Vol. XXXV, No. 30
August 7, 2006

This week at Valencia…

Monday, August 7

Professional Staff Leadership Team, 2 p.m., East Campus, TBA

Career Program Advisors,3 p.m., Osceola Campus, TBA

Wednesday, August 9

College Operations Council, 9:15 a.m., East Campus, 3-113

Thursday, August 10

West Campus Faculty Senate, 1:15 p.m., West Campus, 6-202

All Faculty & Professional Staff

The fall term start up is rapidly approaching. As in the past, faculty and professional staff will gather at Academic Assembly which is scheduled for Wednesday, August 23 on the East Campus.

Prior to the program in the Performing Arts Center, a continental breakfast will be served in the Cafeteria on East Campus (Building 5) for all attendees. After breakfast, there will be both a presentation and ample time for dialog. Please make your plans to participate.

As always many important topics/dates will be discussed. This gathering will provide an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of several of our colleagues and to take a fresh look together at our progress as a college.

8:30 – 9:15 a.m.: REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, Building 5, Cafeteria

9:15 – 10:15 a.m.: PROGRAM, Performing Arts Center

• Welcome - Lew Oliver, III, vice chairman, District Board of Trustee

• Recognition of 2006 Newly Tenured Faculty - Tom Byrnes, president, Faculty Association

• Recognition of 2006 -2007 Sabbatical Recipients - Tom Byrnes, president, Faculty Association

• Recognition of 2006 NISOD Excellence Award Recipients - Tom Byrnes, president, Faculty Association

• Recognition of 2005-2006 Advanced Degrees Conferred - Tom Byrnes, president, Faculty Association

• Faculty Address - Tom Byrnes, president, Faculty Association

• Recognition of 2006-2007 Endowed Chair Recipients - Geraldine Gallagher, president & CEO, Valencia Foundation

• Recognition of 2006-2007 Governance Council Chairs - Sanford C. Shugart, president, Valencia Community College

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.: BREAK

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.: PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS

• Sanford Shugart

News from Procurement

Problems or issues with vendors can range from poor or inefficient service to incorrect invoicing. The only way Procurement can track a vendor’s performance is by you helping us to document such occurrences. A new form has been added to our Web page to report unsatisfactory materials or service from a vendor. The form can be found at http://valenciacc.edu/ procurement/facultystaff.asp.

The college currently owns or leases 150 copiers at its different campus locations. Many of these machines are aging and will need replacement. Departmental copiers are designed for everyday copying needs, while the copy centers and FedEx Kinko’s are equipped with high speed, large volume copiers to handle production line type printing. It is also cost effective and more efficient to use the copy center and FedEx Kinko’s for your printing needs and both are excellent in their response to quick turn-a-round jobs. Sending large copy jobs out will also help preserve the departmental copiers for longer life use. Copy centers can be found on the West, East and Osceola Campuses. FedEx Kinko’s jobs can be directed to prc3995@fedexkindos.com.

All copy centers now have color copying available!!

Achieving the Dream (AtD) Supplemental Learning (SL) Update August 2006

Supplemental Learning (SL) is a peer mentor program that provides students enrolled in a specific course with a role model student (the SL leader) who has already demonstrated a success in that course. The SL Leader shares study techniques and strategies that were used to be successful with the course in a previous term.

The Supplemental Learning Team looks forward to the coming academic year and is excited to announce that we will be offering a total of 62 courses with a supplemental learning component for fall 2006. Still not sure what supplemental learning is? Want to know how you can get involved with supplemental learning? Contact the supplemental learning coordinator on your campus:

• East Campus - Libby Gore, ext. 2385
• Osceola Campus - Al Groccia, ext. 4182
• West Campus - Russell Takashima, ext. 1724
• Winter Park Campus - Linda Hidek, ext. 6817

Achieving the Dream (AtD) Learning in Community (LinC) Update August 2006

This summer, teams of faculty and student affairs professionals have designed nine Learning-in-Community (LinC) courses integrating student success and preparatory mathematics courses. During Destination 2006, the teams designed joint syllabi and integrate curriculum topics around debt, credit and other practical applications. Student affairs success coaches (counselor or advisor) have been full partners in course design and are planning a program of early attention to help students succeed early in the semester. As part of the Achieving the Dream plan, Valencia expects to enroll 200 students in LinC courses in the fall and spring terms.

Contact Philip Bishop, ext. 2297, for additional information.

Grand Opening of the Criminal Justice Institute & Human Resources Building

All faculty and staff are invited to celebrate the grand opening of the Criminal Justice Institute & Human Resources Building on Tuesday, August 22, from 8:30 – 10:30 a.m. A continental breakfast will be served from 8:30 – 9 a.m. The ribbon cutting ceremony begins at 9 a.m. with building tours to follow. Please RSVP to College & Community Relations at ext. 3334 or kpersiano@ valenciacc.edu. Please come out and support this important event!

Kudos

Please join the east campus staff council in saying thank you to Debi Jakubcin for her years of service to both the east campus and collegewide staff council. Debi was an active member of the staff council from its inception and worked extremely hard to develop and enhance staff council on both the campus and collegewide levels. She served on countless committees, worked long hours, and dedicated herself to the interests of career staff employees. She will be greatly missed as she now joins the ranks of professional staff. We really appreciate all of her hard work.

In July, the east campus staff council awarded a grapevine award to Derrick Hilton. With a smile on his face, Derrick consistently delivers exceptional customer service to faculty, staff, students and visitors. Recently he went beyond the call of duty during a tremendous summer storm to put air in a flat tire. His supervisor also stated that she constantly receives e-mails from staff and students stating what a great help Derrick was to them. GREAT JOB!

A Warm Valencia Welcome to

• Erica Jones, bookkeeper, Valencia Foundation, mc DTC-1, ext. 3332
• Debra McKibben, staff assistant, Criminal Justice Institute, mc 3-9, ext. 8216

Thank you

My words of appreciation go to my Valencia family. Your prayers, thoughts, messages and gifts of expression during the passing of my mother, have been of a tremendous comfort and healing for all of us.

- The Sprinkles and Haskins Families

Submissions to the Bulletin are encouraged, so please e-mail your achievements, awards, recognitions, and relevant information for the college community to Mary Jane Jones in the Marketing and Media Relations office. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. on the Tuesday preceding each Friday’s distribution. Mary Jane can be reached at ext.1017,mc 4-34 or mjjones@valenciacc.edu