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you're looking forward to enjoying the beautiful weather forecasted for this weekend. I want to express my sincere gratitude for your valuable contributions to defining the performance priorities/benchmarks that we've recently shared with the Instructure team.
I've worked to distill our collective insights into clear and concise requests. For your reference, the updated version of these benchmarks has been uploaded to the ETAG Google Drive. I'm eager to receive Instructure's feedback on our collaborative effort.</span></p>
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arranging a meeting with Carolyn and Katie when they visit for the WACC conference later this month. To facilitate planning, I kindly ask if you could complete the survey linked below. This will help us ascertain the number of attendees who will be present
in person and those who prefer to participate remotely. Please aim to submit your responses by the end of the day on Wednesday, March 20th.</span></p>
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that everyone interested can engage in the conversation. Thank you once again for your ongoing commitment and support. Looking forward to our continued collaboration.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Brush Script MT"; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Michael A. Brown, Ph.D. </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"><i>“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”(Maya Angelou) </i></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> carolyn.lyons@instructure.com <carolyn.lyons@instructure.com>; Katie Coats <katie.coats@instructure.com>; Karen Stimson <karen.stimson@instructure.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Joyce Hammer <jhammer@sbctc.edu>; ETAG Listserv <etag@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Etag] [SPAM] Follow-Up and Next Steps from Today's Meeting with Instructure</span></div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Greetings All,</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Carolyn,
Katie, and Karen for your time and insightful discussions this morning. The collaborative spirit we share is a cornerstone of our negotiations, and I am eager to continue our dialogue as we work towards mutual goals.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enclosed with this message, you will find a copy
of the performance priorities document, a collective effort with contributions from the Washington State system of CTCs' Educational Technology Advisory Group. This document outlines our key performance priorities, which we aim to discuss and address together
with Instructure. These priorities represent a strategic endeavor to ensure our partnership robustly supports the diverse needs of our educational community, using benchmarks as tools for ongoing, constructive communication.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In our meeting, we also touched upon concerns raised
by colleges within the WA CTC system and from four-year institutions that leverage the SBCTC contract for their renewal processes. These concerns centered around the proposed 10% increase in cost per FTE, highlighting apprehensions regarding fiscal sustainability.
I am grateful for Instructure's openness to revisiting these figures with the relevant decision-makers within their organization. For reference, I have attached the initial proposed contract.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Looking ahead, with Carolyn and Katie's attendance
at WACC later this month, it presents a prime opportunity to delve deeper into our performance priorities. I am also considering a hybrid meeting format to ensure inclusive participation from ETAG members who cannot attend in person.
<u>Should we opt for a hybrid meeting, I suggest scheduling it during the social hour on the first day of the conference to minimize conflicts with session attendance.</u> I've included a<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pATIi48XnPhWTekjiBRXtLAIlPzXBcuzG01DnrUhkug/edit#heading=h.nald44ou7xq4" id="OWAc7e370e3-cc9e-3fb2-f89b-88ee940d6bd3" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pATIi48XnPhWTekjiBRXtLAIlPzXBcuzG01DnrUhkug/edit#heading=h.nald44ou7xq4" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> link
</a>to the latest WACC agenda for your convenience. To organize this effectively, I will require a headcount of in-person versus remote participants. This will assist us in arranging the necessary logistics to accommodate our meeting.
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b><i>A separate survey will be sent to all system-wide stakeholders to collect this information, along
with a response deadline.</i></b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I believe this summarizes our discussions from this
morning. However, Carolyn, Katie, and Karen, please feel free to mention anything I might have overlooked.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr. Hammer, your inclusion in this correspondence
is to ensure you are fully informed of our ongoing negotiation process with Instructure and their representatives.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Brush Script MT"; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Michael A. Brown, Ph.D. </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"><i>Pronouns: he, him, Beloved</i></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"><u>mbrown@sbctc.edu</u></span></p>
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