Board to review evaluation, vote on Oregon school board

The MHCC District board will hold its February board meeting Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the campus boardroom.

An executive session precedes the regular session at 4:30 p.m., inside the president’s office.

MHCC President Debbie Derr will formally welcome back Bill Becker, financial assistant to the president, and Al Sigala, executive director of MHCC Foundation, familiar faces here from previous duties.

Sigala was MHCC director of media and public relations from 1997 to 2009. Becker spent 10 years as MHCC vice president for administrative services and as assistant to the president, besides a brief turn as interim president, before he retired in 2003.

There will be a presentation on the Multnomah Education Service District accountability report by district Director Francisco Acosta, Jr. and its superintendent, Barbara Jorgenson.

There also will be a report on the third year of accreditation work at Mt. Hood, based on a virtual evaluation conducted Nov. 17-18. The board agenda cites evaluators’ findings on campus, which include a new president and new board members “committed to moving the college forward” and “a belief in continuous quality improvement at the college, demonstrated by an honest assessment of gaps and data, working to adjust and modify, and implementing an inclusive process to improve.”

Accreditation evaluators also commended MHCC for establishing the Diversity Resource Center.

Some new recommendations, to date, include revamping a credit hour policy and that the school “establish objectives for each of its core themes and identify meaningful, assessable, and verifiable indicators of achievement that form the basis for evaluations” and recognize accomplishments based on those core themes.

The board will be voting on a deadlocked Oregon School Boards Association policy committee position race. Wendy Patton, MHCC board secretary, will submit one vote for the board on Feb. 18.

There also will be discussion on a potential Mt. Hood bond attempt.

A board retreat is scheduled for Feb. 17, followed by the next regular meeting on March 12.