MINUTES
Harbor College Planning Advisory Council
Regular Meeting
July 12, 2001
Administration Representatives:
Luis Rosas, Leila Menzies, Nancy Carson, Bill Englert, Joyce Ricci, Nina Malone, Linda Spink
Faculty Senate Representatives:
Jim Stanbery, Mark Wood
Classified Representatives:
Gonzalo Mendoza
Student Representatives:
Mary Ramos, Jennifer Hutchins
Budget Committee Chair, Non-Voting:
Wendy Hollis
Three sets of Minutes were distributed. The Minutes of June 7th were approved, but Ms. Ricci feels that she has not missed any PAC Meetings, particularly the May 3rd and May 17th meetings.
Dr. Spink sent thank-you notes to all outside people who attended the June 22nd retreat. Notes from the external scan were viewed.
It is important we have this document finalized by early October. Mr. Wood indicated that the common areas of concern of the faculty were what committees are needed, what is their purview, who they are answerable to, and who are the decision makers.
The Subcommittee charged with writing the Participatory Governance document consists of Mark Wood, Claudette Youins, Gonzalo Mendoza (replacing Sholeh Khorooshi), either Mary Ramos or Jennifer Hutchins (replacing Nicholas Webb) and Linda Spink. Mr. Wood was asked to work with the document and get it ready for a meeting on Thursday, August 2nd, at 1 p.m. in the President’s Office.
The model will be put back in the Staff Dining Room. If not, it will be moved to the ASO Room. Ms. Menzies was asked to get an e-mail out to all Harbor College people. Mr. Stanbery will take the Thursday sessions at 2 p.m.; Mrs. Carson will take the Monday sessions through August. Mr. Stanbery suggested that the e-mail include inviting teachers to bring their students over. Ms. Malone could bring over the ASO.
Next Monday morning interviews will be held. The PAC Facilities Subcommittee was sent an e-mail. Gensler, Gruen and MDA Johnson/Favaro are the three groups to be interviewed. Only five colleges are involved in interviewing master planners. Three colleges have their master plans done, West has started theirs, and Southwest is waiting for their new president. Interviews will be held at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 with a Question and Answer period for the last 25 minutes. Anyone on PAC is invited. A decision as to the selection will be made by Monday.
The meeting on Friday, July 13th, was set up by Mark Wood to do some brainstorming on the model.
District K of the LAUSD is interested in doing some programming with us. After the meeting, it was suggested to explore having a teacher training academy for District K with 400 students in grades 9-12 who are interested in attending college to become teachers. Students would be attending high school here on campus. College-level courses would be taken in the morning and high school classes in the afternoon. The intent is that students could graduate both from high school and college and be ready for transfer to possibly CSU, Dominguez Hills. Planning will be done during this next year to determine the possibility. There are Tech Prep funds available for this kind of program. Middle college funds are also available through the State Chancellor’s Office. A representative from their district will be working with us during our facilities planning.
We will be renewing the South Gate High School contract for one year. Continuation is contingent upon our facilities planning.
Summer enrollment is up. We have 5,500 students, the largest ever. Census is the Monday of the fourth week. Ads are in the movies. Billboards will go up July 23rd through August 23rd. Ads are being placed in the newspaper.
We cannot buy furniture for classrooms not being renovated. It was agreed that Dr. Spink should go forward to take pictures of the poor-equipped classrooms and ask for funds. Mr. Englert will call a meeting of his committee to discuss trashcans and benches.
Two new student photo ID systems have been purchased with Student Services Block Grant monies during the 00-01 year. Mr. Ching will oversee this operation. They will be located in the registration area and the Student Services area in Seahawk Center. Ten readers were purchased which will track the students’ use of services. This will be used for statistics. Everyone will get a student ID and picture.
The student fees will be raised to $10.
The Vision Statement has been printed.
The Accreditation Visit has been set for November 8.