NETWORK TECHNOLOGYADVISORY COMMITTEE

MINUTES

Thursday, October 15, 2015

6:00—8:00 p.m.

Joan Stout Hall, Room 242

Members Present:Jeff Groff, Committee Vice Chair, Clark PUD;Eric Hazen, ieSolutions; Brian MacKay, The Columbian Publishing Co.

Members Absent:Gary Liberman, Committee Chair, Earthlink

Clark College:Dwight Hughes, NTEC Department Head; Bob Hughes, CTEC Professor, CTEC Instructors Jack Sande and Adam Coleman;John Maduta, Associate Dir. of Advising-Prof/Tec Programs; Andreana DiGiorgio, Secretary Sr., Advisory Committees

Committee Vice Chair Jeff Groff called the meeting to order at 6:03 p.m.

The May 27, 2015 meeting minutes were approved.

Office of Instruction

The Fall Training for Chairs & Co Chairstook place Tuesday September 15. Tim Cook and President Knight shared a few words of encouragement and gratitude for the work of all advisory members. The PowerPoint used in the training will be posted on the Advisory Web page, go to

Ethics Training.This is required by The SBCTC and the State of WA for all public employees, elected and appointed officials. Office of Instruction will get to members who are not in attendance to take the training and provide documentation.

Perkins & Worker Retraining Grants

  • Perkins will be reviewed to ensure Clark is utilizing the funds in the most effective ways.

2015-16 Worker Retraining $1,018,073 and 2015-16 Perkins $607,288

  • Grant funds are allocated on Full Time Equivalents (FTE’s)
  • Leadership and Block grants BEAM $16,000 Grant: Lucia Worthington, Business, Entrepreneur, Accounting and Management (BEAM) club for the business department

Innovation Grant $3000: Marcia Roi of the Addiction Counselor Education, utilized funding to combine recruitment of veterans with the annual Hands across the Bridge event

The Academic Plan is under development and will be presented to the Board of Trustees in winter term, once adopted it will be available on the web site.

Bachelor in Applied Management (BAS). The second four year degree program at Clark, (the first was in Dental Hygiene), is in second phase of approvals. Slated to open for students fall of 2016.

Advisory Committee Composition is a great place for us to engage folks from the community. While our current student body is 58% from non-dominate populations, our advisory committees are generally not as diverse. Diversity will help Clark ensure training needs of all students are met.

April 20th, 2016 – SAVE THE DATE – the Advisory Member Breakfast will be held to acknowledge the service so many volunteers provide to Clark students. We hope that by providing the date well in advance members can plan to be there to enjoy a great breakfast, student presentations and some networking time.

NTEC Department Head/Chair Report

College budget cuts and possible impact on NTEC programs. Jack presented to the members about Microsoft. Showed statistics including employment growth in Washington and Oregon. All positive. In Clark County, computer support specialist is number three in industry. Dwight spoke about the Bachelor of Applied Science in Business Management (BAS) on hold with the college. Still have the new NTEC degree but no MSFT degree. The new NTEC degree is half Cisco and half MSFT. Want the members to discuss the degree ideas should it survive, guidance from the committee is important. Eric spoke with BPA; as long as the employee has Microsoft experience—that’s great, do not have to have the degree. Jeff said if there are still some Microsoft courses he would still hire grads for Clark PUD. He added that having a certificate is a step in the door. Knowing the networking and other protocols is essential. Brian MacKay of the Columbian wants to make sure his employees have exposure to MSFT.

Positive enrollment and feedback from new IP Sub-netting course. This 2-credit course started this summer with 2 full sections. Ready for fall. Adam Coleman will be teaching this.

Fully online CCNA course sequence coming soon. Students get confused when they see a hybrid so thinking of doing the entire course online.

Work Plan

The committee reviewed the 2015-16 work plan. No changes.

Old Business

Remove Cisco CCNP courses from Cisco degree requirements; use as electives. Due to enrollment, staffing, and budget realities, need to realign the Cisco degree. The committee talked about this at the last meeting. Not enough enrollment to sustain it. Only doing two of the CCNAs (Cisco Certified Network Administrator). Need a vote to remove the CCNP. Discussion was held. The committee voted to approve removing Cisco CCNP courses (227, 228, 229) from the Cisco degree.

Jeffsummarized the meeting; next meeting will discuss Cloud. Meeting adjourned at 7:55 p.m.

Next Meeting Date

Wednesday, May 27,2015 from 6—8 p.m.

Prepared/Submitted by: Andreana DiGiorgio

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