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Available funds of $1,000,000 in carryover from HEERF funding have been allocated to the four colleges. ARC's allocation is $372,000. It is the state's intention to lower textbook costs for students by utilizing these funds for Open Educational Resources (OER), a free and openly licensed option for textbooks. Suggestions for allocating ARC's funding included: 1) faculty stipends to pay for conversion time (CRC and many other colleges are doing this); 2) hire classified specialists to research and find resources for faculty (CRC); 3) those who have already adopted OER could be paid to provide coaching or mentoring; 4) tap into our other community college's expertise (College of the Canyon); 5) add a "reduced textbook costs" filter to the course search function; 6) research $10,000 state grants to pay for OER writers; 7)OER should reflect student experiences.

Forms & Processes Group  met recently. As lead, Koue Vang solicited all suggestions on which forms and processes to tackle. One long list became three categories: instructional, counseling and business practices. The group identified the #1 priority in each category including the Non-Employee Access (NEA)  process, the .5 regulation counseling forms, and the Limited Purchase Order.

A group of three were assigned to each of the three priorities: a super user, a regular user and a non-user or novice user.

Each group's assignment is to review and provide documentation of the current process,  identify the actual process, and make recommendations.

The scope is limited to campus forms & processes.

Hearing from both the Vice President, Instruction and the Vice President, Student Services, the consensus is that the vaccine mandate implementation went well overall; the  mid-semester roll out had a few challenges. Some confusion was reported in the nomenclature of "cleared" and "not cleared." A huge tent is now located at the opening of the Welcome & Support Center to check student vaccination status. If "cleared" the student may enter the building; if not, the student may use a computer station provided to upload missing documents. If "uncleared" the student may not enter the building. The Learning Resource Center has a similar protocol. From previously reported 1,000 "uncleared" ARC students, ARC now reports 400 - 500.