Executive Council Minutes
December 9, 2009
Present: Alan Scheibmeir, Giles Brown, Jeanie Hardin, Stanley Henderson,
and Gary Paikowski.
Absent: Roy Renfro
Recorder: Shelle Cassell
Guests: Don James, Jean Sorensen, Debbie Plyler, Mindy Choate
Agenda Items
Vice President for Student Services Search
Members met with Don James to discuss the process that will be used to evaluate the
applications and conduct interviews related to the Vice President for Student Services
position opening.
Action/Motion: Dr. Scheibmeir, Jeanie Hardin, Giles Brown and Gary Paikowski will
review the applications and meet with Don James at 9:00 am Tuesday, December 15, to
develop a structured interview guide.
CEC Recommendations for 2010 Strategic Initiatives
Debbie Plyler reviewed the annual planning calendar to remind members of the upcoming
events. She presented the proposed membership lists for the Community Outreach Goal
Team and the Accountability and Continuous Improvement Goal Team. Vacancies within
the teams may be replaced as necessary by Debbie Plyler and/or Dr. Scheibmeir.
Debbie shared an overview of the strategic priorities of the Student Success Goal Team,
which include a focus on learning frameworks, student engagement, and the “front door”
experience. The strategic goal states: GCC will intensify efforts to ensure student success
and student support. Related objectives are to: 1) Promote student engagement, and 2)
Increase initiatives promoting retention and success in courses. The proposed strategic
initiatives are to: 1) Implement Learning Frameworks Course as a mandatory First Year
Experience (delivered as a one hour course) to all first time GCC students with less than
30 semester credits, and provide on-time intervention increasing student success and
persistence; 2) Implement Estudias technology which includes a student engagement
module for early alert of at-risk students, and 3) Front-Door Experience with Academic
Advising redesign.
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Jean Sorensen provided an overview of the progress being made on the Student Learning
Goal Team. She reported that Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) have been written
(and thanked Stanley Henderson for his work), which will be submitted for approval
soon. She said they are recommending changes in the membership and processes of the
Curriculum Committee to better align with the college’s organizational structure. A new
Assessment Committee is being formed to analyze program effectiveness, performance
measures, related student learning outcomes/data, along with quality and cost data.
Membership for the Assessment Committee has not been determined.
Action/Motion: The Council unanimously approved the motion by Jeanie Hardin,
second by Giles Brown, to name the following members to the Community Outreach
Goal Team: Shelle Cassell, Kim Teel, Mike Dill, Tana Adams, Roy Renfro, Gregg Miles,
Jackie Butler, Charles Leslie and Ron deCento. The Council approved the motion by
Giles Brown, second by Jeanie Hardin, to accept the membership recommendations for
the Accountability and Continuous Improvement Goal Team as Jean Metcalf, Linda
Johnson, Tony Stanzo, Kim Weber, Stan Gordon, Kim Faris, Frances Haratyk, and
Dianna Crissman.
Fannin County Poll
Dr. Scheibmeir shared a draft of the telephone poll that will be conducted by Turco
Associates to measure Fannin County residents’ readiness for a community college.
Action/Motion: The Council reached consensus on the content and wording of the poll.
Mindy Choate will continue to work with Ray Turco to finalize the poll.
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