EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Community Advancement Division Council
Meeting Notes
November 7, 2008
Present: Martha Aaron, Jose Anaya, Maryann Cohan, Darling Garcia, Maricela Vital
A scheduled meeting of the Community Advancement Division Council convened at
8:30 a.m. in the Business Training Center, Room 21.
Review of Minutes from October 6, 2008 meeting
o Minutes approved as written.
Department Updates
o Workplace Learning Resource Center – Maryann Cohan: Standards for
Training Certification and Watch Keeping (STCW) classes are doing very
well. Classes scheduled for November are Advanced Firefighting and STCW.
In December a Lifeboat class will be held on the 9th and an STCW class on the
16th. The KeyTrain program was presented to the El Camino Interclub
Council. The Career Skills contain five courses and the Career Clusters
contain 16 Industry clusters and how they relate to career education programs.
The KeyTrain internet based program is available in the ECC Learning
Resource Center in the Schauerman Library upper level. A daily monitoring of
the WorkKeys website is being done to locate those who have taken and
passed the assessment tests. The Career Readiness Certificate Program has
awarded 667 certificates to those who have passed the assessment tests. 160
individuals with the certificates have gotten jobs. Solar power and wind
generating sub-grantee agreement with North Orange County provided
supplemental basic skills curriculum in math for heavy wind generation for the
technician program. In January Roberto Pandolfi will attend class to be
certified in solar power. The Workplace Learning Resource Center intends to
provide job training in that area. They are also putting on a Job Readiness
Academy for the Fastener program at Compton Center. The correctional
institution contracts will be awarded for January 2009. Currently Welding and
Parenting classes are at Terminal Island. We are waiting for award letters for a
Parenting class at LA Metro Detention Center and for AutoCAD at Terminal
Island and Victorville.
o Center for Applied Competitive Technologies – Darling Garcia: The
Fastener Manufacturing classes at the El Camino College Compton
Community Educational Center started November 5 with 23 students. It
includes 320 hours of training (195 hours of lecture/lab instruction, 96 hours of
internships at partner companies, and 32 hours of job readiness). For
1
information call: Cindy Lo at 562-860-2451, ext 2511. In the process of
closing out the following programs: WIRED 2.4 and 3.5, Honeywell RTF, and
QuickStart. Plans have been finalized to implement the CTE Collaborative
grant. El Camino will work with Compton and Cerritos to reach middle school
students through campus visits, videos, and career day. The partners are
working on developing creative ideas, such as building objects with Legos, to
get the students to think about technical careers. We are currently applying for
a $2 million Department of Labor grant to support the Fastener program. This
will be a cooperative grant with the other CACTS, WIBs, and Compton, which
will be the host site. We are working closely with ETP (Employment Training
Panel) to continue with contract training and to develop a new engineering
contract training program at the BTC.
o Center for International Trade Development – Darling Garcia: The
second Nicaraguan delegation has arrived and has been here one week. They
will be departing Friday, November 14th. A Spanish Import/Export Seminar
will be held on Wednesday, November 12th. The fee will be $15.00. A new
U.S. Customs Broker Exam preparation course for February 2009 is in the
planning stages.
o Small Business Development Center – Star Van Buren will be the new
SBDC Director beginning December 1st. SBDC is now preparing for the SBA
Accreditation visit on November 18th.
o Contract Education & Community Education – Maricela Vital: The new
ET-09 Employment Training Panel (ETP) has started. The CAHSEE grant has
been awarded and work is in progress to contact individuals who have not
passed the high school exit exam. Target groups are Compton, Inglewood and
Inglewood. The grant was awarded late but the end date was not extended.
o Workforce Development – Espie Corrado: The All Campus Advisory
Board Council Dinner is November 12th, from 5:00-7:00 p.m, in the East
Dining Room. Career Placement Services reports during the month of October
there were 319 job searches by students, 76 new job postings, 20 new
employers and 7 students placed. Monitoring of VTEA fund allocations
continues to insure we are on target.
Discussion
o Streamlining processes and procedures: LCD projectors will be mounted in
the training rooms to avoid timely setups. Jose and John Wagstaff discussed
migrating to a T-1 or T-3 line or something better than a high speed DSL line
for better service.
2
o Update on multi-activity contracts: Approval for the multi-activity contracts
has been received.
o Holiday party – Only 10 individuals have responded to date. We may need to
make changes if we cannot reach the number required by the caterers.
o Everyone at the BTC has access to the copier in the Workroom by selecting the
address with BTC included.
o Safety Issues: There was a big confrontation on campus. This is a reminder
that you should not get involved and should call Campus Police or 911 for
help.
o Budget Updates: Figures released by the Governor state a significant budget
shortfall which will require budget cuts and potentially a 1½% increase in the
sales tax. There will be more cuts for the community colleges which will
trickle down to El Camino.
Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.m.
Next meeting proposed for Wednesday, January 7th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
3