Goal I. Access To Higher Education
Jordan Ford, Ltd. owners Mike Trompeter and Marc Cross presented Northeast Lakeview President Dr. Eric Reno, College and Grants Development Director, Dr. Martha Trevino, and ACCD Donor Relations Manager, Carolyn Kelley with a $5,000 scholarship check. Jordan Ford, Ltd. has established one of the first Founder’s Endowed Scholarship for Northeast Lakeview College students. The first scholarship will be awarded in Fall 2008 when the College begins classes at its permanent location at Loop 1604 and Kitty Hawk Rd.

Goal V. Capacity To Serve
Judson ISD architects PBK presented at NLC on July 24, 2007, outlining design and construction of the Early College High School (ECHS) that will be built on the site of the new Northeast Lakeview College. The ECHS is scheduled to open in August 2009.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
For the second year in a row, Northwest Vista College hosted the Space TEAMS camp, a fun and interactive experience for children in grades 4-8 to design and rebuild robots. The program, which runs for two weeks from July 23-August 3, serves about 100 students who form a total of 20 teams. The camp culminates in a competition where students race robots via the programming they have typed into the robots’ makeshift brains. This program—developed in partnership with the City of San Antonio, Edgewood ISD, Southside ISD, Harlandale ISD, Tex Prep, and the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics—addresses the education, workforce and economic development needs of San Antonio youth who come from low-income families. The program specifically targets female students who are traditionally underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

On July 11-13, the NVC Recruitment Team attended the Noel Levitz Recruitment and Retention Conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference allows recruiters from across the nation to share best practices and attend sessions that expand their knowledge of the latest recruitment tools and strategies. Sessions included “Relating, Not Translating: How to Market and Recruit Latino Students and Their Parents,“ “Using Public Relations to Support Enrollment Management,” and “Leading Transformational Change: Using Data and Accountability for Student Success.” The Recruitment Team was also able to attend a presentation by Sara Martinez-Tucker, the Under Secretary of Education.

Goal III. Workforce Development
NVC faculty at the Westside Education and Training Center will be participating in a $359,495 Self-Sufficiency Fund grant administered by the Texas Workforce Commission. This grant helps individuals transition from public assistance back into the workforce. NVC faculty will train students for 136 patient care assistant, public health aid and health educator jobs. The consortium includes Christus Santa Rosa, the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District and El Centro Del Barrio.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
Due to popular demand, preparations are underway for “PAC Recruitment Bash II” to be held in the Student Center, Aug. 8, from 2 to 7 p.m. Students will receive one-on-one assistance in the application, testing, advising, financial aid and registration process in a convenient, one-stop location.

Goal II. Student Support
PAC participated in the San Antonio Education Partnership “Rising Stars Scholarship Recognition Program 2007” held at the AT&T Center, July 26. More than 3,700 students were recognized as being eligible to receive a scholarship from SAEP, provided they maintain an 80 grade point average and a 95 percent attendance rate.

Goal III. Workforce Development
PAC’s Department of Financial Services is finalizing Federal Work Study agreements for hiring students to serve in community centers such as the Rosemont at Palo Alto apartment complexes, as reading tutors.

Goal IV. Capacity To Serve
PAC’s Children’s Library Summer Program “Matter Matters 2007” completed its second three-week session, July 26. Fifty 3rd and 4th graders from area schools attended the free program that focused on chemistry and related laboratory activities. Classes were taught by student teaching interns who were supervised and mentored by the Lead Librarian of the Children’s Services Division. The program was funded by an ACCD Foundation grant, Palo Alto College, and the City of San Antonio’s Free Lunch Program.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
PAC’s Natatorium hosted the 2007 Speedo Long Course Sectional Championships, July 25-29. The Speedo Sectional featured dramatic races on the final night of the long course meter swimming. Sean Leneave, representing the Woodlands Swim Team, closed out the meet with two titles. He won the 200 fly in 2:05.87 over Wesley Mullins, 17, of Longhorn Aquatics (2:07.75). Leneave then claimed the 200 IM in 2:07.90 to defeat Clint Hallum of the Dallas Mustangs (2:11.20). More than 700 swimmers from throughout Texas and Louisiana are participated in the tournament sanctioned by USA Swimming.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
Dozens of volunteers that included faculty, staff and students from St. Philip’s College, participated in the Houston Street Fair on Saturday. Recruiting materials and information about various programs at the Main and Southwest campuses were distributed to the public. St. Philip’s College was exposed to hundreds of tourists, military personnel and local members of the community. Recruiters were on hand explaining the admissions process to attendees at the Fair.

Goal II. Student Support
An energetic retention and enrollment effort was started with the Enrollment Made Easy Campaign. Almost 13,000 cards were mailed to former students who had enrolled during fall 2006 or spring 2007 but who had not yet re-enrolled at St. Philip’s College. These students were invited to return to the College on Wednesday, July 25, for focused advising, updating of their degree or certificate plans, and expedited registration. In response, 279 students returned – 106 at St. Philip’s College’s MLK campus on the Eastside of San Antonio and 173 at St. Philip’s Southwest Campus. These returning students received refreshments and updated academic advising from counselors, advising staff, and advisors in residence who are assigned to each of the instructional departments. From this major effort, more than 100 students from the 279 attending the event were registered for classes, contributing to the current 10% increase in the fall 2007 enrollment when compared to the same period in August 2006.

Goal III. Workforce Development
Rita Castro, Interim Dean of Learning Resources, attended Banner Training in preparation for her new duties as Dr. Adele Dendy, Dean of Learning Resources retires.

Diane Moffett began receiving training on Circulation functions, including Cash Register receipt reporting of the library in order to provide backup for this department.

This past week the IIC: hosted 12 faculty and staff members in the IIC open development lab as they worked on various classroom and department projects and activities; offered four workshops with 25 total participants. Workshops included: MS Word Mail Merge, MS PowerPoint Basics, Streaming Media (2 of 4 sessions), and Good to Great Dialog session. Staff provided extended one-on-one consultations for 11 faculty and staff members in the following areas: web page development, scanning, Smartboard, Micrograde, and curriculum (QEP).

Goal IV. Capacity To Serve
SPC completed a major shift and weeding of the library book collections in preparation of an inventory to precede the physical move from the current location to the new library facility.

Southwest Campus Librarian, Gilbert Lujano, attended a “Scope of Work” meeting with Dr. Patti Candia and architects/engineers overseeing the SWC improvement project. The purpose of this first meeting was to
address the needs of the users of these areas.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
Librarians provided instructional sessions to classes being taught in Summer Session II on resources and services available to students.

Goal I. Access to Higher Education
San Antonio College student Mary Cokerham is one of 400 students nationwide to be awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. According to Foundation spokesperson Jennifer Grizzle, “All recipients have demonstrated academic success and participated in community service within the past 12 months.”

Goal III. Workforce Development
San Antonio College is partnering with the Bexar County Medical Society (BCMS) Staffing Services to respond to the major shortage of personnel required to staff clinics and doctors’ offices. Students work externships that include partial pay and benefits while acquiring experience. San Antonio College finds placements for its Allied Health students through BCMS Staffing, which pays half of their pay and benefits. Doctors and clinics pay the other half, while helping to create experienced employees for their offices.

Goal IV. Capacity to Serve
Mona Aldana-Ramirez, Program Coordinator for the Center for Educator Preparation in the Continuing Education Training Network, has been selected to serve on the State Board for Educator Certification’s Division of Educator Standards Advisory Committee. She said, “This committee is a statewide committee with a strong impact on teacher certification policy.” Aldana-Ramirez also serves on the San Antonio Math-Science Education Coalition and the San Antonio Area Personnel Administrator Association.

San Antonio College hosted a recognition ceremony and an ice cream social for Facilities staff, to recognize their years of service. President Robert Zeigler and Executive Vice President Kris Clark joined ACCD Director of Facilities Operations & Construction Management John Strybos, ACCD Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Lalo Gomez, and SAC Facilities Superintendent David Ortega in awarding certificates and offering congratulations to the staff for their excellent work on behalf of the college.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
An interview with Helen Torres, Director of Distance Education, has been posted on Online Degrees Today website at http://www.online-degrees-today.com/blog/2007/07/27/interview-helen-torres-director-distance-education-san-antonio-college-online/. In the interview, Torres explains that San Antonio College offers more than 177 different online courses with more than 240 sections every semester. “Currently we serve students in Turkey, Poland, China, United Kingdom, and other countries. We offer an Associate of Arts in liberal arts and criminal justice courses and an Associate of Applied Science degree online in Corrections and Law Enforcement,” she said. Torres noted that SAC Online has been replicated as a model program, in part because of its comprehensive online student services and technical support.