MELA Minutes 2022-2023

a. SARA – The US Department of Education made some changes that will have an impact on the reciprocity in which the colleges benefit from SARA. They basically hid the information under a different section. The presidents were updated about the changes in their meeting yesterday. We have a new MCCA representative, Dr. Sharice Robinson. Dr. Amanda Hood (COLIN) is the MCCB eLearning representative for MCCA. Dr. LeBrun mentioned that there will be an upcoming WCET conference in New Orleans in October that will touch on this topic. She will share with us more information about the conference in case anyone wants to attend. b. Procurement Updates 1. Instructure – The contract is signed. In yesterday’s President’s meeting, one college president requested information about Badgr to purchase separately and Dr. LeBrun asked who else might be interested in a pricing model. She will get the quote and distribute to those interested. 2. CidiLabs – ITS is working on a contract. The contract may be approved and ready by mid Fall. 3. AspirEdu – The contract is signed for services starting July 1. They will contact primary people at each college for training. Dr. Stokes (MCCB) will do group training if necessary. 4. Virtual Tutoring – The RFP committee finalized scoring and the legal team is going through the documents. Dr.

LeBrun will complete a business case if ITS approves award at the July meeting. Our Link-Systems contract expires June 30, but we should still have enough hours with them to make it until the new awardee’s contract begins in September.