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IN THIS ISSUE A Body of Knowledge Investing in the Future Math, Science Students Find Special Help Toward Gainful Employment Chancellor's Column Development News Factoids Newsmakers Accomplishments by faculty and staff… |
Factoids CHAT ROOM
“Everyone is communicating with each other much more
than they were before,” said Susan Edwards, the training supervisor
for LG InfoComm, USA in Scripps Ranch. This
spring the company, which is headquartered in Seoul, Korea, hired ETi
to improve the conversational English of its Korean engineers and improve
their understanding of American culture, both in and out of the workplace. “I
am pleased by the impact that the conversational English training has
had on our company,” Edwards added. An
auxiliary organization of the SDCCD, the Employee Training Institute (ETi)
provides training and organizational development solutions to business
and industry on a contract basis. All of ETi’s services are customized
to address clients’ specific needs and are usually delivered in the
clients’ places of business. Visit ETi’s new website at www.trainwitheti.com to
learn more about ETi’s services, products, and growing list of satisfied
clients. WHAT'S
IN A NAME? Well, the district’s Continuing Education Centers’
administration thought that name no longer reflected the direction in
which many of its classes are going. In recognition of that changing role
in educating San Diego’s adults, the program this summer changed
its name to the San Diego Centers for Education and Technology…or
colloquially, CET. There is also a new web address: www.sandiegocet.net. LIBRARY
LINKS Under the strong leadership of librarian Sandra Pesce, Miramar
College is now certified as a charter member of the Tierra del Sol Library
Network of the Library of California. The Library of California is a statewide
resource sharing program linking libraries of all types to benefit citizens.
By joining the consortium, Miramar has opened a wider door to reading
and research for students and faculty. KEEPING
HEALTHY The Miramar College Health Center, celebrating only its third
year of existence, sponsors increasingly successful monthly events for
students and staff. According to center director Judy Harris, the center’s
recent fall Health Fair resulted in 21 pints of blood donated to the Red
Cross, 16 individuals committed to bone marrow donation, 64 individuals
tested orally for HIV, 29 tested for STD, 33 received chair massages,
20 evaluated by a chiropractor, and 150 student raffle tickets submitted
for 16 prizes, donated from Mira Mesa community businesses. DESERT
DEPICTIONS The latest in a series of artistically sophisticated exhibitions
at the Mesa College art gallery featured the works of Sharon Allicotti,
on exhibit through Nov. 2. Allicotti explores solitude and mobility in
settings of desert chaparral familiar to Southern Californians. She painstakingly
builds up layer after layer of colored pastel chalk to accomplish her
distinctive depictions. Gallery
students use the exhibits to learn professional exhibit installation techniques
in the region’s only such training program. Next
is the student art exhibit that typically concludes each semester, scheduled
to begin Nov. 20 and run through Dec. 15. The opening evening features
a reception, the announcement of the Purple Chimney Acquisition Award
and a sale of student art works. The
Mesa College art gallery is located in the D-100 building, adjacent to
the college theater. New gallery hours are M, T, W from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.,
Thursday from noon - 8 p.m., and Friday by appointment only. For
more information, call gallery assistant Pat Vine or gallery director
Alessandra Moctezuma at 619-388-2829. SAGE
WORDS Again this year, the American Scholastic Press Association has
recognized the Miramar College student newspaper, The SAGE, for excellence
in college journalism. Led by faculty advisor Leslie Klipper, The SAGE
won a first place prize among college newspapers of similar size and type
in the annual national competition. DIAMOND
DAYS Last May, Miramar College kicked off its first annual Diamond
Days celebration, a two-day campus event that included a job fair, student
festival and open house. Supported by the Diamond Gateway Chamber of Commerce
and college industry partners, the job fair featured more than 50 employers
recruiting for current and future job openings. The campuswide open house
included college and industry exhibits and demonstrations, tours and prizes.
The student festival provided entertainment, game and food booths, a transfer
fair and student services information. In addition to college students
and area community members, more than 800 local high school students attended. A.B.A.
GIVES A-OK The American Bar Association has granted the Miramar College’s
legal assistant associate degree program official ABA approval, making
Miramar the only community college in San Diego County to offer an ABA-approved
paralegal studies program. While the university extension programs cost
around $4,000 in tuition, the Miramar College fee of $11 per unit will
mean greater access for students who wish to pursue paralegal training
from an ABA-approved institution. According to professor Darrel Harrison,
approval has taken years to achieve. The program must comply with rigid
guidelines set by the ABA. An application process and site visitation
follow, then review by an approval committee which meets only once each
year. APPLY
ONLINE Students wanting to take credit courses at City, Mesa or Miramar
college can now file their college application from the convenience of
their computer desktop. The online application, available at www.communitycollege.net/applyonline,
lets prospective students apply for college admission without having to
travel to one of the campuses to pick up, complete and return paper applications. The
new electronic form is succeeding beyond all expectations, according to
Lynn Neault, assistant chancellor for Student Services. From its debut
in June to the start of the fall semester in August, the online application
attracted nearly 8,400 users. “We
thought we’d get 5,000 online applications for the whole semester,”
Neault said. “We’re way beyond that and closing quickly on the
total number of the traditional paper applications we have distributed,”
she said. With
more than 20,000 new applicants each year, the district had been looking
for ways to streamline the process, and spent almost a year designing
and testing this web solution. “By avoiding the labor-intensive transaction
and the postage costs for the appointment card and corrections to the
paper applications, we are going to save the campuses money and time.
That’s money that can be put right back into new materials and facilities
for students,” Neault said. GRIDIRON
GIRL Miramar College physical education instructor Jill Schenk will
burst onto the football field this fall as running back for the San Diego
SunFire, a women’s professional football team debuting Nov. 3 at
Balboa Stadium. Schenk, a lifetime football fan who teaches soccer, softball
and weight training, was selected from a field of hundreds of hopeful
gridiron girls during summer tryouts. As a 12-year-old in Florida, Schenk
was the only girl to play on the youth recreation league football team.
In 1991, she was selected one of 13 from a field of 3,000 to compete on
the popular national television series, American Gladiators. She never
left Southern California after that Los Angeles visit. San
Diego SunFire will compete in the Women’s American Football League-United
(WAFL) that plans to establish women’s full-contact “smash mouth”
American tackle football as a major national sport in North America. The
2001-2002 schedule includes home games vs. Arizona (Nov. 3), Hawaii (Nov.
18), San Francisco (Dec. 1), Los Angeles (Dec. 22), California (Jan. 19).
For more information, visit www.sandiegosunfirefootball.com. |
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