LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
City* East* Harbor* Mission* Pierce* Southwest* Trade Tech*Valley* West*
Career and Technical Education Deans (CTED)
District wide Committee Meeting – (Mission College)
June 20, 2013
Meeting Minutes
Dean/College Rep
College/Location
Felicito Cajayon, Vice Chancellor
Lucia F. Robles, Dean
Tasha Anderson
Vivian Alonzo
Piper Watkins
Laureano Flores
Cathy Brinkman
Ara Aguilar
Steve Moch
Elmer Bugg
Jose Luis Fernandez
District EWD
District CTE/WFD
District CTE/WFD
LATTC
City College
East LA College
Mission College
West Los Angeles College
LACCD
Southwest College
LAPC
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Minutes
Welcome & Introductions- Dr. Lucia Robles, CTE/WFD Dean, Chair
Review /Approval of Minutes
The group reviewed and approved the minutes of the April CTED meeting with the exception of
some minor adjustments. These issues will be corrected and the final will be sent by email and
posted on the website.
Michael Allen, VP of Academic Affairs,
Los Angeles Mission College
A warm welcome was given by Vice President Michael Allen, from Mission College. Vice
President Allen provided the deans information on both his educational and work experience
background. He is a former CTE Dean at a community college in the state of Washington. He
also shared some information on the recent graduates from Los Angeles Mission College. There
were 350 graduates that walked last week out of the 550 that applied from Mission College.
RECESS TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Workforce Development Committee Minutes
Dr. Felicito Cajayon reported information on the request from the Board Members to survey the
CTE Deans in order to find the missing gap in obtaining external funding grants. With the new
chancellor and board members being appointed there will be a lot of push for external funding.
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The link to this survey will be sent to the deans today and requires their immediate attention. A
hard copy of this survey was giving to the deans as well.
Dr. Cajayon gave out flyers where the district was awarded two grants related to different
training options. Steve Moch from the district office explained the training options for both
grants, one being manufacturing and the other related to alternative fuel. Any campus within the
district that has a relationship with a company that has employees that have been on the job for
more than 90 days and work more than 32 hours a week can qualify for free training related to
soft skills. The alternative fuel training requires a relationship with any company public or
private that has a fleet. The Workforce development office at the district will provide the trainers
and all necessary equipment for the training. Steve and Dr.Cajayon are willing to go out to the
companies with the deans that have these relationships to offer this free training. These options
are in line with bringing in money to the district.
Dr. Cajayon distributed the Intent to Award documentation from the State Chancellor office.
This documentation states what grants were funded and those that were not funded. Los Angeles
City College was funded for the Small Business Sector Navigator and Los Angesles Trade Tech
College was funded under the Information Communication Technonolgy (ICT)/ Digital Media
Grant. Dr. Cajayon reported that his office did apply for the Making it in America grant, but did
not mention if it has been funded as of 6/20/2013 or not.
RECONVENE CTE DEANS MEETING
CTE Meeting Minutes (cont.)
Business & Industry Committee Update
Dr. Cajayon and Dr. Lucia Robles reported their efforts to build a district wide Business &
Industry Committee to support the colleges in developing curriculum, grants and core indicators.
This committee will also be able to give letters of support for upcoming grants application within
the district. The first meeting was held on June 17, 2013 and those that attended this meeting
have already committed to meeting once a quarter at the district office. This is in efforts to meet
the Boards recommendations to build more of these sorts of committees. Dr. Cajayon stated that
we want to add more to the campus list of industry partners without duplicating the efforts of the
campuses. He also stated that we as a district want to build a war chest of employers.
Dean Elmer Bugg of Los Angeles Southwest College stated that, “We as the deans need to sit at
the table and discuss this strategy before moving forward”. Dr. Cajayon stated that we cannot
solely rely on the WIBs industry list; we have to build our own. Dr. Cajayon also stated that if
there are further questions we can talk offline.
Presentation
Drew Shula, LEED AP BD+C, Assoc. is Principal & Founder at Verdical Group, directly
responsible for client satisfaction and oversight on all project management engagements. With
experience on more than 60 LEED certification projects nationwide, Verdical Group clients
include: Ramada Inn, ANEW Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente. Drew is an experienced green
building consultant having worked across a variety of project types including: portfolio
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programs, new construction, existing buildings, tenant improvements, and core and shell
projects. Drew has consulted on a wide range of vertical real estate markets including:
commercial office, public sector, healthcare, laboratory, hotel, historic preservation, multi-family
residential, and museum and education buildings.
Dr. Robles met Mr. Shula at a United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Meeting where
several students from East Los Angeles College were in attendance and because of their large
support their campus won a lecture at the their campus from Mr. Shula which will be held at a
later date.
Mr. Shula shared his website with the CTE deans as well as a USGBC Conference held in San
Francisco in 2012. More than 35,000 people were in attendance at this conference.
He further explained how a business has to see the value of going “green.” It’s all about the
payback from going “green” says Mr. Shula. Mission College’s Music and Science building have
won several Green Building awards, one being LEED Platinum.
Piper Watkins from Los Angeles City College asked Mr. Shula about internships within his
company. Mr. Shula informed the deans that he is currently looking for interns in Marketing,
Social Media and Business Development.
Dean Bugg asked Mr. Shula if he could send the deans a list of his requirements for interns in
both his company and any other company he may know of that is looking for interns in the green
industry.
Other Items and Announcements
Introduction to the Early Intervention Certificate in Child Development
The Early Intervention Assistant Certificate is a CDE initiative through the State Chancellor
Office, and is funded through WestED. The following six campuses are participating:
LA Mission College
LA City College
LA Trade Tech College
Pierce College
LA Southwest College
West Los Angeles College
Janice Silver and Gloria Daims are the co-coordinators of this project at LAMC. Advisory
Meeting to determine community need, collaborations and resources was held at LAMC last
2/8/2013. The Child Development Discipline committee is seeking the dean’s advice and
feedback to take back to the Curriculum Committee.
The deans advise all six campuses to submit one letter of intent to LOWDL and to have all class
requirements be the same at all six campuses.
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Dean Bugg mentioned that a CTE Dean from all nine campuses should co-chair all Curriculum
Committee Meeting at each individual campus. He also mentioned that since former Vice
President Renee Martinez of East Los Angeles College and now President of Los Angeles City
College has not been at the table of the CTE Deans Meeting, the deans need to find a CIO
Representative to replace Ms. Martinez. This effort would keep the deans updating on the talks at
the Vice Presidents Meetings within the district.
CTE Deans Retreat
Dr. Robles requested that the deans email her dates that may work for the CTE Deans Retreat.
State Chancellor Office Audit
Dr. Robles informed the deans of the federal audit done at the State Chancellor Office. A finding
was issued since on site monitoring at the campuses are not being done. She informed the deans
that on site monitoring well be conducted at each individual campus in the near future. We need
to prepare ourselves so that we are ready for these visits.
Next Meeting
CTE Deans Retreat TBA
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