MCCCD MAT Executive Council
                         1995 - 96 Year End Report
                        Dialogue with the Chancellor

Purpose:

To engage the Chancellor in an interchange through open discussion of ideas
relating to the most relevant challenges facing MCCCD at present and the
future.

To discuss how these will impact the role and organization of the MAT employee
group.

Members are:

Raul S. Monreal, Jr. (Chairperson)
Nancy Markowski
Carol Wilson
Patti Johnson
Raul Sandoval

Dialogue with the Chancellor

The Committee met three times with the Chancellor due to his leave and other
prior commitments.  The dialogue was informative and beneficial.  The agenda
items were generic yet relevant to all MAT members.  The Chancellor welcomes
the opportunity to share information while at the same time wants to know what
is happening with MAT and how we are coping with change and leadership roles.
He wants MAT to embrace change and to model leadership to the rest of the 
district employees.  The Chancellor wants all MAT to support Apollo/Oracle.  He 
believes that this will once again put us on the map relative to technology and
the Learner Centered System.

Another agenda item discussed was the idea of focusing on another bond.  The
Chancellor immediately answered that another bond issue was not under 
consideration; we need to complete the one we just passed which will take us to 
the year 2001.  He brought to our attention that the City of Phoenix and 
elementary and secondary feeder schools are seeking funds and may request our 
advice.  Maybe this is why we hear discussion about bond elections.

The Chancellor informed us that we need to keep up to date on the changing
demographics.  That we must evaluate how we are delivering services and
evaluate the way we do things now.  Training or retraining will become very
important to all of us.

The Chancellor has no desire to convert colleges into universities during his 
tenure.

We informed him that we were going to have a MAT Executive Council retreat and
that one of the agenda items to discuss was a study recently conducted
regarding the need to divide the MAT group into different levels.  We hope we
can provide information to him when we meet with him on July 10, 1996.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Study different issues or innovative approaches and share them with the 
Chancellor.  Identify strategies that will get MAT involved in the change 
process.

Continue Leadership Training through the Management Breakfast Series.  This
is not only necessary but timely.

Continue the dialogue with the Chancellor.

Return to June 12, 1996 Minutes