Student Success Council
- met last week
- updated on last year’s project teams
- council has several new members; introductions and discussion on last year’s and this year’s project teams including Institutional Equity Plan and info from report; DE 2.0 project team and how it connects to DO’s work; enrollment management; DI project team (still getting appointments named); Educational Master Plan and the use of Ideascale to gather information for EMP project team); Pathways communities

Operations Council
- hasn’t met yet
- this year’s activities include sustainability project team; continuing w/progress updates including wayfinding and wellness center; regular standing business including budget, safety, technology, etc.
 - Info on Technology Project Team to come in the future
- Construction on new Wellness Center to be completed by January; director hired and coming on board 10/21
- Wayfinding this semester:   currently have a sign shop; significant investment in equipment; start to print out new signage to color coordinate in the new four zones; wayfinding app up on website
- Facilities Master Plan:  discussing priority project w/the BOT tonight


Institutional Effectiveness Council
- hasn’t met yet
- this year’s activities include timeline for accreditation self-study report; finalizing metrics for strategic plan goals 3 & 4; climate assessment; data on demand system; moving through equity lens on climate survey (multi-faceted); annual unit planning and program review; Institutional Self Evaluation Report (ISER) is taking the place of the accreditation self-study; ACCJC completed a redesign process and ARC will be one of the first colleges going through the new process

Associated Student Body
- New board members
- Learning Brown Act
- Focused on getting appointments to committees
- Aramark committee very active

Classified
- Retreat next week
- Madera College will be shadowing in order to establish a classified senate
Academic Senate
- Advisory committees (CTL, Honors and possibly WAC); transfer Center advisory committee
- Project to update faculty handbook; including advice on putting together syllabus

Management
- ALC retreat in August; panel discussion w/faculty and students who attended interfaith conference in Chicago; sometimes non-inclusive particularly in scheduling mtgs vs religious holidays

- Community forum in fall to gather college input
- Search process in the spring

- Trying to eliminate the bottleneck of project team reports coming to constituency groups or councils for reporting/sharing; possibly produce in date order
- Document tracking
- Sequencing of projects
- Need to show immediate conflicts
- Meeting room prioritization; President’s Office will investigate

- A regular agenda item
- No new updates from council chairs/co-chairs