September 12, 2019

PRESIDENT’S BOARD REPORT

September

13– Vietnam Memorial Wall Opening Ceremony,

10AM, Building 200

14– Football vs. Reedley, 1 PM, Stadium

17– Volleyball vs. Lassen, 1, 3, 5 PM, Gym

17– M Soccer, vs. Siskiyous, 5 PM, Field

20- Volleyball vs. Mendocino, 5 PM, Gym

24– W Soccer vs. Redwoods, 3 PM, Field

25– Volleyball vs. Alameda, 6 PM, Gym

26– M Soccer vs. Truckee, 4 PM, Field

27– W Soccer vs. Los Medanos, 6 PM, Field

October

2– Volleyball vs. Solano, 6PM, Gym

5– Football vs. Foothill, 1 PM, Stadium

Dr. Janet Fulks, a faculty expert on Guid-

ed Pathways and Strategic Enrollment

Management from Bakersfield College

and representative of the State Academ-

ic Senate was this year’s Convocation keynote speaker.

Dr. Fulks and her team led a student panel discussion re-

garding the student experience at Yuba College. Dr.

Fulks continued the afternoon packed house session hav-

ing participants locate programs of study on the Yuba

College webpage. This work will

lead into the reorganization of

college academic programs as

part of the Guided Pathways im-

plementation process.

Reading Apprenticeship Workshop This interactive workshop, held August 8-9, 2019, intro-

duced faculty, staff, and peer tutors from across the disci-

plines to the Reading Apprenticeship framework, a re-

search-based approach to helping students with discipline-

specific problem-solving strategies. Reading Apprentice-

ship educators learn to recognize their own subject area

expertise and to apprentice students into the ways of

reading, writing, thinking, talking, and reasoning in their

fields. Students are explicitly supported to build identities

as people who can solve academic

problems and persevere. As a re-

sult, students develop the literacy

competencies, subject area knowledge, and the learner dispo-

sitions they need—for school,

college, careers, and life. The workshop was facilitated by

Professor Shawn Frederking and Walter Masuda.

Early College High School In preparation for the YCUSD’s Early College

High School inaugural semester, an Open

House at Sutter County Center was held Au-gust 14, 2019. with more than 75 students and

their guests in attendance.

Event coordinator, CTE Director Sandy Fowler

and STEM Dean Michael Bagley hosted YCUSD

High School teachers for lunch in preparation

for the evening program. These faculty are en-

gaged and ready to have a fabulous semester!

Key Yuba City Unified reps that attended the event: were Pamela Aurangzeb - Assistant Su-

perintendent; Erick Jenkins - Coordinator of

Secondary Edu-

cation; Sandra

Torres - Admin-

istrative Assis-

tant Educational

Services; and

Superintendent,

Doreen Ozumi.

O n Thursday August 1, 2019,

Counselors met with vari-

ous faculty and student service

programs to provide updates. Na-

than Schemel, the college’s new

Mass Communications instructor

shared his vision for the program

and how counselors and faculty

can work together to support

students. Updates were also re-

ceived from CTE Programs along

with EOPS, CalWORKs, Dusty’s

Pantry, Financial Aid, and Cal

Fresh. Susan Jow from Admissions

and Records presented TES, a

transfer evaluation tool; and Cas-

sie Leal presented graduation sur-

vey trends over the past few

years in regards to counseling.

She reported that students are

reporting much more positive

comments about Counseling than

3 years ago, and negative com-

ments in regards to Counseling

dropped by more than 50%.

Then on Friday Aug 2nd, a college

closure day, counselors spent

time aligning the catalog with pro-

gram changes. This was an oppor-

tunity to dialogue, and begin the

process so that no matter what

counselor a student visits, the

same information and advisement

is communicated.

The “Just In Time Orientation”

held Friday, August 16, 2019

was a grand success, with over

300 new students attending!

Students were provided essen-

tial information such as im-

portant Admissions & Records

deadlines, resources and ser-

vices to support students, finan-

cial aid, catalog education and

transfer opportunities.

Students then had the oppor-

tunity to meet and ask specific

questions with over 18 different

programs/services. Events like

this begin to create a sense be-l o n g i n g t o t h e c a m -

pus community for our new

students.

T H A N K

YOU to all

faculty, staff,

and adminis-

trators that

a t t e n d e d ,

participated,

and sup-

ported this

event. A special thanks to our

Counseling & EOPS Peer Men-

tors, Counselors, Rosa DeLa-

Torre, Jessica Gaytan, Irma

Guzman, Tammy Pack, Inderjit

Deol, Cassie Leal, Crystal Fer-

r a r , B a r b a r a B e l -

tran, and Chrystal Gillming.

Director of Counseling, Aman-

deep Kandola, commends the Yu-

ba College General Counseling

Department at Marysville and Sut-

ter County Campuses who were

able to serve 684 UNDUPLI-

CATED student face-2-face

contacts between 08/05/19 -

08/16/19! These numbers are

going to be even greater after all

student contacts are coded. This

data does not include Beale Out-

reach Center or the Veterans Re-

source Center, and the hundreds

of phone calls and emails staff

worked tirelessly to address.

Amandeep gives personal thanks

to Rosa DeLaTorre, Jessica Gay-

tan, Juhree Patterson, Minerva

Barron, Annie Revell, Peer Men-

tors/Student Workers, Teresa

Paras, Tammy Pack, and all of our

counselors for your dedication

and service to students! Thank

you to Roy Martin for all of your

support.

Counseling Department Preparing for Fall 2019

Pictured left: Mathematics Professors Shar-

ma and Chetra; above are YC Peer Men-

tors; below is Victoria Bisiar, Childcare Pro-

gram; and right are Counselors O’Keefe-

Schwering, Latimer, Hernandez and Perez.

You are Invited

2019

Appreciation Reception

Dusty’s Pantry On August 6, 2019, Director of

EOPS/CalWORKs, Cris Sanchez,

received notification that The

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

Day Saints awarded the Humani-

tarian grant to the college in the

amount of $2,500 for use in the

college’s efforts towards funding

Dusty’s Pantry.

In addition, Yuba College Alumni

& Friends funded $1,500 to

Dusty’s Pantry for the purchase of

a refrigerator/freezer and micro-

wave oven,

On August 23, 2019 the Yuba

College Administrative Team

held its annual summer retreat

in the College Library. This

year, consultant Summer Avila,

worked with the team on

Strengths Based Leadership us-

ing the Clifton StrenghFinder®

Assessment.

CSEA #283 re-

ceived the Vic-

t o r y C l u b

award for the

greatest in-

crease in Victo-

ry club member-ships for Chapters with less

than 500 members in the entire

state of California. Victory Club

is CSEA’s political fund.

Western Farm Workers

Association

WFWA held its 2019 spring out-reach events with the assistance

of many Yuba College faculty, stu-

dents and College President.

ASYC members Paul Cluck and

Michaela Christensen worked

door-to-door, and at the Farmers’

Market, while Jennifer Zavala

spoke to the efforts of WFWA in

several classrooms supported by

professors Marc Flacks, Ramon

Munoz, Suzanne Ruckle, Ingrid

Keriotis, Kiara Koening, Zachary

O’Neill, Glenn Husted and Brian

Condrey. Melissa Ha supported

the field activities as did President

Javaheripour, who filled rice bags

for Operation Camp Crew food

and clothing distribution.

In the College and Community

The Yuba College VRC

supported this year’s

Stand Down with an in-

formation table of col-

lege services. President

Javaheripour participat-

ed in the formal opening

ceremony.

Theatre Arts Yuba College

is proud to

announce that

its Theatre

Arts Depart-

ment was

nominated for

four Elly Awards for the 2019

spring production of “The Curi-

ous Incident of the Dog in the

Night-Time:

Overall Best Production-Drama

James Gilbreath-Direction

Quinn Gillan-Leading Male

Joseph Stottmann-Lighting Design

Veterinary Technology Professor Kyle Mathis and Vet-erinary Technology Specialist Amber Kuykendall traveled to New Orleans at the end of July to attend a symposium held by the Association of Veterinary Technology Educators (AVTE). Conference sessions included tips for several subject matter areas, mentoring, assessment, and helping others learn.

Also congratulations to Amber who has expanded her role in the veterinary industry to in-clude hospital inspector. She has gained part time employ-ment with the California Veteri-nary Medical Board as a hospi-tal inspector for the region north of Sacramento to the Or-egon border.

History Professor Travis Smith shared

part of his exciting summer as he

was invited to participate in a ma-jor conference in Changchun, Chi-

na jointly hosted by the Organiza-

tion of American Historians and

the Chinese Center for American

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration.

Dr. Smith chaired a plenary ses-

sion and served on a panel. Sever-

al leading historians were in at-

tendance and presented their

scholarship as well.

Upward Bound

Director Kao Lee Vang shares

that this year’s summer program

was a success because all of us

were a part of it. The video was

made by our students, which high-

lights the student experiences this

summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIE-

MsJIfc

As we listened

to the District’s

new Foundation

Director, Jay

Lowden, speak at

convocation, we heard that our

students need our support for all

activities, including athletics. Yuba

college supports 10 intercollegiate

teams and two are actively asking

for your assistance.

New Head Football Coach, Mike

Piittengill has setup a campaign

f u n d a t : h t t p s : / /

ets.rocks/2XUGN6d.; and Wom-

en’s Soccer Coach, Cristina Bag-

gio has a campaign account set up

at :https : / /app.eteamsponsor.com/ETS/

s u p p o r t U s / 1 7 6 6 1 6 8 3 6 ?fund_participant_id=176616848&program=35573346&fundraiser=176616836&participant=176616779

&source=email

Both accounts are tax deductible.,

and our support is very much ap-

preciated.