JACC Faculty Board Discussion

Saturday, April 2, 2022 - 10-11 a.m. - Zoom

NOTES/MINUTES

1. Welcome
   1. Should anyone else be invited to these meetings?
2. Conference Wrap-Up
   1. Partnership
   2. Contests & Awards
   3. Other?
3. Presidential Transition
   1. Constitution, Bylaws and other official stuff
   2. What needs a membership vote???
   3. Suggestion box opens this week
   4. Website and digital assets
   5. Other?
4. Other Exec. Business
   1. SoCal President Search
      1. Confirm rules re: part-timers
      2. Confirm process moving forward
   2. Other roles?
5. Spring Events
   1. April Happy Hour - Faculty (or invite SPLC?)
   2. May - CH Documentary Screening - Faculty + Students
   3. Free for members; $10 individual members; $25 non-member teams
6. Fall Events
   1. SoCal next steps
      1. Review Faculty Use Agreement
      2. Past event planning resources?
   2. NorCal next steps
   3. CI for Regionals/State: Student Newsrooms
7. Financials and adjustment to dues
   1. What’s our plan at this point?
   2. Next steps
8. Initiative 1: Adding value to JACC membership
   1. Scholarships about to roll out
      1. $10 entry for students from non-member schools???
      2. BTW - Do we have a payment portal for that kind of thing?!?!
   2. CFH: Contests from Home
      1. Zoom meetup with a contest coach kicks off week-long competition
      2. Submissions through Google Forms (super informal!)
      3. Judging by coach and others; Fun prize for winning newsroom like rotating trophy of some kind
      4. Practice for on-the-spot contests; free for members, $25 for non-member program students
   3. Virtual Mini-Con: Speaker, Contest Q&A plus social one month before first regional (Interviewing)
      1. Free for members; $25 for nonmember program teams
   4. C3 Newswire
      1. Pilot program running out of CH Fellowship Project
      2. SD City College students initiating with support from Mt. SAC/Toni
   5. CI of the Month: Student memberships???
      1. If a program chooses not to join, can a student join on their own?
      2. Access to awards and events and individual
9. Student leadership meeting
   1. Saturday, April 9 at 2 p.m.
      1. Establishing goals, setting calendar
      2. How can they support JACC?
10. Other Business
11. New Business
12. Next Meeting?
    1. May 7, 2022 - 10 a.m. - Full board?

Nancy’s Notes:

• Updatable pages instead of posts for pages like scholarship pages
• Have links to old winners on the page 
• Downscale the plugins on the front page
• Meet with Laura