During meetings on campuses and following, President Ojakian sought community college representation on six "design and implementation teams" in the following areas: Fiscal Affairs, Financial Aid Processing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Institutional Research, and Facilities.

Team meetings have begun and minutes are available at http://www.ct.edu/studentsfirst.

In addition to the team meetings, the 4Cs, AFT, AFSCME and our counterparts that represent faculty and staff at the CSUs, CSU-AAUP and SUOAF-AFSCME, have arranged for several meetings of the union representatives on the committees to share information.

Reports from union members have ranged from skepticism to confidence about whether their input into the process will make an impact on the outcome, depending on the team.