MISSION COLLEGE'S WEEKLY E-JOURNAL

Letter from the Editors (Mission Statement)

Fall 2000: Volume 1     
Past Issues: Fall 1999 Spring 2000

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Campus News & Events 

Welcome Back to the Fall 2000 Semester !

August 21, 2000   Flex Day (8:30am - 2 pm)
             for evening faculty   (6 - 930 pm)


A warm welcome to our new President
Dr. Adriana D. Barrera, PhD.
(L.A. Times article of 7/2/00)

New online Faculty Handbook
(important information for all faculty)

Calendar of Committee Meetings
(Fall 2000/Spring 2001)

View your Class Roster & Download it
from LACCD.EDU
 

In Sites 

Resources on the Internet 

Staff Development "Hot Links"
8/07/00

Flex Activities - 2000
 
 

The Corner

A showcase for creative endeavors

  • "My Big Toe" by John Orozco - from his great new novel - "Delano"

    Prize winning poetry from our own English Prof. Ralph La Rosa "Sweet Dust" 

  • Student Poetry
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    Notes from the Academy 
  • The Role of Assessment in Learning Culture
    • - by Lorrie Sheppard - University of Colorado at Boulder -kinds of assessment that can be used as a part of instruction to support and enhance learning
  • Internet 101 - beginning internet skills
    • - link suggested by Doug McFerran - Philosophy & Logic - thanks Doug
    Web Site of the Week:   LAMC Library - Sandy Thomsen & Staff
    BOOK LOVERS LIST:  The Twentieth Century: a Peoples History  By Howard Zinn - "turns traditional textbook history on its head, as Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into the narrative."
    [Review a book] [Best Books List]
    Beyond our Walls (News from the community): 
  • Our sister college - Oxnard College also celebrating its 25th anniversary
    • - Oxnard Community College has established a unique set of "core values" which will guide it into the next century.
  • Election 2000 website for reporters launched by UCLA
    • - compendium of information for the news media complied by UCLA to assist news reporters in writing "accurate stories"

    El Timbre is produced by Staff Development. To submit an article or announcement, please send to David Jordan or Pete Marcoux by Friday. El Timbre will be updated every Monday.

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