Goal I. Access To Higher Education
Northeast Lakeview College held its Design Expo on July 14th which showcased the new Northeast Lakeview College campus currently under construction. The public was invited to preview the new facility renderings and building floor plans and meet the architects, contractors, and construction programmers. Architects and facilities representatives from the Judson ISD Early College Partnership High School also featured a display at the event.

Goal III. Workforce Development
Through the collaboration of Dr. Cindy Griffith, Dean of Workforce Development and Continuing Education, Thomas Raymond, Senior Multimedia Specialist, and Kathleen Johnson Hodge, College Director of Community & Public Relations, the NLC Workforce and Community Education Division has developed a new web page to provide information regarding future programs, courses, and services. While serving as a point of reference for workforce and career information, the webpage will also be used as a means to survey and communicate with students, businesses, and community members. http://www.accd.edu/nlc/t_workforce.htm

Goal IV. Capacity To Serve
Dr. Dollie Hudspeth, Communications Department Chair at NLC, was one of seven local citizens recognized and inducted into the “Counting My Blessings Hall of Fame.” This is an annual recognition sponsored by the local SNAP newspaper owned by local entrepreneur Eugene Coleman; the award honors individuals who make contributions to their community. In recognition for her efforts, Hudspeth received resolutions from the state, county and city. Other local individuals inducted included Police Chief William McManus, Fire Chief Charles Hood, Rev. George Brown, Mr. W.A. White, and Ms. Deborah Crawford.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
"Project Advance in San Antonio: A Head Start Higher Education Grantee Effectively Supports Head Start Teacher Education," an article summarizing the St. Philip’s College five-year Head Start teacher education project funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and directed by Pamela Ray, Director of the Early Childhood Studies/CDA Program, has been published in the current issue of the HHS Administration for Children and Families Head Start Bulletin: Professional Development publication. The article written by Martha L. Trevino, Ph.D., Director of College and Grants Development at Northeast Lakeview College, provides readers with a description of St. Philip’s College and highlights the innovative features of the project.

Northeast Lakeview College President Dr. Eric Reno attended the “Air Force Art Exhibit Social” on July 18th at UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures. Hosted by General William R. Looney III, Commander, Air Education and Training Command, the event was attended by military and civilian officials, including San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
Dr. Roberto Gonzales is currently recruiting the first cohort of students for the Sustaining Talent in Education to Launch Learning and Research (STELLAR) in Science and Engineering Project. This project, funded by a $522,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to increase the number of under-represented and economically needy students majoring in the science and engineering disciplines as well support the persistence, retention, success and graduation of participating students. The students will be able to take advantage of academic seminars, faculty mentoring and advising, opportunities to do extensive laboratory research, bi-monthly student forums, and a lap top lending program. Students who are chosen will be designated Millennium Scholars and will receive a $1,000 stipend per year for two years. Ultimately, graduates of this program will be prepared for the university level research environment.

Goal III. Workforce Development
The Alamo Community College District and Northwest Vista College were recently awarded a $474,000 Governor’s Industry Cluster grant for the development of the Texas Institute for Educational Robotics (TIER).

Today, the core of TIER exists in a summer program at NVC called SpaceTEAMS. SpaceTEAMS is a partnership between industry, education, government and community supporters to bring exploratory Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) education to area schools. This program reaches 100 elementary and middle school students through a two-week robotics summer camp. The grant will help to extend the program to fifty high school students, enhance the curriculum and teacher training, and establish a regionally-focused Robotics Support Center. This support center will help connect our efforts with existing elementary and middle school efforts in robotics, completing a P16 pipeline for STEM education and careers. During the second year of this grant, the TIER will be created and SpaceTEAMS will be packaged for replication in San Antonio and throughout Texas.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
Christine Godin, Director of Learning Resources, has been appointed to the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award selection committee for the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
Beginning with the Fall 2007 semester, students from the 16-member states of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) will be able to enroll and access Palo Alto College’s Internet courses and seven degree programs offered completely online through the SREB’s Electronic Campus. The Electronic Campus allows prospective students to search for a particular college or course, and to register for any course of interest. You may visit the website at http://www.electroniccampus.org/ for more information.

Goal II. Student Support
Palo Alto College and Texas A&M University—Kingsville System Center—San Antonio are making preparations for a “Registration Bash” to be held in the Student Center, July 25. Advisors, counselors, financial aid representatives and testing services will be available in one location to answer questions one-on-one with prospective students and parents.

Goal III. Workforce Development
PAC’s Bridgett Willett, Curriculum Analyst, and Ray Hernandez, Recruitment Director, met with agriculture instructors from the North East Independent School District to discuss Tech Prep articulation for horticulture and veterinary technology courses.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
PAC’s faculty and staff members were recognized by the Alamo Area Council of Governments and the City of San Antonio and Bexar County, for their participation in the second annual city-wide Walk & Roll Challenge, which promoted better transportation and air quality for the Alamo area. Nineteen organizations representing 9,000 employees participated in the program, logging 550,000 “smart miles” which resulted in reducing one ton of pollution during June.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
The Division of Continuing Education is initiating adult literacy programs to include GED (General Education Development), ESL (English as a Second Language) and adult basic education as part of its new community service and training center program. Continuing Education staff met with City of San Antonio (COSA) representatives to discuss opportunities to compliment their course offerings for non-traditional populations and to discuss possible course offerings at Southwest Campus.

Tours were conducted at Southwest Campus for students who have been selected to participate in the fall 2007 Phoenix Program. Parents of these students also participated in the tours.

Goal II. Student Support
St. Philip's College Southwest Campus staff attended the Skills USA National Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 23-30. James Wright represented Skills USA Texas College/Postsecondary Division as State Director. Of the 114-member Texas/Skills USA delegation, six students were from the Alamo Community Colleges.

Goal III. Workforce Development
Business Information Solutions awarded 163 Microsoft Certifications cumulatively this summer. The free training, offered to area high school business teachers, has been underwritten by the Alamo Tech Prep Consortium.

Goal IV. Capacity To Serve
Work has begun on the new Student Tutoring and Technology Center. The new center, which replaces the former tutoring center and computer lab in the Norris Technical Building, will feature state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to be accessible to all students. The new center is scheduled to open in September.

The College is partnering with Skanska USA Building, Inc., to offer First Aid/CPR training to Skanska workers. The training will be offered through the Continuing Education Department. Plans are underway to hold a community health fair in the fall which will also be co-sponsored by Skanska through Continuing Education

Goal V. Organizational Communication
The college hosted Kaludis Consulting as part of the District’s initiative to assess the status of information technology used both within the District offices and throughout all five colleges. The purpose of the assessment was to determine how well information and technology resources and services are fulfilling the current and future needs of the institution. Eight sessions were scheduled for the day-long visit with College faculty, staff, students and administration in order to gain input regarding academic support, administrative support, and service requirements of information technology at St. Philip's College.

Goal II. Student Support
Since the baseball season started, several Radio, Television and Film students have been hired as San Antonio Missions interns. Students are gaining valuable experience as camera operators, and in the press booth they are operating the scoreboard graphics and instant replays.

Goal IV. Capacity to Serve
Librarian John Deosdade has created a helpful resource page which can be downloaded from the college website titled Baldrige/Teamwork/Total Quality Management Resources. The page includes links to relevant books, articles, and websites.

Medin Barreira, Kinesiology and Dance instructor, was named the San Antonio College Employee of the Month for July.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
San Antonio College sponsored its annual SAC Night at the Missions on July 19. The event helped the college community gather together with their families for a night of fun and also communicated to a larger audience the college’s opportunities and achievements. The college promoted itself through an information table, announcements throughout the game to a crowd of 6,000, an interview with President Zeigler heard by the radio audience, the T-shirt give-away with the college logo, a program ad, dasher board signs near the field, and college banners throughout the ballpark. Faculty and staff were able to enter their children into a drawing to see who would throw the first pitch or chase the Puffy Taco mascot.

The Phi Theta Kappa Beta Nu chapter recently delivered a donation of 411 food items and 284 books and miscellaneous items to the Ronald McDonald House as part of the annual Project Graduation collection drive.