South Carolina Association for Career & Technical Education
Board Meeting
Palmetto Expo
Greenville, SC
June 24, 2007
President Leonard Williams called the meeting to order at 2:00 PM and welcomed all in attendance. Those in attendance were:
Leonard Williams, SCACTE President
Kathy Bradford, SCACTE Past President
Mike Paris, SCACTE President-Elect
Cathy Shaw, SCACTE Treasurer
Gwen Scarborough, SCACTE Secretary
Debbie Larson, HSTE Secretary
Paul Crandall, CTE President
Ginger Hill, MEASC
Beverly Meares, SCBEA
Nick Perkins, SCCGPA President
Terry Murphy, SCEITEA Past President
Dwight McDuffie, SCEITEA member
Andy Dunn, SCEITEA President
Rick Kalk, SCCTEA President Elect
Jerry Taylor, SCITA President
Mary Mason, SCTFACS President
Randy Evans, Special Needs President
David Dees, SCACTE member
AC Oliver, SCACTE member
Martha Whitney, SCACTE member
Ray Boland, SCACTE member
Secretary’s Report
Gwen Scarborough presented the minutes from the April meeting. Concerns and changes were requested. Minutes were accepted as presented with a correction from Rick Kalk as to his official title in his division.
Treasurer’s Report
Cathy Shaw presented her finance report. She noted she has learned so much of what needs to be done since the executive board meeting today. The funds are accurate, but all the debits and credits are not in the books per conference debits and credits.
Region II
Paul Crandall presented his report. Twelve educators attended the NPS in Washington. The national goals that are set by law are almost to the point of exceeding expectation. Hopefully, with a new administration in Washington, realistic goals will be set. T
The Region II Fall Conference will be October 11-14, 2007 in Nassau, Bahamas. As of July 2007, Region II’s new representative will be Kathy Bradford.
President’s Report
Colleen Keffeler, President of ACTE, is visiting (with South Carolina) for the SCACTE conference. She is from South Dakota and is a Culinary Arts instructor. President Williams encouraged the divisions to recognize her as they made impromptu visits during their division meetings and allow her to greet the group.
Committee Updates:
Awards & Credentials
Kathy Bradford commented that nominations need to be submitted to this committee. Please ask for nominations from your division. We should have one per division which is our goal. Five awards will be presented after the keynote speaker Wednesday. They are:
The Carl Perkins Humanitarian Award
The Award of Merit
The Outstanding Career & Technical Educator
The Outstanding Career & Technical Teacher
The Outstanding New Career & Technical Teacher
Program
Federal & Legislative
No report
State Legislative
No Report
Finance
No additional report
Membership
Linda Padgett is resigning as membership chairperson. We are looking for a volunteer for this position. Linda has done a wonderful job in updating our membership database and making suggestions for recruitment.
Constitution and By Laws
Terry Murphy and Andy Dunn reported that six divisions have sent a copy of their by-laws (as requested in previous meetings). He will continue to pursue this request and get the remainder. If you are not sure, Terry has the book of those received and can let you know. He has created a hard copy booklet containing each submitted copy and an electronic copy formatted in word. He has also included a hard copy of the SCACTE by laws.
SCEITEA retyped their by laws. Changes include the duty and service sections, which will be voted for approval during the business meeting on division day.
Publicity
Ginger Hill will be our publicity contact for the coming school year.
Division Reports
Agricultural Education
No report – attending their national conference
Business Education
SCBEA had a conference in February with approximately 250 in attendance. Several are attending national conferences and will be leaving Monday afternoon for Chicago. Our website is up: www.scbea.org, which will be linked to SCACTE.
The conference division day was very successful.
CTEA Administrators
April 25-27, the administrators met at Santee, SC with the state department staff.
Paul Crandall reminded everybody of the CTEA Awards Luncheon, which will be Tuesday at 12:30 PM at the Phoenix.
Engineering & Industrial Technology
This division will have the same officers and will change the sequence of their terms. Discussion is being presented for the scholarship applications. Instead of awarding four scholarships, two will be offered. None were awarded this year.
Family and Consumer Sciences
Career Guidance & Placement Division
President Elect Nick Perkins reported they look forward to an exciting agenda planned for their division day.
Health Science Technology Education
Debbie Larson reported the HSTE had a very successful professional development conference in January at Myrtle Beach with 75 in attendance. There were many informative sessions during the three days. They visited the new technology center in Horry County, which hosted some of the sessions.
Starla Ewen and Jeff Poole presented a two day workshop “Anatomy in Clay” in May which had 25 in attendance.
Two Virtual Surgeries were presented this spring in a number of high schools. This is in cooperation with the Sate Hospital Association.
HOSA state leadership conference was held in March. Many from our division were involved. HSTE presented four - $500.00 scholarships. We have several top national winners, which will be identified when they return this week.
DHEC presented a day workshop for those schools which have CNA programs.
Marketing Education
Several DECA students were in the top at the national competition. An update will be presented at the fall meeting.
Special Needs
Randy Evans stated he designed a recruiting brochure, which is a combination of three submitted brochures by students.
The next major project will be writing the division by-laws, unless they are retrieved from a past officer.
New officers will be elected in the division day meeting Tuesday, June 26, 2007.
Technology Education
No report
Rick Kalk stated that National TSA begins today.
Information Technology
Jerry Taylor presented that SCITA has set up its division infrastructure, and is ready to recruit members.
He has completed the basic web design for the new SCACTE website. All divisions are asked to submit information to the website by email (not a hard copy to him).
Old Business
Ray Boland reported that 61 vendors registered for the Education & Business Summit. Some of them are merging, but we still have an increase in participation. No technical colleges registered, which was unusual. Money was saved by recycling vendor signs from 2006and reusing them this year. There are fixed expenses which cannot be changed.
Evaluations are distributed and collected each year to improve each part of the summit, including the vendors’ exhibits. It is important to visit the vendors and show our support.
New Business
At the SCACTE Annual Business meeting we will elect our new President Elect and Secretary. Also, we will vote on being a unified or a non-unified state.
Leonard Williams asked for suggestions to increase meeting attendance. Suggestions were:
With no further business, President Leonard Williams asked the meeting be adjourned at 3:10 PM.
Seconded: Paul Crandall
Motion: Carried
Respectfully,
Gwen W. Scarborough
Gwen W. Scarborough
SCACTE, Secretary