Mary Rees: Good afternoon. Welcome to Moorpark College Campus Update. We'll give people a couple of minutes to come and join us. So it'll be just a minute or two before we get started.
Good afternoon. Just another minute or two, we still have a few people still joining us. So we'll be just a minute before we get started.
Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Moorpark College Campus Update for August 23. The start of the second week of our fall semester. Yeah. Huh?
On the agenda for today, we're going to talk about the vaccine. We're going to be talking about health safety protocols updates around the campus and a focus on our Teaching and Learning Center.
Just a reminder, that the update is recorded and it will be posted on the President's web page.
Also, that the webinar is closed captioned. If you would like to see it closed captioned, please click on the CC at the bottom of your page and as we're going through today, if you have any questions,
please just put them in the Q&A and we'll do our best to either answer them today during the webinar or to answer them and put them on the recording and the posting on that. So good afternoon Julius.
Julius Sokenu: Hi everyone. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. A nice sunny day out, not blazing hot. I want to start off by thanking those of you who helped put together our flex week, our professional development week, and
coordinating those activities through our Professional Development Committee or in the work, the wonderful, marvelous work
Brian Burns,professor of English has been doing. And again, did a phenomenal job this year with all the things coming back and so on and so
forth. And I really do appreciate the work that every single individual who participated, by presenting or attending and supporting those presenters. And I know this is a HyFlex
opportunity for many of us. Like everything else, you know, change happens and we roll with the punches and we pivot as we need to and again, example as of.
not only diligence and innovation, but you share that about Moorpark spirit. So thank you for that. Thank you to the folks in our
Maker Space for making the buttons and for
print shop who printed documents, as well as
fans.
I do want to just extend a thank you to the folks who helped set event up, as well as the folks from
M&O, who helped set up and did the event.
We are as Mary said, in the second week of the semester. I know there's lots of questions and more questions added to the
list. As you may have heard this morning, the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine. So it is no longer on
emergency use. It's a regular use and it's great that, that opportunity has presented itself and has come to fruition. And so again, as we've been saying we encourage anybody who can get the vaccine to please go ahead and do so, and particularly in light of the
vaccination mandate from our Board of Trustees. Next slide please?
As you all know, the board approved as of August 10, a vaccine mandate for employees and for students. And students and employees are required to the vaccinated against COVID-19 by October the 15th of 2021.
And there's an eight week period given to allow individuals to find vaccination, get vaccinated, for those who can get the Moderna or the Pfizer give them an additional two weeks
to I guess, for vaccination to take full effect as well as the J and J folks. For all of us the opportunity to get vaccinated is opportunity to secure
the safety and well being of the campus community. Will the vaccination stop breakthrough infections? No, but we know that 0.014% of those who are getting sick and going to the hospital
are vaccinated, the rest are unvaccinated. So the delta variant is really a pandemic that has impacted unvaccinated than vaccinated.
Again, because we know that the variety of reasons why people may not be able to get the vaccination, they're medical religious exemptions that are
being provided. That documentation will be going on in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that there is a form that you can fill out. It will be forwarded through HR
and it will be available for students, as well as employees to complete.
The process for employees is through HR. So medical and religious exemptions will go through HR. The process for students will go through for the medical will go through our Student Health Center, they will make a recommendation to our VP of
Student Support and then that recommendation will then
support the decision whether to grant or not grant a medical
exemption for student. In terms of the religious extension that process will go through our behavioral
intervention and care team. Our BIC team, and they will review the documentation, as presented in the religious exemptions form
and make a recommendation to the Vice President of Student Support as well, and then that will become in effect after his review. Very important for us to note that if you cannot get the vaccination, you should pursue one of the options if that's the case--
medical or religious exemption. If you do not, If you cannot be on campus.
That is the case right now. If you have a medical or religious exemption, you can be on campus, but be on campus
mask on, like everybody else, but also, you will need to be tested on a monthly basis and Allison will talk some more about that as we progress.
There are upcoming vaccination clinics that will be taking place on campus and I think it's really important
for those of us who have not been vaccinated best to take advantage of that, but equally as important or more important is to sort of reach out to our students
and our colleagues, so that folks can get vaccinated and do so in time for the October 15 deadline. So if you get the J & J vaccination by October 1, that gives you sufficient time to be
fully inoculated against the virus, because if you take the J & J it is 1 shot.
The more you delay, then the more of a challenge to meet the deadline. Once the deadline happens, in the case of employees, the practice
is that district was saying to your letter saying you have not met the
deadline and you'll be asked to make sure you do so within a certain time frame, after that, or else there'll be disciplinary action. So
this is serious and and I do hope that we will go ahead and take action as soon as possible and as best supports all our well being. So I will turn it over at this point to Allison, who can then speak to us
regarding safety and
health and well being.
Allison Barton: Well, good morning everybody. So I'm sure that these are now becoming familiar sites to everybody on the call this morning. The first thing is
just to see this poster here with the masked students and employees on it and just seeing kind of the progression of all the things that you're doing to help our
campus stay healthy and safe, making sure that you do a self screen with the app. And I'm encouraging people to do that at home before even coming to campus.
The reason why is because if you happen to have a red pass or a glitch or something like that, that you can contact us and we can help you with that before you make the long trip to campus.
Sometimes people are unaware of that they've been exposed to somebody with Covid, they haven't read their email yet to let them know they were exposed to Covid, and that's why you might have this surprise red pass.
That can actually happen during the day as well, if you were exposed in the middle of a day or
we find out in the middle of the day that you've been exposed, your pass can turn from blue or green to red and we have to interact with you to find out what your exposure was, and if you're having symptoms and stuff before we get clear it, if you are already vaccinated.
You'll receive a wristband, as you know.
And then every time you, well when you check into a screening station you're going to check in with the QR code that's at the station and that just tells us where you went through.
That helps us track also how many people are going through that station. So if we need to change staffing a little bit or something like that
that we'll have that information available, but you need to check in to QR codes, where you go in the day. So if you go into a classroom
you need to scan the qr code with the app. And we don't have a way of checking out of there, so checking into the next place will check you out of the previous place. And just be aware that checking in
the default is three hours. So if you've checked into AC 201, for example, you're checked into that classroom for three hours just by default.
To check out of it, you would need to check into another space. That's one of the reasons why we have you have you check in
from place to place on campus. So I think that's probably enough for this slide. Maybe next slide please?
There you go. So many of us have been experiencing these stubborn gray passes. And this is a lot of information on a slide. Michael's just put the link to this very document in the chat.
I don't know if you have a Covid folder on your laptop or your desktop, I have many but,
this would be a good one to tuck in there, in case you are a student or having a problem with getting rid of a gray pass. What is it stubborn gray pass? Well,
if you check your app in the morning, if you check your pass, campus pass before you do your daily screening form, you will have a gray pass.
And that just means that you haven't checked in yet, but sometimes you've checked in and done everything you're supposed to do and you still have that darn gray pass there.
And so, this little hack for getting rid of it is just to check out of Moorpark College's app, and check into another one, and then check back out. It's sort of like rebooting the app.
And that works most of the time. These are very detailed instructions for doing that. It's very quick and easy to do. If that doesn't work
sometimes you need to delete the app and re upload the app. That usually takes care of it, if this little hack doesn't work for you. And, of course,
we send this out probably, I don't know 20 times a day from the Student Health Center, because it's a really common occurrence.
It happens most often with older phones or for phones that don't automatically update apps. So those are the two common reasons why you might have a stubborn gray pass. Alright, next slide please?
So just so you're aware there is on campus Covid 19 testing in the observatory parking lot Monday through Friday 9:00 to 5:00.
This is also where our next Covid vaccine clinic will be on the 9th of September, and you can always go to the
VC Recovers website to find out where there are other vaccine clinics, but
it's pretty easy to get a vaccine pretty much wherever you live. CVS has them. Walgreens has them. Lots of Vons have them if they have a pharmacy.
People are just getting vaccinations and all those kinds of places. So that's a good place to check out and find out where you can get
a vaccine. Alright I'm going to break here to just answer some of the questions. "So how are you notified if you were exposed to Covid?"
We send out an email to everybody about was either in the QR code at the time, or if they were in a classroom at specifically in a classroom.
That's how we let you know and so it's a good idea to check your email. I hope everybody's checking their email at least a couple times a day.
"So is scanning QR codes in all rooms mandatory?" So,
not every space has QR codes, right, because most people just dip in and out of them, but the mail room is an example of one that does not have a QR code, however, the admin building does. So, when you come into the admin building, you should scan the QR code, go get your mail, do whatever.
You should check into QR codes when you enter indoor spaces, and the reason is partly, because it tells us that you're there, but also it checks you out of the previous space.
"If the code is red, should we inform the Student Health Center?" Yes please.
And that's why it's one reason why it's nice to do that before you even get to campus because sometimes we have you turn around. If you're not vaccinated and we're exposed to say somebody in a classroom that
reported a positive Covid test and you're not vaccinated, you will have to quarantine. That's just the way it is and we wouldn't want you to have to come all the way into campus just to be turned around.
And then the other thing is, we like to ask you if you have symptoms and we want to encourage you to get vaccinated and those sorts of things too.
Alright, so let's see Lydia. So you asked a question. "Oh boy, that will be difficult to remember," Do you mean remembering to check your
email?
Mary: I think they're concerned about the three hour time concern Allison.
Allison: Oh.
Mary: So if they're in a building all day do they need to recheck in?
Allison: No you don't need to do that. No, just come in the one time. You don't have to go in and out sorry, that's a really good question. Sorry.
Mary: There was a question about if you get a red pass, should you notify student health.
Allison: That's what I just said yes.
Absolutely you should and our number is right on the pass. So you wouldn't have to search for a
phone number anything. So somebody said, "Some schools are requiring employees to be tested regardless of vaccination status. Will this be something for us?" I cannot answer for the future, but currently, that is not the case.
If you have a waiver, you will be required to test weekly.
But other than that, you'll be vaccinated and you won't have to. Now could this change in the future? It could, but right now that's not the case.
And okay let's see, "What about protocols for immuno compromised individuals?" Doing all this stuff that we're currently doing right now is really an excellent way to
manage any sort of immuno compromised individuals. Masking. Handwashing. All of those things that we're already doing are really excellent ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"What if you had one shot and had a reaction and was not able to get your second one?" Depending on the reaction, if it was a anaphylatic reaction, then that's one
of the few categories for medical waiver and you would just have to have your physician or whoever is seeing you
complete that waiver form that julius will be sharing with us later. All right, "I apologize if I missed this, but where do students go to get the religious exemption?" I'm not
certain where the form will be housed. I think Julius will talk to us later about that or send out more information as we go. "My iPhone isn't registering the QR code."
That's because well, if you're using your phone camera that's why it isn't working, but the location QR codes all over campus that say the room number,
and then have a QR code those work only with the MyVCCCD app. Other QR codes around campus that direct you to this website, or that website, those are phone ones, but these ones just work within the app.
I don't have a good image for that, right now, but in the very upper left corner of that app, when you're in the home page,
there's a little, I guess, like a dot dash kind of square and that's the thing that you kind of click on that. It's the same thing that you click on when you come onto campus,
and that's how you can register the QR codes. Yeah so we answered that one. You just have to do it, the one time.
Okay, so again with the QR codes for location,
those don't work on your normal phone camera. You have to be in the app, the homepage of the app.
I feel like I need to send out a little picture of what this looks like so everybody can see, but in the upper left hand corner
there's a little square with the kind of a line through it, you click on that, and that opens up the camera of the app.
And that's how you scan those, those particular location apps. "What if exposure event after my 3 hours but I wasn't checked in anymore despite of the space?
And it depends on the situation, but we definitely do, like if you were in a classroom, for example, we would ask additional questions.
If you're particularly concerned and very worried about that, it wouldn't hurt you to go out and click on the QR codes, but it's also not necessary, but we would ask questions. We would find out more.
All right, I think that's all the questions we have for now, but I will be on the whole time.
Mary: Thank you Allison. Appreciate it.
Allison: Okay, so another big question that comes up is how to upload Covid test results. The link to this document is also in the chat
and it looks more complicated than it is. One thing you are going to make sure you do though, is have the write up or the little report of your
test results ready to go, because there's a little camera in the app that will capture the image of that. It needs to have, we cannot have
blocked out in any way your name, your date of birth, and the date of the test. We need to see that all of that information on there. Sometimes people have like little
app notifications, and they don't have their name and all that stuff on there. So it's important to go to the link for the results
and give us that information. The app does a really good job of leading you down the right path, you have to be in the right little part, you have to
be on the right tile. So if you can see up at the top, you have to kind of scroll over to the left a little bit, or left sweep to get go to the right
to check on uploading results. So that's a really common one. And so if you've been exposed and you're not vaccinated or even if you're vaccinated, we really do encourage you to get tested if you've been exposed and then upload your results there. Alright next slide please?
Okay, so not as many zeros as I like to report. We had nine people all together report positive cases over the last couple of weeks. And so this data is as of Friday. One came out of quarantine and then we added another couple. So we actually have 10 all together now and
most of them were classroom exposures, and so we had to quarantine individuals in classrooms that weren't vaccinated already or fully vaccinated. So full vaccine series plus two weeks.
So this is about the size of it. Nobody got their Covid from on campus exposures in this group. So we are doing a really good job on our campus of
limiting the spread of Covid, with all of the great things that we do. As more and more of us get vaccinated that's going to get much better.
So, but just to be aware. And thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading your vaccination cards. That's been great.
Please encourage your students, if you have students in your class or your path, please encourage them to get those
vaccine cards uploaded too. Now, here are the caveats to that,
if you're in a two shot series, and you haven't gotten your second shot yet, it's better to wait till you have your second shot, because we would have to call you and
all this stuff. So just make sure that your complete series is on there. It's helpful to wait till the two weeks after, because then we can verify it right away.
But if you're afraid you'll forget or whatever, that's fine just be aware that you won't be verified
until the two weeks after your last dose or in the case of the Johnson and Johnson, two weeks after that one dose.
But A+ on getting those sent in. That too make sure your name in your date of birth or not copied or not copied, not covered. Make sure they're not covered by your thumb. We've had a lot of fingers over identity information. We can't verify it if that happens.
I think that's all I have to say about that.
So if you haven't uploaded yet, and you want to know how to upload, that's another swipe left to get to the report vaccinations tile on your app.
And then you just follow the steps, just click "next", you say which one you've done, "next", and then you're just going to add a photo of your
card. Oh that reminds me this morning, I was looking through some of the vaccination cards and somebody uploaded a QR code that was maybe linked to their
vaccine record. And I wasn't able to use my camera to follow that link. So if that goes to... you have access to that by using that link, just take a screenshot or something of the actual information about the
your vaccinations status, and that will really help us out a lot. We weren't able to access that.
And I think that's all I have on vaccination updates. Just to give everybody just a big A+ for getting those up. We processed
almost 2,000 last week. So shout out, may I say shout out to Denise and Dena, who have just been working so hard to get those all verified,
and to Jessica and Marie, who have just been answering the phone like crazy and just really talking people through these processes. It's just a great staff here at the
Student Health Center. We're so proud to serve, but there's been a lot going on for sure.
Okay let's see here, what if there was an exposure event...
Oh, we said that already. Just a quick update as of yet... Yes, "So I understand that the ER's and ICU units in Ventura County we're on diversion." Yeah this is serious guys. It's really, really, now is the time, if you haven't done it already to get vaccinated.
It's one of the most effective, if not the most effective and safe vaccine ever, seriously ever created. And now
we have one, Pfizer that's been fully approved.
The vaccination drive at the college. So we have one vaccine clinic that's available on September 9 from 10:00 to 2:00 that's going to be at the
Covid clinics kiosk at the observatory parking lot.
"How often is the MC COVID dashboard updated?" I update it every two weeks. And this weekend I updated it. So that question it should be updated, it should be updated now I just put the
new image up.
All right, I think that's it for that. I think I've got all the questions. Do I have one more side, or is it back to Julius? Can you check?
Back to you Julius. Thanks so much everybody.
Julius: Thank you so much Allison. You can see that the Student Health Center is doing a great deal of work, making sure trying to keep us safe and secure on our campus through the work they're doing with contact tracing. I cannot
overestimate, I cannot speak highly enough of making use of the QR codes.
I know that there are folks who are concerned that you know big brother's watching and tracking them, trust me nobody's watching or tracking your movement across campus.
We don't have that capacity and to be quite honest there's no interest in doing that. I appreciate
the folks that are diligently doing that as they go to a building, as Allison articulated clearly, it helps us effectively contact trace. There's a question asked as to where students get information to access to the religious access form.
HR will sending out an email to all employees and our staff of the district very shortly with both the religious and medical exemption forms.
And it will also be on the website, so folks can access it. They will also be sending it out to students, an email out to students with those forms available for them to complete, but again, they will be available on the college website and on the district website.
So that's important to know. In terms of vaccine clinics, as Allison said, we do have that one coming up on September 9.
Our commitment is to have multiple vaccine clinics, between now and October 15. So we'll be working with Covid clinics, but also the Ventura County Public Health
to see how often we can direct those vaccine clinics and stack them and make them available to the campus community.
Allison I'm sure can direct you to other locations and in the county as she said, pharmacists across the county are
administering those vaccinations. As you all probably read last week on Monday, Chancellor Gillespie will be retiring as of June 2022.
We want to thank him for his continued service and commitment and diligence to those students and the staff and faculty and they administrators of this college district.
He is here through June of 2022 and tends to be and to continue to do the great work that we're doing and making sure that this college district meets its mission, serves its students, serves our stakeholders in
civic as well as social and business life, and we, as a college have stable leadership,
that we continue to do the work, while we're making sure we meet the needs of our students. So there's no need to be concerned about leadership and we are doing well or continue to do so. So I appreciate you. I'm going to pass it on to I believe,
Dr. Jennifer Clark.
Jennifer Clark: Good afternoon, everybody.
Glad we have a good group here. We have lots and lots of updates, lots of activity, as usual. Today, I wanted to just take a couple minutes to provide some additional clarification for the different
programs, incentive programs that we have for students and that is money. And these programs do apply across the district. So, Ventura and Oxnard have the same programs we do. So this is a district wide thing that we're doing. Next slide please?
So these are the three that I'm going to just hit real quickly. We have one to
re-engage students, number one, that's the 805 program and I'll go into that in a second. That's the last one to be released.
The other two have been around a little bit longer. The number two is the $1,000, as a student enrollment incentive,
to help our current students, our continuing students, and encourage those students to be enrolled at least half time, because that's the one that has the six unit
requirement, but I'll get into that in a second. And then the third incentive is specifically to get students vaccinated as soon as possible.
So $100 vouchers at the bookstore for all students that show their blue pass in the MyVCCCD app, they've been not only vaccinated, but verified. That it's actually in the system. So next slide please?
So the 805 program. This is the one that was recently launched.
It's the latest one there's not a whole lot of information out there on it, but this is really about re-engagement of students,
who were one students of ours, at least in the recent past. So these were students of ours in either the spring or fall of 2020.
So the spring 2020 when the pandemic hit, right? The fall of 2020 when we were all, a lot of us were at home, well into our remote working, as well as the students who were
just with us this last spring of 2021, who were not registered in the fall. And that is as of this last Monday, when classes began,
August 16, they were not registered. So these are students that we strongly suspect were somehow negatively impacted by the pandemic.
They were with us again, maybe a year before, maybe, six months before, maybe they took a class, maybe they finished the class, maybe they didn't.
Maybe in as bullet number one says, maybe they withdrew from the class. They were only in it for a couple of weeks or so and they withdrew and they got their money back
for whatever reason. These are the students that we want to reengage.
So if they were with us one of those semesters, those three semesters I mentioned, that's the first bullet. The second bullet is they were not registered in six units as of this last Monday, when classes began.
So if they had three units as of Monday and only three units, and they qualify with bullet one, and they register again like today, for example, they register for another three to get six, they could qualify.
Sorry the third bullet is registers for six units or more on or after August 16, which was again last Monday, when classes began or increases their enrollment.
So again, if students were in your class and they were registered prior to when classes began on the 16th, they're not going to be eligible, because they were already registered. These are students who are still not with us, or with us fully. So next slide please?
The $1,000, this one has been around for a little while. This is again, is for continuing students.
Students who again, are new to us or continuing, I should say it's either or. The only criteria here is that they're here in fall
and that they have six units or more. That is, it. They do not need to fill out a FAFSA or California Dream Act application or be a California Promise students, which is
formerly known as the BOG Waiver.
Those applications may help in getting their award awarded sooner, because as you'll note on this slide, students with the greatest financial need are awarded first.
All others are awarded after. So if we have students that, because of that financial aid application that they filled out, we see that they have an increased need, they are, and many of our students have already been awarded
this $1,000 already. If they are an existing financial aid student with one of those financial aid applications in the system. again they don't have to, as long as they have six or more units,
they will be contacted. So here's the thing, if they have not filled out a financial aid application, please let your students know they need to watch and pay attention to their MyVCCCD email. Financial Aid will be reaching out to let them know
that this opportunity is basically, the window is open for them, they'll click a link and they'll basically start the Bank Mobile process. So what will happen then is, Bank Mobile will be contacting them directly to set up disbursement. Do they want
a direct deposit disbursement? Do they want like a visa, like a visa card, like a Bank Mobile visa card?
Is that how they prefer that is the $1,000 disbursement? But that is between the student and Bank Mobile. So I would say
make sure f you can let students know they would be hearing from Bank Mobile. It's not spam. It's not a scam.
This is legitimate. And we'll try to get some information about that on the website, so that students are aware that is legitimate and that's the process.
Next slide please? So the last is the $100 incentive at the bookstore for students who are verified vaccinated.
They've uploaded their vaccination to the My VCCCD app and they have been verified. So they now have the blue pass.
They have, I'm sorry until September 2, so they have another
week and a half to contact the bookstore, show their blue pass the bookstore to get their $100 voucher, and they have until the end of September to spend that $100 voucher on whatever merchandise the bookstore sells.
And that is it for my updates, if there were questions.
Mary: Jennifer there was one question about what if a student registers for six unit and then drops one of them. What's the timing of getting the money?
Jennifer: So that's one of the, if they draw, actually,
so excluding the students who...the financial aid students, for example, the ones with great need that have already been awarded, if they were to drop
they drop, and we don't get the $1,000 back. In order to go in order to guard against fraud, because that has been a concern with with students who aren't real, with
sort of bad actor students who aren't really students, that's again, kind of built into the later disbursement. So this kind of also
is tied to our plea, and our reminders to faculty, in particular, to make sure you're monitoring
your students in your classes and monitoring any inactive students. I'm not going to give dates because I'm not the person to give dates, but there are certainly
students who are inactive for a certain period of time should be dropped, because they're inactive, they're not taking the class. And that would then help us with this problem
with students just sort of being enrolled, but not really intending to take the class just so that they can get money, because once it's been dispersed, we can't get it back, right? So it's a good question.
Thank you.
"The Bookstore voucher offered at OC and VC?" Yes it is.
Oh, thank you, Kim. That was Kim.
Based on attending hours, they don't receive $1,000 until all six units that started. Thank you, yes. If they have a late start class, for example, a September or October start,
we do wait until after those courses start, until they actually have six units that have started, and then that's when Financial Aid will begin the process. Thank you, Kim.
Mary: Thank you Jennifer.
As you can see there's just a lot of information going on, but I think the big thing we need to do is just to give a big pat on the back for all of us. The first week we have launched the ship.
We had a wonderful Flex week, Convocation as Julius was mentioning. As you're around campus. You can go to the next slide.
As you're on campus, the students are very anxious to be back. You see all of these happy faces. The gathering outside the FLRs.
As they come out of class outside the FLRs. And they're really, people being very good about wearing their mask, using their QR codes. It's really important we do vaccine, mask, QR codes, so that we can keep everybody moving forward.
It's time to make sure that you get your syllabus to the division office. Add codes begin.
If your students need or if you know students that need laptop, chromebooks, hotspot equipment,
the library. Natalie Sheehan will be able to help and Michael put in the chat the link.
So please make sure that you have students that you engage with that
if they have a technology needs, we really want to help loan them the equipment, so that they don't get behind in the class. So please, please help us get that out to the students, the message that we do have resources for them.
Preparing your classroom, make sure that you've got your plan B, whether, if you're teaching in the classroom or whatever you're doing, but particularly in the classroom.
Make sure that you're using Canvas Studio it's a great resource and there's a link there to show you how
to use Canvas Studio to post your PowerPoints, your lectures. So if you're teaching on ground, you can provide the the resources into Canvas Studio and have them there for students that might have
missed the class, if they happen to be being quarantined, then they don't get behind in the class for two weeks.
You can still use your Canvas even if it's a completely on ground course. Use your Canvas shell to upload your lectures,
upload your Zoom links, if you're doing a synchronous
classes for online, so that your students in case they miss things. You can also be sure to continue to have them submit assignments
online that way students won't get behind if they do happen to have to quarantine. That's the beauty of being verified vaccinated,
Is that if there is an exposure, unless you're symptomatic, you don't have to quarantine. Okay so that's a hugely important thing.
Do note the instructional technologists designer drop in, 4:00 to 5:00, Monday through Thursday with your questions. There are so many resources out there on the web that they posted to, to really help us all do the best we can reaching out and providing the students.
The best pedagogy to help them in their classes.
Thank you so much.
I think, on the next slide...
if you go to the next slide? So Amanuel, to cover for him just for today, these are some of the students service hours. Just want everyone to be
really aware of all of the work being done not only in instruction, both online and on ground or mixture, so that we meet the students where they're at, but we have absolutely incredible student service
opportunities resources for students, both online and face to face, so that all of the students needs hopefully can be met. And you can see, here we have hours during the day on ground or face to face, as well as
in the evenings. Most of the evenings go till 6:00 or 7:00. So we do have resources in the evenings for students, as well. So
the intent is really to meet students where they're at. Student Health Center is open Monday through Thursday 8:00 to 5:00.
And what we'll do is we'll get all these lists of all the times, hopefully, get them synchronized and get them all posted
so that it's easy to find so that the students can know that they can get the resources they needed either online or on ground, face to face, and that were there for them during the day, as well as we do have evening hours as well.
Thank you.
And our spotlight for today is our incredible Teaching and Learning Center.
Deb Brackley: Thank you, Mary.
All right, Hello Moorpark College. We are the Teaching and Learning Center, otherwise known as the TLC.
We are comprised of the Math and Science Center, the Writing Center, and course embedded tutoring. And you will see, after this presentation and after the semester is over, that we are here, there, we are everywhere to help support your students.
Next slide please?
So this semester we have everything that we offered last year, but even more. So last year we had the online component, this year we have brought on ground tutoring back.
And we just want you all to know that the TLC is following all health and safety COVID-19 protocols, so that we can help your students in their journeys, but also keep them safe. All right next slide please?
So there are some specifics about our on ground or on campus tutoring. Both the Math and Science Center and the Writing Center are on ground for in person tutoring on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
10:00 to 4:00. No appointments are necessary. We're doing all drop by for the in person tutoring. So just encourage your students to show up and we will be here to help. Next slide please?
And then backed by student demand, we surveyed our students and they loved this online option. So we are keeping this online option, as well as adding in the on campus tutoring.
And you can see our website for details. Michael Ashton will be putting in the chat that link. And so we are offering six days a week of online tutoring. So your students have many choices.
And if you take a look here, we've got lots of disciplines represented. You should see your discipline here.
We are covering a lot of different subject areas. If you don't see it, look at writing tutoring, across all disciplines. Anybody who's got any writing going on in their class, our writing tutors are ready to help.
And so please, if you see your discipline represented here, encourage your students to take advantage of our services.
All right next slide please?
And not only do we have on ground and online, but when we have after hours, we even have tutoring for your students, then, and they can access that it's called NetTutor.
They can get to it, access it through their Canvas shell by just clicking on NetTutor. And so we basically have tutoring covered seven days a week. So we want to make sure your students know we're here to help and that they are supported. Next slide please?
All right, a little blast from the past. Here is a photo, circa 2019,
of the Math and Science Center. I just want to point out those wooden chairs and those round tables and the masses of people. So it doesn't necessarily look like this now, because during our lock down, we had the Math and Science Center get a huge massive transformation.
Next slide please? And now we have a special treat we've got Rena Petrello, our
esteemed math faculty and... [Rena Petrello]: Hello.
[Deb]: faculty coordinator to take you on a virtual tour take it away Rena.
Rena: Thank you Deb. Here we are in the Math and Science Center. We are on the third floor of the library. You can see
compared to that before picture, from a few years ago, we are completely transformed. Look at this beautiful furniture. It was purchased through three consecutive years
of basic skills money. It took us two years to get all the chairs replaced. And then, of course, while we were away during the pandemic,
all the tables were replaced. Those old tables only sat five students. These seats, many of them eight students. And what's more, this building was built
during a time when people weren't bringing devices with plugs to school. So for many years we've had students, saying, "Hey where do I plug in my laptop?" Well look at these
tables and don't worry, we got the permission of all the students in this room that they might be in this video, but take a look USB ports and power ports. Isn't that awesome? So,
this is a beautiful space. Just want to point out, for all of your students who have any writing assignment as Deb was explaining...
Wave.
Those tutors over there are right next to the door to the Writing Center. There's another door, on the other side. So anything that happens here on campus,
is no appointment, just drop in. Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10:00 to 4:00. Finally, can I just show off my online tutors in the Math and Science Center?
They're over here waiting for us to say hi. Everybody wave. So we offer online tutoring in both the Writing Center and the Math and Science Center,
six days a week. Monday through Saturday as Deb was explaining. And in the Math and Science Center, this is also drop in. Tutoring is by appointment in the online Writing Center.
Last but not least, faculty, you might be looking for another place to hold your office hours,
have you been up here in a while? This is the most beautiful view of Moorpark and Moorpark College.
This video does not show it any justice, but I would argue, it might be a better view than what you get from home on your couch. Okay. Thank you so much
for giving us this opportunity to show off our space. I do want to take a moment to thank very important people, Mary, Amanuel, Julius, Matt, the SEA Committee, the Learning Support Advisory Committee. Thank you for supporting us with this transformation. Back to you Deb.
Deb: Last slide please?
Thank you Rena. So we just want you all to know the TLC cares. We care about your students. We are here to help. All of our tutoring is free to your students.
And they have lots of choices, online, on ground, NetTutor. So we encourage you to encourage them to take advantage of our amazing service. Our tutors are skilled, they're trained, they're ready to go and they want students to come in.
So we hope to see you and your students on the third floor of the library in the TLC, and I hope you all have a great day. Thanks.
Mary: Deb, Rena those are incredible opportunities for our students really to help them out.
There was a question, Rena mentioned about places to come and do office hours.
Please do check with the deans too, because we do have some offices, some spaces and classrooms in each of the different building set aside that can be used for part time office space,
for office hours as well. So do check on that as an option.
Other than amazing, amazing, amazing, those are the questions.
So.
Very cool.
Julius do you have,
other comments, or questions, or things to say to the campus? I think one of the big questions is what the specifics, as far as the vaccination,
and I know that there's a Q&A going to be coming out shortly that should help with that.
Julius: Yes, and the Q&A will address questions such as, what is our protocol for dual enrollment classes,
whether they be the ones on campus and the ones that the district, either local school districts. At local school districts, we follow the protocols of that school district. They are on campus. They follow our
district mandate, which is that all students, whether their dual enrollment students or they're Moorpark
College adult students, that we use that term, are vaccinated by October
15. I do want to really thank everyone who presented today. What you see is that the college is alive. The college's vibrant. We continue to do the work of meeting
the needs of our students. I know that we continue to survey students to get their feedback, of how well we're doing, and what they need from us.
And I ask that, as you our faculty and staff and administrators, have feedback and comments as to how we can better serve you, please let us know. That is our role. That is our job.
There will be so much that we continue to pivot and address as we go on, and it is incumbent upon all of us to be flexible, it's incumbent upon us to be patient,
it's incumbent upon all of us to be respectful of one another. We are all in this together. And we can only make it out, if we are
caring and supportive of one another. Thank you for your continued work. You will hear from us with the Q&A questions,
the frequently asked questions. You'll also be hearing from the college district, and then from us with the vaccination exemption forms. Have a great rest of the week. Thank you.