Vice Chancellor for Administration

Goal IV. Capacity to Serve
Acquisitions and Administrative Services
We completed the end of the year reconciliation for fixed assets. The current year-end balance for inventoried assets is as follows:

Item Count Asset Dollar Value

Assets over $5K 1,633 $23,263,242.37
Assets under $5K 22,969 $38,136,285.77
Total Items/Value 24,602 $61,399,528.14

On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, Carol Fuentes, Michael Alvarado and Andrea Manez received their certificates for the completion of Customer Service Certification. An additional certificate for 1 CEU was also received by all. Carol and Michael received their pins. Andrea, our first graduate, received hers in March 2007.

Department of Public Safety
• During the week of August 29-September 4, Department of Public Safety (DPS) members responded to or generated 470 calls for service.
• DPS officers issued 43 Crime Prevention Reminders district wide as part of our crime prevention efforts.
• DPS officers provided 26 instances of Community Policing services such as safety escorts and participating in student orientations to our community.

Employee Services
Benefits Manager and Benefits Specialists participated in 2 Webinars sponsored by AIG VALIC and ING on the new 403b IRS Regulations.
• Training and Development conducted three Sexual Harassment Prevention Classes attended by 64 employees.
• Records and Information Systems Unit produced end of year Comp Time Payout report and completed FY 2008 HRIS rollover process.

Facilities Operations and Construction Management
• ACCD was recognized by Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) as a Mega Energy Saver at an award ceremony in College Station, Texas.
• Initial scoping meetings for the San Antonio College (SAC) Mi CASA (Career Advancement and Self-Sufficiency Assistance) Center were held.

Information Technologies
• Mr. Mel Indyk, Interim CIO and Director of Information Technologies, started on August 28.

Titan/Banner Projects Office
Contacted Connecticut Community Colleges and received very positive feedback concerning Banner’s capacity for managing 95,000 students (50,000 credit and 45,000 non-credit) across 12 individually accredited Colleges in one database. Their CIO and Director of Student/Academic Information Systems both are pleased with Banner’s functionality and its receptivity by all Connecticut Community Colleges’ faculty and staff for 11 years. The only noted shortcoming of Banner mentioned was its delivered reporting capabilities. Overall, they found that their centralization and standardization of all 12 Colleges’ data into one database to be a very cost effective, long-term and stable solution for the Connecticut Community Colleges system.

• The Banner Project Stakeholders met on August 30. Major topics discussed included:
Banner implementation project benefits and goals; ACCD Student administrative functional directives; detailed breakout of Student implementation Governance structures; Student system requirements framework model; Banner project office FY 08 projected budget; Banner production (Budget managers and initiators) – Customer feedback and response plan

• Provided assistance with the coordination and setup of special Banner training for St. Phillip’s to facilitate the access and productivity for 12 new employees filling department chairs and dean positions.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
The Department of Financial Services has awarded $63,491,305 to 18,496 (unduplicated) students for fiscal year 2007-08.

The Department of International Programs’ Central American States for Scholarship (CASS) rural teachers began their practicums this week at Highland Forest ES, Pecan Valley ES, and Legacy MS (all in the East Central ISD), and Las Palmas ES (Edgewood ISD).

Goal II. Student Support
The Student Leadership Institute hosted a table at Palo Alto College as part of their Welcome Week activities on Monday and Tuesday, August 27-28. In addition, Tier II also hosted the Free Speech Area Demonstration at PAC on Thursday, August 30th.

Goal III. Workforce Development
The Advanced Technology Center hosted several professional development and credit courses during the week of September 6, 2007. Approximately 230 students/individuals participated in the Edgewood ISD CATE Instructors training session, City of San Antonio Planning session, ITS/PAC credit courses, and PAC CompTia A+ certification programs.

The Westside Education and Training Center enrollment surpassed 600 students for the Fall 2007 Semester, a 60% increase over the fall semester last year.

The Alamo Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development team is working with Toyota-Texas to assist the Mississippi Itawamba Community College with curriculum to replicate the ACCD-Toyota model at a new Toyota facility in Mississippi.

Dr. Federico Zaragoza has been invited by Columbia University to lecture on Community College Workforce Development Issues during the Hechinger Fellowship Week Activities for Future Journalists on October 1, 2007 in New York City.

A total of 130 Kerrville ISD students were enrolled in dual credit courses to begin the ramp-up enrollment process for the ACCD Hill Country Technology Center scheduled to open in Fall 2008.

Goal IV. Capacity to Serve
Dr. Eric Reno and Mark Hagen attended the College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS) annual board meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Reno is the chairman of the board and Hagen has been nominated to serve on the Academic Programs Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
The Department of Public Relations, in collaboration with Dr. Jo Carol Fabianke, produced 25,000 postcards to mail to first-time-in-college students to inform them of SB 1231, which calls for dropping no more than six classes during a student’s undergraduate studies.

The Department of Public Relations held meetings with the Rampage hockey team representatives and with Kathy Clay-Little to discuss ACCD promotional activities. In addition, the department produced an information piece to introduce Mr. Mel Indyk, Interim Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Technology.