West Kentucky Community & Technical College Board of Directors

Minutes May 28, 2013

2 p.m.

I. CALL TO ORDER – Deborah Edmonds

Deborah Edmonds called the meeting to order. Members of the board attending were: Bruce Brockenborough, Deborah Edmonds, Shari Gholson, Steve Grinnell, Lee Jones, Larry Kelley, Dr. Shirley Menendez, and Jennifer Smith.

Others present were: Dr. Barbara Veazey, John Carrico, Susan Graves, Tammy Thompson, and Barbara Maxey.

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES March 5, 2013 A motion was made by Steve Grinnell to accept the minutes. Dr. Menendez seconded the motion. The motion was approved.

III. PRESIDENT’S REPORT-Dr. Barbara Veazey Dr. Veazey shared a list of accomplishments (See Appendix A) for the past year in addition to the following:

Building a Student-Centered Culture in Times of Natural Disaster: A Case Study by Dr. Karen Hlinka to be published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice

Summer Holland, administrative assistant for the Advising Center, was honored as the Administrative Staff Award of Excellence recipient for KCTCS.

Exit 7, A Journal of Literature and Art, was published for the second year.

IV. CHAIR’S REPORT Ms. Edmonds stated the Aspen announcement was well received with WKCTC being in the top ten community colleges in the nation for the second year. Ms. Edmonds thanked board members for attending graduation. She also thanked the board members for returning the completed evaluation materials in a timely manner.

V. OLD BUSINESS

There was no old business.

VI. NEW BUSINESS

Susan Graves presented the 2013-2014 budget to be approved. See Appendix B. Dr. Shirley Menendez made a motion to approve the budget. Jennifer Smith. The motion passed. The board went into Executive Session to discuss Dr. Veazey’s evaluation. At the end of the Executive Session, the meeting was adjourned. The next meeting will be held on October 1, 2013 at 2 p.m. in the PJC Board Room.

Appendix A

WKCTC National Awards, Presentations, Publications

2010-2016

Student Awards

2012 Amber’Lee Douglas: Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team Silver Scholar Zachary Lichliter and Donald Block: Cisco Information technology students took fifth place out of 45 teams

in the NetRiders Competition Amber’Lee Douglas: All-USA Academic Team Annette Roethemeyer: All-USA Academic Team Nicholas Curtis: KCTCS All-Academic Team Krista P. Davis: KCTCS All-Academic Team

2010

Kristen Wisler: Coca-Cola Community College National Finalist

Institutional Awards/Recognition 2013

Bellwether Finalist (2013) Top Strategies for Cultural Transformation from a Top 5 College, Community College Futures Assembly. Orlando. FL.

Recognized by The Aspen Institute as one of the top 10% of the nation’s community colleges (http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/2013eligibleinstitutions)

2012

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) named WKCTC an award winner in its 2012 Circle of Excellence awards program for outstanding performance and overall improvement in educational fundraising among the nations’ community colleges.

Exit 7 received positive review at NewPages.com (http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2012/05-15/#Exit-7-i1-Spring-2012)

Recognized by The Aspen Institute as a College of Distinction, one of the Top 5 Community Colleges in the Nation, December 12, 2012

o Aspen Announcement (http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/WestKentuckyCommunityandTechnicalCollege%20)

o White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/14/recognizing-excellence-and-promise-america-s-community-colleges)

The February issue of the Southern Living magazine included information on the Paducah School of Art National Ceramics Invitational (page 38).

“Scholar House Aims to Help Ky. Students Succeed” in Community College Week, November 27, 2012 edition.

2011

Commonwealth Middle College was recognized in Community College Week in the May 30, 2011 edition 2010

Introduction of the Associate in Fine Arts degree at WKCTC was recognized in Community College Week in the June 14, 2010 edition.

Faculty/Staff Awards 2013

Dr. Renea Akin and Nate Slaton, recipients of the League for Innovation John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards

2012 Dr. Barbara Veazey, president of WKCTC, was named the 2012 National Council for Marketing and Public

Relations (NCMPR) District 2 Pacesetter of the Year. Blair Travis, Public Relations, won a gold award in the special events promotion category for the 2012

WKCTC Open House and in the brochure/flier category from NCMPR. Gail Robinson Butler, Clemens Fine Arts Center, won a gold award for the 2011-2012 Clemens Fine Arts

Center brochure from NCMPR. Janett Blythe, Public Relations, won a silver award from NCMPR for the WKCTC Service Learning booklet. Jon Walker, WKCTC TV Department, won a silver award from NCMPR in the video advertisement category

for the WKCTC Industrial Chemical Technology program advertisement. Janett Blythe, Public Relations, won a bronze award from NCMPR for the WKCTC Student Handbook . Dan Sheppard, WKCTC TV Department, won a bronze award from NCMPR for a promotional video on the

WKCTC Marine Technology program. Dr. Barbara Veazey and Kim Russell, Individual Exemplary Leadership Awards, International Chair

Academy (2012) Public Relations Team, Exemplary Leadership Award, International Chair Academy (2012)

2011

WKCTC Television Department: National Conference for Marketing and Public Relations Silver Medallion award for Your City at Work: Barkley Regional Airport program (2011).

WKCTC Public Relations Department: National Conference for Marketing and Public Relations Gold Medallion award for David Baldacci: One Book campaign (2011).

WKCTC Public Relations Department: National Conference for Marketing and Public Relations Bronze Medallion award for College Annual Report (2011).

WKCTC Television Department: National Conference for Marketing and Public Relations Silver Medallion award for college promotional video (2011).

Dr. Renea Akin, Individual Exemplary Leadership Award, International Chair Academy (2011). Dr. Renea Akin and Bridget Canter; and WKCTC Adult Education department, Team Exemplary Leadership

Awards, International Chair Academy (2011). Sarah Davis, 2011 Shining Star Award recipient at the Challenger Center’s Annual National Conference .

2010 WKCTC Television Department: National Conference for Marketing and Public Relations Bronze Medallion

award for college video program (2010).

Faculty/Staff Presentations 2013

Mason Tudor. Marketing Your Learning Center (January 22, 2013). College Reading & Learning Association (CLRA) Twitter Chat.

Megan Dotson. Eliminating “Exit Points” in Developmental Reading and Writing Courses (March 2013). National Association for Developmental Education.

Deborah Smith. Academic Advising: The Key to Student Success (April 2013) panel discussion with Terry O’Banion at the American Association of Community Colleges Annual Meeting.

Dr. Renea Akin. Creating a Faculty Culture Centered on Student Success (May 2013) panel discussion with Josh Wyner at National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD).

Dr. Karen Hlinka. How Can Community Colleges Prepare Students for Transfer? (May 2013) concurrent session at NISOD.

LorryBeth Wilson. Create a Seamless Transition from Secondary to Post-Secondary (May 2013) concurrent session at NISOD.

Dr. Karen Hill Johnson and Jipaum Askew-Robinson. Success on the Pathway Less Traveled: Leadership, Motivation Strategies and Foundation Support for Promoting Blacks in Higher Education (February 2013) at the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education Conference.

2012

Dr. Renea Akin. Cultural Transformations from a Top 5 College (March 2012) at The Chair Academy’s 2012 International Leadership Conference.

Shari Gholson and Claudia Stoffel. Leading the Way: Ongoing Success for Retention (March 2012) at The Chair Academy’s 2012 International Leadership Conference.

Dr. Belinda Dalton-Russell. Erasing Misconceptions: Elevating the Value of Student Affairs on Learning and Achievement (March 2012) at The Chair Academy’s 2012 International Leadership Conference.

Dr. Renea Akin and Kim Russell. Cultural Transformations from a Top 5 College (March 2012) at the League for Innovations Conference.

Sherry Anderson, Heather Coltharp, Maria Flynn, Cory Wadlington. Math Emporium Model: Changing the Equation and Assessing the Results (March 2012) at the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) Conference.

Dr. Barbara Veazey, Dr. Renea Akin, Dr. Kevin Gericke, and Kim Russell. Cultural Transformations from a Top 5 College (April 2012) at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Annual Conference.

Maria Flynn and Kimberly Russell. Problem Solving at a Top 5 Community and Technical College (April 2012) at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Annual Conference.

Kimberly Russell. Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Faculty Learning Circle (May 2012) at the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Conference.

Dr. Belinda Dalton-Russell. How to Help? Partnership to Provide Counseling Services (May, 2012) at National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Conference.

Dr. Tammy Owen. Prior Learning Assessment: Credit for External Experiences (June, 2012) at the National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning.

John Moore. Do You Find Molding Repairs and Installation Frustrating? Learn to Cope (September 2012) at

the 16th Annual International Preservation Trades Workshop. Kay Travis. And the Winners Are: How to Adapt Strategies to Achieve Fundraising Success (October 2012)

at the Conference for Community College Advancement. Jennifer Etherton. TANF to College: Supporting TANF Students in Education Kentucky’s Ready to

Work/Work and Learn (October 2012) at the Addressing the Challenges of Poverty: Solutions for K-12, Higher Education and Communities Conference.

Debbie Smith. Placement Assessment Advising: The First Step to Student Success (October, 2012) at the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Annual Conference.

Megan Dotson and Sanci Teague. Accelerating to Success: Using Technology in Combined Developmental Reading and Writing Courses. (November 2012) at the 45th Annual College Reading and Learning Association Conference.

Dr. Teresa Mayo. Middle College High School: Kentucky’s Dual-Enrollment Alternative (November 2012) at the Mid-South Educational Research Association MSERA.

Dr. Teresa Mayo. Transforming Transfer Statewide: Institutional Transformation and the Student Success Agenda (December 2012) concurrent session with John Gardner and Nicole McDonald at the SACSCOC Annual Meeting.

Dr. Renea Akin, Kim Russell, Dr. Barbara Veazey. Using the Reaffirmation Process as an Impetus for Cultural Transformation concurrent session (December 2012) at the SACSCOC Annual Meeting.

2011

Dr. Renea Akin and Kim Russell, Southern Association of College and Schools (SACS) Annual Conference (December 2011), “Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Faculty Learning Circle”

Megan Dotson and Mason Tudor, College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) Conference (November, 2011) “Tutors Can Read, Right?”

Lisa Stephenson and Amy Boaz (Hickman Co. High School Guidance Counselor), National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) Conference (October, 2011) “Collaboration not Competition: Multiple Dual-Credit Partners Supporting a Rural High School”

Mason Tudor, National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Conference (September, 2011) “Tutors Mentoring Tutors”

Windy Gregory, 56th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (June, 2011) “Two Years of Experience of Teaching Health Physics Online”

John Moore, 4th International Trades Education Symposium: ITES 2011 – 1,000 Years of Traditional Crafts (May, 2011) “Expanding Future Workforce Training to Better Utilize our Built Heritage”

Dr. Belinda Dalton-Russell, International Chair Academy (March, 2011), “The Trammel of Typecasting”

2010

Dr. Kevin Gericke, League for Innovations (March 2011), “My Students Don’t Read and I am not a Reading Instructor”

William Wade. Changing Styles, Meeting Needs. 16 Annual International Sloan-C Conference on Online Learning.

Faculty/Staff Publications and Exhibitions

2013

Deborah Smith, S. Renea Akin, Sandra Tucker, Sherry Anderson. Chapter 5 West Kentucky Community and Technical College: The Master Advising Center in Academic Advising: The Key to Student Success. 2013 Editor: Terry O’Banion, Publisher: Community College Press a division of the American Association of Community Colleges.

William Wade & Jason Donner. “Teaching Speech Online: It Can Be Done.” League for Innovation Showcase, April 2013, Volume 8, Number 4.

Paul Aho, John Hasegawa, David Heflin, Randy Simmons, Amy Sullivan. “Student Success through Reducing student Costs” Community College Times, May 17, 2013.

Karen Hlinka. “Building a Student-Centered Culture in Times of Natural Disaster: A Case Study.” Community College Journal of Research & Practice, July 2013, Volume 37, Issue 7, 541-546.

Connie Heflin. Two chapters (Integrative Therapies and Suicide and Suicidal Behavior) in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Evidence-Based Concepts, Skills, and Procedures Edition and Year: 8th Ed., 2013 Editor and Author: Wanda K. Mohr Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Paul Aho, Curator/Presenter, Surfing Florida: A Photographic History, Surf Expo, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Paul Aho, Group Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA Paul Aho, Group Exhibition, Gallery Biba, Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, FL Paul Aho, Group Exhibition, Bostonart, Boston, MA Randy Simmons, Solo Exhibit, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island, NY Randy Simmons, Group Juried Exhibit, Drawing Discourse: 4th Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, University

of North Carolina, Asheville, NC BiLan Liao, Presenter, Guanmei International School and Dongguan Foreign Language School, China, May

2013 John Hasegawa, International Resident Artist, Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China. John Hasegawa, Group Exhibition, Project Wide West, Imperial Palace, Innsbruck, Austria

2012

William Wade. “Online Learning Today: What Works; What Doesn’t.” Community College Times. January 13, 2012.

William Wade. “Online Learning Today: What Works; What Doesn’t.” Community College Week. February 6, 2012.

Kimberly G. Russell. “Faculty Learning Circle” Community College Times, March 23, 2012. Kimberly G Russell. “Faculty Learning Circle Helps Teachers Connect With Each other, Students”

Community College Week, March 23, 2012. Connie Heflin. “Effective Faculty Communication in Online Learning: What We Have Here Is a Failure To

Communicate!” NISOD’s Innovation Abstracts, May 4,2012, (http://www.nisod.org/password/abstracts/XXXIV_15.html)

David Heflin. “Moving to an e-Book Curriculum in Allied Health” Community College Times, June 19, 2012. Tammy Thompson. Innovation Showcase, Exit 7: A New Literary Journal at WKCTC, October 2012. Randy Simmons, Life In Shades of Gray, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Paul Aho, Presenter/curator, Surfing Florida: A Photographic History, The Schmidt Center Galleries, Florida

Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida; Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL. Randy Simmons, Drawing Discourse: 3rd Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, University of North Carolina,

Asheville, NC.

Randy Simmons, Manifest’s International Drawing Annual 6 (INDA), Cincinnati, OH Paul Aho, Foundations, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL Paul Aho, Naples Philharmonic Center, Naples, FL Paul Aho, Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, FL Randy Simmons, Solo Exhibit, Adrift, North Florida Community College, Madison, FL Randy Simmons, Solo Exhibit, Drawings, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN Randy Simmons, Two Person Exhibit, With E. Thurston Belmer, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Randy Simmons, Group Exhibit, Herrett Center/College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID BiLan Liao, “International Contemporary Artists,” ICA Publishing, Vol. 5, 2012, featured work – My Journey

and My Father. BiLan Liao, Group exhibition, Self Portrait Exhibition, The Fine Arts Center, Hot Springs, AR.

2011

Andrew Gates. “Educating the Inland Waterway Workforce” Inland Port, January/February 2011. Andrew Gates. “College in Paducah Offers Waterways Curriculum” The Waterways Journal Weekly, February

28, 2011. Kimberly G. Russell, Southern Association of Community, Junior and Technical Colleges Journal, October 2,

2011, The Faculty Learning Circle (http://www.sacjtc.org/occasional/JournalArticle2011a.pdf) William Wade. “Online Learning Today: What Works; What Doesn’t.” League for Innovation Learning

Abstracts.” December 2011: Volume 14, Number 12. http://www.league.org/blog/post.cfm/online-learning-today-what-works-what-doesn-t

Berry Craig III, Hidden History of Kentucky Soldiers, History Press (2011). Berry Craig III, Hidden History of Western Kentucky, History Press (2011). Randy Simmons, State of Drawing, Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY BiLan Liao, Cultural Crossroads National Juried Exhibition, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-

Salem, NC Paul Aho, Art Naples, International Contemporary Art Fair, Naples, Florida

2010

Berry Craig III, Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War, History Press (2010). Randy Simmons, Here's Looking at You: Contemporary Portraits, Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL Randy Simmons, Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing 3, North Light Books John Hasegawa, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Craft, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA Harvey Sadow, Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces ofSouthern Craft and Traditional Art

Harvey Sadow, Jule Collin Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn, AL Harvey Sadow, Mastering Raku:The Book And The Art Within, Jared Branfman Memorial Gallery, Needham,

MA Paul Aho, Verge Art Fair, International Contemporary Art Fair during Art Week/Art Basel, Miami Beach,

Florida William Wade. “Changing Styles, Meeting Needs.” League for Innovation Learning Abstracts. July 2010:

Volume 23, Number 7.

Appendix B