County Community College
Michael J. Grant Campus
Michael J. Grant Campus
The Chosen Name Policy was approved by the Governance Committee of the College's Board of Trustees. It will be presented to the full Board for approval at the May meeting.
On August 16, 2018, the College's Board of Trustees adopted the Employee Social Media Policy. Based on the policy, our legal department issued the Social Media Content Guidelines and Procedures. Please review these two documents and send to Vice Presidents Beaudin and Adams any concerns and suggestions regarding the implementation of this policy. (Please also copy me on your responses.)
This is especially important if you advise clubs or supervise any other activities that utilize social media.
The deadline for nominations for the SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence have been extended. Please send me the nomination letters electronically by May 6, 2019. The nominees will have to decide whether or not to accept the nominations by May 20, 2019. Those who accept the nominations will have to submit one original and three copies of their dossier to me by 5:00 p.m. on September 9, 2019. Please see the corresponding section of the Chair's Report for the Nomination Form and the description of the Awards.
As you know from my Feburary 13, 2019 email to the Assembly, SUNY came up with the SUNY Online initiative outlined in the SUNY Online White Paper. The SUNY campuses were invited to comment on the initiative and the Faculty Council of Community Colleges considered the issue at its March plenary, adopting the FCCC Resolution in Response to the White Paper. Our own institution gave a written response to SUNY about this initiative. Now the Open SUNY team and FACT2 are asking those of you who teach online classes to complete the LMS Essential Elements online survey by June 1, 2019. (The 'LSM' stands for 'learning management systems'.)
The SUNY General Education Working Group has been working on GenEd revision and published the SUNY Green Paper on General Education Revision in March. The Faculty Council of Community Colleges adopted the FCCC Resolution in Response of the Green Paper at March plenary. Our college, after soliciting feedback from the campuses, gave a response to SUNY as well.
SUNY appointed Professor Talia Lipton from Faculty/Speech/Communication Studies Department at SUNY Rockland as the SUNY Open Educational Resources liaison. She is taking an active role in promoting and training SUNY faculty on OER use.
The OER Review Committee, which was set up to review applications from faculty who would like to get financial incentives for developing OER resources, is planning to release the application form sometime next week. A Blackboard community is being set up by the Committee for the OER initiatives and collaboration.
The Office of Academic Affairs is seeking a solution to the concerns expressed by faculty related to the Liberal Arts General Studies program. Working with the Executive Deans, Academic Affairs hopes to have in place, in the near future, interim administrators drawn from the faculty who will be tasked with the assessment, advisement, and curricular requests of faculty related to this program. This person will work with a small group of faculty and a point person from Academic Affairs to develop a system which supports students enrolled in the program and assists faculty.
Technology Committee met April 30, 2019, 3:45PM-5:00PM. The committee discussed a variety of technical problems as reported from the areas, introduced new annual survey 2019, and conducted elections for co-Chairs and subcommittee members. The co-Chairs for 2019-2021 term are Kerry Carlson and Joshua Wolfson, the representatives on College Computing Council is Steve Evans. He has also been elected as a representative to the Planning Subcommittee of the College Computing Council. All the votes were unanimous. Adjust your email lists accordingly.
The unveiling event for the Labyrinth Project will be held on Wednesday, May 8 during Common Hour, starting at 11:00 a.m. Brother Mark Gregory D'Alessio will speak about the various benefits of walking the labyrinth and run a workshop to teach participants how to practice. There will be some quiet live music. All are invited.
The deadline to apply for Grant campus Fall 2019 scholarships is Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Please encourage students to apply. Students can find more information regarding scholarships by going to SCCC home page > Quick Links > Scholarships > AcademicWorks. To apply for the scholarships that are available, they need to log on to the Online Scholarship System with their usual SCCC login and password. If students have further questions, they can contact Adrienne Chu or Terri Donnell.
The Annual Academic Assessment Subcommittee completed its review of academic program assessments for 2017-2018.
The Council met on Thursday, April 25, 2019 and discussed the results of the last Professional Development Day Strategic Planning SWOT analysis. The Council also discussed possible revisions to CAPIE.
The committee met on Friday 4/12/19. The following items were discussed:
The committee has been continuing to work on a proposal for the chemical dependency counseling program. However the CDC department was unable to edit the proposal in time to meet the FA contract timeline for class size committee proposals; therefore, the committee could not make a recommendation to the VPAA at this time, and they will have to re-submit in the future.
The Committee cancelled its April meeting because too many people were going to be absent. Our next meeting is May 2nd at 3:45 pm in Ammerman 205.
At the March meeting we had Associate Dean Deborah Wolfson report on the Guided Pathways initiative adopted by SUNY. Guided Pathways is a group of measures that may be adopted by schools in whole or partially depending on the needs of each college. They are based in 4 pillars: high school, entering a pathway, advising, and academic alerts, to ensure students more consistently complete college and attain their goals. There have been a few Guided Pathways Institutes attended only by administrators on the part of SCCC. This project at SCCC is in its infancy so many questions raised by the committee in the discussion that ensued could not be answered.
College Seminar Advisory Committee met on 4/18/19 and discussed the following.
The committee has not met.
The deadline to apply for Grant campus Fall 2019 scholarships is Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Please encourage students to apply. Students can find more information regarding scholarships by going to SCCC home page > Quick Links > Scholarships > AcademicWorks. To apply for the scholarships that are available, they need to log on to the Online Scholarship System with their usual SCCC login and password. If students have further questions, they can contact Adrienne Chu or Terri Donnell.
For the past three years, the Photographic Imaging Program has highlighted the work of students on Instagram and Facebook. Student engagement is high and we currently have 425 followers on the scccphotography instagram account and 200 followers on the scccphotography facebook page. These pages serve as reference for our incoming and current students, as well as the alumni of the Program, and show the exceptional work being produced by the Photographic Imaging Program. We hope that you have the opportunity to visit these sites and follow us if possible.