Mary Rees: Good afternoon. Welcome, we'll give a couple of minutes for everyone to come join us.
Good afternoon. We'll see, forward to talking with you in just a couple minutes.
Good afternoon. We'll just wait, and just one more minute here and then we'll get started with our
October 12 Moorpark College Update.
Well, good afternoon. I'm so glad everyone could join us this afternoon for October 12 Moorpark College Update. This update is being
taped, it is also there is a live captioner, if you go down to the bottom of your screen you can hit "CC" to have it closed captioned.
After the webinar is over, it will be captioned and then the recording will be on the president's website as where all of our Moorpark College Updates.
Today for the agenda, we're going to have some important updates from college President Julius Sokenu, some updates on Business Services and Covid operations as well as some instructional student support updates as well. Good afternoon, Julius.
Julius Sokenu: Unmute myself first that'd be good.
Hi I hope you all had a restful weekend and that
you are doing well, you and your family isn't doing well. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoon.
I'm going to start off by telling us a piece of good news that we just received late last week the IEPI the Institutional Effectiveness Partnership
Initiative
accepted Moorpark College's application to have an IEPI team visit the college in spring of 2021. For those of you who were at the college two years ago,
actually two and a half years ago, we had an IEPI team visit us.
The goal of the IEPI team is to have peers from across the system support a college as the college identifies an area in which it intends to work and develop effective practice.
This year the IEPI grant, which is what $200,000 was focused around the issues of social justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity,
and so our college applied for an IEPI team to come help us, address those issues, and the IEPI team consists, as I said, of, of peers from across the system, you will have college president or college chancellor,
district chancellor was heading the team, and then you have faculty, you have staff, business area, folks,
and depending on what they're asking for, you may also have researchers. It is not an accreditation team, although it did come out of the accreditation
challenges that the California Community Colleges faced about five years ago, five, six years ago, and it's really peers supporting peers. So what are they coming to do at Moorpark? They'll be helping us focus on these areas,
and in particular building infrastructure and leadership capacity to implement our goals,
in our plans as well as address the concerns of our Black, Indigenous, and People of Color students for an inclusive and welcoming learning environment.
They will also analyze impact of distance education on the success marginalized students.
So when we look at our students who are doing well, particularly in this transition to Covid, we see that our students of color and our low income students, irrespective of of cultural heritage,
are struggling, and we know that some of these are financial issues and their access or digital divide issues, but we also want to grow further and really
analyze the impact of this transition to online instruction and predominant online instruction on the successes of our students.
We also want them to come and review for us review with us, our policies and procedures to ensure student equity and success are indeed a priority in the virtual learning environment.
You know, some of the research that is prevalent on the distant learning and the virtual learning environment suggests that some of the same challenges that we take from a
on ground or in person classroom are exacerbated when we are in the virtual learning environment. So we want them to come and help us
figure out how we can address that for our college and how we can better a meet the needs of our students.
And then for us to develop systems and practices to ensure that our online academic, student services, and administrative services are designed
to facilitate students access and equity. So the ways in which we deploy a student services, the way in which our students interface with our business practices, and of course the way which our instruction
is delivered to students in an online context. We want to make sure that they are designed to facilitate equity, access, and success. So the team, which has not been identified as of yet,
will be coming sometime in spring. We're hoping mid to late spring that allows us to transition into the spring semester,
and the way the IEPI partnership resource teams work is that they come and visit three times. The first time they kind of do
they're more like focus groups where they hear from the college community and they gather information
and addressing what we've identified as areas of focus, then a couple of weeks later they send us, what are called menu of options which gives us opportunities or approaches to addressing the issue,
and then they come back another couple of months later and they visit to see the progress of the college is accomplished over that period of time,
and then the last visit is to assess the complete effort of the part of the college, it takes about a nine month period for this to sort of be
accomplished. And so again, our goal is to make sure that the
IEPI team helps us and provides us insight that we don't have on campus to help support us in the work that we're doing regarding student completion, student access, the work that we're doing in terms of our social justice and diversity issues
initiatives, and just looking at our effectiveness as an institution writ large. So that's the good news that comes with $200,000 and that money will help support these initiatives as we work on them.
The second agenda item I want to discuss with you is so you can see here it gives, I just sort of went over the rationale for the area of focus, so you see that and that kind of clearly defines it, but the second agenda item I want to discuss with you, has to do with our
social justice work groups. So our social justice work groups, as you know, as most of your members of that thank you so much for the work that you continue to do, have implemented part of few things and have been in the process of delivering to us as a college a variety of
programs both curricula and students service oriented, and, you know, moving us interactions around certain policy initiatives. So our goal is to sort of gather ideas together from the, from the fall work groups for each work ground to identify its priority and connect that priority to
a college strategic direction or to an element of one of our college plans and then they would
articulate that in a document that identifies what our outcomes are for this academic year, the timeline for accomplishing those outcomes, and how do we assess those outcomes
moving forward. So the social justice work groups will be convening the week of the 19th, which is next week. They'll convene
and try and sort the variety of ideas that they have in a variety of projects so they can pick up a set of priorities and then
again they'll convene the week of November 2 to fine tune those so they can present to the rest of the college, and then on November 5 we have a town hall meeting scheduled from 3 to 4:30pm
and this town hall meeting will focus on budget and social justice work group initiatives and and priorities. So
we're so com- with bringing together an opportunity for us as a college to really focus the work that we're doing around social justice,
and to focus that work and connected to our established governance groups, to connect it to our various work plans, be it the equity plan, our annual work plan, strategic plan, or even education master plan, but making sure
that we're not duplicating effort, making sure that all the wonderful ideas and great initiatives that are coming out of these work groups are channeled in such a way that we can sustain them over time.
In terms of resources to support the work that we're doing in terms of equity, we also have
through the U.S. Race and Ethnicity Center, a series of convenings, they call them e-convenings, they're monthly workshops, they're about three hour workshops,
and the college has the opportunity to send five people every month to these e-convenings and they deal with various themes or topics
around equity, and social justice, and inclusion. So topics like diversity in hiring topics like how do you infuse
initiatives such AB705 and Guided Pathways with an equity and social justice lens, topics such as diversifying the curriculum. So you should be getting through your departments or divisions
a listing of those e-convenings, an email will to the rest of the college so that everybody gets them, and if you can please articulate to your dean or your supervisor, it is open to faculty, its open to
classified professionals, it's open to administrators and you can articulate your interest so that way we know what you would like to attend and then we would go ahead and sift through
the interests and send five people each month. The goal is over the next 12 months to send 60 people from this college now have the knowledge base, not only to identify
what gaps we have on campus, but to bring that knowledge back and to help us do the work of filling those gaps and addressing those gaps. So that concludes my update. I'm going to pass it on, now. Oh, they're questions are there any questions?
Mary: Julius, just I wanted to verify. So what you're really asking they all of the work groups do is to focus and then connect what they're currently doing with one of our current plans?
[Julius]: Yes. [Mary]: Okay, and you mentioned priorities. Can you maybe give an example of, so what you're not, you're not asking about a task, you're asking for a, like you even mentioned what, diversity in hiring or you're.. [Julius]: Right. [Mary]: ...looking at a... [Julius]: So- [Mary]: big
concept. Julius: So for that particular work group for example, they're doing great work, but they have a whole range of things that they interested in working on. So they're looking at how we recruit,
the message that we send out, they're looking at how we train our hiring facilitators, they're looking at how we select individuals who serve on hiring committees, etc, etc.
The task will be for them to sort of focus and narrow down on which particular
set of initiatives, not just tasks, but what writ large, what do they, what needle do they want to move, what item do they want to connect to the plans of the college, or the college districts, by the way, because that one addresses both,
what do they want to, what do they want to accomplish, what task, and then maybe they may beneath those, individual actions. So for example, you know, training of
hiring facilitators might be aimed at making sure that the hiring process is more equitable,
but the goal is the hiring process be more equitable the task at hand would be the training of hiring facilitators
or the way in which we select individuals who serve on hiring committees, etc. So it's not a series of tasks it's one big, one big or what we consider like a theme
and underneath that theme which they want to address, will be then the tasks that they will do that can show us outcomes that we can then assess and connect to our planning for the college.
Mary: Thank you.
Jennifer?
Jennifer Clark: Hey good afternoon, everybody.
Glad you could all join us. I just have a few very brief updates from the Business Services area.
I wanted to update everybody if you've been on campus lately, you notice that our tents, for the most part are down, our screening locations had been moved.
We're still screening. We're still doing everything that we have been doing for the entire, you know, fall semester, the locations have shifted a little bit last time we had
John Everlove brief the group on sort of the new location, the map if you had a question about where the new locations are, there is a map on the website that you can download, it's also very accessible on a phone so that, you know, if you weren't sure where they are,
it is provided on the map, but they are, given that, given that the actual tent structures
for the most part, were taken down, we're finding that because they're harder to see there are some folks that are coming on campus that are not
again, they're not seeing the screening tents, so the screening locations so they are not being screened, so we are asking
as we work through sort of mitigating this issue, we ask everybody's help that, you know, if you have someone in your office, or in your classroom that, you know, doesn't have a wristband
that we take the opportunity to remind people that, you know, we're still screening when they come on campus it's important that they go through a screening location
and that basically to direct them to where the nearest one is and help us in that effort. I wanted to also point out that if you are on campus, you will notice or you should have noticed now that
you will have a QR code in your classroom. I have been informed that all of the and the should be poster size QR codes that have been laminated have been put up in all the classrooms
that are in use and so we would ask that you assist us
when you come into the classroom when your students as your students are coming into the classroom
that you just make sure that students as they're doing so they're coming in and they're finding their seat that, you know, they're walking in the door, they're very quickly scanning the QR code that's associated with the classroom, and then they're
getting to their seat. That would really help the efforts on the back end, as, you know, Sharon Manakas and the rest of the Student Health Center
in their contact tracing again should something happen, it really, really helps them and provides,
you know, a lot of information in a much more timely manner. It makes their job, much, much more manageable if we can just make sure that,
you know, we're doing, we're all doing this as much as humanly possible. Some of the other areas that are not classrooms, like, you know, offices, we are, if we haven't already we have been putting up sort of generic building
QR codes for example the Admin building, not someone going to the Student Health Center, but for people that say work in the Admin building,
you know, an Admin building QR code that's right by the entrance. So if you're coming in and you're working for that day, you would scan your code coming into the as you walk into the building and then proceed to your office.
So the other area that I wanted to mention is, if you haven't already received it, you should be receiving it today,
an email that's going out to everybody to just advertise that Thursday is our great California shakeout.
It's going to look you know quite different than it has in previous years, because most of us, of course, are not on campus and we're at home,
but I am, and the email does say this, that is an opportunity for us to prepare, think about any earthquake or any other similar type natural disaster, you know, do we have a communication plan with ourselves and our loved ones, do we know where will we go, how will we meet up.
There's a handout that will be attached that is attached to the email about electricity. You know, if you're, if you have a long
electricity outage, how do you prepare for that, what do you, what should you be thinking about in terms of that.
In terms of the Thursday event, it's again, really a good opportunity to have a conversation with your students about, "Hey, if we were to have an earthquake today while we're at home,
you know, take a minute to just look around you, you know, if it happened right now, where would I go, what would I do, you know, is there a table and another place where I could
get to pretty easily and quickly where I could duck and cover. You know what hazards are there are there bookcases that have been, you know, things on shelves that might fly out,"
again, just an awareness. It's very, very useful to have that conversation just to again increase awareness as to the hazards and possible, you know,
action plans, steps, what would we do if this happened right now, for example.
So that will be going out and there will be some additional emails, just to remind us, and then there's also
an attachment to the email that if you haven't already signed up for if you're not sure, that you've signed up for the emergency notifications that come out.
It's just a reminder, and it takes you through the steps. There's some screenshots. How do you sign up for these district and campus emergency notifications,
and again, if you're not sure that you've done that, you can go and follow the steps in this handout, to make sure that you are on the list that you should be and will receive any emergency notifications that come through the system.
And the last thing I wanted to mention is just I want to shout out to our financial aid folks who are doing a fantastic job awarding our CARES money, you know, we have dispersed the lion's share of it.
The last conversation I had with Kim is, you know, initially we thought, oh, you know, we might disperse the fund the loss of the funds in March, we actually
very may, very well disperse the student funds that, that 2.7 million odd that we received from the federal government prior to march, kind of earlier on in the spring semester, which is really good, you know, that's good news for getting that money out to our students who need it.
That concludes my update from Business Services. Thank you all very much.
Mary: Jennifer, a couple of questions for you from the group one, people are asking, can their students still apply for CARES?
Jennifer: Absolutely CARES money has not been fully expended.
They absolutely can apply for CARES. They, they need to know that if they have filled out the paperwork for financial aid, they do not need to apply for CARES separately. So in other words, how does a student apply for CARES?
They need to fill out a FAFSA, and I have been told that, you know, a FAFSA can be completed within 15 minutes. If students are unsure, or need assistance,
please, please, please reach out to Financial Aid, they will hold students' hands, they will hold families' hands through the entire process for getting that FAFSA. That is the door or that is the key to be able to access CARES money.
Mary: Thank you. But other people could also still apply, there are a couple of different types of financial
aid available? [Jennifer]: Yes, other than CARES, sure, there are
there are other emergency grants that are available that if, again, if you go to the Financial Aid website, there are some very simple form,
a simple form that students can fill out those are, you know, smaller amounts but certainly we do have emergency grants available as well that a FAFSA, I believe it is not required.
Mary: Thank you. Will there be other emergency notification trainings?
Jennifer: Emergency notification trainings on what?
Mary: A new system we have that uh...
Jennifer: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, thank you. So the new ENS system that we are in the process, that is in the process of being installed, software and wiring is being installed right now and then soon
I've been told hardware is going to begin to be installed on campus, yes, we have had some
Zoom trainings, I think we, there was eight that were offered last week. If you did not have an opportunity to attend one of those sessions, not to worry, there will be additional sessions offered certainly.
Mary: Thank you. There was also a couple of questions about the hours for the screening tents here on campus, particularly on Fridays, what are the hours and...?
Jennifer: Gosh, I'm trying to remember...
Mary: Okay.
perhaps we can check on it and put it posted...
Jennifer: Put it in the chat. I know that they close early, I believe 12:30 on Friday. But let me just double check.
[Mary]: Okay. [Jennifer]: and I'll put the hours the Friday hours in the chat.
Mary: Okay. That would be wonderful. There was also a question about faculty prioritization and I know that this is as much or more question for Julius, but it came up after, wondering what is, where do we sit as far as faculty prioritization?
Julius: Eating my cake.
Mary: Oh, I apologize.
Julius: I shouldn't be eating while we're doing a campus update.
Um,
so I do not have a particular number of faculty that we will a specific number of facult we will be hiring from the spring for next fall, and this is why
as you all know, the state budget is yet to be finalized, and so we can't make a decision about hiring when we don't have a clear sense of what is to come. We're also in the Covid 19 context which
as for the pressure on the state budget in the sense that we have $799 million that is being deferred by the state with the expectation that they'll be a third stimulus package from the federal government. If that does not happen, that will impact our ability to
first of all, the get the revenue sources to support our work and if that happens, then clearly we will probably not be hiring, even in that case. Having said that, I think it's important for us to acknowledge
that the college district as our 26.3 full time faculty members over the FON. So I mean, all of this is sort of pointing to the fact that, you know, there is no guarantee that we're going to be hiring.
However, we know that we have at least three positions at this point in time that through time in a resignation that's in the pipeline,
and so we will go through the hiring we'll go through the faculty prioritization process, we will make sure that as we go through that process, I hope that you know as everybody's going to you have in the back of your mind that this is a recommendation for
action to be taken when we have a clearer sense of our budget. It isn't, it probably is inevitable this year, that instead of being able to stop posting positions and November or December that we might have to wait until the January budget from the governor has been
presented, addressed, and maybe somewhat more confirmed, which means that we might push hiring a little bit later in the spring semester.
Again, because there's a lot that's undetermined right now, I can't tell you the exact number, there's a potential that we will hire I just can't tell you the exact number. And all of this is again dependent upon the impact of the Covid pandemic on the state budget.
Mary: Sure, this was a question, talking about FON. You did mention FON for the district. They were wondering if we also have the numbers for Moorpark?
Julius: I don't have the numbers for Moorpark, off the top of my head, you can certainly pick that number and Jennifer if you have it you could share it or else we'll put it, we'll put it, it will send it to you in the
put it in chat or we can send you through via another email prior to the faculty prioritization event itself.
Jennifer: Yeah, I have to look to see refresh my memory on the subject because FON is a, it's a district wide calculation, I don't know that there's a site specific FON number.
FON again is not calculated dis- site to site it's a district wide number.
Julius: So what we've done in the past is sort of identify Moorpark, and it's we've identified Moorpark hiring in lieu of lost faculty over time. So that's what whoever's asking that question that's what I think they're referring to.
Jennifer: So that's going to take
little more background on my part... [Julius]: Yeah.
[Jennifer]: ...to be able to answer that question.
Mary: Okay, we'll get some more information and then either put it
either in the next update
or which would be before the next prioritization meeting, or we can at least put it out there for the prioritization meeting.
Jennifer, there was a question about again about the screening. So what if you want and Cherisse put in the hours for the PA, as well as the AC building...
hours, [Jennifer]: Thank you Cherisse.
Mary: but what if you want to come to work before that. Is it okay for you just to come on campus, without going through a screening and without getting your wrist bracelet?
Jennifer: No, absolutely not. So screening I know that at this point, screening locations there are two that I'm aware of that are absolutely open now at 6, 6:00 in the morning, I believe, 6-6:30 in the morning.
I think we are expanding, I believe we're expanding all of the screening tents so that they're open that early in the morning.
I'm not aware that any- now, other than FM&O that comes in, you know, like a lot of our custodial staff, for example,
come in and have very, very early shifts starting at 2:00 in the morning, they go through the FM&O screening tent which is, you know, they are screening that early, but that's sort of a separate operation. I'm not aware that anybody is coming on campus before 6:00 in the morning.
Mary: I think it's people that want to come in at 7:30 with the tents opening up at 8:00.
Jennifer: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Mary: But they can't come on campus and unless they go through one of the screening tents?
Jennifer: They need to go, everybody needs to go through a screening location to be on campus.
Mary: Thank you for that cl-
If we move to talk about instruction then, thank you Julius and Jennifer for those clarifications.
First of all, wanted to absolutely have everybody congratulate themself, you are in the middle of fall 2020 with all of the extra issues, I mean, education is hard enough for faculty, students, staff,
but then you throw Covid on top of this and you're in the successfully in the middle of the semester and you have done splendid. I mean, you really should take us a minute and just give yourself a solid acknowledgment, you are doing well. The students
are participating online or on ground or a mixture if you're in one of the hybrid classes. So, you know, really you're, you know, totally it's impressive it really is for all of these students just moving forward as as seamlessly as as we can do so, so a huge congratulations on that.
With the fall, you know, continuing to move forward. We have ICA conditioning classes on campus. We have lab and activity classes that have a portion following social distancing and mask on campus.
We are looking to add a few additional courses that were part of our original tier twos
on campus and we had to delay as according to the Public Health, we're hopeful that we'll be able to bring a few more of them and really execute our initial plan for the fall.
With all of that said, we're now starting to focus on spring and what questions will be is, "Well how do we do spring? What have we learned here in the fall that we can apply to make our life easier for our faculty, staff, and students as we look for spring?"
The
excuse me, the shells will be available in two weeks, your, your Canvas shells for spring. In about that time we will also begin to have people start registering for classes for spring.
So our schedule is up, our shells will be available, and we're going to continue our fantastic work on fall, but now start focusing again on what we're going to be doing for spring semester.
We want to kind of bring forward some opportunities, some suggestions for things that we can do in the spring that might help. One of the things we want to talk about now we're going to talk a little bit about the CVC OEI,
and a little bit about zero textbook costs that ZTC that we've hopefully many of you have heard about, those both provide
wonderful opportunities for student success and for student looking at it from an equity lens, and then for other updates we'll bring forward some best practices. In fact, in a month we're going to have somebody, one of the faculty come and talk about using
verbal evaluations. So rather than having check marks and things like that you can have a verbal have a tape of your comments to the students and how that they do that. So we're going to be bringing some of those pointers
forward, just as hopefully ideas to help make, help you with spring. One of the points I mentioned as far as our online Canvas classrooms,
if you go to the next slide, I'm delighted to announce that Moorpark College is one of the eight colleges in the state that are POCR certified colleges,
and a POCR certified college is one that has set up a peer online course review certification.
So we have a committee, we have a group here, people that are certified to review online classes and determine whether they have met the CVC OEI rubric for the, for the best standards for online courses, and you can see listed number one reasonably so. On the next slide.
Why do we like having this POCR certification? Well because our faculty here have met the vigorous standards of CVC OEI.
We have a local team that can review these courses, make sure these courses align with the 44 standards that are in the rubric,
and then if these courses do align with the rubric, they can get this badge that says it's quality reviewed and we know that students that do take these
quality reviewed courses, the CVC OEI rubric, the students have higher success rates. So, it not only is helps our, our students, but most of the faculty, once these are set up. It's a much smoother and more fluid
system for the teaching or platform I should probably say for teaching for their courses.
Also, students will see these courses that have been quality reviewed. So when you go into the CVC course finder on a state level,
the Moorpark College courses and the other courses that are quality reviewed,
are going to be listed first, before all the other courses throughout the state that are online courses. So not only is it a huge advantage to our local students to have a reviewed course, but it also is a enrollment advantage for our college.
So the CVC certifications enables Moorpark's outstanding reputation. So the students around the state can take our courses.
So we talk about the different components of the CVC rubrics. So there's 44 rubrics or 44 items listed in there, objectives, use of the CMS,
learner support, institutional support, instructional contact, how do you have instructor to student contact, how do you have student to student contact, how do you effectively assess,
how do you get guide, how do you provide guidance and feedback, Accessibility, a big part of which is required by law, formatting, how do you check for Accessibility, how do you handle videos and
audio portions of your Canvas shell.
So those are the big parts of things that are part of a CVC OEI certified course, and so what does that mean to us? Well, our DE Committee has established this work group. We have eight faculty who are part of this POCR Certification group and they have, we have reviewed
the Moorpark College courses have been reviewed by the state and have this certification we've got some additional ones that will be coming soon,
and we now have the opportunity to review courses on our own campus. So if you would like to take your course and go through the rubric and have
the POCR Certification group work with you to see if you can get your course be certified, you can reach out to Anasheh
and she'll help you with that process. So I think that's one of the big things that we could do for spring if we take more of our courses and move them towards being
CVC OEI certified by using our own POCR certified group that's a big plus for Moorpark College.
And will provide additional information later on to about the zero textbook cost. I know Cindy Sheaks-McGowan has talked with many of you on it,
because as you're setting up your course or as you're doing the CVC OEI for your course that's the perfect time to look at putting in
zero textbook costs and there's a lot of different ways of doing that and I think we're all very aware of the impact of high textbook costs on our students. We want to provide our students with the best resources, but a resource that they can afford and make as well.
Amanuel?
Amanuel Gebru: Thank you Mary. Good afternoon, everyone. Just a few updates.
Especially this week, this week's undocumented action week which will be starting October 19 to the 23th.
The opening ceremony will be actually on the 19th with Dr. Julius Sokenu doing the welcome at 9 a.m., so we hope to see many of you attend and support our Dreamers students and our undocumented students.
There will be webinar for students around financial aid, entrepreneurship, transferring and careers, exercising their rights, immigration relief options, health insurance options,
the last three workshops will be in Spanish
and there will be interpreting available all the workshops hosted by Moorpark College will also include closed captioning as well. So please look for the email that Linda sent out this morning
and we'll continue sending out more reminders for the undocumented week.
Professional Development webinar opportunities are also available for administrators, classified staff, and faculty, so there'll be workshops for all of you in addition to learn about our undocumented students.
I want to give a big thank you to Karla Montenegro Gonzalez for her leadership as well as the Advisory Committee for their hard work and making this happen,
and also really continuing to support our undocumented students. So we hope to see many of you there starting on the 19th with the kickoff, and then also attending many of the webinars that will be hosted, you know, online.
Also the Student Health Center offers medical and mental health services via tele-health in person and also in person visits, please refer students to the health center.
We're offering two new support groups for students, which is grief and loss, and then also coping with Covid,
call our Student Health Center to make appointments so all the information is on the website for that. Check our website for new sections also on mindful movement
provided by Kinesiology instructor Kathy Dewet we will also need to get up and move and in addition, we have a website section for employees as well. So there's a lot of good information on our website. Some of the upcoming
virtual student health fair will be starting October 26, including campus and community resources and presentations on domestic violence, suicide prevention, coping with Covid,
relationships, economic health, mindful movement, environmental health, social justice, wellness, STDs and more.
These are great extra credit opportunities for our students to be able to attend this. And also
flu season, flu vaccines are available for employees and students, so crucial to make sure you are vaccinated. Please call our health center for information in regards the flu vaccine and also all the other resources that are available to our students and staff.
We also want you to continue in encouraging our students to use Raider Central we're continuing to serve them on Fridays,
also with Ruben Castro on Tuesdays. Continue to refer our students to Counseling, tutoring services as they get to the midway point if they need additional resources.
So thank you for all the great work you do to support our students, please let us know if you have any questions or if you need anything in terms of supporting our students on campus virtually.
Thank you, Mary.
Mary: Thank you, Amanuel. Just a couple of questions, wondering if we couldn't have come up with a better name for the important group that does the certification for courses,
and it's CVC, Matt assures me that it's a CVC acronym, and it's not something that Moorpark has anything as far as picking the name, so I hear you Patty, thank you.
Also was pointed out that the zoo has opened up, and a huge call out to all the people involved in the zoo that keeping all of that running so smoothly and it is now open to the public, so
the zoo would welcome you back following
masking and social distancing requirements.
Julius, do you have any last comments for us for the day?
Julius: So just again want to thank everyone for
following and complying with the screening protocols. Your safety and your well being, is a priority for us at the college,
and we help one another, be healthy and stay healthy by participating in the screening, but also as we integrate the QR codes into the process,
making sure that people are scanning the QR codes and the buildings and so that way we can contact trace more effectively.
In addition, I just want to remind people that as you will be delivering instruction to students online during the great American shakeout that as Jennifer said please take a chance to
encourage students to look at their home environment for safety and for ways in which they can make plans to navigate an earthquake or an emergency,
and again, undocumented student week, thank you to everybody who's been involved in planning that activity and those activities, some very robust workshops are happening, and again, we do have undocumented students, they need our support,
they are thriving, they're successful at Moorpark College and we're very glad to be able to add to their success potential.
We will be looking at delivering a student update or a student town hall later on maybe later this month early next month.
Chancellor Gillespie will be conducting an update to the district next week on the 21st, and particularly focus on faculty and staff so
please join the chancellor for that and gives an opportunity for you to talk to him and ask him questions that are pertinent to your experience. Once again, thank you and have a great rest of the week.
Mary: Julius, do you also want to remind people, my bad, sorry about the walk of immigrants, the last of our Latinx club,
Hispanic month?
Julius: Yes, yes. So thank you Mary, appreciate it. Again, thank you so much to the folks who have planned a really dynamic Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month set of events,
they were not only an opportunity for us to celebrate the contributions and the culture of folks of Latin heritage, but they're also an opportunity for us to understand ourselves and our students better and on Wednesday at 5:30
there is a program called walking, and I forget the full title at the moment, but our
Associated Students as well as our Multicultural Day folks are all working and putting this program together and this is a program that showcases the walk of immigrants and migrants to the United States and mimics and it provides you an insight on somebody who's done that walk
as an artistic expression. That is from 5:30 to 7 p.m., it's on Zoom. The information was sent out by Linda last week to the college community. Please participate.
Again, you know, that whole expression of walking in someone else's shoes this gives you that literal and visceral experience of doing that. Thank you.