Vice Chancellor for Administration

Goal IV. Capacity to Serve
Department of Public Safety
• During the week of September 26-October 2, Department of Public Safety (DPS) members responded to 752 calls for service.
• DPS officers issued 166 Crime Prevention Reminders district wide as part of our crime prevention efforts.
• DPS officers provided 27 instances of Community Policing services such as safety escorts and participation in student orientations.

Employee Services
The Employment/Employee Relations Unit participated and conducted Sexual Harassment Investigative Member Training for 14 district and college representatives.
The Benefits Unit conducted a New Hire Orientation for eight attendees.

Facilities Operations and Construction Management
• Construction of parking lot improvements at 7990 Pat Booker Road has started. These improvements will address key pedestrian safety issues.
• Construction of the Palo Alto College Veterinary Technology Building is on schedule for a December 2007 substantial completion.
• Construction of the San Antonio College Parking Garage is on schedule for a December 2007 substantial completion.

Information Technologies
• A sub-team of the “Teaching & Learning Team” and the “Training Team” has been aggressively developing two courses of instruction for the E-Learning (Black Board Vista) project. Instruction is scheduled to begin as early as October 5, 2007. The first course of instruction is called “Fast Track” and is for instructors that have already been certified for on-line teaching at their respective colleges. It consists primarily of training necessary to understand and operate the Black Board Enterprise Vista Application. The second course of instruction is called the “Full Certification Track.” It starts with the “Fast Track” and adds pedagogical content. Both courses will run simultaneously. All training (for the January 2008 pilot) is scheduled to be completed by November 30th 2007. This training was developed to prepare the faculty for the pilot beginning in January 2008.

• Applied updates to the Student Database Definition to limit students to six drops. This is to accommodate State Bill 1231 (SB1231). Further programming modifications will be completed this Fall 2007. This was requested by Dr. Jo-Carol Fabianke for the Enrollment Management Team.

• Identified and applied a temporary solution to the SAS license expiration for the Web Reporting Studio product. There was downtime on Saturday, September 29, but services were restored before noon on Sunday, September 30. We are working with SAS to determine the root cause analysis. Also, Roger Castro is working with SAS to baseline product and license configurations.

• Completed development and in final testing of modifications to the benefit budget pool re-allocation process requested by Employee Services.

Goal I. Access To Higher Education
The Department of Student Financial Services has awarded $74,609,991 to 20,601 (unduplicated) students for 2007-2008. The San Antonio Education Partnership Program has awarded $304,840 to 1,909 students

The Department of Student and Community Program Development outreach teams provided information on ACCD programs and services to the Calderon Boys and Girls Club, Good Samaritan Neighborhood Center, Edgewood ISD Fine Arts Academy, Kennedy, Memorial, Holmes High School(s); and presented at the Texas A&M–San Antonio Extension Cooperative Program event, Region 20 Adult Education Literacy Convocation, and to seniors at Positive Solutions High School.

Goal II. Student Support
The Department of International Program’s Julia Jarrell attended the Conference on Digital Media hosted by the New Media Consortium. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression. The innovations and cutting-edge techniques learned at the conference into the Central American States for Scholarship (CASS) Program and to introduce them to our other international partners.

Goal III. Workforce Development
To date the Westside Education and Training Center has enrolled 709 students and the Central Texas Technology Center has enrolled 771 students.

Dr. Federico Zaragoza, Vice Chancellor for Economic and Workforce Development, was a panelist at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media’s Fellowship Program at Columbia University in New York City on October 1, 2007. Dr. Zaragoza addressed the community college role in addressing economic and workforce development issues.

Dr. Bruce Leslie and Belkiss Rodriguez were recognized for their support of the National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers at their annual conference on October 3, 2007. ACCD hosted the event that also featured Dr. Federico Zaragoza as a Keynote speaker on the role of ATC centers in promoting economic growth.

Goal IV. Capacity to Serve
Prepared the Profile of Developmental Math students by Course Level for the AtD District Director’s presentation to the Chancellor’s Executive Committee, and submitted data to the Vice-Chancellor of Administration related to Institutional Staff to Student Ratios.

Goal V. Organizational Communication
In partnership with the St. Philip’s College Public Relations office, the District Department of Governmental and Public Relations coordinated the participation in the Career and Job Fair held at St. Philip's College on Saturday, October 6. Notified all college PR directors of event and arranged for a speaker on financial aid.

The Department of Governmental and Public Relations wrote, designed and produced full page, full color ad for African-American Reflections special magazine on Careers and Education. Also submitted an article on Alamo Community Colleges' career training to run in the same magazine.