Program Director's and EDGE Committee Chair's Retreat
June 5th, 1998

Agenda

8:00 - 8:25	Breakfast
8:25 - 8:40	Welcome and Introductions Susan Demers, Instructor-in-Charge, Legal Assisting Program, and member of Edge Steering Committee
8:40 - 9:00	Then, Now and Beyond Dr. Guy Hancock, Program Director, Veterinary Technology Program, and Co-Chair of the EDGE Steering Committee
9:00 - 10:15	Panel Discussion: Employment Trends in Local Industries/Professions and Expectations of Future Employees Mr. Craig Brethauer, Regional Director, Human Resources, BayCare Health System Ms. Betsy Gylfe, HR, Nielsen Media Research Mr. William "Bill" Kelley, HR, Florida Power Mr. Russ Sloan, President and CEO, St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:30	Presentation by Dr. Dennis Bona, Director, Regional Manufacturing Technologies Center at Kellogg Community College: The Joys and Woes of A New Instructional Delivery Strategy
11:30 - 1:00	Lunch and Demonstrations of Exciting Technology-based Instruction Webliography
1:00 - 1:25	Group Planning Process Facilitator Susan Demers What would your dreams be for the delivery of instruction? That is, given no constraints, how would you deliver on-site and/or distance instruction?
1:25 - 1:50	Given realities (refer to handout), what adjustments/changes to the current state would you make to ensure your dream instructional deliveries would occur?
1:50 - 2:30	Sharing each others dreams and adjustments to the here and now
2:30 - 2:45	Summarizing the results vis a vis the EDGE initiative
2:45 - 3:05	State of the Art in Technology: What's in? What's coming to SPJC? What's happening? Dr. Carol Copenhaver, Vice-President for Education and Student Services
3:05 - 3:20	Life of the EDGE: Where we are and where we are heading David Hartman and Guy Hancock
3:20 - 3:30	Questions and Answers Wrap-Up Preliminary Summery of Phase I report answers Guy Hancock