Campus News  | Faculty & Staff News  | Student News  | Projects   In This Issue … July 23, 2009 Reminder of Campus Electrical Shutdown July 25 and 26…Free ID Replacement Extended…Summer Technology Fun Week…Google Mail FAQs and Tech Assistance…Hot shots on the Photowalk…Librarian’s Helpfulness Appreciated…COM230 Service-Learning Projects…CSHS students enroll in Early College…Spreading the Word About PVCC Black Mountain…Distribution Sites for PVCC Black Mountain Schedules…Bad Donkey, Good Eats Coming to Black Mountain Campus   Campus News   Reminder of Campus Electrical Shutdown July 25 and 26 Don’t forget to power down all electrical office equipment before this weekend. All electricity on campus will be shut down at 4 a.m. Saturday until approximately noon on Sunday for replacement of a transformer on the Union Hills campus. All electrical office equipment including computers, radios, faxes, copy machines, etc., should be turned off and all departmental and personal refrigerators and freezers should be emptied as a precaution. David Matus, Facilities Services director, notes this will affect all telecommunication services (telephone service and computer/networking) as well as the fire alarm systems. Public Safety staff will be available during the power down and can be contacted at 602-388-5239. During the weekend shutdown, Bob Metivier, manager of Facilities Services, Building Operations, can be reached at 602-388-3618. Free ID Replacement Extended It is still possible to get your free replacement ID card, says Scott Meek, director of Public Safety. Faculty and staff are asked to act now to take advantage of the no-charge grace period, which has been extended to accommodate employees who were gone during the summer and missed the June deadline. The first ID for new students and staff continues to be free of charge. To get your free upgraded ID, go to the Public Safety window just east of Admissions and Records in Kranitz Student Center. Public Safety takes pictures and issues new cards 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to noon on Friday. IDs are not issued on Saturday during the summer. Former Homeless Graduate Speaks to ACE Students Victoria Gough speaks to ACE students from 10 a.m. to noon July 29 in KSC 208. Featured in the textbook Keys to Success in the “Homeless to College” chapter, she is a graduate of Glendale Community College. Her granddaughter will be attending PVCC this fall. Space permitting, students and staff are invited to attend. “Many of our ACE students are from underrepresented populations and need to hear success stories to encourage them,” says Judith Birt. guidance counselor, Shadow Mountain High School. “We are excited that they will be able to meet someone with such an inspirational story.” Summer Technology Fun Week The Learning Support Center and IRTS hosted its seventh Summer Technology Fun Week July 13 to 16. Sixty-five participants attended the 16 workshops and one practice lab for hands-on technology training for instructional technology tools such as Blackboard, i>clicker, Library-Multimedia Coursepack and Google Apps. There also was training for applications such as Dreamweaver, Excel and Powerpoint. The event concluded with a Munch & Share Luncheon where participants socialized and shared what they had learned and how they plan to implement new technologies in their classrooms to enhance teaching and learning. If you weren't able to attend Summer Technology Fun Week, you will have a second chance Fall Learning Week, Aug. 17 to 22.  For more information and to register, please go to: http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/eol/. Google Mail FAQs and Tech Assistance To help with the recent implementation and support of Google e-mail for students, Carol Myers, director of college technology, offers the following support pages for SIS, Blackboard and Google Apps and e-mail from Maricopa that may guide users and answer questions. Please note that PerceptIS 24x7 support for SIS and Blackboard does not support Google e-mail or applications. Enterprise SIS Assistance www.my.maricopa.edu/student-center/help/ Enterprise Bb Assistance www.maricopa.edu/blackboard/support/students/index.php Google Apps Assistance www.maricopa.edu/google/googleappshelp.html Google Apps FAQ www.maricopa.edu/google/faq.html Blackboard Support Call the Helpdesk at 602-787-7780 or visit http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/it/helpdesk/ Top of page Faculty & Staff News   Hot shots on the Photowalk  Fifty local photographers joined CIS Faculty Jim Patterson on a two-hour Photowalk July 18, braving a 115-degree morning for the trek to the Union Hills campus. The photographers snapped pictures of whatever caught their eye along the way, including the bean grinder operation at Matador Coffee. This international, social photography experiment by photographer/author Scott Kelby was part of the Second Annual Worldwide Photowalk in which 27,000 people in more than 900 cities were expected to participate. Photos are submitted into an online pool to qualify for prizes. To see shots from the local Photowalk, go to www.flickr.com/photos/thecogentcommunicator/ And, watch for Patterson and the event to be featured in an upcoming Arizona Republic article. Librarian’s Helpfulness Appreciated New adjunct faculty Millicent “Vicky” Hay raved in a blog about the helpful welcome she recently received from Library Faculty John Chavez. Hay says Chavez gave her a grand tour and showed her how to sign up for library time. He then impressed her further by personally accompanying her to IRTS. There, she was told about the faculty learning seminars in August that will help her become acclimated to teaching ENG 101 and 102 at PVCC. “I am looking forward to the privilege of teaching a few courses at PVCC,” Hay says. “The community colleges are especially interesting and challenging because of the wide variety of students. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.” Hay, author of the book “The Essential Feature: Writing for Magazines and Newspapers,” previously taught feature writing at Scottsdale Community College and creative nonfiction at Phoenix College. Most recently she provided preproduction services for scholarly journals at the Arizona State University Tempe campus. She taught many writing courses and established the Writing Certificate Program in the America Studies Department at ASU. Hay also worked at Phoenix and Arizona Highways magazines and wrote for many local, regional and national magazines. Top of page Student News COM230 Service-Learning Projects Eighteen COM230 students participated in a campus drive July 15 and 16 to collect much-needed items for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which provides food, clothing and shelter to hungry and homeless people in Phoenix. As part of their service-learning project, the students set up tables inside KSC building and in front of E Building to collect donations from PVCC students and employees. Class professor Janet Forgy says the class gathered 746 clothing items, 191 non-perishable food items and 243 toiletry items. CSHS Students Enroll in Early College Thirty-four students at Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek have enrolled in PVCC’s Early College program, says district Superintendent Debbie Burdick. This is the first year the program will be offered at Cactus Shadows in conjunction with the opening of the Black Mountain site. CSHS also has about 225 students in dual enrollment courses. Top of page Projects Update   Spreading the Word About PVCC Black Mountain Feature articles and a strategically targeted marketing and advertising campaign have been successfully alerting residents in the Anthem, Carefree, Cave Creek and northeast Valley that PVCC at Black Mountain is ready to open its doors. PVCC administrators, some who live in the community, have been diligently attending and making presentations at chamber meetings, school functions, Kiwanis and other organizations. On June 26, PVCC at Black Mountain received an Arizona Republic NE Phoenix front-page teaser and full-page article inside. The Scottsdale Independent ran a front-page feature on July 8. Media relations will continue including a press event being planned in August. At the end of May, the Sonoran News ran a feature story about the impending opening in its Desert Living section. In June, a postcard announcing the Aug. 10 opening and Aug. 24 start of classes; encouraging registering online; and reminding recipients to “watch for schedules to be in the mail” was sent to 47,000 postal customers. Also, 3,000 were dropped off at libraries, schools, chambers, grocery stores, retail outlets and other distribution points. This past weekend, the schedule of classes was sent to those 47,000 postal customers plus additional distribution points. The first week in August, reminder postcards will be mailed and distributed. The Student Services Call Center is making phone calls to 2,600 current and prospective students in the Black Mountain area to announce the new facilities opening for this fall semester. We will be running PVCC at Black Mountain ads in the N. Scottsdale Republic Aug. 5, 7 and 8. To maximize our limited ad dollars, we collaborated with our sister colleges that serve the North Valley -- GCC North and Rio Salado -- on advertising in every issue during July and August of the Sonoran News, Foothills Focus and In & Out publications. Distribution Sites for PVCC Black Mountain Schedules Black Mountain class schedules can be picked up on our Union Hills campus and, after Aug. 10, at the new Black Mountain educational site. Additionally, find them at: Cave Creek/Northeast Phoenix The Bad Donkey Subs, Salads & Pizza Cactus Shadows High School Carefree-Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce Cave Creek Coffee Company Cave Creek Town Hall Cave Creek Unified School District Office Desert Broom Library Desert Foothills Library Happy Harry's Carwash & Market Karsten's Ace Hardware Anthem North Valley Regional Library Outlets at Anthem Anthem Community Center North Phoenix Cholla and Mesquite libraries Bad Donkey, Good Eats Coming to Black Mountain Campus The Bad Donkey restaurant in Carefree will be serving up subs, salads and pizzas in the new FCF-Holland Community Center, which adjoins the PVCC at Black Mountain facilities. This full-scale restaurant, with indoor and outdoor seating, is tentatively scheduled to begin serving for complex’s Grand Opening Oct. 17, 2009.  The menu will offer breakfast, lunch, dinner and kids’ meals from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays. Weekend hours may coincide with PVCC’s weekend class schedule, according to owners Charles and Julie Garrison. “I think it’s going to be a really fun place,” says Charles, who adds he’s looking forward to serving PVCC students, employees and the community utilizing the Black Mountain Campus. Top of page Do you have an interesting program, or outstanding accomplishment or student to highlight? If so, e-mail the institutional Advancement Office at institutional.advancement@pvmail.maricopa.edu. A publication of the Paradise Valley Community College Office of Institutional Advancement 2009 © Maricopa County Community College District