Academic Leadership Team 8-23-16

Academic Leadership Team
August 23, 2016
1:00 pm
Ruby Hicks Hall, Room 248
Members Present:     Gayle Arries, Tiffany Blackwell, Jackie Blakley, Tim Bowen, Rick Cothran, Jenni Creamer, Mark Dougherty, Matt Edwards, Penny Edwards, Stacey Frank, Adam Ghiloni, Glenn Hellenga, Linda Jameison, Chris Marino, Crystal McLaughlin, Sarah Shumpert, Brian Swords, Hap Wheeler, Tracey Williams
Members Absent:      Scott Harvey, Lynn Lewis
Other Attendees:       Michelle Jacobson
Length of Meeting:    1.50 hours
The minutes of the July 26, 2016 meeting were approved as presented.

 Michelle Jacobson reported on EdManage, our new default prevention program.  As a part of the South Carolina Student Loan Corporation, EdManage provides free service to our students, including loan counseling after graduation that Tri-County cannot provide due to staffing issues.  Michelle noted that EdMange will consider each student’s situation and offer options that are in his/her best interest.  In addition, EdManage has a financial literacy piece that Michelle will use to help our current students.

 She also distributed and discussed EdManage, Cumulative CDR% by Month in Cohort, and noted that our default rate continues to decrease.  Michelle pointed out that the last institution the student attends has the debt, and noted that we are doing everything we can on the front end to help with student debt.

 Michelle is teaching a COL 105 Financial Literacy themed community, and will be happy to present to any other classes.  The Leading EDGE presentations address financial literacy, in addition to other topics, and the group was asked to encourage students to attend these presentations.

 The group reviewed the proposed project teams and the group leaders discussed how they matched the necessary roles with individuals.  The issue of several people being on multiple teams was resolved, and teams were revised based on discussions.  The following observations came from this discussion:

·        Not the typical team composition.

·        Have community campus representation on Room Design and Student Characteristics teams.

·        Corporate & Community Education reps?

·        Since these teams are not based on division representation, the members of the ALT must communicate.

·        The college has not employed teams at this level before, so working in these teams will be very different.

Galen announced that project board and project team training will take place mid-September.  Each team will have a pre and post assessment as part of the training.

ACTION ITEM:  Each board will finalize its team and identify the team leader.  The team will hold its initial meeting to review the project charter. 
Announcements:
Sarah:

The QEP and Focused Report were mailed to the off-site team today.

Galen:

The on-site team chair, Dr. Ingram, will be on campus on Wednesday morning for a preliminary visit.

Linda:

The catalog should be published online today.  The hard copy is being printed in-house today.

Matt:

IT has noticed a sharp increase in “spear phishing” attacks and asked the group to be aware of this and to communicate this to the rest of the campus. 

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Recorded By:             Anne Bryan

Next Meeting:           Tuesday, September 13, at 1:00, in RH 248