Mary Rees: Good afternoon and welcome to the Moorpark Update. We'll wait a couple minutes while we have everyone joining
us.
Good afternoon and welcome to the Moorpark Update. We'll wait another minute while people are joining us.
Good afternoon and welcome to the March 22 Moorpark Update, hope everyone is doing well.
On our agenda for today, you'll see we have the campus updates from students service, Business Services, Academic Affairs, Student Support, and then for highlights, we have Multicultural Day and our Peer Online Course Review.
The update is being recorded and if you're interested in having it closed captioned, please click at the bottom, the "CC." We are also having it live captioned.
Good afternoon Julius.
Julius Sokenu: Hi Mary. Hi everyone, welcome to
the week before spring break.
Thank you for joining us this afternoon. I want to start off by saying very big thank you to all of you who participated in some of the event we had the past week or so, particularly for those people who attended our
fall operation planning work group meeting. We had very good attendance at that.
Members of the community, of the work group, plus members of the campus community who then asked wonderful questions that help us to think very clearly and further plan for the fall, so I appreciate
your attendance in that, and I especially appreciate 10 or so people who volunteer to participate on that work group. So we're getting a very robust
set of perspectives and voices to do the work we are planning on for the fall. Also want to thank those of you who attended our Friday afternoon's
ACCJC training on the report and the ISER. We had about close to about 60 people and from across the campus in various roles and again,
this speaks to the fact that this college community is clearly invested in that reflection that happens through prioritization and this early in the process, but also on a Friday afternoon,
you know, from 1:00 to 4:00, that was great so thank you so much for your participation in that.
Then we're looking forward to the fall semester, and all the planning that we've been doing, and that we continue to do is around making sure that people are brought back to campus in a safe manner and that we
identify ways in which we can best support our students, so that they can continue on their journey to academic and lifelong success. Next slide please?
Okay, so in part of our plan towards the fall, is to look at those amenities, and those are features of our campus that support us, and food is very important to us, and as many of you know, we have not had
any kind of food service on campus or anyone in campus really with the exception of those of us here working and a sign of things getting better,
is bringing back food and Peter's food truck on campus in the fall. We're planning to do that. We are looking at
to figuring out how many days a week, and how
what those days will look like and what our processes for food consumption would look like, but we certainly invested in bringing Peter back. So one of our colleagues, Tim Lumas ran into Peter this past weekend and Peter has a message for us.
[Tim Lumas]: He's back! How you doing Pete? [Overlapping] [Peter]: Hey! [Tim]: Tell everybody hi!
Hi everybody, how're you guys doing?
Hopefully we'll get you back on campus soon. We miss you a whole lot.
[Peter]: We miss you guys too! [Tim]: Alright, bye bye now. [Peter]: Bye.
Julius: Thank you. So we miss Peter and we're looking forward to Peter being back on campus and Amanuel's already got a list of things he wants to order from the food truck.
Continue and the good news I'm going to pass it on to Allison Barton our Student Health Center Coordinator.
Allison Case Barton: Some more good news for us, our
Covid rates continue to reflect exactly what's going on in our county. So it's, I would just keep saying lots of zeros is a good thing, and again, it does not reflect the work that our
contact tracing done by Denise and Dena in the health center doesn't reflect all the work that they're doing, but thank you everybody so much for
what you're doing to keep our campus safe and keep us, you know, heading in the right direction.
On a related topic, it is now possible to upload your vaccination status, once you're finished with your vaccination. So, once you finish your two shots,
or if you somehow got a Johnson and Johnson one, just your one shot, you can use the app, it's the same tile that you would use to report a Covid test. You just,
you know, move your thumb over to the left of reveal that upload tile and use that. And it's pretty simple, you just take a picture and upload it and it's as simple as that. Why would you want to upload it? Well, it helps the contact tracers a lot.
If you have been vaccinated you don't have to quarantine
within a certain time limit after your vaccination. So that's really good. So and, of course, if you have any questions, let me know that, but good job everybody and back to you Julius.
Julius: Thank you Allison. It's great to know to hear that, you know, we are definitely contributing to the success
of our community by observing the safety protocols and also getting vaccinated and being safe. We're at the end of, well I don't know if we're at the end of the tunnel, I don't know if that's the
right expression, but we're at a point in the game that we need to continue to be vigilant and I know that we all want to be back on campus
as best as possible and doing safely. So the more we can get folks vaccinated, the better. Okay I'm going to pass it on to Vice President of Business Dr. Jennifer Clark.
Jennifer Clark: Good afternoon, everybody. I'm going to be my briefest ever and I'm just going to invite you all to this afternoon's town hall meeting, which is at 3:00.
I'm particularly excited about it because I get to talk a lot on a couple of very, very important topics. So a little teaser, I'll be going into a lot more detail about the HEERF funding.
The first wave we called CARES, the second wave CRRSA, and the third wave is the American Relief Plan.
So I will be going into a lot more detail and the three waves of that federal pandemic funding, as well as touching on and getting into kind of where we are and how the Fiscal 22
budget is shaping up. So please join us today at 3:00. You will not want to miss it a lot of information and a lot of opportunity to ask questions around those topics. So, thank you.
Mary: Thank you Jennifer.
It will be a lot of good information, I appreciate that.
When we talk about
this time of the semester, we have a lot of things coming up in a relatively short amount of time. I wanted to let everyone know that next Moorpark Update,
which will be the Monday after spring break, so in two weeks, instead of a Moorpark Update what we're going to be having is going to be a presidential candidates forum. So, as you know, Moorpark is is currently
interviewing for for the president's position and the candidates that have made it through the first round will do a presentation to the campus on April 5. We'll start it,
excuse me, we'll start it on at the time at 12:00 instead of the Moorpark Update and then we'll run the whole afternoon. So that will be the plan for April 5, will be the Presidential Candidate Forum. We do hope you can join us, we do want to get the campuses input
so that we can provide that information to the Chancellor. The next update after that, which would be April 19,
we're going to have some students on campus giving us a tour. For many haven't been back on campus for a year and we'd like to show you what it's going to be like when you come back in the fall.
So we'll have a little tour going on at the campus update on April 19. May 3 which would be the following Moorpark Update,
we're going to save it specifically for the Senate and Classified awards, as well as our retirements, our end of the year celebration. So be sure you've got, just to let you know the next three updates there's going to be a lot of things going on.
We mentioned about so not only just the the updates as far as things going on, but we're moving to planning, as you know, after spring break,
the semester goes by so quickly and then we're onto summer. Our summer was originally scheduled as a very heavy online summer. If people are looking to offer additional courses and would like them to be
on ground, please reach out to your deans and we'd really like to have that conversation and look at adding additional courses.
As you know, we always add some additional four week courses early on, and this might be a good time for us to do some kind of practicing, getting ready for our fall. So do consider this, this summer. In the fall,
as Julius was saying, our safety is our number one point, but we're also here, trying to make sure that we meet the needs of our students. And we've heard from many of our students
about the needs for more on ground courses, more on ground services, more ground opportunities. So we're really moving towards that. As you know, our plan for fall is a 30
to 50% with an on ground component and we're really moving to that. And it's dependent upon the different programs some programs are still very much online, some are much more on ground. So what we've done is is responded to what the faculty, staff, and students needs are.
Clearly, life will be similar to what we've gotten used to, we're going to be screening.
As we said safety's number one so we're going to be screening. We're going to be using mask and we're going to be social distancing. We're going to continue to monitor as things develop.
You probably have seen that the K 12 in some areas of the state are going to a three foot social distancing, but at this stage that's only amongst the students. It's still six feet at lunch and anytime groups gather, as well as the six feet
for the staff and teachers. So we've not heard anything that suggests that we will be moving in it for higher education at this point, but we will clearly monitor that, but for right now we're going with the same
screening, mask, social distancing and all of the standard procedures that we've been using
to keep everyone safe in that. We do realize that when coming back that we're going to need to use technology to help us handle this as
best as possible, so we will have microphones, lapel microphones and that so everyone would that will need one will have their own, so that they won't have to worry about any difficulties talking through a mask and that so because they will still be wearing their masks.
One of the other things that we've been working on this spring and we'll continue on is really looking at best practices.
We've got a big push right now, hopefully most of you know, working with Starfish and Early Alert, so that we can provide our students, the support the wraparound support they need in order to be really successful.
Zero textbook cost is another area that we're really focusing on, trying to provide our students needs. We know that this is a barrier for our students and trying to work on ways to decrease textbook cost.
We're going to be hearing later on today about work that can be done to help align our courses, with the CVC OEI and we appreciate Anasheh coming and talking to us about POCR certification.
On the next slide,
talking about we've got our Athletics, our students group are going to have a another forum. I don't know if you were able to attend the very first one that came out
last spring, I believe it was, and it was very powerful. We have one coming again for racial and social injustice forum this Wednesday at 3:30 pm. I do hope you'll be able to join our students at this. Amanuel?
Amanuel Gebru: Good afternoon, thank you, Mary. As I
pull up my video. So a lot of good things happening terms of activities on our campus, but if we can go to the next slide I want to start off with some exciting news?
So we have just recently hired a new faculty member over in the ACCESS Office , ACCESS Program so we want you to help us welcome
Sectino, Tino is who goes by, Keagan who will be our full time ACCESS Counselor that we're excited to have joined the Moorpark family.
Tino is a proud product of the community college system, as you can see here on the Powerpoint screen,
and is also an alumni of Mount San Antonio College, UC Santa Barbara, and then also CSU Long Beach.
He previously served as an adjunct counselor for the ACCESS Program at Mt. SAC.
He's a champion many students services efforts at Mt. SAC, such as the EOPS, former foster youth programs, male students of color initiatives, UMOJA,
various equity programs that he's been heavily involved in and also doing a lot of presentations across the state in regards to foster youth and our men of color work at Mt. SAC previously.
Tino's professional work is grounded on closing achievement and equity gaps among students from historically marginalized student populations.
So I know the program and our campus is excited to welcome him. So glad to have you be part of the Moorpark family,
and hopefully you'll get to see him in some virtual Zoom meetings and hopefully sometime soon in person, potentially in the fall semester. So welcome Tino to Moorpark family.
Can we go to the next slide please?
Just a few updates in terms of Raider Central, it used to be on Fridays, so now we're moving it from Friday to Thursday, starting April 1. So if you can
get the information out to our students, please, it will be every Thursday
at the same Moorpark College campus and parking lot H from 12:00 to 4:00 pm. So we moved to that day. We will no longer be distributing food on Friday.
And students can pick up their weekly bags and boxes on Thursday beginning April 1. So please get that information out to our community for our students to benefit from this opportunity of getting food to them. Next slide please?
These are the number of students that have been served on our campus. 663 students, over 1000 bags of food, 485 boxes of food distributed.
2300 students and families assisted. Hygiene. Additional services requested through Raider Central. So a lot of good information and resources being given us our students have please continue to encourage them,
and we also want to continue to thank Tim Lumas, his staff, and Johnny Conley who continue to support this effort.
Next slide please?
So in addition to our Raider Central, we also have Ruben Castro Charities.
Which is a grab and go groceries that's still every Tuesday on the Moorpark College campus and lot H from 12:00 to 5:00 every Tuesday and then also every Saturday in the career and education center at the address below from 12:30 to 2:30.
Think that's the last slide, right?
And then I have just a few additional items to share with you in terms of what's happening with our
FYE Program. The First Year Experience is currently recruiting for the fall 2021 new cohort. First time freshman can submit their interest forums to the
MC FYE website. After submitting their interest forms students will receive a welcome email and will then be invited to attend an info session to learn more about all the services
that are offered within the First Year Experience Program. So they're working with Outreach as we're recruiting students and also just supporting any new incoming students to be part of our FYE Program.
In addition to that, we have our Second Year Experience is also recruiting for the fall 2021 cohort.
So all FYE students are encouraged to bridge directly into the Second Year Experience to continue receiving similar services with career transfer and also leadership focus.
All students on campus with 24 plus units are being contacted to participate in the Second Year Experience to obtain,
you know, to get support in terms of program benefits such as personal success with coaching and counseling, along with student success workshops and virtual community our to name a few if you have any questions, please refer students to the second year program
or email Claudia Sitlington and she'll be able to provide you with further information on our second year cohort.
In addition to that there's a lot of good things happening with our CHESS men's mentorship program.
Moorpark College and CLU continue to work collaboratively on grant efforts to strengthen mentoring and mentee relationship between students from both campuses.
The next collaborative event will be offered for students in April. The event will focus on building a strong and outstanding linkedin profile.
The 2021 22 CHESS Male Initiative Cohort will participate in the men's leadership retreat the summer and August 13 and 15th. So a lot of good stuff happening with our FYE and in our Second Year Experience and CHESS Program. So thank you to Claudia, Khushnur for your leadership in that area.
So I pass it off to back to you, Mary or is it Tammy?
Mary: That sounds great Amanuel. Tammy is going to give us some information about Multicultural Day coming up.
Tamarra Coleman: Thank you Mary and Amanuel. Good afternoon everyone, the Multicultural Day Committee is very excited about
really just figuring out what Multicultural Day, you know, will look like in a virtual format and we've spent the last few months
making that happen. So we're really excited about the program that we will offer on Tuesday April 13, for our campus community to attend,
and, like many of the other events that have been happening throughout the year we've also shared with our sister colleges. So because it's virtual it makes it much easier for us to share events so that's exciting news as well. Next slide please?
So you should have gotten in one of the,
emails out to the larger campus community this flyer here with our events our theme which is climate of change
for the day.
On that flyer you'll find the link at the very bottom, if you could see it on the screen to the Moorpark College Multicultural Day website.
And by the way, that website is linked to all of the multicultural types of events that we've had throughout the year. So you'll see on that
page you can kind of click around and see some of the recordings of of past events, for, you know, things like Women's History Month, Black History Month,
Latinx Heritage Month and I believe some of the social justice events are also linked there. The recordings are linked somewhere in that space.
And as you can see the calendar for Multicultural Day is very similar to what we had on campus.
Throughout the day until about 3:00 we have events that will be going on. The difference, obviously, is that it will be happening in a virtual setting. We will have our traditional opening ceremonies like we did in the past on raider walk,
although you will be joining us virtually, and we'll have some of the folks that we traditionally seen over the last I don't know how many years, our bagpiper, we'll have a Chumash prayer by Alan Salazar who actually
did a ceremony, a couple of years ago. So last year we didn't have it, but the year before that, so that would have been 2019. So those will be really,
that will be a really good opening ceremony, followed by our keynote speaker, Luis Rodriguez. Can you advance to the next, thank you? Next slide?
Luis Rodriguez will be
opening the day and talking about his work, both as a writer, a novelist, memoirist, poet, but also his work in the sort of social justice, the larger social justice world,
and talking about change, which is really what his literature reflects, right? Change within the
Latinx community, but then larger change within the world generally speaking. So we're really excited to have him, so we encourage your students to come and, of course, you yourself to be a part of this event. I think this will be very powerful to have our keynote speaker.
If you can move back to the previous slide that would be great?
Okay, so you'll see following the keynote speaker, there are three sessions, concurrent sessions that are running at 10:15 at 11:45 and then at 1:00. And then there are
four to five sessions during each of those time periods. One of the things I wanted to make clear because it's it's different this year is that when you go to the Moorpark College link and register,
you'll be registering for the three main events: the opening ceremony, then the keynote speaker, and then the finale at which I'll talk about in a moment.
The concurrent sessions, the three sessions that are running throughout the day, you'll find those Zoom links in that space after you've registered for the main event.
So throughout the day that space from 8:30 until 3:15, that main space will be open and you can always go back and forth into that space,
and you'll see informational slides guiding you to the different Zoom sessions with those links to get there. So I just want to make that clear.
We won't have those links on the Multicultural Day web page, but we will have those links available in the space. So let your students know how that will work and maybe we'll send out an email closer to the event, explaining that to folks because I'm sure people will forget.
Okay, if you can advance to the final slide?
With the finale?
So the final event of the day, and there won't be any other competing activities going on at this time, nor will there be competing activities during the keynote or during the opening ceremony. The only time you'll have those
sort of competing or concurrent sessions will be during those three sessions throughout the day.
We have The Core Ensemble returning. This is a group that has been to our campus at least since I've been here I don't think they were here before that, twice they came in 2019 for
Black History Month and they came for Hispanic Heritage Month also in 2019. It's a trio of performers, as you can see in the image in the bottom.
Musical performers, three musical performers and also a single actor. And the idea is to incorporate snippets of a historical figure's life,
so you see, you get the actor sort of playing out that character, but also musical accompaniment a company event with music that's relevant within that historical context. In this case, the focus is on the sort of side story about the Mona Lisa and the possibility that maybe the inspiration,
was not only the female model, but also a young man. So it's an interesting and in some ways, quite humorous piece
that will give us some historical background on the famous painting the Mona Lisa. I believe in the chat you'll get a link, there it is, to a brief video clip Just to give you a taste of what that performance is about. I think that is it for multi- oh one last thing.
The Multicultural Day Committee has been helping, along with other groups on campus over the last couple of years with planning cultural events throughout the year, the different months,
it has tended to be kind of a rush in getting those things planned, you know, month by month and
we are planning a meeting in April with anyone who is interested in joining us the Multicultural Day Committee, along with
the Equity Director to start thinking about and planning for next year
for the entire year and sort of looking ahead and thinking about the kinds of resources that we need, as well as the kind of speakers or activities that we want to have to begin that work in the spring, so now
so that we can have a more thought out and less stressful year of events and we'd like to include some months that had not been included in the past, including
Asian American Pacific Islander month, which is in May. And that's always a little bit difficult because may is a busy month for us, but we think that we can
at least utilize those first two weeks in some way to really represent and to provide education about that community. And then also Native American Heritage month, which actually falls in November,
along with Thanksgiving which makes perfect sense, but we had not in the past, done anything specific for those months. So we'd like to try to do that for next year. So if you are interested in being involved in the planning, look out for an email coming in the next
probably this week, since we have spring break next week,
for the meeting sometime in April, or you can shoot me an email, if you want more information on that work that we're doing.
That is all that I have.
Thank you, and have a good day.
Mary: Thank you Tammy. Some amazing programs that we've had and more to come for next month. So thank you, Anasheh's going to join us and tell us a little bit about getting POCR certified.
Anasheh Gharabighi: Hi everyone, thank you so much for the opportunity to present on this, our team is really
excited for our local POCR process. So today I will be outlining broadly what the POCR process, is why we should even be investing in this, why many faculty have already invested in this,
and then I'll break down some more details, then we'll hear from Josepha's personal experience, and then I will point you in the direction of more information if you're interested. Can you please go to the next slide?
One more please?
Okay, so local POCR. POCR is an acronym that stands for Peer Online Course Review. Essentially, this is a process where faculty that are interested in having their courses reviewed,
submit their courses, and we see how align their course is to what is known as the CVC Rubric. The CVC OEI Rubric
is a thorough, thorough rubric that has 28 different standards and our campus has a local process that's in place that has been approved by the CVC OEI which stands for the California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative. They
have certified, run through our process and said, "Yes Moorpark has a good process in place to review courses."
So we have become what is known as POCR certified, which is a very big deal because we are one in eight colleges in California that has this designation.
And we wear that badge very proudly. Now, as the course goes through this review process of seeing how aligned it is, or if it is even aligned to these 28 standards,
these 28 standards are divided in sections A through C each of them have a particular focus, for example, content presentation and section A, interaction,
assessment, and then, finally, we have section D which has numerous standards.
Some which may apply to a course and some which may not even be applicable if a course doesn't have certain content in it.
Essentially, through the POCR review process, the goal is is, at the end of the process, which is about a five week process,
that the course is going to be completely aligned, if not exemplary to all standards.
And once it is, then the course if it's applicable if it qualifies, will be offered on the exchange as being badged as quality reviewed. If a course is badged
in being quality reviewed, it keeps the course completely aligned to the rubric, but it is going to move to the top of the search. So when a student
looks we're an online class, one that is quality reviewed or quality reviewed badged will appear first, before any of the other options, which is a great thing if we're looking at getting students enrolled in our courses, and all of that. Next slide please?
So, why would we apart from having a quality online course at the end of the process? Well when courses offered on the exchange like I just mentioned,
students can engage in what is known as cross enrollment with any other community college in California. So if I'm looking for a particular class let's say I'm looking for Public Speaking, which is, of course, that I teach.
And I want to take it in another campus, if my school doesn't
offer it or whatever the case may be, I can go on the exchange look for a public speaking class and one that is quality badged is going to come to the top of my search and I can enroll in it.
Now this is an incredible tool, because it promotes equity in order to help students achieve their educational goals, in terms of having a plethora of course offerings,
but also these courses are designed for an online learner. They're quality student centered, learner centered courses, and
what research has shown is that courses that do go through this review process, have higher retention and success rates, which is fantastic.
Apart from that, from the faculty that I've worked with that have gone through this process by having their courses reviewed, I have heard nothing but great things from their experience that they've had
been exposed to different types of assessment styles, different resources that enhance their pedagogy, and it ends up just leading to a lot of
different ways in which we can go through the learning process or the teaching process through different perspectives and both reviewers and course instructors
have only spoken praise about their experience with this. Next slide please?
So, if you're someone that is interested in having your course possibly go through this review process, there is a very thorough, step by step sequence of what we have to do.
The first is, you would attend an orientation with the POCR Lead, which is myself, and we will meet and discuss what the process is, what that looks like, and what you should expect.
The faculty member will then, I'm sorry, will align their course to the rubric to the best of their ability.
We have numerous resources that allow of course instructor to do this, along with numerous examples, both from our campus courses that have gone through the review process on our campus, but also resources from the CVC OEI.
Once the faculty member aligns their course, to the best of their ability, to the rubric, then they submit that course to go through the review process.
Now, you will have a team, if you are the course instructor. You will have to reviewers and a third member, which is our accessibility specialist who is Matthew Spinneberg.
These three individuals review your course. The course is reviewed and feedback is provided in terms of which rubric standards are aligned, which are exemplary, and which are incomplete.
Apart from feedback, resources are also provided of how to reach alignment, or let's say a rubric standard is already met, here are some things that you could do to make it exemplary.
Once this feedback is provided to the course instructor, the reviewers also compare their findings. So they do a blind review and then they compare their findings to make sure that it is accurate.
Once these reviewers provide the feedback to the course instructor of, "This is what we found. We've reached a consensus of our findings,"
the courses then edited by the course instructor. Once the edits are done the reviewers make sure that the edits were thorough and that they addressed what needed to be addressed. And then we submit our review that we conducted locally to the CVC OEI.
And what the CVC OEI does is they engage in what is known as spot checking they just make sure that our findings can be corroborated on their end.
Now here is the great benefit to us being POCR certified.
Before we were a POCR certified campus if we wanted our course to go through the review process, there was a major backlog from the CVC OEI.
So we could submit a course and by the time the CVC OEI had an opportunity to review the course, it may have been a semester, two semesters, or a year and the course can change significantly in that time.
Since we're POCR certified and we're conducting the review locally, when it gets to the CVC OEI, it's almost like a fast pass.
We go on a separate list, we have a separate process, and they don't have to review the course in its entirety, they just spot check it.
So, because we've invested so much in becoming POCR certified it's saving us a lot of time in the long run.
Once the CVC OEI spot checks, then the course is quality badged and if it's applicable, it can be offered on the exchange.
Course instructors that are interested in having their course go through this review process, will receive a stipend of $1,500 per course, but that is only distributed at the end of the process. when the review on our local level is signed off.
And well obviously CVC OEI comes back and after they do the spot checking they say, "Oh there's this one little thing that you should fix,"
the course instructor is still responsible for making that edit, even though the local process is done. So, I just wanted to include that in there. Next slide please?
If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, it could be that you're interested in both and if that's the case then fantastic, sign up for both,
but if you're interested in becoming a reviewer to be someone that actually reviews these courses that are submitted for alignment with the CVC OEI Rubric,
then they must sign a participation agreement, and in this participation agreement, there will be a list of trainings that are offered. You have to go through about a four week training process to become a POCR reviewer. You must be POCR reviewer certified.
In the participation agreement, they will list the training dates the upcoming training date is May 17 to June 12. I have not been given any upcoming dates throughout the summer or in fall yet, but they will have more trainings, but the next one is in May.
Once you complete the reviewer training, and you are now,
certified to become a reviewer, then you and I will have a separate orientation session that solely addresses what the course reviewers are required to do.
You will then conduct a review of the course independently.
You will then go through what is known as a norming session, in which you compare your findings and analysis of the course with your co reviewer, just to make sure that you both are reaching a consensus of your findings.
And you will then provide the feedback and the resources necessary for the course instructor to align their course.
Once the edits are made, you will review the course, once again, and then you're all set.
Now the course reviewers will receive $750 for each course review that they conduct for each separate course that they review.
Again, this is distributed upon the completion of the review process. So if it is necessary for a course instructor, let's say they need additional resources,
the reviewer has the responsibility to provide those resources for the course instructor.
Granted you're not in this alone, I'm always here to help as well, and we have so many people in our team that are just incredible resources, but I just wanted to reiterate that the process must be complete for the funds to be distributed. Next slide please?
Now, to speak about the POCR experience we have Dr. Josepha Baca who has served as both a course instructor that has gotten her courses reviewed, as well as a reviewer. So Josepha, please take it away.
Josepha Baca: Thank you, Anasheh. Hello everyone. So yes, I've had two courses that are going to the review process right now for the CVC OEI and then I'm also a POCR certified reviewer.
And I just wanted to tell you a little bit about my experience, I know that Anasheh gave us a lot of details and initially upon hearing all those details, I felt
pretty overwhelmed and like it was a daunting process and I'd say I went into the this particular process, maybe more as
a prisoner, as opposed to a believer and became a believer
in seeing the outcomes and the results of all the hard work that has gone into.
So, you know as a teacher I'm always looking for ways, and I know all of my colleagues we're looking for ways to make the experience for our students,
more student centered, more efficient, and just a better overall experience at Moorpark College, and when we do that online, sometimes we don't know for sure if we're accomplishing these tasks.
What I found in this process is it was my way of figuring out, am I doing the right thing, right. Am I, establishing the connection with the students?
Am I creating assignments that speak to what they want to learn about but also create a format for them, that is easily accessible, and helps them to succeed and to achieve whatever goal, they have in my class.
So the two things that I walked away from this process where, one, advanced planning, which has a lot of positive outcomes and two, the most amazing part which is just the peer review among
other faculty, among the POCR review team that is comprised of people that I respect, right? So these are
actual teachers that are doing what I'm doing and they understand how difficult it is to create that seamless experience online when we're teaching and
trying to convey messages and ideas to students and wanting them to not only succeed, but also have a great experience.
So because of the advanced planning, I learned a lot more about Accessibility and even looking at my course from the different lens of the OEI
CVC Rubric and saying, "Well is this organized in the best way that it could possibly be for my students?" The clarity of my messages was more on point.
And I was able to just refine my skills as an instructor.
And this is really great, right, because it was through peer review and we get peer review when we go through something like tenure,
but, you know, I've been tenured for some time now, and so I haven't been able to work with my co faculty in the same way.
And so I really felt like this was like my opportunity to have these co faculty come in and do that peer review from a holistic approach,
and help me to see some of maybe the gaps are some of the areas of improvement that I can make,
but the other nice thing was for them to tell me, "You know what you're doing some of these things are really great." And that also helps to not only make you feel like, "Okay I'm on the right path."
But you know, improve and fall in love I think again the teaching, especially when it's online.
Sometimes online teaching can be daunting and in some ways lonely. And it brought that sort of communal experience back to being an instructor online.
So what were my outcomes? So I have noticed that my students are contacting me online about very directed questions about my lecture pieces, my outlines, as opposed to asking me questions about clarity.
And that's because I think everything is clear. I've noticed that my relationship with my students
online for me, seems to be feeding more information, as a result of instituting one of the main components of this process, which is a lot of
student feedback. So there's all these opportunities for students to check in with us in a more formulated way.
And because I have all these different polls and all these different evaluations that they do during the course of my class, I feel like I have a better sense of what they need and what's helping them to succeed.
I also have a lot of confidence in my classes. You know I feel like these courses have been reviewed by my colleagues, I feel like I put a lot of time to them, so I have a high degree of confidence with respects to what I'm providing my students.
And then I'm also a department chair. So as a department chair, you know, I was often put in the position of
reviewing other people's courses and I feel like this help to enhance my competence, not only to look at courses,
and sometimes, you know, we look at courses and we see areas of improvement, but also to just identify really great teaching.
So, and to be able to name it, right? So I would go into classes, all the time, and I would see these great especially adjunct professors doing amazing work and I couldn't name it. "I'm like that's really great," but
to put language to what I'm seeing and to be able to give them those like esteem buildings types of directives.
In some cases, to be able to help mentor give ideas and it's all because I personally went through the CVC OEI
and had two have my courses done, but also because I also took the time to become a POCR reviewer.
So you may have to decide, like what area of this part you want to be in maybe you want to be a POCR evaluator, maybe you want to be have your classes aligned,
it's completely up to you, but what I hope you do is you give it some thought, and that you see it as an opportunity to work with your peers, to grow your classes,
to find a supportive space to bring that community back into teaching, especially right now when we're all online,
and then, as we progress, you know, and we come back to campus, we're still going to have these really great classes that have been aligned and an amazing system to help each other and to support each other.
So please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. I'd be glad to talk to you about my experience.
And I know my colleagues, you know, my whole department for the most part have, those that are full time have gone through this process, and so you can reach out to
Ruth Bennington, or Shannon Macias, or Reet Sumal, or myself and we'd be glad to talk to you about our experience. Anasheh?
Anasheh: Thank you so much, Josepha.
I did want to reiterate that this is quite an investment of time, it really is a because you're going through a lot of different rubric standards that, and it really is time dependent of how much time you have to invest in editing your course, but the benefits
are so significant, I can't stress it enough. It's an incredible experience and it's a great experience to also have a fantastic mentor mentee relationship to collaborate with different individuals that are in your field and out of your field, and to get
a new perspective
on what your course is all about, and if there is a reason for everything in our courses and if everything does properly assess everything that it should. Michael can please go to the next slide?
I want to encourage you all to please contact me if you have any questions about anything that was covered. I know Josepha is amazing and offering herself and her colleagues.
You can also contact me if you have any questions. We also have a great new
site that's that it's solely to our POCR process in which there's a breakdown of the expectations, the guidelines, and the contract that you'll have to sign
if you're interested in participating, but if anything my contact information is there. My name is Anasheh. I've been told that I respond very quickly to emails, though, please do reach out to me. I'm more than happy to answer any questions or inquiries that you have. Thank you so much.
Mary: Anasheh there's been a couple of
questions if
I could ask you right now.
There was a question asking if former students or if student service specialists could also apply for the reviewer positions.
Anasheh: From my understanding the CVC OEI would like faculty members. I will double check in regards to student services specialists though. I will email them and contact them and make sure that that is the correct answer before anything finite is declared.
In regards to students no. Unfortunately students are not involved in this POCR process, it is solely the faculty members that become reviewer certified and possibly student services specialists, once I confirm that. [Mary]: Thank you.
There was also a question asking where the exchange website is located.
Anasheh: I can, if well, we can look it up in terms of typing in finish faster online and you'll be given the websites, the first one that comes up, but also be sure to have it available in the chat as well. I'll put the link there.
Mary: Thank you.
Anasheh: Thank you.
Mary: Also to mention, we have one more event, I wanted to make sure people knew about. Also on this Wednesday on the 24th there is a TWMOCA,
Teaching Women and Men of Color Advocates that are going to have a general meeting open to everyone, from 1:00 to 2:30. So that's also another wonderful opportunity for all of us. Julius do you have a last, some other, or updates for us, or anything?
Julius: Right now, I do not, I just want to say very big thank you. I'm a having a problem with my
mouse. Oh my god, this is crazy. Okay. Yeah I just want to say big thank you to the presenters today. There's so much dynamic work going on on this campus and you can all see it.
You know, for folks who said, you know, people are returning to work, people have already been working, there's nobody return to work, people are already working and you can see that in great dynamic examples being shared by our faculty and staff.
Please do come by the town hall this afternoon. We appreciate that we have faculty and staff and students participating. It is a campus wide conversation around budget as well as around our
PRT visit outcomes and our social justice work. Have a great rest of the day and I'll see you later.