{"id":354948,"date":"2021-11-01T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=354948"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:02:59","slug":"nmti-board-eyes-changes-to-school-mission-statement-logo-letterhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmti-board-eyes-changes-to-school-mission-statement-logo-letterhead\/","title":{"rendered":"NMTI board eyes changes to school mission statement, logo, letterhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_354949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354949\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jodina-Attao-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-354949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jodina-Attao-headshot-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodina Attao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees are looking at revising the trade school\u2019s mission statement, the school\u2019s logo, and even its letterhead.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI chief executive officer Jodina Attao took the lead on the subject during last Thursday\u2019s board meeting at NMTI\u2019s Lower Base facility, where she described NMTI\u2019s current mission statement as \u201cquite wordy.\u201d She said the proposed mission statement better explains the school\u2019s \u201cgoals, purpose, and values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attao added that the proposed mission statement was prepared by NMTI\u2019s administrative staff, and that a vision statement is being worked on and being prepared by NMTI\u2019s instructors and other members of NMTI\u2019s administrative staff.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed new mission statement for NMTI states: \u201cThe Northern Marianas Technical Institute invests in students by providing advanced trades, career, and technical education to produce skilled individuals and strengthen the CNMI workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NMTI board member Catherine Attao has already expressed support for the proposal. \u201cI like [that it\u2019s] short and sweet. Any mission and vision statement need to be short and sweet. &#8230;If you want it to be integrated into the culture, [your mission and vision statements] need to be something that anyone can read,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI board chair Mario Valentino agreed with Jodina Attao and Catherine Attao, likening the proposed mission statement to \u201cplanting a flag in the ground.\u201d \u201cYou capture [NMTI\u2019s purpose] with just \u2018technical education\u2019 and for me that says it all. This is a technical education institute, and everything else is what we do, the full mission is there,\u201d said Valentino.<\/p>\n<p>Jodina Attao also presented to the board several possible new logos and letterheads for the school, which involved different versions of logos featuring \u201cNMTI\u201d or \u201cNMTech\u201d and symbols representing the courses available at NMTI. Board members expressed the importance of having one logo for consistency and said that \u201cNMTech\u201d may help alleviate confusion, as the Northern Marianas Trades Institute, which also goes by NMTI, is still operational.<\/p>\n<p>Further discussions on the proposed mission statement and new logos will be part of the board\u2019s next meeting, said Valentino.<\/p>\n<p>Attending Tghursday\u2019s meeting in person were Valentino, Jodina Attao, Catherine Attao, and board member Carmelita Faisao. Attending virtually were board members Ana Mendiola and Irene Holl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees are looking at revising the trade school\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":354950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-354948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}