Minutes for May 3, 2007

PARTICIPANTS:

FIRST LAST TITLE COLLEGE
Sam Aunai Vocational Education Coordinator Taft College
Marilyn Behringer Dean of Instruction Fresno City College
Dave Bolt VP, Educational Services West Hills College Lemoore
George Boodrookas Dean of Community & Economic Dev Modesto Junior College
Jim Chin Dean of Instruction Reedley College / Madera Center
Sue  Clark Coordinator Columbia College
Natalie Culver-Dockins Director, Employer-Focused Training Merced College
Larry  Dutto Dean of Academic Services College of the Sequoias
Jose Luis Fernandez Dean of Occupational Education Hartnell College
Valerie Fisher Director, RHORC Hartnell College
Kelly Fowler Dean of Instruction & Technology State Center CCD-North Centers
Sarah Greene Dean of Instruction Merced College
Lisa Greer Work Experience College of the Sequoias
Sheila Herb International Trade Assistant Merced College
Hazel Hill Dean of Workforce & Economic Dev San Joaquin Delta College
Richard Larson Dean of Instruction Reedley College
Scott Manes Workforce Development Coordinator College of the Sequoias
Gary Mendenhall Dean of Instructional Services Columbia College
Larry  Rathbun Associate Dean West Hills College Coalinga
Susan  Scaffidi Director, Workplace LRC Bakersfield College
Debbie Sutton Contract Training Coordinator Merced College
Roger Teschner Director, ATTE Fresno City College
Randy  Wallace School-To-Career Coordinator Tulare County Office of Education
Lita Wallach Tech Prep Regional Coordinator San Joaquin Delta College
Henry Yong CIO Taft College

25 REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS

 

Developing New Managers 

1.                   Leadership Development

2.                   Leadership Roundtable & Inservice

3.                   Q & A Panel

Panel Members:

Dave Bolt, Vice President of Educational Services, West Hills College Coalinga

Larry Dutto, Dean of Academic Services, College of the Sequoias

Sarah Greene, Dean of Instruction, Merced College

Outcomes:

Participants decided that the discussion of this topic would continue during the Annual Planning Retreat in June 2007.  

Discussion to Include:

  • Mentoring
  • Distance Training (We need to determine how many colleges are compatible with distance education.)
  • Develop a mechanism for networking
  • Identify GEMS / Survey newer managers
  • Post job openings on Region Web site (Chronicle of Higher Education)
  • Escape from Napa!  The Joy of Managing (Sarah Greene, Merced College)
  • Draft key issues that need to be addressed as a regional position paper (White paper)

12:30 p.m. 

Working Lunch  

Gary Mendenhall to provide a review of the Career Readiness Certificate and the work completed to date by the region work group.   

12:45 p.m. 

Building a Regional Career Ready Certificate 

Work Session:  Identify common course titles and content 

Discussed the creation a Regional RFA for conducting up to 14 job profiles.  Each campus would contribute $3,000 to fund the RFA.  The funds would be used to hire profilers (one for each campus) to conduct on profile.

 West Hills College – Stephanie Atkinson-Alston comments;

West Hills is looking at noncredit.  The college is supportive of regional certificate.

Fresno City College – Marilyn Meyer-Behringer.  It will be a challenge at FCC.  A lot is going on in the area of basic skills among academic faculty.  Vocational education is not included in the conversation.  If she tries to bring it in, she will have a fight.  Academics say, “This is our area.” 

Gary Mendenhall: Question to Marilyn, “If there were a regional certificate, would that give you leverage?  Response:  That would be the best shot.  Marilyn sees the problem of where would it be housed.  Who would own it?  Is it going to be an academic math or English class? 

Gary Mendenhall asked the question, “Do we have it in our hand?”  (Reference to the WorkKeys Target of Instruction handouts and the Modesto Junior College course outlines. 

Hazel Hill:  Yes. Comment:    We have been doing a lot with basic skills. 

Use the curriculum as it exists.  Put together a conjoint program.

Each college can determine if they want one or all of the three classes. 

Conjoint Program would approve course title and content.

How long?  Leave it to school. 

NOTE:  CHECK ON PERMISSIONS FROM WORK KEYS 

COMMON TITLES: 

Work ready certificate  

Essential Skills for the Workplace

Applied Math for the Workplace

Reading for Information in the Workplace

Locating Information in the Workplace 

Cross-link all courses

Make it the prefix for the major. 

Show value of certificate to faculty. 

Take the Certificate to the Region in June 2007 as a conjoint program. 

Gary Mendenhall:

Discussed the concept of doing local profiling.  Each college would be asked to contribute $3K and then pick an area and contract with a person to do a specified number of areas.  The funding would be released as an RFA. 

Hazel:  Can it be part of SB 70 grant?

Check on online profile (Scott Manes)

Judy Fisher has done profiling in Modesto.

Need to talk to George Boodrookas about profiling he has had done.

Check with Susan Scaffidi also.

Find out what has already been done.

Ask how many campuses would be interested in using a portion of next year’s VTEA funds to get a regional skill assessment in 14 different areas.  Send call to the Region to ask for names of possible profilers.  Profiler needs to be someone who has done it before.

Gary will ask George and Susan if profiles in three areas (target of instruction areas) exist.

 Pick industry clusters to profile for industry information

Who is doing Work Keys profiling already?

At retreat, ask who will buy in to this concept and process. 

Adjourned by 3 p.m.
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