Strategic Area 1: Student Success

The Cut. Congratulations to the culinary students, culinary faculty, multimedia design students, multimedia design faculty, guest chefs, and volunteers in making this year's The Cut such a success. These efforts continue to build our Wrangler Crisis Relief fund and the Wrangler Ranch pantry to ensure our students have access to emergency resources and food/hygiene items.
Legislator Recognition. US Senator Roger Marshall acknowledged the College employees' hard work and students' access to technical education in a letter to showcase the College's enrollment trends over the last few years. We continue a longstanding tradition as one of the premier technical colleges in the nation. Legislative acknowledgement and recognition is critical to future opportunities to ensure we support our students.

Strategic Area 2: Employee Development and Support

An Employee Updates/Q & A luncheon was held Tuesday, November 8. The discussion included updates related to College initiatives, such as Esports, Early Childhood, Coffey County, Welding, Business & Industry, etc.
Wrangler Wear! The College has made available to all employees a free cardigan, pullover, etc., with FHTC branding through Navrats. Employees have through November 16 to submit orders. If Board members would like a shirt, please connect with Jacqui Anderson or Bri Julo, Director of PR/Marketing.

Strategic Area 3: Optimized Programs and Facilities

October 27 Legislative Forum - Topeka. The Kansas Technical College presidents met with state budget committee representatives in Topeka to propose a technical college operations base grant for review during the 2023 legislative session to support technical college employee wages, maintenance of facilities, and equipment needs.

Strategic Area 4: Dynamic Partnerships

Fanestil Meats/Dan and Jan Smoots' tuition-reimbursement program and estate gift. Fanestil Meats celebrated a grand opening of an expansion, praising their electrical and industrial engineering folks who worked the job site, who were alumni of FHTC programming. That local worker value and local technical education access resulted in Fanestil owners announcing at the event an endowment to the College, the largest in the College’s history, and an FHTC scholarship program for all Fanestil employees’ children and grandchildren. Senator Jerry Moran and Representative Jake LaTurner were present for the ribbon-cutting as well as State Senator Jeff Longbine and State Representative Mark Schreiber.
National Center for Aviation Training-Wichita November 9. A team of city commissioners, county commissioners, economic development, financial representatives, industry partners, and College leadership toured the National Center for Aviation Training in Wichita as the group is exploring opportunities to grow advanced manufacturing opportunities in the Emporia region.
Vektek Company in Emporia has created a $1,000 scholarship and guaranteed job opportunity for students who enter the College’s Computerized Machine Tool Engineering program and commit to Vektek.
National Signing Day-Michelin. The Michelin Man and other Michelin representatives will be on the FHTC campus for Tech Scholars Signing Day November 29, when they will sign on two FHTC students for their Tech Scholars program. The Tech Scholars program includes an internship (part-time hours), paid tuition through the completion of the associate of applied science degree in industrial engineering technology, and a job after graduation.
ESSDACK Partnerships. Flint Hills Technical College, the Emporia Chamber and Emporia industry partners established a strong presence at ESSDACK, with 12 Emporia booths and 12 FHTC booths at the event in Hutchinson. Our student services and faculty collected over 600 student contacts at the event.
Rotary Presentation and TEA visit. TEA Chair Ray Frederick visited campus October 25 and joined the College for Rotary lunch, where welding, machine tool, and industrial engineering faculty presented their program updates to the community members for Manufacturing Month and Rotary Occupational Service month.
Lions Club presentation. President Daugherty presented to Lions Club members November 2 about the College’s enrollment growth and student placement numbers.

November 14, 2022 Meeting

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