"Upward Mobility" Presentation

Regular Meeting of the Del Mar College Board of Regents for Tuesday May 13, 2025.00:00 AGENDA 00:08 CALL TO ORDER 01:30 GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS01:42 RECOGNITIONS - State of Texas Senate Resolution No. 21 05:26 RECOGNITIONS - Sarah Contreras, Professor of Speech 11:54 RECOGNITIONS - Sergio Trejo, Del Mar College Dual Enrollment Senior 17:22 RECOGNITIONS - Adelfino Palacios, Professor of Accounting 21:08 COLLEGE PRESIDENT’S REPORT 25:41 STAFF REPORTS - Community Colleges and Upward Mobility 43:25 STAFF REPORTS - Freedom to Dream Tuition Waiver Initiative Update 01:11:41 STAFF REPORTS - Strategic Marketing and Communication Plan 01:30:11 STAFF REPORTS - Strategic Enrollment Management Plan Update 01:49:09 STAFF REPORTS - 2024-2029 Strategic Plan: Charting the Viking Way 02:05:56 STAFF REPORTS - HB 8 (88th) and Legislative Updates 02:35:28 STAFF REPORTS - Fiscal Year 2026 Preliminary Budget 02:57:25 PENDING BUSINESS & CONSENT AGENDA 02:58:31 REGULAR AGENDA - College's Internal Audit Activity 03:05:07 REGULAR AGENDA - Annexation HUT Enterprises 03:06:50 CLOSED SESSION 03:07:28 ACTION ITEM 03:09:52 CALENDAR 03:11:28 ADJOURNMENT

Called Meeting of the Audit Committee of the Del Mar College Board of Regents for Wednesday April 30, 2025.00:00 AGENDA 00:07 CALL TO ORDER 01:40 GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION 01:59 Approval of Minutes 02:30 College's Internal Audit Activity 18:17 CLOSED SESSION 19:13 ACTION ITEM 20:00 Charter Review 21:00 ADJOURNMENT

On April 14, 2025, Del Mar College and South Texas Family Planning & Health Care representatives announced a “joint health venture” and provided tours of the organization’s health care clinic on wheels, which is a 40-foot trailer featuring equipment and services that you can find in a regular doctor’s office. The partnership will bring health care services to students on all three of the college’s campuses––Heritage, Windward and Oso Creek––on a scheduled monthly basis.

Through their partnership with the Texas Urban Council, Corpus Christi ISD has received grant funding in support of their continued work to prepare students for post-secondary success. The $569,417 in grant funding provided by Commit Partnership will be used to expand early college access, including partnering with Del Mar College. The four-year grant will help students access early college coursework, experience quality advising, and improve districtwide systems targeting higher levels of early college/dual enrollment coursework and increased enrollment in a post-secondary institution immediately upon graduation. More details can be found at https://www.ccisd.us/article/2124455.

In 2014, Del Mar College District voters approved a $157 million bond referendum to fund capital improvements on the Heritage and Windward campuses. Those project list included the William F. White, Jr. Library on the Heritage Campus. The White Library was originally built to support five floors and first opened in October 1967 with two floors. In 1979, the college added the third through fifth floors, finishing the top floor for use in 1998. The facility’s namesake served as a Del Mar College Regent for 33 years from 1951 until 1984. To celebrate the completion of the renovation project, the College held an Open House on April 10, 2025, to allow the general public an opportunity to view the transformation in person. Retired DMC librarian Alan Berecka read an original poem called “All Aboard” to close the public remarks portion of the event.