President's Cluster

LOS ANGELES HARBOR COLLEGE

PRESIDENT’S CLUSTER COMMITTEE

APPROVED MINUTES

November 1, 2007

10:00 am

President’s Conference Room

PRESENT: L. Spink, I. Clarke, J. Lee (co-chair), R. VanDinther, B. Easley, B. Richards, B. McNeel, L. McKenzie

ABSENT: E. Portis, C. Mussa-Muldoon, A. Patterson, A. Tomlinson, N. Malone, L. Rosas

Meeting called to order at 2:05 pm; Jonathan Lee presiding.

Item added to Agenda: Branding

1. Approval of Minutes

Minutes of 3/1/07 and 3/22/07 were approved.

2. Website Update

J. Lee and R. VanDinther updated the Committee on the progress of the implementation of the new website design, funded by the District. They discussed their concerns about the quality of the work being done in the migration of our website page to the new design. General discussion focused on:

• Who will have the access to make changes to the website
• Training for the individuals who have access to make change to the website
• Pictures, videotape for website
• Additional pages on website, additional links to community agencies, etc.

Dr. Spink commended Jonathan and Ray for their work on this project.

3. Review of Strategic Plan

Dr. Spink reviewed the President’s Cluster Unit Plan. Suggestions were made to the plan to focus it more on SLO’s. Discussion focused on:

• Each area should revise their goals for next meeting
• Staffing needs for the cluster
• Program Review and how to do it for the President’s Cluster

4. Meeting Dates

The next meeting was set for 11/27 at 1:30 pm.

5. Branding

B. Easley brought up the question of an ad in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Chamber of commerce Business Director and Community Guide; if we want to do an ad, should it be geared towards vocational training aspects of LAHC?

Also discussed was marketing and the function the schedule of classes plays in marketing. Dr. Spink discussed utilizing the expertise of a colleague in the area of schedules. The online class schedule was discussed, and it was decided to resume discussion at the next meeting.

L McKenzie brought up band width and some of the new technologies available which would increase it; also discussed was the ATM system and the building of super computers.

I. Clarke brought up the issue of the LAHC-All list, which has not yet been implemented. It will be brought up at the next Senior Staff meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:10.