VASFAA

BOARD - COMMISSIONER - COMMITTEE PLANS & REPORT FORM

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Committee: Diversity

Commissioner/Board Position: Keith Wellings/Rep-at-Large Outreach Services

Year: 2005-06

Committee Members:

Liza Bruce (ECMC)- Chair

Sarah Brown (John Tyler Community College)

Hope Jackson (ECMC)

Lisa Jackson (Piedmont Virginia Community College)

Deborah Marshall (Central Virginia Community College)

Michael Morgan (EdAmerica)

Gail Sidney (Access College Foundation)

Amy Sikes (University of Virginia)

Standard Goal 1: Provide diversity training and education for VASFAA membership, including heightening membership awareness about diversity Committee activities. (Strategic Plan Reference: Section 4.5 A (2,4) and 4.5 B (5))

Objective 1 (HOW the committee plans to achieve the stated goal):

The Diversity Committee will educate VASFAA members through informative and interesting sessions as well as the Multi-Cultural Leadership Symposium at the spring VASFAA conference.

Status Reports of Objective 1 (Please report your progress toward achieving the stated goals this is where the committee provides updates to the Board, including any suggestions or modifications to the goal and/or the Strategic Plan):

The committee chair has developed a list of potential speakers for the spring conference and leadership symposium which will serve as a springboard for discussion at the Diversity Committee's first meeting.

Date: August 16, 2005

Report: A potential list of speakers has been developed and this will be used as a starting point for discussion at our first committee meeting on October 4. An email will go out to committee members in September with an agenda for the committee meeting and a request that committee members bring their ideas for possible speakers for the conference and the Multi-Cultural Leadership Symposium to the meeting on October 4.

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Objective 2 (HOW the committee plans to achieve the stated goal):

Submit an article from the Diversity Committee for the VASFAA newsletter about the committee's planned activities for the year.

Status Reports of Objective 2 (Please report your progress toward achieving the stated goals this is where the committee provides updates to the Board, including any suggestions or modifications to the goal and/or the Strategic Plan):

Date: August 16, 2005

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An article from the VASFAA Diversity Committee will be submitted to the Newsletter Chair by the September deadline.

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BUDGET

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