Committees and Councils

Community Outreach Council

Purpose or function: This Council serves as a body to bring the University and the community together to facilitate communications. It functions as a think tank to brainstorm needs which require combined efforts by the University and the community and to identify resources and specific projects to address those needs. This Council maintains a data bank of resource and stores data regarding those resources.

Membership: Community representatives nominated by Outreach staff, all directors on staff of Outreach, and one representative from each of the following: Bell Library, Title V/TRIO program, each college upon recommendation of the dean, the Office of Research/Scholarly Activity, Staff Advisory Council, and Enrollment Management.

Chair: Dean of Community Outreach

Name	Reason for Membership/Affiliation	Term, if applicable
James Needham Chair	Dean, Community Outreach
Arnold, Deborah	Workforce 1
Arnold, Gretchen	Community Outreach
Baker, Anne	Boys & Girls Club
Boostrom, Ardys	CC-Nueces County Public Health District
Bowers, Gladys	Community Outreach
Canales, Herb	CC City Libraries
Carbajal, Julie	Flour Bluff ISD
Cardenas, Diana	College of A&H
Chavez, Margie	CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital System
Cich, Dave	National Conference for Community & Justice
Coleman, Lena	Lena’s Consulting Service
Davila, Victor	Community Outreach
Dechant, Margaret	Enrollment Management
Eliff, Scott	CCISD
Fernandez, John	College of S&T
Garcia, Jesse	Citgo Refining
Garza, Susan (Loudermilk)	Faculty member
Gomez, Aurora	Community Outreach
Hendrix, Mark	Student Government/TAMU-CC
Hodge, Linda	City Parks and Recreation
Howe, Terri	Staff Advisory Council rep.
Huerta, Carlos	American Democracy Project - faculty
Ibanez, Herminio	Title V/TRIO Program
LaRue, John	Port of Corpus Christi
Lennan, John	Corpus Beat
Lockamy, Chris	No Le Hace/TAMUCC
Mastrangelo, Peter	United Way
McDowell, Josh	Community Outreach
McNair, Alex	Community Outreach
Middleton, Karen	College of Bus
Miller, Joe	Community Outreach
Murray, Karen	College of N&HS
Nank, Renee	American Democracy Project - faculty
Needham, Jim	Community Outreach
Peterson, Carole	Community Outreach
Prezas, Raul	College of Ed
Quintanilla, Kelly	College of A&H
Salinas, Laura	Student Government reps
Seehorn, Crystal	Community Outreach
Soward, Cheryl	City of Corpus Christi
Trevino, Ken	CC Chamber of Commerce
Wahl, Shawn	American Democracy Project - faculty
Waldbesser, Lillian	Museum of Asian Cultures
Wenzel, Diana	American Democracy Project – faculty
West, Robin	United Way
Willman, Sue	Library
Wood, Brittney	American Democracy Project