MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

2006 – March Distance Learning Coordinator’s Association Tuesday, March 7, 2006 Minutes

A meeting of the Distance Learning Coordinator’s Association was held on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at the State Board for Junior and Community Colleges building in Jackson, MS.

Attendance was as follows:

College/Association

Representative(s)

Coahoma

Letha Richards via CCN

Copiah Lincoln

Laura Lofton

East Central

Absent

East Mississippi

Andrea Scott Audra Leverton

Hinds

Holmes

Tish Stewart Kim Harris

Itawamba Meridian

Taurus Satterwhite Jackie Bailey-Hall

Mississippi Delta

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Jennifer Leimer, Mark Smith, Buffy Matthews

Northeast

Absent

Northwest Pearl River Southwest

Phyllis Johnson

Absent Absent

SBCJC

Audra Kimble and Beverlin Givens

I.

CALL TO ORDER. Andrea Scott called the meeting to order at 10:07 am.

II. The minutes from the association meeting on February 7, 2006 were approved as presented.

III.

Unfinished business

IV.

New Business a. Audra Kimble discussed consortium issues i.

The Blackboard survey is available and will be turned off Saturday, March 11. Please encourage your faculty members to complete the survey. ii. Association members who are present at the CFTCC will meet with Chad to discuss the survey results. iii. Survey results will be brought to the presidents association then there will be further discussions with Blackboard executives. iv. Stacy, the project manager with Presidium, will be at CFTCC v. Jones Jr. College will be joining the consortium in the fall and John Carter will be the DLC. vi. Audra will be requesting proposals for training to begin being offered this summer. Training sessions will be offered in three sessions to cover all parts of the state.

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