some of these schools. They traveled to
A
PowerPoint presentation was given of the engineering students’ most recent activity
at the Human Power Paper Vehicle competition showing some pictures from each of
the teams that participated in the competition.
There were 19 teams registered and Highline had two teams. Most of the teams had a year to work on their
designs but Highline had only four weeks to design and build their vehicles which
had to be made out of 90 percent paper and 10 percent non-paper. One was a unicycle without a seat and the
other was a tricycle. Sixteen teams
competed, nine teams made it all the way around the course through cones and
ramps. Highline’s teams completed the
course with a fourth place and sixth place win.
The
future goal of the program is to increase the number of students participating
in the scholarship program. Since word
was received about receiving the grant so late in the school year, there were
fewer students participating this year. The
visibility of the program needs to be increased. They are talking to current engineering
scholars about how to recruit new people into this scholarship program.
AREA REPORTS
Instruction
Jack
Bermingham reported.
·Brown v. Board of Education Program on campus next week was organized and coordinated by a number of people across campus including the Paralegal Program, Instruction, and Student Services. Highline has a large percentage of students of color, recent immigrants and refugees, the Brown decision of 1954 and its legacy has real substances of where we are as an institution.
·Dr. Bermingham said that he was pleased that three more faculty are finishing their tenure process with the Board’s action this morning and mentioned how important they are to the development of this institution. Rebecca Sliger who went through the tenure process is an example of the kind of faculty leaders Highline is trying to build and how important it is that we have people of that quality in academics.
Student
Services
Ivan Gorne reported.
·Educational Planning and Career Employment Services are
making an increasing effort to help students with career goals and the UW
transfer program because it has become more challenging for students to transfer
into the UW. Dr. Gorne is part of the Joint
Access Group consisting of four-year, two-year and private school individuals
to find ways that the schools can work
together so that when students develop their majors and their degrees there
is better program articulation. The
·Unity Through Diversity Week was terrific with a lot
of positive comments from participants. Dr.
Gorne commended Fred Capestany for his work as moderator at the gay marriage
panel discussion. There were four
different clerics with differing views on gay marriage and Fred did a great job
of facilitating.
·International Night was very
successful with a great program with over 70 volunteers and a lot of students
involved.
·The Career and Employment
Services Highline Student Employee of the Year was Sylvia Bernik, an
engineering student.
·The spring quarter
enrollment report was distributed. The
enrollment is consistent with what has been seen all year relative to being a
little bit down but consistent with the budget plan. The state allocation was met and some enrollment
is still occurring. The schedule drives
enrollment in terms of what is offered for students and what we might do to
offer more sections of high demand classes.
·The Ramada Inn Limited in
Administration
Laura Saunders reported.
·There
was a parking solutions forum held with a number of suggestions given and a
plan will be drafted to present at the next Board meeting.
·Construction
is moving ahead. The childcare center is
planned to be open this fall with some publicized opening events.
·Professional
development is supported and encouraged for staff. Two staff members, Marion Davis and Connie
Johnson, will start in the fall to pursue higher education in the UW Masters
program.
·HCC
is continuing to talk by conference calls with CWU on the Higher Education
Center.
·Student
Institutional
Advancement
Lisa
Skari reported.
·There
are 274 people attending the Gala which is close to a record in
attendance. The goal is to raise
$100,000. Junki Yoshida will be keynote
speaker.
·The
selected architect for the dock is Mulvanny G2.
One of their senior architects has taken on the project because he has
taken an interest in it. The dock is now
open every Saturday from
Commencement plans were discussed with Board. There will be a van available to take the
Board to the Tacoma Dome from Highline at a time to be scheduled soon.
The Retirees Lunch is at
Unscheduled
Business
None.
New
Business
None.
Adjournment
The
meeting was adjourned at
Next
Regularly Scheduled Meeting of the Board of Trustees
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the
10:00
a.m. Meeting Building 25, Board Room
ORIGINAL SIGNED JUNE 9, 2004
______________________________ _________________________________
J. Michael Emerson, Chair Priscilla J. Bell, Secretary