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October 2009 Minutes

Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 20:10


 

Minutes for Board Meeting on Oct 10-11, 2009

Burbank, Calif.

Voting members present:

Jay Seidel, Fullerton College, Faculty President   

Danny Edwards, Bakersfield College, SoCal Faculty Vice President

Michelle Olson, Chabot College, Student President

Anttwan Stanberry, San Jose City College, NorCal Student Vice President

Brandon Hensley, Glendale College, SoCal Student Vice President

Staff Present:

Timi Poeppelman, Events Director

Attachments:

Minutes:

  • Minutes of this meeting recorded by Michelle Olson because Secretary Cameron not present.
  • Anttwan motioned to approve minutes from the May meeting. Michelle seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
  • Note: Anttwan stated that his school has been changed since the last board meeting, and he is now representing San Jose City College, not Skyline College.

Additions to Agenda:

Timi added volunteer awards to the 2010 state conference update.

State Faculty Report: (Jay Seidel)

  • Faculty is concerned about different schools in jeopardy with budget cuts.
  • JACC is working with different associations to try to help to prevent these cuts.
  • Recall the Cerritos College situation.

NorCal Student Report: (Anttwan Stanberry)

  • Anttwan discussed his Editor's Round Table event he held at Skyline College on Friday, Oct. 9.
  • He described it as "productive." At the meeting students discussed the issues within their publications.
  • He also promoted the JACC NorCal Conference and the state conference.
  • Anttwan's main goal for his term is trying to connect the NorCal schools.

SoCal Faculty Report: (Danny Edwards)

  • During the SoCal meetings the biggest budget has been the budget.
  • While the input has been minimal about the conference some things highlighted were:
  • Food had been cut, except for lunch so JACC could make the budget for the conference.
  • There are questions about whether some of the contests should change. Are there too many? Should there be less contests?

SoCal Student Report: (Brandon Hensley)

  • Brandon had heard that the College of the Canyons newspaper was being downgraded. Possible discussion of making paper be more like a club.

Communication Director's Report: (Richard Cameron)

  • Also students have been asking for the Web site to be changed.
  • Timi responded that the new Web site is almost ready.
  • Rich is working with about 1,000 files on the old Web site that contradict each other. To make sure that the new Web site doesn't have this same problem he is manually moving about 100 files that are needed to the new Web site.
  • He is hoping to have the new site up and running by the SoCal conference, but will definitely have it up by the NorCal conference.

Secretary's Report: (Rich Cameron)

  • Rich passed out a Budget Watch Survey and 45 out of 70 schools participated.
  • The survey shows the current, past and future of the budgets of journalism programs.
  • The California College Media Association (CCMA) is inviting JACC students to compete in their contests. They have events in California twice a year. By extending their hand to community college students it allows students of different levels to compete with each other.
  • Rich will e-mail students with information.

Events Director's Report: (Timi Poeppelman)

  • Student officers with any ideas for the state conference, such as a dance, or event, must implement them by Feb. 1.

NorCal Regional Conference Update: (Saturday, Nov. 7)

  • Nancy is in charge of the program for the NorCal conference.
  • A great keynote speaker has been planned.
  • The headquarters will be moved to the plaza at San Jose State. This will help vendors who only have a two hour block of time. The plaza is near where the contests will be held.
  • At lunch there will be a live band, vendors and food.
  • Registration for the conference will take place between 7:30 and 9 a.m.
  • Conference will start at 9:15 a.m.

SoCal Regional Conference Update: (Friday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 24)

  • California state universities are having mandatory furlough days. The president designates which dates these will take place. CSU Fullerton is having 4 furlough days on the week of the conference.
  • For that reason the conference will be held at the Titan Student Union, located on the campus, both Friday and Saturday.
  • Danny will bring past plaques that were not given out to the conference.
  • The judging room will be ran by Pat McKean.

2010 Mid-Winter Faculty Conference Report: (Timi)

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2 comments

Allan Lovelace
Wed Oct 28 2009 23:39
Riverside paid the membership fee. But after paying $500 for the membership fee, and after our travel budget was eliminated, we won't be able to afford to go to the state convention in spring 2010.
Allan Lovelace
Wed Oct 28 2009 16:35
Update/ Disclosure of Impact of Membership Fee Increase:

* As of Oct. 10, 37 schools had not made their membership payments, 26 schools had.

How many colleges paid their membership fee in 2008? How many colleges eventually paid their membership fee in 2009? If we had that information, we could understand the significance of the huge increase in the membership fee. With that information, we could see whether the increase in the membership fee from $200 to $500 was a serious mistake, as I had warned at the spring 2009 convention. Everyone agrees that $500 is a bargain to pay for membership in JACC, but that is not the issue. The real issue is whether colleges can afford to pay it, especially during an extreme state budget crisis. So, what are the membership totals for 2008 and 2009?
-Allan Lovelace
Riverside







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