ACTLA Executive Board Meeting

December 3, 2007

10:30-12:00pm

CCC Confer

 

 

Diane Flores-Kagan, Kakwasi Somhadi, Loretta Richard, Maureen Dupont, Becky Reetz, Ginnie Gessford

 

 

Minutes were approved with one correction suggested by Maureen. Kakwasi will make the changes and forward them to Becky for the archives. The minutes were unanimously approved.

 

 

Felix will be the equipment coordinator for the conference. He will visit the hotel to assess the needs and will be providing all of the mics from Skyline.

 

Louisa has resigned the position of registration chair. Maureen volunteered to receive the registrations and keep a master list. We will ask the Board for someone to volunteer as the registrar.

 

Loretta reported on the program planning. Dr. Francisco Reveles, an educational training instructor at Sac State, has expressed interest in being our keynote presenter. He will do it for $500 plus hotel, travel, and meals. Loretta forwarded information to the Board with more information about Dr. Reveles. Loretta will approach him and try to finalize an agreement. Keynote address will likely be on Friday at lunch.

 

Kakwasi suggested a roundtable or panel discussion talking about the Puente program (for Latinos students) and the Umoga program (for African American students) and how it relates to learning assistance. Maureen also wanted to include a program called CAMP (a program for migratory workers) and Guardian Scholars (for foster children in college). Kakwasi will contact all of these organizations and ask if they have representatives that could participate. The focus of the panel would be to discuss how learning assistance can support students in these programs. Students could also be part of this discussion panel, or contribute the video that Kakwasi saw at Chabot.

 

 

We need a decorations coordinator for the conference. Kakwasi will check with Ray to see if he is interested in helping with entertainment and decorations. Kakwasi will check with the hotel to see what kind of decorations they provide and whether we can adhere posters to the wall. Maureen suggested that representatives from all of the participating schools bring posters from their school or tutoring center (this could be included in the newsletter).

 

We need to identify who will be in charge of certificates and plaques. Certificates of appreciation are given to all of the region reps and the Board members. Loretta will send the certificate template to Kakwasi. Kakwasi will send out an email to the Board asking who is planning to continue in their positions. Those who are not continuing will receive a plaque. Kakwasi will send the name, title and years served to Felix, if he is willing to order the plaques again. There is also a lifetime achievement award available if the Board feels there is someone who should receive it this year.

 

We worked together to update the conference registration form. Becky will email out the final copy for review so it can be posted on the website.

 

March 24^th is the cut-off date for individual registrations at the hotel. Kakwasi will ask the hotel what our cut-off date is to tell the hotel how many participants we are expecting.

 

 

Kakwasi has been trying to reach Corey and has not heard back from him. ACTLA will be discontinuing business with Corey. Kakwasi contacted the web hosting company and changed the password. The updated information has been sent to Marsha Reske and she will be updating our website with conference information.

 

Kakwasi will try and get all of the newsletter materials to Marsha in early December so the letter can go out before the break.

 

 

Kakwasi will send out an email to the Board proposing that we keep the meeting time of Mondays 10-12:30.

 

 

Meeting was adjourned at 12:05.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minutes submitted by Becky Reetz