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CRE: EFNEP … from page 2.5.Summaryofimprovementforallchildrenandyouth

Figure 2. Summary of improvement for adults reported to USDA/NIFA throughWebNEERS (Web-BasedNutriIonEducaIonEvaluaIonandReporIngSystem)reporIngportalbyCOM-LandGrantstaff,MargaretWeital.

A total of 228 students ages 5-13 participated in CRE programs.Visits and presentaIons were carried out at schools on various topicsincluding sports, food safety, nutriIon (EFNEP), agroforestry, and vegetableproducIon and to promote student’s interest in agriculture field. SchoolsvisitedwereOhmine Elementary School and Pohnpei Island Central Schooland Tamil Early Childhood EducaIon Center and Dalipebinaw CommunityElementarySchool inYap, andSt.CeciliaElementarySchool and IrasDemoSchoolinChuuk.

Eco-friendly start-up business in Yap producing Areca leaf platesThrough technical assistance, a smallbusiness called Yap Eco Leaf Plates,h]ps://www.yapecoleafplates.org/ hasestablished in Yap to provide services int h e p ro d u cIon o f a v a r i e t y o fbiodegradable plates, go-to containers,a n d u t e n s i l s t h a t a r e n a t u r a l ,environmentally friendly, and affordableand present an alternaIve to Styrofoamand plasIcs. This innovaIve venture alsouIlized a waste product from betel-nuts h e a t h s , p r o v i d e e m p l o y m e n topportuniIes for youths, and createaddiIonalrevenuestobetel-nutproducersthroughthesaleofbetel-nutsheaths.

This small business unit has been in operaIon for the past 6 months,however a formal inauguraIon ceremony was held on October 31, 2019.Local and export demand for the products are increasing with exports toPalau, Guam and Saipan soon. Technical assistance was also provided lastyear to Awak Farmer’s AssociaIon in Pohnpei for the establishment of asimilaroperaIon.

World Food Day 2019: Promoting food and agriculture in PohnpeiThepublicannualeventonOctober16,2019,whichhighlighted this year’sthemeof“ZeroHunger”wassuccessful.

Atotalof93farmersparIcipatedinthecompeIIonforagricultureproduce,rangingfromvegetablestofruits,rootcropssuchasyamandtaro,andkava.Fourwomenwhotookpartintherecipecookingcontesthadelevenrecipessubmi]ed.Essaycontestsbyhighschool juniors fromsixhighschoolswerepresentedandfivewinnerswereselectedforprizes.

CRE: Hands-on …. from page 2.Twenty parIcipants from the Kosraen Honolulu Women OrganizaIon and eighteenparIcipants from the Kosrae GuamWomen OrganizaIon parIcipated in trainings on basicskillsofsewinglocaldresses.Thisprogramwasorganizedandconducteduponrequestsfromthe two organizaIons to Kosrae CRE staff with funding support from FSM NaIonalGovernmentthroughKosraeStateGovernment,HonorableMayorPresleyAbraham.

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Information Technology | Office of Institutional Effectiveness

College Summits and Mini-SummitsAllcollegesummitsandmini-summitswereheldduringAugustandSeptemberwithatotalof464parIcipantsa]endingthefourevents.

NaDonalCampus&CTEC,Monday,August5,2019WilsonHess—COM-FSMEconomicImpactStudy2013-2017Workshop:StrengthsWeaknessesOpportuniIesChallenges(SWOC)

Formini-summitsineachstate,aSWOCanalysisworkshopwasconductedKoaeaeCampus—Thursday,August29,2019YapCampusandFSMFMI—Thursday,September12,2019ChuukCampus—Friday,September20,2019

TotalparIcipantsinthe2019COM-FSMsummitandmini-summits|464

COM-FSM Institutional SWOC Analysis

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

• Accredited—givesstudentsaccesstoPellgrants

• Local—campusesinallfourstates• Qualifiedfaculty

• LimitedcourseandprogramopIonsatStateCampuses.

• SlowWifi• FaciliIesforstudents

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StrengthenresourcestomeetcurrentandfutureneedsthroughrevenuediversificaIon,efficientuse,innovaIon,effecIveallocaIon,conservaIon,

infrastructureupgrades,andinvestmentinhumancapital.




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SWOC Analysis …. From page 3.

CHALLENGESOPPORTUNITIES

Internal External

• NextaccreditaIon2023• Student&facultystruggletoaccesstools&resourcesfordifferentlearningexperiences

• Leadershipchange

• OutmigraIon• Enrollmentgoingdown&

costsgoingup• Endingsomefinancial

provisionsoftheCompactin2023

• Lowsalaries

• Morefouryearprograms• Eveningcourses,rotaIng

courses—creaIveschedules?

• Staffdevelopment• IncreasedcollaboraIon

withDOEandcommuniIes

Information Technology

The ITOfficeconInuestoworkwithFSMTCto improvecommunicaIonsatall itscampuses.The phone systems at CTEC, Kosrae, and NaIonal campuses have been upgraded.Work isbeingdonebyFSMTCtoallowintercampuscallingviaextensionnumbers.FSMTCisworkingonanexecuIonofinstallaIonplanforChuukandYapcampustopresenttoITforreviewandapproval.

FiberhasbeenterminatedatChuukcampusallowingforimprovedbandwidthatthatcampus.FSMTC and COM-FSM will be meeIng to amend its service contract to accommodate theimprovementsinChuuk.

Figure1.IncreaseaPerupgrade.

Figure2.Beforeupgrade.

Communications

VPIEQA and IT Directormet with the Student Body AssociaIon (SBA) and the InformaIon,CommunicaIonandTechnology(ICT)Commi]eetodiscusstheTechnologyFee(TechFee)anditsusage.ThemeeIngsservedtoinformstudentsonwhattheTechFeeisfor,whatithasbeenusedfor,anddiscussionsaroundusingthefeetopayforacertainporIonofinternetcosts.VPIEQAandtheITDirectorareconducIngthesemeeIngsasitexploreswaystomaketheTechFee sustainable faced with the rising costs of maintaining technology and internet at thecollege.

Technology Fee

In collaboraIonwith EnrollmentManagement & Student Affairs and InstrucIonal Affairs, apilot of soPware DropOut DetecIve has been integrated with Schoology to idenIfy at riskstudents. The soPware tracks student performance via Schoology to idenIfy students thatrequireintervenIonbyinstructorsorcounselors.ThegoalofthissoPwareistohelpimprovesuccessratespersemesteraswellastoimproveretenIonandonImecompleIonrates.

DropOut Detective

Office of Institutional EffectivenessThe College of Micronesia-FSM parIcipated in the NaIonal CommunityCollegeBenchmarkProjectin2019.The2019NCCBPreportshowshowCOM-FSMcomparedtoUSnaIonaldata,represenIng218communitycolleges.

Figure3.DropOutDetecIve

Strengths 1. Percentage of Students that Received a Passing Grade in their First

College-LevelWriIngCourseofthosethatCompletedaDevelopmental/RemedialWriIngCourse.Rank->99thPercenDle

2. CCSSESupportforLearnersBenchmarkMean.Rank->99thPercenDle3. CCSSEAcIve&CollaboraIveLearningBenchmarkMeans.


Rank->99PercenDle4. CCSSEStudentEffortBenchmarkMeans.Rank->99thPercenDle

Opportunities for Improvement 1. Percentage of Part-Time, First-Time Students that Transferred in Three

Years. 
Rank-