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Jan anuary 2013 2013

FEDERAL UPDATE

American Tax Payers Relief Act: Wins for CC Students

• Five-year extension of the AOTC: replaced Hope Scholarship

at $2500 vs. $1800. Covers books and course materials as well as tuition. Tax Code: Employees eligible for up to $5,250 tax-free educational assistance.

• Student Loan Interest Deduction expanded and made

permanent.

• Higher Education Reauthorization: 4 main categories
• Student financial aid
• Services to help students complete high school and succeed in

postsecondary education

• Aid to institutions
• Aid to improve k-12 teacher training at postsecondary institutions

STATE AND SYSTEM UPDATE

• Block grant funding
• Presidential Search
• PA 12-40
• TAP
• Sitelines study
• Maguire study
• Campus safety audit
• Shelter in Place on 2/20

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

“All Charged Up” Noon Institute: Sal Tarantino presenting, “Interview with an 18th Century Soldier” Erin Jackson, MCC Clinical Instructor, at Bolton Veterinary Hospital Ed Knoeckel MCC piano instructor

ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS

Completed planning and preconstruction for East Lot and Lowe Restroom Implemented a balanced budget plan Installed new ADA signage throughout the college

Completed new Dental Assistant Program Lab Renovated Testing and Disabilities Services Center Achieved substantial energy savings from power management Upgraded Emergency Notification System and wireless campus-wide Implemented IT initiatives improving information security/risk assessment

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Giving increased in 2012: $1.3M
• Foundation total assets: $4.5 M
• Alumni donor gifts increased by 17 percent.
• Annual Fund: 16 percent more this year in six

months compared to all last year.

• Scholarships: 263 students - $199K
• Innovation awards: $25K
• Capital Campaign Kick-off
• Adolf and Virginia Dehn gallery naming: $125K
• Entrepreneurship Center naming: $100K

MARKETING REVIEW

• Highlight programs: engineering, technology,

computer science, computer game design

• Increased number of applications
• Implemented and broadened distribution of “Inside

MCC” and “The Pulse”

• Increased social media presence: over 3,000 ‘Likes’
• n Facebook; home page visits, up 25% to 1.5

million; admissions page visits, 39,600 in 2012; FA page average daily visits went from 7 to 118 and ConEd from 60 to 305

• 2012 Media value $208,000
• 50th Birthday

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

• Developing a Community College Student Roadmap

Project

• Increase in development of online and Hybrid

courses, certificates, and programs

• General Education reform: 35 courses certified; 4

sections of the Integrative Learning course

• Selected to represent CT in Multi-State Collaborative

to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment.

• Health and Life Science Career Initiative: $12M grant
• ver three years
• College Access Challenge Grant expanded
• Gear Up grant with East Hartford Middle School
• College Career Pathways recognized as state-wide

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STUDENT AFFAIRS

• Center for Students with Disabilities and Testing

renovations

• ECHN partnership
• Advising self-study: renaming the center Advising

and Counseling Center (Wanda Reyes-Dawes appointed)

• Veteran Services reorganization
• Student Activities Leadership program
• Student Conduct program
• Increased graduation and retention rates
• Assessment and implementation of Institutional

Learning Goals

ENROLLMENT UPDATE

STRATEGIC QUESTIONS

• How do we manage, diversify and

strengthen our resources?

• How do we create an environment where

student success is an expectation?

• How do we connect with our communities?
• How best do we keep each other informed

and engaged?

HOW DO WE MANAGE, DIVERSITY AND

STRENGTHEN OR RESOURCES?

MANAGING RESOURCES

Possible New Directions in Funding

• Decrease or eliminate transfer back to system – new funding

formula will decrease General Fund appropriation but allow us to keep tuition revenue

• General Fund appropriation based in-part on Full-Time

Equivalent enrollment

• Increase tuition and fees
• Adjust regulations on mandatory reserves
• Adjust policy on financial aid set-aside: (15% of tuition =

$2.2M)

• Adjust policy on charging FT students for all

registered credits, rather than cap charge at 12 credits

• Performance based funding – retention, graduation,

milestones like credit thresholds and gatekeeper courses

HOW DO WE CREATE AN

ENVIRONMENT WHERE STUDENT SUCCESS IS AN EXPECTATION?

HOW DO WE CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT

WHERE STUDENT SUCCESS IS AN EXPECTATION?

MODELING SUCCESS

HOW DO WE CONNECT WITH OUR

COMMUNITIES?

• Institute for Community Engagement and Outreach
• Service on Chamber Boards
• Professional Associations
• Conference presentations
• Service Learning
• Speakers Bureau
• Business/Industry partnerships
• Town/Gown relationships
• Legislative Advocacy
• Excursions programs
• Educational partnerships
• College Readiness

CONNECTING:

COLLEGE READINESS

HOW BEST DO WE KEEP EACH OTHER

INFORMED & ENGAGED?

CONNECTIONS: FOR LEARNING, FOR LIFE

ENVISIONING OUR FUTURE