Professional Staff Leadership Team
Un-Adopted Meeting Minutes
February 14, 2011, 2:00 P.M.
West Campus, Health Sciences Building (HSB) Room 211
Present (12 + 1
guest)
Patti Riva, Debi Jakubcin, Mariann Swenson, Akos Delneky, Joshua Murdock, Liz
Jusino, Shelby Fiorentino, Donna Kosloski, Johnny Aplin, Joe Sarrubbo, Joe
Nunes, Jeff Hogan, Amy Bosley (guest)
Absent (5)
Todd Hunt, Keith Mizelle, Shauna Anstey, Elisha Gonzalez-Bonnewitz, Sand Lake
Center Rotating Representative
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:09 P.M.
Approval of
Minutes
The December 13, 2010 regular meeting minutes were approved.
Office for
Organizational
Development
Update
Staff and Program Development (SPD) Advisory Committee –
 Amy mentioned that the name of the committee has been changed from the
SPD Redesign Task Force to the SPD Advisory Committee. This
committee reports to the College Operations Council. The committee
consists of 15 staff members (two of the 15 represent the professional staff
(Joe Sarrubbo and Sonja Boles-Melvin).
 Amy handed out a copy of the draft funding guidelines (updated November
29, 2010) along with a funding rubric. The draft guidelines once approved
will be in effect from July 2011 – June 2012. The committee will continue
to meet throughout the year and any new changes to the approved document
would take effect in July 2012.
 Amy mentioned that we need to decide how we will rotate professional staff
members on the committee.
 Amy solicited feedback from the group and recommended we present any
questions or concerns to her.
(Amy Bosley)
Learning Day –
 Amy appreciated everyone’s help to make Learning Day a success. She
explained that they are waiting for the results of the survey in order to
evaluate the event.
Governance Review Process –
 Amy mentioned the college is seeking self-nominations for the Governance
Review Steering Committee. A college-wide e-mail was sent out on
February 9, 2011. They are going to assemble a group of approximately
seven to eight staff members to join this group. The remaining staff
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Professional
Staff Luncheon
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Professional
Staff Forum
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Council
Updates
members not selected will automatically become part of the Governance
Review Resource Panel.
The committee will be charged with establishing design principles and
outcomes about our shared governance process.
An outside consultant will also be brought in to make recommendations.
The committee will report to the College Planning Council.
At the conclusion of the meeting cycle (March 1, 2011 – July 31, 2011), one
report will be produced with significant recommendations regarding our
shared governance process.
This event is scheduled for March 23, 2011 from 11:30 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. in
the West Campus Special Events Center (Building 8) Room 111-DEF.
We talked about the theme, topics to be discussed, food, and decorations.
We talked about having Rachel Allen/Dr. Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah
present on the Peace and Justice Initiative.
Liz Jusino will create the invite. We are going to invite all senior staff.
Debi Jakubcin and Mariann Swenson are going to look into getting peace
type decorations from Oriental Trading. We are also going to see if Shauna
Anstey has any decorations we can borrow.
We are going to look into have a soup, salad, and sandwich buffet from
Sweet Tomatoes.
The charity will be one related to animals (bringing in pet food, etc). Patti
Riva will look into this.
This event is scheduled for April 21, 2011 from 8:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. in
the West Campus Special Events Center (Building 8) Room 111-ABC.
We talked about the theme, topics to be discussed, food, and decorations.
It was decided that Liz Jusino will contact Amy Bosley and Jennifer
Robertson about speaking at the forum, along with having a legislative
update by Joe Nunes or Bill Mullowney. If Amy or Jennifer are unable to
attend, Liz will contact Carl Creasman.
College Planning Council - CPC (Joe Nunes)
 Susan Kelley gave a budget update. They discussed enrollment (had a goal
of 8% for spring, but grew 5%) and hiring (many new positions will be
created over the next year).
 The number of international students attending Valencia is flat, but the
college still wants to grow this number.
 Valencia’s funding has shifted over the past few years. It used to be 60%
state and 40% student. Now it is 35% state and 65% student.
 The Big Meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, June 2, 2011 in the
West Campus Special Events Center (Building 8) Room 111-ABCDEF.
 Joe mentioned the Dimensions of Student Engagement Survey.
 The following programs were grant funded, but are now permanent
-Teaching and Learning Academy
-Take Stock in Children
-Global Studies
-Achieving the Dream
College Learning Council - CLC (Donna Kosloski):
 No Report
College Operations Council - COC (Liz Jusino)
 Liz mentioned the Walmart grant, rolling over of Perkins funding and the
migration from WebCT to Blackboard.
 Right now, the college is working on Building 4 at the Osceola Campus and
Building 1 at the Lake Nona Campus.
 Effective July 1, 2011 our college’s new domain name will be
@valenciacollege.edu. Atlas e-mail addresses will change to
@email.valenciacollege.edu,
Meeting adjourned at 3:53 P.M.
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