March 16, 2001
Two KCTCS Colleges made presentations during the recent enrollment management workshop in Lexington. The topic of the two-day session was "Modes and Models in Designing and Implementing a Successful Advising Program", and Elizabethtown Community College and Ashland Community College discussed their advising strategies.
The presenters from Elizabethtown Community College were Dr. John Burke, dean of student affairs, and Sharon Spratt, director of counseling. They discussed a new program at ECC in which first time freshmen are assigned an adviser. Burke and Spratt told the other workshop participants about how they enlisted faculty support for the program, and how the college integrated orientation and a freshman success course with the freshman advisory program. Spratt said about 20 faculty members serve as advisers.
Barbara Nicholls reported on Ashland Community College's advising system called "master advising." She said that all new freshmen are assigned an adviser. The adviser works with the student until he or she has completed all required developmental courses and declared a major. Ashland CC has 15 trained faculty members who serve as master advisers.
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During the March 13 meeting of the President's Cabinet, Chancellors Dr. Keith Bird and Dr. Tony Newberry reviewed the KCTCS preliminary enrollment projections worksheets that will be discussed during the next meeting of the President's Leadership Team (PLT). KCTCS' preliminary enrollment projections will be submitted to the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) office by March 30.
The Cabinet also discussed various formats that could be used for tracking KCTCS issues as they flow to and from R. S. V. P. teams. The tracking system will ensure that every employee at every level has a process to get issues addressed. The formats also will be reviewed by the PLT.
In other action:
· the Cabinet reviewed the agenda for the upcoming CPE meeting. Several items of interest to KCTCS will be discussed.
· Vice President Dr. Candace Gosnell gave Cabinet members a draft copy of a New Horizons brochure that will be distributed throughout the system.
· The chancellors presented a Perkins program update, discussing the 2001 program guidelines and applications. The Perkins program also will be discussed at the next PLT meeting.
· Dr. Gosnell reported that a formal announcement would be made soon regarding an expanded "British Experience" partnership between KCTCS and Georgetown College. A press conference to announce the new collaborative venture will be held in April.
· The chancellors led a discussion of plans for the 2001-02 catalog. The PLT also will address, during its upcoming meeting, issues related to the catalog.
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The "Ready to Work" program has received the American Association for Women in Community Colleges model program award for 2000-2001. KCTCS program director Shauna King-Simms was notified recently that the award would be presented April 6 during the American Association of Community Colleges convention.
"Ready to Work" is a joint initiative of KCTCS and Kentucky's Cabinet for Families and Children.
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Dr. Leonard F. O'Hara has announced his retirement as president of Paducah Community College. He is leaving the college in September to take an academic sabbatical and to pursue opportunities in consulting on a national level.
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Student Newspapers Win Awards
Congratulations to the Henderson Community College and Hopkinsville Community
College student newspapers. Both won several awards during the annual Kentucky
Intercollegiate Press Association convention held earlier this month at Eastern
Kentucky University.
Tony Strawn is the adviser of the Henderson newspaper, The Hill, which won 37 awards.
Sandy Cavanah is the adviser of the Hopkinsville student newspaper, News and Views, which received 12 awards.
The colleges were competing against all other community colleges in Kentucky as well as four-year colleges with enrollment of 5,000 or less.
Laurel TC Instructor Honored
John G. Baker, information technology faculty member at Laurel Technical
College, has been selected by the Cisco Learning Institute (CLI) to attend "network
security" training at the CLI headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. After completing
the training, Baker will advise Cisco regarding how to include "network
security" in the Cisco Certified Networking Association (CCNA) curriculum.
John Vos of Paducah Community College was selected to attend Cisco "digital subscriber lines" training last year. It's an honor for Baker and Vos to have been selected since Cisco has more than 6,500 academies from which it chooses instructors for special training.
News from Ashland CC
Ashland Community College will present the musical, Cabaret¸ March
23-25 at its J. B. Sowards Theatre on campus. The show will begin at 8 p.m.
on March 23 and March 24, and at 2:30 p.m. on March 25. Call the college bookstore
for tickets.
Through a grant from the Ohio Arts Council and support from the Paramount Arts Center, Ashland Community College will present The Diary of Anne Frank at 7 p.m. March 26 at the Paramount in downtown Ashland. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Paramount box office.
Authors David and Lalie Dick will discuss their latest book, Rivers of Kentucky, beginning at 12:15 p.m. March 29 at Ashland CC. Dick is a Kentucky native and former CBS correspondent. The event is co-sponsored by the college and Jesse Stuart Foundation. Admission is free.
The Entrepreneur Center of Ashland CC will hold a small business resource seminar from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 5 in the college's teleconference room. The seminar, which is co-sponsored by Morehead State University's Small Business Development Center, will include presentation by Ron Crouch of the Kentucky State Data Center and Rick Kurzynske of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation. For more information, contact Ed Shytle.
Hopkinsville CC Sponsoring Camp
Hopkinsville Community College is sponsoring its 11th annual "Kids in College
Can Soar" (KICCS), a week-long summer camp for students in grades one through
six. The camp provides talented teachers an opportunity to use teaching methods
they might not use in a traditional classroom, and gives students the chance
to discover that learning can be fun.
Owensboro TC Names Fire/Rescue Instructor
Jimmy VanCleve is the new fire-rescue training instructor at Owensboro
Technical College. VanCleve was formerly employed at MPD, Inc., of Owensboro.
Since 1990, he has been teaching CPR, first aid and EMT classes part-time at
Owensboro TC.
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