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Skyline Shines

July 7, 2006

Executive Report to the Board of Trustees: My President’s Board Report from the June 28 is available on our website at this address: http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/skynotes/.

Farewell to Andreas Wolf: Please join me in bidding a very fond farewell to Andreas Wolf, who will be leaving Skyline in August to serve as the Dean of Physical Education and Athletics at the College of San Mateo. I have attached a letter from him to everyone at the college. He has made a memorable contribution to Skyline, first in his division as it has undergone a series of dramatic transformations. He led the decision making about the important facilities changes there as well as the total transformation of our athletic fields. He led the division as it moved out of Building 3 and into swing space for a year and a half, and then, come this fall, back in again. But his contributions have extended beyond the division to college and district-wide work too, where he has shown himself to be a leader of vision, integrity, creativity and humanity. We will miss him!

Diversity Coordinator selected: Please join me in congratulating Rosemary Bell for her selection as the Coordinator for our diversity event, to be held next spring. She will be working with me, the SEEED (Stewardship for Equity, Equal Employment and Diversity) committee and faculty, staff and students across the college in the designing, planning and implementation of this event. We have also settled on the dates for the event: Wednesday, April 18 and Thursday, April 19, 2007.

Facilities Master Plan: Thanks to our Educational and Facilities Master Plan Task Force which met with Steinberg Architects in June to review our proposed facilities master plan. It was later presented to the Board of Trustees. If you would like to see it, click on Educational and Facilities Master Planning Project <http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/skypro/Ed Facilities Master Plan 06/education_and_facilities_master.htm> . Their PowerPoint presentation is available there.

Educational Master Plan: Our Educational Master Plan is now available in its final form on our website at http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/skypro/home.html. In the fall, the Institutional Planning Committee will begin work on the detailed recommendations, including prioritizing and sequencing them. Decisions about possible new programs will then influence the detailed planning for new facilities at the college.

Facilities moves fast during our short summer closure: Our five week summer sessions are turning out to be a great success. One consequence of this schedule change, however, is that our Facilities staff has had a shorter window during which to do some maintenance activities. Nonetheless they have completed a large number of projects, including cleaning and waxing of floors, cleaning of carpets, cleaning windows at building entrances, grooming athletic fields and courts, parking lot striping and maintenance, various repairs and support of the construction projects. Please join me in thanking them for working hard to keep Skyline shining.

Shared governance at Skyline: We have revised the location of the materials on our website which describe our shared governance approach at Skyline, pulling together several which were in different locations and adding a couple of draft documents that were not on the web previously. So now you can readily find these governance materials on the main Faculty and Staff page at http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/skynotes/:

• Philosophy of Shared Governance (previously adopted)
• Thematic Governance Model (this is a diagram that identifies our committee structure in terms of themes to which they relate, such as professional development, institutional effectiveness, institutional support services, facilities and operations, and others. It has been revised and approved by the College Council for sharing college wide and for review as part of our accreditation self study)
• Committee Reporting (this is a diagram that identifies our standing committees and their relationships to each other; it has been approved by the College Council for sharing college wide and for review as part of our accreditation self study)

Victoria P. Morrow, Ph.D.
President, Skyline College
650-738-4111
morrowv@smccd.net
3300 College Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066