Ruth Hatcher

Voted to approve a five-year Transact Campus payment-platform agreement of $319,433, replacing existing payment contracts with mobile payments, payment-plan management and campus-event payment tools. Later approved removing rigid 1991 payment schedules from policy 2080 to enable flexible installment terms.

November 18, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to approve a five-year PeopleAdmin contract extension and implementation of digital position management and employee records. The system would connect the college’s existing applicant tracking and onboarding processes with Banner and replace paper steps in hiring.

November 9, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to simplify admission for guest students, clarify requirements for international students and move the existing senior tuition scholarship into the scholarships policy.

October 22, 2019Supports Government Efficiency

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Publicly urged faculty participation in strategic planning and committees. Subsequently urged faculty collaboration in accreditation, clearer organizational charts and staffing reports, attention to vacancies and departures, communication and knowledge transfer, and support for employee retention and institutional effectiveness.

March 23, 2015Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to transfer $9.5 million from the general fund to the capital fund and move $500,000 from the green fund to classroom enhancement after planned electric-vehicle and charger purchases had largely been completed.

June 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Hatcher voted to approve VIG Construction’s $336,500 simulated cleanroom for semiconductor and battery instruction. The November proposal identifies a $200,000 Michigan Economic Development Corporation contribution and $136,500 college contribution.

January 27, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to establish an electric-vehicle testing and battery laboratory capital project with up to $1 million in college funding, supporting new electric-vehicle training programs.

July 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to approve up to $206,434 for Huron Valley Electric to replace parking lot and health and fitness center lighting with LED fixtures. Voted to establish a $3 million campus security camera upgrade capital project and transfer $3 million from the general fund to the capital fund. The proposal included new assistance towers for help and emergency calls and supporting infrastructure. Later supported camera, assistance-tower and fiber implementation and the five-year $220,142 Verkada cloud-camera contract in May 2026. Publicly urged online instruction to provide interaction with people from different backgrounds. In April 2026, urged collaboration, constructive disagreement and exercises that expose students to diverse classmates.

May 23, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for $1,793,464.57 in network equipment and $166,936.63 in fiber installation for the college’s network upgrade. Earlier supported a $1.175 million equipment phase and accelerating a $1.5 million funding transfer from the following fiscal year.

March 22, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to establish a $5.8 million facilities improvement and Great Lakes Regional Training Center expansion project, transfer $3.5 million from the general fund and award a related construction contract of up to $3,587,000. Supported and voted to approve the college’s settlement with Joel Pobursky and authorize the president to sign the agreement. The public minutes did not disclose its terms.

October 26, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for the Morris Lawrence Building renovation, including increasing its budget to $10 million and awarding a construction contract of up to $9 million. Later supported increasing the budget to $13.5 million, adding building infrastructure work and awarding audiovisual and network contracts totaling about $1.69 million. Publicly opposed closing the college’s childcare center because students and the community would lose the service. Argued that scholarships did not adequately replace the lost center and later requested a proposal for new state childcare funding.

April 27, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against approving a $7.9 million Advanced Transportation Center project funded partly through a planned bond issue. Earlier voted for its $460,000 design contract. The board approved the project, subject to later review of the bond’s terms and timing.

December 17, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Supported recurring college budgets and operating property-tax levies. In the 2016–2017 budget, supported shifting $330,000 proposed for sheriff deputies into a capital-expenditure line for later allocation. Continued approving annual budgets and levies through 2026–2027, including the balanced $152.8 million budget and 3.3280-mill levy expected to produce $84,803,632 in gross revenue. Supported and ratified recurring part-time adjunct teaching faculty agreements, including the 2016 agreement, the extension through August 2023, the 2023 Appendix E and the August 22, 2026 through August 21, 2029 agreement. The latest agreement sets course-contact hourly pay at $76.99, $79.30 and $81.68 over its three years and paid office hours under its workload schedule.

May 24, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Approved the college’s $6.41 million skilled-trades equipment project, funded initially by a $4.40 million state grant and $2.01 million from the college. Later supported an additional $1.1 million college contribution and required a further $395,000 phase to be fully state funded. Voted to approve the facilities and support-services agreement between the college and Washtenaw Technical Middle College.

March 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to authorize a college line of credit secured by state appropriations and the college’s taxing authority.

January 27, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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During the Ellucian student-support software discussion, Hatcher urged the college to account for students’ personal interests and creativity rather than direct them solely toward existing skill sets and job openings. She asked whether students had reported difficulty choosing classes and pathways and confirmed that human advising would continue.

September 10, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to transfer $9.5 million from the general fund to the capital fund and move $500,000 from the green fund to classroom enhancement after planned electric-vehicle and charger purchases had largely been completed.

June 23, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to discontinue seven industrial-electronics, construction, cabinetmaking, digital-strategy, motorcycle-service and web-database credentials for 2026–2027, with teach-out or transfer protection and faculty retraining rather than layoffs. Hatcher voted to establish the Artificial Intelligence Applications, Early Childhood Administrator and Paralegal Studies certificates and Public Policy Associate of Arts for 2026–2027. February specifies 14, 30, 19 and 60 credits respectively; the early-childhood certificate is online. Hatcher voted to exempt college taxes from capture within the proposed geographic expansion of the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority tax-increment-financing plan. The resolution does not establish withdrawal from the existing district.

March 24, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Hatcher voted to approve a $538,864 Stamats website replacement contract. The January proposal describes an open-source Drupal platform, improved navigation and search, accessible mobile design and migration of 900 pages. Hatcher publicly supported rotating external auditors after five years, recalling her earlier concern about repeatedly renewing one firm. The later appointment is routine, but her public oversight recommendation is distinct. Hatcher requested exact student counts when programs are recommended for discontinuation and follow-up enrollment reporting on newly approved programs.

February 24, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Hatcher voted to approve VIG Construction’s $336,500 simulated cleanroom for semiconductor and battery instruction. The November proposal identifies a $200,000 Michigan Economic Development Corporation contribution and $136,500 college contribution.

January 27, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to approve a three-year Salesforce licensing contract of $388,218, expanding faculty access to student early alerts and replacing the student-services appointment tool. Voted to purchase and outfit a 53-foot expandable mobile classroom from MRA for up to $460,000, using a semiconductor grant to bring educational demonstrations and training into county communities. Voted to join a regional health-insurance pool beginning January 1, 2026 for at least three years, reducing employee and college benefit costs after consultation with employee groups.

October 28, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Publicly urged the college to include AI ethics in its presentations and continuing discussion of artificial intelligence. Urged critical-thinking and learning-process instruction and inclusion of AI ethics in relevant strategic-planning areas.

September 23, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to award a contract of up to $326,898 for the first phase of campus walkway lighting improvements. Voted to award O’Neal Construction up to $488,000 to renovate Crane Liberal Arts Building room 240, including a level teaching area, flexible furniture and improved presentation technology. Later approved renovation of rooms 140 and 340 and related audiovisual equipment as stages of the same three-auditorium program.

July 22, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Publicly urged the college to improve student course-evaluation participation and consider a different or combined collection method, arguing that reliable student feedback was essential to evaluating instruction.

March 25, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to establish a United Association boiler training lab capital project and award the installation contract to Monroe Plumbing, with the union reimbursing the college for the project. Voted to purchase a plastinated human anatomical specimen for up to $142,000 to support biology and health-program instruction during the national cadaver shortage.

February 25, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to revise policy 4055 on student readiness assessment and individualized program planning, recognizing multiple assessment measures and updated exemptions. She questioned support for students entering below college skill levels and requested monitoring of their outcomes. Voted to approve a Harper Electric contract of up to $243,000 to upgrade electrical infrastructure for fleet electric-vehicle charging at the shipping and receiving building. Later approved infrastructure for chargers at parking lots one, six and seven.

September 24, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to establish an electric-vehicle testing and battery laboratory capital project with up to $1 million in college funding, supporting new electric-vehicle training programs.

July 23, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Publicly urged the college to tell students how important first-day attendance and promptly contacting instructors were to remaining in classes and completing their studies. Proposed discreet resource requests, Writing Center snacks and syllabus questions to identify food or transportation barriers.

May 21, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to approve two associate degrees and six certificates, including new electric vehicle safety and service technician certificates, esports management, social media management and marketing offerings, and a reactivated elementary education degree.

February 27, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to approve a five-year Instructure contract to replace Blackboard with the Canvas learning management system. She urged the college to address faculty concerns about missing tools, training time and control of their own courses. Urged careful implementation, adequate faculty preparation and protection of varied teaching methods and academic freedom.

October 24, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to revise the external use of college facilities policy, clarifying administrative control, requiring external event clients to provide liability insurance and indemnify the college, and specifying use of the college’s contracted caterer in the Morris Lawrence building. Publicly argued that partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities had become more important for students of color in light of recent challenges to affirmative action.

July 18, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to approve up to $206,434 for Huron Valley Electric to replace parking lot and health and fitness center lighting with LED fixtures. Voted to establish a $3 million campus security camera upgrade capital project and transfer $3 million from the general fund to the capital fund. The proposal included new assistance towers for help and emergency calls and supporting infrastructure. Later supported camera, assistance-tower and fiber implementation and the five-year $220,142 Verkada cloud-camera contract in May 2026. Publicly urged online instruction to provide interaction with people from different backgrounds. In April 2026, urged collaboration, constructive disagreement and exercises that expose students to diverse classmates.

May 23, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Publicly urged the college to address mathematics preparation as a barrier to occupational training and jobs, retain developmental reading, writing and mathematics, and build young students’ confidence in mathematics.

March 30, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to approve new fall 2023 programs: a Digital Media Arts associate degree, a Traditional Photography certificate and a Portrait Photography certificate.

March 28, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to support Kensington Woods School's application for an early middle college program with WCC as its postsecondary partner.

January 24, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to add certificates in entrepreneurship, elementary education, robotics and automation.

April 26, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported and voted for the college to become the postsecondary partner for Plymouth–Canton Community Schools’ middle-college program.

January 25, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to establish a $5.8 million facilities improvement and Great Lakes Regional Training Center expansion project, transfer $3.5 million from the general fund and award a related construction contract of up to $3,587,000. Supported and voted to approve the college’s settlement with Joel Pobursky and authorize the president to sign the agreement. The public minutes did not disclose its terms.

October 26, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for the Morris Lawrence Building renovation, including increasing its budget to $10 million and awarding a construction contract of up to $9 million. Later supported increasing the budget to $13.5 million, adding building infrastructure work and awarding audiovisual and network contracts totaling about $1.69 million. Publicly opposed closing the college’s childcare center because students and the community would lose the service. Argued that scholarships did not adequately replace the lost center and later requested a proposal for new state childcare funding.

April 27, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for a $307,000 engineering-services contract to design a replacement for the Student Center’s HVAC system. Voted for a welding-technology transfer agreement with Wayne State University’s welding and metallurgical engineering program.

November 17, 2020Supports Public Education Quality

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Proposed and voted to add certificates in addiction studies, human-resources essentials and sports-and-entertainment management. Raised faculty concerns about cheating during online examinations; this is her reported concern rather than an official finding of misconduct. Requested faculty input into proctoring, stronger online-exam accountability and access to campus testing for local online students. Publicly opposed the Honorlock proposal in July 2024 and urged study of authentic assessment and artificial intelligence. The captions do not establish her final substantive Honorlock vote.

October 27, 2020Supports Public Education Quality

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Proposed and voted to allow students who attended a Michigan high school for at least three years and graduated or earned a Michigan GED to qualify for domestic residency tuition without citizenship, permanent-resident, asylum, refugee or DACA status. Proposed and voted to add transportation-technology, automotive-service, automotive-cybersecurity and management programs, together with university transfer agreements. Proposed and voted to discontinue automotive-service, advanced collision-repair, facility-energy-management and sustainable-building programs and several university transfer agreements, with completion or transfer options for existing students.

April 28, 2020Supports Public Education Quality

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Raised concern about low minority participation in apprenticeship programs. In September 2025, urged racial and gender inclusion in trade-training partnerships and reporting of participation demographics.

September 24, 2019Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported discontinuing the nursing-transfer pathway to Eastern Michigan and four web-design and digital-strategy certificates while approving replacement programs in general studies, broadcast media and web development. Supported a flexible general-studies associate degree with 18 to 30 general-education credits and an individualized interdisciplinary plan developed with an adviser.

March 26, 2019Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported and voted for the college to join the CLEMIS law-enforcement information system. Proposed adding culinary-essentials and baking-and-pastry certificates, along with transfer agreements for culinary management, child care, early-childhood education and computer programming.

May 22, 2018Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for a two-year, $1.6 million Campus Works contract for technology leadership and security services. Proposed and voted to extend Power Wellness’s operation of the college’s Health and Fitness Center through February 2021, with an optional additional three-year term. In February 2024, supported a 64-month extension through June 30, 2029 with a further five-year option. Supported adding programs in animation, pre-engineering, engineering technology and advanced manufacturing, and discontinuing the C# programming program.

February 27, 2018Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported new programs in sterile processing, fine arts and practical-nurse transition training, along with university transfer agreements. Also supported discontinuing the honors associate degree in liberal arts.

November 28, 2017Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to revise general-education requirements, setting minimums of 30 credits for arts and science degrees and 18 credits for applied-science degrees beginning in fall 2018. Subsequently supported reducing applied-science concentration requirements from 24 to 20 credits and aligning the curriculum policy with the revised general-education requirements. Voted for a $77,682 engineering-services contract for a campus nonmotorized pathway. Later supported and voted for granting the pathway easement to Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation. Voted against creating a campus police force and adopting the related law-enforcement policy. She successfully proposed an additional advisory committee for staff and student input. Earlier supported negotiating a county sheriff security agreement, then opposed starting police hearings at the March 2017 retreat and supported a revised public-hearing plan later that month. During the earlier security debate, publicly advocated spending on counselors rather than an armed outside officer.

September 19, 2017Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported adding an associate degree in cybersecurity and discontinuing six certificates or degrees in accelerated HVAC and welding training, medical assisting and HVAC technology. Voted for a $225,000 consultant agreement with Albert Kahn to develop the college’s campus master plan. Supported recurring five-year capital outlay plans and their Student Center state-funding requests, and in February 2026 approved The Collaborative’s $298,200 master-planning contract. Requested faculty and public input, attention to students’ learning needs and consideration of the Huron River Drive forest. These planning actions do not establish construction of the proposed centers.

May 23, 2017Supports Public Education Quality

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Proposed and voted to renew Washtenaw Technical Middle College’s charter for five years and establish its board-selection method and qualifications.

April 25, 2017Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported adding an advanced certificate in digital strategy and university transfer agreements with Eastern Michigan and Wayne State universities.

October 25, 2016Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported recurring college budgets and operating property-tax levies. In the 2016–2017 budget, supported shifting $330,000 proposed for sheriff deputies into a capital-expenditure line for later allocation. Continued approving annual budgets and levies through 2026–2027, including the balanced $152.8 million budget and 3.3280-mill levy expected to produce $84,803,632 in gross revenue. Supported and ratified recurring part-time adjunct teaching faculty agreements, including the 2016 agreement, the extension through August 2023, the 2023 Appendix E and the August 22, 2026 through August 21, 2029 agreement. The latest agreement sets course-contact hourly pay at $76.99, $79.30 and $81.68 over its three years and paid office hours under its workload schedule.

May 24, 2016Supports Public Education Quality

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Supported adding certificates in introductory manufacturing, ironworker preparation, welding and mobile-device programming, along with a welding-technology associate degree.

April 26, 2016Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to submit recurring college operating property-tax restoration proposals for the August 2016, March 2020 and August 4, 2026 elections. The final April 28, 2026 authorization followed her March intent vote. Supported adding certificates in core business skills and advanced machine-tool programming, and discontinuing certificates in medical office administration and hospitality management.

February 25, 2016Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for recurring extensions of President Rose Bellanca’s appointment, including $211,140 through June 2018, opposed the 2016 and 2017 extension packages with deferred compensation, and supported later extensions through June 2029. The 2026–2027 salary was $317,961. Proposed and voted for faculty collective bargaining agreements beginning in 2015, supported the 2018 agreement and its extension, and signed the executed 2025–2028 faculty agreement as board secretary on July 31, 2025. The latest agreement provides salary increases of 5%, 3% and 3% over its three years. She was absent from the June 2025 approval meeting, so no ratification vote is attributed to her. Proposed university transfer agreements with Ferris State, Madonna and Eastern Michigan universities covering business, science, hospitality, journalism, women’s and gender studies, construction management and communication technology. Voted for a six-month pilot to record board meetings and make the recordings publicly available online.

July 28, 2015Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to allow credit for prior learning to be posted before a student earned college credits, and to charge for portfolio evaluation and credits awarded through it. Supported appointments and recurring reappointments to the Washtenaw Technical Middle College board from 2015 through 2026, including the three-year terms beginning in October 2026 and ending in August 2029.

June 23, 2015Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for contracts to replace the Student Center’s roof, skylight and connecting bridge roof. The related glazing, roofing and carpentry contracts totaled about $1.03 million. Supported keeping in-district tuition at $93 per credit and raising distance-learning charges for nonresident students. Voted against the adopted 2015–2016 plan, which instead preserved existing rates only for students who paid or arranged payment by July 31. Subsequently supported annual tuition schedules, including the 2020–2021 freeze, the pandemic reduction of in-district online tuition from $108 to $95, the 2023 increase to $99 per credit, and the 2026–2027 reduction of in-district online tuition from $112 to $99 while retaining classroom tuition at $99.

April 28, 2015Supports Public Education Quality

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Approved the college’s $6.41 million skilled-trades equipment project, funded initially by a $4.40 million state grant and $2.01 million from the college. Later supported an additional $1.1 million college contribution and required a further $395,000 phase to be fully state funded. Voted to approve the facilities and support-services agreement between the college and Washtenaw Technical Middle College.

March 24, 2015Supports Public Education Quality

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Publicly urged faculty participation in strategic planning and committees. Subsequently urged faculty collaboration in accreditation, clearer organizational charts and staffing reports, attention to vacancies and departures, communication and knowledge transfer, and support for employee retention and institutional effectiveness.

March 23, 2015Supports Public Education Quality

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Hatcher voted to purchase four Lincoln Electric Classmate Cobot CRX collaborative robotic welders, educational software, training, accessories and support for up to $545,714. A Michigan maritime-workforce grant fully funds the purchase and expands the earlier proposal from two welders to four.

September 22, 2026

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Hatcher voted to approve a Croll Construction contract of up to $440,600 to modernize the student center’s main entrance. The June presentation established replacement of the revolving entrance with sliding doors, a vestibule, a canopy and emergency-generator connectivity. Hatcher voted to approve the $726,080 Innovative Energy emergency generator project for the technical and industrial building. It doubles capacity from 100 to 200 kVA to support elevators, additional information technology, walkway lighting and future health-program growth, and adds sound reduction.

July 21, 2026

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Hatcher voted to approve a three-year Infoblox DDI contract for up to $145,000 to replace fragmented network-address management with a centralized supported system. Hatcher voted to purchase a third Anatomage table for up to $106,000 for nursing and health-science instruction, funded through the state-supported partnership with Eastern Michigan University.

May 19, 2026

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Publicly urged the college to explain where students could seek help with disputed tuition and fees, including exceptions for students required to take a higher-priced online course.

March 27, 2025

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Founded the college unions’ annual Unity Lunch, bringing faculty, office-professional and custodial union members together. The December 17, 2024 meeting reports this earlier work; it does not date the founding to that day. Voted to approve the major Student Center restroom renovation contract, covering all 17 restrooms and accessibility improvements.

December 17, 2024

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Publicly urged the college to consider safe discussion spaces for students and employees frightened by the national election results, with help from counselors or faculty and an emphasis on respectful disagreement.

November 12, 2024

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Publicly urged the college to create a mechanism to support employees facing outside attacks on their work or views. Voted to approve a Spence Brothers contract of up to $1,476,500 to renovate shipping and receiving space for the grounds department and repair the maintenance garage. In September 2025, approved a $300,000 change to the same project, raising the construction allowance to $1,776,500.

October 29, 2024

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Publicly urged the college to reduce single-use plastics, consider removing plastic bottles from vending machines and develop a campus campaign using refillable water bottles and filling stations.

April 23, 2024

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Publicly proposed an organized review of the college’s outdated board policies and workplace-conduct protections, including protections for employees beyond the existing policy’s scope.

March 26, 2024

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Voted to approve a state-funded contract of up to $222,600 with Critical Response Group to map the campus and its buildings for emergency responders and maintain the maps for six years. Voted to approve a three-year AssetWorks facilities maintenance management system to replace obsolete software. It would provide mobile work orders, maintenance histories, technician scheduling and inventory planning. She asked whether the system would eliminate staff positions and was told it would not.

January 23, 2024

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Moved and voted to approve revisions to the college’s purchasing policy that increased approval thresholds to account for inflation since 1995 and updated related policy wording. Voted to approve up to $180,000 for a three-year contract with LeapFrog Technologies to install and implement CourseLeaf catalog, curriculum management and scheduling evaluation software. The system would support part-time and winter-start program plans and detect scheduling conflicts. In September 2026, supported a three-year $141,721 renewal of the same system.

September 26, 2023

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Abstained from the vote appointing Alex Milshteyn to the vacant trustee seat. She objected to the speed and publicity of the selection process and said her criticism did not concern either applicant.

January 3, 2023

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Requested an ecological study following a reported spill. The minutes do not identify the substance or attribute responsibility to her.

November 15, 2022

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Supported and voted to approve the college’s settlements with Dana Reeds, Michelle Benin and Personna Hover, and authorize the president to sign the agreements. The public minutes did not disclose their terms.

September 27, 2022

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Supported recurring employee wage schedules and independent-staff pay increases, including 2% in 2015, 1.5% in 2016–2021 and 3% in 2022. Later supported an additional increase of 1% or $500, whichever was greater, for full-time employees and adjunct faculty employed on December 1, 2022. In June 2026, approved a 3% independent-staff increase and adjustments toward market midpoints. Voted for one-time employee bonuses costing up to $1 million, covering regular independent staff and employees represented by the faculty, custodial and office-professional unions.

June 28, 2022

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Voted to discontinue seven culinary and baking-and-pastry programs after declining enrollment and a cost review. The college reported that existing students had completed or transferred from them.

November 16, 2021

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Participated in the Ann Arbor Piano Teachers Guild’s antiracism task force, which developed its mission, surveyed members and arranged educational presentations and listening sessions during 2020–2021. The record uses the newsletter’s June 8, 2021 CMS publication date.

June 8, 2021

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Voted to appoint Creative Dining Services to operate Student Center dining from June 2021 through May 2026, with an optional additional five-year term. Voted for a ten-year agreement to purchase renewable electricity through DTE’s MiGreenPower program, beginning in 2023.

May 25, 2021

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Was unanimously elected secretary of the college Board of Trustees. Was reelected to two-year secretary terms in January 2023 and January 2025.

January 26, 2021

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Won reelection to a six-year term on the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees.

November 3, 2020

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Urged the college to show face-mask use in public campus photographs during the pandemic. Subsequently proposed a commission to study the pandemic year and a dedicated COVID task force or office.

September 22, 2020

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Requested that names of people submitting written public comments be included in the board minutes.

July 28, 2020

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Voted for an elevator installation contract with Kone costing up to $335,000.

June 23, 2020

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Supported and voted for a $114,257 public-safety antenna system to improve signal strength. Supported and voted for a records-management policy requiring retention schedules and prohibiting destruction of records involved in litigation or pending public-records requests.

November 19, 2019

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Voted for a $1,098,375 contract to replace the campus cooling tower. Voted against a five-year technology managed-services contract with Ellucian costing $5,241,826 annually, which also used college reserves for assistance to affected IT employees. The board approved the contract.

June 25, 2019

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Voted for a $746,505 contract to replace chemistry-laboratory fume hoods in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Building.

May 21, 2019

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Worked for about 30 years in the college’s English department, led its Writing Center and chaired the department, served as interim humanities and social-sciences dean and interim vice president of instruction, and helped produce its first assessment report. Earlier worked as an Earlham College head resident and assistant director of the Association of American Schools’ seminar center, led the faculty union and served on St. Andrew’s Church, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Greenhills School and Shelter Association boards. These are earlier roles documented in the February 2019 official biography. The biography also documents her earlier faculty excellence, national teaching, administrator excellence, racial-equity leadership and service awards in 1986, 1989, 1995, 2000 and 2004.

February 26, 2019

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Voted to approve the college’s settlement with Mark Baker and authorize the president to sign the agreement. The public minutes did not disclose its terms.

December 11, 2018

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Supported and voted for contracts to replace the Morris Lawrence Building’s boiler and air-handling unit, costing $455,886 and $548,914 respectively.

September 25, 2018

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Voted for up to $100,000 in grant-funded cybersecurity mobile-hacking-workbench equipment.

July 17, 2018

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Supported and voted for a three-year, $320,000 student recruitment and retention software agreement with TargetX, requiring performance results before the first renewal. Later supported a three-year renewal costing up to $302,100.

April 24, 2018

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Requested a report on the opiate crisis and the college’s response. Later requested an update on the campus Narcan response.

March 27, 2018

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Proposed and voted for a new network firewall and three years of support at a cost of up to $225,000.

December 12, 2017

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Supported and voted for a nursing-laboratory patient simulator, including technician training, at a cost of up to $99,284.92.

March 28, 2017

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Voted for $166,466 in campus security-system upgrades and a later $20,799 change to that contract.

January 24, 2017

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Publicly urged more minority faculty recruitment and recruiting high-school teachers, arguing that progress remained insufficient relative to the student population. Repeatedly urged earlier recruitment, high-school teacher recruitment and mentoring minority students as future faculty candidates in 2023.

December 6, 2016

Source: washtenawvoice.com

Supported and ratified recurring AFSCME Local 1921 custodial and maintenance agreements from 2016 through 2026. The latest agreement covers July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029; its custodian wage schedule rises from $23.51 to $24.45 and $25.18 over the three years.

August 31, 2016

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Voted for a $225,000 project to expand the college’s data-storage capacity using a transfer from its general fund. Supported and ratified recurring collective bargaining agreements with the college’s Office Professional/Technical Association from 2016 through 2026. The latest agreement covers July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029 and raises the lowest incoming wage from $22.40 to $23.00 and $23.60 over its three years, with the agreement’s step provisions.

June 28, 2016

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Supported and voted for a sexual-misconduct policy covering sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking and harassment, with reporting procedures, protection against retaliation and discretionary amnesty for minor violations reported with serious incidents.

December 8, 2015

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Voted to approve a five-year campus catering agreement with Fabulous Foods, with a possible five-year extension at the college’s option.

November 17, 2015

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Voted to appoint Dilip Das to the vacant trustee seat, in the final five-to-one appointment vote.

October 27, 2015

Source: washtenawvoice.com

Voted to permit college investments with maturities of up to 20 years instead of 10 years and to add working-capital management rules. Earlier supported investment-management revisions that capped consulting fees at 0.20% of the average investment portfolio.

September 21, 2015

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Voted for the college’s $295,000 wireless-network and internet-connectivity project and up to $290,000 in related equipment. Voted for a $756,788 contract to repave campus parking lots and the access drive. Subsequently supported major campus paving contracts, including about $2.05 million in 2017 and up to $964,195 for lots two and three in July 2025.

May 26, 2015

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

Voted to revise the college’s equal-opportunity policy, including explicit protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

February 24, 2015

Source: webfiles.wccnet.edu

As a faculty union leader and English department chair, supported adjunct teachers’ access to workspace and participation. A November 17, 2014 profile recounts her involvement in a grievance that secured an adjunct lounge and her mentorship of a student tutor who became an adjunct instructor. These were earlier actions, not actions taken on the publication date.

November 17, 2014

Source: washtenawvoice.com

Won election to the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees for a six-year term.

November 4, 2014

Source: electionarchive.washtenaw.org

Received the student newspaper’s editorial endorsement for college trustee.

November 3, 2014

Source: washtenawvoice.com

Received the joint endorsement of the college’s faculty, office-professional and custodial unions for the college trustee election. The September 22, 2014 newspaper identifies the endorsement meeting as the preceding Monday, September 15.

September 15, 2014

Source: washtenawvoice.com

Co-presented the college’s assessment work with Jennifer Baker and Kris Chatas in August 2004. The 2009 accreditation report documents this earlier completed work; the record uses its July 6, 2009 PDF creation date because the report supplies no exact publication day.

July 6, 2009

Source: wccnet.edu

Used adult-literacy and student-life writing to build a safe classroom and support learners, as described in an award-winning teacher case study. The 1990 book provides no exact publication day; the record uses the archived PDF’s March 8, 2007 creation date.

March 8, 2007

Source: files.eric.ed.gov

Taught writing using computer-supported classroom methods documented in a study of the 1986–1987 academic year. The record date is the February 24, 2007 creation date of the archived PDF because the 1989 publication provides no exact publication day.

February 24, 2007

Source: files.eric.ed.gov

Led the college’s Writing Center, which provided required weekly laboratory support for remedial English students and supported writing across the curriculum. An April 20, 1987 study documents this earlier instructional work.

April 20, 1987

Source: files.eric.ed.gov