Meeting & Agendas

Guest speaker- Stephanie Diina-Dempsey-ACC Foundation Ms. Diina-Dempsey spoke about the ACC Foundation and funding opportunities for scholarships. She mentioned that we had few scholarships under the electronics areas. She invited the energy companies to consider getting involved in the foundation for things such as equipment donations and funding scholarships.

Dr. Quiñonez reviewed the Minutes and discussed the items that were addressed at the previous meeting: i. Climbing skills I and II has been combined ii. Expand the location to another campus is not going to happen-We are expanding here at RVS iii. Outdoor storage area still in discussion iv. We created the small certificate as per request v. We still working on the mechanical assembly course vi. We are adding one more instructor for the CE sections vii. Outdoor lighting is not going to happen due to the neighborhood association viii. We have reached out to the Veterans and we are currently involved with Credit College for Heroes ix. We are currently working with another college; TSTC and a grant they got to match college courses with different job fields.

• Lineworker Marketable Skills Certificate-short certificate Dr. Quiñonez stated that this item has been approved by the curriculum committee and it is official on the website. This program will open up Spring 2014 and the credit side had teamed up with the continuing education side to increase enrollment. • Merging climbing skills classes into one class Dr. Quinones stated that Mr. Elkins has been hired to review the combined climbing class and Mr. Elkins stated that they will add framing, learn with capacitors, performers and all the basic understanding. • A discussion opened up and a little history was given to the new members.

• Renewable Energy AAS and certificate Mr. Morrison discussed his proposal to change and remove some of the courses from the renewable energy degree-proposal attached-. Members discussed several ideas and thought that the recommended changes make sense as long as they are practical applications taught in class. Others mentioned that OSHA10 was the lowest level and OSHA40 was the advanced. Some felt that principles of marketing and finance were going to be very useful to this degree plan. The basic introduction to drafting was useful; however, smart grid was too general. • Power Technology AAS and certificate • Lineworker Technology AAS and certificate Dr. Quiñonez suggested to the committee that it would be good to collapse the lineworker and power degrees into one and we would leave the Lineworker Marketable Certificate. If a student wants to advance, then it could take the new combined Power Technology degree. Mr. Elkins spoke about the expansion of the training facility from 7 poles to 13 poles and Dr. Quinones mentioned that the list of equipment in the packet is in there in case some would like to donate any of the items from the list. Dr. Quinones suggested it takes some thought and process to vote on these changes. Dr. Quinones suggested that it in the other committee members vote by e-mail and it has been working well. We may use the same system and send you e-mails.

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