Summary of Staff Development Events and Activities (2001-2002)
Summary of Staff Development Events and Activities (2001-2002)
update Staff Development 9/26/01
1. Drop in Computer skills lab - Pat Flood will make the
Computer Applications lab available on Thursdays from ? to ?,
and staff and faculty can drop in and touch up their skills
on Excel and Word. We will also try to set up some specific
workshops, and Pat will teach those.
2. Nutrition - Sandy Lampert has set up a lecture on "
Food on the Run" - How to eat more nutritously while on a
tight
schedule. this is for October or November
3. Doug McFerran will do a "Food for Thought" forum
on " Understanding What is Happening in the Mideast"
on next Tuesday,
October 2, 2001, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, links and materials for his
presentation are located at
http://internetlogic.org/mideast, and is posted also at lamission.org
4. Sandi Lampert has organized Alzheimer's Lectures "Unraveling the Mystery" - 9/28/01 and 10/12/01
5. Sat down with Maury Pearl and discussed updating the Evaluation
Form for Staff Development Activities so that it ties
in with the 3 year plan goals, objectives, activities, and will
help us see if we are accomplishing our goals. Also Maury
gave us a brochure on the "Elisten" software and we
will see if we can make the Flex Activities and Evaluation Reports
a
web-based reporting system to enhance our records keeping and
make reporting flex by faculty more convenient and time
saving.
6. Sat down with John Klitzner, and he agreed to work up
a Health Wellness Survey which we will send to faculty, staff,
administration on campus to determine the needs for Physical
Fitness activities which may include walking, aerobics.
workout out at the Mission College facility during noon hours,
yoga and tai chi, amongs other things. John said that
Cindy Cooper would also like to work on this project with him.
7. In Process of talking with our two nurses to see if we
can plan a Mission College Wellness Week on Campus in November.
Also am checking with Alex Yguado and curriculum committee to
see if we can develop curriculum, one unit class, and a
webpage " Mission Wellness" in which there are online
health links and activites, along with in person short term class,
so faculty and staff can get credit for taking this class.
8. Am in process of talking with David Green our EAP director
about getting the 14 hours of free seminars delivered by
United Behavaral Health, on topics such as reducing stress,
and improving communications.
9. talked with Jose Luis, and in November will have the people
from Mt. Sac come over and train us on their customer
service program,
Hook into it! It's a remarkable way to boost morale and improve
results. It shows how changing your attitude lets you
enjoy your work and your life. Fish! generates an amazing amount
of inspiration, energy, and encouragement. It's not just
about motivation but about
LIFE. How we should live our daily life and how we interact
with family members, friends, and people we meet on the
street. So "Catch the Wave!" Imagine a workplace where
everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude
with them each day. An environment in which people are truly
connected to their work, to their colleagues and to their
customers.
Impossible? Not at all. FISH! is a tool to help you lead
people toward creating that environment. Join us for an
exploration of what we call the FISH! Philosophy: Play, Make
Their Day, Be There, and Choose Your Attitude. John Cordova
from Mt. Sac will help train us.
10. meetings - Staff Development is considering having two
meetings per month to work on the expansive 3 year plan. the
primary meeting on the 3rd Weds of each month, and the secondary
on the 1st Wednesday of the month.
11. Eloise Cantrell has assisted Staff Development by putting
the budget on an excel worksheet with object codes, and so
now we will have a day to day reflection of expenses as they
occur, and balances in each account. Thanks. Eloise.
12. Also Eloise as the Resource person is meeting with David
Jordan once a week to work on focusing on the important
goals and objectives of the 3 year plan, and assisting with
accomplishing these.
13. Diversity - October is Disabilities month, and the Diversity
Committee will coordinate with Rick Scuderi to plan
various activities for the month.
14. Diversity will start showing international films in the
student foyer. and John Orozco will assist in getting the
films together.
14. our next edition of El Rincon - Mission College Neighborhood
will highlight a profile on our new faculty member
Roxanne Dalrymple from Jamaica.
15. Jayne Thomas is working with Gwen Walker on the next
Food for Thought Forum on the Psychological Impact of the recent
NYC/DC events and how you can handle discussions about this
subject in the classroom.
16. We had our first Inventive Teacher Academy with Bill
Farmer and myself convening our new faculty. 13 new faculty
attended last Friday. meetings will be from 1:30 -3:30 every
Friday for the next 13 weeks. We are reading a book
together, "Lives on the Boundary" The Struggles and
Achievements of America's Underprepared by Mike Rose a teacher
now at
UCLA who grew up in South Central L.A. and struggled with his
education. We are covering case studies and each
participant will make a case presentation of a classroom situation
and the group will discuss the problems and attempt to
resolve them. Also each participant will present a Classroom
Assessment Technique and how it worked in their class (Pat
Cross/Thomas Angelo) materials are being developed at lamission.org/academy
and will be passed on to other faculty.
17. Teleconference - Terry Carter is going to put in a work
order for having the teleconference equipment installed in a
permanent, available space, so that it can be more conveniently
available. Terry says that we can use the
teleconferencing more and so we will sit down and plan how we
can more effectively use teleconferencing for Staff
Development. Teleconferncing will be used by CVC in October
and Doug Mcferran is coordinating those activities.
CVC has agreed to pay for Mission College to have a three-part
live-feed satellite series on online teaching available
(it's a $1000 deal), and Doug McFerran has agreed to host this
for our area. Please go this site for the details on the
series: http://www.pbs.org/als/programs/itsk0100.htm
The dates are all Thursdays: October 18, November 29, February
28.
The transmission will be from 11:30 to 1.
MEMORANDUM
TO: DISTRICT STAFF DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
FROM: Mary Ellen Eckhert
SUBJECT: Summary of Meeting of September 21
DATE:
PRESENT: Dwayne Coleman (District Office), Mary Ellen Eckhert
(East), Patty Schmolze (City), June Smith (Harbor), Donna
Mae Villanueva (Pierce)
GUEST: Dr. Robert Alworth, CIO of Information Technology at the DO
The meeting convened at LACC at 1 pm.
Initial Staff Development Budget Allocations for 2001-02
On September 5, the Board authorized distribution of Program
435 funds to the colleges and District Office. The initial
allocation is 75% of the funds available to your campus for
2001-02. The final 25% will be distributed between January
and February 2002.
The District Modernization Project
Rob Alworth informed the committee that Chancellor Drummond
has set aside money to provide training in the new systems
software that will replace the 70's vintage model now in use.
District Tech Support is currently developing workshops to
train employees to use the SAP software package, which will
be phased in over the next three years
Finance/Purchasing is the first area to make the transition
to SAP. Training for Phase 1 will be made available to the
campuses in early 2002 with the expectation that all local offices
within the District will be fully operational by July
2002. Phases 2 and 3 will involve Personnel/Payroll and Student
Systems respectively.
Staff Development officers are being asked to assist in bringing
training to their location by including these workshops
in their Spring calendars and encouraging people to train. The
DO has prepared an informational brochure called "Changing
the Way We Work" to help spread the word.
4C/SD September 14, 2001: Regional Meeting
Donna May and Patty reported on the regional meeting at Mt.
San Antonio College. For anyone who attended the new staff
developers' training last June, Bea Griffiths' presentation
on preparing the 2001 expenditures report due on November 15
was mostly review - something we can all use! Ditto for Barbara
Wright's afternoon session on the web-based Staff
Development Database Application, although this time around
the internet connection worked!.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND BUILD YOUR TEAM!
The 4C/SD Annual Conference will be held in Lake Arrowhead April
7-9, 2002.
Emergency Training
Dwayne discussed the L.A. County Fire Department's Community
Emergency Response Training (CERT). The District has
scheduled seven weeks of 2 ½ hour sessions to be held
on Thursday mornings at the DO. There is still space for 15-20
employees interested in joining --the events of September 11
interrupted the series, which is now scheduled to resume the
week of October 1. Latecomers will be given an opportunity to
make up the first session so that they can be eligible to
receive certification.
CPR (by John Radke and personal safety training by David
Martin are also available. Call Dwayne at 321-891-2383 for more
information.
Leadership
Now that the ALI program has morphed into the Company of Expert's
Leadership Development Institute, some of us are being
asked to address leadership as a staff development project for
our campuses. At East, for example, our president has
requested leadership training for his administrative council.
Research suggests that this is a daunting task because of
the wide diversity of experience and prior training among our
managers and leaders. The results of our leadership survey
last spring suggest that the process should begin with having
administrators write individual plans. Please share any
leadership development ideas and/or projects underway or in
the planning stages at your college, including resources and
the role(s) played by your staff development committee.
Flex Issue
Patty shared copies of the new Flex guidelines developed
at City for the 15-week calendar. The consensus is that each
campus is handling the reporting of flex hours somewhat differently
at this point as we accommodate changes brought on by
adoption of compressed calendars at all the colleges except
East. We all appreciate the time Roberta and others spent
debating the implications of the compressed calendar, which
resulted in clarification from Lucian Carter about using
illness/personal leave days for missed attendance at mandatory
flex activities.
New Faculty Development Seminar at LACC
Patty reported on the New Faculty Development Seminar that
began at City this
Fall. Patty, Roberta and Amy Sweetman have put together a series
of monthly workshops for new faculty to earn 1 unit of
Independent Study credit through their individual departments
for their participation. The entire program and handouts
can be accessed at the LACC website by clicking on Staff Development.
Report on the Districtwide ISW/PSW Project
Roberta, Adrienne, Mary Ellen and Donna May met from 11-1
to work on the ISW/PSW (Instructional Skills
Workshop/Presentation Skills Workshop) project.
ISW: We discussed stipends for facilitators and participants.
Roberta said she would facilitate workshops for $1500 per
workshop, which comes out to hourly-rate pay for 24 hours of
work. Company of Experts would provide a lead facilitator
for the first ISW on each campus; facilitators already trained
in the District would be given a stipend of $500 to
co-facilitate. These costs along with other expenses would be
paid out of the chancellor's account. Individual colleges
would cover the costs for supplies and grants of $250 to participants
from their campus.
The tentative agenda and facilitation plan for Spring 2002 ISW's is as follows:
January 7-10 - Pierce College (Bruce/Roberta)
January 14-17 - Mission College (Bruce/David)
January 28-31 Harbor Glynis/Mary Ellen and/or Adrienne)
(Lloyd has also scheduled an ISW at West for January 7-10 with Glynis to be paid for out of their TitleV grant.)
Donna May reported a strong response to a letter sent out
to all Pierce faculty announcing the first ISW scheduled for
January 7-10 on the Pierce campus. Six faculty have already
signed up and three are on the waiting list. .
PSW:
January 22-25 at LACC Glynis/Roberta
Participation will be open to administrators from around
the District. Priority will be given to the first 5-6
administrators who sign up from different campuses; any others
will be wait-listed. Mary Ellen agreed to send a letter
out to all college presidents announcing this workshop urging
them to send a representative from their college.
Covey "What Matters Most" Facilitator Training
Workshop
In addition to the ISW and PSW workshops, there will be a workshop
to train new facilitators for "What Matters Most" at
LACC January 28-31. Contact Roberta at robertaholt@earthlink.net/
or LACC Staff Development Office at 323 953-4000, Ext.
2378 or 2379 for more information.
Doug McFerran 10/01/01 report on recent Summit Conference
Date: 2001, Oct 01
From: <Anonymous>
From: Doug Mcferran
Date: 10/01/01
Report on recent Summit Conference
__________________________________
Since I ended up being the sole rep from our District this
last week, I'll try to give a quick summary of what we did and
where we seem to be going. I'm CC'ing Nancy in case she needs
to correct anything I say here, and I'm sending blind CC's
to a number of other folks with whom I have been working on
various aspects of our online ventures.
First off, the Foundation is growing. Only three community
colleges in the state are not part of the consortium, and it
has become national with the inclusion of systems and institutions
throughout the country. It has also linked up with the
K-12 system in California. The number of vendors participating
has also grown, and the deals range beyond just computers
and software (there are now even two vendors for any culinary
arts program). For more on this, be sure to see the website
http://www.collegebuys.org There is also a newsletter that comes
out on line, and it is worth subscribing to in order to
get the word out to faculty and students about what is available
to them.
We also have vendors playing a more active role in providing
services to the Foundation, with representatives from Sun
and Centricity sitting in with us all the way through. This
vendor involvement with the consequent issue of a conflict of
interest has also made it important to see the Task Force as
having a role quite apart from actually evaluating the
products and services under consideration. Just what that role
should be was part of the discussion we shared with
representatives from the three technology-linked advisory committees
(TTAC, DETAC and LLRP) in this first of a kind joint
summit.
Some of the material from this summit will be online at the
Task Force website (http://www.ndtf.org ), and I will not try
to go into everything. Especially helpful was having folks from
the Chancellor's Office very actively engaged (Lebaron
Woodyard kicked things off on Wednesday), and I was to learn
such interesting things as the fact that 95% of the colleges
now have a formal Distance Education Coordinator. (Mission as
yet does not, and I am beginning to get the dismal
impression that we might well be the only college in the state
that has not yet finalized a technology plan. But, honest,
we will catch up.) This is a position that will probably take
on even greater importance if it so happens that DE courses
no longer are treated as independent study when we talk about
apportionment.
We had our pep talks and our training sessions as well. Charles
Ratliff, who is working on the new Master Plan ("from K
to gray") was our keynote speaker Wednesday and IBM's Jim
Spohrer presented on Thursday. Both were highly provocative,
with Charles setting the goal that by 2020 we will have erased
the present differences in student performance that might
be linked to gender or ethnicity or socioeconomic status and
Jim posing some mind-boggling jumps in the technology we may
expect to have available. Thursday afternoon we learned more
about how to use Centrinity's First Class software for our
collaborative work (we'll all get accounts and passwords). On
Friday Daniel J. Miller, CEO of Advantiv, explained more
about decision-making software (his presentation is now on the
NDTF website) while Patrick Tyrell-Smith walked us through
the Palomar Project that led to a model contract for an ERP.
I may as well throw in some general impressions of my own.
One significant issue that came up, with the deals available
from Microsoft being a leading example, was whether the Foundation's
work in bringing vendors on board could result in a
de facto acceptance of certain products or services as standards.
This could be good news or bad news. If it leads to
lower costs, as it has with Microsoft, it's a definite plus.
We did toss around the possibility that the Foundation might
set up a searchable database so that we are not all simultaneously
reinventing the wheel, and I would certainly like to
see this done also with textbooks as a possible way of bringing
down their cost.
Another issue is just what might be the impact of the explosive
e-learning industry in the business world. Clearly those
of us doing things online can learn from these folks, but there
is the question in my mind whether their very success in
training will redefine what will be expected from us. Saying
we provide knowledge rather than just information or that we
educate and not just train may not be enough, and the very emphasis
on accountability that we are seeing demanded by
reform-minded legislators should be a warning that these mantras
about knowledge and education may not save us.
eCollege.com Online Students
Re: Doug McFerran 10/01/01 report on recent Summit Conference
Date: 2001, Oct 04
From: Karen Borgie <kborgie@earthlink.net>
Just wanted to add my total agreement with Doug's point about
the Distance Education position. We need one at LAMC to
provide direction and a future plan. What are we attempting
to offer--just a few classes here and there or a program that
students can complete online toward a goal (degree? certificate?
etc.)? We need to look at this closely.
I have been working with the eCollege classes since they
began and thought you might be interested in the numbers this
semester--We have 8 classes at the present offered through this
system. We have 94 students who are fully paid and
participating. We have an additional 42 students who are enrolled
but have not yet paid their $30 fee so may be blocked
from their classes until they pay. The program has grown tremendously
over the past 3 years and the teachers who use the
system appear to be very happy with the services provided. My
personal experience is that students are happy as well
especially with the tech support and other technical features
provided by eCollege.com.
technology update from Doug McFerran 10/15/01
Date: 2001, Oct 16
From: <Anonymous>
CVC had their third annual statewide conference starting
yesterday and running through tomorrow. I just rushed back along
the 605 from Huntington Beach because I have a class tonight,
or I'd still be in meetings (and I'll miss tomorrow because
of class also).
One thing about my last couple of conferences is that I've
been spending a lot of quality time with folks from the State
Chancellor's office. A couple of weeks ago I had told Cris Mora
that we really did not have a DE Coordinator as yet, and
today she had her printout that shows Dale Newman still is the
individual of record. That makes Dale a legacy official
(like legacy computer systems), and Mission is past due on its
annual report (Dr. Barrera is checking to see what
happened with the requested form).
The DE Coordinator's role is becoming increasingly well defined.
One of the workshops this morning (Carlos Martinez from
Pierce was one of the panelists) was just about this, and already
Valley does have a person doing this full time. We
still lack any overall coordination, and I hope in the next
several weeks we can get moving again on the technology plan
and some decisions about how to move forward.
As you know, I have a tendency to volunteer Mission for things,
especially if they're free, and I am going to talk up
getting involved in an online training course for adjunct instructors
that started with a grant at Riverside and now is
expanding to take in more campuses.
This requires Dr. Barrera's OK, but it may be appropriate
to have either Professional Development or the Senate discuss
it first (I'll send info to David Jordan). The developers would
then help us set up something that is specific to
Mission. For more about the project, go to http://www.4faculty.org
Also, I did chat up some of the vendors, several of whom
would be most eager to come out and present workshops for us.
One was Prometheus, which competes with both WebCT and Blackboard
but has some definite advantages in being an
open-source environment.
In addition, Plagiarism.org has been renamed TurnItIn.com,
and Larry Toy from the Foundation assures me that he is
working to get a deep discount statewide (presently there is
a special deal just with CVC Region 4). I did talk from
folks from there, and again I think it would be a good workshop.
At the advisory board meeting for CVC Region 2, which covers
the LA metropolitan area, we did get some recognition for
the MVP project by which we've beeen trying to facilitate greater
cooperation among the three valley campuses. In
connection with that, we've now firmed up that Valley will present
the second PBS satellite broadcast in November and
Pierce will try to do the same thing in February. (Mission is
the licensee.)
A second MVP conference will most likely be at Valley.
A last personal comment. The first time I represented Mission
at something about technology was for the League for
Innovation in Miami several years back, and what amazes me is
how far everyone has come in this DE business in just a few
short years. Back then the tendency was for workshops to be
about what people planned to do. Now they're about what
people have been doing. I'm almost sorry that I'm a couple of
years past retirement age, since I would love to be
involved in what's going to be happening in the next five or
ten years. But maybe you will see why I tend be a bit
impatient these days, and if I keep poking and prodding folks
to do things a bit more rapidly you will forgive me more
readily.
College Council Update on 11/14/01
Date: 2001, Nov 14
From: <Anonymous>
College Council Update 11/14/01
1. Ms word Doc will have a workshop on word formatting tips
info can be located at http://lamission.org/mswordrx
The workshop is 11/27/01 - Tuesday, 3 pm Room 2021 Instructional
Bldg.
2. David Green has scheduled two workshops. the first was
on Campus Safety and Security with our own Campus Sheriff Stan
Deese, and was well received, approx. 80 people attended on
11/08/15. One of the suggestions at this meeting by Maria
Fenyes was to have the Campus Police stationed in the Faculty
Offices Mon-Thursday from 7-10 pm to ensure more security
in the faculty area, and this suggestion was implemented immediately
by Stan Deese's office. thanks Stan.
a second workshop on Preventing Sexual Harassment is scheduled
this Thursday, 11/15/01, in Campus Center 1, at 12:30
lunch and flex is provided.
3. The Customer Service task force of the Staff Development
Committee chaired by Margie Long, Debbie Wong, and Richard
Rains came up with their written report as follows:
What are the central elements you want L.A. Mission College to be judged by?
or What do students most notice about a college; what impresses them either positively or negatively?
Here are some of the qualities this task force came up with?
Friendliness - both faculty and staff - are thy eager to
give directions and help whenever needed? This is an area that
can be addressed by training.
Waiting in lines -
1. Bookstore lines might be reduced by providing two extra cashiers
for two weeks at the beginning of the semester
2. Admission lines might be more difficult to to reduce since
any extra personnel must be qualified.
3. Cafeteria sometimes there is a long wait for food. What is
the bottleneck, ordering or preparation?
Clean Environment - This is one of Mission College's strong
points; new buidlings and clean grounds are a hallmark of the
College - however,
Rest rooms - some student rest rooms have broken towel dispensers,
faucets that don't work, damaged mirrors. Remedying
this problem would cost money. It was suggested that perhaps
a sign could be posted listing the phone number to call for
help when faucets are stuck, open, etc.
Campus Sign Boards - some are old, faded, and covered with tape, and need cleaning.
Information - Volunteer students could be posted at various
locations around campus during the first two weeks of the
semester to direct new students and answer frequently aksed
questions.
Information booth could operate a bit later than 7 pm
Need more student awareness of information booth
an electronic scrolling marquee in the cafeteria would be an ideal way to disseminate information about events
Some kind of big announcement board is needed somewhere on campus
Computer Data terminals at strategic locations could disseminate info on registration, class availability, etc.
Bookstore - variety of goods and services offered makes a
big impression on students. In this regard our bookstore does
not compare well with City, Valley, or Pierce, although limitation
of space is a serious factor.
Availability by Phone - Faculty and Staff. Sometimes it is
hard to find a "live person by phone, even if the person
is
supposedly at their desk all day.
Parking - This is something that makes an immediate impression
on students and visitors. The parking situation at Mission
will radically change with new construction. We should be sure
there is a drop off zone in the new plans. Currently
student workers are parking in full time staff parking and that
should be re-visited and discussed.
implementation of the above
1. Kudo Appreciation awards and a cookie will be given to
all of the custodiian facilities staff who take care of our
campus.
2. The cafeteria lines can be improved by having a special
order line, separate from the regular food line. Sandi Lampert
will implement these changes with Culinary Arts. Also two signs
will be made, one that our cafeteria facility is a
student training facility, and please be patient, and also a
general be courteous sign. Mike Climo is in charge of the
signs.
3. Staff Development will contact various departments about
having an "Open House" and "Meet your Campus".
This will
allow everyone on campus to get to know each department, etc.
and what they do. food will be provided. Victoria Hansen
and Margie Long are in charge of this activity.
4. Debby Wong has circulated "It's your birthday"
flyer, and hopefully a number of staff and faculty will send the
flyer
back with their day and month, but not year of birth, and then
Staff Development will acknowledge birthdays on campus -
this makes it a friendlier place.
5. David Jordan and Jose Luis Ramirez will work together
on getting a new customer service training program, called the
"Fish" program from Mt. Sac in December, or the new
year.
6. Maggie La Bash is talking with Stan Deese about setting
up a "Campus Watch" for Mission College, and also discuss
training for safety and security on campus.
7. David Jordan and Juan Chacon will start to have mini computer/email
workshops on Tues/Thursday, during the lunch hours
in LRC basement. the website for this activity is http://lamission.org/computerstuff/
8. The Diversity Committee is presenting - Central and South America awareness month for November and December.
9. there is a new program, called "Altas Voces"
or powerful or loud voices, and Roxanne Dalyrmple has scheduled
two poets
to speak on campus, the first poet, was Armenian Poet Shahe
Mankerian, and he had a warm welcome at the library on
10/25/01, and a second poet, Wanda Coleman, will read her oetry
on 11/26/01, at 7 pm in the Library, She is a member of
the American Academy of Poets author of Bathwater Wine , winner
of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. A former
medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist and scriptwriter.
information about this can be found at
http://lamission.org/altas-voces
College Council Update 1/17/02
Date: 2002, Jan 18
From: DJordan
1. on 1/25/02 Friday, we will have meeting of online instructors
in CC4 at 11 am to discuss online issues, then at noon,
lunch, and from 1-4 pm, in LRC 205, Scott Corbett, Web project
director of http://onxardcc.org will present simple
webpages and HN workshop.
2. On 1/31/02, in CC 4 from 11-1 pm Anafe Robinson will make
a power point presentation on Financial Aid, and the
powerpoint presentation will be placed on the internet, and
faculty who cannot attend the presentation, can still get
flex credit by reviewing the power point presentation and answering
some questions on financial aid.
3. in February, Diversity Committee will celebrate Black
History Month, and James Henry who teaches African American
Studies will do a Food for Thought Forum for faculty and staff.
4. On February 12th, Roxann Dalrymple with her Speaker Series
has invited Michael Datcher and his wife Jenoyne Adams to
speak at Mission College - They are African-American writers
who give voice to the African-American experience.
5. Bill Farmer and David Jordan have discussed and decided
to have the Second New Teacher Academy since we will have 7
new faculty on board in Spring 2002. The meetings will meet
7 or 8 times during the semester and Abdo Malki, will assist
as our recent graduate of the 1st New Teacher Academy. Thanks
Abdo.
6. Staff Development will start an Open House for faculty
and staff to get to know the various departments and
activities. Counseling will be our first open house, and we
hope to do that in February, and will coordinate with Gwen
Walker.
7. We are going to work again with Pat Flood, and develop
a MS word and MS products certification classes for classified
in the Spring 2002 semester.
8. Sandi Lampert is working on a Health Program for faculty
and classified for Spring 2002, and more information will be
forthcoming on this.
Staff Dev. Report to Academic Senate 2/07/02
Date: 2002, Feb 07
From: <Anonymous>
Report to Senate on Staff Development
1. On 1/25/02 we had a webpage workshop, wih Prof. Scott
Corbett from Onxard web project,
http://www.oxnardcc.org/training.html, it was well attended
by faculty, and a number of faculty are now working on
getting their syllabus and class materials up on webpages and
also using threaded discussions and chat room for their
classrooms. you can get a free webpage account from our collaboration
with Oxnard by going to http://lamission.org, and
filling out the information. we will probably have a follow
up workshop to this one sometime in Spring 2002 semester
2. on 1/31/02 we had a mini workshop on financial aid given
by Anafe Robinson, and we will try to get some more
information out to everyone by email and on webpage.
3. we are going to have our 2nd Teaching Academy for our
new full time faculty, and we are also going to open it to
new/old adjunct faculty, so if you have any faculty who you
want to participate, let them know we will be starting in CC
4, on 2/22 from 10 am to noon. thanks to Abdo Malki, of Math
and Carolyn Daly, of English for carrying the torch as they
are going to work with us in this continuing training of new
faculty. materials on this effort can be located at
http://lamission.org/academy
4. Diversity report - Black History Month this month
5. Fullbright Scholars- we are going to try to invite some
of these to give some speaches here on various topics. also
would like to organize a summer institute where faculty can
travel and teach abroad.
6. Sandi Lampert will be organizing some health acitivitie
for the Spring semester. tai che, etc. we will give you more
info on that up the line.
7. we need some more faculty to participate in our committee.
we are going to need some faculty to help work on the
inauguration of the COLA building, and the end of the year Texas
BBQ
8. On February 12th, Roxann Dalrymple with her Speaker Series
has invited Michael Datcher and his wife Jenoyne Adams to
speak at Mission College - They are African-American writers
who give voice to the African-American experience.
9. Staff Development will start an Open House for faculty
and staff to get to know the various departments and
activities. Counseling will be our first open house, and we
hope to do that in February, and will coordinate with Gwen
Walker.
10. We are going to work again with Pat Flood, and develop
a MS word and MS products certification classes for classified
in the Spring 2002 semester.
11. Mission College is hosting the 4th Annual Tech expo,
Doug McFerran is in charge, and Staff Dev. is working to help
promote that acitivity. we will have close to 400 participants
from around the district, and information on that
acitivity can be found at http://www.expo-2002.org the date
is May3rd, 2002, Friday, 9 - 4 pm, great exhbits, and
presentations. place it on your calendar. by the way Doug has
a great website called Mission Valley Pierce online, it is
a collaboration amongst the 3 campuses, and it is located at
http://www.onlinemvp.org/
12. we are working on 4 different collaborative projects with Oxnard, see page at http://lamission.org/oxnard/
1. the chinese connection - that is distant ed with Chinese
schools
with Scott Corbett, and Chuck Dirks working on this project.
12. the learning paradigm which is developing great new pedagogical
tools for use of assessment in the classroom, and
assessing learning styles, etc.
13. continuing training workshops, ala 1/25/02
14. developing the teaching academy materials both at Mission and Oxnard>
14. We are going to order some web-based survey software.
Maury Pearl will review several packages, and then recommend
one for Staff Dev to purchase, and then we can use it to assess
how we are doing with our Staff Development activities.
maybe it could also be extended for use or individual faculty
for doing assessments in their classrooms, or to develop
new curriculum.
15. we are going to put up on the internet a form on Blooms
Toxonomy, which has verbs to use with your assignments, and
will be used in describing objectives in the course outlines
updates which will be required by curriculum committee, and
maybe we can do some workshops on how to put these to use in
your classroom and your syllabus.
Report to College Council on 2/21/02
Date: 2002, Feb 21
From: <Anonymous>
Staff Dev Report to College Council
2/21/02
The Staff Development Committee met on Tuesday, 2/19/02, and the following matters were discussed and voted upon:
1. The Committee voted to approve the Teaching Academy as
a pilot project of the Staff Dev Committee. This semester Abdo
Malki, a former graduate of the academy and David Jordan will
hold the sessions on 7 7 7 Thursdays, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm
for new faculty to cover both the "nuts and bolts",
and also review teaching pedagogy. An assessment will be made
following the acadedmy to determine whether Staff Development
will continue with this faculty training.
2. May 3rd is the 4th Anuual District Wide Tech Expo at Mission
College, and Staff Development will lend its support to
Doug Mcferran in assisting to plan this activity. check out
the expo at http://onlinemvp.org
or http://expo-2002.org
3. Margie Long, Pat Flood, Sandi Lampert and David Jordan
will attend the state wide Staff Development Conference in Lake
Arrowhead in early April, and will report back to the committee.
This conference is always the best Staff Development
Conference of the year, and many new ideas, like our "kudos
committee" originated from our attendance at this conference.
4. The Committee voted to look into getting a computer for
the Staff Development student worker. It does not have to be a
new computer, but it should be connected to the internet.
5. The Committee Dicussed the Health Program proposed by
Sandi Lampert, and Sandi will look into what other campuses are
doing to pay the personal training expert, and she will report
back to the committee.
6. The Committee discussed the "birthday club",
and Debby Wong reported that only 45 people had answered a survey
if they
wanted to receive a birthday card, etc. on their birhtday. The
Committee voted to insitute a "Years of Service"
Celebration, which will take place at the end of each May, and
then years of service, pins, certificates, awards, will be
given to both full time and adjunct faculty, and also to classified,
and this event will be coordinated with the End of
the Year Awards Barbeque luncheon for all staff, classified
and faculty, and will be coordinated with the President's
Office.
7. The Committee voted to approve of participating in the
4faculty.org. Doug Mcferran informed the Comittee that the
Riverside CC grant had waived the $3500 fees for Mission College,
and discussions will be held with the President, to
seek her approval, and a letter from her to be able to participate
in this activity.
8. The Committee discussed the Instructional Skills Workshops,
and decided it was very difficult to faculty to attend
these workshops because of the time committment. 8/23 Friday,
6-9 pm, 8/24 Saturday, all day, then 8/30, 6-9 pm, and 8/31
all day. It was decided that Mission College would not participate
in these teacher training seminars funded by the
District.
9. Pat Flood will continue with her MS - word training. the nex workshop will be Friday, March 8th.
10. In March, Fay Epps will do a "Food for Thought"
forum for faculty, entitled "Food on the Run", and how
you can eat
well, even if "on the run" - the date and time of
that forum will be announced soon.
11. The Diversity Committee has been very busy, and attached
are minutes of the 12/13 and 2/07 meetings. Diversity
Commitee is busy this month with all of the Black History Events
month. special thanks go to Bonnie Sherman, the BSU
Advisor, Robert Crossley, ASO Advisor, and Roxann Dalrymple,
English Dept. for all of their work in planning the events
for Black History Month.
Report to Academic Senate on 3/07/02
Date: 2002, Mar 07
From: David Jordan
Staff Dev Update for Academic Senate 3/07/02
1. Contest for "Classroom of the Future" - Richard
Rains agreed to put together the parameters and the flyer for
this
contest and we will get it out to all faculty, full time and
adjunct, not sure what the prizes are - have to look at our
budget - possibly trip to Hawaii (joke)
2. "Pedometer Club: - Cooper has made a proposal to
Staff Dev, re "Working Toward an Active Life Style"
- and it was
warmly received. we will be discussing it further, and then
get you the details. it includes wearing a pedometer,
charting your steps to "compete with yourself" to
increase your activity level.
3. The Teaching Academy continues this semester - next semester,
we will have a new form of the Academy, it will be
called "Faculty Forums on Teaching and Learning" -
all faculty will be invited, full time and adjunct. it will meet
7
times for about an hour and 15 minutes or more to share teaching
tips amongst faculty, and of course, will be voluntary
for both new faculty, and current full time and adjunct faculty.
4. We are looking for some classified staff to join us in
the Lake Arrowhead State Staff Development annual conference,
April 7th Sunday through April 9th Tuesday, at the UCLA Conference
Center in Lake Arrowhead. Margie Long, Sandi Lampert,
and David Jordan plan on attending and will bring back information
to the Senate.
5. We have started to plan the End of the year Awards Ceremony.
it will probably be a formal function, instead of the BBQ
format, and we will get back to you with details.
6. We are also planning the Fall 2002 mandatory Flex Day,
which is 8/28/02, Weds from 8:30 am to 3 pm, so place that on
your calendars, and contact Staff Development with any ideas.
7. Abdo Malki suggested we consider a "Plant your own
Plot" project. this will include planting flowers, etc. around
school, on our campus land, but he will check with Plant Facilities,
etc. and get clearance for such a project and report
back to Staff Development.
8. We are considering developing a "Teacher of the Year"
award for Mission College, and will get back to you as to the
details, and if Staff Development in fact develops this award.
9. Pat Flood is having another in her series in her MS Word
Workshops, and it will be on Friday March 14th from 12:30 to
2:30 pm in the LRC 205 classroom, and the materials can be found
on MS word shortcups and tips about formatting if you
cannot make it at http://lamission.edu/staffdev
a new website made by Juan Chacon. by the way, if you are interested
in putting up materials on the web contact Juan
Chacon, and he can soon establish a webpage for you at http://lamission.edu
10. May 3rd is the 4th Annual District Wide Tech Expo here
on our campus, from 9 - 3 pm, and Staff Dev will pay the $25
entrance fee for any full time/adjunct faculty. we will be sending
around a flyer, with a tear off portion at the bottom,
tear it off, and send it in, or send email to missionstaffdev@yahoo.com
Report to College Council on 3/21/02
Date: Mar 21, 09:25
From: David Jordan
1. We are working on submitting a number of Budget Proposals
for Technology Funding under TTIP to the Resource Analysis
Committee
Here are some our ideas
a. two student workers for a help desk - similar to what we
had with
Richard Yamauchi, one will work MWF, and the other TTH so we
have
complete 5 day coverage, and they will make office visits and
train and
help everyone, staff, classified and faculty with training on
computers,
software, etc. no hardware problems that is John Beck's bailiwick
b. Pat Flood and CAOT - she would just help to supervise
it, not do the
training. we would get off campus trainers to come in and to
train
faculty, staff, classified on MS word products, ie word, excel,
when the
individual finsihed the segment, eg, word,then they take a mini
test to
show their competence, and then they get a $250 stipend as a
kind of pat
on the back, and incentive for doing all the work.
Pat would just supervise it
c. faculty webpages. I strongly believe faculty can be trained
to do
their webpages, hey I did it, and it is not rocket science,
so we again have professionals come and train, and then the
faculty get
stipends, $250 if they get a simple webpage, $500 if they put
up more
materials, and $1000 if they launch and entire online class.
this will
promote our high-tech campus, and online classes.
David JordanI will supervise that.
d. E College - we could spend some money, and Karen Borgie
could
supervise this. would leave it up to Karen, and again stipends
for
people who participate in her E college training. again we get
professional trainers here.
e. some sort of faculty training, like http://4faculty.org
where
faculty get stipends for updating their pedagogy.
Doug Mcferran would supervise this.
f. training on ccmail and windows, and organizing files on your computer
g. more money for travel conferences involoving technology
2. On April 18th, Fay Epps will do a "Food for Thought"
forum for faculty, entitled "Food on the Run", and how
you can
eat well, even if "on the run" CC4 12:30
3. On April 4th John Orozco will present "Writing the
Summary Essay" - John has developed a marvelous eight step
procedure to write a summary essay, and will take us through
the steps so we can apply it in our classroom teaching..
4. Diversity Committee continues to do great work. this month
was Middle East Month, and there were 3 speakers, a csun
islam student who discussed being a woman in Islam, our own
Karen Wechsler talked about the Passover tradition, and even
sang a Passover song during her presentation, and a prof. of
Religous Studies who was very informative. also the Culinary
Arts program prepared food of the Middle East during the month.
Next Month is Asia month, and Roxanne Dalrymple is going
to start a "Book of the Month Club" centered around
the Divesity themes, and her first book is a series of essays
on
arranged marriages in India
5. Contest for "Classroom of the Future" - Richard
Rains agreed to put together the parameters and the flyer for
this
contest and we will get it out to all faculty, full time and
adjunct, not sure what the prizes are - have to look at our
budget - possibly trip to Hawaii (joke)
6. "it all starts with a single step" club - Cindy
Cooper has made a proposal to Staff Dev, re "Working Toward
an Active
Life Style" - and it was warmly received. we will be discussing
it further, and then get you the details. it includes
wearing a pedometer, charting your steps to "compete with
yourself" to increase your activity level. Cindy is developing
the program, and then we will be sending out a flyer to all
staff, faculty, and classified. it is a self-paced acitivity.
7. "Mission Green" - Abdo Malki suggested faculty,
and staff, and classified could help plant beautiful plants and
shrubs
around the campus, he consulted Campus Facitilities, and there
seems to be agreement, that faculty, and classified will
do the planting, and maintenance, and Facilities will water
the plants. Abdo checked this also through College
Advancement Committee and there seems to be widespread support.
The Staff Development is learning how to maintain the
environment. mini-lectures on shrubs, etc. will be given.
8. We are considering developing a "Teacher of the Year"
award for Mission College, and will get back to you as to the
details, and if Staff Development in fact develops this award.
We are starting to plan a year ending awards ceremony,
there will be one for Faculty in May, and Classified on 4./28th
or 29th, and then will particpate with the College
Foundation and Presidents Office in a End of the Year Suaree
at the fountain, on June 29th
9. Pat Flood had a wonderful MS word workshop on Friday,
3/15, and her materials are located at
http://lamission.edu/staffdev (the new website which Juan Chacon
has set up for staff development - check out her
tutorials and materials at that website. she has some great
shortcuts for wordprocesssing there.
10. May 3rd is the 4th Annual District Wide Tech Expo here
on our campus, from 9 - 3 pm, and Staff Dev will pay the $25
entrance fee for any full time/adjunct faculty. we will be sending
around a flyer, with a tear off portion at the bottom,
tear it off, and send it in, check out the great schedule at
http://onlinemvp.org which is Doug McFerran's great tech
info website.
11. The Teachers Academy met today, 3/21/02, and made a visit
over to the library, and Donna Ayers, and the Library Staff
made a great presentation on all of the workshops and services
which are provided to faculty and their classes. thanks
Donna.
12. Fall Mandatory Flex day is 8/28/02 Weds. from 8:30 to
3:00 pm, so place that on your calendar, and Stafff Dev will
get out a schedule of the times and events before faculty go
home for the summer.
Report to Academic Senate on 4/04/02
Date: Apr 04, 10:49
From: David Jordan
Report to Academic Senate on 4/04/02
1. We have made a budget proposal on the Technology Resources
Training Money for training on windows, ccmail, and
microsoft office, and will let you know. you would like to have
training manuals, and online materials put together in a
module type approach, and when you complete a module you get
a little "mini success award certificate"
2. We also put in a transfer of Tech Human Resources Money
over to conferences/travel account, and this should help to
fund the portion of your conferences which deal specifically
with technology. we may develop a special "online form"
to
assist you and Staff Development with these funds. We requested
$15,000 be placed into this tech conference account.
3. Marige Long, Sandi Lampert and myself are going to the
State Wide Staff Development conference at the UCLA Conference
Center at Lake Arrowhead, this next Sunday, Munday, and Tuesday,
someone has to go to Lake Arrowhead, and we will report
back all of the new state wide ideas.
4. On April 18th, Fay Epps will do a "Food for Thought"
forum for faculty, entitled "Food on the Run", and how
you can
eat well, even if "on the run" - it will be in the
Culinary Arts Demo Lab in Room 1007.
5. Today, John Orozco gave us all a great presenation on
"Writing the Summary Essay" - John has developed a marvelous
eight step procedure to write a summary essay, and will take
us through the steps so we can apply it in our classroom
teaching. his essay is located at http://lamission.edu under
departements, and English, check it out they are great.
6. Diversity Committee continues to do great things - Month
is Asia month, and Roxanne Dalrymple is going to start a
"Book of the Month Club" centered around the Divesity
themes, and her first book is a series of essays on arranged
marriages in India
7. Pat Flood held a wonderful workshop on MS word shortcuts,
on 3/15, thanks Pat for all the time you put into it. her
materials are on the web at http://lamission.edu/staffdev
8. We will fund your attendance at the tech expo for $25,
so please sign up for it - you cannot come, then please sign up
for the CD, we will have for those who cannot attend.
9. Fall Mandatory Flex day is 8/28/02 Weds. from 8:30 to
3:00 pm, so place that on your calendar, and Stafff Dev will get
out a schedule of the times and events before faculty go home
for the summer.
10. The teaching academy is doing well, and today, Maria
Fenyes talked about paychecks, etc. - we are going to try to get
Maria's excellent materials all up on her own webpage at Mission,
so we can all access these very excellent materials.
Thanks Maria for being such a great AFT chapter chair rep for
all of us. we all appreciate it very much.
11. For those of you who still have not filed your Unit Assessment,
see Maria Fenyes, and she has set up some very nice
templates which will save you an enormous amount of time and
they are located at the top of the webpage at
http://lamission.org
thats it for now.
dj
Report of 4csd Arrowhead Conference April 7-9, 2002
Date: Apr 10, 11:48
From: DJ
Report to Staff Development Committee on Lake Arrowhead, State Staff Development Conference, April 7-9
Here are some "disjointed notes" as an update on
our attendance at the conference. We all had a great time, and
will
discuss the conference, and new ideas at our next meeting, Tuesday,
April 16th, at 12:45 in the AACR
1. we should join http://4faculty.org This is a wonderful
training site for faculty. we need to get a letter from the
president to join this service. many schools are doing this
and find it very helpful. we need to submit a budget
proposal. the first year is free, the second year is $3000,
the third year???, but we need to have a faculty member who
will work on developing some materials to be posted for our
college on this website. we should include a summer stipend,
maybe $1500 for a part time or full time faculty to work on
these materials.
2. We should purchase the book "Designing Web Based Courses" by William Horton, it is an excellent book.
3. If Paul McKenna and ITV are coming to Mission College,
we should meet with him to plan web based instruction, and get
his assistance.
4. There are now 2980 online classes in California, 2187
of which are from Community Colleges. Everybody at the
conference was suggesting to get "online" classes
for your college. The most popular online classes are Intro to
Statistics, Psyche I, Anatomy, MS Office, Math, and Intro to
Business classes.
5. Margie Long is considering putting one of her classes
online, Professional Coomunications. By the way, if you talk to
John Cantley you can get $999 for putting up materials for an
online class, or a hybrid (an "on campus" class which
uses
online materials). Juan Chacon will do the actual webpage, you
just need to submit the materials, and work with Juan.
6. There is training workshop for Facilitators working on
Instructional Skills Workshops http://www.lamission.org/ISW/
The training is at LA City College and Margie may be able to
attend. more information on the dates and times will be
supplied for anyone interested in attending.
7. We should consider using the online materials at http://merlot.org
(multimedia resources for online teaching and learning)
Browse the Collection by Subject Arts, Business, Education,
Humanities, Mathematics, Science and Technology, and Social
Sciences.
8. One of the suggestions made on new faculty orientation,
was to possibly tie it into evaluation, so that maybe the new
contract could have language in it about use of new faculty
orientation in assisting new faculty with the tasks of
teaching, thus assisting them also in obtaining good evaluations.
9. maybe we can have a newsletter every month on new developments
in Staff Development, also maybe we could develop a
"Mission Online" newsletter, highlighting new innovations
by our online educators
10. CVC also has materials for online teaching at http://pdc.cvc.edu
this is an online learning exchange from CVC (Calif. Virtual
College)
CVC will come to our campus and do training for us, so we should
contact them and see what kinds of training we need and
sign them up to do some training for us at Mission.
11. Awards Celebration - Margie and Sandi received a very
complete pack of materials on how to plan a Faculty Awards
Ceremony. we decided to do on this Spring, and schedule it for
May 17th, Friday, at lunch, from noon - 2 pm. a flyer on
the event and the nomination and description of the awards will
be sent out this week, by Thursday, 4/11, and then
nominations collected by April 18th. We will also award service
pins for 5,10,15,20,and 25, along with recognition of
tenure for facutly. Debby Wong has been in discussion with Maury
Pearl to get the list of faculty for the service pins.
It is more difficult to get a list together for adjunct faculty
since sometimes they work a year for us, then not for a
few years. We will include the pins for adjunct faculty in our
next year awards ceremony.
11. we should see if we can get MS xp software installed
on some of the computers, because there is a great program
called MS publisher which is very useful in doing powerpoints.
Margie got a disk and information on how to do powerpoint
presentations, and we should get it over to Juan Chacon, and
maybe do a workshop presentation for other faculty.
12. Margie and Sandi, and DJ also sat down and put together
a rough idea for the Mandatory Flex Day activities and we
will present that next Tuesday, 4/16, our next meeting.
13. we talked to Mt. Sac, and Dick Ryerson, about having
them come out on Flex Day, and do a presentation on the Fish
Program. http://www.thinkhcs.com/fish.htm
14. we saw an excellent and inspirational tape about Dewitt
Jones, National Geographic photographer on "What's right
with
the world", and we are going to order this tape, and show
it on the Flex Day. we will also order the starfish pins and
pass those out on Flex Day too. check out the materials, tape,
etc. at http://starthrower.com
15. these are just some of the ideas. we will update this
list as soon as we can and get it out to all of you. wish you
could have been there. we participated in an "interactive
mystery theater" where a group of L.A. Actors
http://go2clue.com included us in a murder mystery plot, and
it was a "hoot" - we just laughed and laughed so much
until
we "cried" - also the nature and trees were just beautiful.
Report to College Council on 4/18/92
Date: Apr 18, 09:12
From: David Jordan
Report to College Council 4/18/02
1. on Friday, April 26th, 2002, the President's Office, Administration,
and Staff Development will host the "2nd Annual
Classified Recognition Ceremony" - it will take place between
1:30 - 3:30 pm in Campus Center rooms 1 and 2, A flyer was
put in your mailbox for nominations, and please send your nominations
for recognition either to David Jordan, or Shirley
Hollingsworth in the Presidents office.
2. Staff Development is sponsoring the 1t Annual Faculty
and Awards Celebration to be held Thursday, May 23, from 1-3 pm
at the Fountain of Learning. This celebration will recognize
a significant number of colleagues for excellence,
professionalism, innovation, and service to the community. a
flyer and memorandum has been placed in your mailbox. please
submit your nominations prior to April 24th
3. Abdo Malki is heading up a new campaign, called "Mission
in Bloom", which embarks on a campaign to beautify the campus
environment while nurturing the college spirit. This project
seeks to enlist the help of faculty and staff to plant
flowers throughout the campus, on a volunteer basis, and in
coordination with Plant Facilities. It is a self-funded
project. volunteers should commit to two consecutive semesters,
and planting is scheduled to begin the fall semester.
4. Cindy Cooper is heading up a new program, called "Staff
on the Move", a program to encourage increased physical
activity. The 3 week program starts with the conditions, rewards,
and commitment required, and distribution of a walking
pedometer to record your progress. the second week discusses
problems, adjustments, and questions, and the third week,
collection of desk cards, each participant will have a desk
card to be displayed showing they are part of "Staff on the
Move", and then awards will be given in the 3rd week. Cindy
is going to attempt to get this started for classified staff
during summer session A, and for faculty and administration
in the fall semester.
5. The committee is continuing to plan the Mandatory Flex
Day, and Carolyn Daly has offered her assistance in planning
interactive workshops where the presenters treat participants
as "real students" and engage in educational exercises.
an
agenda of events will be distributed to all faculty before they
go home for the summer.
6. Sandi, Margie, and David attended the State Staff Development
Conference in Lake Arrowhead from April 78th through the
9th, and learned many new things which will be incorporated
in the Fall Semester Staff Development planning.
7. Staff Development is considering starting a newsletter
called "Mission Online" which will give monthly highlights
of
our excellent online programs, including new innovations of
technology used in online education.
8. We requested and received $15,000 from TTIP funds to be
placed in travel and conferences. So if you have a conference,
and part of it is dedicated to technology, you can apply for
funding that portion of your conference which is dedicated
to technology.
9. Today, Fay Epps, our Health Instructor, held a forum on
"Food on the Run" - how to eat nutritiously while on
the run,
and it was very well received.
10. John Orozco gave us all a great presentation on "Writing
the Summary Essay" - John has developed a marvelous eight
step procedure to write a summary essay, and will take us through
the steps so we can apply it in our classroom teaching.
his essay is located at http://lamission.edu under departments,
and English, check it out they are great.. He plans on
doing another presentation on the "Dialectical Journal"
hopefully for our opening flex day events.
11. The Diversity Committee continues its great efforts.
last month we had three speakes on the Middle East, a prof of
religious studies, an Islam Student, and one of our International
Students who discussed the Passover season, and sang a
traditional children's Passover song. This month is Asia month,
and we are going to have a speech on Buddhism on April
24th in CC4, and a book club review of "Arranged Marriages
in India" hosted by Roxanne Dalrymple on April 25th.
12. The Teaching Academy continues with good progress. We
want to thank Leslie Milke for her presentation on the College
Governance Structure and work on the various committees, and
also Maria Fenyes, Chapter AFT chair went over "your
paycheck", and retirement benefits which was warmly received,
and today, Juan Chacon will discuss the Title 3 grant, and
how faculty can get their materials up on the college webpage.
.
Report to Academic Senate on 5/02/02
Date: May 02, 10:19
From: <Anonymous>
Staff Development report to Academic Senate on 5/02/02
1. Tomorrow is Tech Expo, and please come and support this
activity, information about the presentations can be found at
http://lamission.org/techexpo
2. On Friday, April 26th, we had there was the 2nd annual
Classified Recognition Ceremony. Thanks to all of the faculty
for their nominations. The President, and Execs were very impressed
with Staff Development's development of the awards
with criteria. there were 11 categories. Ed Pardo put the list
of the awards and the persons who received the awards at
news/events on the main college webpage - http://www.lamission.cc.ca.us/news/classified_recognition_collegenews.html
3. The Faculty Awards date has been changed to May 15th,
Weds, and we will have a nice lunch. We have changed the idea,
and there will not be any awards, instead we will honor the
retirees, Carlos Nava, and Aaron Schrier, along with
certificates for years of service to the various faculty as
follows:
and for the tenured faculty: David Jordan, and John Morales
3. Carolyn Daly is working on developing interactive classes
for our Flex Day, which is 8/29/02, Thursday, will consult
with Maria Fenyes, maybe we could move it to Weds, and so then
everyone could have a 4 day weekend.
4. Abdo Malki is working on Mission in Bloom, and he and
David Jordan, and others interested during the summer will begin
to plant flowers, the main program will start in the Fall.
5. Cindy Walker is still working on developing the Staff
on the Move Program, and a flyer will be sent out, and the
program will be started for the Classified Staff duirng the
summer, and for faculty during the Fall Semester.
6. Doug Mcferran and David Jordan will start a monthly newsletter,
entitled "Mission Online" which will give information
and updates about our online program and classes.
7. Special thanks to Doug McFerran for his excellent work
on the tech expo. We have made CD's and those will be passed
out at the Expo. we will keep some aside for faculty who cannot
attend.
8. Diversity continues with its great efforts. we had a person
talk on Buddhism, thanks to Lilamani de Silva for getting
this speaker, and also thanks for the monthly Diversity Book
Discussion, this month on "Arranged Marriages" by Roxanne
Dalyrmple, also thanks to Faye Epps for her great presentation
on "Food on the Run" how to eat nutriciously while on
a
busy schedule.
9. Today the Teaching Academy visited the President, and
had a chat with her, and then went over to the LRC and worked
on
learning the DEC system and how to download class rosters into
excel, and then how to post grades. we will try to have
this type of training for all faculty next Fall.
Report to College Council on 6/20/02
Date: Jun 20, 12:24
From: Dj
Update for College Council 6/20/02
1. Mandatory Flex Day is scheduled for 8/29/02, Thursday,
8:15 to 3 pm
http://lamission.org/flexday2002/
we will have some interactive teaching classroom sessions, and a group team building activity.
also thought it would be good to put out a newsletter sort
of update from all departments, etc. on the news, and new
items, etc. to be distributed to faculty on that day. this avoids
"much talking" and gives the information.
also Shari suggested some activity with the Sheriffs Dept. and that sounds good.
Also we want to have Recoginition of Years of Service Pins to faculty at our luncheon on Flex Day.
2. Cindy Walker has started the "Staff on the Move"
program and a number of classified and faculty are now participating.
the program includes walking, counting your steps, and using
a pedometer, along with great handouts, competitions,
prizes, etc. thanks Cindy.
3. David Pardess, completed the Spanish I class which was
taught to faculty/classified on Fridays this last semester. it
was very successful. this idea originated from Maria Fenyes.
thanks Maria, and David.
It was great because John Klitsner, the former dirctor of
Upward Bound, at the end of the recent Saturday graduation
ceremony on the loan in front of the Fountain of Learning, spoke
in Spanish to the parents of the graduates, low income,
first generation college bound students. He learned this Spanish
from David Pardess class. excellent work everyone on
this project.
4. Diversity Committe - Vickie Oddion has resigned, and new
election of a Diversity Chair will take place in August.
Meanwhile, the Diversity committee has continued to meet and
plan events for this next year.
5. $15,000 was transferred into travel conferences 437 -
TTIP funds, so if there are conferences which have technology
related matters, attach the agenda, and we can pay that portion
which is directly related to technology issues.
6. looks like Staff Dev, district wide has lost most of its
funding. we will keep you posted of how this will be handled.
we do have some carryover of funds from this last year to allow
us to continue food, and workshops, etc. for a while.
Report to College Council on 7/18/02
Date: Jul 18, 12:18
From: <Anonymous>
Report to College Council on 7/18/02
1. Flex Day is on Thursday 8/29 - I thought it would be nice
if we could put together a kind of news update from all of
the departments, units, etc. eg. counseling, admissions, business
office, administrative services, CSS, Academic Affairs
and the like of all of the new information faculty and staff
need to know. then we can circulate it on flex day, and also
put it in everyones mailbox campus wide. see the flyer at http://www.lamission.org/flexday2002/
if that is acceptable then please have all of the units, send me information, and I will email them too.
2. Cindy Cooper , aka ('walker") has completed the first
delivery of Staff on the Move, and a number of faculty completed
it. There is a poster of the participants in the Faculty Offices,
and you can check it out - I think Jerry Garcia had the
most steps, 174,500. nice work Jerry.
3. The Multimedia is going to have a new secretary, Jumana
is moving to Colorado, and a long time multimedia student, and
now CSUN student Trebor will take her place. he has suggested
doing workshops for faculty and staff - and we could pay
him through TTIP and Staff Dev. so will have to coordinate with
John Cantley to see if that is possible.
4. Workers Rights Center opened this last Saturday, and Channel
2 and 34 news were there, and L.A. Daily News did a nice
article on it at http://lamission.org/workers/opening.htm
5. thought it might be nice to have "Student of the
Month" posted with various students, and possibly also Staff/Faculty
of the month - take a digital picture. I recently got a digital
camera at Costco for $200, and am enthralled with it. you
know how you walk into Office Depot and they have pictures of
the employees, and employee of the month.
thats it for this month.
dj