Mary Rees: Good afternoon. We're going to wait a couple of minutes while we let everyone enter and join us here at the campus update.
Good afternoon. We'll wait just another minute or two, while people come and join us for the August 10th Moorpark College campus update.
Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the August 10th Moorpark College campus update. Just as a reminder for those
that have been here with us over the summer, and those that are joining us as we get ready for fall, the campus update is recorded.
The campus update is also closed captioned. So if you click at the bottom of your screen on the CC, you will see it being closed captioned there for you.
Also, the updates are recorded and transcribed and are present on the website of the Office of the President and under campus updates. So it is there for you as that.
Just wanted to let you know on our agenda for today, we'll first have an update from President Julius Sokenu. Then a quick update from
Jennifer Clark, Amanuel Gebru, and myself, and then we'll have some, some important information about our fall 2020 operational
plan with John Everlove. And then Brian Burns will update us on our always exciting Professional Development Flex week and then we'll have questions and answers. So we have a lot of information for you today and we'll go ahead and get started.
Julius.
Julius Sokenu: Hi everyone and welcome. I hope that you had a restful weekend and for those of you who are joining us maybe for the first time since a long while, welcome back. We appreciate your presence and
as Mary mentioned there's a lot, a lot happening and a lot that I'm sure you would be interested in, so as to be able to engage and start our semester off right.
As some of you know, over the weekend, actually late Friday evening, the California Department of Public Health released on its guidance to institutions of higher education.
And we could probably send you a link to that if you haven't seen it already. Later on today, we'll be sending the document to the entire college from my office, but
if you have not had a chance to review it please do start taking a look at it. We have done a good job of aligning with all that is really in that document, well for the most part,
and I'm very proud of the work that we've done as a college, and the work that we've done as a college district, anticipating some of that guidance. And so there's very little in that document that is of a surprise to us.
You know, very clear, clear things like, you know, mask wearing, is an expectation in that document. Very clear guidance
in terms of aligning what we're doing on our campus to the directors from our local public health officials. Very clear guidance in terms of
if the college district is in a county where they are still on a watch list in terms of the increasing transmission rates,
that that college district and that those colleges cannot offer in person lectures, they can only offer those online. Those are things that we've already anticipated and we've built into our planning.
So you will be hearing a lot more about our operations plan, and you will be hearing a lot more about how that aligns
with the state, the California Department of Public Health's guidance today, and then obviously later on this week during our professional development presentation by John Everlove.
Um, it is incumbent upon all of us to be part of solution to this pandemic. And so our ability to be conscious of the physical distancing requirements, mask wearing requirements, hand washing requirements, is essential.
This is our professional development week and want to thank the Professional Development Committee, I want to thank Brian Burns,
who will also be here later on in this update to provide you some additional information.
We want to thank anyone who's been a part of this work, you know, putting the program together and getting it to you
as it is dynamic series of offerings on a range of topics. We are very lucky as a college that
community, you, our community, provide and share your range of expertise with the college and with the staff and the faculty and administrators. Please, please attend those as best as you can. They are all online. So I know you can sort of Zoom from one to the other, but
we appreciate your participation in that as we continue.
Friday is our Convocation day. I mean, I can't believe it's already here, right, we just, we just, it seems like we just left for the summer. Well, "left" in quotes, for the summer, and now Convocation is upon us.
Please, please, please try your very best to attend Convocation. We are closing the offices of the college that day
so that folks can attend Convocation. So there is no excuse not to do so,
and we appreciate your participation in that activity. It helps us to bring in and ground our semester and our academic year, and there's a whole lot for us to explore and discuss
and to contend with, as you as you all know, during this coming academic year. So I am going to transition to
our next speaker. Our Vice President of Business Services, Dr. Jennifer Clark.
Jennifer Clark: Good Afternoon everybody. Pleased to be with you all today. I'm not going to take very long at all. I want to leave, I'm going to donate most of my time to John Everlove because he will be reviewing
the operational plan with you all again, go over some of the, any updates, details, that kind of thing with you. I did want to just mention a couple of things. Just to remind everybody,
Mary mentioned this a little bit ago, but go to the president's website. The Moorpark College president website, Julius's. There are links to these campus updates. If you
are aware last week if you attended, you'll know there was an hour long session with John. He went over the
planning document, the operational planning documents. So if you wanted to listen to any of that information, again, it's available for you at any time.
So look for that, it is there. I wanted to just to let everybody know just folks from the community that are walking around.
You know, we're still seeing dog walkers and that on campus, no masks. A communication just recently went out. My understanding is it just just went out to
the community. So I don't know that that message has quite arrived yet. And I'm hearing that US Mail is not
the quickest these days. Sometimes it's taking longer than we're accustomed to. Several business days, perhaps, to get mail so...
Again, the message has not fully been delivered to the community yet. They're getting the message as we speak.
I did want to just remind everybody too, one more thing, that if you are someone, in the fall, who will have a regular on ground scheduled
class session, whether it's once a week, twice a week, whatever it looks like, a regular session. You do not need to go through
like your dean or Lynda Dobson to have prior approval to coming onto campus. You have approval to come onto campus.
Be advised of course you have to go through the screening process, you'll be using the app and going through the screening tents, like all of us, but you don't have to have approval to be on campus in order to do that.
However, if you do not have an on ground component to your schedule, again, whatever that looks like, you do need to have prior approval before coming on the campus from your dean and then
with a cc to Lynda Dobson. We are discouraging people as much as possible, please stay away from campus if you possibly can. We really want to minimize our footprint
as much as possible to just the people that must be on campus on a daily basis. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Mary. Thank you. I think-are you next Mary or is John next? I'm sorry.
Mary: Yep. Sounds great. I'll be glad to go. Thank you, Jennifer. I wanted to just say good afternoon to everyone and how excited we are. This is going to be our last summer Moorpark College update,
and then next week, we're going to be starting continue with the updates and it will be really clicking into our fall 2020.
And I am so proud of the offerings that Moorpark College has for our students for fall 2020. We have over 1600 sections for our students, and I think it is absolutely critical. We have really reached out to our community to provide the
direction and leadership for our students to help them move forward in this very troubling and uncertain times, to move forward towards their educational goals.
Most of our courses, as you know, are online. All of our lectures are online. We do have about 10% of our courses have some type of an on ground component.
These could be labs that are in small groups, or come in only a few times during the semester, our art courses as well.
Our essential tier ones which were our Nursing, our EMT, Rad Tech, and Biotech.
And then we also have our ICA which are currently our theater, our Performing Arts Center, and our ICA are currently not going to have any on ground component for the month of August, and then will resubmit to the county.
The county felt because of the current Covid rates within our area that those two particular areas are put on hold over the month of August, and we'll come back to that.
But it really brings out, we have two very serious and important goals. One is the safety of our students, our faculty, and our staff here on campus, that is paramount.
The second is about providing the absolute of excellence and education that Moorpark College always does for our students.
And we're balancing these two. As President Sokenu says, we're about mitigating risk here at the campus and providing absolute educational opportunities for our students. So courses will begin next week and we will have as many resources available to help our students.
One of the biggest things you can do to help our students at this point is be sure that you reach out to them this week
before classes start. It's going to be so different for them. They won't be able to come into class or come in, looking around, deciding this is the class they want or whatever.
So we need you to reach out to them so they understand expectations for the class, what to do, so they feel welcomed. This is a very
scary time for most people, and they're really looking at you for leadership. So please reach out to your students, send them your syllabus, send them a greeting.
Whether you're online or hybrid course, you're reaching out to your students and forming a connection there is so critical. And we know that's what you do so well.
So we really appreciate all the effort over the summer. The joking about where did the summer go, absolutely.
And most of you have spent much of it getting prepared, all of our faculty and staff, the management working on trying to be prepared for this fall because this is a critical point for most of our students here. So thank you to all of you that you have done on that Amanuel.
Amanuel: Yes thank you Mary. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back to fall semester. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you... [Audio stuttering]
[Audio stuttering] this, but I want to [Audio stuttering]
virtual, [Audio stuttering]
[Audio stuttering] President to Julius
[Audio stuttering] and also want to thank...
Mary: You want to start over again? I think we kind of lost you there.
Amanuel: Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me?
Mary: Much better. Thank you.
Amanuel: Um, so I want to say we kicked off our first
Virtual new student welcome this morning with Julius Sokenu, Dr. Sokenu, giving a warm welcome to our new
Students...and I want to thank...[Audio stuttering]
team...[Audio stuttering]
[Audio stuttering]
taking classes on it and really just getting integrated virtually because we usually bring them on campus and we can do all those fun activities. But our team did a wonderful job in ensuring that they had all the information they need as they transition to the fall semester virtually. Also
wanted to remind you that our student services syllabus will be going out this afternoon to all faculty and to the campus. So please look out for that.
And it will be an additional information you can use in your classrooms, in your classes, and also distribute information to our students. So please look for our
Student Services syllabus that'll be going out today. In addition to that, we are opening up our new Welcome Center, which is a virtual Welcome Center.
And while we're doing that. I'll put the information on here in terms of phone calls, if students have questions,
if they need to still register for classes, if they have any concerns, if they need counseling appointment or any resources,
the number for them to call is 805-378-1400. I will put that information in the chat that you can share with students.
We are trying to create a more welcoming environment virtually where all of our phone calls and all of our students are connected to someone virtually and also via phone,
whether it's appointment, whether it's getting on cranium cafe and getting someone or a faculty or staff answering questions for all of our students on campus for the fall semester. And also just a quick reminder counseling and EOPS will be open Monday through Friday,
and closed at noon on Friday, we...
[Audio stuttering]
Will be open on first, third, and fifth Wednesday of the month, and also on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. I'll also put that information on the chat.
By appointment only, for medical care that cannot be treated by telehealth, and they'll be determined by the Student Health Center staff, there is no walk ins.
The rest of the appointments will be done via telehealth. So please look for that information that you can distribute our students. So once again,
thank you for all the faculty and staff that were here in the summer and making sure we are ready for the fall semester and welcome back to the new year.
Mary: Thank you, Amanuel. I think that there was some problems with your audio.
Amanuel started off with a thank you to all the people involved in the New Student Welcome. There was a great turnout, lots of exciting, hundred
plus students on a couple of different days, to welcome the new students to come, welcome them to Moorpark. This was a virtual
New Student Welcome and students seem to really enjoy the process and all of that. The second thing he talked about was that we are having a new Welcome Center.
The number, he's going to put in the chat: 805-378-1400. This will allow someone to directly speak with students to help direct them to wherever
would be the best place to meet their particular needs. There was a lot of information about when student health would be opened and how it would be
through appointments and telehealth, as well as the hours for Counseling, EOPS, we can put that in, in the chat and we can also make sure that that's posted on the Web, so that people can have that.
Well, thank you Amanuel, for putting that in there,
for everyone. A couple of questions from the group that had come up before we move on, to John, people wondering when the campus shells will be opened for our students.
Usually that's opened with the first day of class.
Someone could correct me if that's not but usually the students only can get on to that at that point.
The question dealt with Office Hours. That will be addressed in the division office letter that goes out to everyone basically we're following what's in the contract which says that
for online courses, two of the five required hours can be at the scheduled as according to the student and the faculties needs, the other three need to be posted and published. So we're going to be following the contract on that, and that will be further defined in the division
letter that goes out to everyone. There was a concern about funding for CARES. Jennifer, do you want to address that question?
Jennifer: Sure...so I don't know the specifics of the question, but I can tell you that yes CARES funding, CARES funding, the institutional CARES is the primary purpose of the funding is to help us to pay for
the transition, right, the instructional transition. So what kinds of things are we having to buy, software, technology, whatever,
in order to transition our courses online. So I'm aware of a number of different purchases that have been made, both on the software side on the hardware side,
in order to make that happen. So I again, I don't know the specifics of this question, but CARES funding is flowing for those purposes.
Mary: Thank you Jennifer, there was also one more question too before we move on to the operations part, that if you hear from a student concerning not wanting to come on campus for the
very few online pieces that we do have, please direct them to their instructor and their instructor will work with them.
We all know that we need to have options for students, the faculty have been working really hard to try to
define which outcomes require some kind of an on ground component, but we do want to have options for students, so have them speak with the instructor and who will work with them to try to meet their needs.
John, can you go over some of our operation plan with us?
John Everlove: Yes, good morning, good afternoon. Thank you Mary I appreciate
your time and putting this together. I'd like to thank the executive team for their continued support.
And also recognize all of the staff and faculty that have been working through the summer and assisting in this process, helping the guidelines development phase of the planning phase.
You've, you've heard the term a lot operations now, and that's because we are transitioning from that planning phase,
with our guidelines into what we call the operational phase or the process with which we're going to go through to
execute these guidelines in a day-to-day operational process.
For those of you that haven't heard it enough and haven't seen it enough, we really have to emphasize that our guidelines are designed to
protect the people and the facilities at Moorpark College, so mask wearing is imperative to that.
It isn't just the, the person you come in contact with on campus, it is the facility that you're coming into contact with, the rooms,
the doors, the bathrooms, whatever it is that you're interacting with on a day to day basis, requires that mass be worn at all times to ensure the safety of everyone
around. So in those few moments over this past week or so that we've seen people on campus not wearing masks,
most of the time, there's a position that "I'm not near anyone, therefore, I shouldn't have to wear a mask," and I just really want to emphasize that we're protecting the facility and the property too
from cross contamination issues, so mask wearing is is vital to slowing the spread of the Covid 19 virus. It's a bare minimum essential that's been established by several different aspects of the Department of Public Health,
and that's why we've embraced it, so wholeheartedly on Moorpark College's campus. So as we move forward, if you have to come on campus for any reason, please again,
make sure that you're wearing a mask at all times, from the moment that you leave your vehicle, to the moment that you get back in your vehicle to leave the campus.
Some of the operational plans that are being put into place are going to roll out this week. One of them, we'd like to highlight is the screening app.
The link that is within the Ventura County Community College District screening process, that app is found on the app store or in the iTunes Store in your iPhone.
It is the MyVCCCD app. Once you download that, you'll create a profile for it. Once you create a profile, there'll be a link,
effective Wednesday, August 12, and that link will be the screening process that you'll utilize come on campus, so
if you, if you've downloaded the app and you can't find the link that's okay, that's what they're working on right now.
But we encourage you to have some experience with that before the first day that you have to come on campus.
Make sure you're familiar with it, and again, recognize that that app is a daily screening process that the link must be completed every day that you come on campus.
The information regarding the app itself and the link itself can be found in the guidelines that we published in numerous locations.
If you haven't reviewed those guidelines, since you last first heard about them, we encourage you to go back and take a look at them again,
just to familiarize yourself with what's going to be required to view coming on Moorpark College's campus.
To make it clear, as we roll out through this operational period, that this is when we start enforcing that mask process,
in making sure that everybody is compliant, the screening process will be effective on Monday, August 17 for those persons coming on campus and applies to students, faculty and staff.
Just like to take a quick moment to recognize the staff that have been on campus and all of the members of the admin team that have been working throughout the summer,
and continuing to maintain the inner workings of the college, and facilitating classes and support services while we've been going through these guidelines.
They've been doing the work while we've been coming up with the right answers for the plan, and I really appreciate their support.
But come August 17, this is the time when we need to really start executing those guidelines and making sure that people are compliant to decrease risk.
I'm going to discuss a little bit about the phone app and the lack of access to it. Some of you have shared concerns that you may not have a smartphone,
that is compatible with the needs of this app, this community college district app, and therefore the screening process.
Some of you have expressed concerns about personal information, and so the screening process is mandatory,
the phone app is mandatory for those that can complete the process. But for those that can't that's why the checklist is included in the guidelines and a paper format,
and we really want to limit the contact that we have at the screening tent location.
So if you have the ability to print out that document that checklist, on daily basis and bring it with you completed showing us that you're
not symptomatic and you don't meet any of the guidelines to stay at home, then we can take your temperature at the screening tent location, fill it in on that worksheet and submit the worksheet in lieu of doing the app itself.
But the more contact we have and the less compliance we have with the app itself, the less functional this process is going to be.
So again, that's really only reserved for those people that don't have access to the phone,
don't have the ability to complete it using the device that they have, and therefore must use the paper based process.
That form again is found in the guidelines packet and we encourage you to print it out if you need to and you identify that you'll be using that throughout the fall and just to reiterate, that's a daily process, and every day you come on campus that, that screening form must be completed.
Today we had the opportunity to do a campus walk through, and complete the finalization of the tent locations in accordance with our map. The setup for the tents and how where you're going to staff those and manage those tent locations,
again focused on safety and security for everyone coming on campus, the screening tent locations have been confirmed.
They are in the locations that are described on the map that was included in the guidelines. There will be power to facilitate lighting during the winter months,
and all of the needs that we have for a screening staff, as well as social distancing during the screening process, and security for those people coming onto the campus.
All of our screening locations are in close proximity to handicapped parking locations for those people that need it, and therefore, we've managed to come up with a system,
that is consistent with the needs of we believe those persons that are coming on to our campus, regardless of the challenges they may have.
In reviewing our mask policy, our screening app policy, and our tent locations and our screening process and procedure,
we've confirmed that they meet all of the guidelines or exceed the guidelines, sent out on Friday from the Department of Public Health.
We did not find any challenges in our planning strategy or operational procedures with those new or latest updates, if you will.
All of the things we're doing are absolutely consistent with what they want to see, we're right on target with meeting the safety and security needs based on what we know about the virus,
and we also have procedures in place and steps in place to, to modify what we're doing, if we need to.
The parking locations or parking lots that are going to be open, those also have been confirmed,
and I'm going to go through them real quickly, but just a reminder, they're actually on the guidelines still that you received either as a link or can be found on our website,
and that is the Performing Arts Center parking lot, the Music building parking lot, and the Academic Center parking lot,
and finally, the G lot, which is just adjacent or south of the Academic Center lot.
Those locations can be found on the map, the titles of those locations can be found on the Moorpark College map, and I really encourage you to develop a plan before you come on campus on Monday,
to take classes, and encourage your students to come up with a plan have, have an idea of what their timing's going to look like, recognize the traffic will be a little heavier,
if they've come onto campus during the summer, once we roll everything out on on on Monday. So, as faculty members, we are all challenged with coming up with new
procedures for a daily routine, in light of these new locations and the screening process, and we are planning accordingly.
The guidelines are formalized and they are designed to be submitted with your syllabus to your students.
So communication we believe is really the key to success and making sure that all of the students coming on campus, your support staff or any of the department
people that you work with on a day to day basis, kind of have a good understanding of this information and feel free to share it with them as needed.
I see some of the questions are coming up on the chat room, we'll be happy to address those. But we really want to thank everybody. It's been a part of this process and the ongoing commitment to the safety and health of the students, faculty and staff at Moorpark College.
Mary: Thank you John, for all that information. One of the questions that maybe if we could
have asked you right now, whether the the guidelines as far as posting them with the syllabus, would it be perhaps like a single page with the link on it that they could attached to their syllabus, would that be something that we could do?
John: Yes, so that's what I was going to do with my courses, is I was going to include a link. I also
am looking forward to the Canvas shells being open for classes and which I'm going to make it part of the Canvas process,
to inform everybody of the expectations. Whatever you feel is the best fit for you, I encourage you, though, to share them at whatever level that you think it's appropriate.
Mary: So maybe we can work on a common sheet because it's going to be very critical for information that the students have this
information as far as the guidelines, but also far as an enforcement, by putting them in our syllabus, which is our contract with our students, we're empowering
the enforcement of some of the components, and so it's very critical that the mask piece and the guidelines are clearly laid out for the students and linked with your syllabus. So,
maybe we can work on getting that information out so that the faculty can either include it in the syllabus or attach it as part of the syllabus.
And the question about where we can find the maps that show the screening locations,
I believe that will, can you tell us where that map will be?
John: Yes, thank you. So the map is part of the guidelines packet and I appreciate your suggestion, I think the link to the entire packet is the most helpful,
and allows people to have the most comprehensive understanding of what's expected on campus, the map
Is found at the back of that, of that packet. But also, we've got a great team working on a multimedia and social media platforms
to make sure that they're clearly listed on our web pages. You'll see those links start to pop up here in the next day or so, it will give specific locations of the screening tents and hopefully facilitate a better daily routine.
Mary: Thank you so much, John. Brian, will you, can you give us an update on what's going on for Flex and Convocation this week?
Brian Burns: Absolutely. So good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. So yeah, this is, well, starting Tuesday is the official start for Professional Development week for for 2020 so I wanted to
go through the schedule and talk, you know, give you some some quick information about that as we're going to get started.
Starting tomorrow is our first set of sessions. So as a reminder, our theme here for for professional development in 2020 and 2021
is dancing in the storm: finding and developing innovative solutions in challenging times.
So I'm really looking forward to this week. This is a new way of doing this. I think this has been a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, putting it together.
I really want to take this opportunity to thank all the facilitators who have been, you know, helping me to build the program, all of my colleagues on the PD committee, all of our leadership here at the campus,
innumerable number of people have really contributed to making this happen. So I wanted to make this clear that this is absolutely a group project and a group learning
opportunity for for all of us. So, as Mary had mentioned that all of the PD sessions will be online, which means all of them can be recorded, and posted to the PD website, you know, once we will go through and ensure
captions and audio transcripts are...well, I'm sorry, not so much captions but, but audio transcripts we'll make sure that those are accurate and...
so that's, that's really something to look forward to. I'm just going to, and I'll let all of the facilitators know this to have they'll be getting an email about this today,
all of the sessions also will have an evaluation component where towards the end of the session, you'll get a link to do evaluations for the sessions. Those links are, those evaluations are really helpful and
for me and for the rest of the PD committee to take a look at
you know, what can we do to improve and get better, because of course we're all trying to adopt that growth mindset to improve our offerings as we go along as well to serve our, our campus community.
So if we go to the next slide, please, I can start showing you, you know, the schedule. So the schedule for tomorrow,
we're seeing, you know, at least two sessions per, per time slot here, towards the end, we have, you know, three.
And so we're starting off with Academic Integrity Practices and then a separate session on Advanced Canvas Tools. Oh, sorry. I should have mentioned this earlier. So
you should have this morning because I started my email as well, you should have this morning, gotten the full program booklet
sent to you that it's the slightly updated one. One went out on Friday,
another went out on Sunday, and one went out just this morning as well. So all of those have information in terms of the, the detailed information for each of the sessions but will also include the links, the
the Zoom links to join each of those sessions. So you should have already gotten that. However, at the end of my presentation here, I'm also going to in our chat
share a link for the online version of the book. So the book has been uploaded to a Google Drive,
and then I can just share that link with everyone in the chat, as soon as we're done here. So you can have that access to all this information as well. Again, that will include
the Zoom links and more detail information for the sessions. So again, I just wanted to run through the schedule real,
real briefly and there was some changes. So a couple of weeks ago, I sent out a save the date, and so there are some some slight changes you might notice from the save the date so
you know, please, the booklets that you've received on Friday and Sunday, and then today, this is the official schedule. Right? So
please focus more on those, and the Google Doc, the reason I put that up one, because that I could update live as we go along. So that's the most updated one as well.
Okay. So, as we said, at nine o'clock, we have our Online Academic Integrity Practices and then also Advanced Canvas Tools and then the next session dealing with Creating Accessible Content, dealing with quite a different kinds of content.
So (coughs) that will be from a team of instructors. I think that's the session that, you know,
I mean all the sessions are super important, that's one I'm going to be attending, you know, pretty much the whole time myself, but also Canvas Studio, which offers some really cool creative tools to increase
engagement and what are some really fun and interesting things, creative things that we can do with Canvas, through Canvas Studio that's, I think, a really key
element to what we're doing in terms of enhancing student retention and student success. Then we're going to have some online management and some other online tips about working with Canvas and other online tools also a presentation about the CVC-OEI Rubric,
about, you know, advanced course design, Canvas tips, things like that, some, some really important stuff coming up there. A presentation, this is a session for our Service Employees International Union,
and then later in the afternoon, Behavior Intervention Team.
Our...and this is a really important one too, we're going to be, you know, we over the summer, as you saw, probably saw lots of different emails about this over the summer,
that we have updated the moorparkcollege.edu website, it's got a lot of new features. I find it a lot more user friendly, now, and so we're having a presentation
from some of our folks at the district, navigating this new the new website and learning more about updates and,
you know, this has been a really collaborative process of building up this updated website, and we're looking forward to building on to that. In addition to that, also towards the end of that session that will also be a short conversation
about, you know, from from our marketing folks, talking about branding and social media, you know, if we are making updates to the websites to our programs and other you know community facing, student facing things,
what are some tips and ideas for increasing engagement and clarity in our messaging. And then a session,
this one I want to point this out, the AFT session goes from 2:00 to 4:00, instead of 3:15, just pointing out that they wanted the extra time.
And that second half is, well basically it's, you've got an email, everyone all the faculty should have gotten an email about this particular one, but it's pointing out the extra time for for the AFT was till 4 o'clock instead of 3:15.
So, okay, if we can have the next slide please? So here we have Wednesday. So Program Planning in the morning at 9 o'clock, and also
you know, more information about our college, Moorpark College operation plan,
from John Everlove, and so this is going to be a lot of the information we were just talking about now, but having a dedicated session to it will offer us more opportunities for, to getting into more detail and
more conversation about that. So, and then at 10:30 a session from our, our Student Health Center, talking about, especially thinking about mental health, equity minded
services for our students, were thinking about, also, we're gonna have some conversation about self care, about reminding,
you know, you as faculty, reminding me as faculty, and reminding all of our classified staff as well,
that as much as we're really, you know, dedicated and focused on student success, and I agree with all of that, if you are not taking care of yourself,
you're not being your best, and so that's an important thing to consider when we're talking about self care and taking care of of yourself as well.
Excuse me, then Academic and Classified Senate Planning, and this is going to,
this is a new one, I really wanted to draw attention to this one, because this one didn't go out with the, the initial save the date from a week or so ago.
So from 1:00 to 3:00 on Wednesday, we're going to have this drop in session with our ACCESS office, and that's not necessarily like a setup lecture type one, this was more about
opportunities for us to, to talk with some of our ACCESS office staff and have conversations about, you know, policies and questions, and resources ACCESS can do
obviously, since almost all of us are going to be online. There's going to be some questions, going to be some concerns about how to serve our students and how to address ACCESS concerns. So that's what that session
is really for, so bring your questions to that session or just come to that session and maybe someone will ask a question and you hadn't considered before. Right? So either way, I think that, that session is going to be really useful for for all of us.
And then SLOs eLumen software, some, some really important updates when it comes to SLOs and the ways that we're reporting those.
And Zero Textbook Cost, more conversations about resources that we can, you know, reduce barriers, enhance student success, important work like that.
And then in the evening, Adjunct Information Session, and that's the one that I run, so I normally I'm running around behind the scenes, this one I actually run, the 7 o'clock Adjunct Information Session and
I mean, everyone is welcome to that, by the way, that one is geared for new adjunct faculty, but you know, I've discovered pretty much
faculty who have been here many years still come to that, and they still find it useful. So I want to extend that invitation for anyone.
But, you know, even our full time faculty, if you'd like to join us, if you'd like to share some of your thoughts and insights. Certainly, everyone is welcome for that, or I'm not going to put up any kind of barriers to that session. (coughs)
So I just wanted to to make that invitation clear, especially anybody on the call right now, to, if anybody is our new faculty
or new full time faculty, you certainly you're welcome to join that session as well, even though it's, it is geared towards adjuncts, but our new full time faculty are certainly welcome to join that as well. Okay, so if we can have the next slide please, for Thursday.
And I'll just kind of run through these last ones, you know, somewhat more concisely. So we do have on Thursday, this Guided Pathways update and MC Success Teams. So remember what we were going to do on
stream spe- screen...that's hard to say...spring strategic planning
was going to have a lot of conversation about Guided Pathways, unfortunately, we had to cut a lot of that out because of
you know, our circumstances. So here's an opportunity for us to learn more about Guided Pathways that way we're rolling this out and
so we see that we actually have two Guided Pathways sessions. The first one is a more kind of generalized Guided Pathways one,
and the second one, in the second hour at 10:30, is more for classified staff, but again, anyone is welcome to attend either one of them, it's just that the focus will be slightly different from one to the other.
But we also, at 9 o'clock, have a session on Information Literacy and the Online Classroom, and that's from from our colleagues in the library,
and that will include a Canvas module that you might want to include in your courses, for anybody involving a research practices and, you know, other important
elements when it comes to information literacy
So again at 10:30, so working with students on Zoom. And so I think this one is going to be really cool, because as a student panel. So this is going to be talking about
what were student experiences like as we transition to Zoom. What is some of the research showing us what works best for students, what does not work for students, and, in particular, we are thinking about our students on Zoom, who are
you know, how do we work with students with all of our students. So in particular, students with disability, there are some some some opportunities to to be really mindful of those students. So I think that's an important
really great opportunity to have those kinds of conversations.
And as a reminder, you know, as I'm looking at these I'm thinking to myself, "Man, I want to go to all of these." And a reminder, these are all going to all be recorded. So even if you miss a session, you will get a chance to, to still, you know, watch the recording or and or read the transcript.
So then later in the afternoon at 12:30 our Teaching Women and Men of Color Advocates, do note the name change,
and that, that's mentioned also in the program booklet, but yes, so we used to, it's still the same group, teaching men of color advocates, but it has now been expanded to now be teaching women and men of color advocates so that's and they'll talk a lot about
our really great opportunities we have to serve our students of color and to really advance,
you know, student success and student equity. And then Curriculum Committee as well, really important work being done there. And then the afternoon, so Zoom Accessibility Best Practices,
Sabbatical Information, and then, this one I want to draw attention to because this is, you know,
I mentioned this before, but I just want to emphasize this one as well, so, we have our Data Science CTE workgroups that's a new program
through CTE, the Data Science program, and that's going to be a really exciting interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary program on the campus,
and so that session is going to be talking about that program, but also asking for folks
who want to get involved with that program, that's a, additionally, they'd really like to invite folks to, to add their input, expertise
and that sort of thing, so that's not just a matter of sitting and listening, this is also opportunities for getting involved in that program as well. And again, all tthis information is in the da- in the
program booklet, but I just wanted to emphasize that. So, um, and then yeah, Zoom and Accessibility Best Practices, that's going to be from Matt Spinneberg and
Rena Petrello, so that's going to be a really great opportunity as well, to thinking about our students and making sure all our students can be successful.
Okay, and the next slide. So I'll wrap this up. So this is Convocation. And so we see, you know, I'm not going to being super
detailed right now with the schedule on Convocation, but I do want to say it's really exciting. You know, I, I've been working with a number of different folks and
to come up with a program where it's really not just going to be us sitting and listening, we're going to have speakers, we're going to have videos,
we're going to have a dance break, you know, in there from from some of our Dance faculty. So it's really, we're making an effort to make a dynamic, to make it engaging,
and to have some opportunities to hear from lots of different folks, including students.
So we'll have some student voices, we'll also have some, some updates some conversations from our
social justice work groups. So I'm really looking forward to the convocation. You know, this is a new way of doing it, doing it online, but we're hoping to to make it
really exciting and really a lot of fun and engaging. And then, of course, we're going to have Academic Senate general meeting and then division or department meetings.
So one thing I did notice in the chat, somebody asked a question if we haven't gotten an invite for our division meeting,
yet, then I imagine you'll get that in the next few days, you know that, that will just be coming from your division, so keep an eye out for that. You know, I saw just this morning, the one for my division, for example, so
that's coming. In terms of the Convocation link, so right now, everybody should have that on their,
we'll send that out as a calendar invite, in the same way that we do these campus updates, you'll get the link for,
for the Convocation, again it'll be similar to this web, this webinar format that we've been doing, so you'll be getting a link for that we'll send that out on campus, we'll put that on everybody's calendars,
and so that's that's forthcoming and hopefully in the next few days. So that's a PD week and I'm really looking forward to having, you know, everyone involved. Thank you very much.
Mary: Thank you, Brian, can you tell us one more time, where we'll go to see the
the copy or the recordings from the Professional Development week?
Brian: Right, so we will have, there is a dedicated Professional Development spot on our website. So I can link I could post all the links to there, but I can also, you know,
in multiple places, whatever works for people, of course, I once I have all the links, I can put them in this to a nice link, a list and to send that out to the whole campus, so anybody can watch that on their own time, but I can also park it
on the PD website, and, you know, whatever else, it seems like a easy place for people to get a hold of, you know, somewhere that we can all access the information quickly and easily.
Mary: Thank you, Brian. Julius with the semester coming and with all that's going on, do you have some words of wisdom for
us, at this moment, huh?
Julius: Words of wisdom, yeah.
Hold, it's going to be a bumpy ride. [laughs]
First of all, I do want to thank everyone who has really, I mean, we float around the term, hero's journey and we refer to everybody as heroes, these days, but I have to say, you know,
the transition in the spring, required heroic activity on the part of everyone involved
um, and that has transitioned or has continued, sorry, through this, the summer and the faculty members who participated in the DE certification, kudos to you.
You know, I've spoken to a couple of you and folks have, you know, regaled me with stories of how involved, how intense, but how fulfilling the experience has been
and I just wanted, I just want to say a very big thank you to those of you who participated in that and to those of you are continuing to participate in that,
over the next couple of days. I know it is a, it is an opportunity for us to put our best foot forward with our students.
One of the comments that they made over the spring semester was that, you know, they appreciated the swift transition, but we need to do some more work, in making sure that everybody has facility with the technology,
and that's what that does. So, facility with the technology and really engages us in the work of which will really do in terms of teaching and learning. So I appreciate that, um,
a couple of things that I just noted, that came to my mind as I was listening to the to the update, I read somewhere this morning that 40% of folks who are
asymptomatic of the, with the Covid virus,
will at some point, infect others, 40%.
Now, so when we have this conversation around mask wearing, the conversation around mask wearing is really for the end, at the end of the day, to protect the common good.
That's, I think that's the easiest way to understand it, we protect ourselves we will protect the common good. As you engage students, as we engage colleagues, as your engagement with the community on our campus,
please bear that in mind.
Please, please, please do not, do not, try and enforce mask wearing, even though we know it's important,
please do not try and enforce mask wearing. The strategy that Mary tells us will work, is that we have a mask, we will have masks that every station and we'll have them all over campus. And if somebody is not wearing a mask, we can say to them, "Here's a mask."
And I think we said we ordered 4000 of those, right Mary?
So they have the Moorpark College logo on them. We have 4000 of them that is coming from the college, and then we have other masks that are coming from various locations, the Chancellor's office from the State Chancellor is providing masks,
SEIU is providing masks, you know, so that should not be a barrier to success or barrier to making sure that we mitigate risk;
um, important, important. Please, please, please do reach out to students, reach out to students in your classroom, reach out to students in your programs, reach out to students in your department,
reach out to students who are student workers, who work for you. The significant feedback we got from the spring semester is that students sometimes felt abandoned.
Sometimes, not always, and so we want to avoid that recreating that scenario.
We also know that faculty and staff and administrators were empathetic, they reached out, they were flexible, they were innovating in making sure that we tend to meet the needs of our students.
And as you know, those needs are changing, they're dynamic, and that we are all there for one another.
So I ask that you please if you have not had a chance to send an email to the students in your classroom, you've not had a chance to talk to the students in your program, send a program wide email.
If they're in your classroom, send an email out to them, once our Canvas shell is available, hopefully be available soon enough to do that. Right? So all of these pieces make a difference. Students wants to feel connected. We want to feel connected and tr-trust me,
we're all kind of floundering around with this. So the more we can reach a lifeline to anyone who is need of help, even if they don't articulate it, the better we will be as an institution.
Frequent and consistent, consistent contact. One of the data points from the, from the fa- from the spring semester a recent survey conducted by the
the RP group for the California community colleges asked students if they were choosing to come back to school.
in the fall, and this is a Moorpark, there are students across the the system, but this is a Moorpark specific data.
18% of our students said they wouldn't be coming back in the fall, 18% of students surveyed, I should say,
because they were concerned about their finances, they were concerned about work- life balance, they were concerned about being able to afford to do this work of being in higher education.
Those 18%, we may not see them, but we will see a lot of students and those students at some point they experience might have the same thoughts that those 18% have.
Please, please, please, be a blanket around them, support them, be available to them, direct them to resources, but also provide them with options.
I know that faculty and staff and program folks are flexible, they're innovative. This is not the semester to be rigorous, to the point of not being empathetic. Please, please, please keep supporting our students to be successful.
Adjunct faculty,
Brian mentioned the adjunct faculty workshop on Tuesday evening, I believe it is. It is...Wednesday. Is it Wednesday? Mary: Wednesday.
Julius: That workshop as how the tradition of low attendance in the past few years,
and we really would love to see more of an adjunct faculty members participate. It was initially designed for new faculty,
but, as Brian said quite often, actually we had more veteran faculty, more veteran adjunct faculty than we had new ones.
We really do want to engage and reconnect with our adjunct faculty members, please, please, please reach out to them, let them know when that's taking place, and escort them there if you need to right, it's on Zoom, so it's easy to escort them there, give them the link.
And then we have about new, nine new faculty members joining us this, this semester. This is the beginning of the beautiful journey with Moorpark College,
and so we ask you to please, um, welcome them. I cannot imagine starting to my academic career at an institution and everything is done online. I can't even imagine it.
So our hope is that each one of us in our positions, will reach out to folks who are new faculty and staff and administrators and reach out to them and tell them you're here for them, that you're available to support them.
I hope to see you in some of those workshops over the course of the weekend. Definitely, I look forward to seeing you during the
Convocation on Friday. And again, please take, take care of yourself. Brian is right, self care is where we start. Thank you very much.
Mary: Julius. I'm sorry. Julius, would you mind, there's been some questions about the mask. Um, so we do want, masks are required. We do want them written up in the syllabus that students do need to wear masks.
People from the community, everyone on our campus is expected to be wearing a mask, whether they're inside or outside of the buildings.
Um, your comment about not enforcing it. I believe you were talking about,
confrontationally enforcing.
Julius: Yes, yes, we do not want situations where someone gets into a shouting match with a community member or a student or even a colleague, who is not wearing their mask.
My hope is that, you know, practice and the practice, we expect to put in place is we'll offer people the mask,
and if they don't take it we'll tell them it's our, it's our practice on campus, and if they don't do that and then become belligerent, we'll call campus police and campus police escort them off the premises.
That's our practice. Now, that doesn't mean campus police will be chasing around everyone who is not wearing a mask and giving them a citation.
What we hope is that by being exemplars of good practice, that others will learn from us what we hope is that by providing them access to a mask,
folks will take them and utilize them, and if someone takes a mask every day they come here and they take it, they take them home and start and start selling them on eBay or wherever, we're okay with that as long as we're all safe and happy, that's good.
Mary: Thank you for that clarification.
Um, well, we wish you all a wonderful day, and we will see you in all of these wonderful activities this week and with Convocation on Friday, and have a fabulous new semester and we will see you all on the next update. Thank you all. Julius: I was going to...
Mary: Yes Julius.
Julius: I just, just came to my mind.
One of the questions we've been dealing, we've been addressing, or attempting to address is, if we continue these updates over the course of the fall semester.
So I was actually going to let's do a poll, but we'll do it, we'll do that at some other time. But if you can please communicate, maybe you might put a yes or no, in the
Q&A, we're looking at either doing these every week, as we've current, we're currently doing or changing them to every two weeks.
Mary: Julius, people could raise their hands if you want them to. If you would like them to. They could go to participants and raise their hand if they were interested in update continuing.
Julius: Yes, thank you. So if you could raise your hand if you wish it be a weekly basis like we're currently doing,
through the fall semester or if you'd rather that we continue this will do it every two weeks,
that would be helpful for us so that we can plan accordingly, it takes a lot to put these together, we want to make sure that they're meaningful,
that they're useful, but that we're also effective in our uses of the campus resources. So your feedback is helpful, we'll probably do this again on Friday, at Convocation just to get a sense of,
you know where people fall, but, we would appreciate any insight you can provide us regarding that. Thank you.
Mary: So for a weekly, do you want one hand and two hand or how would you like people to do that?
Julius: Oh, yeah.
Let's, I mean, let's just, let's try to like, I don't know if it's two claps for every two weeks, and one hand for a weekly, I'm that's, yeah, that might be, let me see what, what it's looking like in terms of people's insights...
Mary: Okay, we'll, we'll send out a different one. We'll send out, put it on with the next one instead.
Julius: Okay, I see people saying every other week.
We'll send out a more scientific looking things, [laughs] folks can do that.
And... Mary: I'm just about everybody's hands up. When I go through the attendees Julius.
Julius: Okay. Mary: Not, not everybody's, but I'm seeing a large number,
And...
Julius: So we'll have a record somewhere of the votes.
Mary: Yeah, maybe about half, looks like.
Julius: Thank you so much, everyone.
Mary: Have a great day. Thank you all.