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April 13, 2022 Governing Board...
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Good evening and welcome, fellow board
members, Chancellor, administrators, faculty, and our amazing support
staff here at Pima Community College, to the regular Board of
Governors meeting at 5:30 p.m. on this Wednesday, the 13th of April,
2022. I would like to call to order the Pima Community College
monthly board meeting.
Following the guidance of public health officials, the college
continues to transition to more on-site activities and currently
allows only restricted access during board meetings for essential
personnel to promote social distancing and limit the spread of the
Coronavirus.
Accordingly, the Governing Board will continue to allow public
participation through remote technology. Therefore, although we are
not back to total in-person meetings, I'd like to use this
transitional hybrid meeting to reinstate the Pledge of Allegiance at
our regular board meetings, which was temporarily suspended while we
were in a total Zoom environment.
Therefore, I would now like to call on the chancellor to lead us
in the Pledge of Allegiance.
(Pledge of Allegiance.)
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you, Chancellor.
Mr. Silvyn, may we have a roll call, please?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Yes, Madam Chair. One quick point of order.
I know the meeting was scheduled for 5:30 but we actually didn't
start until 5:54 because the prior session ran long.
For the roll call, Dr. Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Present.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mr. Gonzales?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mr. Clinco?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Ms. Ripley?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: All board members are present.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you, Mr. Silvyn. For the record
and for minutes, the actual beginning time of this board meeting was
5:53. Apologies for coming in late.
Thank you all for making again this monthly meeting happen with
all the behind-the-scenes machinations involved in preparations of
both in-person and Zoom participation. Shoutouts to the IT staff,
communications, District Office facilities, PCCTV personnel, and
security staff, and our amazing admins who wrangle it all together,
Gabby and Andrea.
We are still abiding by CDC guidance, as we have seen in recent
national news, that the COVID virus continues with new spikes and
outbreaks across the country. We are not out of the dark and we do
appreciate everyone's support and patience as we go into a hybrid
mode of meeting.
I'm especially thankful for your understanding of two of us board
members who have elderly parents on 24/7 oxygen, creating a
precarious situation, to say the least. So thank you for that.
We are nearly at the finish line for our spring graduates, but
the cycle continues into summer and fall. I look forward to
attending the big graduation at Kino on May 18 and also other
separate graduations around the campuses to include West Campus on 12
May where I will be celebrating and honoring our military vets
getting their degrees after serving honorably for the nations.
As turmoil across the world and even in our own state and
neighborhoods continue, I applaud our students and faculty who have
stayed the course and whose very existence as students and faculty
are bringing us one step closer to a better world. It is the
connection we have as humans that will make a difference, so I thank
you all from the bottom of my heart.
Special thanks to the political science department who hosted a
teach-in to share academic insights on the Ukraine conflict. Do not
ever forget that in today's world we are all connected. Turmoil and
suffering around the world is felt by all of us.
Bravo to Erich Saphir and all the professors whose presentations
gave us historic, geographic, political, economic, and humanitarian
backgrounds.
We have one more board meeting, two more board meetings before a
two-month summer break, so I want to stress the importance of our
continued open dialogues regarding all we need to hear from you all
and share from the board.
The AERC's purpose is to ensure shared governance is upheld and
that all employees and students have a voice. Your role as an AERC
rep is a big responsibility, as you must hold the voices of your
members with the highest regard: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
It is hugely important for the board that we hear from you.
Everything we do must have this one common end goal: Serving our
students and community as best as we can, and all of us can and will
strive to do better.
With so many moving parts, I again applaud everyone for their
wisdom, contributions, support and at times sacrifice. Complaining
is one thing, but coming to the floor with a sincere intent to
improve the college and lives of our students and employees is what
will truly make a difference. I thank you all for your participation
in the spirit of shared governance.
And one thing I'd like to say also for the record, on behalf of
this board and myself as chair, any type of complaint, any type of
violations that anyone sees at this campus, it doesn't matter who you
are, will always be heard and we have zero, absolutely zero tolerance
for anything that even appears to be discrimination, racist,
homophobic, transphobic, or misogynist. I'm saying this out loud
because it has to be said. So I thank all of you who have been
supporting this spirit.
I would like now to continue with our first agenda item, our
public comment, call to the audience.
The Pima Community College Governing Board welcomes public
comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the college. Generally
the total time for public comment will be limited to 45 minutes, and
comments will be limited to 3 minutes per individual. These time
limits may be modified by the board or board chair.
Individuals sharing comments are expected to communicate with
decorum and respect. Individuals who engage in disorderly conduct or
use divisive or insulting language may have their time reduced or
concluded by the board chair.
At the conclusion of public comment, individual board members may
respond to criticism made by those who addressed the board, may ask
staff to review a matter, or ask that a matter be put on a future
agenda. Members of the board, however, may not discuss or take legal
action on matters raised during the public comment unless matters are
properly noticed for discussion and legal action.
Finally, be advised that internal college processes are available
to students and employees for direct communication.
With that, I'd like to call on our first public speaker, Laurie
Kierstead-Joseph.
>> Hi there. Good evening, everyone. Chairperson Ripley and
board members, thank you so much for having us here today. I'm
actually joined by one of my colleagues in public comment. She'll be
right behind me.
I just want to introduce her and say it is Volunteer Appreciation
Week, and we are here to highlight the amazing work of the volunteers
in the Adult Basic Ed For College & Career Program.
Volunteer Coordinator Montserrat Caballero does an incredible job
of recruiting and onboarding and training and supporting dozens of
volunteers in our program on a regular basis each year.
We're here to just kind of raise awareness that these volunteers
who you may not even know are out there are doing really great work
to help our learners have the supports that they need.
So it's really the support of this board and all of the folks at
Pima and in the college that help make sure that we have the space to
do this, but it's Montserrat who really makes it happen.
So I'm just going to hand things over to Montserrat to share her
comments today.
>> Hi, good evening. Thank you so much. As Laurie mentioned,
I'm Montserrat Caballero, and I have the privilege of being the
volunteer coordinator in our ABECC division, because I work with the
countless community members who do so much.
So for this year, '21, '22, overall we have had over a hundred
different community members step up in many different ways and help
our adult learners. Currently we have over 70 volunteers right now
working in the program, helping learners.
Thanks to their efforts, learners become U.S. citizens through
our citizenship classes. They better their math, reading, writing,
and English language skills by having the opportunity to work one on
one with a tutor.
They get extra help studying for their GED tests so they
successfully pass their tests. They attend English clubs run by
volunteers. They attend computer clubs run by volunteers, just to
better their digital literacy skills and improve their conversation
skills in English language clubs.
Thanks to their efforts, we have roughly, any given year,
anywhere from 5,000 to sometimes even 10,000 hours donated to our
program, which you can imagine the return on investment there in
terms of how many staff people it would take if we didn't have these
volunteers.
So they are crucial, they are critical to our mission, and it
really is my true honor to work with these dedicated community
members. All next week we will be posting on our ABECC social media
accounts, so please, if you're not already following, please follow
us and we will be posting stories and pictures and videos of things
from staff and from volunteers themselves.
We will be presenting all of our volunteers at the May Board of
Governors meeting for formal recognition, as well. So we will get to
hear more about the wonderful efforts of our volunteers.
Thank you so much.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much. I can't tell you
how grateful I am, we all are, for the services that you provide to
this school, to the community, and, I mean, really I'm not being
hyperbolic here, but to the world. It's amazing, incredible, and we
are eternally grateful. Thank you so much.
Our next speaker is Makyla Hays.
>> MAKYLA HAYS: Hello. Good evening, Chair Ripley, Chancellor,
board members, colleagues and guests.
My name is Makyla Hays. I'm math faculty, Pima Online department
head, and PCCEA president. First I'd like to thank Board Chair
Ripley and Vice-Chair Clinco and Chancellor Lambert for holding a
Town Hall meeting for employees. I think it was helpful for
employees to have a way to ask questions directly in that format, and
I hope we have more of this type of event in the future.
Among the questions brought up at the Town Hall, the biggest
lingering questions seemed to be centered around the classification
and compensation study. There is some information sessions to be put
on by the HR team later this month, and I hope that the questions
asked at the Town Hall and Faculty Senate and in AERC can be
addressed more fully in these meetings or shortly after.
I believe the biggest concerns from employees stem from the fact
that many still feel in the dark about the process and the content of
the study up to this point.
Questions about the timeline of what to expect and how inflation
or any delays will affect next year were asked at the Town Hall, and
I think it highlights the need for more transparency beyond the
steering committee.
Last Friday Dr. Bea came to AERC. I'd like to thank him for
coming and answering our questions about the budget, inflation, and
compensation matters. It was a good discussion and helpful to hear
from him in that format.
Dr. Bea was optimistic that the study can be done in time to
place people on a salary schedule by July 1st. PCCEA would support
this, but we are concerned there just aren't enough days left in the
calendar.
That being said, we'd like to work with administration to see if
we can accomplish that goal. In the event there is a delay, PCCEA
has requested to see something done at the beginning of the contract
year in order to help people bridge the gap until new contracts can
be issued and pay adjusted accordingly. Perhaps a stipend to help
people be able to pay for the rising cost of gas and food as we go
into fall.
As a final note regarding class and comp, I'd like to reiterate a
request I made at the Town Hall. I would ask that the board keep it
a high priority in budget discussions to ensure that there are enough
funds available to make necessary adjustments to employee salary.
As you know, employees have gone eight years now without real
raises in order to honor the work given to the college and only small
adjustments for cost of living in some of those years.
I don't know that these adjustments can really be considered
COLAs, as they didn't keep up with inflation. They were really just
"diet COLAs."
But in all seriousness, it would be quite demoralizing and
especially in a year with an incredibly high inflation rate to hear
that one should be getting a market-based pay adjustment on the new
salary scales but the college hasn't allocated enough resources to
pay for it.
I absolutely understand the realities the college budget faces
with declining enrollment, lack of state dollars, et cetera. But
many employees are also facing tight home budgets with rising costs
of childcare, gas, food, utilities, medical expenses, et cetera.
We really appreciate you keeping a close eye to college budgets
that could be reallocated to personnel without detracting from
service from our students in order to make sure that pay can be
appropriate.
I'm sure you agree our students deserve a workforce that isn't
feeling undervalued, exhausted from trying to keep up financially,
and unable to continue giving beyond the minimum. They deserve the
support of faculty and staff who are satisfied and secure in their
positions and capable of fully focusing on student needs.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration and focus on
such important issues.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much, Makyla.
Our next speaker is Ouatfa Chuffe-Moscoso.
Ouatfa Chuffe-Moscoso, are you there? We will give it a couple
of minutes.
>> Can you hear me now?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Okay, she's here. Yes, please go
ahead. You're on.
>> Good evening, Ms. Ripley, members of the board, Chancellor
Lambert, board representatives, colleagues and guests.
Ms. Ripley, I would like to address you directly to respectfully
ask for additional time to present two of the three public comments
that I had requested and initially confirmed, later to find out this
afternoon that as a matter of fact I cannot do it.
If you would allow me to extend my time to an appropriate length
that you consider appropriate?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Yes, you have 3 minutes normally, but
we can extend that to 5 minutes.
>> Okay. So thank you so much.
For the record, I'm here representing myself as a college
employee and also as a taxpayer and a constituent of District 1.
So, Ms. Ripley, you are my district leader. There are two topics
that I would like to address. The first item is I would like to
share with the rest of the board members my concern of systemic
discrimination that I brought up during the employee Town Hall at
West Campus, and the second item is to report perceived discrepancies
and procedures when employees report suspected violations of civil
right policies and laws.
I would like the audience to know that making the decision of
bringing these concerns forward to the board and in public has not
been an easy one, and it's definitely not something that I take
lightly.
I have received advice from different people through all my
journey, including leaving the college, because nothing will change,
as people say. As a matter of fact, things are getting worse every
day.
So as I mentioned during the Town Hall meeting, I'm concerned
about discrimination, and my concern began in 2017 and 2018 with the
departure of several female administrators, mostly women of color,
who left the college in a very short period. Some of you will
remember Lorraine Morales, Alison Colter-Mack, Irma Federico, Leticia
Anduaga, amongst others.
I'm aware of a couple of these individuals who went ahead and
filed complaints with the Office of Dispute Resolution. Seeing no
results, they had to go outside to state or federal agencies to file
their complaints.
In 2019, I became a victim of discriminatory harassment by a
high-level administrator. I became aware of other women, mostly
women of color, who were also being discriminated or treated unfairly
and did not want to report harassment or toxic work environment
created by the same individual.
We are not seeing another group of employees primarily of color
who are leaving the college, and I believe that the board should
investigate why. After my comment at the Town Hall, a few employees
reached out to me to share their concerns and also their hesitation
to bring their concerns forward, fearing retaliation, and waiting for
an opportunity to leave the college.
Similar concerns have been discussed at the diversity, equity and
inclusion group working with Chair Hilda Ladner. Unfortunately, some
members of the board have not demonstrated respect toward members of
the board who are of color, and that only promotes the behavior to
become acceptable by other employees of the college.
Yourself, Mr. Clinco, and chancellor made reference to policies
and procedures and protocols established to report this type of
situations. When I have actions that I consider to violate policies
or code of conduct or discrimination, harassment, retaliation, I have
followed the chain of command starting with my direct supervisor, the
supervisor of the individual suspected of violating policies and
laws.
And also, in fact, reported to the Office of Dispute Resolution.
I have also sent reports to the board as applicable when concerns are
being brought up against Chancellor Lambert, as I did on September 6,
but it seems that we don't get any resolution. I believe it becomes
a conflict of interest among some of the individuals leading those
processes or individuals reporting to those individuals who have
shown signs of not working with integrity.
As a matter of fact, I had to file a complaint with the EEOC, and
that has been the hardest thing that I have to do.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Excuse me, Ms. Chuffe-Moscoso, I'm
sorry, but we have come up to 5 minutes and we started late and we
have a big agenda. Your voice is heard. We have all heard it here
by the board members.
Please know this, and I say this with complete transparency and
honesty, that any kind of discrimination, and your statement used the
word "systemic," will not be tolerated here. We will definitely look
into it. A lot of these I have heard of and some it's the first I
have heard of it, but it's something that we take extremely
seriously. No one will ever be fired, ever, ever, ever be fired
because they came forward with a complaint. This I promise you.
So we will look into this. I apologize, but your five minutes is
up and we do need to move forward. Thank you so much for being here,
Ouatfa.
>> Thank you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Okay. I think those are all our
speakers, so we need to move forward to the next agenda item which is
board member remarks.
I will just go around the room just in order of where we are
sitting. Board Member Gonzales, would you like to go first?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: I just want to say good evening to the
community, to staff, faculty, and students, as well, too. I have
minimal to report, but one of the things I do want to share in
reference to what we have been doing, we did attend a conference a
couple of weeks ago, and I think it was a good conference. The
keynote speakers were outstanding. There was one of them,
Mr. Andrada (phonetic), that really mentioned and shared with
administrators out there in reference to equity and equality.
I think he brought in some strong points that I would like to
share maybe at the May meeting, but right now I just want to say, I
want to congratulate the people that are going to be graduating the
18th of May. More important, right now I want to acknowledge our
community, reference to the Lenten season that we have. I know it's
a big night, in fact it started on Sunday, but the whole week, we are
committed in reference to our religion.
One of the things I want to share with the public and the
community is that even though we have a very strong faith and strong
commitment to our culture, our tradition, and our language, is that
we even, it's something that's never been heard of, we even close the
casinos Wednesday through Sunday, even though we are losing a lot of
money, but we have the majority of our people working for that, for
the casino. We take it seriously because our faith is why we are
here. We want to acknowledge our ancestors that came before us and
those that will come after us, as well, too.
Coming back to what I mentioned a while ago, Mr. Andrada, that
was one of the things he mentioned reference to the cultural, of the
minorities.
One of his quotes that he mentioned is (speaking native
language). The culture cures, and it's healing.
So that's one of the things I want to re-emphasize within the
community, not only with the culture, of our own culture but also the
culture of the school system, the culture of school, culture of the
postsecondary institutions, the culture of the universities, as well,
too. More important the knowledge and the reference to what we are
here for as board members to provide and promote and dedicate ourself
in reference to providing the best services to our students at the
college level but also assisting those that are coming before us,
eighth grade through high school, as well, too.
With those words, I just want to say have a great Easter. We
will see our students back again when they do graduate. I know there
is various graduations that are coming up with the fire program
system, as well, too. But with that, one or two words I wanted to
say thank you and everybody have a great Easter and enjoy yourself
with families and friends. Thank you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Next, Board Member Garcia.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Welcome, everybody, who is listening on
this Zoom meeting. First of all, I want to thank the faculty and
staff who are doing an outstanding job in supporting our students and
our community. Without you, Pima would not exist. It takes
dedicated educators and staff support to make this community, this
college work.
I'm going to continue on with a little bit of what Chairperson
Ripley stated, and that is that we and I am definitely committed in
social justice and to ensure that people are not discriminated
against, that people that are staff and faculty do not live in fear
of their jobs because they come forward with a complaint, that the
process is fair and equitable to everyone, but a thorough
investigation has to be done.
I know that it's, as I was explaining earlier today, that in our
culture, especially the Native American and the Mexican American
community, we are not used to stating, although I'm a crybaby, we are
not used to stating how we really feel inside. We hide it. We shut
up. It's kind of like the olden days. You remember Mexicans used to
bow their head, just listen and be scolded.
Those days have ended. Please, if you have a legitimate
complaint, please follow the process. Please let the board know.
Chairperson Ripley has graciously said that she will follow through
and ensure that everything is fair and equitable and that everything
is looked into.
I believe her, and I hope that you all do. We will support her.
So please, again, if you do have any issues, please come forward.
Thank you. Have a happy Easter. God bless you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you. Next, Board Member Clinco.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much, Chair Ripley.
First I want to thank the chair for the invitation to participate
in the PCC Town Hall, along with Chancellor Lambert. I thought it
was an extraordinary opportunity to really listen to employees of the
college and have the opportunity to answer questions.
I want to really thank the college employees who participated and
shared their thoughts, their concerns, and their thoughtful questions
which really created, I thought, a very dynamic dialogue. I
sincerely hope it's something that will continue.
I also want to thank Marcy Euler and the PCC Foundation for a
tour of the new Advanced Manufacturing Center. It is extraordinarily
inspiring to see Chancellor Lambert's and this board's vision for the
future of our region and our community coming to fruition. The
physical construction is just a remarkable symbol of the
transformation in education that's occurring because of this college,
and to know that the jobs of the future are going to be built here is
so powerful.
I would encourage all of the board members, if you haven't had an
opportunity to go see the site under construction, it is really
unbelievable.
Again, I just want to congratulate Chancellor Lambert for
continuing to lead with such a strong vision for this region and this
community. It is so inspiring, and I personally am so thankful for
your leadership in helping to craft and bring to fruition these
remarkable assets that will shape this city and this county for
generations to come.
So thank you. That's all my remarks.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you. Next we have Board Member
Dr. Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: I have no comments. Thank you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much.
I just have a few things to say, but thank you, board members,
for your remarks, your time, and your devotion to this college. We
are so grateful to have you on the board.
Last week -- well, first I will start with this. I did attend
the August Wilson play that PCC Theater & Arts put on, The Piano
Lesson. If you didn't see it, you really missed something amazing.
It was an amazing social statement, an amazing play, and also
incredible talent.
I think we need more of those types of plays to be performed, and
everything in the arts, the musicians, as well, it's an important
time and I think arts, music, dance, and fine arts can really take
the place of dialogue in most cases when there is a lot of social
upheaval going on. So thank you for that.
I also attended last night the play, the musical Hadestown. I
know this is a little bit out of turn, but again, an incredible
statement on social justice that will everyone really needs to hear.
It was an amazing performance.
With that, last week I also attended the Higher Learning
Commission, as did a few board members and the chancellor and some
administrators. I took away some very interesting and sometimes
daunting information.
It's no secret that higher education is changing. I'm not going
to say for the better or worse, but it is changing. This change,
according to many of the keynote speakers and the last keynote
speakers, this was coming and happened before and not because of
pandemic. It was already coming down the pike.
Students around the country are opting out of college because
they need jobs ASAP. For universities, the barriers to entrance are
just too challenging. However, so long as we have folks in our
community who desire and need the pathways that we offer, we will
continue to make it happen at community college.
One of the simplest and most humble messages I heard at the
conference came from the keynote speaker on day one similar to Board
Member Gonzales' remarks from Mr. Andreche (phonetic), he stated that
the most important thing we should be doing for our students is being
aware of their wellness, their wellness. Not referring to their
healthcare but their mental wellness.
We have people at our campuses from every walk of life, and many
more people show up broken, lost, and emotionally unwell, both
students and employees.
As a community college, our No. 1 loyalty is to the community and
students from our community. We are not just a transactional
company, like the for-profit schools, transactional in that you pay
money and we give you a certificate or degree in return. We do do
that, but if we are the hub of this community in Tucson, Arizona,
which I think we are, then let us be that hub. Let us be that safe
space, let us be that ray of light, let us be the place to go that is
affordable and welcoming as well as state-of-the-art.
Our students deserve the best professors, the best facilities,
and the best technologies to not just level the playing field but to
give them an edge in the world. Community college can do that. Pima
Community College can and is doing that.
The pandemic taught us many things, but one of the most important
things I hope we all can understand is that we are all connected. We
all feel a collective pain, a collective sorrow, a collective sense
of loss, a collective loneliness, a collective existential reality at
the tail end of this pandemic.
We are a big community college but not the biggest and not even
the most amazing, but it is ours. It belongs to us, to you. So if
we are providing students with degrees or certificates or pathway to
a four-year university degree or just the chance to learn a language
or how to play an instrument, we must do it holistically. Look and
listen to your fellow employees.
Look and listen to your students. Look and listen to your fellow
board members and the chancellor. Know when one is hurting or sad or
struggling. Reach out. Talk to them. Help them. Help each other.
We are only as well as our most unwell and most vulnerable students
and staff.
Tucson is our town. Oro Valley and Marana are our towns. South
Tucson, Green Valley, Vail, and Sahuarita are our towns. Anything
short of love, compassion, and empathy does not serve us as a
community. It's what distinguishes us from the universities and from
the for-profit colleges.
Thank you for indulging me in these remarks. We have a lot of
work to do every single day and we have so much room for improvement
and change. I know this, we all know this, the chancellor knows
this.
I urge us all to do it, yes, with logic, passion, and commitment,
but also please with kindness, understanding, and empathy for those
who are trying to do their best but struggling.
Thank you so much.
With that, our next agenda topic is the Pima Mission Moment.
Chancellor?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Madam Chair, it's my pleasure to be able to
introduce our Pima's Mission Moment. So we have a couple of students
who will be joining us from our IBEST programs.
Haley and Atheena, are you on?
>> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Please go ahead.
>> Thank you. Thank you, Chancellor. My name is Wendy Scheder
Black. I'm actually going to kick us off tonight for our Mission
Moment and set us up a little bit to fill you in just on what our
IBEST program is and does, and then introduce our students so they
can share some of their successes.
Good evening to everybody, to board members, guests, and
colleagues. I am the director for adult education services and adult
education for college and career division of Pima Community College.
I'm really thrilled to be here tonight and have the opportunity
to share with you the ways in which our IBEST programs support the
mission of our college and truly promote student success.
I brought with me the people you really need to hear from, an
IBEST instructor and two of our many star students to share some of
their successes with you.
Before I pass it over to them, I'm just going to let you know a
little bit more about IBEST to provide some context for what they
will share. So for anyone who doesn't know already, IBEST stands for
Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training. It's an educational
model coming out of Washington state, which essentially merges adult
basic education and career and technical education into one program.
So all of our IBEST programs include CTE faculty and adult
education instructor co-teaching in the classroom together. The
career and technical education faculty member will teach the
technical content while the adult basic education instructor teaches
the math, reading, and writing skills that are needed for students to
succeed in the CTE credit coursework.
They also will teach employment readiness skills and also support
those students who are pursuing their high school equivalency
diplomas. IBEST also brings in essential partners, including Pima
County One-Stop, JobPath, and the Women's Foundation for the State of
Arizona. They all provide access to the resources that students
need, whether it's funding or bus passes or referrals to community
organizations, technology tools. Anything that the students need to
help them persist and succeed in this program, we want to connect our
students to those resources.
So this integrative model brings those resources that students
need to succeed together under one roof. Success is really clear.
About 75% of all of our IBEST students complete their certificate
program within one year, and another key success of this model is how
effectively it has opened up access to career training for our adult
learners who are seeking their high school equivalency diplomas like
the two students here tonight.
About half of our IBEST students are pursuing their HSE diplomas
at the same time they are pursuing a CTE certificate. So at its
core, IBEST is all about integration and collaboration to create a
holistic approach to student learning.
We have worked very closely with CTE leaders like Dean Amanda
Abens and Dean Greg Wilson from the very beginning of IBEST at PCC.
They have helped us identify what programs would be a really good fit
for this model and have together with us co-designed the most
effective models for our students.
So that's IBEST in a nutshell. Now I'd like you to meet one of
our IBEST instructors, Linda Kangas, who is here to introduce our two
IBEST students. Linda?
>> Thank you, Wendy. And thank you, board, and Chancellor. My
name is Linda Kangas, and I am an IBEST instructor. I have been in
the IBEST program for the last four years. I have been an adult ed
instructor for the last 23 years.
It has been my privilege and joy to have both of the following
students in my IBEST classes. The first student I'm going to
introduce is Atheena, who we call TT, Martinez. She started in the
building and construction certificate program in August of '21. TT
is a source of motivation and inspiration to her peers.
TT, I'm turning it over to you now.
>> Thank you, Linda. Hello. My name is Atheena Martinez. I am
31 years old. I'm a mother of six and a first-generation college
student.
As a young child, I faced homelessness, living on the streets
with my mother off and on, until I was placed into DCS custody at the
age of 12. I went to many group homes and some foster homes up until
I aged out.
At 18, I ended up getting pregnant and I had to drop out of
school because I had no support or resources to continue. I faced
homelessness for a long period of time afterwards. I returned to
school once before, when I was 24 years old, but with little to no
success, I had no desire or drive to complete it.
I returned to school last year in February 2021 at the age of 30
with Pima's adult education program, determined to change my life and
my children's outlook on their futures. As of August 2021 I
discovered building and construction technologies, the IBEST program,
and began to mountain-climb to my success.
Through BCT IBEST, I've become more confident in myself as a
learner, and I have gained more knowledge and better communication
skills. I have built many friendships. I have completed 16 credits
so far, and two weeks ago I was inducted into the National Adult
Education Honor Society.
I was nominated by my instructors, Jenny and Linda. Not only has
building and construction technologies IBEST changed my outlook on
school, but through this program, with the support and encouragement
from others, I have earned my high school equivalency diploma within
just a month and a half after starting with IBEST.
I have gained the support system and a cohort that believes in
each other. I have a cheer squad in two advisors, Stacey Fox and
Rosa R., who keep me organized and on task. I honestly don't think I
would have made it this far without the additional instructional time
before or after class.
The extra time gave me a chance to get ahead and relearn skills
that I lost over time. As of right now, I am working as a student
aide at the Downtown Campus learning center. I have become more
driven to keep going even beyond the certificate. I plan to get my
Associate's degree.
I hope to become a contractor to assist low-income families in
South Tucson and build foundations to help with the homeless
population. Through this journey, I found that my children, my
husband, my family, and my cohort have become my drive and my
motivation to continue with my education.
I want them to see me succeed so that they can continue to
succeed as well. I am wiser, smarter, and more ambitious, and I hope
to continue down the path I am traveling to have a brighter and more
successful future.
Thank you for the opportunity for me to share my story with you.
>> Thank you, TT. What a powerful story.
So the next student I'm going to introduce is Haley Aguilar. She
started in the medical assistant program in April of 2021. Haley is
so gracious and shows such great empathy that pursuing a medical
assistant certificate was a perfect fit for her.
Haley?
>> Thank you, Linda. Hello, all. I was born into a family of
seven children. I was the only one to drop out of school and the
first to graduate college. I began this journey for my son. He gave
me my purpose and my meaning.
At the age of 20 I became a single mother to a micro preemie.
Our lives revolved around monitors and machines with brilliant
nurses, doctors, and specialists to guide us through it all.
Bright-eyed at the knowledge and capabilities of these amazing
individuals, how each role was just as important as the next, it lit
something inside of me, which led me here.
I have admired the healthcare professionals that have led my son
and I throughout our journey. I wake up every day and try to make
just as much of an impact. I chose to be an ally, I chose to be a
medical assistant.
For 13 months I strived, to do my best, not imagining I would
ever accomplish this much. With the medical assistant IBEST program,
I was given a second chance at life, the chance to start again and do
it my way.
I have never experienced such support and guidance as I have
throughout my schooling with Pima Community College. I felt heard
and understood for the first time in a very long time.
As an adult person in education, it can be very intimidating.
There were hurdles I didn't expect to face, like completing my
certification during the pandemic, with all of my classes proctored
online, all while studying to obtain my high school equivalency
diploma as well. Despite it all, I pushed forward and I succeeded.
I spent my life before slinging drinks and perfecting my Manhattans
to now dipping urine and perfecting my (indiscernible) needle sticks.
I have truly always loved what I do. I just knew I wanted to
push myself for more. The process of progress is never-ending.
Starting is the hardest part.
To see what I am capable of, what I can accomplish, it has driven
me to strive for so much more. This is my beginning in the
healthcare field, with hopes to reach my goal of becoming an RN,
working in labor and delivery, or in the NICU where my story began.
I'm extremely thankful to all those involved in the medical
assistant IBEST program who have had an impact on me and my fellow
classmates. Their support and guidance has given us the chance to
succeed when all the odds may be against us.
Thank you all for all you do.
>> Thank you, Haley. That was a wonderful story.
Wendy?
>> Thank you so much and Haley and TT for taking the time out of
your very busy lives to be here tonight. I know Haley just was on
her way home from work. She works at Banner over at University, and
she swung by Downtown Campus to join me at my office so she could
participate in this meeting.
TT, I know you have a houseful at home you're trying to take care
of in between managing all that you do with your work here at
Downtown Campus and also your studies with BCT.
Thank you so much for coming here to share your stories tonight.
We are really grateful. Your successes are absolutely the reason
that we are all here. We do what we do for this, for your successes.
We celebrate with you.
I just want to close by thanking the board for giving a little
bit of a space at the top of these meetings to acknowledge the
successes of our programs and more importantly of our students.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much. You really put it
well. I just want you to know both TT and Haley have touched our
hearts, and we are grateful for what you all do. Our community is
all the richer for students like this. Thank you so much.
Next on the agenda we have reports. The first report is
administration. One of our administrators, we have Dr. Dor�. Dr.
Dor� will be talking about the fall retention initiatives. This is
about enrollment and retention. Thank you.
Dr. Dor�?
>> DR. DOR�: Thank you, and good evening, Chair Ripley, members
of the Governing Board, Chancellor, colleagues, guests, and students.
This evening I'm going to give a brief overview of, Phil and I
will give a brief overview of current enrollment at the college as
well as current access and retention initiatives and then marketing
and external relation efforts leading into fall 2022.
I want to acknowledge all of our employees for their efforts
throughout the last year to increase access and retention for our
students.
So to begin, I'd like to provide an overview of current
enrollment at the college. Now, spring 2021 head count was down
about 18% from spring 2020, and that's the semester that the pandemic
started. And while this spring is down compared to last spring, the
good news is the decrease is much less substantial, at about 4.28%.
Now, these enrollment numbers do not yet include dual enrollment,
ABE, or full-year term workforce and training programs.
Now, on a more positive note, the summer registration started and
so far our head count and enrollment numbers are higher than each of
the previous three years with a 4.5% increase over last year in head
count. Now, this spring and summer data come from STAR daily
registration reports.
In terms of retention trends, if you look at retention from fall
2019 to fall 2020, and compare that to fall 2020 to 2021, we had a 3%
increase in retention. Additionally, fall registration only opened
last week, so it's a little too early to report those numbers.
However, so far there does appear to be an increase in fall
registration to date compared to each of the last four years. So we
are looking at some pretty positive trends there.
Next I will give an overview of some of the initiatives to
promote student access, retention, and student success this semester.
Student affairs and college readiness and student success continue to
lead and implement numerous programs for student access, retention,
and student wellness.
This semester, for example, in January and February our program
advisors conducted over 2,800 in-depth program advising appointments.
Additionally, all new students are contacted three times throughout
the semester to set up an advising meeting and create a student
academic plan.
Now, the program advising teams will also participate in a global
advising week the first week of May to connect students with their
program advising teams.
Additionally, the student engagement team has been very active
this spring with both virtual and in-person events to promote
retention and student wellness. For example, there have been a
number of mental health and wellness events throughout the semester
including counseling, Wellness Wednesdays, and workshops such as
cultivating resilience and mental flexibility and many other
additional wellness sessions offered throughout Student Life.
This week there is a university transfer fair planned at multiple
campuses with representatives from the three state universities as
well as other transfer universities as well. There is a health
sciences career fair tomorrow, and we are doing a lot of those types
of things throughout the semester as well.
Another major college event is also scheduled for tomorrow, and
that is the national signing day, and that's taking place in person
at West Campus. I want to thank all of the staff and the
chancellor's office and all of the academic leaders and deans who
really have helped to get students involved with this really exciting
annual event in which our incoming students commit publicly to
complete their program of study.
Now, also under the division of student experience, Jeff Thies,
he continues to lead the student support services. Really have
proven to be very effective, including the lending of the mobile
devices and the hotspots. Now, we are actually institutionalizing
that process moving forward. And then multiple measures and
PimaEdReady placement options that are far more effective in
predicting core success than those traditional proctored placement
tests.
Now, from the workforce development division, they have really
continued hosting events to connect students with employers,
including Focus on Your Future, they have an event with applied tech,
IT and business, and they have an aviation hiring event as well.
Then workforce development is also leading the development of two
economic development administration grant applications for Build Back
Better and the Good Jobs Challenge grants. This is really proceeding
with a lot of funds for new programs and the expansion of the Pima
FastTrack. What we are doing there with some of this grant dollars
is including navigators with Pima Connect to help those students
persist and succeed.
Then from academic affairs, the deans are collaborating with the
campus vice presidents on a developing pathways, course scheduling
pathways at the campuses. There is going to be a large scheduling
summit coming up in May. They will all be working on that.
Then PimaOnline went live with PimaOnline navigators. What this
is is current online students that are available to assist other
online students with navigating the college's online environment.
These navigators are available to help students in the evenings and
on weekends.
And in terms of the centers of excellence programs, are further
developing their programming and partnerships. You know, another
example in collaboration with the workforce division and our IT and
hospitality centers, as well as our truck driving program, we are
working to provide on-site training at the Gospel Rescue Mission for
the residents there, and that's in collaboration with the center of
opportunity.
All of the centers of excellence are continuing that critical
outreach to the community through high school presentations,
community outreach, and events.
I also want to commend our dual enrollment team for their work
this past year, further developing those partnerships with the high
schools. Those enrollment numbers continue to grow. We are seeing
with current year enrollment at 8,000, and then the current head
count this year at over 4,600 students.
We have hired five new high school recruiters that began in
March, and they are out in the high schools working with seniors who
are applying to Pima. They are conducting senior guidance visits,
connecting with enrollment advisors, financial aid, setting up tours,
and really establishing really a high presence in the high schools,
moving forward.
I have also been visiting the high schools this semester, and I
have seen this team in action. You know, they are really awesome,
quite frankly. I have had discussions with the principals and the
superintendents, and they seem very pleased with this new model.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Dr. Dore, I just want to give you the
two-minute warning.
>> DR. DOR�: Well, then, with that, I want to -- because we only
have two more minutes, I want to pass it on to Phil Burdick, who is
the executive vice chancellor for outreach.
>> PHIL BURDICK: Thank you, David. Again, working hand in hand
with the enrollment team and retention, marketing has done a great
job under Paul Schwalbach to really reach out to students to sign up
for classes in the spring. You can see that in our numbers how we
have really slowed down the number of students who did not return to
the spring.
So although we were hoping for something less than 4%, we are
really pleased at the trend, the upward trend, for spring enrollment.
But that did not come easily. We sent out texts four times to
current students, over 13,000. We geofenced homes of current
students. That's over 13,000 students.
Under Paul's guidance we also e-mailed stopouts. Those are
students who attended Pima or applied to Pima over the last three
years but did not complete. We sent out over 40,000 e-mails to those
stopouts to register for the spring or consider us for the fall.
You also saw these signs around campus, just to remind busy
students to register for spring classes. We thought that was very
effective.
And we are already, even though it's April, fall enrollment
marketing campaign is already underway. We have sent three out of
four planned mailers to high school parents. Those are actually in
front of you, and you can see this mailer here, and then I would also
invite you to just go ahead and open this piece that's right in front
of you.
Go ahead and open it up if you could. Just flip the two sides
here. You'll see, it's going to pop up here, if you just open up the
two flaps, and then you see this kind of cube that pops up.
So this is the product of the genius of Paul Schwalbach and the
people at Gordley Group who come up with these ingenious ways to make
things that, you know, you get in the mail more interesting and
really try to put in the minds of parents especially that PCC might
be an option for them come the fall.
So in addition to these mailers, and again, we are going to be
mailing parents and students all throughout the spring and summer
with pieces like these, we are also reaching out by radio, Spanish
radio, streaming audio, general banner ads, paid search so if you
search for colleges or particular programs, you know, in Google or
whatever your browser is, hopefully Pima Community College will pop
up as an ad on those searches, social media as well as the outdoor
ads.
We have also done a great job of marketing our newest program,
Pima FastTrack, which you have heard about, where students can get
recognized credentials in a short amount of time.
We have had to date over 4,000 inquiries for this program, thanks
to our marketing efforts, which is great, and really they are hitting
the kind of audience we are really hoping to get, those who are
unemployed or underemployed. Our marketing is bilingual, so we are
really hitting the target market in those inquiries that we were
hoping to hit.
I think a great part of this program is the financial assistance
we are receiving for these adults, because I think without that
financial assistance it would be very difficult for them to give up
whatever they are doing and go in this direction for Pima FastTrack.
So this is an example of some of our outdoor advertising that you
are going to be seeing now throughout the spring, summer, and fall.
You will be seeing this on buses, billboards, bus shelters throughout
the Pima County area.
With that, I'm happy to answer any of your questions.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much. That's amazing.
This is a tremendous effort on the communication team's part. Thank
you so much, Phil, for that.
I know personally I get a lot of pieces of mail and throw half of
them away, but this one certainly will attract some attention. I
think the affordability, accessibility, and equity piece of it I
think is something you succeeded in hitting home.
Keep doing it. Thank you. Just for everyone to know, we all, as
a board and chancellor, we pretty much charged Phil with this task
and he came through hugely. Thank you so much for doing this, and we
look forward to seeing the results. Thank you.
Board Member Garcia has a question.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Phil, could you please tell me, of the
people that get inquiries, how many of them actually complete it and
registered?
>> PHIL BURDICK: Unfortunately we don't have what's called a CRM
system, it's called Customer Relationship Management system. We are
actually looking at a vendor to implement that system.
That's an excellent question, because we want to be able to do
that. We want to make sure that we track someone when they make that
first call to PCC, when they make that first e-mail or text us, and
we want to follow their journey all the way until they actually
complete their application.
We don't have the systems in place to do that now, but I'm hoping
by July or August we will have that system in place, and then we can
report back to you, Board Member Garcia, and the rest of the board,
exactly what we call that conversion rate will be.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: One of the other things that I would like
to see is the completion rates on the different programs for
FastTrack. That would be very helpful. Thank you.
>> PHIL BURDICK: Thank you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much.
Can you touch briefly also on, I don't know if you have spoken
about this before to the board, but can you just reiterate the
employees that are actually posted at these schools three days a
week?
>> PHIL BURDICK: Yeah. So maybe Dr. Dor� would have a better
answer for that, but I will tell you that our area is working very
closely with James' team to come up with a lot of this marketing
collateral so that the people who are now in those schools have the
marketing collateral, both in English and in Spanish, to make sure
that they leave an impression for prospective students.
Dr. Dor�?
>> DR. DOR�: Yes, Board Member Ripley, those recruiters are
essentially out in the schools most all the time. So I have been
really impressed. When I have gone to the high schools, they have
got the tables there, they are set up during lunch and a lot of
students are coming up.
They are also going in and speaking to seniors in classes and so
forth. I have been really impressed with how they have hit the
ground running. They only started in March, and James had them out
to the schools within about a week.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Great. I know we took a little bit
more time on this topic, but enrollment and retention is the board's
No. 1 concern. Thank you so much, everybody, for your patience.
Any other questions?
Okay. Thank you so much, Dr. Dor� and Phil, for your amazing
information and all the work you have been doing.
We have one more administrator, Dr. Bruce Moses, from the Higher
Learning Commission, a little bit of an update.
>> DR. BRUCE MOSES: Good evening, Board Member Ripley, fellow
board members, Chancellor, colleagues and friends.
It seems like I'm frozen.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: No, you're not frozen. We see it, we
hear it.
>> DR. BRUCE MOSES: So there is not much to report right now.
The peer reviewers are doing their work. The intent is to provide
the college with a draft report on April 24, or by April 24, I should
say, and then we will be able to check for errors of fact.
After that, we will submit the report back to the peer reviewers
and HLC. The peer reviewers will then look at the report, and their
intentions is to get it back to the Higher Learning Commission by May
24th. And then the Higher Learning Commission will finalize it, it
will go to their Institutional Action Council, IAC. They will either
accept the recommendation of the peer review team or make some other
type of recommendation.
In reality right now, there is very little to report here. There
might be a possibility that the reviewers may ask for additional
information from us. I have a call scheduled with the peer reviewer
just to follow up with him to see if he has everything he needs and
he needed to receive that he asked for additionally prior to leaving
for the visit. That call is tomorrow. So I will get back to the
chancellor and report back to him to make sure that he has everything
that he needs to continue on with his work.
That's pretty much it at this point in time.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much, Dr. Moses.
>> DR. BRUCE MOSES: You're welcome.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Next on the agenda is reports by
representatives to the board. We have a total of 25 minutes for
this.
Our first report comes from student member Collin Bryant.
>> COLLIN BRYANT: Good evening, Chairwoman Ripley, Chancellor
Lambert, Governing Board members, faculty, fellow students, and
guests.
It is April, everyone. That means that the Pima Aztec Student
Senate elections are open. I encourage everyone here to spread the
word to students they know so they can get their vote in. Our
Student Senate is a crucial part of this college and every vote
matters.
On to a mural project update. As many of you know, this year's
Student Senate has decided to paint a mural to bring life and color
to Downtown Campus. This lasting project can be looked at as a
direct reflection of the unity, strength, and persistence that has
been exhibited in this year's Student Senate from the first day they
were brought together.
We would like to give back to the institution that made it all
possible. However, we have recently been informed that the wall that
has been approved for us to paint may possibly be torn down in the
future.
Carrying through with this project, painting on a wall that could
possibly be torn down in the future would undermine the entire ethos
that has been driving our project, that our mural would be a gift for
students and staff alike to appreciate years from now in the future.
The Student Senate now urgently request any and all information
on the renovation plans for Downtown Campus, particularly on the ST
Building, which is where the auto tech shop is located.
If anybody listening to this has information, please e-mail the
Student Senate e-mail, PCC-studentsenators@pima.edu.
If it's confirmed the wall is to be torn down, the resilient
student senators have a plan B, which will preserve the ethos driving
our project. Plan B is to paint a mural on polytab cloth, also known
as parachute fabric, which could tour from campus to campus until it
finds a permanent home.
Now, moving on. Back in February, I was delighted to recognize
three Pima students who received the Phi Theta Kappa All-Arizona team
scholarship. This evening, I have better news. Two Pima students
have been recognized on a national level receiving the Phi Theta
Kappa All-USA team scholarship.
Let me note this is a scholarship that only recognizes 20 of the
best community college scholars across the nation. Pima Community
College has two of these 20. Without further ado, I'd like to
recognize and congratulate in the face of the Governing Board our
Pima Aztec Student Senate co-secretary, Andrea Salazar Calderon, and
our Phi Theta Kappa president, Halianna Piller.
If it is not apparent already, I take every chance I get in this
position to showcase examples of students who truly put on for the
college.
With that, thank you, everyone here, for your never-ending
efforts to improve our Pima Community College.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much, Collin. Thank you
for all you do and for that report. We will certainly look into the
wall and get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you for that. Good job.
Next we have the adjunct faculty report with Sean Mendoza.
>> SEAN MENDOZA: Chairwoman Ripley, Chancellor Lambert, members
of the board, honored guests. This month I would like to highlight
three important updates: Professional development funds, adjunct
faculty tiered system, and changes to faculty and staff terms to the
All College Council.
As you may recall from my last report, adjunct faculty now have
access to professional development funding, which has the potential
to positively impact the students of the college.
According to Brian Stewart and his review committee, 22
applicants have applied and have received funding, leaving little
over 14,000 left for the year.
Adjunct faculty are encouraged to submit applications before the
end of the spring semester, and we believe this is a great start for
an opportunity never before provided to us by previous
administrations. Thank you, Chancellor Lambert, and the board
members for your support.
As mentioned in the last meeting, the adjunct faculty tiered
committee has been working diligently with our faculty peers,
administration, and All College Council representatives to develop
policies for Pima's adjunct faculty tiered system.
Kate Schmidt of the provost's office and Sarah Jansen, a fellow
adjunct faculty member and AERC rep, continue to lead a committee of
staff and faculty, full- and part-time, in the development of this
important initiative.
Members of this committee include Dena Wakefield, Jennifer Wiley,
Makyla Hays, Lynn M., and myself. As we continue to engage with our
faculty peers and the AERC processes, I'm excited to say college
administration's feedback on the development and implementation of
this initiative has been well-received, and we want to thank you, Dr.
Bea, for your continued support and feedback.
I also want to bring your attention to changes, to the faculty
and staff terms, for All College Council. As of last month, the
council voted unanimously to extend faculty and staff terms from one
to two years. The vote and the purpose of the term extensions was to
create greater continuity for future projects and initiatives
important to faculty, staff, and student representative groups.
As the veteran for the ACC, I'd like to thank Phil Burdick and
Randy Wright for their current leadership and support of this
important change.
Lastly, I want to please keep in your hearts all those affected
by the pandemic and all those whose families are impacted by the
Ukrainian and Russian war.
Thank you for your support of adjunct faculty. Have a great
Easter Sunday and Ramadan.
This ends my report.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much, Sean. Adjuncts are
really lucky to have you. Speaking as a former adjunct, you're doing
a great job. Thank you. I'm really glad you're taking advantage of
the professional development. Really important. Thank you.
Next report comes from the staff, Erika Elias.
>> ERIKA ELIAS: Good evening, Chairperson Ripley, members of the
board, Chancellor, and guests. I apologize for my voice. I have
been ill for the last week, so I'm going to keep my report a little
bit short so I don't lose my voice.
I wanted to highlight that on April 26, student affairs will be
hosting the Pima Community College Knowledge For Partners in
Education. This is going to be a virtual event that will run from
8:15 a.m. in the morning until 11:30 a.m.
There will be different presentations for dual enrollment, FAFSA,
ADR, student resources, TRiO, the IRSRC. And we partner with
different K-12 partners that we have and even partners from U of A,
ASU, GCU, et cetera. Right now we have 77 people that have already
registered for this event, so we are really happy to be hosting it.
This will conclude my report. Thank you for your time.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much. That was really
important to hear. Thank you.
Next is faculty report, Denise Reilly.
>> DENISE REILLY: Hello, and thank you for allowing me to speak.
Chancellor Lambert, Chair Ripley, members of the board, colleagues
and guests.
I would like to start with I know we don't really have a lot of
time to talk about the class and comp, and we don't have any details
of that, as well as the HLC and the outcomes, so those are things
we'd like to talk about in the future.
But this has been a busy semester, and I really appreciate and
acknowledge that, Chair Ripley, you mentioned kind of the global
things going on at the college. So thank you.
I want to focus this report on communication. The reason is that
I think that as Faculty Senate officers, we are focused on open,
honest, transparent communication and follow-through. I wanted to
share with you a little bit about what the Faculty Senate officers
are doing to make sure that that happens.
As Faculty Senate officers, we started in the fall by having
study sessions. We modeled it after you folks on the board who have
study sessions that about once a month where colleagues get a chance
to get together and express their thoughts, opinions, and shared
expertise on some topics that are of interest that we don't really
have enough time for in a two-hour meeting once a month where
oftentimes most of our meetings, the time is taken by presentations.
So we have had topics such as PimaOnline, the Teaching and
Learning Center, and we have an upcoming topic of the AGEC and
Transfer Reimagine.
So some other things that Faculty Senate officers are doing is
that we are benchmarking other institutions, other community
colleges, to see how their Faculty Senate/Governing Boards work and
how their institutions and different, I guess I would say governing
forces work together at the community college.
Two of us in Faculty Senate officer positions attended the HLC
conference. Yes, it was very good to see Luis and Maria. I saw you,
as much as you wanted to be incognito, out on the town of Chicago. I
did spot you and say hello. So I missed Chair Ripley on that one.
We attended your study sessions. We have gone to the Town Hall,
and if not (indiscernible), we have instituted social events, which
are encouraging fellowship, and one really positive thing is that
when we meet once a month with executive leadership at the college,
we noticed that our one-hour time frame once a month was just not
enough. We never got through the agenda items. We didn't even get
through two-thirds of the agenda items. So we decided to extend that
to one-and-a-half hours and graciously executive leadership has
agreed with that, so that's been a positive.
We have invited administrators to our classrooms. I have had the
opportunity to have Dr. Dor� and Dr. Duran-Cerda both in my class
this semester in student success, just to have the privilege of them
having coming and visiting and seeing what a student success course
is like.
So we have been pretty action-oriented. These are the things we
have been doing to try to elicit communication. As I have heard over
and over, we want to talk about shared governance, we want to talk
about communication, and that being a two-way street.
So the second thing that goes along with strengthening
communication between governance and work groups, currently we don't
have a repository for all the 240-plus full-time faculty that we have
at the college that each belong to at least one committee, commit to
faculty advising hours. And in this goal of being open, transparent,
and honest, where is all this hard work going? Where is all of this
housed?
We call these groups work groups, we call them committees, we
call them just all these different names but where is all this hard
work? Where can we showcase the committees and the outcomes?
As faculty, we have student learning outcomes, we have course
learning outcomes, but where does all this information go?
So I would like to really request your support in a repository.
I can tell you that I have had many faculty colleagues in the past
who have worked super hard, numerous hours, worked together on these
committees, and formed some plan, and there is no fruition to the
plan.
So what happens is these work groups get together, and they form
a committee and they get together and they make strides for the
future, but then there is no implementation.
So we want to work on changing that. We want to showcase the
work of these committees, we want to showcase the visibility, but
there is no repository.
So on our website we do have the Governing Board, we do have the
Faculty Senate, we have the AERC members, but that's about it. But
if you think about it, over 240 full-time faculty all belong to at
least one committee, and I can tell you I belong to about six right
now.
So if we belong to at least one committee, I would like that open
communication to allow me to find out what has faculty already done
in these different committees to move the college forward? We don't
want to go backwards and we don't want to reinvent the wheel until we
have this repository.
And I can tell you that if we are going to be a premier
institution and we are going to talk about moving forward, we need to
have this space where everyone can share what has been done already
so that we don't reinvent the wheel.
So I just wanted to share that every semester each faculty member
completes a load sheet. We complete a sheet that says every class we
are teaching, every modality that we are teaching in, every committee
that we belong to, so why not just take and culminate that
information and put it together rather than saying it's really
difficult to compile all this information? If we want to be a
premier institution, we need to walk the walk, not just talk the
talk.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Denise, thank you so much, you have
about 15 seconds left.
>> DENISE REILLY: Great. So my highlight was really
communication. We want open, transparent, and honest communication.
It's a two-way street. So in that, we would like to see some changes
moving forward in support of this communication.
Thank you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much. This gives us a
great opportunity as we stand up our newest committee, so I want to
take this to the chancellor to give the board some feedback on this.
I think I agree, communications is the No. 1 most important thing in
the world. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Just to follow up, Chancellor Lambert, I
think understanding how we can better utilize the data collection
through maybe our office of institutional research which I imagine is
doing a lot of this work also and better integrate. You hopefully
can report back.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Yes, it's great. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Denise, appreciate it. We don't have anyone assigned
to the administrator report.
Is there any? If not, I turn it over to the next agenda item.
Moving along is the chancellor's report.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Well, good evening, everybody. I just want
to say thank you to each and every one of you, our faculty, our
staff, our administration. The great work you're doing to support
the success of our students really speaks volumes. I get to see that
each and every day. So I just want to say thank you.
I thought I'd share just some pieces that I had an opportunity to
learn over the last few weeks. I was at the HLC, and we talked
credentials. Just for folks, edification purposes, think of the
credentials as the umbrella and under credentials you have degrees,
certificates, licensing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
There are almost 1 million unique credentials in the United
States. Guess how many providers are out there in the marketplace
for those credentials? If you think about accredited colleges and
universities, there is probably somewhere around 4 to 5,000 of us.
There is over 55,000 players in our market space.
So we need to keep that in mind. It's a growing, crowded
marketplace with lots of competition. It's no longer about degrees.
It's all of those things I just mentioned. So the focus will really
be on skills. Let me go to that point next.
You heard Arthur Levine speak at the HLC conference. I had the
pleasure of listening to Dr. Levine speak. He co-authored a book
called The Great Upheaval. You will hear me say a little bit more
about this on Monday.
I think the main thing I want to emphasize is in our session with
Dr. Levine, he talked about -- he was asked the question, what do you
think about vocational education versus liberal arts education?
He said liberal arts education is vocational education. Let me
repeat that. Liberal arts education is vocational education. That
its roots and its origins began with vocational education.
I think that's important not to lose sight of, because when you
get down to it, it's about the skills. Are our learners walking away
with the skills they need to be successful in life, whether it's in
their careers, whether it's just in life in general, it's about the
skills. We need to make sure we stay focused on that.
So I know our provost will be emphasizing this, and these are the
skills, essential learning outcomes, that really we should be looking
at from an institution-wide perspective, not just from an academic
perspective but an institution-wide perspective. So you will hear
more about that as we go forward.
I had an opportunity to attend ASU GSV. This is part of the
future that Dr. Levine talks about. Immersive learning is growing in
significance. I'm sure many of you have heard the announcement from
the U of A's history department. They are going to be bringing more
into the gamification realm. I and the provost will on Friday be
going up, by invitation of the University of Arizona College of
Medicine, to see this great thing they are trying to create, an XR
Center.
If you're not familiar with that, extended reality, augmented
reality, virtual reality, it's here, folks. We have got to make sure
we keep pace with the changing realities around immersive learning,
around project-based learning. So I'm going to ask the provost to
set her goals for the upcoming year to really see how we can start to
integrate more of these 21st Century digital pieces into our
curriculum.
Also, I just want to congratulate Don Martin and Brian Stewart
who successfully defended their dissertations. Congratulations to
both of you doctors, Don Martin and Brian Stewart.
I also just want to recognize our fine students. Thank you for
sharing your stories. It's so much appreciated, and we are just so
proud that we can provide the platform for you to really meet your
hopes and dreams.
Also want to say to you, Collin, this is the first I'm hearing
about the murals, and I asked president of campuses, Dr. Dor�, about
the murals. This is the first he's hearing of it. As we talk about
communication, I highly encourage that we make sure that the upper
administration is aware of these kinds of concerns, because I know if
David knew about this, he would address it immediately.
Please, please never hesitate to bring things to us, because we
take them seriously.
On that note, from day one I have been at this college I have
taken issues of discrimination seriously. I have built my career on
taking issues of discrimination seriously, and I will continue to
take issues of discrimination seriously.
Yes, people deserve due process, but when we go through the due
process process and it comes out that someone has in fact violated
the appropriate policies and procedures and laws, we will take
appropriate action. I just want to make sure I send that message
loud and clear.
Also, we have some other exciting things happening for students.
If you want to put in your pronouns, you will be able to do that now
through our website. We have made it so much more easier to do, and
please, if you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out to Phil
Burdick to learn the process in which to do that. I'm sure Dr. Irene
Robles-Lopez's team can also help with that process.
Also, we have added a translation piece to our website. I
believe it will translate into, I believe you said, Phil, 12
languages. That's another big positive change.
Also, just want to highlight some really just outstanding things
about the college. Folks probably are not aware of this. Lumina, a
major funder of higher education in community colleges, they chose
three colleges in which to take a look at and create a framework for
centers of excellence. Your Pima Community College is one of those
three. Amazing that we were selected.
Rutgers University just did a report on colleges who are
reshaping the landscape of higher education. Pima Community College
is one of those colleges featured in that report.
I can go on and on and on. And I have one big surprise I'm not
going to announce it yet because they have not given me permission to
publicly announce, some of you already know that piece, but we will
be announcing that we are one of five community colleges selected by
a top-flight university as leaders in innovation.
So you will hear more. Stay tuned. None of this would be
possible without our faculty, our staff, and our administration
working together. I want us not to lose sight of that.
There is more good going on at Pima than not. It's easy to
always think about what we are not doing. We can always improve
communication. We can always pay folks better.
But never lose sight of what we are doing. We are leading the
way, and I'm so proud of that.
Let me just close by saying Happy Passover, Happy Easter, and
Happy Ramadan. Thank you.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much, Chancellor. Yes,
indeed, our website did just launch the page on personal pronouns. I
really encourage everyone to read that, not just those that are
seeking to change their pronouns but all of us need to read that page
and read more and understand what it means and how important it is to
every student.
Thank you, shoutout to Phil Burdick for making that happen.
Next we have agenda item information items. So the information
items can be found in your packets and on the website. With that, if
there aren't any discussions or questions, we will go on to the
consent agenda. The consent agenda was also provided to board
members.
So do I hear a motion from the board to approve these?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: So moved.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: A second, please?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Second.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: I will leave this to discussion.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: (off mic phone.)
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Microphone?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I would like to see a list of those items
on the consent agenda before I vote.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: They were the minutes -- we can try to
put them up for you -- minutes from the study session, February 21st.
The minutes from March 9 executive open meeting. Minutes from March
9 regular meeting. Minutes from March 21 special meeting. And the
March 29 special meeting.
Those were the first five. Then there is a list of MOUs,
intergovernmental agreements, and things that we had in our packet.
Would you like to see those? Andrea, can you put those up?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Jeff, do you want to just read what they
are?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: We can also read them.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: I think if we wait a minute, we may be able
to address this.
(Pause.)
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much. So board members
understand where they are, and so now with the motion and the second,
a little bit of a discussion and I'd like to take a vote.
Will you take a vote, Mr. Silvyn?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: You're asking me -- we don't need to do a
roll call.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: All those in favor of approving the
consent agenda, please signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: It was unanimous, so the consent agenda
approval passes. Thank you so much, board members.
Next are the action items. We have two, possibly just one, but
the first one I would like to ask Mr. Silvyn to read the first action
item.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to clarify, we
are not going to need the second action item tonight. So the action
item before the board this evening has the following recommendation.
The chancellor recommends the Governing Board authorize the
chancellor or designee to execute an agreement with the successful
proposer of the request for proposals for management of campus
bookstore retail services. The chancellor shall report the results
of the selection process to the Governing Board.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you.
Chancellor, would you like to --
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: I would like to make a motion to adopt the
recommendation.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: There is a motion on the floor.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Second.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: And a second from Dr. Hay.
Now a discussion, please?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Madam Chair, thank you. I will do a broad
piece on this, and then I will ask Dr. David Bea to take us through
the particulars.
Just so you are all aware, especially for commuter campuses,
bookstores, food service operations really struggle. This is just an
ongoing struggle at essentially every college I have worked at.
We have been looking at ways to make this work for our students.
So I think what you will hear is we are trying to get closer to
coming up with a better model for the college.
And so with that, Dave, can you take it away?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Good evening, Chairperson Ripley, members of
the board, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues and guests.
As Chancellor Lambert mentioned, in front of you tonight is an
action item to get authorization to execute a contract for campus
store retail services.
As Chancellor Lambert just mentioned, the landscape for
bookstores in particular has changed dramatically over the last 15
years with a couple of major national trends having an effect.
One of them is the development and increased utilization of
online book retail. So Amazon and other online bookstores provide an
easy vehicle for students to purchase their books.
Second effect that has had a big impact on how campus stores work
over the years is the changing material. It used to be textbooks,
and now it switched to digital access to digital technology, and then
also similarly the, as you know, the college has the priority toward
implementing as much open education resources as possible.
All of those things are intended or some of those are intended to
cut down the costs for students, but textbooks have been growing in
costs dramatically over the years. So there is this increased cost
pressure and then students have alternatives for going elsewhere to
attain their books. That's had a big impact on the
brick-and-mortar-type stores of the past.
In addition to that, we have had a couple of local trends that
have had a big impact on how our bookstore contracts work.
Enrollment shifts, both decline in enrollment from our peak in 2011
and then the shifts that have happened, and this is again commonplace
throughout the country, the shift from on-site enrollment to online
enrollment has a dual factor.
One is that students aren't on campus first to purchase books as
much or to go to the bookstore to buy supplies or whatever, similarly
more impactful on food service actually with that one.
And then the other impact is the overall decline that has
happened. You have fewer students, fewer students who are on-site,
and all of those result in declines in sales.
It makes running food service or bookstore operations
increasingly difficult. We have talked about this throughout the
last number of years and we've made, particularly also in light of
the impacts of COVID and the pandemic, where we actually had to
physically close down the locations, and we had to alter and amend
the agreement that we had with our previous vendors.
So as a result of that, in trying to provide the best quality and
capability and flexibility and innovative services possible, we
actually in the fall put together two work groups to review what the
trends are, what the realities are, in terms of food and bookstore
operations and make recommendations for what they would like to see,
what the groups would like to see coming forward in the future.
We took that information from those groups and used to it to
inform the RFP process which is essentially culminating in front of
you now tonight.
We put recommendations in centering around really providing the
best quality service available but focusing I think primarily on
keeping and containing costs to students to improve the cost impact
on students as much as possible.
We hired a consultant to help draft the RFP, and then went out on
the street to what is a relatively limited market of companies that
are capable of providing the kind of services that we are requiring.
A group of people who are involved in the process in the fall served
on the RFP committee and the recommendation, the top vendor through
that process, is Barnes & Noble, so this is a big change for the
institution. We have been with Colette for I think at least 20 years
now. So I think the recommendation is to negotiate with the top
vendor, at this point, Barnes & Noble.
The terms of the agreement are largely spelled out by the RFP in
the proposal. They are an improvement over what our current
situation is with our bookstore vendor, particularly in the COVID
amendment situation. And has a lot of better contract terms and
conditions in it that will help the college and help our students in
terms of containing costs.
It also has a lot more clarity in terms of college control over
costs, how costs come together in prioritizing, types of texts and
being flexible about digital text delivery, things like that.
We also expect that at this point we identified that if we were
to include full, robust sort of hot food delivery, if you will, that
we likely would not get a vendor who was capable or interested in
providing both those services.
So at this point what we are looking to do is put this contract
in place for the retail stores, which should have improved
convenience store options at the locations, improved and enhanced
vending options. And what we want to do going forward is we had a
consultant help us also with the conversation around food service,
which is actually a more complicated and difficult proposition even
from the bookstores, believe it or not.
But there were some really innovative ideas that we have that
might involve our culinary program, might involve local restaurants,
but what we want to do is take a work group, have the exploration of
those different concepts and take those into the fall and really
develop what our sort of hot foods opportunities or what we might be
able to do in terms of that kind of food delivery.
But in the meantime we are confident that this new contract will
enhance the service delivery to our students, control and contain
costs better, and really provide a more innovative platform for us to
grow on as the world changes with texts and educational materials
going into the future.
With that, I will pause and ask if there are any questions of me
related to this item.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Dr. Bea, so my question is you have told us
all about improving and the RFP process and the best vendor,
whatever, but you didn't explain the process that they are going to
use. For example, and this is just me and you don't have to accept
it, but anyway, if we have a bookstore and you got the best vendor
for the best price on the books or whatever it is they are going to
offer, are we going to maintain bookstores on every single campus?
Are we going to have a mobile system? Are we going to have a
preordering? You didn't give us any specifics.
Same thing with the food service. What exactly are we proposing?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah, so the way that the proposal is put
together is that there will be full bookstore and convenience
offerings at four of the campuses. The one that will not have the
full array of services right now is Northwest Campus, which will have
a pared-down version. And that has to do with the foot traffic that
goes through there and how viable it is to have that kind of
opportunity up there.
But that doesn't mean that we won't provide good service to that
campus. It means that it will have more of a popup service at the
beginning of the terms so that students can get things. There is
going to be a greatly enhanced online delivery capability through
this vendor and focusing on that capability as well.
This will be a big improvement over what we currently have, but
we can't solve all the world's problems in one shot.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Any other discussion or questions?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Quick question. Mr. Bea, the contract,
what is it for, four years or five years?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: I believe it's five years. I actually don't
have that in front of me. Yes, it's five years. It has a guaranteed
commission structure, minimum guaranteed commission structure for
years (indiscernible).
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: You mentioned a couple of things in
reference to the enhanced services and also the array of services, as
well, too.
Is the contract, is that going to be evaluated every year or
every two years or whatever?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah, in fact, one of the enhancements to this
contract structure is the college has a better termination clause
than what currently exists in the Colette contract. What we do is we
evaluate it every year. There are (indiscernible) certain numbers of
days that if it's not working, contract isn't working for you, then
you give notice and work your way through it.
It's a complicated proposition and why it's really important to
go forward at this time frame, because switching vendors is not an
easy proposition. They are already adopting textbooks for future
terms. You have to have the two vendors work together to transfer
the inventory between them, making it as seamless as possible.
I'm confident we will be able to do that, but it is not an easy
thing to do to switch bookstore vendors.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: One last question. I know that we did a
tour at Desert Vista in reference to what was proposed. What's the
status update on that? And also, I know that they have a culinary
program there. How will that be incorporated with this new project?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah, Desert Vista is sort of our unique
campus in that the way that we have incorporated culinary for the
culinary program in the past is that foods that the culinary program
has provided opportunities or food options for students at a
relatively affordable rate.
It's really a benefit actually in that if you are able to eat
there it's a better food service delivery than is at the other
campuses.
What we are looking to do is continue to have that culinary
opportunities available at Desert Vista. There will be a bookstore
at Desert Vista. As I said, the four campuses other than Northwest
will have full bookstores onsite.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: One last question. After the tour, they
told us it was going to be active. Is it currently active right now,
the new program that they started there? Not the culinary, where
they were going to make the snack bar or whatever.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: The food service? I'm not sure what the
question is exactly.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Can you expound?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: I'm curious, is the item you're talking
about, is it connected to the bookstore in some way?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Well, isn't this part of the bookstore or
reference to providing foods and services for the students?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah, I think I'm following.
So in terms of the food service that's available to students,
right now it's very limited in terms of sort of grab-and-go
convenience items that are through the bookstore, other than what's
available through the culinary program, which I think also is it's
sort of shut down.
COVID has had a really big impact on what we can do in terms of
food service delivery, so it's sort of been pared down and also
related to how students are actually onsite has had an effect in
terms of what's available.
What we are looking to do with the new vendor is as we ramp back
up have really enhanced service delivery available through both
vending and convenience items. And then next year talk a little bit
more in detail and work with the working group of students, faculty,
et cetera, to really identify and see if it's viable to have a more
robust food opportunity.
And it could be food carts, food trucks, it could be a smaller
popup coffee stands, those kinds of things, see what kinds of
opportunities and ideas we might be able to make happen.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Dr. Bea, really what you are proposing is
really just an RFP for this vendor, right, for the vendors?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Right. This is a proposal to execute a
contract. We have to continue -- there's the last stages of the
negotiation, which really is going to be fine tuning things like
indemnification clauses, things like that.
The major terms of the agreement are spelled out in the RFP, so
it's just going to be executing an agreement with Barnes & Noble. If
not Barnes & Noble, then we would go to the next highest vendor in
the RFP process, but right now we are talking about working with
Barnes & Noble to come to fruition on that and make that contract
come together.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: One last question. What are the terms of
terminating the contract? A quick one.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Like I said, what will be in there is that if
-- there is always cause in these contracts, there is always
termination for cause, but there is usually a remedy period. So you
say, okay, you're not doing X, remedy it within a certain number of
days.
Other than that, there is termination for convenience where it
says this just isn't working. I don't remember, but it's probably in
the neighborhood of 120 days. It usually takes 120 days to
successfully switch vendors in something this complicated.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I think my main concern is -- I'm not
opposed to this, but enrollment continues to decline and I assume
that the amount of food service or books that are going to be
provided are going to be based on enrollment.
You know, I mean, if you have a contract, is there any clause in
there that you can change it because there was a decline or
something? That's all I'm asking.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Oh, yeah, no, that's a really good question.
So we are contracting for bookstore services. One of the things
is when they buy the books for the next year, the stores own that
inventory. The college doesn't. Like that's all on the bookstore's
end.
So if enrollment, so what they want to do is they want to do a
good projection and we interact with them, the college interacts with
these bookstore providers, and gives them estimates of what our
enrollment is going to do.
They have their own ways to calculate what their enrollment is
going to be and then they purchase textbooks based on those
calculations.
If they're off, what they do is they return the materials to the
publishers, that sort of thing, but that's not on the college at all.
The exposure there is not on the college. It's on the bookstore
side.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Any comments, discussion?
Thank you for this foresight because it's important and I know
that everybody loves to have that geedunk at the campuses. I know I
do. But I guess it comes under the title of prepare for the worst,
hope for the best. This is what we are all trying to do as a board.
Thank you for doing that. So with that, we would like to now
take a vote on approval. All those in favor of approving this action
item, please signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: The motion passes unanimously. Thank
you very much.
With that, the next item on the agenda is request for future
agenda items. The Governing Board has conducted a series of study
sessions to review and discuss possible revisions to our bylaws. The
Governing Board anticipates that it will consider and act on proposed
amendments to the bylaws at the next regular board meeting currently
scheduled for May 11, 2022.
Any other discussion on future items?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I would like to -- my recommendation is
that we postpone that until June.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: I think you just take it into
consideration.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you for that, Board Member
Garcia. So we will take that into consideration.
Next on the agenda is announcements. I think I already stated
this, the next regular meeting of the Governing Board will be held on
May 11, 2022. Executive session will begin at 4:00 p.m. and open
session at 5:30 p.m. via video conference.
With that, thank you, everyone. I think one of the messages that
we got tonight was someone mentioned the word trickle up, or maybe it
was me. I think as a community college we have realized everything
that happens here has to trickle up.
We don't depend on state funding anymore, until that happens, so
funding has to trickle up. We do that by donations, by the Pima
Foundation and all the work they do, we figure that out.
Communications, we had a great talk by our faculty rep,
communications needs to trickle up, needs to start with us.
With that, I just want to remind everyone that we are all
ambassadors for the school, and we indeed need to trickle up and
trickle sideways.
Thank you so much. We have completed all items on the agenda.
Is there any further business?
Hearing none, is there any objection to adjourn?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Nope.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Hearing none, we are adjourned.
(Adjournment.)
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