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 Assessment Duo Gives National Presentation Kim Reely, Supervisor of Assessment Services at Mesa Community College, and Linda Lukey, Coordinator of Assessment and Testing at Rio Salado Community College, collaborated in a presentation for the National College Testing Association (NCTA) conference in Chicago. The title of the presentation was "Managing Multiple Site Assessment Centers within a Large Community College System." Maricopa Community College District was chosen as the model for the multiple site assessment presentation because of its successful program in working with the vast distances between campuses and the uniformity of student assessment between colleges. Carl Wargula, GateWay Manufacturing, was honored for his work with Honeywell Workforce 2000. GateWay’s Workforce 2000 team consisting of GateWay faculty and Honeywell Associates took first place at Honeywell’s Quest for Excellence Competition for their presentation on establishing an apprenticeship program between GateWay and Honeywell to enhance customer service quality. Katherine Atwell Herbert, appointed this semester as Director of the Motion Picture/Television program at Scottsdale Community College, recently completed a rewrite of her first book, "Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love." Both the first (1994) and second editions were published by Allworth Press, New York City. Her second book, "Selling Scripts to Hollywood," should be rolling into bookstores and web sites in mid-November. Kay Lewis has just published her book, "Sensible Application of the ECG: A Pocket Guide" (Delmar-Thompson Learning), September 2000. The second book in the series Sensible Analysis of the 12-lead ECG was published in May 2000. All three books were featured at the National Association of EMS Educators at an annual meeting in Tempe Arizona, September 14-16, 2000. These books present a straightforward and consistent step-by-step approach to the ECG rhythm analysis. Self-assessment exercises and clinical applications are planned with feedback. Dr. Will Counts, Psychology faculty GateWay, has been selected as a Fellow of the Association of State and Provincial Boards for his dedication and contribution over the years. He also serves on the Long Range Planning Committee for the Board. Marianne Auten, an adjunct counseling faculty at Paradise Valley Community College, earned her black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Her interest in this marital art began as a family activity with husband and children. When the rest of her family decided to pursue other interests, Marianne says, "I was hooked and decided to stay in the program." "Hooked" she was. She has passed belt tests for yellow, orange, two levels of green, two levels of blue and six levels of brown. Then she became eligible to test for black, a test that took one and one-half hours. "I performed," Marianne explains, "a long series of different kicks, techniques and combinations. I then did 16 katas that had to be perfect. I demonstrated 42 different counter attacks. Sparring began with one black belt, then two, and then three at a time. Next, I broke two boards with the heel of my hand and then three boards with a jump reverse kick." How did she feel after this long and trying test? "I was exhausted, but exhilarated that I had done it!" Dr. Martha Bergin, GateWay Communications and Sociology faculty, had an article titled, "Exploring the Impact of Faculty Culture on Student Learning," with Jonelle Moore and Jack Goodman, published this year in Volume 7 of Academic Leadership. Karen Russo, Glendale Community College, recently completed her Master of Arts in Organizational Management at the University of Phoenix. Gail Shay, ESL and Spanish, and Kirsten Berdahl, Physical Therapy, both from GateWay, received an International Education grant to incorporate Spanish words and phrases to the Physical Therapy Assistant curriculum. Clyde Perry, Industrial Technology faculty at GateWay, was appointed to the Arizona Industrial Technology Advisory Committee, which assists the state supervisor with issues regarding industrial and technical programs offered in secondary schools.
Christine Hall, District Director of Employee Services, received two awards at the American Psychological Association (APA) Convention in August. From APA’s division of The Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, Christine received the "Distinguished Career Contributions to Service Award" for her outstanding contribution to the research, development and delivery of psychological services in communities of color. For her work and dedication to the Asian American community, the Asian American Psychological Association also awarded her the "Distinguished Contribution Award." Tammy Roman, RN, MSN, nursing faculty at Scottsdale Community College, recently passed the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) examination administered by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. Emergency nursing incorporates a wide spectrum of patient care that requires highly specialized skills and extensive knowledge, as well as the unique ability to care for all ages of patients that have illnesses or injuries ranging from the very minor to extremely critical. The CEN examination evaluates the nurse’s knowledge in the areas of clinical pathophysiology, patient care management and professional issues, environment, toxicology, shock, trauma and medical emergency care. Dean Stover, English faculty and Don Hall, Humanities and Communications faculty, both from GateWay, received a Vibrant Arts Grant to bring arts to GateWay. The grant supports a silent film series and organist and two plays by the award-winning Childsplay Theatre Company. Randy Kinkel, KBAQ’s mid-day announcer and host of the "Mozart Buffet," has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of Musical Personnel in Public Radio. Larry Soller, actively retired from Phoenix College after thirty productive years of teaching and directing its Theatre Department, was cast as a featured player on the Equity contract in "Romance in D," the first production of the Arizona Jewish Theatre in its new home at the Dial Center Theatre. Soller is also directing "A Flea in Her" at PC. Teri Norhorf is the new Director of Child Care Services for GateWay. She replaced Maridel Chase who retired after 13 years. She comes to Arizona from Indiana where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education at Indiana State University. Currently she is working on collecting Campbell’s Soup labels that will be used to purchase new merchandise for the GateWay facility. "Right now we have about 3,000 labels and are hoping to collect many more to redeem them for new equipment," she said. Norhoff is also working on accrediting the Center for the Child and Adult Care Food Program, a federally subsidized program that provides nutritious, warm meals for children attending the Center. One of her long term goals is to include Head Start. She is also exploring ways to include older children up to the age of 12 at the Center. If you want to contribute to the Campbell’s Soup Label Drive, please call 602-392-5174. Mesa Community College’s Foreign Language Department Represents College Nationally and Internationally
Hughes has also been selected as the director for the Southwest Regional All-State Choir, a group of 100 high school auditioned singers. This is his 11th Regional All-State Choir. Last year he directed the Southeast Regional All-State Choir and the Phoenix Union Honor Choir.
Paul Elsner, Chancellor Emeritus, finished an eight-year term on the Board
of Trustees of the prestigious Educational Testing Service (ETS) this month.
Elsner chaired the board and served on the screening committee to bring in ETS's new CEO, Kurt Landgraf. ETS, the largest testing corporation in the world, makes the SAT, the GRE and the TOEFL as well as many other assessment products.
Elsner also gave leadership to breaking off of parts of ETS to private
commercial subsidiaries, such as the formation of Chauncey International, a
second technology commercial group and a third for meeting the huge K-12
market, estimated at approximately 500 billion in the U.S. alone.
Elsner is the only person to have served as Chairman of the two largest
Testing agencies, ETS at Princeton and the American College Testing Corporation in
Iowa City (ACT).
PVCC Names Financial Aid Director
Paradise Valley Community College Acting Director of Financial Aid Jo Ann Caufield was recently named Director of Financial Aid. She succeeds Spencer Johnson who retired last March. Caufield joined PVCC in 1988 as a financial aid clerk. A graduate of the Maricopa Community Colleges Department Chair Academy, Caufield earned an A.A. degree from PVCC and a BS degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. She will complete a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from NAU in February 2001.
70 from PVCC Raced for the Cure
A record 70 students, employees and friends of Paradise Valley Community College joined the Team PVCC in the 2000 Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure on Sunday, Oct. 8, in downtown Phoenix. Team Captain was Heather Anderson, Program Advisor, Student Life. Two participants, Cindy Shoenhair and Suzy Crescenti, are cancer survivors.
Frank Luna, Coordinator of Alumni Relations, Phoenix College, was elected President of the Arizona State University (ASU) College of Public Programs (COPP) Alumni Chapter Board of Directors. The COPP Alumni Chapter participates in
scholarship fund raising to help send deserving students to the COPP,
mentoring students majoring in the various degree programs in the COPP,
and community service.
John Lampignano, GateWay radiography faculty, was recently appointed by Governor Jane D. Hull to the Medical Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners. Lampignano is one of the few educators ever to be named to the Board.
Diane Dietz, Yolande VanDerMaal and Suzanne Lee, GateWay nursing faculty, received a grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust to develop and integrate community-based care into the nursing curriculum.
Marla DeSoto Wins Paul Pair Endowed Chair
DeSoto has been a full-time instructor in the English Department at Glendale Community College since 1992. Throughout her career at GCC, she has actively pursued innovative and effective methods of writing instruction through the use of technology.
"Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers" awards are especially gratifying since these awards come from successful former students who recommend their instructors because the instructor "made a difference in his or her life." Among Maricopa Community Colleges instructors who have been named to "Who’s Who Among America’s Teacher 2000 are
A hearty congratulations to these three outstanding instructors!
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The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) awarded the Two-Year College Biology Teacher of the Year 2000 to Dr. Peggy Johnson, faculty in the Life Science Department at Mesa Community College. At the NABT Conference in Orlando in October, Dr. Johnson received a $1000 check and a plaque. This past spring, she was also the recipient of National Science Teacher’s Association (NSTA) 2000 Ohaus Award for Instruction Innovation at the two-year college level. This award recognized Dr. Johnson for her online Biology 100 course.
Dr. J. Edmund Hughes, Director of Voices of Phoenix College, recently received good news from Santa Barbara Music Publishing. The company is publishing four of his arrangements – "Sancta Maria," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" and "Eu e Voce," a Brazilian folk song. The fourth piece,"Adeste, " was a collaboration with PC colleague Piano and Voice faculty Dan Hooper, who wrote the organ accompaniment. This makes for a total of 8 published works for Dr. Hughes.
Marla DeSoto, Glendale English faculty, received the Paul Pair Endowed Chair. The Paul Pair Endowed Chair was established to reward a GCC faculty member’s outstanding contributions to the college by integrating teaching with technology. Each year one member of the GCC faculty is honored with this award.