July 13, 2005

New full-time faculty:  Two more of our faculty selection processes have been completed with the approval of the Board of Trustees:

• Norman del Prado, Telecommunications and Information Technology
• John Ho, Counseling
•  Leigh Ann Sippel, English as a Second Language

Please join me in welcoming them to our faculty.

New classified staff:  As you have heard from an earlier email, Steve King has joined Skyline as a Security Officer.  Please welcome him when you see him.

Former Skyline student athlete inducted into San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame:  Congratulations to John Moreno of Pacifica, a former student of skyline, who was inducted in late June into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame.  Previously he was a member of the Skyline College and San Francisco State University Sports Halls of Fame, as well as the Pacifica Sports Hall of Fame.  He was one of the top 10 Northern California male runners of the 1980s, the nation’s 10th fastest marathon runner in 1985, and the California Distance Runner of the Year.

Two Skyline students win national awards:  Lee Ann Butler-Owens and Valerie Higgins, both Skyline students and scholarship winners here, have been selected as Two-Year College Coca-Cola Scholars. They will receive $1000 awards from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundations. Each two year college in the United States may nominate two students to compete for no more than 400 scholarships. The uniqueness of these awards and the prestige associated with them is that the principal criterion is the quality of a minimum of 100 hours of community service that applicants must have.

Chris Case receives Mosal Award from national Phi Theta Kappa:  The Mosal Award was created to promote scholarship, leadership, and service among chapter advisors and is one of the ways the organization recognizes and rewards excellence. The Mosal Awards annually recognize outstanding professional achievement, and encourage and support individual development through a professional growth project.  The award includes a $5,000 stipend to support the project, which should potentially benefit the winner’s community college or faculty colleagues.  Dr. Case is recognized for the award in the inaugural edition of Visionary, a new publication of Phi Theta Kappa.  She will use her Mosal Award to complete a project entitled "Problem-based Learning in Biology:  The Case Study Approach."  The purpose of the project is to develop case studies to aid in the teaching of disease transmission and disease control.

Thanks to Facilities for special summer projects:  Facilities staff have been busy during the break between the spring and summer terms on a number of special projects including supporting the Building 8 swing to various locations, the Building 1 summer facelift work, deep cleaning of floors, carpets, bathrooms and windows in a number of areas, landscape maintenance and beautification, installation of benches around the main quad, placement of steel plates and pot hole repairs on the loop road and more.  Thanks to all of them in custodial, grounds, engineering and in the office!  See below some of the crew enjoying the scene on the top of Building 5.

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