Members of the Paradise Valley Community College staff developed the first version of "Points of Pride" in an endeavor to showcase the college's efforts in three major areas:

• becoming learner centered;
• showing the college's connections to its community; and
• communicating our strategic planning initiative and displaying the relationship between strategic initiatives and district goals.

President Kranitz and members of the administrative team used the document to summarize some of Paradise Valley Community College's most recent activities when Chancellor Fred Gaskin initially visited the college in June.

Staff revised the document in August, rearranging the sections and adding several "points of pride."

We hope that "Points of Pride" will never be seen as comprehensive or finished. Many important activities of which we can be justifiably proud are not included in this first revision because key faculty members were away from the college on vacation and could not be consulted to develop or edit narratives on certain programs. Time constraints limited the number of narratives, which could be developed. Other activities, although of critical importance to the college, did not fit well within the admittedly constrained themes of the first edition.

"Points of Pride" is intended to be an on-going, changing, and never completed work.

It's major purpose is to remind all of us at Paradise Valley Community College of the many accomplishments of our faculty and staff as we move toward our goal of being the most effective learning and service organization in Arizona.

 

Learning Centered:

Employee and Organizational Leadership

Instructional Technology

Technology Coordinating Team

Emerging Leaders Program

First Year Experience: a 2001 Innovation

Learning Communities

choices@pvc

Connecting to the Community:

Learning Connections

Continuing Education: Learning Opportunities for All Ages

Service Learning Center: Working to Make a Difference

Environmental Health and Safety: Hazardous Materials Technology

International Studies Center: Accessing the Global Digital Economy

PVCC Niche Programs:

Bridges to Biomedical Careers

Fine and Performing Arts Vision

Visiting Artists and Scholars

The Jo and Warren Buxton Collection

Book Angels

Athletics

Strategic Planning & Visioning:

Automated Planning & Budgeting

 

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