Campus News   |  Faculty& Staff News  |  Student News  |  Projects Update   In This Issue … January 25, 2008 MLK Award to Chancellor Glasper ... The Visionary Director Conference ... Legislative Agenda ... CPA Update ... PVCC Featured in Publication ... Vice President and Author Paul Dale ... Leadership Event Keynote Presentation Available to View ... Mata Ortiz Pottery Village Demonstration ...Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation ...Instructional Technology Workshop ... Involvement Week ... Passport BBQ ... New Life Sciences Building Moves Forward ... Contract Award for New Baseball Field and Walkways ... Intercollegiate Baseball at PVCC ... CASE International Award to PVCC   Campus News   MLK Award to Chancellor Glasper    We join all of Maricopa and the City of Phoenix in celebrating Dr. Rufus Glasper’s ‘Living the Dream Award.’  The honor was presented to the Chancellor on Friday, January 18, at the Phoenix Convention Center, which hosted this year’s 22nd annual MLK Breakfast.  As our leader, Dr. Glasper is a strong advocate for those values of inclusiveness and respect to which Dr. Martin Luther King so courageously gave voice.  Sponsors of the event include the City of Phoenix Equal Opportunity Department, the Phoenix Human Relations Commission, and the Arizona Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee. The Visionary Director Conference    We are very pleased to announce that PVCC will host the Visionary Director, a two-day professional development opportunity for early childhood center directors, supervisors, and program coordinators. This workshop will be held on Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26. We wish to recognize and congratulate Harriet Betts and Christie Colunga for their stellar work—once again—bringing a highly professional forum to PVCC.  PVCC is certainly known for the excellence of our Early Childhood Program. Some of the sponsors of this event are the Governor’s Youth Commission, Southwest Human Development, and the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona. Legislative Agenda    On Wednesday, January 23, I had the pleasure of joining other community college presidents and chancellors from around the state at the annual Arizona State legislature’s  Arizona Community College Day. The event was sponsored by the Arizona Association of Community Colleges. It provided me and my Maricopa colleagues an opportunity to meet with our legislators at the capitol on issues of importance to PVCC and MCCCD.  Representing our District 7 in the legislature are:  Sen. James Waring, Rep. Nancy Barto, and Rep. Ray Barnes.  CPA Update     Charla, a monologue originally written and performed for the Rhodes Scholars Program of the Florida Humanities Council by Chaz Mena, will be presented on January 29 from 7:30pm-9pm at the CPA. It is set to original music by Andy Guthrie. Admission will be $5.00. Chaz Mena has recently been seen at the CPA as Tevye in the Arizona Jewish Theatre Company/PVCC co-production of Fiddler on the Roof. Tickets are available through the CPA Box Office, open Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5pm, and one hour prior to showtime. Separately, on January 30 at the CPA, the film festival at PVCC, sponsored by our Center for International Studies, will present Dinner Rush at 6:30pm. Admission is free. PVCC Featured in Publication PVCC’s ACE/SUCCEED, Service Learning, Media Services and FYE programs are featured in The Divine Comity: Student and Academic Affairs Collaboration, a recent book published by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) that highlights the powerful partnerships between student and academic affairs that result in enhanced student success and learning. Vice President and Author Paul Dale    Paul Dale, Vice President of Learning Support Services, has authored a chapter entitled Paradise Valley Community College: General Education Case Study in the book Assessing Student Learning in General Education published by Anker Publishing. The chapter features the use of general education rubrics by PVCC’s Office of Student Life and Leadership to measure student learning in the out-of-class environment. Leadership Event Keynote Presentation Available to View   If you were unable to attend the outstanding district leadership event held last November 19, you may still view the keynote presentation by Dr. Barry Z. Poser, co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book, The Leadership Challenge. The videostreaming will be available for a limited time, (until February 19) at: http://www.estrellamountain.edu/ctl/posner.htm. Viewing is restricted to Maricopa employees. You may contact Gloria Smith, assistant to the Governing Board, at 1-8889 if you have any difficulty accessing the presentation. Mata Ortiz Pottery Village Demonstration    PVCC played host to Mexican ceramics artists Lucy Mora and Lorenzo Bugarini, from the internationally known pottery village, Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, on Tuesday, January 22.  Thank you to the PVCC International Education Department and Art Faculty professor David Bradley, for sponsoring this pottery making demonstration for students as well as members of the community. We hope they will accept our invitation to return in late August, at the beginning of the fall semester. Faculty & Staff News   Maricopa Community College Foundation    The Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation has announced the annual program for 2008, to recognize outstanding employees in the Maricopa Community College District. One of the 2007 recipients was our own Dr. Sally Rings, Professor Emerita. A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student attending a Maricopa college in the name of each of the award recipients. More information about the awards will be forthcoming.  Instructional Technology Workshop   Instructional Technology is looking for faculty to test their new, public iTunesU site. Learn about iTunesU at PVCC, and let them help you get started with your own podcast. A workshop will be held on Tuesday, February 12, from 2pm – 4pm in Room E148. Please visit the new Instructional Technology website at http://arwen.pvc.maricopa.edu/tech_training/index.php or call Jennifer Strickland at 7-6794 for details. Student News   Involvement Week We wish to thank everyone who helped make student Involvement Week a success. A wide range of information on clubs and community services were presented for students to choose from.  All of the displays and club representatives in the KSC hallway made for a lively and interesting event for our students. Passport BBQ The Passport BBQ held outside the KSC on Wednesday, January 23 was a great success. Many students, faculty and staff took advantage of the food, music and sunshine. Thank you to the PVCC Coffeehouse for providing 'Enlightenment' as entertainment for this event. Projects Update   New Life Sciences Building Moves Forward   On January 22, the Governing Board approved a contract with Barton Malow for the installation of chilled water lines and electrical/communications conduit for the new Life Sciences Building at PVCC. This partial GMP budget will be added to Barton Malow’s existing Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) contract through amendment. The budgeted construction value for the new Life Sciences Building is $12,053,500 including this addition. Funding for this work will be provided from the previously established total project budget. Contract Award for New Baseball Field and Walkways  The Governing Board has approved awarding a contract in the amount of $1,195,700 to Paul R. Peterson Construction for the construction of a new baseball field and connecting walkways to Q Building (the former County Library) at PVCC. The scope of work includes a new playing field, backstop, fencing, chain link dugouts, irrigation, landscaping, a scoreboard, and minor electrical work. In conjunction with this work will be the construction of walkways from the southern edge of the existing campus buildings to Q Building. These sidewalks, adjacent to the ball field, will provide a safe and effective pedestrian and service cart link to Q from campus. Funding for the baseball field portion of this contract award will be provided from its respective total project budget of $667,500 funded from PVCC Fund 2 Athletics. Funding for the walkways will be provided from 2004 G.O.Bond funds. Intercollegiate Baseball at PVCC   I am proud to announce the addition of intercollegiate baseball to our athletics department program, the twelfth sport to be offered at our college. The new ‘Pumas’ will begin competitive play in Spring 2009, competing within the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) and the National Junior College Athletic Association. (NJCAA)  The process to hire a full time coach has begun, with interviews slated to occur within the next seven to ten days. Ground-breaking for the baseball field is scheduled for March, with a target date of September 2008 for first fall practice. Athletics Director Greg Silcox would like potential players or those interested in the program to contact PV Athletics at: www.paradisevalley.edu/atheletics or by phone at 7-7173. CASE International Award to PVCC    It is my pleasure to share with you a recent award received by PVCC from CASE International, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, District VII region. At the CASE annual conference in December, PVCC was presented with a Bronze Award in the category 'Outstanding Communications: Annual Reports and Honor Rolls' for our Annual Report to the Community, 2006. We are particularly pleased, as this is the first time in the history of the college that we have won a CASE award. We are honored that PVCC was the only community college to win an award in this year’s competition.   Cordially, Mary Kay Kickels President Do you have an interesting program, or outstanding accomplishment or student to highlight? If so, e-mail the News Desk at pvcc.news@pvmail.maricopa.edu A publication of the Paradise Valley Community College Office of the President 2007 © Maricopa County Community College District