The document discusses various initiatives at Germanna Community College to support veteran students, including hiring a full-time veteran counselor, creating a veterans center, tracking veteran student outcomes, and providing training to help veterans understand their education benefits. It notes that nearly 400 veterans are applying for benefits and the college works closely with the VA to process paperwork and prevent students from being dropped for non-payment. The college also aims to create a veterans center at its proposed new Stafford campus.

1. Veterans’ Affairs
Ali and Pam
How many? 478 this fall identified… nearly 400 are alo applying for veterans’
benefits
Eight keys for success Dept of Education
1—Create a culture of trust and connectedness
Pam: ways wr’e oin ghit
Vets cou selro creating a student development cou9rse specific to vets study skills,
how to choose major also information speciric to veterans
Veterans’ honor cords for Commencement… December was the first use
Also worked with vets for advanced seating opportunity… how what they erned
might get them credit
Full time counselor at FAc, part time at LGC
Ali: Having someone who’s been deployed thre times, worked with different
agencies
Hired Jan 2013
He knows the tlak, knows the walk
There’s a level of comfort and a level of respect
“I’m in here with an officer”
Decision to hire ws brilliant
There’s continued support
Bob Dixon completing ceritfiacaiton rhothr Liberty Counseling for Veterans
How vets benefits connect to their financial aid benefits
Ali: When people walk into his office and see pictures of him with Prses Clinton an
Bush, they get a sense of this may be someone I should be listening to’
Mostly younger vets
VA handling of benefits… put holds on students records so they wont be droppe d
while paperwork processed

2. Tracking studens and indentifying when I trouble
Pam: An early alert system to notify of any student having trouble in class
We call it raising a flag
Student gets email and so does Veterans’ Counselor
There’s become a culture.. Sutdents sayit feels i=like an old USO building, because
it’s all hand me downs
It makes them feel comfprtabel
Theymake a pot of coffee every morning and bring in snacks.
When we start dreaming about a Stafford Campus, we want a vetes center there,
too.
Pam: Bob has taken a coule fo RACSB for sreening
Works with Wounded Warriors
Ali: A couple of trheagentisce ahevused our Vet Center for meetings
Fed gov wants to track
Va just started to collect information
We’re really workin on n basebaline info at this point
We are traincking info already thorhg VA
Completion rate, suspensions all there
Dept of Educ a national student clearing hosus
Workign with our assessment committee and team to extrapolate info
Chancellor wants it; we want it
PAM Strategies to help them be successful
GI Bill 101
What is it
What are the al theChapters
What does it Mean?
Cognito online program.
Veterans Day speaker teching way to work it and get the omost ofur o ft the
benefits
Trying to address service and resources there as well.
8. Develop a System of Sustainableility and Effective practices..

3. Snapshot from a VCCS report
Number of vet students grown no surprise
Started ot track the outsomces
Good to share some good new
S we hope to be able to pul in time
Dr Sam we’r eth seventh largerst, it was the sixth largest number… partly becaue of
wher ewe’re locatged, but also these folks are doing a good job…
DOUG/ FOUNDATION
Dedicated faculty and adminsiteaitve people ahev made the whole area of IA
relatively easy
We have a incredible mission. It makes taking it out
Any board of a non profit ahs these three types of components
ASKERS
AMBASSADORS
ADVOCATES
Caleld the Triple A of fundraisning roles
Criticalot the mix fo
Soliciing and asking is only one
Those people who have a talent ofr comoforatbel with focusing
Ambassadors… enthusiastic faculty members, emlyees to rep tcolee in all aspects
Publci suporters.. Advocates who can communicate germanna services
In many respects Teri and I are competitors
One of the grea thtins Teri ahs done is be a tremdnous advocate for the college
Another eaq is her role on the bard shes; helping s develop our baor dina more
robust way
ASKERS: Really are those who have a releationship with aa donor
We don’t do cole cwlals we don’t do cold asks
A suty about 3 years old ltalks about the comfort level
Very compfrotable with making an ask directly
42 and 12 pecetn not their cup of tea

4. At top people comfortable asking for money
Just so you know…
Those ambassadors
Those people will rep to the community really make it possible for those making
the ask
Gonna jump to ambassador role
One of the things is to tell our story and tell it again
Second is to make your of gift
What percentage of your board is giving? Like to say 100 percent.
Inrroduce new prospects
Teri taken a very active role
Become better educated about Germanna and our needs
Bruce took what
Called
We are a key economic driver here in the community
Affordable, adessible pathfor studenrts to have better caereer opps
Moves Management
Growth in donors
Lat year brought in about $900,000
Up 38 percent from $640,000
Year before under $500,000
Current donors 96 percent increased dollar-wise
Average gift jumped from $750 to about $1,400
Number of new donors declined by 35 percent
Millennial generation largest group
Their pattern of giving is troubling
It’s about relationships, period
REGULAR MEETING
Thomas

5. Location it ties in without a lot of extra expense
And it’s not a long walk
ANN WOOLFORD
Change in admission policy to VCCS collcges
VCCS Made decision to change its policy manual, GCC aligning with it
Students would have to be tested in rading, writing and math
If students readinf and writing shows their able to performa t the lowedst lebvel of
the developmental sequence, the would bneenfit
These course considerations are made
Accesibility issue?
Individuals may be admitted as curricular or non curricular
Students who are going to come for a course of r tow for lprofessional resosn, for
personal enrichment or to pursue a degree
Approve VCCS policy changes effective today
Criteria measured by the Compass test
CTE courses, system wide, if a student is in the high school program, junior or
senior, the termination can be made
We do have several students not college boaund, not college ready, who would like
to taek college alccases
But they tend to take automoritve, CAD courses
In that case, the threshold is a little different
--Approved
Dr. SAM
Report on Chancellor’s Goals
DEB BROCK
Access
The Chancellor would like to increase eth enumber of individuals
Undeserved pulaiton a bit of a moniving trget
Generally, various racial and ethinv groups first time

6. Workforce has added 135 in Virginia Wizard
Needs asseesments
IT program being updated
Concsiderina d certificate in Homeland Security
EMS
We have t rainied many of our career coaches
Nine Great E xpectatiosn sutdnet ahev currently enrolle din college
I estimate we are as of Dec. 31 60 percent of hr wy ghorugh
Affordability we are going to provide lquality affordable education
We have hired a really great enrollment services coordinator
WF has applied to vets admin for aporbval of nine coursesl for veterans benfits
Witll working on ways to increase gthe number of students getting finaincial
assitgance
Student success
Obviuolsy this is where we wpend a great deal of our time
Triple number of students from underserved populations
11 have so far earned creer readiness certificates
we are offerinv cre it clases at UMW Dahlgren and
Whole purpaoee of UMW Dahlrgen is to make it easiey for especially employees atr
Dahlgren
Nurisng and health tech
Working cloaely with rfappahannock before delcieinf it sin a shared county
Its customer that would go to rapp or Maryland
These are people who wouldn; ;go to college
Studnts comeing to use are people who have not finished an assosites’s generally

7. We suspect theee are people who would nto otherwise complete their degree or
credential
Not just th civil servants at Dahlrgen
A large number of personnel
Its ilisited sialors, its wounded veterans its contrrtors and some dependents
And so its just an ex gtrmely valuable thing expecially for people who for whatrever
reason would n t go over to the high school
SDr Sam some don’t want to go to a high school, they wntr to go to a real collcge
Ann and gherr are studens at the We’re able to offer courses they’e asking for
We are onlhy offering classes by interactive video right now
We do off er classe stuaghtg by an engineer at dfahlgren
The video support facilitea re superb
DEB: We’re hoping this an opp for people who ortherwia wouldn’t have one
WILLIAM THOMAS
What
ANN we do have a CAN program tht is not ingended for transfer or to build on
But rh creid programs are intended to keep moving. 90 percent pal to go on. We’r
ehelping them to transfer to the lthe LPN programs
DEB We have people going form CAN to LPN, then to RN and we’ve made it very
easy because of patti lisk ‘ relaltriosn hips to lgo to RM
You may be woring a t mdcdonalds, but your’e making progress in oyour career field
Dr Lisk hass worked har dot d evleop relations with UVA, VCU and now In talks with
UMW
DR SAM they ge rt awhit ecollar and a better job and they do well and hagain
cionfidenwc eand it really opens doors.
Pam Frederick (flags) 791 studenr who were informed befor they field ‘We think
ou’re having truble.’

8. In seodnd phase of a two semester pilot for English 112
Collecting datra on success Adsemic Affairs asdn Student Services has a
DUALE ENROLLEMNT orking on Germanan Schoalrs program in Culpeper and
looking a possibility of offering CTE classe
S
Workforce incrase number of employers
In seocn quarer, workrce has incrased
By Dec 31 WF hired 11 additonial
I think that in WF 65 to the years goal on target
We have inrased total funrasing from granrts at least 10 percent
We have incrqased number of online doantions by 20 percent
Workforce total rev 62 perne tbaout ldirect costs
TOM BLALOCK
JONATHAN PITTMAN
One thing we did year go March 11… Radley Collsision Center of Stafroed
State of the art colison center
The synergy among the Radley
Like we all do in the last yer going 2,000 diff directions
Caught up in the daily minutria
Witht heautjmotive center being iher ein staforrd
We radly do want to do what we awant dto do to help
JONATHAN
A Germanna grad
52 employees
nobody wants to do blue collar work any more
I keep looking back at he germanna center… perfect situation for me
Your top student each quarert, let me pay is t uiton, books everything
TOM
We’re looking for valuable team players and your; training em

9. JONATHAN
Hoep that I keep them with us
Currently enrolling new employees… this is a great facility
Financial aspect trade in cars to work on.
Using some of our equipment
DR SAM
We appreciate the partnership we already have
That would be a ckidn of a contract you wuld sign with studnts.. we would help
facilitate in terms of internships, we have an internship coorediantor
And of course you know Brent
He’s a visual poet. He doesn’t emphasize sound
We have Monte Carlo Night
April 5 5K walk run
That night atg the culp center we have our 25th Culpeper monte carlo
Rick Brehm, vice president for administrative services, said the college hopes to
receive a bid next week for the architectural study for the proposed new Stafford
County center Germanna has been working toward building near the Stafford
Hospital.
Brehm said the college expects Monumental electronic signs
“The signs will allow us to do announcements and advertising and make
announcements in emergencies,” GCC President David A. Sam said.
“Detailed enough drawings to go out for bid
Hope next week to receive a bid for the architectural study
Next week we think were go out for bigs fo rth minmental signs campuses, Daniel
Cente
R Next week detailed enough drawisg to go out fo bisd on the modular build
G
Hope next week to receive a bid for the architectueal study in Stafford
SEIBC prorprosed fix to eliminate nocie on thried floor not successful

10. DOUG ROGERS
Sam Kessler will be joinin in Septmer
Known Sam for
General manager of Virginia commhnity bank downtown ornge
I know he’s a worker and he shows up for work and he contrinutes a lot
The board appointed him
A very huble man, smar anr engertrixc and committed
Was impressed with the tour and the interation with the lstudents
Later in the day he came over to Orange and visited Aerojet
That was a very good tour