December 14, 2023 Decennial Committee Meeting

The Decennial Committee of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Valley Community College District No. 513 met at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 14, 2023 in the Board Room (C307) at Illinois Valley Community College.

Members Physically Present

Everett J. Solon, Chair

Jay K. McCracken, Vice Chair

Angela M. Stevenson, Secretary

Amy L. Boyles

Jane E. Goetz

Maureen O. Rebholz

Diane Kreiser, Foundation Director

Frank Zeller, Foundation Director

Members Virtually Present

Members Telephonically Present

Members Absent

Rebecca Donna

Elizabeth G. Boyles, Student Trustee

Others Physically Present

Tracy Morris, President

Gary Roberts, Vice President for Academic Affairs

Mark Grzybowski, Vice President for Student Services

Kathy Ross, Vice President for Business Services and Finance

Mary Beth Herron, Director of Human Resources

Others Virtually Present

PUBLIC COMMENT

None

REPORT ON REQUESTED OPTIONS

Dr. Morris stated this is the second meeting of the Decennial Committee. The process will be to go over the options with an opportunity for feedback. Dr. Morris will then send out a survey, as required by statute, to see if participants feel their voices were heard. Finally, the report will be sent out in January. The third meeting will be to approve the report so it can be submitted.

Options identified include 1) mental health service sharing – could look at consortium pricing down the road. 2) professional development sharing – already in progress with neighboring colleges with the first session related to Artificial Intelligence, led by IVCC’s Brian Pichman, to be offered in January. 3) compliance officer shared position – this option has changed slightly and now the consideration is sharing a person who monitors legislation, helps us to interpret it, and tells us what we need to be doing. More details to come. 4) grant officer shared position – recommending as a parking lot item for the group of Presidents. Sharing a position could get challenging if we are all applying for the same grant. An additional option could be to work with a commission-type grant writer. 5) expanded offerings in the trades and pre-apprenticeships – not coming forward as decennial as colleges are in different places with this topic. IVCC is looking at three stackable credentials and vetting them through the unions as a pre-apprenticeship. 6) guided pathways – all colleges are in different places, but they could be resources for us. Katie Shevokas built our pathways and now funding to create them on the web and how to make them part of the culture needs to be determined. It will not be in the decennial report, but Dr. Morris committed to moving it forward. 7) sharing course/faculty for difficult to staff and fill courses – tabled for discussion because colleges have different unions. 8) textbook costs/resources – colleges of similar size are in different places but with the changing landscape of Open Educational Resources (OERs), this could be a topic for future consideration.

FEEDBACK ON INITIATIVES

Dr. Morris asked if there were any suggestions for consideration. No further suggestions were brought forward.

NEXT STEPS

Dr. Morris will send out the survey to the committee and will send the report by the end of January. The third meeting will then be scheduled to approve the report and will then be submitted to the LaSalle County Clerk’s Office.

OTHER

None

ADJOURNMENT

Mr. Solon declared the meeting adjourned at 5:13 p.m.