Present: Chris Farren, Julie Morales, Kathie Gilbert, Chris Casey, Barbara James, Tony Macias, Faye Vowell, John Counts, Donna Rees, Carmen Maynes, Julie Miller
· The various graduation ceremonies went well. Our new Board of Regent members are supportive.
· The Works Program looks good for next year: a $ 200K increase. We will be hiring 6 new people: additional career advisiors in three counties who are assigned a case load, same thing in Deming, a screener housed in Income Support Division for TANF, and a MSW.
· ABE nothing is heard yet. It is now under CHE. This item is on the CHE agenda for the next meeting.
· Tony Macias attended a meeting on Latino drop outs and brought back a number of interesting ideas.
· We need to track Hispanic retention rates separate from retention rates of other ethnic groups.
· We have the appropriate pieces in place to support our students: role models, tracking student attendance in classes, cohort groups, learning communities.
· Tony Macias will do the welcome at the El Grito graduation. 184 children will graduate. He will be teaching a class to juveniles on probation in the near future.
· The next Layoff Coalition meeting will be on Wednesday, 4 June. Tony Macias met with DOL yesterday,; there will be an emergency meeting of WIA on 29 May to deal with the crisis of money available to serve adults and money needs to be shifted to do this. We may customize one of computer programs to serve this group. Radiology and EMT programs are being discussed. Jose Maestas will look at serving Deming also if need exists. There was an issue of Stream people not receiving benefits. This has hopefully been resolved. There is a student issue with students having signed a cintract for 12 hours and now DOL will only pay for 9 hours. Chris Casey will send a list of students who have this problem to Tony Macias who will track this to be sure they are
· Working through process of selecting an auditor for next year
· TAC progress is ongoing; they have completed controls installation work in PD Martinez, Maintenance, Eckles, Harlan Hall, Chino,Watts Hall, Ritch, Centennial, Flexing, and Fox.
· In Castorena, the ceiling will be torn out this summer to put in new lighting and duct work. Things will be pretty ugly there for a while.
· There are problems with the sub contractor on the roof for the FACT; we may have to go to a new venbdor.
· Make seving others your number one priority. What is your pickle--the extra thing you do to make the customer feel special. 2. Attitude: How you think about your customer is how you willl treat them. One employee on a bad day with a bad attitude can impact a large number of others. Play the role of a caring person even if you don't feel like it. Customers do not care what your problems are. Think I like you when you speak to everyone. 3. Consistency--treat people with the same consideration each time. Hold high standareds Odinarnry people doing ordinary things extraodinalrily weell.
· Everything that you do ends up in front of the customer. 4. Team work. No one can do the job alone. A team is a group of people who go out of their way to make other people look good. We need to have the courage to do what is right to make it right. This video is available to checkout from the library. Supervisors, directors, and chairs are encouraged to use it with their faculty and staff.
· The bid has come in for the parking lot behind the FACT north of fact. This a bout a 4 month project.
· Virginia Manzano has been reassigned. She will work in Sandy DeBusk 's position in the library beginning this week. Payroll questions go to Charlene Ashburn, Kellly Riddle or Sherri Bayes.
· There was an AQIP quarterly meeting yesterday.
· Kathie Gilbert passed out the Criteria for Performance Excellence for the Quality New Mexico award. We need a draft of our submission by the end of June.
· The Prospectors are holding a legislator's reception on Wednesday at the Country Club.
· There will be a SIGRID meeting will on Thursday. The governor will be there.
· The Financial Aid PMT will meet tomorrow.
· Staff Senate will hiave a opotluck for employees hired since JaN.
· There will be a Community Relations meeting on June 18. This will be the last meeting for the summer.
· Swimming lessons will be done this year through Extended University.
· Mary Billings will look at online courses to ensure that students not in Silver City can register easily.
· The Extended University will be experimenting on using NetMeeting.
· There was an informative ITT meeting last week to update us on where we are in IT efforts. The Mustang Express demo was especially valuable.
· Gail Gruber is doing a WebCT training this week. The tech support person from Deming is attending.
· As soon as we get the Mobile Media classroom technology into the Deming site, we will do an appreciation reception for local legislators who contributed money.
· This afternoon the RUS schools are meeting by video conferencing. Julie Morales will attend to do a press release on this topic.
· The new catalogs are here. Garth Gerstein did the wonderful cover. Kudos to Betsy Shook for her work to make the catalog better organized. The catalog is great.
· The first orientation took place last Saturday. On Friday we thought 26 students were coming; 42 showed up. Thanks to everyone--especially the advisors--who geared up to serve the larger number. Each student was given an email address and an introduction to Mustang Express.
· One more person will interview for the AVPSA position tomorrow. Our 4th candidate has taken another job.
· Viewbooks will be here by the end of June.
· Our next orientation will be June 28. We anticipate that it will be one of the largest. We may need to train more advisors.
· Tom Kruscz will work with Irene Meares and Linda Baldwin to recruit for the MBA in Gallup.
· We have recruited 5 out of state graduate students from the poster effort.
· IT is addressing a Banner-Oracle licensing problem. The pricing model is changing; cost is increasing. This cost us $70,000 which was paid from the Banner budget--money which will not be available next year. We realized some cost savings by signing a 10 year contract.
· The CHE is probably going to drop the IT funding process this year. We will try to submit IT funding requests as a part of our infrastructure request.
· The state library bond funds are ready for use. We have $88,053 to be spent over 2 years.
· The 11th Annual Economic Development course is here this week. We have 43 students.
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