KIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MINUTES

August 17, 2006

CALL TO ORDER

Vice Chair Roy Spangler called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. with the Pledge of Allegiance.

ROLL CALL

Members Present: Robert Bovee, Roy Spangler, Richard Silverman, Patricia Webb, Denis Weiss, Roberta Werle

Members Absent: Sally Galer

Others Present: Mark Allen, Stacey Barnes, Karen Brown, Fay Bovee, Jo Ann Comerford, Gene Frazier, Amy Hess, Gordon Hess, Bob Jones, Kathy Koch, Ed Koliba, Doty Latuszek, Kathy Marsh, Kyle Morrison, Nancy Pavelek, Charles Rorie, Ilene Scherer, Tim Scherer, Dale Shantz, Joan Weiss

WELCOME

Members and guests were welcomed by Vice Chair Roy Spangler.

OPEN DISCUSSION

COOR/KCC Partnerships

Bob Jones, Superintendent of Crawford Ogemaw Oscoda Roscommon Intermediate School District (COOR I.S.D.)

presented on partnership activity with Kirtland. The reason for this focus is due to forces of economic change, legislated standards, and COOR I.S.D. 2006-07 board goal #2, planning for success. He said that forces of change include funding cuts to K-12 programs, the declining student population in Northern Michigan, reduced federal ISD grants, increased need for quality outcomes, and state emphasis on dual enrollment and higher education degrees. The COOR I.S.D. 2006-07 board goal #2 is to seek opportunities to better provide services and programs. Planning for success requires a continued culture of cooperation between Kirtland and COOR. Therefore, a review of the history of successes, current practices and creating a shared vision and plan implementation is his recommendation. To accomplish this, the first partnership planning meeting of Kirtland Community College and COOR administrators has been scheduled for September 12, 2006.

MINUTES

Minutes from the July 13, 2006 regular board meeting were reviewed and approved as presented after a motion from Trustee Richard Silverman supported by Trustee Robert Bovee.

COMMUNICATION

College President, Charles Rorie provided a copy of the Kirtland MEAP Express newspaper produced by fifth-grade students in the college district who successfully performed on both the mathematics and reading portions of the state MEAP test taken while they were in fourth grade. Those students were provided an opportunity to take a series of week-long classes at Kirtland through COOR-ISD which finished on August 11.

Charles Rorie shared the final copy of the 40^th Anniversary Report to the Community which will be distributed to all postal patrons in our district.

Charles Rorie reviewed the September board meeting schedule with a special board meeting on Thursday, September 14 on Focus Groups; a special board meeting on Tuesday, September 19 for Succession Planning; and the regular board of trustees meeting on Thursday, September 21. All meetings will be held at 7 p.m. at Kirtland House.

Tim Scherer, Director of Institutional Services, provided information about the negotiation process with Steelworkers currently in progress. He said that problem identification has been completed, and it is now in the data collection phase with the next meeting to be held in October.

Doty Latuszek, Provost, provided a status report of the M-TEC site-visit currently in progress as part of the State of Michigan Auditor General’s audit.

Richard Silverman commented on how well the campus grounds look. He said the campus looks better than it ever has looked in the entire 35 years he has been here.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Nancy Pavelek, Health Careers Instructor, provided an update on what is happening in the nursing program. As a response to the reported nursing shortage, Kirtland has seen a large influx of nursing students. Currently there are 425 pre-nursing students that we are tracking. We have 94 full-time LPN students, 27 number of part-time, for a total of 120 for this semester alone, requiring 12 clinical sites. In the RN program, we have 35 full-time students, 12 part-time second year students and 32 first year students for a total of 47 students. Clinical sites range from Caro, MI to Charlevoix and Petoskey. Retaining clinical sites and maintaining those relationships has become the focus by offering a conference each year offering clinical education with continuing education credit. She concluded that we are proud of our program and are trying to be progressive and visionary, and welcome that challenge.

BUSINESS FOR BOARD ACTION

2. First Reading: RESOLUTION TO MOVE POL 6.050A WITHDRAWAL FROM COURSES

TO SECOND READING

The following preamble and resolution were offered by Trustee Richard Silverman and supported by Trustee Robert Bovee:

WHEREAS

The Kirtland Community College Board of Trustees has been presented the proposed POL 6.050A Withdrawal from Courses revision as a first reading at this meeting,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT

This proposed POL 6.050A Withdrawal from Courses revision be moved to a second reading at the next scheduled meeting.

Vote: Ayes, six Nays, zero Abstain, zero Absent, ~~zero~~ one Resolution declared adopted.

REPORTS FOR BOARD INFORMATION

Senate Bill 242 Spending Plan update

Provost Doty Latuszek provided a copy of the Spending Plan for Senate Bill 242 Funds of $800,000 for the purpose of retraining dislocated workers of private firms that have permanently closed. This spending plan is a requirement for appropriation of the funds. She noted that Kirtland is collaborating on this project with the Workforce Development offices of the Northeast Michigan Consortium and Region 7B Employment and Training Consortium as well as the staffs of the Michigan Works agencies within the 14 county partnership to maximize the effective use of these special funds to serve the students.

AQIP update

Mark Allen, Director of Auxiliary Service/Purchasing, presented an overview and update on the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) process at Kirtland. Richard Silverman made the following three comments:1. He still has concerns that trust and communication need to be worked on; 2. Results should be published on the public website, not just the internal, myKirtland site; and 3. Both sites need to be kept up-to-date..

COMPASS demonstration

Kathy Marsh, Dean of Instruction, attempted to demonstrate the COMPASS test instrument online. Because of technical difficulty, she promised to bring it back at the September regular board meeting.

Summer Enrollment report

Stacey Barnes, Dean of Student Services, gave the 2006 Summer Enrollment report with a three year comparison.

Headcount for Summer 2006 was up 11.7 percent with credit hours down 1.3 percent.

ADJOURNMENT

With no further business to come before the board, the meeting was declared adjourned at 9:05 p.m. by Vice Chair Roy Spangler.

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Koch

Recording Secretary