Vol. XXXIV, No. 9

March 7, 2005

This Week at Valencia.

Tuesday, March 8:

Faculty Senate, 1:15 p.m., West Campus 1-151

Osceola Faculty/Staff, 1:20 p.m., Osceola Campus 1-232

Wednesday, March 9:

College Executive Council, 8:30 a.m., Winter Park Campus 123

College Wide Curriculum Committee, 2 p.m., West Campus TBA

Learning Evidence Team, 2:30 p.m., Osceola Campus TBA

Thursday, March 10:

Faculty Senate, 1 p.m., East Campus 3-113

Visions & Voices: Ann Vachon, 4:30 p.m., East Campus 5-112
 

"Intimate Abstraction: Works by Miami and New York Painters", Anita Wooten Gallery, East Campus, runs through March 18

Academic Regalia for Commencement

If you need to rent academic regalia for Commencement, please place your order at the following locations:

Downtown Center-Room 302
East Campus-Building 5, Room 214
Osceola Campus-Building 1, Room 155
West Campus-Student Services Building, Room 101
Winter Park Campus-Room 206

Valencia will pay for your regalia if ordered by March 11, 2005. Payment for orders received after the March 11 deadline will be the responsibility of the employee.

Endowed Chair Deadline Approaching

Nominations are currently being accepted for the following Category A Endowed Chairs for Instructional Leadership:

Bank of America Chair in Business
Bank of America Chair in Business Management
Wayne Densch Chair in Geriatrics
Freeda Louise Foreman Chair in Family Resource Development
Grace Gillen Hanna Chair in Nursing
Sue Luzadder Chair in Communications
John and Florence MacLeod Chair in Business
Chesley G. Magruder Chair in Allied Health
Raymer F. Maguire, Jr. Chair in Mathematics
Lester N. Mandell Chair in Natural and Physical Sciences
Lockheed Martin Chair in Mathematics
Lockheed Martin Chair in Science
Howard L. Palmer Chair in Foreign Languages
University Club of Orlando Chair in Humanities
Patricia Havill Whalen Chair in Social Sciences
Abe and Tess Wise Chair in the Study of the Shoah

Nomination packets with complete program details are available in provost/dean's offices or through College & Community Relations at extension 3218. The deadline for submission of nomination packets is April 1, 2005 at 5:00 p.m.

The latest from Leadership Valencia

Lifespeak: Living From the Inside Out (Formation) - Why not take time out of your busy schedule to become reacquainted with yourself? You are invited to join your colleagues in the second session of this three-part series to discuss Parker Palmer's book, Let Your Life Speak, which explores finding ones authentic vocation. This workshop is not designed to place additional demands on our already busy schedules. Rather, it is an opportunity to delight our spirits. This workshop will be presented by Mary Allen and Jane Renfroe on Thursday, March 10, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m., Osceola Campus, Room 1-258, registration code LFORM3.

Creating a Culture of Service Excellence (Sponsored by AAWCC) - Everything your customers see, hear, and touch, impacts their experience. Delivering the ultimate in customer service requires careful planning and design of the entire customer experience. In a culture of service excellence, the delivery of outstanding service is not viewed as an exception or add-on, it is recognized as the "way we do business." This program identifies a model and leadership actions necessary to create and sustain a culture of exceptional service delivery. This workshop will be presented by Teri Yanovitch on Thursday, March 10, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m., Winter Park Campus, Room 225, registration code PCCSE.

Local Leaders: A Path to Leadership - We continue our Path to Leadership series this academic year by expanding the theme and introducing a "Local Leaders" focus. This brown bag lunch series will spotlight local Orlando area leaders as they share their story about their Path to Leadership. Each person's interpretation of leadership and their journey is unique. Note: Dessert will be provided. Sponsored by the Valencia Chapter of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC). This workshop will be presented by Gail-Paschall Brown of WESH Channel 2 on Thursday, March 10, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Winter Park Campus, Room 237, registration code GLLW.

Working with the Under Prepared Student - The wave of under prepared students reaching Valencia's 'front door' is ever increasing and brings with it special challenges for the learning centered instructor. This workshop will present strategies that faculty can use to reinforce the habits of successful students in any discipline, without diluting content delivery. This workshop will be presented by Mary Pepe and Jane Wiese on Thursday, March 10, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., West Campus, Room 6-202, registration code LWUPS.

To register for any Leadership Valencia workshop, mail a completed registration form to DTC-1, fax to ext. 3134, or register online at http://valenciacc.edu/leadership/regstr.asp. For additional information please e-mail Heather Coxe at hcoxe@valenciacc.edu.

Time Sheets Due!

Due to the upcoming Spring Break, all part-time time sheets for the period of 02/20/05-03/05/05 need to be in Payroll Services no later than Tuesday, 03/08/05. It is imperative that Payroll Services receive the time sheets by this due date.

Please exert every effort to comply with the stated date above to ensure all of our part-time staff is paid on time for the pay date that falls during Spring Break. Time sheets received after this date, for whatever reason, will be paid on the April 8, 2005 payroll. We certainly appreciate your cooperation.

Payroll Distribution during Spring Break

In consideration of the potential hardship caused by the delay in the distribution of payroll checks for the March 25 payroll, the following will occur:

Employees on direct deposit will have their funds available on Friday, March 25. Your deposit advise (payroll stub) will be distributed in the usual manner on Monday, March 28.

Payroll checks or deposit advice normally mailed to employees will be mailed on Thursday, March 24.

We have made arrangements with the West Campus Business Office to distribute payroll checks (not check stubs) on Thursday, March 24, between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM, at the West Campus SSB Building, Room 101. Regardless of which campus you work at, your check will be available for pick up at the West Campus Business Office on March 24, between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. Checks will be dated March 25 and are not negotiable (cannot be cashed) until 2:00 PM on March 24.

In order to claim your check, you must present some form of photo I.D. Checks will be released to the employee only. Payroll checks not claimed on March 25 will be delivered to your respective campuses for routine distribution on Monday, March 28.

Clothing drive underway

AAWCC (American Association for Women in Community Colleges) is holding a clothing drive (business attire) on Monday, March 14, at the Osceola, East and West Campuses. The drop-off locations are: Osceola Campus, 12-2 p.m., Room 2-141, West Campus from 10 a.m. - 12 noon, Room 4-202, and East Campus from 1 - 3 p.m., Room 4-133A.

If you wish to donate, please bring business attire items for men or women (preferably on hangers) to the drop-off locations. This clothing drive helps to support Valencia's AAWCC (American Association for Women in Community Colleges) partnership with Junior League of Orlando to provide business attire to Valencia students on Career Development Day, Saturday April 2. For more information about the clothing drive, please contact Patti Riva at x 6845.

Sick Leave Pool Election Results

Valencia's Sick Leave Pool Board of Directors for 2005 are as follows: Admin/Prof: Karen Blondeau, Mike Bosley, and Sonya Joseph. Career: Terry Findley, Patricia Anderson and Vicki Pipkin. Faculty: Deborah Howard, Julia Gagne, and Eileen Oswald.
Congratulations Karen, Terry, and Deborah. Thank you to all who voted. And a BIG thank you to those Board members who served on the board previously.

Student Affairs Update

Congratulations to Dr. Sonya Joseph, the newly appointed Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. Her new office is at Osceola Campus, Building 3, Room 319E, extension 4994, MC 6-8. Tonya Bulat, formally at the Downtown Center, is Sonya's new staff assistant and her extension is 4997.

Cheryl Robinson is serving as Interim Dean of Student for Winter Park Campus in addition to her duties as Director, College-wide Assessment. She replaces Angela Martincak who retired at the end of January.

Valencia Students Sweep ADDYs AGAIN!

For the second year in a row, Valencia Graphics Technology students cleaned up at the ADDYs, the annual advertising competition that has local, state and national levels of prestige. Out of the four local colleges represented, Valencia students managed to walk away with 50% of the student ADDYs awarded, including five out of the six Gold ADDYs and the Best of Student ADDY. The student competition is held to the same creative standards established by the existing professional ADDY Awards and is judged by leading creative professionals and experienced ADDY judges.

Congratulations to Phuong-Ngoc Le (Best of Student, Gold ADDY and $500 scholarship winner), Jenny Mohess (Three Gold ADDY awards), Kelley Salih (Gold ADDY winner), Mike Florio (Silver ADDY winner) and Jeremy Perez-Cruz (Silver ADDY winner)! Valencia students represented categories such as: Packaging Sales Promotion, Stationery Package Collateral Material, Poster Collateral Material and Direct Marketing.

This is the first year that Student Gold and Best of Student ADDY winners will automatically move forward to the District competition where they will compete against winning student entries from all across Florida and the Caribbean. District winners will move on to compete in the National Student ADDY competition. There will be a $1,000 scholarship awarded to the Best of Student award winner at both the National and District levels.

Reminder for Supervisors, Managers, and Administrators

Please be sure to notify Human Resources when a student or part-time hourly employee working for you resigns. If HR is not notified and doesn't terminate their employment, the student or part-time hourly employee will remain "active" in the Oracle HR/Payroll system until no pay has been processed for them for 6 consecutive months.

Please contact Human Resources at extension 1333 if you have any questions.

Hello and Goodbye.

A warm Valencia welcome is extended to Yarissel Guadalupe, Staff Assistant, Osceola Campus Security, mc 6-5, ext. 4000, and Les Ostrowski, Director, Industrial and Quality Engineering Services, Valencia Enterprises, mc 8-1, ext. 6618.

Kudos

Dr. Gaby Hawat, Dean of Architecture, Engineering, and Technology was the recipient of the Outstanding Advocate Award by the Florida Institute of Technology Alumni Association on February 26, 2005

Dr. Nadine Vaughan, Professor of Psychology, West Campus, recently had a book review published in the Spring edition of Janus Head: The International Journal of Continental Philosophy, Literature, and Phenomenological Psychology. Her review is entitled "Sex of the Soul: Transsexual Identity Development" and is based upon Dr. Chiland's (2003) book, Transsexualism: Illusion and Reality. In addition, Dr. Vaughan was the associate producer for a movie called "The Touch", now in limited release at the AMC Theatre in Leesburg, on Feb. 24, 25, 26 and March 3, 4, and 5. Please visit her website for more information at: nadinevaughan.com.

Thank you.

To my dear Valencia family,
There are no words to express the depth of my gratitude for the love, prayers, beautiful cards, flowers, food, and encouragement you have poured on our family during this painful moment in our journey. I love and cherish you all.
                            - Elizabeth Eschbach

          April 30, 2005, 7-10 p.m.

Please join us for a spectacular evening of wine and epicurean delights at the beautiful Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center. Dozens of vintners from around the world will serve their finest creations, complementing a variety of gourmet food samplings.
Scout for unique auction items, and be ready when the bidding starts - It's all to benefit scholarships for Valencia Community College students! The event is slated for April 30, 2005, from 7 - 10 p.m., and tickets will go fast! Just $75 per person, or $125 per couple, and tickets can be purchased from the Foundation office at the DTC, ext. 3150. The Silent Auction will run from 7:00 - 9:15 p.m. and is loaded with exciting items for you to bid on. Don't miss this exceptional event, and benefit Valencia student scholarships at the same time. There's even special room rates for those interested in staying overnight at the Gaylord Palms - just visit the foundation web site for more information, at www.valencia.org.

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, Staff Assistant in Marketing and Media Relations. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. on the Tuesday preceding each Friday's distribution. Mary Jane can be reached at ext.1017, or mjjones@valenciacc.edu.