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Volume 90 Issue 1 • Sept. 14, 2015
New Covey contract could cost nearly $2 million Vice chancellor sees potential revenue in Corporate College. By Cynthia M. Herrera cherrera151@alamo.edu
The Alamo Colleges could spend $1.97 million over the next four years on “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and other FranklinCovey training materials for students, employees, local corporations and residents. The district operates a Corporate College under its economic and workforce development department, and it expects to make a profit from companies that enroll its employees for leadership development and residents who enroll in the courses. The board of trustees unanimously approved a contract with Covey during the regular board meeting Aug. 18.
However, the contract approved by the board is still being negotiated and terms may change the projected revenue. The four-year contract the board approved is expected to cost the district $1.97 million and provide the district with unlimited access to training materials and course offerings, including 31 FranklinCovey courses on leadership, management and success. The district currently uses for employees “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” “4 Disciplines of Execution,” “Leading at the Speed of Trust” and “Leadership: Great Leaders – Great Teams – Great Results Leading Across Generations.” The Student Leadership Institute; EDUC 1300, Learning Frameworks; and student development courses use “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective College Students.” Hope Galvan-McCall, director of organiza-
tional development and talent management in the human resources department, said the Alamo Colleges first started using FranklinCovey courses 12 years ago at Northwest Vista College. Corporate College provides workforce education training sessions for employees of a corporation. Training is offered in manufacturing, health care, information technology and business leadership development. Although the Alamo Colleges use “7 Habits,” and 4DX courses, attached to the minute order approved by the board were other courses such as “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families,” “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” and “The 8 Habits of a Successful Marriage.” Diane Snyder, vice chancellor of finance and administration, said the courses attached were a product list FranklinCovey offers. “What if we had a corporation that wanted that (course)? They said, ‘Oh, I like that one, let’s
do that one,’ we can offer it. It’s all the product list,” Snyder said. Snyder said even though the product list contains other courses not pertaining to higher education or leadership training, there is no extra cost to the contract for them and that is why many administrators at the district office favored the contract. “We like this deal so much because it (has) the basic programs we do. We’ve already got money in the budget (for FranklinCovey). It’s within our budget,” she said. “Everything else is gravy. We can get those materials for free; we don’t have any cost to our students for it. That’s why we thought it was such a slam dunk because it was just such a great ability to not have to pass on instructional material cost to our students.”
See COVEY, Page 7
Tobin Lofts crime spikes in 2015 Reported crime trending down at other campuses. By Kyle R. Cotton
kcotton11@student.alamo.edu
Tobin Lofts has already seen as many crimes reported in slightly more than eight months of 2015 as were reported in all of 2014. Through Sept. 8, 44 reported crimes had occurred at Tobin and the Tobin parking garage, according to weekly crime reports emailed to students and employees by district police. The 2014 crime statistics are from the district police’s uniform crime reporting statistics, which are available by request. 2015 crimes are 10 drunk and public intoxication incidents, eight burglaries, six thefts, five assaults, three drug possessions, three trespassing incidents and three counts of disorderly conduct. Tobin Lofts consists of an apartment complex and parking garage at 1415 N. Main Ave. on this campus. It was built as a public-private partnership with this college and the NRP Group, LLC. Tobin Lofts is the only property
among those on Alamo Colleges’ 10 campuses with an increase in the crime rate in 2014 to this point in 2015. Deputy Chief Joe Curiel said Wednesday he was unsure why Tobin Lofts has experienced more crime, but he guessed it could have something to do with Luther’s Café, which sells liquor, being on this campus in the retail segment of the Tobin complex, or the Tobin garage being open to the public at night. Curiel said district police would need to look further into Tobin to determine the cause. President Robert Vela said Tobin Lofts is difficult to police because not all students at Tobin Lofts fall under the district’s code of conduct. Lisa Belalcazar, resident director at Tobin Lofts, said she could not provide the number of residents who are students at this college for privacy reasons, even though Raven Duron, leasing manager at Tobin Lofts, had previously revealed students at college make up 50 percent of residents.
A San Antonio police officer drives by the front of Tobin Lofts Wednesday on Main Avenue. Tobin Lofts and parking garage have seen an increase in burglaries, thefts, assaults and public intoxication incidents in the past eight months. E. David Guel However, Belalcazar said that the Lofts are at capacity, but she would not say how many students live there. Residents have to be enrolled at a local college or university. “One of our students could report to our police that a crime has been committed there, but if the student is from, say, UIW, there isn’t much we can do about it because they fall out of our jurisdiction, since they
don’t fall under our conduct policy,” Vela said. Tobin Lofts leads the district in assaults, trespassing and disorderly conduct with this college being right behind it. Other crime reported for 2015 at this college include 19 burglaries, 23 thefts, 11 incidents of vandalism, 10 incidents of public intoxication, four drug possessions, two trespassing incidents and one
incident of disorderly conduct. For other campuses crime has being going down in comparison to the 2014 Cleary Report, which accounts for all reported crime 20112013, and Curiel expects the trend to continue with 2014 when the 2015 Cleary Report comes out Oct. 1. This annual report is required by
See CRIME, Page 7
Gym 2 closed this semester during roof construction Gym 2 may reopen Nov. 1. By E. David Guel
sac-ranger@alamo.edu
Replacing the roof of Candler Physical Education Center will relocate classes and keep students from recreational basketball in Gym 2 most of this semester. Overall roof construction for the building started in November, but contractors began work over Gym 2 Aug. 24, facility manager Linda Casas said. Casas said the roof was wearing down and in need of replacement. John Strybos, associate vice chancellor of facilities operation and construction management for Alamo Colleges, said construction
should end by Nov. 1 if happen to anyone,” weather permits. Casas said. In a Jan. 15 story, “We had to move Strybos said the all of our classes out of board approved a that area during their $1.7 million contract working time.” to Waterproofing Last semester, Gym Technologies Inc. to 2 recreational hours replace the roof. were 2-4 p.m. Monday Casas said she and Wednesday and decided to restrict any Crates holding roof panels sit at the Candler roof 3-4:15 p.m. Tuesday use of Gym 2 until con- construction site Sept. 9 in Lot 20. E. David Guel and Thursday. struction is complete in Casas said recrethe interest of student safety. ational basketball was fairly popular last semes“They’re drilling and banging on that roof, ter. “For Tuesdays and Thursdays we might’ve and if anything falls from the ceiling tiles, we had maybe 20 students show up to play,” she don’t want to be liable for anything that could said.
“It just depends on which classes they take.” Gym 1 cannot accommodate recreational use because it is reserved for classes, Ranger basketball practices and games and classes that have been moved from Gym 2. Construction will not affect basketball practices and games. The swimming pool, conditioning room and racquetball courts remain available to students, staff and faculty. Swimming pool hours are 1-4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Conditioning room hours are 3-4:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 2-4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Racquetball courts are available upon request any time Monday through Friday. For information, call Casas at 210-486-1018.