YBOR CITY CAMPUS
STANDING COMMITTEES

Black History Month:  Chair - Cheryl Ward. Co-Chair - Alisa Keaton.  Plans events, with SGA, to honor Black History Month (February.)   

Campus Advisory Council (CAC): Chair - Mindy Neal. The CAC provides advice and recommendations for action on campus matters to the Campus President. If an issue has college-wide impact,  the committee presents findings and recommendations to the Institutional Advisory Council (IAC) which considers items for possible submittal to the College President.  Meetings for the CAC are generally the first Friday of each month at 11am. Serving on the CAC also commits you to serving on the Institutional Advisory Council which meets on the first Friday of each month at 1 pm.  CAC members are elected from the classified and facilities staff, professional-managerial employees, faculty and the student body.

Campus President's Community Forum: The purpose of the community forum is to identify local groups and organization that play key roles in the success and growth of the HCC Ybor City Campus and to facilitate the flow of information and ideas.

Campus Learning Council: Co-chairs: Linda Prescott/David Liller. The mission of the Campus Learning Council is to focus on improving student learning outcomes on the campus by developing proposals to increase student learning, student retention, and student completion rates.  The Council works with faculty to promote successful teaching strategies and faculty development.

Campus Planning Council: Co-chairs: Chuck Holmes/David Liller. The mission of the Campus Planning Council is to focus on gathering and planning the implementation of campus unit plans and visioning items. The Council deliberates and makes implementation recommendations to the Ybor City Campus President regarding Ybor City Campus, except for solely academic and bargaining issues. Furthermore, the council prioritizes the implementations of plans; seeks resources to implement plans, and evaluates the success of the plans.

CARE Committee (Holiday food drive):  Chair: Sheila Merchant.  Holiday food drive for Metropolitan Ministries both at Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

Faculty-Staff Professional Development (F-SPD):  Chair - Tim Griffin.  The committee critiques requests for funding from the FSPD budget. 

Holiday Committee:  Chair - Cindy Green.   Works throughout the year to fund-raise for and then organize the campus’s Holiday Luncheon. 

Hispanic Heritage:  Chair -  Luz Lono.  Organizes events for the Hispanic Heritage month (October.) 

International Festival:  Chair - Vacant.  The festival takes place in April and includes a parade of flags ceremony, display of international artifacts and food tasting. 

Dr. King Committee:  Chair - Open.  Works with the chair from the Dale Mabry Campus on organizing the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration (January) and/or other campus and community events to honor Dr. King and his legacy.

Meals on Wheels : Co-Captains: Cheryl Borman/Rose Ramsey. Works to coodinate volunteers from Hillsborough Community College's Ybor City Campus to deliver meals to home-bound and elderly in the community.

Native American History Month:  Chair - Vacant.  Informs the campus on the many Native American tribes and salutes their  history (November.) 

Women’s History Month:  Chair - Elease Scurry. Co-Chair - Christopher Weeks.  Events to celebrate women during Women’s History Month (March). 

Sunshine Fund Committee: Chair - Bridget Harris.  For fifteen years the Sunshine Fund has been a vehicle by which full-time employees at the Ybor City Campus have shown their colleagues that they care.  Flowers are sent from the fund when an employee is hospitalized or has lost a close family member (parent, spouse or child.)  Through fundraising events and from donations from the Campus Family the fund has flourished.

United Way: Chair -  Cynthia Brady.   The committee actively works to encourage employees to contribute to the United Way charity (October/November.)