President's Updates

March 11 , 2005

WOW! Conference:  It was a treat, and I want to add my thanks to those of the happy participants.  Many Skyline faculty, staff and students contributed to the terrific program and the higher than ever turnout at this year’s edition.  Thanks to all of these WOW! creators, organizers and supporters: 

Finally thanks to the dedicated faculty, staff, community leaders, and students who work all year to organize this event:  the Steering Committee and the WOW! Ambassadors. 

National award for The Skyline View:  Congratulations to the students on The Skyline View, and to the advisor, Nancy Kaplan-Biegel.  The paper won its first national award last week at the National Collegiate Newspaper Convention.  The award is Third Place in the 2-Year College Category for Best of Show.  Here is a link for more information:  www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/m05bs.html.

Skyline Stars: Transfer Student Hall of Fame:  Monday, March 14th is the Inaugural Induction in Skyline Stars: A Transfer Student Hall of Fame, which honors former Skyline College students who have gone on to achieve educational and career success. The event will be held in the Gallery Theater, Building One, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.  Light refreshments will be served.  RSVPs are required; call extension 4232. The Transfer Hall of Fame is a project funded by the President’s Innovation Fund.  You may also join Skyline colleagues and students on March 14 at Chevy’s in South San Francisco.  On that day, Chevy’s Mexican Restaurant, located at 141 Hickey Boulevard, is assisting the college with a fundraising event for our Skyline Stars: A Transfer Student Hall of Fame/Scholarship.  Chevy’s will donate 20% of your meal costs (lunch or dinner) purchased between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. that day.

Art exhibit by Skyline women faculty:  To coordinate with Women’s History Month and the WOW! conference, the Gallery Theatre is presenting an exhibition of the artwork of its women art faculty.  This faculty exhibit gives the entire college and the community an opportunity to see the work of some of the college’s working artists.  An assortment of media are being displayed including works of ceramic sculpture, mixed media sculpture, oil painting, photography and printmaking.  Art faculty exhibitors are: Aya Artola (teaches watercolor and design), Bridget Fischer (teaches art history and assorted studio courses, and runs the gallery), Jody Keane (teaches design, painting and drawing), Barbara Klutinis (teaches film), Ellen Lowenstein (teaches sculpture, art history and drawing), and Ann Curran Turner (figure drawing).  

The exhibit is open through the end of March, during these hours:

Monday             12-2
Tuesday            10-12 and 3-6
Wednesday       10-4
Thursday           1-3

Art on Campus Task Force:   Last fall the Chancellor expressed a commitment to supporting the installation of some art on each of the three college campuses in the district.  Each college is forming a task force to consider how to approach this opportunity, including the following aspects of the issue:

  1. What sort of art would be appropriate for the college (i.e. type of artwork—sculpture, painting, murals, etc., or about subject matter—famous people, abstract, diverse community, etc., or both)?

  2. What locations would be suitable?

  3. How should the college go about inviting proposals for art projects and selecting among the proposals?

  4. Other issues that the task force may identify.

The Art on Campus Task Force will begin its work right away.  It will not concern itself with raising funds for the project; the chancellor will raise the money to support this work.  No specific dollar amount has been identified as yet; that will await the completion of some preliminary work by the task force.  The membership of the task force needs to include people with interest and some expertise.  I would also like to ensure that it includes representation from both the instructional and student services areas of the college, and that there is diversity in the membership.  Ideally, some people with a sense of the college’s history along with some who are newer would be great. 

Please let me know by March 18 if you are interested in serving on this task force. 

Skyline College presents at the national League for Innovation in the Community Colleges:  The Skyline College Biotechnology program that was developed through the Skyline College/San Mateo County WIB/Genentech partnership was highlighted at the League for Innovation's 2005 conference held at Times Square in New York City.  Regina Stanback Stroud, William Watson, and the state Board of Governor's Career Ladders Project Director, Linda Collins, presented a college program model that uses a Career Ladders approach, and the results of the statewide research project based on the CCC Board of Governor's Ladders of Opportunity initiative.  Skyline College has been very involved with the Career Ladders Project.  Beginning when I was Executive Vice Chancellor working with the Board of Governors on this project, I have served on the project’s Advisory Board, as does Regina Stanback-Stroud. William Watson served as a policy advisory on the Career Ladders Project research team.  A copy of the PowerPoint presentation can be found at www.careerladdersproject.org.

 


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