Four members of ACC’s Board of Trustees traveled to San Francisco in October to attend the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) 40th Annual College Leadership Congress. ACC Board Chairperson Nan McRaven, Vice Chair Allen Kaplan, and Trustees Tim Mahoney and John-Michael Cortez were among more than 1,500 community college leaders who gathered for the conference. Read more here.
We had a great Data Retreat on October 30th, with our external facilitators of the Achieving the Dream component of our Student Success Initiative. Over 100 faculty and staff participated, including 45 full-time faculty (including the faculty-elected coaches). As I have noted before, Student Success Initiative is the coordination of the many success initiatives the College has in place, with the goal of increasing our use of data to drive program and service improvements. The data used at the Retreat is now posted on the Student Success Initiative web site at: http://www.austincc.edu/oiepub/pubs/data_retreat.html
Don’t forget to buy your tickets before they sell out. Tickets are now available for the Friday, December 4th ACC Faculty and Staff Holiday Party. Tickets are $10 and are being sold at all campus cashier’s offices. The party will take place at the Doubletree Hotel, 6505 North IH 35 (near Pappasitos), at 6:30 p.m. – midnight.
Contact Dahlia Anzaldua at 223-7595 or anzaldua@austincc.edu for more event information.
An easy way to give to the ACC Foundation and shop for those holiday presents is by going through www.GoodSearch.com. As one of its designated charities, this Yahoo powered search engine will donate half of its advertising revenue to the charity designated by the user. Use it as you would any search engine and help raise funds for the ACC Foundation General Scholarship Fund. Every search raises more money!
If you do your holiday shopping online, go to www.GoodShop.com, the online shopping mall. This site also donates a percentage of each purchase to the designated charity. Hundreds of stores including Amazon, Banana Republic, Dell, Best Buy, HSN, eBay, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kodak, and many more have teamed up with GoodShop.
To fund GoodSearch, go to the ACC Foundation website – www.austincc.edu/foundation. Scroll down the menu on the left and click on Ways to Give. There you will find the link to GoodSearch. It is a great way to help our students.
The second Fall Yak ‘n Sack Meeting with the President is scheduled for Thursday, November 12th at 2:30 p.m. at the Northridge Campus, Room 3140.
Additional information can be found on the Yak ‘n Sack website: http://www.austincc.edu/pres/yak.php.
Hope to see you there!
Employment
We are delighted to welcome these New ACC Employees
who started November 2nd!
Name Position Campus
Jeffrey DeLeon Technician, Computer Support PIN
Margaret Hernandez Assistant, Student Services NRG
Stephanie Howley AVP Student Success HBC
Sylvia Matthes Cashier SVC
Patricia McCreary IA (II) – Child Development EVC
Teresa Pedrosa Assistant III, Administrative SVC
Claudia Rodriguez Assistant, Child Care EVC
David Simmons Assistant, Lab RGC
Donald Wright Technician, Computer Support HBC
Vice President’s Office
AR#6.08.005 Resolution of an Employee Complaint or Grievance
The Administrative Services Council approved and the President signed on May 26, 2009, a new policy on AR #6.08.005, Resolution of an Employee Complaint or Grievance. This policy represents significant changes to the practice of resolving complaints and grievances.
For more information on the Complaint and Grievance process please visit the Human Resources department website at http://www.austincc.edu/hr/vp/grievance.php.
Professional Development training will soon be offered for all employees.
State Employee Charitable Campaign
Human Resources would liek to sincerly thank each and every one of you for your particiapation in tis year’s SECC. Your involevemt in the campaign is critical to the mssion and success of the charities invloved in the campaign, many of whim depend primarily on the generosity of state emlyees for support. During these challenging ecoomic times, it is ever more critical that wwe assist those in need in our community. A grand total of the donations will be annouced in next week’s Connection. Thank you for your consideration of this program.
Professional Development
ACC Leadership Awards Program Nominations—Deadline Extended!
It is time to nominate one or more of your colleagues for an ACC Leadership Award. This is a perfect opportunity to let your colleagues know that their leadership and dedication to ACC and its students has not gone unnoticed.
The ACC Leadership Award program is intended to recognize individual employees who have demonstrated excellence in the performance of their College duties and responsibilities. Individuals to be nominated should have played a leadership role in efforts that delivered substantial benefits to ACC as a whole, to a community served by ACC or to another external population. The following awards will be given to a deserving nominee this year:
Classified Employee of the Year
Professional Technical Employee of the Year
Administrator of the Year
In addition, special President’s “Above and Beyond” Leadership Awards may be given each year:
The nomination deadline has been extended to November 10th.
To learn more about this awards program, the nomination process, or to submit a nomination, please go to http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/awards/.
InfoStream
What’s New with Spring Development Day?
Holiday Spending – Simplified Acoustic Alchemy: Enhancing Instruction through Music
Free Streaming Videos
All this and more in the latest
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