CAFE NEWS

March 2, 2015

RECAP FROM THE DEANS AND DIRECTORS RETREAT

I believe that the speakers were awesome! We heard from leaders in their field helping us understate what a shared vision is, how hiring and training people can make you successful, ways to use technology to make student assessment more consistent and relevant; ways to brand our programs and why we should be doing that; why re-building ourselves boils down to knocking on doors and answering knocks on doors; and faculty development brings us all back to that shared vision.

I congratulate the attendees for their participation and I'll be sharing some of their testimonials. We started off with identifying what is working and what isn't in our programs...and everyone put on their problem-solving and solution-sharing hats so that the interaction and networking was successful.

A Deans and Directors Council may be on the horizon...stay tuned!

DEADLINES

April 1-Deadline to apply for Professional development money which is available for those who put together Award applications. Information on these opportunities can be found at www.CafeMeetingPlace.com.
May 1-Award winners will be notified
May 17-Deadline to book your Leadership Conference Hotel room. This is high season in Niagara Falls and our rate and location are both great! Go to http://cafemeetingplace.com/cafe-events/2015-leadership-conference for registration and http://www.cafemeetingplace.com/pdf/events/hotel_leadership15.pdf for hotel information.

CHANGES

As soon as I had published our keynoter for the Leadership Conference, the change of presidency for WACS was announced! We will have a world-class speaker for our Industry Outreach Day. The name will be announced shortly.

SURVEY

Watch for a Survey which will be sent out to our subscribers during the week of March 9th. Drawings will be made among those who submit the survey. Winners will receive significant discounts to the annual CAFÉ Leadership Conference.

FEBRUARY'S GOLD MEDAL CLASSROOM

We hope that you have had a chance to read the great features and columns in our February issue of the Gold Medal Classroom. Our columnists: Paul Sorgule talks about branding your program; Adam Weiner describes the world of measurements: weight, cups/ounces, and temperature; Fred Mayo offers interviews as a great learning activity. Our features range from reaching out to instructors to apply for the Kendall College-sponsored Green Award to food trends and tech trends!

Go to http://cafemeetingplace.com/gmc to link to the issue in case you missed it earlier in the month. Let us know if you would like to contribute articles or if there are topics we need to be exploring.

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