EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Community Advancement Division Council
August 26, 2015
Department Updates
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Career Pathways – Richard Gonzalez:
1) Career Pathways: We have a new casual with us, Tiffany Miller. She comes from YouthBuild. Her
strengths are grant management, recruiting, and concurrent enrollment for our high schools. During
Bridge Week they invite all incoming 9th graders on campus to introduce them to the different
aspects of campus life. They asked us to come out, meet the 9th graders and start setting them up
for concurrent enrollment before the school year started. We do have schools that we’re trying to
get into the program; they include North High and South High in Torrance and also El Segundo.
2) The Teacher Pipeline: We’re still hiring students for the STEM Teacher Program in classes as
teacher’s assistants at ECC and at the high schools. We have open orientation for the campus so
that individuals can come in and sign up.
3) The Career Advancement Academy (CAA): We had a little bumpy start. We have MTT (Machine
Tool Technology) and ACR (Air Conditioning Repair) at Compton. Shanta Pittman is doing the
recruitment at Compton. At El Camino we are busy recruiting. Welding looks like it will be full but
Air Conditioning Repair is proving difficult to fill.
4) AMETLL: Career Ladders: The South Bay Workforce Investment Board is providing integrated
workforce training for our AMETLL teachers. We had four school districts that were involved and
came to campus. There were administrators from all the districts at this meeting and two
Superintendents, one from Centinela Valley Unified School District and one from El Segundo
Unified School District.
5) We had the Manufacturing Pathways Mapping training. It went very well. At the next one we want
to get more faculty involved.
6) At DaVinci High School we are going to start an Architectural and Design Pathway. That’s
something that is being offered in addition to the Engineering and Technology Pathway.
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Center for Applied Competitive Technologies – Darling Garcia:
1) The Fasteners program credit courses started on Monday, August 24th. The enrollment is low due
to a glitch in the system but Admissions is working on it.
2) We have two more Harness Technician training cohorts left in the year in September and October.
We will hold 2 weeks of hands on training and 2 weeks of certification training each month.
3) Trainees from the last cohort are applying for jobs and interviewing.
4) We are still working with the funding agency to extend the H1-B Grant for one more year.
5) We are currently working with Orbital to create a training plan for year 3 of the Mentor Protégé
grant. Next year will be the last year of the grant.
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Community Education – Veronica Mendoza: (not in attendance):
1) Kid’s College 2015: Overall positive response from parents, kids and instructors. Income
generated was up slightly from 2014 Kid’s College. Top classes for 2015 included our new video
game designing/programming classes: Game Designer: Design & Code Your Own Video Game
(Grades 6-8) and Lil’ Game Designer: Computer Programming (Grades 3-5). Disruption of Kid’s
College at the drop-off/ pickup location and at the grades 1-5 classroom locations occurred during
the last week due to the dismantling of the Technical Arts building: Loud noise made it difficult for
the instructors to teach. Parents and instructors expressed concern and dissatisfaction with regard
to the safety of the children.
2) Fall 2015 Catalog: Printed and distributed to homes, the campus and community organizations
during the last week of July.
3) Plus 50 Grant: Return to Learn article about our Plus 50 program was featured on the Life After 50
magazine website. We are anticipating an article in their print version of the magazine as well.
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Center for Customized Training (CCT) – Maricela Vital
1) Employment Training Panel (ETP) Activities: Eldon Davidson is formally presenting our application
for the Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Program AB118 2016-2018 Contract at
the August 28 Panel meeting.
2) ET14-0800 AB118 Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Program ($375,000) –
Term August 5, 2013-August 4, 2015: A close-out phone conference with our ETP Monitor will take
place of September 10, 2015.
3) ET15-0804 (Supplemental) AB118 Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Program
($64,640) – Term: January 1, 2015-December 31, 2016: Training is currently taking place through
our training partners (Cerritos CCD, City College of San Francisco and Long Beach CCD).
4) ET14-0217 Two-Year Core Contract ($1,260,645) – Term: November 25, 2013 – November 24,
2015: Training concluded on August 24, 2015 to allow for the 90-day retention period. Diane will
update attendance in the ETP system and submit final invoicing.
5) ET15-0427 – New Two Year Core Contract ($649,350) – Term: May 4, 2015 – May 3, 2017. Our
training partners (Cerritos CCD and Saddleback College) are offering training to their clients. We
are also providing training to Lisi Aerospace. Eldon Davidson is conducting many industry visits in
an effort to attract more businesses.
6) Contract Education Training: King’s Hawaiian will resume Microsoft Office Excel training in
September. City of Torrance will conclude DDI training in August.
7) Other Activities: Breonca Johnson is Being hired as a casual employee and will begin in
September. Eldon and Diane will attend the CCCAOE Conference in San Diego in October.
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Grants – Jennifer Hutcherson:
1) Grant proposal(s) in progress and/or planned: We are continuing to work on a proposal for the
continuation of the S-Stem scholarships from NSF (National Science Foundation). We are
continuing to work on a proposal for the Foster Youth. We are trying for an augmentation on the
HPC Transfer Agreement Project from $73,000 to $115,000.
2) Grant Proposals Not Awarded: I reported last month that we didn’t get the TRIO. We reviewed the
reasons and we will not pursue an appeal.
3) Grants Awarded: We are a sub-awardee on a partnership with Howard University on their Lewis
Alliance for Minority Education grant from NSF.
4) General Update(s): Bobby put on a FLEX day presentation with Theresa Palos and Jeffrey Cohen.
We haven’t received the results of attendee’s feedback.
Jenny attended a week-long training in Washington DC for grant collaboration. She visited the
Department of Labor and the Department of Education. A NSF program monitor came and talked
about grants.
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Small Business Development Center – LauraLee Garinger:
1) Star Van Buren will be traveling to San Francisco, CA the week of September 7, 2015 to attend the
ASBDC Annual Conference.
2) Star Van Buren and LauraLee Garinger attended the Westchester Business Resource Seminar and
EXPO on 8/6/15. There was a large turnout of prospective new Small Business Development
clients ready to sign up for services.
3) The SBDC has hired two new advisors that will start October 1st. Andrew Strachan and Becky York.
Andrew has a finance background and is experienced in venture capital funding. He will assist
clients with investment financing and valuations as well as business planning. Becky has an
accounting background and will assist clients with financial projections as well as business
planning.
4) Workshops coming up soon include How to Use Periscope the New Live Chat/Live, August 26th;
Import Workshop, August 27th; a new QuickBooks Series to begin September 2nd (as long as we
get 14 people to sign up); Small Business Orientation, September 8th; The Basics of Starting a
Business, September 8th; Business Loans 101, September 15th, State Payroll Tax Workshop,
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September 17th; Business Licenses, Corporation & LLCs, September 17th; Marketing 101,
September 24th; How to Estimate Start-Up Costs & Cash Flow, September 29th.
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Workplace Learning Resource Center – Maryann Cohan:
1) Terminal Island: Denise preparing inmates with interview skills for the Mock Job Fair in September.
Welding: August 24th is graduation. Our five-year contract ended. We are anxious to know if we
won the bid for the new 5-year contract effective 10/1/15.
Parenting: 5-Year contract – began 2/10/15 – Our instructor is Bobbie Lanham. Sessions 4 began
August 11th and will be completed September 9th.
2) Metropolitan Detention Center: Parenting 5-Year contract began 3/25/15 – Instructor – Theresa
Reed. MDC is looking for educational opportunities for soon to be released inmates.
3) Maritime Training - STCW-95:
STCW (Standards for Training Certification and Watch keeping), Lifeboat, and Security Awareness
to be held monthly. There will be no Life Boat class in October.
Advanced Fire: No Date
Tankerman: Instructor, Johnathan Brainard. Class sometime in November.
VPDSD (Security Awareness) to be held August 31, 2015.
Medical Provider removed from schedule.
Vessel Security Officer (VSO): Need to submit changes for approval by the Coast Guard.
3-Day STCW Refresher to be available before year-end.
Leadership & Teamwork to be available before year-end.
Roberto Pandolfi will attend school for Train-the-Trainer. This is a new class for all USCG
Instructors.
4) Retail, Hospitality, Tourism Grant (RHT): Retreat will be held September 17-18, 2015 at Tenaya
Lodge in Yosemite. September-October 1, 2015 Meeting at South Tahoe High School.
October 20-22 CCCAOE San Diego.
Discussion
a) College Update: The job positing for the Presidency closed. We’ll probably be seeing the finalist the
middle of September at forums. The person selected is going to the Board in October.
b) Construction on Campus: Community Education moved from the old Industry and Technology building
over to the bungalows. Construction is going to go on for a few years.
c) EWD Changes: There are a number of things going on. Chancellor Harris is conducting town hall
meetings on some changes that he’s proposing through the BOG Taskforce on Workforce and the
Economy. During the last 9 months they have held convenings where they listen to the community
regarding what should be done with CTE and other economic development programs. They’ve come
up with 25 recommendations.
Other Issues
a) Employment Packets: Human Resources has included additional forms in the employment packets for
Casual employees. They include Notice of Exclusion From CalPERS Membership, Member Reciprocal
Self-Certification Form and Employee Retirement Information Form.
HR is saying that the forms for the packets are on-line and can be completed by individuals and
submitted directly to them via e-mail. They will provide the form for the LiveScan. They can then
provide copies for our files when the hiring process has been completed.
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