Board Report - January 2008

Report from Lane Community College President Mary Spilde
To the Lane Community College Board of Education

Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a good holiday season. I’d like to welcome back Paul Holman. We’re glad you are feeling better.

Winter term got off to a good start. We were monitoring the weather on Monday morning, but thankfully it was just warm enough to avoid ice, and we were able to start on time.

Lane’s Cooperative Education program and one of our outstanding employers was featured in the 2007-08 edition of Best of Co-op – A Guide to the Best Co-op Colleges and Employers. John Zemek, founder of Applied Scientific Instrumentation, was inducted into the Co-op Hall of Fame. John is a 1990 graduate of Lane and provides opportunity for Lane students to intern in his company. Sixty-six percent of his employees are former electronics or drafting co-op students from Lane.

The Post Secondary Education Quality Commission will be having its first meeting at the end of the month. The governor is finalizing appointments, and we did have a meeting with the governor’s staff to develop the agenda for the first meeting.

Each year the League for Innovation in Community Colleges holds an art competition and a booklet is published. This year’s booklet features some of the student artists here at Lane. As you can see from the publication, the artwork is of a very high quality.