President's Updates

February 11 , 2005

Appreciation

Black History Month:  In honor of Black History Month, there is a terrific event planned for February 22:

Black Inventors
Gallery Theater
February 22
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Mr. J. J. Reed

In addition, thanks to the librarians for the exhibit in the library—check it out!  Finally, I know that many of the faculty will be recognizing the month in appropriate ways within their ongoing instruction.  For example, Bessie Vaughn has her students in an activity which comes from the book entitled And Don't Call Me A Racist!  The book is "a treasury of quotes on the past, present, and future of the color line in America," selected and arranged by Ella Mazel.  Meanwhile, a planning group for next year’s celebration is being formed, thanks to the efforts of the advisors to the Black Student Union—Pat Deamer, Salah Webb and Tony Jackson.  I have responded to the invitation to join that planning group, and I encourage others to do so as well so that we have a variety of perspectives from across the college involved and so that we can work together to institutionalize this important work. 

Prestigious award for Bio-Manufacturing program:  Congratulations to the following people:  William Watson, Director of the Center of Workforce Development;  Adolfo Leiva, Program Coordinator; Mike Williamson, Dean of Science/Math/Technology; Mousa Ghanma, Chemistry Technician; and Nick Kapp, Professor of Biology.  Thanks to their work, Skyline College’s Bio-Manufacturing Training Partnership has won the California Community College Association for Occupational Education’s Excellence in Partnership award for 2005.  This prestigious award will be presented at the opening ceremony of CCCAOE’s spring conference in Sacramento on March 2, 2005.  Skyline partners with the San Mateo County Workforce Investment Board, Genentech, and others to present an intensive bio-manufacturing certificate program to retrain dislocated workers from a variety of industries. 

Sponsorships for WOW!  Women on Writing conference:  We are blessed by a number of sponsorships for this year’s conference.

Other news and updates

Scholarship application deadline March 3:  As you have heard, scholarship application season is now!  This year, there will be approximately 110 scholarships awarded. Since the application deadline is March 3rd, please help us encourage all students to apply.  They can check it all out via the scholarship button on the front page of our website. 

Eight-week session:  We are gearing up for our 8-week session scheduled to start March 28, 2005.  It will include dozens of sections.  We are preparing a brochure/mailer to announce and recruit enrollment for our scheduled short courses and our newly added sections in response to student demand.  The list of new offerings is available at http://www.smccd.net/accounts/skyinstruct/short.html.                

Staffing changes:

Web Cam coming to the Building 6 site:  Soon we will have a web cam’s eye view of the progress of the work on the Building 6 site (the Student Activities and Community Center).  As soon as we have the web link for it, we will share it with everyone.


Victoria P. Morrow, Ph.D.
President, Skyline College
650-738-4111
morrowv@smccd.net
3300 College Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066