Senate Bill 2560

    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                      SR 2560

    By Senators Grant and Latvala





    13-1836-00

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution honoring Dr. Carl M. Kuttler, Jr.,

  3         President, St. Petersburg Junior College,

  4         recipient of the National Chief Executive

  5         Officer Award.

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  7         WHEREAS, Carl M. Kuttler, Jr., has for 20 years served

  8  as President of St. Petersburg Junior College, and

  9         WHEREAS, Dr. Kuttler has led the community college into

10  achieving high national rankings, including second in

11  Associate in Arts degrees granted, third in Associate in

12  Nursing degrees granted, second in Associate degrees in Health

13  Professions and Related Sciences granted, sixth in total

14  Associate degrees granted, and a position among the top 10 in

15  minority-student success rates, even though the St. Petersburg

16  Junior College ranks only 46th in enrollment, and

17         WHEREAS, he has initiated or helped to develop several

18  innovative programs, including the nation's first Applied

19  Ethics program as a requirement for graduation, and

20         WHEREAS, this CEO has demonstrated a caring attitude in

21  many ways, such as calling each of the college's 1,000

22  full-time employees on their respective birthdays and sending

23  each of them a card, establishing an employee recognition

24  program, and sending a letter to each student who is among the

25  top 3 percent in academic achievement, and

26         WHEREAS, he has been active in developing, organizing,

27  and supporting state and national 2-year postsecondary

28  education associations, for instance, by co-sponsoring with

29  former President Jimmy Carter a national leadership conference

30  entitled "The Role of Community Colleges in Shaping the

31  Nation," and by co-sponsoring with former President Gerald

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  1  Ford a national leadership conference called "Workforce 2000,"

  2  and

  3         WHEREAS, Dr. Kuttler has also served with distinction

  4  on technical and special committees relating to 2-year

  5  postsecondary education, among them the Florida Risk

  6  Management Consortium of the Florida Council of Presidents, of

  7  which he was chairman in 1997 and 1998, and

  8         WHEREAS, he has exercised visionary leadership, by

  9  successfully lobbying for a tax referendum that produced

10  several million dollars to pay for vital equipment; by

11  parlaying an $11.2 million gift of land and facilities, which

12  was received from Allstate Insurance Company in 1988, into

13  more than $30 million in state and federal grants and

14  contracts to build a thriving Southeastern Public Safety

15  Institute that is unsurpassed in the nation as a community

16  college program center; and by building partnerships with

17  Unisys, Digital, Apple, Allstate, Chrysler, Leningrad (now St.

18  Petersburg) University, and Baoji (China) University, and

19         WHEREAS, Dr. Kuttler has published numerous

20  professional articles and books and has received many awards,

21  which include being named "Father of the Community College

22  System" in post-war Russia and receiving a mahogany rocking

23  chair from his college family for his outstanding support of

24  faculty initiatives, NOW, THEREFORE,

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26  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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28         That the Florida Senate commends Dr. Carl M. Kuttler,

29  Jr., for the superlative leadership he has shown during 20

30  years as President of the St. Petersburg Junior College, and

31  especially wishes to recognize the honor Dr. Kuttler has

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  1  brought to his educational institution, his city, and this

  2  state, as the 1998 recipient of the Regional Chief Executive

  3  Officer Award bestowed by the Association of Community College

  4  Trustees.

  5         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

  6  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the St.

  7  Petersburg Junior College and to President Carl M. Kuttler,

  8  Jr., as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida

  9  Senate.

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