MODAC MEMBERSHIP MEETING
JUNE 6, 2008
NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE
Attending
Mark Curtis
Samantha Jackson
Cameron
Jay Anderson
Tom Oldfield
Ana Gaillat
Kari Luoma
Fiona Hert
Bill Barber
Leslie Kellogg
Alpena CC
Bay Mills CC
Jim Sawyer
Dan Woodward
Macomb CC
Mich. DLEG
Delta College
Ferris State Univ
Glen Oaks CC
Gogebic CC
Grand Rapids CC
Henry Ford CC
Henry Ford CC
Ron Harkness
Sandi Carter
Stephen Eaton
Robert Loth
Clark Harris
Bob Ferrentino
Bob Marsh
Christine Beacco
Jackson CC
Susan DeCamillis
Jim Taylor
Chuck Parker
Kathy Marsh
Kalamazoo
CC
Kellogg CC
Kirtland CC
Mich. DLEG
Mich. DE
Mid Michigan CC
Mott CC
Mott CC
Muskegon CC
North Central Mich.
C
Northwestern Mich.
C
Schoolcraft College
Randall Ward
Denny Morse
Bill Holda
Lake Michigan C
Lansing CC
Lansing CC
Valley Bruce Sweet
Denise McNeil
Tom Buszek
Rosemary Wilson
Frank Roma
Pat Collins
St. Clair County CC
Southwestern Mich.
C
Washtenaw CC
Wayne County CC
West Shore CC
Call to Order: Meeting was called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Jay Anderson, President of
MODAC
Michigan Air Traffic Control Project Update – Jay Anderson and Chuck Parker
Northwestern Michigan College, Delta College, Lansing Community College, Jackson
Community College, and Kellogg Community College partnered with Western Michigan
University in seeking an Air Traffic Controller program for Michigan. The application to
the FAA was submitted in February. Proposal was one point short of meeting the FAA
criteria, so the Air Traffic Control program in Michigan is off the table for now.
No Worker Left Behind Update – Leslie Kellogg
The group working with the state on this is approaching it with two strategies: a white
paper identifying barriers with possible solutions and a summit to bring together all
the involved parties (community colleges, MWAs, DLEG, MEDC). There is a concern
about identifying students that are not funded through MWAs. J. Anderson reported
that someone representing the MWAs will be attending a future MODAC meeting to
discuss their connection with the community colleges.
List Serve Revisions – Kathy Marsh
The Webmaster for Kirtland has developed features for surveying and sending
information out via the listserve. K. Marsh demo-ed the new features. The
membership voted to pay Marj the requested $75 each to add the the two new
features to the MODAC web site.
Hot Topics/Other
1.
February MODAC – Chuck Parker – Should we have a February meeting or
should we piggy-back on the Michigan Career Education Conference, which is
held in February each year, and have a meeting at the conference? The hope is
to entice more college participation by having a MODAC meeting at the
conference. It was proposed that we just have a round table breakout session
for those that can attend but not a full-blown membership meeting. B. Sweet
motioned we have a breakout session at the conference; B. Barber supported.
The motion was approved by the membership present. Additional information
is that the conference will be back at the Ren Center in Detroit. Sandy Carter
from MDE is on the planning committee and asked if you know of a keynote
speaker that they can consider please let Sandy Carter, Joann Mahoney or Ron
Harkness know.
2. CECR Status Report – Leslie Kellogg – The workgroup met and formed three
subcommittees: Usability, Policy, and Data. There had been talk about having
a UI-Wage subcommitee but that subcommittee was not formed and the hope is
that the Data subcommittee will cover that topic. There is at least one DLEG
staff on each committee and they are working on setting up meetings. They
have a very ambition target date of mid July for work to be done and a
recommendation to Andy Levin.
3. Discussion of how to spend down fund balance - Bob Marsh – Due to the fact
that we have an excess of funds ($30K) and we do not have a need for a rainyday contingency plan, the question is what should we do to spend the fund
balance down to an appropriate level for the association. Several options were
discussed – student scholarships, suspension or reduction of dues, sponsoring
some of the TRENDS activities to help offset the cost of that conference, and
professional development activities for the membership.
A concern was raised about using dues money, which is paid from college’s
general fund, being turned into scholarship money. Additionally the concern
regarding the logistics of managing a scholarship fund led the membership to
reject the scholarship option.
The idea of suspending or reduce dues seemed appropriate given the cost
containment efforts that many colleges are taking. It was recognized that we
should only consider this option for a given period of time; we could set a
threshold that we want to maintain and when we drop to that level then
reinstate the dues. The total dues collected are about $4500 each year. C.
Parker suggested we not suspend dues collection but simply reduce the dues so
the process for dues collection stays in place.
MODAC members have not been using the conference set-aside funds in recent
years and it was suggested that maybe we should promote attendance or open
it up to more conferences. Someone remembered that those conferences had
specifically been selected because of their political nature and colleges could
not legally fund them. It was then suggested that maybe we could pay for a
presenter to come to a MODAC meeting for professional development for all
members.
When asked what would be an appropriate level for the fund balance B. Marsh
conjectured that having $5000 in savings would probably be good. Someone
countered that maybe we should try to get it down to $20K and then take
gradual steps towards the $5000 mark.
B. Ferrentino motioned that we reduction of dues to $25 for everyone
(affiliate, associates and regular members) for one year; explore professional
development activities that can be brought to our membership (ideas will be
collected via the list serve); and increase the stipend to host colleges (the
executive committee will bring a recommend to the membership with the
proposed budget at our next meeting.) B. Sweet supported the motion.
Motion was approved by all members present.
4. Sandy Carter thanked the group for being invited and included in the meeting.
She gave some background on the OCTE and wanted the membership to
understand the link between post-secondary and secondary career technical
education, especially with Perkins IV and the emphasis on that linkage. By way
of update she told the group about a federal grant opportunity they will be
submitting by July 7th on Tech Prep, the grant is for $12,000 which mainly
covers meeting costs and is for two years, includes both post-secondary and
secondary education. On October 17th Tech Prep coordinators will be meeting.
OCTE will now be reporting on all CTE programs, not just state approved
programs.
Open Discussion
1. D. Woodward has been in contact with Julie DeRosa from the Dept of Corrections.
They are interested in articulating their prison programs with community college
programs. This would involve mainly occupation coursework, and only a small number
of credits. He passed around a signup sheet to see if there was interest.
2. J. Anderson asked how many schools have Corrections programs and he talked about
a phone conference with interested parties about strengthening the connection with
secondary education as a CTE program. Apparently MDC proposed that 15 credits
could be articulated but the college staff thought 3-5 credits would be more
reasonable. Anyone interested in getting involved in the discussion should contact
Carol Clark clarkc7@michigan.gov with MDC.
3. K. Marsh asked which other school had had a Civil Rights Compliance Review,
several members raised their hands. She asked how other schools facilitated the
review teams meeting with students. M. Curtis from Alpena said they had identified a
class that was meeting during the designated time and invited other student wishing to
contribute. A. Gaillat suggested offering pizza and pop and they will come!!
4. Fiona Hert came back to the group to finish the discussion regarding financial
support for receptions and coffee breaks at TRENDS. Last year we had 23 vendors,
they were charged $375 per table, $225 for additional tables; 40 tables were sold last
year. The TRENDS committee pays $100 per table to Amway, so we make a nice
profit. The question is should we ask vendors to help financially support the
receptions and coffee breaks because we are looking for additional revenues to offset
a 20% increase in food costs? The suggestion was made to follow a sponsorship model;
not increase in costs per table. C. Harris made a motion that Fiona explore asking
vendors to sponsor the coffee break and not the reception, the motioned was
amended to be less restricted as to what activities the vendors may want to sponsor.
B. Sweet supported; motion was approved by the membership present.
B. Sweet made a motion the membership explore MODAC sponsoring a coffee break.
S. Eaton supported; motion was approved by the membership present.
Roundtable discussion and new programs
Mott CC (C. Harris) asked about general education requirement in computer literacy.
They currently offer a 3 credit computer class and are looking at converting to 2 credit
information technology – more flexibility. Seven other colleges present still have
computer literacy as a general education requirement. SMC has a new IC3 (Internet
and Computing Core Certification) class which prepares students to take a three part
test, all associate degree students must take the class or test out. Mott is also
working on an accelerated welding training program with workforce development.
GRCC (F. Hert) is restructuring and combining credit and non-credit under same
associate deans. Fiona asked how many other colleges have both credit and non-credit
under the same administrative structure, 7 members raised their hands.
Mid-Mich CC (S. Eaton) announced that they have opened their new facilities in Mt
Pleasant which houses four new program Med Coding and Billing, Medical Inform Tech,
Physcial Therapist, and Med Lab Tech.
JCC (C. Beacco) talked about a new auto body program and thanked everyone for
answering her scheduling question, they are looking at a full-time position to oversee
scheduling building and were wondering what other schools did.
NMC (S. DeCamillis) has been approached about a new insurance certificates. Other
colleges indicated that they have closed their insurance certificate programs because
there wasn’t a lot of interest in it.
WCCD (F. Romba) is looking at new programs in fashion merchandizing, phlebotomy,
and new computer courses.
HFCC (B. Barber) is looking at a opthomology tech certificate, new international
business program with EMU, auto repair management, putting together bio-tech
program
KVCC (J. Taylor) is concentrating on how to obtain the necessary 1P1 Gold standard.
NCMC (R. Marsh) considering new program in phlebotomy. They have also entered into
a new partnership with a wood boat building company in Cedarville. NCMC is providing
the gen ed and associated for an applied science degree in wooden boat building.
SC4 (D. McNeil) is working on a HVAC program with Siemens, they are looking at
funding sources and building a lab.
LMC (R. Ward) are partnering with two nuclear plants in their area to provide an
energy production technology degree; they are also working on remodeling for medical
imaging program facilities.
Macomb (J. Sawyer)is investigating several programs in the health occ field - med lab
tech and nuclear med tech. They looked at sonography but did not find enough to
want to pursue that program.
SMC (T. Buscek) is having all full-time employees certified in IC3 (Internet and
Computing Core Certification). If employees do not receive their certification they
will not receive their raises – they do not have unions! In response to a question on the
cost of the testing Tom said it costs $50 per test which is included as class fee for
students, college pays for employee.
LCC (B. Holda and D. Morse) is working with the filming industry on a DMAC - Digital
Media Audio Cinema program. Additionally they are also looking at the insurance
certification. LCC is working with local fire departments and EMS units on some
centralized training in public safety. They are also working on a program review
process to help them determine what they need to stop doing to make room for new
program development.
Kellogg (C. Parker) has posted a radiographer/MRI position to assist in the
development of a new program for fall 2009
WSCC (P. Collins) is looking at converting their manufacturing program to an OEOE
format using an Amatrol delivery system for lecture portion and hands-on in the lab.
They are also developing an entrepreneurial center by partnering with SBTDC (Small
Business and Technology Development Center.)
Future Meetings
August 7 & 8—Delta College
October—Grand Rapids Community College
December 4 & 5—Lansing Community College
April 2 & 3—Henry Ford Community College
Meeting adjourned at 11:00 for a tour of the culinary arts department.