May 7, 2007
System Office, Room 112
Minutes
Present: Jimmy Adams, Christal Albrecht, Cher Brock, Elizabeth Chapman, Sunny Cooke, Bill Coppola, Becky Gustamante, Linda Head, Julie Leidig, Katherine Miller, Judy Murray, Terry Sawma, Susanne Thaler, Christina Todd
Recorder: Sherry Young
Participants were asked to review minutes from March 5 meeting regarding new program development. An additional agenda item was added regarding Career Focus magazine.
•I. Status of New Program Development
Lone Star College System New Program Development Process (Model)
o Model was reviewed and suggestions were made for revisions.
•· Lone Star College System New Program Development (Text)
o Table insert was reviewed supporting reasoning for district/college initiated process. The following items were addressed:
§ Council agreed that prior to initiation of a brand new program, a district-wide scan of feasibility should be conducted.
§ Council was also in agreement that new programs should not begin through college initiated path. The college-initiated path will be used solely for new awards within a CIP and expansions of existing programs.
§ Greatest need, not college identifying program should be used for placement.
§ Council requested that district-wide feasibility studies be conducted regardless of initiating college; therefore, requests should be prioritized by colleges and Workforce Council.
§ All efforts will be made to minimize faculty/staff time investment until scanning process is completed. This will avoid situation of faculty investment at one college when feasibility shows it should be placed at another college.
§ Suggestion was made to hire telemarketing firm to assist with feasibility studies; however, council members felt this might hinder nurturing relationships with those community members being surveyed as well as marketing opportunities of existing programs.
§ Evaluate programs (example: medical assisting) so as not to have multiple curricula/program within district.
College-Initiated Workforce Program Research Request (Model)
o Decision was made to change "colleges" send prioritized requests for information to System Office Workforce Development to "Colleges/Curriculum Teams"
o VPs should be included in e-mail communications, VPI and CE Council representatives.
o CE representatives may not be participating in curriculum team dialogue. Sunny will contact Linda Luehrs-Wolfe regarding training on both sides, credit and CE.
District-wide New/Expansion Programs 2006-2007
o Corrosion tech was added to list. Katherine stated that she had investigated and found that it was too expensive and no demand. Kilgore College has such a program.
o AV tech will be implemented at Montgomery spring 08.
o Cy-Fair will go forward with echocardiography and Montgomery with cardiovascular tech but funding will be required and up to this point, EC had not agreed to funding.
New program funding
o No resolution from presidents on funding for cardiovascular tech so each college will be given $12,000 out of 06/07 budget. VPs should submit account code to benefit expansion of program.
o Salaries need to be budgeted year in advance. Most faculty hiring decisions are made each year in November to allow for advertising.
o Start-up funds are for one year; not ongoing.
Action Items
New program model and program research request will be revised and distributed to council.
CIP codes (2 and 4 digit) will be address at June meeting.
Susanne will forward new workforce program update monthly, and lists will be included in workforce meeting packets.
Members to submit budget codes for transfer of new program funds from this year.
Sunny will ask Linda Luehrs-Wolfe to make sure CE representatives are included for curriculum team training.
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•II. Service Area Maps for Review and Comment
Request was made to insert bold line on map indicating college boundaries.
Concern was addressed regarding out-of-area delivery of marketing items for specific colleges. It appears that this may happen at times but should be resolved through communication among various colleges.
Suggestion was made to develop written instructions for agreements about services to businesses that cross service area boundaries.
Ray Laughter indicated that service area maps for marketing may be different from Business Training Council for service area/shared zip codes.
In the meantime, when an opportunity presents itself in shared zip code regions, appropriate BTC members will be consulted and VPs will be cc'd.
Action Items
Invite BTC to subsequent meeting to discuss relationships and processing on case-by-case basis.
•III. Environmental Scanning Update
Susanne gave an overview of environmental scanning indicating that the process is moving forward satisfactorily.
o September - Orientation
o October-February - Development of trends
§ District-wide46 faculty-staff members participated
§ Interviewed approximately 60 community members to validate trends. Over 90 trends were identified.
o May - Implications workshop
§ Two workshops were conducted on May 4. The first for community members to determine implications from the community, and the second for Lone Star College System employees to determine what implications mean for district-wide workforce development.
§ Trend implications will be posted on website. Several major implications identified included transportation, demographic changes and growth.
§ The intent is to identify at least eight to 10 core trends from the 90 developed to focus our efforts for next three to five years.
o Mid-June - Strategic Planning Workshop which will require one and one-half days commitment.
Indicators are that community is excited about this process and wants to use the results with college district given credit which is an unexpected "marketing" outcome of the scanning efforts.
Workforce Council members are urged to participate as much as possible in the mid-June Strategic Planning Workshop as this will set the direction for workforce efforts for next three years.
Action Items
Susanne will propose dates for Strategic Planning Workshop based on scheduling for Joel Lapin, presidents and others.
•IV. Finalize Pilot Training Data/Council Recommendations
Employers prefer bachelor's degree, but two-year degree acceptable in some instances.
High attrition rates reported for training programs attributed to cost and the duration of necessary flight time required to be hired by an airline.
Fewer pilots are entering private sector from military, and even those pilots need a college degree.
Recommendation: Continue on CE side and investigate forming partnerships to subsidize flight school. If this cannot be subsidized, recommendation is to not move forward.
Related positions:
Air traffic controller - FAA re-evaluating program. We will stay tuned.
Aircraft mechanic and service technician - Airlines have highly experienced personnel displaced and do not recommend starting program.
NHC Aviation Management - Basic aviation management AAS to start within next year and would articulate with Embry Riddle at NHC site.
•V. Global Corporate College (GCC) Update
Currently piloting efforts in pharmaceutical, healthcare, finance and banking within next six months across multiple state lines.
GCC will be free from college entity, therefore, allowing flexible and dynamic response across state lines.
Not for profit status is currently pending.
Abudul Tamimi and Connie Thomas are attending ROI training (Phillips model) and will be certified upon completion. They will serve as resources to BTC and all five colleges.
•VI. Career Focus
Magazine won first place marketing award at Spring 2007 TACE meeting.
First issue of magazine was deemed to be very successful.
Council unanimously agreed to go forward with another issue. Sunny will carry this forward to Steve Lesatarjette.