Campus News   |  Faculty& Staff News  |  Student News  |  Projects Update   In This Issue … February 22, 2008 President's Perspective on New SIS System ... PVCC Music Department Classical Spring 2008 Concert ... Movie and Discussion for Black History Month ... College Goal Sunday Update ... MCTV Rebroadcasts PVCC's World Music Marathon ... PVCC Film Festival ... KSC Provides Income Tax Assistance ... PVCC Offers SAT Preparation Course ... PVCC Fine Arts Scholarship Fundraiser Silent Auction ... Get Back: A Musical Tribute to the Beatles ... Draw and Paint in Italy ... SLICE-PVCC's Alternative Spring Break ... PVCC Big Band Performance ... Join the PVCC Team for Heart Walk ... Help The Homeless ... People From The Front ... All-Arizona Academic Team Luncheon ... Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) Club Ranked #1 ... National Collegiate Leadership Conference 2008 ... Clarification    Campus News   President's Perspective on New SIS System Our PVCC co-project managers of the new SIS, Jo Ann Caufield and Paul Golisch, assure us that the conversion process is progressing very smoothly. The announcement regarding the new system includes an introductory splash page that will be displayed for eight seconds before automatically redirecting you to the PVCC home page. Brochures, mailings, door signs and banners will be placed throughout the college to supply more information. Links to my.maricopa.edu will be inserted into the PVCC web site. The SIS Helpdesk number if 602-787-6767. Additional faculty training sessions are being offered throughout the spring. Remember, a FERPA tutorial must be completed before attending training. The SIS will function as our Online Student Center, and should make life more efficient for our students and the rest of our college community. Everyone who participated in bringing the new SIS system to fruition should be proud of this accomplishment.   The tutorial website is: www.maricopa.edu/legal/ferpa/ferpa_tutorial/ferpatutorial.htm. To register for spring training sessions go to: www.pvc.maricopa.edu/nss/reg_fac.html. PVCC Music Department Classical Spring 2008 Concert  The PVCC Music Department will present its Spring 2008 mid-year concert this Thursday, February 28 at 7:30pm in the CPA. The performance will feature six different ensembles: The North Valley Chamber Orchestra, the PVCC Community Chorus, the PVCC Piano Ensemble, the PVCC Guitar Ensemble, the PVCC Flute Ensemble and the PVCC Violin/Guitar Duo. Also featured will be student soloists on voice, piano, percussion and guitar. Music performed will include pieces by JS Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Scarlatti, Brahms and many more. Admission is free of charge. Congratulations to all of our PVCC musicians performing in this 2008 Spring concert. Movie and Discussion For Black History Month Same, Same, a short film by Cranston Forte, PVCC Media department, will be shown on      Wednesday, February 27 from 10:30am – 11:00am in M 127, with a short discussion to follow. The film explores the actions of two students who must work together on a school project. Same, Same, refers to the major human similarities so often forgotten because of minor physical differences. College Goal Sunday Update College Goal Sunday, hosted by the Office of Student Financial Assistance, was a great success again this year, reaching out to over 149 students and parents. This is the eighth consecutive year the OSFA has provided this valuable assistance to prospective students.  MCTV Rebroadcasts PVCC's World Music Marathon MCTV will be broadcasting a repeat of PVCC’s World Music Marathon, Music and Dance of West Africa, originally performed in October 2002 by the Kawambe-Omowale African Drum and Dance Theatre in celebration of Black History Month. MCTV has recently won both Ava and MarCom awards for excellence in television broadcast productions and writing. MCTV is channel 115, Cox Communications. PVCC Film Festival The movie, Tortilla Soup, released in 2001 and directed by Maria Ripoll, will be shown at the PVCC Film Festival in the CPA at 6:30pm, Wednesday February 27.  Starring Hector Elizondo, Raquel Welch, and Elizabeth Pena, this story of a Mexican-American family debuted at the Seattle Film Festival. Admission is free. KCS Provides Income Tax Assistance We wish to thank everyone who participated in Saturday’s tax advice program, which provided information on how to fill out basic tax returns. This was especially helpful for seniors and individuals with disabilities or limited incomes. PVCC Offers SAT Preparation Course PVCC will be offering a seven-week course, the SAT Test Prep Workshop, from 9am to noon each Saturday from March 8 – April 26 for $395. The fee includes two full-length practice exams, books and software. This workshop covers comprehensive math, critical reading, sentence completion, analogy, English, essay, reading and science reasoning. Please advise your students of this preparatory course. For more information call 7-6800 or go to www.paradisevalley.edu/ce. PVCC Fine Arts Scholarship Fundraiser Silent Auction The PVCC Fine Arts silent auction, which will be held at the CPA on Saturday, March 1 from 6pm – 7:15pm, has a long list of wonderful items to bid on. They include a pair of Southwest Tickets, 4 rounds of golf, dinner packages, sports memorabilia, a day at a spa, visual art, and tickets for events throughout the valley. The goal of the Second Annual Fine & Performing Arts Student Scholarship Fundraiser is to raise $10,000 to provide full-tuition waivers for five students for the 2008-2009 academic year. Admission is free of charge. Get Back: A Musical Tribute to the Beatles Get Back: A Musical Tribute to the Beatles, to be presented on March 1 at 7:30pm by the Division of Fine and Performing Arts, is part of the Second Annual Fine & Performing Arts Fundraiser. PVCC music faculty, students and friends will form the “Get Back” band which includes a 6-piece rock band, eight strings, and a 7-piece horn section. Singers Estevan Rodriguez (John Lennon) and Eric Reyes (Paul McCartney) perform the lead vocals. A total of 30 songs written by the Fab Four are included in the program. Call the CPA Box Office For more information: 7-7738 Draw and Paint in Italy An opportunity to draw and paint from life in Anversa, an Italian mountain village, is being offered by PVCC through the MCCC Division of Academic Affairs. This three credit class, held from May 16-24, is open to students, faculty and community alike, including self-taught artists. Deadline for enrollment is mid-March. For more information on this international studies program please contact adjunct faculty member Josie Taglienti at 8-0762 or at her e-mail address: a_joyfulsunrise@yahoo.com. SLICE-PVCC's Alternative Spring Break This is the second year PVCC is offering an alternative Spring Break to Honors students as a Service Learning Class. During spring break they will travel to San Diego joined by SLICE volunteers from Glendale Community College (GCC) forming three groups:  Kids, Refugee, and Environmental. The Kids group will work with Stand Up For Kids, a non-profit organization that helps street kids and the homeless. The Refugee group will be assisting Habitat for Humanity, and the Environmental group joins together with the Audubon Society to restore trails and help control damage from the California wild fires. The Kids Group is accepting donations of hooded sweatshirts (hoodies), shoes/boots both old and new, and anything else the homeless might need. I applaud the generosity of all the SLICE volunteers for choosing such worthy community service over their Spring Break, and thanks to Paula Vaughn and Sherry Adams for coordinating this special project for our students. For questions or additional information contact: erin.barbanell@pvmail.maricopa.edu. PVCC Big Band Performance The PVCC Big Band will be guest performers at The Scottsdale Chorus production of Red Hot and Blues, at the Orpheum Theater (203 West Adams, Phoenix), February 23, at 7pm.  For ticket orders visit www.ticketmaster.com. Joint the PVCC Team for Heart Walk PVCC’s Heart Walk Team needs you to sign up for the three-mile Heart Walk and one-mile Stroke Walk to be held on Saturday, March 1 at Tempe Beach Park. The Walk is part of Maricopa’s Wellness Program. Remember, heart disease is the #1 Killer in Arizona, followed in third place by strokes. The event goal is to raise $1,500,000 for the American Heart Association. Register online at: www.phoenixheartwalk.org. Help The Homeless  The final two trips to Sunnyslope Family Services Center will be Friday, February 29, and March 13. So far this year PVCC has donated 35 large bundles full of blankets and warm clothes. Please bring what you can to Zosia Pijanowski in the IRTS Office, or call her at 7-7782. Faculty & Staff News   People From The Front Our own Alexis Sharif, my administrative assistant, will be displaying her miniatures at the Dollhouse Miniatures Show & Sale sponsored by the Small World Miniature Club on Saturday, February 23 from 10-5pm and Sunday, February 24, from 11am – 4pm. The show will be held at ASU West (La Sala Rooms, 4701 West Thunderbird Rd, Phoenix), and benefits the Desert Mission Program of John C. Lincoln Hospitals. There will be raffles, door prizes, displays and free projects for the children. For information contact: www.phoenixminiatures.com or call Nancy McEwen 480-756-8650.  Student News   All-Arizona Academic Team Luncheon We wish to recognize our PVCC award winners on the All-Arizona Academic Team, Rebecca Martos and Michael Bouey, Jr., who were honored at a celebratory luncheon on Thursday, February 21 for their academic records and community service. Both received full scholarships to any Arizona University. The All-USA Academic Team selected Rebecca for the First Team, and Michael for the Third Team, each team consisting of 20 members. The annual All-USA Academic Team program is sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, USA Today, and the American Association of Community Colleges. We wish to acknowledge the dedication of all the honors committee members for preparing their students seeking this award. Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) Club Ranked # 1 The PBL Club, under the leadership of it’s president, Taniel Agnerian, has been awarded two #1 rankings at the Winter Leadership Conference held in Tucson on February 9. Taniel Agnerian won in Financial Analysis and Matthew Charnell won in Business Law Tests. The other members of the PVCC chapter of PBL include: Aaron Gliner, Ken McElwee, Brian Simpson, and Sebastian Vasquez. We are proud of the PBL club, faculty advisor Bahman Maneshni, Heather Kruse and the staff in Student Life and Leadership for all their contributions. We also wish to announce that the first State Leadership Conference (in the fields of Business/IT) will be hosted here at PVCC on April 4-5.    National Collegiate Leadership Conference 2008 The National Collegiate Leadership Conference, a student-led annual conference, serves to train hundreds of college students from across the country in the leadership experience. It was held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, February 15-17, and six PVCC Students (members of the SLC) presented three proposals: A Complaint Free World (Melinda Ostrander); Group + X = Team (Ana Terminel, Daniel Rush) and Fundraise For Charity: Throw a Mystery Costume Party (JaMae’Van Eewen, Brittany Sims, Scott Mason). Congratulations to all who took part, especially faculty adviser Heather Kruse. Projects Update   Clarification We would like to clarify an item from last week’s NFTF. Vice President Bob Bendotti has been appointed to the P-20 Task Force -  not the P-20 Commission of the Higher Education Committee. 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