7/8/24 Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Catti, Chris, Adam, Hubert, Bob F., Ann, Ron, Casey, Trevor, Rich
Brag Bucks:
- Rich: 75th birthday last week
- Bob F. – Breda raffle prizes went to people with rotary ties
Club business:
- New Opportunities Back-to-school-drive
- $300 motion by Ann, 2nd by Bob F.
- Approved
Speaker: Jennifer Wollesen, DMACC Executive Dean
- DMACC for 13 years
- K-12 for 15 years prior
- Hosting Chamber coffee 7/19/24
- Housing is available for DMACC students in Carroll through partnership with New Hope.
- 16 bedrooms
Career advantage:
- no cost to high school students (554 students from 10 local schools)
- Carroll and Templeton campus’s
- traditional college programs: nursing, welding, liberal arts programs
- Nursing programs can do LPN before RN; added pediatric sim and bariatric sim labs; anatomies table; 2+2 programs available to get BSN through U of I and ISU
- Robotic welding arm purchased and will arrive summer of 2024
Staffing openings: English professor
Next meeting: 7/15/24 with HUB 712 and Jennifer Luengas-Otto and Kimberly Tiefenthaler as our guest speakers.