A Presentation to AACC Annual Convention

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• A Presentation to AACC Annual Convention
• April 24, 2006, Long Beach, California
• Presented by
• Dr. Mary Graham, Vice President, Perkinston
  Campus
• Dr. Hal Higdon, Vice President, Administration
• Colleen Hartfield, Vice President, Institutional
  Relations

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• About MGCCC and Hurricane Katrina
• Preparedness and Recovery
• Communicating in a Crisis
• Aiding the Community
• Realities and Challenges
• A Few Final Thoughts and Questions

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• We make a
• positive difference
• in peoples lives
• every day.
• Mississippis Largest
• Community College
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• EG Budget 69.5 million
• 37 State Appropriations
• 34 Student Tuition Fees
• 14 County Support
• 9 State Grants Contracts
• 1 Federal Grants Contracts
• 5 Other

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• Four-County District
• 2 Rural (Stone, George)
• 2 Urban (Harrison, Jackson)
• Eight Locations
• 4 Campuses, 4 Centers
• Facilities within 30 minute drive of every MS
  Coast resident

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District Population 400,000 Race 79
White/Caucasian 21 Minority High
School Graduates 76 BS Degree and Higher
14 Homeowners 76 Median Household Income
35,000-40,000 Student Financial Aid 71 Average
Award 1,668
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina pummeled
more than 70 miles of the Mississippi Coast. With
winds blasting up to 125 miles per hour, the
monster storm created a ground zero for the
entire Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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• Katrinas Mississippi Impact
• 98,888 people housed in 36,600 FEMA trailers
• 32.8 million cubic yards of debris removed thus
  far
• 4.5 billion in federal funding to Individual
  Assistance, Public Assistance programs and
  mission assignments
• - Source FEMA, February 17, 2006

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• Katrinas Mississippi Impact
• 231 Identified dead statewide
• 5 Unidentified
• 67 Missing
• 65,380 Houses in South Mississippi destroyed
• - Source FEMA, February 17, 2006

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Highway 90Biloxi Ocean Springs Bridge
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• Secure college facilities and safety of employees
  and students
• Cleanup and restoration of facilities
• Resume classes and services

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• Determine financial status and recovery of
• institution
• Assess communication needs
• Restore IT infrastructure

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• COMMUNICATING the institutions needs
• Governor and MS Legislature
• Federal Government and MS Congressional
  Delegation
• Local Counties Supervisors and Municipalities
• Other organizations that can provide help
  Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and community colleges
  across the nation

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• Expect that all communication technology will be
  unavailable or unreliable
• We lost lives and had prolonged suffering
  because we lost the ability to communicate and
  coordinate and as a result saw the loss of
  command and control.
• Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss.

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• Establish the college website as the major source
  of information
• Everyone is hungry for information employees,
  students, the media, alumni, colleagues and
  public officials.
• All official college statements and decisions
  should be prominently posted on the site.

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• Designate special links for students, employees
  and media
• Post photos of damage to facilities
• Provide frequent messages from the college
  president
• Include date and time in all news postings

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• Create an employee blog
• Its a method to account for employees,
  understand their concerns and answer their
  questions.
• Its also a way for the college family to feel
  connected during the crisis wherever they are.

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• Partnership with construction industry
• Job placement
• Construction Management Technology program taught
  at night

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• HEALTH-CARE WORKER SHORTAGE
• Evening LPN Program at two campuses, funded by
  National Emergency Grant from US Dept. of Labor
  tuition covered by grant
• Certified Nurse Assistant 80-hour training
  course to meet workforce needs of hospitals,
  nursing homes and assisted- living facilities on
  the Coast. Industry pays student tuition (385)
  and 9/hour wage to program participants during
  training and advertising costs

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• ENROLLMENT
• More than 3,000 students withdrew after
  hurricane
• 25 percent decline in Fall 2005 (7,806
  compared to 10,424 in Fall 2004)
• 18 percent decline in Spring 2006 (pre-audit)
• Could be years before enrollment returns
• State Funding loss of 6 million FY 07

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• Damages to Facilities and Infrastructure
• More than 17 million
• Three buildings at Perkinston Campus had to be
  demolished
• Loss of local ad valorem tax will likely get
  worse before it gets better
• Could be three years before local tax base
  returns to pre Katrina level

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• Relief efforts must be organized.
• Housing for emergency personnel, utility workers
  and
• government officials.
• Returning operations to normalcy is critical but
  does
• not ensure our lives have returned to normal.
• VoIP better communication.
• Disaster RFP ensures speedy cleanup and recovery
• Continuity plans

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• Set clear expectations for leadership team to
  stay on
• site or return to site as soon as safe travel
  is possible.
• This team must help survey damage and make
• decisions about employees.

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Challenge To design a technology education
model for preparing a workforce with
technological capabilities applicable to natural
or manmade disaster preparedness and
recovery. MGCCC Proposal to National Science
FoundationFunding for Planning Initiative for a
Gulf Region Technology Education Project for
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
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• Planning Initiative.
• Establish vision
• Develop partnership/collaboration model
• Design workforce development system
• Prepare strategic action plan for educational
  delivery
• system for preparing technicians for disaster
• preparedness and recovery.

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• NSF Planning Initiative--technologies, processes
  and functions
• Voice, video, text communication
• Business/institution continuity plansremote
  data
• storage
• Connectivity (wireless, satellite)
• Interoperability
• Integrated mobile and fixed access
• Internet Protocol (IP) enabled to converge
  data
• transport and data storage.
• Security

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• FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
• Examine your regions technological workforce
  capability, requirements for preparedness and
  recovery and educational capacity to deliver
• Technology needs of community
• Who are the Stakeholders?

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• Educational delivery system? On-line
• Skills or program areas neededdisaster
  technician, computer forensics, games and
  simulations, wireless with VoIP, convergent
  technology, home technology integration and other
  emerging technologies.

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Nell Murray murray258_at_aol.com Anna Faye
Kelley-Winders annafaye.kelley_at_mgccc.edu
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