Board Report – September 2008

Report from Lane Community College President Mary Spilde
To the Lane Community College Board of Education
September 10, 2008

Welcome back to the first meeting of the 2008-09 academic year.  We have had a busy summer closing out last year and preparing for all the exciting things that will go on this year.

Of course, the thing that is uppermost in our minds right now, besides welcoming students back this month and getting the year started, is the facilities bond measure.  Planning and implementation for getting information out about the bond is going well.

• The website is up and is linked to the college home page
• An information flyer has been developed
• A number of peripheral materials – banners, bookmarks, posters have been developed
• Several presentations to community groups have already been done with many more to complete over the next 50 plus days
• A schedule of ten media visits has been developed throughout the country to include Susie Johnston, John Lively or a PAC member, and myself

I am trying to keep the college bond information effort separate from the political advocacy activities, so I will not be reporting on that; Susie is keeping you apprised of that work.

We are preparing for the all-staff inservice meeting on Tuesday, September 23, starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Center for Meeting and Learning.  Please come if you can.

Last year, the Student Services Administrators Deans group endorsed a proposal from the Oregon Community College Student Government Advisors group and piloted a Student Government Certification program.  To acquire certification, each student government submitted a document at the April 11th meeting of the Oregon Community College Student Association.  Six community colleges received certification; Lane was one of them.  Congratulations to ASLCC President Josh Canaday and his team.

I am pleased to tell you that we again received a Certificate of Excellence for Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association.  Thanks to Stan Barker, Greg Morgan and the finance team.

I want to thank our staff for Lane’s immediate response to the Hynix closure.  We have recently hosted an education and training fair and are assisting those who are losing their jobs.

I am pleased to introduce our new Outreach Recruitment Coordinator, David Van DerHaeghen.  After Karen Edmonds resigned last year from the High School and Community Relations position, we redesigned the position to focus on recruitment, and we are very pleased to have David join us.