May 2, 2013
District News
Collaboration Continues on First Bilingual University
Alamo Colleges' Chancellor Dr. Bruce Leslie and Vice Chancellor of Economic and Workforce Development Dr. Federico Zaragoza recently traveled to Aguascalientes, Mexico to meet with M.C. Jorge Armando Llamas Esparza, rector of the Universidad Tecnologica el Retoño, and Ing. Carlos Lozano de la Torre, governor of Aguascalientes, to strengthen collaboration on developing the first bilingual university in Mexico. The meeting builds on the agreement signed by the parties at Alamo Colleges in August 2012.
The president of Mexico plans on establishing 16 bilingual technical universities in Mexico within his presidential term of 6 years. Alamo Colleges has a unique opportunity to provide leadership on a regional and international level and shape a new transformational educational model in Mexico.
This project is of mutual benefit and offers students the chance to share in binational collaborative learning spaces and professional development opportunities for faculty, while giving Alamo Colleges an opportunity to experiment with new approaches that will alter higher education as we know it today.
Alamo Colleges Accepted into Climate Corps Program
Earlier this spring, Alamo Colleges was accepted into the EDF Climate Corps Program. Alamo Colleges’ participation in the program allows for placement of a specially-trained MPA graduate professional in the Facilities department this summer to assist in uncovering cost-effective energy savings opportunities as well developing concrete strategies to capitalize on those strategies.
Ms. Kethia Chheng is the EDF Climate Corps fellow matched with Alamo Colleges. Ms. Chheng has extensive experience working in sustainability and analysis and holds an MPA with concentrations in environmental policy. She is currently pursuing a post-graduate certificate in Sustainability Analytics from Columbia University. Facilities Department staff is preparing a work plan for Ms. Chheng in accordance with the guidelines of the EDF
Youth Development Program Welcomes First Students
The CAYA Youth Development Programs had its first group of 23 international youth from Central America and the Caribbean arrived for a week of exchange with 20 Texas youth from area school districts in Texas Hill Country, Austin and San Antonio. International programs hosted a reception in which youth had the opportunity to share their work over the first three days of the program at the Center for Architecture at the Pearl. Organization meetings continue with school partners working with the program.
The Alamo Colleges on Cable TV
We have an increasing number of events and activities district-wide and are taking the opportunity to showcase such events on Time Warner Cable channel 98, Grande Cable channel 21 and AT&T U-Verse channel 99. This section of the Chancellor’s Weekly Report provides a schedule of the programming for our regularly scheduled times of 12 – 2 p.m. on Saturday and 2-4 p.m.on Sunday. Programming varies due to the timing of Board and committee meetings, groundbreaking ceremonies, etc. The programming for the coming weekends is as follows:
Saturday 4/27
Regular Board Meeting of April 16
Sunday 4/28
Regular Board Meeting of April 16
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