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Volume 27, Issue 11, october 21, 2004

Opinion

Metro’s Trustee Talk

mugStephen Hay
Student Trustee

Another month has passed and it’s time for the monthly report about the Board of Trustees meeting.

As the sole student representative on the Board of Trustees, I give these reports to inform my fellow students about the operations of the Board. These articles are only part of my attempt to distribute information. If you would like to know more or simply stay “in the loop,” please e-mail me at mscd-student-trustee@mscd.edu or sign on to the Student Trustee Forum group on MetroConnect under the Social category in the Groups Index.

The Board met on October 6, 2004. The meeting agenda was light on items that needed approval but rich in information.

The only approvals needed by the Board were four personnel appointments: Dr. Nancy Case, chair of the Accelerated Nursing Program; Dr. Mollie Hill, staff psychologist; Ms. Lee Pruett, assistant to the vice president of Administration and Finance; and Mr. Russell Reynolds, coordinator for Assessment and Testing.

Every year, Metro reviews some of its academic programs. Each program is evaluated every seven years by outside consultants and a committee from the college. Last spring, reviews were conducted of the Anthropology, Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Science, Human Services, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Political Science, and Sociology programs.

Though the recommendations are too long to mention here, they are available on the Board of Trustees web site www.mscd.edu/welcomectr/trustees/ within the October 2004 meeting agenda. Also given were follow-up reports for the programs reviewed in 2002: African American Studies, Biology, Electrical Engineering Technology, History, Industrial Design, Land Use, and Meteorology. These reports present the steps Metro has taken to meet the recommendations of the reviews presented last year.

The last items on the agenda were two presentations. The first was regarding the Metro grant project, “An Adventure of the American Mind.” The AAM project teaches educators and future educators how to use and integrate digitized materials from the Library of Congress into the classroom, such as an original draft of the Constitution of the United States, letters from United States Presidents, and seven million more items.

The second presentation was concerning the $9 million Teacher Quality Enhancement Program grant that Metro received last month from the U.S. Department of Education. The Board heard about this program for teacher education and how it will be implemented in partnership with Denver Public Schools.