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President's Updates
Skyline Shines
March 17, 2006
Note to Skyline Shines readers: Beginning with this week’s edition of
Skyline Shines, I will be sending the email with a Word version of it attached.
I hope this will make it easier to access and read with full format for everyone.
Please let me know if you have any other suggestions for either the content
or the format of Skyline Shines.
President’s
Breakfast: The annual President’s Breakfast will take place on
March 23. This event provides funding for many valuable and unique efforts at
Skyline—special events and learning opportunities that our students will
never forget. If you would like to attend, please email Roxanne Brewer at brewer@smccd.edu
or call 650-738-4325. If you would like to contribute to the President’s
Innovation Fund, an easy way to do it that I like is via payroll deduction.
You can get the form for that at this address: http://smcweb.smccd.net/portal/Payroll/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Click “Employee forms” and then “Payroll deduction form--Skyline.”
Smoking Policy Forum: Thanks to the Academic Senate, the Classified
Senate and the ASSC for their work on this Wednesday’s Forum. It was well-attended—the
Gallery Theater had standing room only. The program was well designed to provide
the background on the issues and allow for open dialogue and our issues and
options. The College Council will discuss the ideas which came up at our meeting
next week, and we will keep everyone posted about next steps.
Skyline Students make 2006 All-California Academic 3rd Team: The All-California
Academic Team is a national competition sponsored by USA Today and the American
Association of Community College Presidents (AACCP). Two Skyline students will
be honored next month at the Community College League for being selected for
the All-California Academic Team. Lacey H. Slattery, 22, from Pacifica, has
earned a 4.0 GPA as a History major at Skyline College. She is President of
Phi Theta Kappa, Beta Theta Omicron chapter, and is a member of the Honors Transfer
Club. Lee Ann Marie Butler-Owens, 47, from San Bruno, has earned a 3.73 GPA
as an Early Education major at Skyline College. She is founder of Lullalee Productions
& Services (LPS) a non-profit organization that provides magical events
that promote story telling and reading.
Skyline student wins San Mateo County Legal Secretaries Association
Scholarship: Congratulations to Skyline student Sangita D. Dutt, who
won a $500 scholarship from the San Mateo County Legal Secretaries Association
(SMCLSA), a local nonprofit mutual benefit corporation consisting of legal secretaries
and law office support staff in the state of California with a variety of programs
and services. SMCLSA has approximately 2,500 members and 48 local associations
throughout the state of California. Each year the SMCLSA offers scholarships
to individuals in San Mateo County who would like to pursue a career in the
legal field such as legal secretary (including receptionist), legal assistant
(including paralegal), court reporter, and law office administrator.
Have you noticed those bright red class schedule dispensers around campus?
After the success of the bright red signs used during registration, Student
Services decided to go a step further by purchasing bright red dispensers to
make the Skyline class schedule more available to students, especially during
times when the college is closed. We have found that many times students and
their families visit the college after hours and are interested in some general
college information. Keeping with our “students-first philosophy”,
students no longer need to walk away empty-handed, but can leave the college
with a class schedule in hand. The bright red dispensers have been placed in
10 strategic locations throughout the campus: main entrance to the Gallery Theatre,
main entrance to Building 1, main entrance to the Main Theatre, main entrance
to Building 2, main entrance to CTL, Bus Stop area, both entrances to Building
7, main entrance to the Library, and at the entrance to Pacific Heights facing
Lot 5. If you happen to notice a dispenser that is empty, please give the One
Stop Information Center a call at X-4465 and we’ll refill the dispensers.
Thanks to the Student Services Leadership Team for the idea (Lori Adrian, Amory
Cariadus, Sherri Hancock, Linda Van Sciver, Maria Escobar, Doria Bernard and
Jennifer Hughes), Dennis Tordesillas who coordinated purchase of the dispensers,
and Manny Tablan for help with placing the dispensers around campus.
College Council update: here is the draft agenda for the next
Council meeting on March 22:
Council over the next year, to help ensure that they come to the Council
in a timely way, having been discussed by the constituent groups in advance.
The Planning Table will be discussed and revised as needed.
Coming up …
Saturday, March 18:
· Expanding Your Horizons Conference
· Women’s Badminton, 10:00 a.m. in the College of San Mateo Gymnasium.
Tuesday, March 21:
· Women’s Badminton, vs. Mission College of Santa Clara at 3 p.m.
in the College of San Mateo gymnasium.
· Men’s Baseball, at DeAnza College at 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 23:
· President’s breakfast, at SSF Conference Center at 7:30 a.m.
RSVP to 650-738-4325
· Women's Badminton vs. City College of San Francisco at 3 p.m. in the
College of San Mateo gymnasium.
· Men's Baseball vs. Canada College at home, 2 p.m.
Friday, March 24:
· Summer textbook requisitions due at Skyline College Bookstore.
For more on this week’s events, see the event calendar at www.smccd.net/accounts/skypio/calendar.html
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To add events to the calendar, visit www.smccd.net/accounts/skypio/events.html
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For more on this week’s events, see the event calendar at www.smccd.net/accounts/skypio/calendar.html
To add events to the calendar, visit www.smccd.net/accounts/skypio/events.html
Victoria P. Morrow, Ph.D.
President, Skyline College
650-738-4111
morrowv@smccd.net
3300 College Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066