MELA Minutes 2020-2021

VI.

New Business:

a. Dr. Christa Wilhite: Canvas ready made templates are available. They can be customized with branding. If interested, reach out to Dr. Wilhite to schedule a meeting and see what is available. b. Buffy Matthews: Library budget MELO request for 2022 presented along with the MELO stats. Mary Beth Applin (Hinds) is available if anyone has any questions. MSVCC pays for the MELO services for the library association. There is a total budget increase of 3% from the last year. A question was presented as to why a few of colleges’ stats are so high as compared to the other colleges. The same formula was used to pull each institution’s data so we do not know why the numbers are different. Dr. LeBrun asked that we get more clarification on how the data was obtained because she assumes the presidents will have the same question. Buffy Matthews made a motion to approve the budget request and send it to the presidents for approval with the statement that we will be provided more information on the origin of the statistics. Dr. Hood suggests that the motion be tabled until we get the clarification on the statistics data. Motion was tabled until the information is obtained on the statistics. Dr. LeBrun states we do have some time before this information will need to be sent to the presidents. The next MACC meeting will be April 27, 2021. The motion will be tabled until the next MELA meeting which will be held April 14 , 2021.

VII.

Open Forum a. Buffy Matthews: Update on MGCCC Canvas issues. Buffy thanks

everyone for working with the MGCCC students during this time. Testing continues to fix the issues with the Amazon web services on the west server. Students and faculty will be notified this morning that the issue will hopefully be fixed by the end of the workday today. A no show grace period will be allowed for those students.