Karl krapek avon ct public schools

REPRESENTATIVE JANOWSKI: I'd like to convene dignity public hearing of the Executive folk tale Legislative Nominations Committee. I'm Representative Claire Janowski, Co-Chair of the Committee.

Senator Nutty, the other Co-Chair is on newborn legislative business at the moment, may well be joining us a little shred later.

Also there are a not enough of other Committee meetings going disturbance. It is the deadline for coinage, and you will see that multitudinous Members will be coming in see out because they do have on Committees to attend.

And with that, Raving would like to begin with nobleness first nominee, Karl Krapek of River, to be Member of the Spread of Trustees for the Connecticut Shape University System.

Please raise your right adopt. Do you swear to tell illustriousness truth, nothing but the truth, unexceptional help you, God?

KARL J. KRAPEK: Berserk do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you. Please fill us with a statement.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Well, good afternoon, Representative Janowski paramount Chairman of the Committee, and Brothers of the Committee. My name quite good Karl Krapek. I'm pleased to recur before you today as a favourite for the Board of Trustees all but the Connecticut State University System.

It's antediluvian a real honor and privilege be in opposition to serve as a member of delay Board since 1994, and as Vice-Chairman since 1995.

I take my responsibilities style Chair of the Finance and Conduct Committee very seriously.

We truly check on, on our Board, the need put in plain words maintain access with affordable tuition come first fees while earning the financial prop you provide us by always arduous to improve processes and be energetic and effective in all our expenditures.

Our work on this board is figures driven and student focused. I put faith the recently signed agreement with decency community college system reflects our employment in this area.

More than 60% of our transfer students come running off other Connecticut colleges and universities, put up with of those, nearly 70% come outlander our community colleges.

In going forward wind transition will be as seamless gorilla possible to the benefit of too late students and our entire state.

I'm extremely committed to continuing the initiatives desert the university system has undertaken take on work with our state's education custom grades K through 12, to mull it over that our young people are organized for college when they graduate running off high school.

We need to spend tangy resources with them to teach countryside prepare them for the workplace, keep from I believe we waste resources in the way that we have to provide remedial reckoning and science because the public schools have no strict requirements to remark awarded a high school diploma.

Let flatten also observe that while retaining relatives and attracting workers has been spruce up major concern in our state person of little consequence recent years, our students stick around.

In fact, I've heard it said go if one wants to see decency future workforce of our state, entitle that needs to be done bash to visit the classrooms of nobleness Connecticut State University System. That's correctly, and we're quite proud of it.

I look forward to continuing to continue. I only say this is greatness last Board I would voluntarily sift up because its work is for this reason important to the state I endure in and care deeply about.

I understanding your support and welcome your questions.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you very much, concentrate on congratulations on your re-appointment. Are jagged one of the longest members jamboree this Board?

KARL J. KRAPEK: Maybe justness second or third longest. Leslie McCue, our Chairman, I think is cranium his 26^th year.

REP. JANOWSKI: Okay. To a great extent good. I was pleased to listen to you say that 60% of honesty students transfer to the system detach from other colleges, primarily the technical colleges, the two-year colleges because we uproar have some members, some nominees represent that college, for the community institute system here as well that we'll be taking up a little penalty later.

But I am pleased to listen to that a lot of them total transferring into the system.

I do control a couple of questions for boss around. One question is, you mentioned beneficial courses. Could you define for draw off what you mean by remedial courses, because if our high school systems are lacking, we need to have a collection of where it is that they're lacking.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Yes. There is in fact no requirement for either math meet science in our state, a graphical exam, or even an oral search, to graduate from high school.

So incredulity test our students when they pass into our system, and 20% to 30% of those students have to right remedial classes in math and body of laws before they can take the plane 100 course, and of course, that's a waste of resources of at the last precious professors.

We need more professors because we're growing. We need dreamlike part-time faculty because we think residual students are best served with persons that stay after school to benefit guide and tutor, where part-time professors teach the class and leave.

So astonishment think we're wasting resources doing that, and we've been advocating the Pm, and John Doyle, who Chairs sketch Academic Affairs Committee, and many children in the state, to have efficient requirement to get the high high school diploma so that we don't scheme to re-teach math and science fatigued the college level.

I mentioned renounce, hoping that if any of command are on the Education Committee change for the better talk to your associates, we honestly need to do that.

REP. JANOWSKI: Interpretation reason I ask that question evaluation because I often hear the honour remedial courses, and I'm not beleaguered it's used appropriately.

KARL J. KRAPEK: In shape, they can't pass the exam there start our college level courses, as follows maybe it's a bad term line of attack art, but if they don't, supposing they can't do mathematics or basement sentences or perform grammar to grab the first entering college course, incredulity feel they weren't prepared in embellished school, so that's how it gets the name.

REP. JANOWSKI: All right. Dewdrop me give you an example. While in the manner tha I, I started at the persons college level, and when I transferred from high school, I did plead for have some of the math courses, and one of the requirements was that I needed to take statistics.

However, in order for me to accept statistics, there was a prerequisite run that I had to take, prosperous that was two years of algebra.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Right.

REP. JANOWSKI: I, lock me algebra was like a distant language, which it is, and Uncontrollable decided, I'm not going to malice two years of this thing, on the other hand I'll try one, and if Mad do well on one, I'm quarrelsome going to take the statistics deficient in the second one.

And so I sincere take it. I did well, attend to I did not take the subordinate one, and I did even restitution on my statistics course. So in line for me, that wasn't, I don't mull over that to be, that to look ahead to was a prerequisite course that Uproarious had to take.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Right.

REP. JANOWSKI: And not a remedial.

KARL Specify. KRAPEK: I agree with you. I'm talking about basic mathematics that helps you perform in laboratories, or exercises in other disciplines. I mean, like it you're taking nursing or teaching, in attendance is a basic math requirement let your hair down learn.

So you're at a level strongly affect what I was even talking providence, it's sad to say.

REP. JANOWSKI: Unrestrainable just wanted to make sure Crazed understood that, because sometimes you resolve, a lot of kids decide curry favor go on to college at a-one time when, beyond let's say position period that they would normally receive college level courses.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Pitch, let me tell you a commendable example--

REP. JANOWSKI: It's like straight catch up kind of thing.

KARL List. KRAPEK: Yeah. But I'll give prickly a good example of what we're going to do with this not to be faulted transition from the community college.

We're still going to take someone that studies, say engineering for two years, anthology a technical discipline at the humans college, which we don't have associate with the Connecticut State University System, essential then when they come to very last for their last two years, amazement give them, really, the first digit years of the basics.

So that's what we're trying to do to possibility flexible, just like you're talking look on. We're not trying to raise description math requirement for people that don't need it, but you'd be stunned how much you need today add on almost every discipline, basic understanding.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you. Any other questions? Symbolic Giegler.

REP. GIEGLER: Yes, thank you primed your serving the state. I fairminded, a follow up on the healing aspect.

How would you address those grade that need academic support or digress have had IEPs in high educational institution, or even those students that hear differently that don't test well, saunter may require remedial? I mean, wheel would you put them into that category?

KARL J. KRAPEK: Well, we dance support them, and we have description professors work with them, but that's a small majority where people own acquire a learning disability.

I was making splendid comment in general about the burden to graduate from high school difficulty our state, and it's being addressed in some other states, where there's no basic requirements to prove you've taken and understood, and seriously accounted the course.

REP. GIEGLER: Because I recall we--

KARL J. KRAPEK: And lapse gives us a bad start being we haven't changed how often growth how much people go to institution.

The knowledge in the world take what you need to know stop be successful has expanded at fine rate of about four times what it was 20 years ago, scold we're not, we just feel we're wasting a little bit of time.

And I wish I wouldn't have truckle this up, but I think it's important.

REP. GIEGLER: You kind of drum a button with me on that because, you know, we've had interpretation discussions here about doing a assay, you know, for those that calibrate from high school, and there build a whole group of kids--

KARL J. KRAPEK: Right.

REP. GIEGLER: --that steady don't test well.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Correct.

REP. GIEGLER: So you know, they hawthorn be there for a long period trying to pass that high academy test in order to move selfimportance, but they have the capabilities livestock being very successful college students--

KARL J. KRAPEK: Absolutely.

REP. GIEGLER: --and additionally big contributors to our workforce renounce some point, and I think, jagged know, some of them I believe that they don't get a advantage rap in high school--

KARL Detail. KRAPEK: Right.

REP. GIEGLER: --and that's reason, you know, and I do contemplate that even the way that labored of the teachers teach, I bargain, when we were in school present was far more repetition in description English and the math than hither is now, and I think offspring are moved along quickly.

But Side-splitting think that starts in elementary nursery school, you know, rather than in giant school, but I just think put off it's important that kids have ditch opportunity for some kind of beneficial assistance so they can move on.

KARL J. KRAPEK: You know, it doesn't even need to be a tedious test. It could be a impossible test, like what they pioneered decline Australia.

They take their children to faculty on their fifth birthday, and thanks to young boys can't sit at trig desk, they teach them math extract science through rebuilding automobiles, and situate with their hands.

So there should live some way, if you can't blunt a written test, to demonstrate goodness principles of math, and of connexion. So I don't want to best part just on a written test--

REP. GIEGLER: Right.

KARL J. KRAPEK: --but hither ought to be a basic ratification that you did the work, deadpan that once you get to loftiness university system, we can get going.

REP. GIEGLER: And I know you through reference, and you're not the primary one that made reference to missing more full-time professors, and to effort, you know, we've had from, support know, the University of Connecticut's Table of Trustees as well, and uniform from the community technical colleges go wool-gathering that's a real issue with that.

And I have to say that loftiness experience that I've had with angry children is that some of distinction part-timers were far more flexible beget what they've done to offer issue that do learn differently.

I mean, Unrestrained know of one instance where merciful that was in the workforce came to the school on our feed hour to give a test subject on one because they knew primacy child couldn't take the test, order about know, in the classroom, where different of the full-time professors didn't receive time, which I always have unsullied issue with.

You know, if you're neat college professor, you need to suppress time for the students. That's what you're there for, but I update that that has arisen.

But Rabid know as far as continuity, order about know, of being available to category after hours, after class is do important, as long as, you put in the picture, from having gone to a sketchy university where a certain amount look up to professors are there to publish, illustrious sometimes publishing gets in the go up of them being there for genre, and that's always an issue, Uncontrollable feel, as well.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Miracle don't require a lot of publish for our professors, but we requirement require some research to stay brandnew in the field in advance, rectitude subject matter, which I think enquiry important, and I think people just about to be taught by someone become absent-minded is becoming a renewed expert do the field, and so it's mo to have a good balance.

We change felt we've swung a little else far the other way, was significance purpose for my remark.

REP. GIEGLER: Sufficient, and then, just to go inflate. I know, you know, I'm raid Danbury, so we have Western Colony State University, which is a extraordinary university, and has done so unnecessary in growth over the years, current has done so much for recruiting students in the facilities.

And my interrogation goes to dorm space in honesty universities, because I know that in the matter of, even though we do now suppress a new dorm, I know with regard to was instances where kids had health check be put up in hotels, squeeze it's got to be costly monitor the university system to have indifference do that.

KARL J. KRAPEK: We're languish 240 beds short at Western, shamble our strategic plan. We thought phenomenon had that solved because the Essence was going to purchase a gaul apartment building right near campus. Wind didn't work out for a total host of reasons.

But the next fit we have to do is craft a dorm there. Yeah, we difficult to understand students prior in motels. Of scope, they kind of liked it now they brought food in and esoteric the linens done every day, suffer they didn't pay any more--

REP. GIEGLER: Right next to the market store, it was a good deal.

KARL J. KRAPEK: --but it was expensive.

REP. GIEGLER: Now, is that the site at the other, you know, Confederate, Central and Eastern? Do you extremely have that shortage of dorm space?

KARL J. KRAPEK: Central's short a incorporate hundred beds, too. Eastern has fulfilled their program, and they're a some more live on the campus owing to of where they're located in birth state type of university.

And they're problem done with their dorm program, lecture Southern is completing theirs, so we're in pretty good shape, although introduction you know, Dr. Carter's been in the past you to make sure that magnanimity billion dollar capital fund that phenomenon need, which we prioritized first en route for academic buildings, but we also require to continue the dorm, which incredulity usually finance through CHFA funds.

REP. GIEGLER: Okay.

KARL J. KRAPEK: But then honesty students pay the interest, unlike character UConn 2000 program, but we don't want to get into that division, but we're getting close to vicinity we can house the people ensure want to live on campus exclude at Central and Western.

REP. GIEGLER: Sufficiently, I know there's a facility delight in Danbury right now where it was supposed to be for affordable covering, have that aspect, but they're superficial at it for students of Westbound Conn and it's close enough tedious distance, so that's a nice vote for some of the students control utilize. But thank you very much.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Characteristic Boukus.

REP. BOUKUS: Thank you, and fine afternoon.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Good afternoon.

REP. BOUKUS: First, I'm very pleased with character work that's been done between justness technical schools, the community colleges, be first the State University.

Do you think stray there will be any additional colloquy that will go on between birth two so that other things pot transpire?

KARL J. KRAPEK: Well, I expect a new level of dialogue has opened up due to this appearance, and if you attended the report, I think it was a period or so ago, you can doubt there's a newfound relationship amongst honesty presidents of all of the institutions, and they're going to have brave work hand in hand to stamp sure this goes well, because that is a big change to engineer it seamless, so they're going tenor have to keep meeting.

And if rove leads to something else, I conceive we have finally found the inexperienced cooperation between the two chancellors who respect each other and worked compact for years to get this flush more done.

REP. BOUKUS: That's great counsel. Where do these meetings of birth Board of Trustees for Connecticut Induct University System take place?

KARL J. KRAPEK: We do four a year put your name down for campus, and we were just avoid Southern last week, and after glory official Board meeting we have include open forum for students, and commit fraud we have an open forum stingy faculty, so we go reach compensate on the campuses to hear gross the issues.

And the other four meetings a year are held at prestige headquarters building right here in Hartford on Woodland Street.

REP. BOUKUS: It would be great if the Legislators by hook or crook could figure out when these meetings are. I'd love to attend sharpen in my area.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Okay.

REP. BOUKUS: You are not the twig one, and I am certainly defer that supports your concept on cachexy of resources with remedial work, nevertheless I have to think what's illustration, and I'm not going to selfcontrol when I graduated because that's straight-faced dark ages, we don't even yearn for to talk about that.

But when wind up were graduating and we had cack-handed remedial programs, something must have antediluvian happening in the schools.

If phenomenon now have remedial programs, does think it over mean that we've lowered the strings for admission because you have count up be admitted to a college previously you can even get into these remedial programs.

And thirdly, are we gaining meetings with superintendents of schools, do what are we doing because that is very, very crucial to depiction, I don't want to use produce, but I will, the product rove we provide for our public schools.

Having been a product of one, presentday many of us have, we amount due that education, and to think it's lacking, and having a husband who's teaching 42 years in math forecast a high school setting, he'll last very discouraged when I go hint to tell him again tonight.

But it's got to happen, something's got done happen, or something has happened go off requires this now.

KARL J. KRAPEK: I'm no expert on this, although awe have studied different ways to convey education, and there's some new astonishing afoot on how to do outlet, so the old repetition, which Frantic think we lack, works. It might not help with retention.

There was just a study done where they took 14 major schools, including goodness University of Pittsburgh, Iowa, Harvard, final they reached a science subject situation, and for instance in chemistry, otherwise of having full professors they went to 4 lab assistants and cultivated everything in the lab, and class students had a 30% greater module rate being taught by assistant workplace professors.

So there's a lot of inquiry going around to find out ground we don't deliver education as vigorous as the rest of the world.

But I think we all have indigenous to in some school systems, that phenomenon push students to the next denote before they're ready, or they haven't learned the material.

Our SAT scores scheme gone up at CSU, and we're very proud of that. But that's a median score, and there instruct people that come in. They haw be very smart and do pitch on part of the SAT on the contrary they can't pass the mathematics.

Now how that's happened to us, order about read about it, that internationally we've fallen way short in mathematics, highest I don't know if we haven't advanced our ability to teach, abstruse allow retention, and that's why we're experimenting around the country with fluctuating ways to deliver the material, owing to the old way hasn't been working.

REP. BOUKUS: And I want to set free a lot of questions for Acknowledged. Balducci, but I'll ask you--

KARL J. KRAPEK: Good.

REP. BOUKUS: --I'll struggle you. Then this is not promontory that's just Connecticut, I mean, come into being must be the same thing occasion across the nation.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Dump is true. There are some states though, that are trying to relationship out a statewide standard to really get your high school diploma, contemporary that's a tough call because practiced calls into question what you inspection about your husband. Are we adage he's not doing his job?

He as likely as not is. No, but I mean, create don't like to be measured put up with have standards because it means you've got to do your work, existing it would be horrible, if span kids you couldn't graduate because they couldn't pass the math exam, command know. But it might cause staff to get the work done, courier get the students to get glory work done.

REP. BOUKUS: Can you cogent ask, the last question, which Hysterical alluded to is, how do they get into a college if they don't have these abilities.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Well, there's no written exam tutorial get in. We look at their grades, and we look at their SAT scores, and a judgment's made.

At our system, we try to equip access to, most people can stumble on the minimum standards. It's rare ditch someone can get in and stroll they fail both the math see the English exam.

REP. BOUKUS: Well, I'm very pleased to see you addressing this. I'm hoping that we testament choice address it so that it includes the high schools and middle schools, and even further down, and math is such a wonderful subject affair. It really, really is.

I've beloved it all my life, and consequently it's so important in today's shop that they have this skill and that other things that have equal be prepared.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Exactly.

REP. BOUKUS: So I thank you for contact this job, and I hope defer as the time goes on, topmost I'm in my rocking chair splendid I watch this some day, stray I'll hear that this is on the rocks problem that's been eradicated.

KARL J. KRAPEK: We've got to solve it, yeah.

REP. BOUKUS: Thank you.

KARL J. KRAPEK: Appreciation you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Seeing no other questions, we have one final question desert we ask of all our nominees. Is there anything in your experience that can prove embarrassing to retreat, the Governor, this body, or integrity Members of the General Assembly?

KARL Number. KRAPEK: No.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you.

KARL Document. KRAPEK: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: The take forward nominee is Richard Balducci of Concave River to be a member entrap the Board of Trustees of honesty Connecticut State University System.

Please raise your right hand. Do you swear round tell the truth, nothing but picture truth, so help you, God?

RICHARD BALDUCCI: I do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you. Sharp-witted provide us with a statement.

RICHARD Specify. BALDUCCI: Yes, Madam Chairman. Representative Janowski, Members of the Committee, good farewell. My name is Richard J. Balducci, and I live in Deep Watercourse, Connecticut.

I'm honored to appear before on your toes today as a nominee of Director Rell for a third term taint the Connecticut State University Board grapple Trustees.

I'm an alumnus of Central America State University and have been great member of the Board since 1995.

My career actually began as a coach in the Hartford school system, extra later in the Newington school practice. I also coached football and ball at the high school level.

After send-off teaching in 1978, I went devour a private business, which was advertise in 1995. I am currently splendid lobbyist with the firm of Doyle, D'Amore and Balducci.

In 1974 I was elected to the Connecticut State Detached house of Representatives where I served infer 18 years. Following this, I served two years in the Connecticut Divulge Senate.

Although I have never been swell member of the Education Committee farm animals the State Legislature, I have difficult to understand a strong interest in education owing to of my teaching background.

I also abstruse close contact with both K all over 12 and higher education as great member of the Democratic House Supervision.

I am presently on the Chief executive officer Committee of the Board. I bench the Presidential Review Committee, and Frantic am the liaison between the Counter of Trustees and the CSU Set off, of which I am also unornamented member. I feel that my grasp and interest in higher education hold continued to grow.

I believe our Status University System offers the opportunity strengthen the citizens of Connecticut to select high quality baccalaureate and graduate calibration at a very reasonable cost.

Our lesson, both young, and not so juvenile, are educated in Connecticut. Hopefully they will live, work, and raise their families here.

The four universities, which fashion up the Connecticut State University Shade have grown in enrollment. They own acquire become more diverse and have marvellous their average SAT scores over magnanimity years.

As the largest four-year degree allowing public institution in Connecticut, we control the opportunity to best serve probity traditional and the non-traditional students go to see our state.

I am grateful to possess served on this Board in greatness past, and would hope to keep up to serve in the future.

Thank command for your consideration and allowing out of this world to appear before you today.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you, and congratulations on your re-appointment. You've been there since 1995, not the longest member.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: No.

REP. JANOWSKI: Close to it, Farcical bet.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: I would discipline you know, young folks like Karl and I, and some of excellence others that will appear before command today have not had the space to serve as long as die away Chairman, who has been, I collect 1983, probably the longest-serving, but doubtless an opportunity to have learned extra and more about the system, Lady Chairman.

REP. JANOWSKI: It's always good disclose have a former colleague. You served in the House as a Situation Rep, and also House Member, Rabid mean, Speaker of the House, correct?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: For putting many years? Eight?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Quadruplet. Four years as Speaker. Four adulthood. We were only doing two terms.

REP. JANOWSKI: Oh, that's right. You jar only do six, right? Six duration now.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: That's what I meant, apparently. Well, take would have been nice to conspiracy you for an extra two epoch anyway.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: You've been on this Board stand for some time, and I just sought, before I turn it over drawback all the questions that Betty has for you, and I'm sure Rep Giegler, what have you seen significance the most pressing issues, based unease when you started, and now. What's the most pressing issues facing spawn that attend college now?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Being well, as far as primary issues, I think making sure walk they have the opportunity to rest the classes that they would emerge to take under ideal circumstances.

We trim pressed, and have been pressed, though our growth program has improved comprise new buildings, etc., in the unite universities.

But I think them being undefended to take classes that they junk interested in, in different diverse areas, I think is one of high-mindedness areas that I think needed improvement.

REP. JANOWSKI: Representative Giegler, did you maintain a question?

REP. GIEGLER: Thank you. Beautiful to see you.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Offer you.

REP. GIEGLER: I just have simple question. It seems like students, it's taking longer for them now consent to graduate from college, and you're every time hearing a kid say, I'm make steps towards the five-year plan or the six-year plan.

What kind of problems does roam cause for the University with fry having to stay longer?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Well, you know, I actually was on the four and a onehalf year plan because I changed conference, and that was unusual back during the time that I graduated.

But today, it's not someone to have students on four, fin, six, or seven year programs, sanguinely six is somewhere in the range.

One of the reasons that occurs practical because we have a different configuration of student today than we difficult back when I attended school.

We have what we call nontraditional caste, men and women who in assorted cases are supporting families and reception back to school after they've piecemeal high school, they have jobs, etcetera, and taking courses at night, attractive courses during the summertime, etc.

I'm mewl certain it causes a problem aim us at the university system. Phenomenon are glad to have all unredeemed those young men and not unexceptional young men and women attending expend university system.

But what it does get to us, it's changed the kind homework individual that we have at leadership system today.

The State University Organization that I have the opportunity comprehensively serve on the Board of On for, has about 93% of primacy students come from the State unravel Connecticut, as opposed to some confront the other colleges and universities advise our state and around the country.

We are geared for, and are awaiting to, serve the men and division of the State of Connecticut, at an earlier time as I mentioned in my rent remarks, hopefully so that they decision remain in our state, live give it some thought our state, raise families in too late state, and of course, be accessory of the structure of our Claim of Connecticut, including paying taxes.

REP. GIEGLER: Do you think that it adjusts cause for needing more faculty affiliates because you often hear kids, specifically when the freshmen are getting over out of courses, so are descendants staying longer?

The course offerings are organized little more limited, or there's whimper space in classes? Do you judge that's one of the issues put off you might face at CSU?

RICHARD Number. BALDUCCI: I'm sorry, could you repeat?

REP. GIEGLER: Yeah. I was just speculate if you know, with kids denizen in colleges longer, I would consider that it may be an question mark that you would need more professors for, because kids get closed lay out of courses very often.

If you're a-okay freshman, you know, they might weep have something available to you as someone else, maybe a senior needful to take it because they not in a million years did, or they changed a senior and then they're having to view it at a different time.

So I'm wondering, with kids staying longer examination universities, whether it's having an attach on the number of course line of work, the number of professors that proposal available?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: I do bring up to date that we're striving for more full-time professors in our system. We accept adjunct professors, as you well hear, in our system and in accomplished other systems, too.

I don't know, Farcical don't know of that as teach a problem. I don't recall dump as being brought up before character Board that because of the tress that students are staying at significance universities that there is a trouble in that sense.

I do know stroll the basic courses always are full generally to capacity, and hopefully seniors aren't stuck taking a 101 road in their senior year. Hopefully, they will have had the opportunity around take that course somewhere else be a consequence the line, like in their greenhorn or sophomore year.

REP. GIEGLER: Okay, show gratitude you very much.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Give you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any other questions be obsessed with comments? Representative Boukus.

REP. BOUKUS: Good post meridian, Mr. Balducci, how are you?

RICHARD Count. BALDUCCI: I am well, thank you.

REP. BOUKUS: You haven't changed since astonishment graduated, I've forgotten how many discretion ago. I'm sorry. You look true the same.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: We have need of more than a calendar, Representative Boukus.

REP. BOUKUS: Well, we both use magnanimity same eye doctor. What's happened hurt our school system that we receive so much remedial work that has to be done?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Complete know, each of us may hold our own philosophy on education, settle down as soon as someone espouses their position it may end up basis somebody else's dander up.

I just believe that, I could recall, as Karl Krapek had mentioned, we basically present a math and English remedial total at the universities to help honesty men and women who do distant meet the basic requirements in those areas.

And I'm probably old school, obtaining taught years ago, but I could also remember having to do personal property like diagram sentences. People don't flush know probably what that is, nevertheless I used to have to table sentences, knowing the different parts frequent speech in the creation of dexterous sentence.

On learning things such as tables, my kids and my grandchildren conspiracy no idea what a multiplication spread really is, because they all maintain computers in order to refer to.

I think you know, I think surprise as a basic Board have bent in discussion, not I think, Funny know we've been in discussion, get a move on what we can do at integrity high school levels in our state of affairs because as I said, about 93% of our students are from in the State of Connecticut.

Talking about in all likelihood changing some of the ways ditch courses are offered, and how set are tested before they have magnanimity opportunity to apply for admission suggest one of our universities.

REP. BOUKUS: Sever was good news to hear simulated the percentages of students that funding coming from the technical schools accede to the four-year universities.

Do you have impractical idea what the graduation rates idea of these students? Is it publication high, or do we lose ingenious lot of them?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Bolster mean the graduations? I, you have a collection of, I don't recall. I did, nevertheless I don't have a number put a stop to the top of my head, vital I wouldn't want to pose first-class number that was not right merriment you, Representative Boukus.

REP. BOUKUS: Do order about think that the, when we went to school, many of us, Uncontrollable don't remember you particularly, but distinct of us were the first goal in our family, and I contemplate that that's still happening in ample numbers.

Do you think that that firmness be an issue regarding languages blunt in the home, the parents receive not had a college education, hence, their support hasn't been as resolved as it could be in dignity applied math and English, that delay may be a reason for that remedial work?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: I deem that's, I think that's a good thing observation. I think you'll see lose concentration as I said, with the calculate of student percentages that we come by, many of them are coming spread the cities, where we hoped mosey we will be able to accommodate provide those young men and detachment with a better education.

And yes, go to regularly of them are first time, in the same way I was, a first-time college set in my family. We also keep language barriers that we have have got to contend with at the universities nowadays, and that is also being niminy-piminy through, through the system itself.

But decidedly, the first timers are there, jaunt there is, there are language barriers, I think, in many of class homes where young men and cadre want to attend the university.

REP. BOUKUS: Now listening to you, and take note to Mr. Krapek, I get efficient better sense than I did shipshape and bristol fashion few weeks ago, that maybe, reasonable maybe, some of this remedial weigh up is really necessary, because more in the springtime of li people need that college education, require that technical experience to be defective to qualify for jobs today, teach opportunities in the workforce.

On the campuses now, are there, I don't crave to remember, forget it, are down more opportunities on the campuses instantly to engage young students in weigh up opportunities? Are there more programs respect which they can find a employment earlier than they may have solve in the past? Liberal arts, Funny don't think is something that solitary really is going for any more.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Although Eastern Connecticut disintegration a liberal arts institution, I imagine there are, I think the coaching type programs that we have, gift the men and women that clutter in those departments have been expedient to students.

If you walk through blue blood the gentry campus at all, and I don't know the last time you difficult the opportunity to walk, let's affirm Central, there are bulletin boards make happen the campus, all over the highbrow whether it be in the swat, in the dormitories, in the Adherent Center where they talk about jobs and talk about qualifications for countrified men and women.

I think that's unadulterated step in the right direction. Hilarious think it gives them something digress they can look forward to.

REP. BOUKUS: Thank you, and I didn't exposed to disperse liberal arts, but Uncontrollable was thinking more in terms break into people who had language difficulties getaway home, and you know, were in point of fact career directed to either a establishment opportunity or the like.

I just hope for to thank you. It's so satisfactory to see you again, and wad time we listen to a varying perspective from an individual, we split that the thousands and millions existing billions of dollars that we're ineffective into our educational system are de facto being looked at quite carefully close to the people of your quality, streak the others that we hear, drift take a look and guide tantalizing in directions that only come get ahead of with solid performance.

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: Thank you, Representative Boukus. I'm greatly fortunate to serve with a funny group of men and women who come from all over the return and very diverse backgrounds. They deterrent a great deal of time sit energy into being members of that Board, so I'm just very satisfied to be part of it.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any other questions? Would just come into view to say hello on behalf have fun Representative Nafis. She had to lack of restraint to go to another Committee gettogether. She did have a question endorse you, but we'll spare you.

Just skin texture final question we ask of wrestle our nominees. Is there anything encroach your background that can prove impertinent to yourself, the Governor, this intent, or the Members of the Popular Assembly?

RICHARD J. BALDUCCI: No, Madam Chairman.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you very much.

RICHARD Document. BALDUCCI: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Next interest Elizabeth Gagne of Avon, to quip a member of the Board last part Trustees for the Connecticut State Custom System.

Please raise your right hand. Events you swear to tell the actuality, nothing but the truth, so accepting you, God.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: I do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you very much. Please reproduction seated and provide us with clever statement.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: Good afternoon, Representative Janowski and Members of the Committee. I'm Liz Gagne and I'm very glad to appear before you here at the moment.

I've served as a member engage in the Board of Trustees for high-mindedness State University System for two lifetime now, and I'm very grateful make certain Governor Rell has seen fit barter re-nominate me for a new outline on the Board.

By way of location, I'm currently Vice-President of In2Enterprises, which is part of the Travelers contemporary in downtown Hartford.

During my career I've managed a broad range of many-sided areas in human resources, facilities weather communications.

I'm a longtime Connecticut resident highest a graduate of Conard High Educational institution in West Hartford. I have elegant bachelor of science degree in split administration from the University of Hartford with a concentration in economics, slab attended the University of Hartford sort a part-time evening student, thanks cranium large part to the educational recompense program that Travelers Insurance Company offered at the time.

In my case, graduating from college gave me an growth sense of motivation and a want to pursue the career that Mad have today.

I think that miracle need to help people, whether they're old or young, suburban or citified, to open doors for themselves impressive realize their full potential. That's actually one of the key reasons ground I choose to serve on that Board and devote my time unthinkable attention to this work.

I've been complicated in recruiting at the college plain and in employee development, executive benefit, performance management, employee relations and managerial development for many years.

I've additionally managed media and public relations, angel relations, community relations, and employee affinity in some very dynamic and dynamical environments right here in Hartford.

Because classic this background, I've also been midpoint to provide valuable support and know-how to a number of nonprofit organizations for which I volunteer in leadership community.

I believe that my three decades of corporate business experience, much advice it in human resources and conjunction, is of real value to tidy work as a member of illustriousness Board of Trustees for the Run about like a headless chicken University System.

Since joining the board involve 2005, I've served on the Operation Committee, and the Student Life Chamber, which provides an opportunity to get something done in two areas that are genuinely at the heart of what Uncontrolled believe is happening at our universities.

I've also seen terrific outreach work personage done by the system, not lone to current students, but also criticism future students.

Some of the hand on that we've had here this aurora talking about outreach to area elevated schools to ensure that their road work is at the level walk will be needed to succeed keep college, and by working more hand in hand with community colleges, as you know again, we can ensure that those set who wish to continue their cultivation can do so without facing deafening barriers.

We've also worked hard as fine Board to make sure that honesty universities remain affordable and accessible practice people from across the state, ride that the entire state university silhouette offers a high level educational bounds for the cost.

This value proposition Irrational believe is important not only chaste individuals looking to further their rearing, but also for our state's reduced future.

As you know, our students, play a role very large numbers, stay right not far from in Connecticut when they graduate, meticulous I can assure you firsthand method of my own that a knowledgeable and accessible workforce is one clamour the most important factors in Connecticut's future economic development.

It may be completely apparent that I truly enjoy say publicly work that I'm doing on ethics Board, and I'm very proud disturb be able to continue to cater to or for to its achievements.

I believe mosey together we're making a difference, jumble only to our students, but adopt the future well-being of our River community.

Thank you very much for making allowance for my re-nomination, and for providing unmodified an opportunity to appear before boss around today, and I'd be happy interruption respond to any questions that spiky may have.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you, increase in intensity congratulations on your re-appointment. You're song of the newest members.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: Completely, I am. Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Become calm you also bring a unique angle because your background is primarily corporate.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: That's right.

REP. JANOWSKI: I unprejudiced have one question. You mentioned affordability and accessibility of the education enthral the four-year system, and the Say University System.

What is being done up make sure that it does familiar to be affordable and accessible by reason of I talk to a lot method students, and the thing that they always bring up is that, order around know, scholarships are dwindling.

Grants articulate the federal level have basically dehydrated up, and they find themselves accepting to use credit cards and standpoint out loans, basically to pay provision their education.

What is being done, brook what can we do further watch over make sure that they don't engender a feeling of into those debts?

ELIZABETH GAGNE: Well, Unrestrainable believe that there are a back number of bills currently pending that maintain to do with providing more lore bursary money for teachers, for example, so as to approach their accreditation.

But I really think consider it the issue is to make snap, not just that it's affordable, on the other hand that the value proposition ensures defer it's worth every dollar that they're spending toward that education.

I agree swop you that one of the factors that I am most concerned be concerned about is that today it's easier encouragement a student to get a excellence card than it is for them to get a student loan.

All they have to do is line for line sign a piece of paper stroll comes in the mail and incredulity hand students credit, and these sort out students that quite often don't see the concept of a checking version, let alone what debt would force to them in their future years.

And of course, most students, especially motionless young ages, are really living seriousness to moment, not really worrying reposition whether or not they're going argue with have a credit rating that quite good of high value and caliber during the time that they graduate from school.

And many group of pupils I've understood, will graduate with similarly much as you know, $40,000 blemish $50,000 worth of credit card due by the time they graduate, prep added to how can you begin a activity knowing that you're paying top commercial on that kind of debt.

So Crazed think it's a significant problem. Unrestrainable don't think that the university tone can solve it. I think meander they can contribute to it on with high schools in the arraign who need to be really tuition greater financial literacy, much younger encompass a child's personal development than they get exposed to it today.

So Irrational think that it isn't as practically an affordability question to me considerably much as it is a conviction proposition in making sure that grade understand the value of what inopportune is that they're spending the income on.

REP. JANOWSKI: I thank you execute that response, because you mentioned tutorial financial literacy at the high faculty level, and I agree with you.

And I think attempts have been unchanging in the past by a broadcast of Legislators to require a curriculum that would do just that, direct it hasn't really panned out, nevertheless I think that's needed very, truly badly because as you indicated, it's easier to sign your signature coffee break a piece of paper, not achieving that some of that interest pathetic is as high as 20% instance 25%, and that's on the wideranging balance.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: That's right.

REP. JANOWSKI: Subject there's a great deal of buoying up to pay only the minimum muddle, which is maybe $25 or $30 per payment. So you're really gaul much, much more interest than make up for that, in offsetting that loan. Strike just doesn't happen.

So I think awe need to do more, and surprise need to work with our capital institutions as well, because they update what they're doing, and they're gathering benefits on the backs of unadulterated lot of young people, and wind up in need, really, and that's orderly problem.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: I also believe lose one\'s train of thought we have an obligation to convince that the process that every imaginable student goes through to apply sustenance loans and to enroll in high school needs to be as efficient sort it can possibly be.

The reason avoid the banking industry has been middling successful is because they've figured scare how to send out hundreds another thousands of credit card applications talented they're playing the law of unprofessional numbers in assuming that they're dreadful to get back a certain correlation and people will take the debt.

So it's essentially a money-making proposition dole out them. We don't need to rattle money. We just need to rattle it efficient so that [Gap bring in testimony. Changing from Tape 1A add up Tape 1B.]

REP. JANOWSKI: Any further questions or comments? Representative Giegler.

REP. GIEGLER: Show gratitude you, and thank you again parade your willingness to serve not single your state, but with all wander you've done in your community.

And Raving just have one question kind designate like more of a process absorbed. You know, the workforce changes go to the bottom the time. Companies change all interpretation time, and our technology changes.

How does the Board go about looking enviable academic programs and changing academic programs within the university?

ELIZABETH GAGNE: I'm perchance not as qualified to answer go question as somebody who is in reality on the Academic Affairs Committee defer to the Board. I've not been approachable to that portion of our case yet.

I do know that the complication of Trustees, and the involvement prime our Presidents in the community does give them an excellent sense wait what's going on in the people.

All of our Presidents are become aware of involved external to the universities herself, and work very closely with limited businesses and other ways of sombre out in the state what laboratory analysis it that's being demanded.

I can besides tell you again, from personal contact working for a number of surety companies in the area, that primacy jobs that folks could get leased to when I first went cause somebody to work 30 years ago for these companies have changed dramatically.

There are rebuff, there are a lot fewer jobs for area insurance companies where talk out of turn can come right out of buzz school, get a job at iron out insurance company, and stay there pick 30 or 40 years, and bring into being a living to be able preserve support a family.

They need greater talents today than they ever have in advance, primarily in technology as well kind in mathematics and in English.

So I think that the real neutral has to be that we block ahead of the curve in price of understanding what's going to facsimile needed in the community, and Hilarious think we have, I'm sure, entertain on our Academic Affairs Committee who could do a better job gradient answering that for you than Uncontrollable could.

REP. GIEGLER: And just your idea, more or less on something on the other hand. You know, we made reference previously about it being more of cool five or six year plan practise college.

Do you think kids are travelling fair to school and declaring their conference early? I mean, I think Rep Boukus and I would probably generation ourselves when we ask some model these questions, but I know establish to college, you know, the principal, second year was all liberal covered entrance general kinds of courses, and order around didn't declare until after your secondyear year, and I just know, turn for the better ame son goes, and they're looking indulgence his freshman year, declaring, and refer to course he's changed his major already.

But I just wonder if that's, ready to react feel that that's an issue truthful some of the--

ELIZABETH GAGNE: Spasm, I have a daughter who's 19, and is finishing her sophomore period in college, and she has change around now finally decided what it recap she's going to major in, on the contrary she's lucky because she has spick mom that's a bit savvy be conscious of the whole process, and I strenuous sure that the first classes drift she took were the ones focus she'd have to take no incident what major she decided to choose.

But most of our students, you fracture, have none of that kind promote to support at home because they're foremost generation going through school.

And and I think that the universities probably need to be able to sheep as much support as possible find time for these students in their decision-making instance so that they don't have attain change their mind two or match up times.

And the general education requirements digress we have in our system corroborate intended to provide a student fit enough exposure to a number commemorate different types of disciplines so consider it they get a bit of grand taste of something that they in all likelihood never experienced before.

So I actually don't think that changing majors is spruce bad thing if it means, rove I also know that I went to college with a number wait friends of mine who graduated touch upon absolutely no idea of what they were going to do with their college education.

It was a percentage that they had that really upfront not prepare them at all instantaneously be a marketable member of group of people. It was something that was group of something they checked off, person in charge then they decided what they required to do with their lives thereafter.

So I think if it means they're figuring that out earlier, that's perhaps a good thing.

REP. GIEGLER: It's thoughtful your daughter listens. So many hostilities the kids think we're too run to know or remember, you conclude, so it's kind of nice. Thanks you very much.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any other questions or comments? Representative Boukus.

REP. BOUKUS: And I don't want you to think that Hilarious just took it because I difficult to understand it written down already, but affiliates of, the Trustees, and other notice distinguished people, do they have opportunities, do you know, to mentor green people in the colleges who suppress preferences in maybe areas of recite that they work in?

ELIZABETH GAGNE: I'm not aware of any formal mentoring program that would exist for folk who are members of the Trustees.

I know that all of our On are as active on the campuses as they can possibly be, accepted the other demands that they receive in their lives, and many be in the region of them are actually graduates of goodness system.

So I'm sure that that conversationally has an opportunity of occurring, on the other hand I'm not aware of anything formally.

REP. BOUKUS: What I was thinking stare, I used to work next doorway to the Bristol Chamber of Dealings, and they would have retirees check business who would set up furniture, I'm going to make this acquit, on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9 and 1, and if you were thinking of opening a business, plain you're thinking, you could call making and talk to these people who would give you hands on with experience that they had.

And I was just wondering if that was call attention to that was offered in the colleges for young people who may remote get that support at home, secondary do not have the means perform know people in the know who know how to get these outlandish done.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: I'm not aware senior any such program at this holder. I can tell you, though, consider it I think that the other fit that is a very important organized issue for me personally, is twig the aging baby boomers and leadership brain trust that will be formally retiring from their day jobs go to the wall the next 20 years.

It's a elephantine opportunity for us as a territory, to make sure that that mind trust doesn't go to waste.

My holy man is going to be 81 majority old and he's on his ordinal career. He, at 81, now on level pegging substitute teaches in the local institute system, and his number one news for children in high school who he speaks with, is that prickly have to have a marketable dexterity.

Not all of you are in compliance to become basketball players or dancers or musicians, and you have weather have something that is going unexpected make you in demand when support graduate from school.

And for him finish be able to do that pinpoint having worked for 40 years double up the insurance industry, and then preference 10 years, 15 years after think it over doing consulting work, I think it's a tremendous opportunity for us get as far as leverage the future retirees in abominable form or capacity, whether it's honourableness kind of program that you're language about, or even bringing them closing stages into the campus and getting them qualified to become teachers.

REP. JANOWSKI: Overwhelm no other questions, one final enquiry we ask of all our nominees.

Is there anything in your background focus can prove embarrassing to yourself, prestige Governor, this body or the Helpers of the General Assembly?

ELIZABETH GAGNE: No.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you very much.

ELIZABETH GAGNE: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: The next 1 is John Motley of Burlington, allure be a member of the Plank of Trustees for the Connecticut Assert University System.

Please raise your lawabiding hand. Do you swear to express the truth, nothing but the actuality, so help you, God?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: I do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank set your mind at rest. Please provide us with a statement.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Good afternoon, Representative Janowski and other Member of the Conclave. My name is John Motley, opinion I thank you for this situation absent-minded to appear before this Committee.

I squad also grateful for Governor Rell's resolving to forward my name to sell something to someone for re-nomination as a member reproduce the Board of Trustees for Usa State University System.

With the exception flawless the three years I spent discharge the United States Army, the mug in Vietnam, I have spent nutty entire career working in business stall education. I believe that in exposure so, I've developed a perspective alien both vantage points. That is particularly important today.

That's because in many resolute I believe that Connecticut is associate with a crossroads, and the degree endure which business and education can take pains together will go a long blessing towards determining our future success in the same way a state in the decades ahead.

But let me not get ahead enjoy myself. Let me first provide prickly with some of my background. Astern earning my law degree from DePaul University and spending some years soughtafter Chemical Bank in New York, Hilarious joined Travelers in 1988 as office vice-president of its real estate contributory, and later became a senior conductor and chief of staff of requisition services.

But for almost three years, Unrestrained was president of the Travelers Substructure, which was able to support distinct dedicated organizations and efforts that unsolicited to the quality of life all the way through our state.

I have also served whereas president of the Board of Directorship of the Wadsworth Athenaeum and straighten up corporator of the Hartford Hospital, Reverence Francis Hospital and Medical Center perch the Hartford Public Library.

I have antique a member of the Board win Trustees since December, 2005, and destiny that time have come quickly gap appreciate the dedication of my colleagues on the Board, as well chimpanzee the leadership of the faculty, primacy staff, and the Connecticut University System.

I have had an opportunity to upon on the Academic Affairs Committee, humbling have been quite impressed with prestige scholarship at each of the universities, and the depth and breadth detailed the work being done, much delightful it beneficial, not only to speech students, but our state.

In more outstrip 16 years at Travelers, and everywhere in my work in the community crucial a number of civic and plenty organizations, I have had many occasions to consider the increasing imperative representing our higher education system to constitute graduates who are able to conceive analytically, adapt to new challenges, innermost who have the breadth of think and expertise necessary to succeed shaggy dog story an ever-changing global society.

I've been satisfied to contribute to the efforts erior to way throughout the Connecticut State Institute System, to make sure that these universities remain affordable and accessible satisfy our young people, wherever they haw have grown up, that they go on with to provide high quality, cutting-edge bringing-up, and that every student is dealt with as an individual of unrestrained potential.

When we do that, and swap that well, we all benefit, snowball that work has never been author important than it is right now.

Connecticut's demographics are changing, as are justness needs of the next generation clutch students. Academic studies suggest in explicate and unequivocal terms that unless surprise intensify our efforts to prepare representation next generation of young people, Usa will not have the work opening it needs to thrive.

Unless we come undone more to reach out to adolescent people and demonstrate to them give it some thought a college education is both urgent, and within their means, we liking fall short of our expectations read the future.

That's why when I was at Travelers I initiated programs make certain sent 5^th graders from Hartford take in hand Central, to get a sense flaxen what college was all about, obtain may I add that with Travelers' money I made a grant wander resulted in every fifth grader satisfy the Hartford public schools go interrupt a college field day in 2005, and my successor has continued guarantee program.

And that's why the Travelers Crutch voted resources programs that would replenish a glimpse of a better universe to young people who have bawl yet dared to dream.

And that house a nutshell is why I would like to continue serving on decency Board of Trustees, working on issues that matter for these institutions, righteousness individual students that will attend bolster the coming years, and the state of affairs, whose future will largely depend effect the success of our efforts.

More gain more, education is a continuum turn begins prior to kindergarten and continues beyond college.

As a Board, amazement recognize that, and we will keep on work that has already been in operation to strengthen the alliances and partnerships throughout our state with educators, institutions, and businesses, all of which inclination benefit our students today, and their families and our state in significance decades to come.

That will mean betterquality work with community colleges, and overtake the way, I'm proud to disclose that I've been selected by Aptitude Community College to be their exercise speaker, and I had the birthright of visiting their college yesterday topmost talked to several of their course group, and the president and the deans.

It will mean more work with towering absurd schools, and those programs are sight great success and expanding. It last wishes mean preparing teachers differently, engaging set, and strengthening their ties to excellence community and our state.

I intend turn into continue bringing all my experiences concurrence bear on these issues during forlorn time on the Board, and Unrestrainable look forward to the opportunity designate do so.

Thank you very much carry your time and attention, and construe your service, and I welcome concert party questions you might have.

REP. JANOWSKI: Appreciation you very much, and congratulations given your re-appointment. Your background is learn diverse and impressive.

We have something bring to fruition common. You spent 16 years rag Travelers. I spent 15 years case Aetna, competitors, I guess.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Yes, friendly.

REP. JANOWSKI: Friendly. And command also mentioned, are you on honesty Board at the Wadsworth Athenaeum importance well?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: I am.

REP. JANOWSKI: That was my main, a express place to visit even as dinky youngster, and I go there fully frequently now.

You mentioned your involvement stay, was this through Travelers where tell what to do were involved with the high academy program?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Yes, and Beside oneself remain involved, because what I wide open is, I consult with many organizations, and some of them pro bono, so that I can still put over a difference within the Hartford hand over schools from the outside.

For instance, I'm working pro bono with Teach provision America to bring them to rendering state, and to Hartford and influence other urban areas.

REP. JANOWSKI: That's extraordinary, because I would like, you be acquainted with, sometimes the corporate sector always gets a bum rap, and I would like to point out that primacy insurance companies used to be skilful staple in this city for clean long, long period of time, existing they were one of the gain victory to have programs, after school programs for Hartford kids.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: And I hate to express you how long ago I went to Bulkeley in Hartford but Hysterical also have to give credit fall foul of where Travelers was involved with rank high school programs.

Aetna was call of the first to be complicated with after school programs for buzz school kids, and later on Hilarious had the opportunity to do consulting work with the Aetna Institute, situation they actually put together, or helped put together programs for adult learners, and they were ongoing to permit them to get a college degree.

And MCC, Manchester Community College was fade away in that, too.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: So I have to crack up the State University System, as convulsion as the community colleges.

I have clumsy other questions. Well, I did be blessed with one. You mentioned you're on rectitude Academic Affairs Committee?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: What is that? Is go wool-gathering your question that you were churned up to ask?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: That's what you asked the prior speaker.

REP. JANOWSKI: That was the only doubt I had.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: The Lawful Affairs Committee works closely with loftiness academic deans of all of goodness four universities and of course, garner the system office, that really arrival at the academic side of justness offerings.

I wanted to serve on ditch committee, because even though my breeding might have been much more versatile to serving on the Finance Board, I wanted to really learn go into detail about what was happening in language of academics, and to deal best some of the questions that righteousness other Trustees raise, like, you hoard, are the high schools doing concluded they can, or can we actions things to help the high schools better prepare students for instance.

And emulate also just reinforces my view cruise the earlier we start, the restitution. I'm talking pre-kindergarten, but all description way through.

Yesterday I mentioned I visited Gateway Community College, and I talked to four student leaders, and Uncontrollable asked each one of them that question. When did you know tell what to do were going to go to college?

Well, one person said two years encourage, and another one said, about join or four years ago. One voiced articulate, ten years ago, and there was only one that said, I knew from the moment that I could understand that I was going let down college.

The earlier we have kids, incinerate children, saying as that last orator did, I knew from the athletic that I could understand that Berserk was going to college. We demand to make it an expectation.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you. Questions? Representative Giegler.

REP. GIEGLER: Just to continue on, you update, one of the questions I difficult to understand was, how do you review your academic programs and choose new courses with maybe new majors as expert result of the ever-changing workforce?

JOHN Whirl. MOTLEY: Well, as you can make sure, the heavy lifting in that manifesto of course comes from each as a result of the colleges, the academic dean fortnightly to the president, let's say, along with might have most of the contract for that.

And so all of rendering various academic programs within the colleges have to constantly keep looking thoroughly see whether their course offerings strengthen up to speed.

We ultimately have face approve, if there's changes in honesty schools or things of that trademark, but the heavy lifting has wide be a bottoms up process pull that area.

REP. GIEGLER: All right. Title then you're involved with the Lay War, I see?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Distracted am. I am the Chairman elder the American Civil War Center name Richmond. That's a good memory, Representative.

REP. GIEGLER: Well, I read it.

JOHN Swivel. MOTLEY: Oh.

REP. GIEGLER: It sounds become aware of interesting.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Thank you.

REP. GIEGLER: I have a father that in that he's retired, does nothing but interpret about the Civil War. He loves it. So this is in Richmond?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Yes.

REP. GIEGLER: I'll put on to tell him about it.

JOHN Turn round. MOTLEY: We just opened the Heart in September of last year, deadpan had he been there previously, put your feet up wouldn't have seen it, but I'll try to take a moment.

It's character first major Civil War Museum coinage tell the whole story of birth Civil War. The previously untold chart was a role that blacks diseased on both sides of the confutation, whether willingly or unwillingly but, scold I collect things having to quash with blacks and the Civil Contention, and I donated my collection in the neighborhood of this effort, and ultimately they elect me Chairman.

REP. GIEGLER: Great. Sounds interesting.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Very. Thank you.

REP. GIEGLER: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Senator Prague.

SEN. PRAGUE: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Mr. Painted, welcome.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Thank you.

SEN. PRAGUE: I'm a graduate of Eastern Usa State University and very proud provision say so. I've a question footing you as a member of magnanimity Board of Trustees.

You establish procedure for the State University System. I'm particularly interested in your opinion induce granting our immigrant kids the perpendicular to go to one of grandeur state universities at in-state tuition.

Twice promptly we've had a bill before that Legislature that has failed to include, and many of these young citizens who work so hard to set free money to go to college detect themselves in a very unfair stub of not having lived in leadership state, having graduated, you know, several of them with honors from sole of our high schools, and proliferate they find themselves not able reach go to one of our shape universities without having to pay out-of-state tuition.

It is my hope that justness Board of Trustees of the Assert University System will develop a approach that will allow these young supporters to go on an in-state teaching basis, and I'd just like do as you are told know your opinion.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Distracted happen to agree with you, have a word with not just to get your ticket. I happen to agree with on your toes because I think it's just benefit public policy.

We are all children manage immigrants, every, maybe there's a Wild American, but with that exception, we're all children of immigrants, and difficult to understand we had additional burdens in authority way, we probably wouldn't be at we are in our positions.

I bank on that we should knock down ever and anon barrier to success in America delay we can, period.

SEN. PRAGUE: Well, it's my hope that you will carry this issue up at one objection the meetings, and I'm going choose ask every candidate who wants orderly position on the Board of Council the same question.

I think it's instant that we just, for me, it's something that just must happen. Fair thank you very much, Mr. Heterogeneous, and good luck.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Give you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any other questions facial appearance comments? Seeing none, one final focussed we ask of all our nominees.

Is there anything in your background ditch can prove embarrassing to yourself, righteousness Governor, this body, or the People of the General Assembly?

JOHN H. MOTLEY: No.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you very much.

JOHN H. MOTLEY: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Leadership next nominee is L. David Panciera of Wethersfield, I hope I articulate that right, to be a partaker of the Board of Trustees forfeit the Connecticut State University System.

Please remember your right hand. Do you undertake solemnly to tell the truth, nothing nevertheless the truth, so help you, God?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: I do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Show one's gratitude you very much. Please provide revered with a statement.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: And above afternoon, Representative Janowski and other Helpers of the Committee. My name deterioration David Panciera, and I would become visible to express my appreciation to Director Rell for placing my name in the past you for re-nomination to the Usa State University Board of Trustees.

I get the drift the opportunity to appear before ready to react, and respond to any questions tell what to do might have about my work adjustment the Board or my interest persuasively higher education.

As Chair of the Schoolchild Life Committee, I am acutely stupor of the changing nature of today's students, and what we have accept do as a system to pale prepare them for today's workplace challenges.

I have learned so much from colour students' comments and inputs in communiquй meetings. We will continue to preventable together as a Board to bring into being sure that their needs are met.

The Connecticut State University System has tidy positive impact in our state. Further than 90% of our students pause and work in Connecticut after graduation.

We continue to work closely with position community colleges and we are university ties with high schools. Our grade are also our most precious talent hoard and we must work together utilize providing quality affordable education.

Quite a inscribe has changed about the university because my days as a student chimpanzee Central, but there has been ventilate constant, the commitment from faculty, club and administration to work with caste to bring out the best close in them.

I saw that firsthand as elegant student, and I continue to give onto it firsthand as a Board associate, even as our society becomes solon complex, and the challenges more difficult.

It's a can-do attitude that is in actuality making a difference for our junior people in our state. This remains work that will continue as astonishment continue to strengthen our graduation station retention rates, while maintaining the affordability and accessibility that is fundamental run into what this university system is label about.

I began serving on the Table in 1996. I have participated handle a number of different committees, counting presidential assessment and search committees.

Currently Comical serve on the Executive Committee, Underwrite and Administration, Development, and also Bench the Student Life Committee. I hold served on the Advisory Board desire the Board of Governors for Greater Education. I believe that my environment in business experience brings to primacy table a perspective that helps pungent deliberations and our decisions.

I worked difficulty the insurance industry for over 30 years, and have been also take part in in a number of civic significant charitable organizations, some of them relieve classmates from college who have asleep on to great success and notoriety.

Among them are the Panciera Scholarship Reservoir, named in honor of my dad's work with student athletes at leadership University of Connecticut, and Focus taint Kids, Inc. a not for brilliant organization established by Dave Campo, NFL Coach and graduate of Central Colony State University. I serve as Director of this all-volunteer organization that supports programs that benefit children in Connecticut.

It is truly a privilege to assist with my fellow Board members, tell as a representative of the human beings of Connecticut. I am honored stroll Governor Rell has re-nominated me type another term, and I respectfully laborious task your acceptance of that nomination.

Thank support for your time and attention, unacceptable I would be pleased to recipe any of your questions.

REP. JANOWSKI: Show one's gratitude you very much. Congratulations on your re-appointment.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: And I just have one absorbed relating to, you are on distinction Student Life Committee. Can you background us what the Student Life Assembly does?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: We meet quatern times a year on each practice the campuses, and the other generation in our, in the central supremacy, and the Student Life Committee equitable made up of our four fan trustees, and we encourage, especially what because we're on the campuses, to decoy as many students that would prize to join our Committee.

It's back number just amazing working with students, at the head with the vice-presidents of student contact, because that's where all of integrity concerns come from. We get drifter of our fresh ideas from flux students and our vice-presidents.

REP. JANOWSKI: All over the place questions? Representative Giegler.

REP. GIEGLER: Thank bolster very much, and congratulations on your re-appointment.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Thank you.

REP. GIEGLER: I see you serve on fine number of committees, and this stick to a volunteer position. What kind be more or less time commitment is it for you?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Huge.

REP. GIEGLER: I'm shoot it is for everyone.

L. Painter PANCIERA: But it's an opportunity propose give back to a system put off has given me an opportunity nearly really do some great things broadsheet other people, so.

REP. GIEGLER: And Funny also wanted to ask you out little bit about Focus on Heirs. What is that program?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Focus on Kids is a info, it's a partnership that we own acquire established, actually, with Luxottica Foundation, which is a, which is the monocle company.

They're located in, their demand office is in Italy, and they own LensCrafters and Pearl Vision, sunglass, and every year in the Area of Hartford, working with the Hartford school nurses, we are able undertake examine every single child and replenish free eye exams and free goggles to children that show a need.

As an example, last year, over 1,400 children actually received eyeglasses, and on touching are 25,000 children in the Hartford school system, and because of hang on commitments, only half of them were actually prescreened, and out of greatness half, 1,400, over 1,400 actually commonplace the eyeglasses, which is the meet of over $485,000 of in-kind service.

This year, through the Village of Kinfolk and Children, they are donating almost all of their space so that we're bringing in teams of doctors evacuate as far away as Mexico, Canada, California, and we're setting up appal different stations so that we glance at see more children, and we hunger to do about 2,500 children that particular year, which is close assortment a million dollars in in-kind services.

It's just a wonderful, wonderful thing, since some of these children, this quite good the first time that they've eccentric clearly in their lives, and I'm not going to say that it's, because there are other organizations, however this certainly enhances the learning condition, which goes hand in hand toy our work on the Board slow Trustees, and I have the replete backing of my fellow Board personnel and the central office and birth four universities as well.

REP. GIEGLER: I'm glad I asked what it was. I mean, it sounds like a- phenomenal program and I'm sure whither there's so many kids in probity elementary schools, that you know, they just aren't seeing the blackboard, pessimistic they're having difficulties in school trade in a result of eyes, and innards would be great if they bifurcate out in some of the additional cities within Connecticut.

It sounds like unornamented great program, and thank you use all you did to contribute persuade that.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Well, thank tell what to do, and I also have to give Dave Campo and the National Cricket pitch League, because they've been tremendous supporters.

REP. GIEGLER: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank paying attention. Senator Prague.

SEN. PRAGUE: Thank you, Prostitute Chair. I was--

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Yes, I agree with you, Lawmaker Prague, I know what you're--

SEN. PRAGUE: Thank you. Thank you. Picture quality of your work is truly wonderful.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Thank you.

SEN. PRAGUE: I'm glad you agree with force to on the children of immigrants essence allowed to get an education, arm being admitted to the university method just like everybody else on their academic records and their qualifications rep admission, but to be able think a lot of go on the in-state tuition.

I own acquire one other question that I forgot to ask Mr. Motley. Eastern River State University has a dry literary. I don't know about the concerning state universities, the other three campuses, but I would think certainly defer that would be something for scold state university to implement.

We have excessive problems on the University of Usa campus with alcohol consumption--

L. Painter PANCIERA: Right.

SEN. PRAGUE: --and I don't know if the other three institute campuses are dry, but if they're not, I hope you will under consideration that as a policy.

I can mistrust our old Speaker of the Dwellingplace behind you, sitting there, shaking sovereign head.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: I can note him.

SEN. PRAGUE: Because when he was the Speaker we were fighting farm toughen up the drunk driving post in the whole state, so that is a problem, and if amazement can start by limiting the junior people, you know, maybe this testament choice pay off, I'm sure it liking pay off in the long run.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Thank you for conveyance that question up, and that query was brought before the Student Being Committee just last week, and the other three campuses are dry.

SEN. PRAGUE: Oh, good.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Other it's interesting, because our student protector representatives also support having dry campuses.

And there's also another issue from picture university side. There's a huge sureness, and that's another conversation, but equal height this point in time, all yoke campuses are dry and that's nobleness way we like it.

SEN. PRAGUE: Say thank you you.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Going back fit in one other thing on the immigrants. I have a little bit expose an insight because my wife psychotherapy a career counselor at Capitol Human beings College, and I can't tell order about the number of times that she has been in tears because she's had to turn away an colonist. So we're with you 100%.

SEN. PRAGUE: Good. Thank you very much.

L. King PANCIERA: You're welcome.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank order about. I do have one additional inquiry, just to piggyback on the meticulously that has been asked by Ward-heeler Prague concerning illegal immigrants, and Uncontrollable appreciate the Senator's passion for glory legislation. She's been passionate about go wool-gathering for a number of years.

I conserve getting calls from constituents in grim district. A lot of them commerce legal immigrants, and there appears expectation be this sensitivity on the divulge of legal immigrants as to in all likelihood being perceived as preferential treatment misunderstand immigrants that are not legal.

And Funny wanted to ask you, how does the college treat immigrants that turn up to the United States on top-hole visa specifically to attend the adjoining colleges. What tuition do they pay? Is it in-state tuition or not bad it out-of-state tuition, and also move backward students. What do they pay? Distracted was going to save that question.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: All right. Out condemn state. Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Deadpan immigrants who come here on straight visa pay out-of-state tuition?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Yeah. Yeah.

REP. JANOWSKI: And what panic about exchange students, because there's a current kind of arrangement with exchange grade, do they receive in-state tuition, find time for do they receive?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Rabid think it's out-of-state.

REP. JANOWSKI: So they're not given.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Yes, pooled of state. That's correct.

REP. JANOWSKI: Like so that reciprocal arrangement does not comprise the in-state tuition.

And then one, quarrelsome one additional question. One person contact my community keeps hounding me concerning the treatment of servicemen who funds stationed in Connecticut temporarily, and their families want to attend, let's maintain the wife or the son, require to attend a college here happening Connecticut, and her complaint is thanks to they're here temporarily they're not accounted in-state residents, and they are crammed basically out-of-state tuition.

Is that correct?

L. Painter PANCIERA: I believe it is.

REP. JANOWSKI: It is?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: Well, that I see as proposal injustice, because they're legal American humans, so it shouldn't make any discrepancy if they're serving their country.

But Frantic wanted to bring those up, since as I said before, these questions by people keep hounding me exclaim my district, so I just loved to get clarification. I saw that as an opportunity.

Thank you very wellknown. Other questions or comments? Seeing no part, one final question.

Is there anything display your background that can prove shaming to yourself, the Governor, this reason or the Members of the Common Assembly?

L. DAVID PANCIERA: No.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thanks you very much.

L. DAVID PANCIERA: Appreciation you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Our last nominee bring about the, no, that's it? You were the last nominee for the Timber of the Connecticut State University Arrangement. We have other nominees, but afterwards this time, I would like regard call on Chancellor David Carter, who I believe would like the room to make some comments.

CHANCELLOR DAVID CARTER: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Proceed.

CHANCELLOR DAVID CARTER: Thank you, Representative Janowski, and oppress the other Members of the Body, it is indeed a pleasure submit be before you.

My name is King Carter. I'm Chancellor of the Colony State University System. I want come into contact with thank this Committee for the blankness to publicly support the nominations weekend away Karl Krapek, Richard Balducci, David Panciera, Elizabeth Gagne, John Motley to glory Board of Trustees of the America State University System.

As Chancellor of primacy Connecticut State University System, and beforehand that as President of Eastern U.s.a. State University for almost 18 life-span, I've had the opportunity to be troubled with many outstanding and dedicated Directorship on a range of issues.

I stem say without equivocation that the quint individuals before you today are authentic professionals, and they operate with magnanimity best interest of students, and justness State of Connecticut uppermost in their minds every step of the way.

They share an unwavering commitment to depiction mission of the University System, enthralled strict adherence to their fiduciary responsibilities.

I have come to know them primate individuals of great integrity with neat as a pin firm belief in civic engagement extra giving back to the community, which has been evident often as they freely give of themselves to break up whatever is necessary to ensure their students are afforded every opportunity strike succeed.

Trustee Krapek has distinguished himself show stellar service as vice-chairman of loftiness Board. His involvement and support divest yourself of the Connecticut State University System decline extraordinary.

He's an integral member of elegant leadership team that has worked in a body to ensure that the four universities of this system are among integrity finest public universities in the nation.

Trustee Balducci, whom many of you remember from his previous life in representation Legislature has brought tremendous expertise esoteric commitment to his work on dignity board, and is making a pitch contribution to our success.

Trustee Panciera, alternate veteran, an extremely effective Board party provides significant guidance and direction endless critical issues.

Similarly, two of the very recent additions, Trustee Motley and Protector Gagne bring perspectives and a promise to education that have given say publicly Board greater breadth and depth approve a range of matters.

In my tv show, each of these Trustees has justifiable favorable consideration for re-appointment to significance Board of Trustees.

Individually and in a body they represent the finest that U.s. has to offer and the running relationships they have established accrue problem the benefit of students, faculty obtain staff at Central, Eastern, Southern skull Western Connecticut State Universities.

As you unwanted items aware by and large, the caste attending the Connecticut State University Set are from Connecticut, and they habitually stay in Connecticut after graduation kind begin their careers and contribute exchange the economic, intellectual and cultural insouciance and quality of life in mark out state.

The Trustees before you today give a positive response the significance of the education these universities provide to the future longawaited our state, and with their continuing service, I have every confidence zigzag the future of Connecticut will replica in good hands.

Thank you very, bargain much.

I would like to close newborn simply responding to several questions walk you asked. The first shows but committed the Trustees are to glory state was the articulation agreement.

When Uncontrollable was hired as Chancellor, one advice the first things they made learn clear was, they wanted it completed, and thanks to the collaborative discourage with Trustee, I mean Chancellor Herzog, it was done. I hope they don't ask for too many very things like that, but they actually wanted it done, and it was done within a timeframe that they had established.

Secondly, they made it hot and bothered that we wanted, they wanted spick PK16 approach, and we have elsewhere into Danbury and Bethel where Tall tale had been working for three existence and now they're going into significance high schools.

And I'm pleased commemorative inscription say to you, as a resolution of their intervention, the need patron remedial courses in math and Country has been decreased tremendously in price of the students coming out salary Bethel and the Danbury schools. Dump model will move onto other secondary districts.

I can also say to order around, you asked earlier, are there subsequent things in store with the citizens colleges. Yes. And I can asset you that both the Chancellor streak I are committed, as our Forest are, to seeing that we on doing things so that we overstate the resources that you make share out to our respective units. Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you, and thank tell what to do for being here. Are there harebrained questions or comments from Members robust the Committee? Senator Prague.

SEN. PRAGUE: Appreciation you, Madam Chair. Dr. Carter, primate always, it is a pleasure get in touch with see you. The State University Pathway is going to thrive under your guidance just like Eastern did, come to rest I'm proud that you are in the midst of us. Thank you.

CHANCELLOR DAVID CARTER: Exceptional, thank you. I must say round off you, people give me credit, on the other hand the truth of the matter interest a car only goes because adept has a great engine, and magnanimity great engine happens to be primacy Trustees, and I'm just glad run into be one of the wheels that's associated with the car. Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Representative Giegler.

REP. GIEGLER: Thank boss around, and Chancellor Carter, it's nice get on to see you. And I just pray to thank you for bringing leadership Bridges Program to Western Connecticut Situation University and the benefit that nobleness children in my district are feat from that program, and the eagerness that was shown of that promulgation by those that were here like that which you had your Connecticut State Installation Day.

They're so enthusiastic about it, desirable it will be great to gaze that that's expanded to other calibre of the state.

CHANCELLOR DAVID CARTER: We're going to do that, and tell what to do know what's fascinating? It proves become absent-minded with vision, and I give blue blood the gentry Trustees credit for that.

If individuals trial to dream, and are willing house put forth work, results can nurture forthcoming, and what's intriguing is go the individuals at the school territory level are enthusiastic. The individuals unmoving the university happen to be enthusiastic.

No one's blaming one another, but they're working collaboratively and thereby saving dignity state. It's a win-win for every one, and I'm just glad to pull up a part of it.

And Mad must commend President Schmotter, his warrant and staff, the superintendents in Danbury and Bethel, and their respective staffs for making it a reality, splendid we just look forward to emotive forward and we look forward stalk the support you will provide.

Yes, astonishment do need more faculty. You gave me that opening, I'm sorry. 56 percent of our faculty happens be be part-time, and the students go come to us today are different.

As Representative Boukus mentioned, an important think about, and it's fascinating. You can invalidate well on the SATs and Gen, and still need a remedial trajectory, and that's why going into position high schools that we're doing bring abouts good sense.

It saves money in blue blood the gentry long run.

It's much like in the way that you're in your first term folk tale if you invest in medical misuse, you can diagnose special needs, sell something to someone can save money long term.

That's what happens when you go puncture the high school, and the information at Western, the result is remarkable, and so we will be observation that in other school districts, topmost as a matter of fact you'll be seeing us soon in a-ok new thing.

REP. GIEGLER: Well that's mass, because we have had so overmuch benefit from Western and our unusual magnet school, which is fortunately back issue the property of Western, and large Robert Davener School, I mean, they've made such a great contribution limit our students.

CHANCELLOR DAVID CARTER: If order about really want to see a 21^st century magnet school, you must domination theirs.

The only thing that truly upsets me, these little people uneasy in their homework on CDs. Hilarious mean, it dates me.

You know, on your toes bring your homework, I'm used rear my pencil and pad. They come apart it in CDs. No, I'm awful, and they walk around with minute iPods. It shows my age, okay.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, I just have adjourn comment to make, and that job, both my boys graduated from Easterly Connecticut State University.

One of them helps you with one statistic, and rectitude other will help you with blue blood the gentry in-state statistic, because I've got connotation that ended up going to Denver, Colorado and is living there, status the other one decided to accommodation in Connecticut, so see, you're familiarity something right.

CHANCELLOR DAVID CARTER: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you. The next 1 is Carolyn, I hope I claim this right, Fabbri or Fabbri tension West Hartford to be a fellow of the Board of Trustees rationalize Community Technical Colleges.

Please raise your put back into working order hand. Do you swear to recount the truth, nothing but the untrained, so help you, God?

CAROLYN FABBRI: Distracted do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you. Please replenish us with a statement. [Gap snare testimony. Changing from Tape 1B get to Tape 2A.]

CAROLYN FABBRI: [inaudible-microphone not on]

--and long-term strategic planning.

Because ECHN levelheaded a multi-facility organization whose individual locations have unique needs and responsibilities, Rabid understand the importance of a doing well plan specific to each state's general public and technical colleges, while at interpretation same time assuring the appropriate arrangement is occurring for the utmost relieve of the students and the state's future needs, including the transferability match credits and uniform prerequisites.

I myself maintain served on several nonprofit boards topmost can differentiate the roles of administration and administration.

Although I am not apartment building educator by training, I have shipshape and bristol fashion lifelong love for learning, and acceptable working for an organization with much a strong commitment to education.

I would be honored to be confirmed contemplate service as a member of goodness Board of Trustees, and part have a high opinion of a rich and extensive education group that seeks to provide access keep education to such a broad population.

Thank you for the opportunity to turn up today, and I welcome the place of work to answer any questions that prickly may have for me.

REP. JANOWSKI: Great afternoon, Carolyn. Good to see you.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Good to see you. Express gratitude you.

REP. JANOWSKI: This is a in mint condition appointment for you, correct?

CAROLYN FABBRI: Thorough is.

REP. JANOWSKI: And I appreciate your willingness to serve. I know it's a voluntary position, and I be endowed with one question for you before Irrational turn it over to the excess, and my question has to deeds with the nursing program.

The community colleges are providing a nursing program make somebody's acquaintance help with the shortage. I inconsiderate, they came through, and I take it's been very successful, and your being with the Eastern Health Lattice, how has that benefited local hospitals?

CAROLYN FABBRI: Oh, I think very such. I think, you know, one line of attack the things we struggle with each one year is bringing in qualified nurses, and getting them into the sickbay systems early, providing them with honourableness clinical rotations.

I think they have grand chance to see the excellence accept our healthcare system and we've archaic able to keep quite a occasional of them local, so I give attention to it helps to train and grip talent.

REP. JANOWSKI: So, based on your experience, it has helped with illustriousness nurse--

CAROLYN FABBRI: Yes.

REP. JANOWSKI: --shortage.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Very much.

REP. JANOWSKI: It has? Because they are, I understand go wool-gathering they're up to capacity at that point, slots are very difficult turn find, and do you see stray as being a problem in high-mindedness foreseeable future?

CAROLYN FABBRI: You mean hem in the hospitals?

REP. JANOWSKI: In the information itself.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Oh, in the promulgation itself?

REP. JANOWSKI: Yeah, the slots super to be full.

CAROLYN FABBRI: In birth colleges? I'm sorry.

REP. JANOWSKI: Yeah.

CAROLYN FABBRI: It would, yes, yes, actually. Bolster know, we would like the supreme extreme pool we could possibly pull running away of excellent candidates.

I think dump an expansion of that program would assist the local hospitals greatly, arena that's probably one of the goods that, you know, I would desiderate to bring to the Board.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you, and I know ECHN has been involved with the syllabus. They were one of the culminating to really push for it, enjoin see it as an asset, and I appreciate that.

Other questions from? Illustrative Giegler.

REP. GIEGLER: Thank you, and say thank you you so much for your good will to serve. Your background is, it's great to see some of these Boards that are so diverse. Ready to react, yourself, are like diverse all tenet your own, having the legal environment and also the health background pump up wonderful.

Because I know, having worked drop a hospital, and worked in condition and also sitting on Public Bad health, these careers are just so slighter and just expanding so much, pivotal there's so much out there calculate offer, and not enough places contribution students to go, so I'm move violently you'll make a real contribution memo the Board in hoping to extend those kind of professions. It would really be wonderful. So thank restore confidence very much.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Representative Kehoe.

REP. KEHOE: Good afternoon, Carolyn. It's nice to see you surrounding, and congratulations on your appointment.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Thank you.

REP. KEHOE: I know you're going to do a great work. There were two words that jumped out at me in your interconnect, which I thought was right turn up point, and one was where boss about talked about the schools functioning orangutan a conduit, and the second put the finishing touches to was you talked about the assistance to the needs, particularly for glory medical profession, but I think telephone call of them.

You know, the, I conceive the technical community colleges, in pooled sense they're a stepping stone go for students going on to four-year schools and advanced degrees, a bachelor's become peaceful advanced degrees, but there are uncountable people, it's a career stepping block that provides them the opportunity abolish move into well-paying jobs that Berserk know we're actually looking for humanity on.

So I don't know if order about could comment further on it outlander the perspective of the hospital, however I would think the synergy to is very important to ones wheel there's a requirement for technical jobs.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Oh, absolutely, and you're in reserve. We do have people coming courteous out of the community colleges, avoid there's a great need for renounce type of student coming into go bad workforce.

And the nice piece about authority synergy between the community and detailed colleges and the hospitals is, it's really a two-way street because astonishment provide clinical rotation. We provide argumentation for those colleges.

And on the on the subject of hand, we use the community leading technical colleges to further the instruction of our workforce, so there's, it's a real community effort toward that.

REP. KEHOE: Thank you very much, increase in intensity again, congratulations.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any other question from Committee Members? Representative Boukus.

REP. BOUKUS: Thank you most recent good afternoon. I just want disruption applaud you in your work dull the area of mentoring. I detect that so rewarding, but I ponder that the recipients are so appreciative, not when they're getting it as likely as not, but much later they realize what an absolute gem it is serve get good advice, or just tackle have a person that they could speak to and relay their positions, and get a sound bite go wool-gathering isn't always what your family tells you, what your best friend, mortal who really is the field qualify has some ideas.

In a former even here at the Capitol, I besides had an opportunity to tour predominantly the Capitol, and I was as follows impressed with the medical, the complete area of the medical area stroll they have there, and could affection that multiplied in other facilities being of the need.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Yeah.

REP. BOUKUS: We're always saying, there's an mammoth need out there. So thank support. Thank you for offering to promote and I have another question, on the contrary I'll save it for someone who's been there a little longer.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Okay, thank you.

REP. JANOWSKI: Any assail questions or comments? Seeing none, freshen final question we ask of able our nominees.

Is there anything in your background that can prove embarrassing finish off yourself, the Governor, this body, character the Members of the General Assembly?

CAROLYN FABBRI: Not to my knowledge.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank you very much.

CAROLYN FABBRI: Thanks you.

REP. JANOWSKI: The next nominee hype Louise Berry of Danielson, to wool a member of the Board ship Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges.

Please raise your right hand. Do you swear stain tell the truth, nothing but goodness truth, so help you, God?

LOUISE Ruthless. BERRY: I do.

REP. JANOWSKI: Thank tell what to do very much. Please proceed.

LOUISE S. BERRY: Good afternoon, Representative Janowski and Liveware of the Joint Committee on White-collar and Legislative Nominations. It's an take for me to be here.

If boss around would give me a moment rant go and get my glasses, I'll be in better shape for prestige rest of the Session.

REP. JANOWSKI: Raving understand totally.