Subject: Instruction Notes 02/12/04
From: Jack Turner
Organization: Cabrillo College, Office of Instruction

Instruction Notes 02/12/04

Instruction Notes
The focus of the Spring 2004 flex week was student learner outcomes. My hearty thanks to all participants and presenters for the success of all flex activities, with special thanks to Marcy Alancraig and Rory O’Brien. Our commitment is to assist instructors and departments as they develop student learner outcome strategies.

Spring 2004 late registration continues to the end of the week. Please make every effort to channel students into your classes. As you know, growth funds from the state are predicated on student numbers and critically important to our future. Thank you for your hard work.

Just a reminder – Measure D bond information is available on the website http://www.yesonmeasured.org

Cabrillo Extension Extends Employee Discount
Cabrillo Extension is extending the 30% Cabrillo employee discount to Tuesday, February 17th.
If you register by this Tuesday (or before), you can get this discount on two registrations up to a maximum of $50 discount per class. This excludes motorcycle & traffic school. Among the many classes offered, day-long computer classes will be taught by instructor Suzanne Mann, whose evaluations from students say hers are the "best computer classes they have ever taken from anyone, anywhere." Access, Excel, Dreamweaver MX, Power Point, Intro to XML, SQL Queries, ColdFusion MX and VBA (Visual Basics) are our spring Extension classes. Quickbooks is also being offered by Cabrillo adjunct instructor Carol Jensen, who specializes in financial aspects of start-up businesses and has taught this class for over 10 years. Classes run from February through May. (The registration for the beginning Access class taught on Feb. 20th will close on Thursday, February 12th.) Please check our Cabrillo Extension website for a complete listing of classes at www.cabrillo-extension.org or call
479-6331 NOW to enroll. Read more about instructor Suzanne Mann on our Extension News link http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/extension/news.html#hooked.

Admissions & Records
Reminders from A&R:
Census Reports were distributed today, 2/12/04.
Faculty members please be sure to sign all add slips and that all sections numbers are correct.
The last day to register for full term courses is February 21. For Monday only courses, the A&R staff are referring
students to the proper division since the second Monday for all classes is a holiday, complicating the deadline dates.

African American History Month
The Cabrillo College Library celebrates African American History Month with an exhibit of artwork by two African American students, Verna Mae Carter and Fadhill Rauf. The library also invites everyone to explore the web sites we have made available on a link from the library homepage at http://libwww.cabrillo.edu.

Announcement from Richard Griffiths
Some students with disabilities (physical or mental) fail to identify themselves to instructors until a problem arises. For example, a student failed an exam; afterwards he disclosed that he had been having frequent and exhausting seizures, which interfered with his ability to properly prepare for his exam. Another student had a diagnosed learning disability, which involved a visual processing weakness that caused her to misread directions on an essay exam; since she misread the question, her answer was unacceptable. An announcement and a syllabus insertion at the beginning of each semester will encourage most students to reveal a disability to you – particularly if their disability is “invisible” (epilepsy, learning, psychological, etc.). I offer the following as a sample statement faculty could use in the syllabus: “I encourage students with disabilities, including “invisible” disabilities such as chronic diseases, learning, and psychological disabilities, to explain their needs and appropriate accommodations to me during my office hour. Please bring a verification of your disability from the Learning Skills or DSP&S offices and a counselor or specialist’s recommendations for accommodating your needs.” This statement will not only help to solve problems before they occur, but also make the student with a disability more comfortable in your classroom. Thank you, Richard Griffiths, LD Specialist.

Educators in Industry
Cabrillo staff, counselors and instructors,
Join Us! for Educators in Industry MARCH 2004
Step off campus!
See what is “out there” for your students!

FBI
San Jose Office Tuesday, 3/2 @ 3:30 – 5:00 (limited to 10)
NASA Ames Research
Moffett Field Wednesday, 3/3 @ 2:00 – 4:00 (limited to 12)
Raytek, Inc.
Santa Cruz Wednesday, 3/10 @ 3:00 – 5:00 (limited to 15)
Shadowbrook Restaurant
Capitola Tuesday, 3/16 @ 2:00 – 4:00 (limited to 12)
Agilent Technologies
Santa Clara Offices Tuesday, 3/18 @ 3:00 – 5:00 (limited to 10)
Monterey County Herald
Newspaper Thursday, 3/11 @ 3:00 – 5:00 (limited to 12)
NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.)
Freemont Tuesday, 3/23 @ 1:00 – 2:30 (limited to 15)
Fresh Express
Salinas Wednesday, 3/24 @ 3:30 – 5:00 (limited to 12)
Double Tree Hotel
Monterey Thursday, 3/25 @ 3:30 – 5:00 (limited to 12)

Sponsored by Region V School -to -Career grant funding
Coordinated by Your Future Is Our Business
Sign-up NOW at www.yfiob.org (go to EVENTS Page)
Space is limited.
For additional information please contact:
Stacey Smith,
Your Future Is Our Business, Program Administrator
831-477-5651 - stsmith_at_cabrillo.edu

CVC Online Course Conversion Guide Available
CVC is pleased to announce the availability of the "Online Course Conversion Guide". This is a fully online self-paced workshop designed for faculty who wish to convert their on-site courses to one of three levels of webness (web supplemented, hybrid or fully online). This online workshop walks faculty developers through the steps to convert a face-to-face course to a fully online, hybrid or web supplemented course using strategies to ensure pedagogical soundness. By the end, faculty will have at least one section of content converted and ready to put online, and will have a conversion plan for the remainder of their course. After taking this course, faculty may want to take the Introduction to Teaching with Blackboard, ETUDES, or WebCT to learn how to design their course structure and upload their content in the course management system used by their campus.
This workshop is accompanied by a Flex Report Form, enabling faculty to generate a report summarizing their participation for Flex or Staff Development purposes. To register and access this workshop, please visit: http://training.cvc4.org/train/course_conversion_reg/course_conv.asp . To review a list of CVC training, please visit
http://training.cvc4.org/train. Please direct questions to: Ann Moore CVC4 Program Manager anmoore_at_cerrocoso.edu, or call 760 384 6239.

March Cabrillo College Visual and Performing Arts Events
Across the River and Into the Woods: The Dance Performance
Date: Weds., March 3 (Free Performance)
Time: 1:00 pm
Dates: Thurs., March 4 – Sat., March 6
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Cabrillo College Gallery
Fee: $5.00
Info: 479-6308 or 479-6589
Dance performed in and around visual artwork by Thekla Hammond. The Rose Pieces combine music, theatrical text and dance; performed by dance faculty, students and professionals, and choreographed by Rhonda Martyn.

Cabrillo College Music Department Faculty Recital
Date: Fri., March 5
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Cabrillo College Theater
Tickets: Available at the door
Info: 479-6315
A benefit for the Music Scholarship Program.

Celebration of the Muse
An Evening of Women Authors and Poets
Date: Sat., March 6
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Cabrillo College Theater
Tickets: 479-6147
Special benefit for the Cabrillo College Fast Track to Work Program.

Celebration of Youth Music
Cabrillo Strings/Suzuki Music Program 25th Anniversary
Date: Sat., March 13
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Cabrillo College Theater
Fee: $10 general, $6 students/seniors
Tickets: 479-6331
Info: 479-6228
Music for strings and choir; conducted by Susan C. Brown. Composers Ray Brown, Susan C Brown, and Fred Squatrito. Featuring special guests Cabrillo Youth Choir, conducted by Cheryl Anderson.

Cabrillo Strings/Suzuki Music Program for Children
Private lessons for violin, viola, cello, and string bass are offered during after school hours. There are also group lessons in beginning through advanced string orchestra, beginning ensemble, and chamber music on Fridays scheduled for eight weeks. For more information and a brochure, call 479-6101.

The Fourth Annual Calabash Awards
Celebrating Ethnic Arts in Santa Cruz County
Date: Sun., March 14
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Cabrillo College Theater
Tickets: 479-6331

David Graham’s World:
Taking Liberties, Land of the Free…and the State of the Union
Date: Fri., March 19 – Fri., April 23 (closed April 5 – 9)
Time: Mon. – Fri., 9:00 am – 4:00 pm; Mon. – Tues., 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Place: Cabrillo College Gallery
Fee: Free (donations accepted)
Info: 479-6308
Reception: Thurs., March 18, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Artist talk immediately following reception.

Double Bassist Barry Green with Pianist/Composer Larry Dunlap
Date: Fri., March 19
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Erica Schilling Forum (Bldg. 450), Cabrillo College
Fee: $18 general, $14 senior, $12 students
Tickets: 479-6331 or
Streetlight Records, 421-9200, 941 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz
A concert of unique popular music that will delight the audience—hearing the bowed bass in a way they likely have never imagined. Featuring the swinging Baroque/Larry Dunlap arrangement of the Birkenstock Sonata plus a jazzy Carmen Fantasy by Frank Proto. The second half will include the evocative atmospheric music of Francois Rabbath, Reitba from Africa and Poucha Das from India, Tony Osborn’s Jazz Suite, plus the world premiere of Tony Osborn’s Gershwin Fantasty.

Drawing, Silkscreen, Etching, and Prints by Lise Crowley and Kate Hoogner
Date: Fri., March 19 – Fri., April 23 (closed April 5 – 9)
Time: Mon. – Thurs., 8:00 am – 7:30 pm; Fri., 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm
Place: Cabrillo College Administration Building (Building 100)
Fee: Free
Info: 479-6308
Reception: Thurs., March 18, 4:30 – 6:30 pm

Dan Walters: At last, community colleges getting a measure of respect
By Dan Walters
Published 2:15 a.m. PST Wednesday, February 11, 2004

California has the full-time equivalent of nearly 1.7 million students attending classes in its three systems of higher education. The prestigious University of California handles about 200,000 of those students, while the California State University system takes in an additional 340,000. But that leaves the remaining 1.1 million students - two-thirds of the total - to the community colleges. When it comes to money, however, the proportions are far different. UC and CSU together spend about $1 billion more than the entire community college system, most it from the state's general fund.

Four decades ago, when the state was adopting a master plan for higher education, it was envisioned that community colleges would provide accessible, very-low-cost instruction to lower-division (freshman and sophomore) students, who would then freely transfer to the four-year colleges to finish their bachelor's degrees. The community colleges have played their designated role magnificently, even courageously, but for various political reasons have seen their status and financial support desolve. The four-year systems often erected arbitrary barriers to transfers of community college students and used their political clout to soak up operational and construction funds.

Proposition 13 in 1978 sharply reduced the community colleges' property tax base and left them at the mercy of state budgets - but in competition with the far more powerful K-12 political coalition.

Proposition 98 in 1988 solidified the latter situation, and as the K-12 establishment flexed its political muscle, community colleges were routinely shorted on their rightful share of money. And the decentralized community college system, ostensibly operated by locally elected boards and represented in Sacramento by a very weak state governing board and chancellor's office, never got its political act together.

Things began to turn around a bit for the community colleges two years ago. When then-Gov. Gray Davis almost offhandedly slapped them with another reduction in state funding, thousands of students and faculty members marched on the Capitol and the cut was reversed. They haven't exactly become trendy in a Capitol dominated by more entrenched rivals for money and attention, but community colleges appear to be getting some long-overdue recognition for their cost-effective delivery of higher education.

President Bush included $250 million in his new budget for underwriting job-retraining programs at community colleges. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - who once attended community college himself - actually proposes to raise state financing of California's community colleges sharply, despite the state's financial problems, while cutting enrollment and state aid to the four-year systems.

The four-year systems and their political allies are howling about this turn of events, of course, but it makes a lot of financial sense to redirect scarce resources to the system that delivers the most bang for the taxpayer's buck. And it shouldn't stop there.

If we are to handle the coming wave of higher education students in an era of stagnant budget resources, shifting more of the load to community colleges makes perfect sense. Nor would it be a dilution of quality. The dirty little secret of higher education is that lower-division students receive just as good - and perhaps better - levels of instruction in the basic required classes at community colleges as they do in four-year universities.

We'd be better served to take the hundreds of millions of dollars that the University of California wants to spend on a questionable new campus at Merced and spend them, instead, on expanding the capacity of community colleges, along with a commensurate shift of operational funds. We should entertain the notion of raising fees on lower-division students at four-year colleges - and perhaps lowering them on upper-division students - to encourage more to attend community colleges. And the governor and other politicians should do their bit to encourage, in word and deed, raising the prestige of the two-year system.

The community colleges are win-win for taxpayers and students, and we should alter our official policies to reflect that fact.