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SAN ANTONIO REGION MEETING NOTES, JANUARY 6, 2012
Attendees; Leonard Hernandez, Albert Valadez, Greg Garcia, Laurie Castillo, David Reta, Bob Perez, Daniel Hernandez (TAMHN, 1st Chair) and Pablo Marvin.
Jose provided an update on the TAMHN-DFW Region Membership Kickoff Drive. Perfecto Solis, Region Chairman, with support from the Association of Former Students will hold the region's first membership drive. The event will be held Thursday, February 09, 7pm, at the KEG Steakhouse and Bar ( 859 W. Carpenter Freeway, Irving, TX, 75039-2304). The Association will prepare an E-Blast, approved by Perfecto, an sent to approximately 1000 DFW area Aggie Hispanics. This means that about 300-400 will open and read the E-Blast and hopefully 30-40 will RSVP and show. The E-Blast is scheduled to go out January 23. Greg that some of the members present to attend if at all possible.
Our next monthly meeting is scheduled for February 03, 7am at the TAMU-SA Brooks City-Base Campus. Click the attachment for directions and info. Albert will schedule for and local media marketing group to provide the team a briefing on how they can help in branding/marketing (increase membership) the TAMHN. Make plans to join us. Greg reported that the Reyes family, owners of Panchitos (McCollough and Hildebrand), may agree to let us hold our monthly meetings in their meeting room without charging the $50 user fee. If they do we will hold the March 02, meeting at Panchitos. More to follow.
Albert also provided an update on MALRI (Mexican-American Latino Reserach Institute). The program package is ready to go forward to the TAMU Provost. TAMHN will continue to support the approval and establishment of the Institute. More to follow.
Laurie briefed on the latest admission numbers; they are impressive. As of January 03, 2012:
Applications Submitted, 27,012. Hispanics, 6,922. Percent Change, same period last year, +19. Applications Complete/Ready, 22,284. Hispanics, 5,465. Percent Change, +29. Admitted, 11,270. Hispanics, 2,905. Change, +31.
NOTE: January 15th is the final day to submit a completed application.
The PSC will be hosting or participating in financial aid workshopsin numerous high schools around ythe city and surrounding counties. Also the city will hold what is known as "College Goal Sunday" at Cafe College, on February 12th. Finally the PSC is sponsoring a trip to "Aggieland Saturday", February 18th. They have chartered a bus to take perspective high school juniors and one parent each to this annual event. In years past over 10000 perspective students and parents have visited the campus during Aggieland Saturdays. More to follow.
Leonard passed on that Amelia Folkes, Austin Region Chairperson, wanted to know if the Executive Cmte planned to hold teleconferences with Region Chairs? Greg said that he did. More to follow. Amelia also asked if the Network still planned to collect membership dues if yes how much? At the September Annual Meeting the delegates voted to collect membership dues but no timeline was established. More to follow.
Leonard asked when and where will the Network hold the Annual Meeting. Greg responded that we can hold it in Austin, DFW, or here. San Antonio has hosted the off year annual meeting three times and Houston twice. Amelia will be asked first to see if her Region is willing to host it. If not DFW is the second choice. More to follow.
Daniel Hernandez Briefed the team on the TAMHN Family Legacy Program. Review the above "Legacy" attachments with all the information on this program. Bottomline this is an excellent idea but the Network has lots to work on before bringing it online. This includes setting up a committee, coordinting with TAMU, the Association, Admissions and Financial Aid Office, and others. He also provided a brief overview on the TAMHN Leadership Development Program. Review the two attachments on this Leadership Program. More to follow.
San Antonio area Aggies still have time to join or renew their local A&M Club membership. You can join/renew by going into www.aggiepark.com. I encourage all of you to join and be part of the San Antonio Area Aggie Family.
The following speakers or events are scheduled for the Aggie Park Monday luncheons (1130-1245): a. Today- The S.A. A&M Club scholarship recipients will be presented. Great opportunity to meet these wonderful and deserving young Aggies. b. January 16th- Dr Elsa Murano ( Former TAMU President and now Professor and President Emeritus). c. January 23rd- Elaine Mendoza, (TAMU Board of Regents). d. February 13th- Jason Cook, TAMU Director of Marketing, and e. February 20th- Kimberly Dunn, Texas Aggie and rising Country singer. Please join us at these luncheons.
Recently TAMU was ranked 23rd on Kiplinger's "Best Values" Public Colleges List, followed by t.u., and University of Texas-Dallas. No other Texas Universities made the list. The Best Colleges.org ranked TAMU 6th among all public and private colleges/universities and First in Texas. Ranking based on; Economic Value, Quality of Life, Academic Quality, and Student Satisfaction. Additionally TAMU fared well (8th among public universities and First in in the Southwest or deep South) in a recent New York Times listing of what business leaders worldwide say are top institutions from which to recruit. The Wall Street Journal, in a recent study, ranked TAMU Secondin which large U.S. companies, non-profits and govermental agencies rated schools on the basis of whose graduates were best prepared and most able to SUCCEED. Finally Smart Money placed TAMU First in Texas in earnings of graduates at the midpointof their careers. As you can read there are plenty of positive reasons why we must continue to spread the word and continue to help high school seniors,
especially Hispanics, attend and graduate from TAMU.
Again, next meeting is February 03, 7am at TAMU-SA, Brooks City-Base. See above attachment for directions. Hope to see you there.
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