EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Community Advancement Division Council
Meeting Notes
March 21, 2013
Present: Martha Aaron, Jose Anaya, Alexis Estwick, LauraLee Garinger, Veronica Mendoza, Angellah
Petruso, Alin Sanchez, Maricela Vital
A scheduled meeting of the Community Advancement Division Council convened at 1:30 pm at the
Business Training Center in Room 21.
Review of Minutes from February 7th meeting
Minutes approved as written.
Department Updates o Career Pathways – Megan Ruane: not present o Center for Applied Competitive Technologies
– Darling Garcia: not present o Center for International Trade Development – Martha Aaron:
1) Bronwen working on closing out the Rapid Training Fund grant. She is also working on grant proposals that are due by May 8 th .
2) She attended the International Trade Education Programs dinner.
3) She and the interns will participate in a 1 and ½ day Export Tech Training for AES
(Automated Export System) to learn how to file export documents on-line.
4) The CITD website that features career pathways will be available soon There are 36 videos that will be available to show individuals who want to work in international trade what skills and requirements are needed to perform the jobs they desire. Also doing career pathways to provide information on jobs. o Community Education – Veronica Mendoza:
1) Summer classes are on the website and are open for enrollments.
2) Summer catalogs are scheduled for home delivery soon.
3) Summer room reservations, contracts and all other daily tasks are in process.
4) The first event of our TEN YEARS AFTER history series about space shuttle Columbia is now available for viewing on Torrance CitiCABLE CH 22. The program plays from 4 – 5 PM through March 26 th . Our second event that took place on March 7 th featured Dr. Nayyer Ali, co-author of “In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights In Islam”. This event was feature listed on the Muslim Public Affairs Council website. The series also received a story on March 7 th on the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism’s website.
The next event will take place on April 4 th , where we will discuss the Completion of the Human
Genome Project.
5) SOLD OUT Excursion to California Science Center on Saturday, March 2 nd went very well.
We took a tour of the Space Shuttle Endeavor Exhibit and watched the IMAX Hubble 3D film. o Center for Customized Training – Maricela Vital:
1) ETP ET12-0143 Two Year Contract: ETP monitor visit pending to finalize the contract.
2) ETP ET11-0806 AB 118 Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Contract: a) In partnership with City of San Bernardino, the largest First Responder Safety Training was launched. During nine 8-hour classes, a total of 155 firefighters were trained. The cities that participated were San Bernardino, Redlands, Rialto and San Manuel, as well as surrounding areas. Also, firefighters from the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection were in attendance. CAL Fire is an all-risk full service fire department in 36 of California’s 58 counties. b) City College of San Francisco launched their BART training in January. They are in the process of providing Enrollment and Attendance sheets for their participants. c) Kern Community College has submitted their Enrollment and Attendance sheets for processing classes conducted in their region. d) ETP has requested that all training for this contract be entered into their system by March 31 st . e) El Camino College is offering a one-
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day Alternative Fuel Free Training on March 29 th to ECC and Compton faculty and staff.
Local car dealerships will participate by providing alternative fuel vehicles. Also, Chief
Melendez is planning an airbag demonstration.
3) ETP ET13-0125 Two-Year Contract: a) Our training partners have customers participating in training. b) Training in Blueprint Reading and Shop Measurement is in progress.
Contract Education:
4) Contract for City of Torrance has been submitted. Training will consist of DDI (Development
Dimensions International) courses and a revised Core Customer Service.
Other Activity:
5) Eldon Davidson attended the CCCAOE Conference in Oakland.
6) We are in the process of finalizing details to have the website available to potential customers. Our catalog is also being revamped so it will be accessible on-line. o Foster Care
– Alexis Estwick:
1) Finally got new computer and it is installed.
2) Moving back to Enrollment Services. Get to keep space currently occupying. Position moved to 40 hour work weeks.
3) Getting quotes for copier for Foster Care.
4) Programs have done well. We are in our 3 rd module for PSMAPP and our 2 nd module just finished. We had two modules going on simultaneously.
5) YESS (Youth Empowerment Strategies for Success): Moving right along. We just completed the first module of our extension and we’re coming into the second module. YESS ends June
30, 2013. o Grants – Angellah Petruso:
1) Quarterly issue of Grant$ Alert Newsletter emailed to campus community on March 2 nd .
2) Survey intended for project directors is in progress.
3) Project director training session being planned (date to be determined).
4) New database software purchased and we are awaiting the go-ahead to transfer data.
Grant closeouts:
5) RTF (CITD) will likely be closed out 3/31/13.
Grant award notification(s):
6) NIST – SURF (National Institute of Standards and Technology – Summer Undergraduate
Research Fellowship) for Physics, to be awarded to student Freddy Cisneros.
Grant award extension(s):
7) NSF ATE (National Science Foundation Advanced Technical Education) Grant: no cost extension to June 30, 2014 (CACT).
Grant proposals submitted:
8) To Union Bank for small business training (SBDC).
9) To CCCCO (California Community College Chancellor’s Office) for EWD (Economic and
Workforce Development) Sector Navigator, Advanced Manufacturing.
Grant proposal(s) in progress and/or planned:
10) EWD Deputy Sector Navigator grants
11) NSF ATE Center Grant not funded for 2012-13 but will be resubmitted in the next round at the end of this year. Comments received were encouraging and give us reason to believe that our chance of an award will be greatly improved at the next submittal. o Small Business Development Center – Laura Garinger:
1) We will have an in-house audit at the end of April which will be conducted by an independent team hired by the lead center. This will help with meeting compliances within our grant and procedure methods when the SBA accreditation committee comes in for our big audit.
2) We will be hiring 3 new advisors starting April 1 st . They will focus on strategic planning and marketing, and the Guided Business Plan program training. An individual will be joining our team on April 1 st to help recruit Goldman Sachs clients for the Long Beach City College
Goldman Sachs program. We will be reimbursed from the lead center for the clients he is able to recruit.
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3) May 1 st , we have a former Director of an SBDC in Kentucky to help one or two days a week to help improve our process and procedures, and to conduct some advising sessions.
4) On February 7 th , the Long Beach Lead Center held our yearly SBDC Professional
Development conference at Long Beach City College. There were breakout sessions and the conference was very informative. At the end of the day they had a representative from Tony
Robb in’s group who gave an upbeat speech on how we can control our outcome and attitude. o Workplace Learning Resource Center – Maryann Cohan: not present
Denise DiPasquale: not present
Discussion
SAOs: We’re back on accreditation warning. Basically it is a warning around what we are doing with student learning outcomes. In our area we are calling them SAOs (Service Area Outcomes). Our measurement will be service area outcomes. These three questions will give you a sense of what the college is looking for: 1) Describe how program personnel are engaged in the creation, discussion and review of SAO statements assessed end results and reports. 2) How does the program ensure that
SAOs are assessed consistently? 3) Has the SAO assessment results indicated the need to change or modify components of the program, if so, were the changes implemented?
Adjournment at 2:30 pm
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