MELA Meeting Minutes 2018

Office

College/Association Northeast MS CC

Name

Kim Harris

President

Kimberly Ellis Christa Wilhite

President Elect

Pearl River CC East Central CC

Secretary

I.

Call to order 9:00am

II.

Approval of January Minutes

Jennifer James made the motion/Buffy Matthews seconded. Motion Passed.

III.

Approval of February Agenda

Kimberly Ellis made the motion/Jennifer James seconded. Motion Passed

IV.

New Business

A. Krista LeBrun:

1. NWN Update – Contract is officially signed. Kick-off call with MCCB is tomorrow (2/15/18). Implementation manager is Kate Newell(?). WebEx/Spark should be fully implemented and admins trained within 90 days, per provided timeline. NWN will be at CFTTC, and the group is highly encouraged to attend their afternoon session on Wednesday. 2. Canvas Renewal Update – Business case turned in during October, manager assigned by ITS recently. Krista LeBrun will go before the ITS board tomorrow to speak about the contract. ITS should approve the renewal of the contract since board members are familiar with Canvas. Contract will be finalized thereafter, and CP1 completed, and then contract goes before MCCB for approval. Contract should be approved and signed in time for June renewal. (Question about increase – previous contract inflated, FTE changed, addition of catalogue and training)

3. Questions from MELA January Meeting (Did we ever revisit this formally, or did it just fall in under ET/Attendance/Audit Information?)

4. SARA Update – Menia Dykes received applications from the following collegse as of 3pm Monday: CoLin, Hinds, Holmes, Jones, Meridian, Delta, Gulf Coast, Pearl River, and Southwest. Applications due to her office by 2.28, if your college was not listed above. 5. Calendar update from AOA re: Spring 2020 – CAO’s requested reviewal of proposed date change to Spring 2020 by backing calendar up by a week to allow the calendar to align more closely with previous years’ calendar. Aware that online and

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