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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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 From the President's Desk |
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Did You Know? Archive |
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Employee Birthdays |
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Faculty/Staff Profiles |
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Scholarships |
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Academic Calendar |
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Board Briefs |
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Power of One Archive |
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QEP Quips |
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MCC Inclement Weather Policy |
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Veterans
Day Ceremony |
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Health
Fair |
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Student
Services Center Dedication |
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Fall
Alumni Reunion |
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An
Evening To Remember |
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Memories
of Hurricane Hugo |
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Fall Convocation and Club Fair |
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Watermelon
Party |
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CNA
Graduation |
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Retirement Reception |
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December 3 through 9
Linda
Wiersch—7th
Tammie Goodwin—8th
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Deadline for article submissions to
Mitchell Columns is every Tuesday at
9 a.m. E-mail articles to
printgraph@mitchellcc.edu
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Multi-Cultural
Education
As an open-access public institution that serves a multicultural population
of students from a diverse community, the employees and students at Mitchell
Community College must strive continually to examine and improve our
policies and practices to be more inclusive. Adopting the principles of
multicultural education is an ideal way to achieve that aim. According to
George Mason University professor Paul Gorski, "Multicultural education is a
progressive approach for transforming education that holistically critiques
and addresses current shortcomings, failings, and discriminatory practices
in education. It is grounded in ideals of social justice, education equity,
and a dedication to facilitating educational experiences in which all
students reach their full potential as learners and as socially aware and
active beings, locally, nationally, and globally. Multicultural education
acknowledges that schools are essential to laying the foundation for the
transformation of society and the elimination of oppression and injustice."
www.edchange.org/multicultural/
initial.html
—Submitted by Diversity Task Force (11.04.09)
Focus on Diversity
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Searching
Message Attachments
When you know you received
an attachment that contains important information for your current project,
but you can’t remember who sent it to you or what the message itself
contained, you can use GroupWise to search the contents of your attachments,
not just the attachment list. Follow the steps below to simply search the
contents of your message attachments.
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Select Tools. Find or click the Find button
(looks like a magnifying glass) on your GroupWise main toolbar.
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Click the Find tab.
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Make sure the first text box is labeled Full Text.
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Enter the text from your attachment you’d like to search
for.
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Select any other criteria to further narrow your search.
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Click OK.
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Double-click the correct message when it appears in the
Find Results window.
—Submitted by Joyce Roseberry (11.18.09)
GroupWise
Tips Archive |
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Make
A "Health" Drawer
Your filing spaces are your friends. Most cubes have lots of little drawers.
Make one of them a "health" drawer. Add a Ziploc bag or two with healthy
non-perishable snacks in it (maybe dried veggies), a few bags of herbal,
non-caffeinated tea (switch over from coffee midday to help you sleep better
at night), and a travel-size hand-sanitizing gel for use regularly when
there’s a cold going around the office (did you know most colds are
transmitted through shared objects like doorknobs?) A decorative canvas bag
can store an extra pair of athletic shoes in case you can take a 10 minute
walk or stretch break over lunch.
—Submitted by the MCC Wellness Committee (11.11.09)
Health &
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Foundations
of Invitational Education
Invitational theory maintains that the best way to maximize human potential
is for people to create and maintain places, policies, processes, and
programs that promote it. Policies refer to the procedures and
rules (written or unwritten) used to regulate individuals and organizations.
Policies, like places, convey values and expectations. They need to be known
(i.e. transparent), administered evenly (i.e. fairly), and focus on positive
reinforcement that says we care rather than negative that says we really
don’t. —Submitted by Employee
Development (12.02.09)
The Inspirting Corner
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Board of Trustees
Meeting
December 2
7 p.m.
Kirkman House
MCC Jazz Band
Holiday Concert
December 3
7 p.m.
Shearer Hall
"Walk-In" Messiah
December 6
3 p.m.
Shearer Hall
MCC Band Holiday
Concert
December 7
7:30 p.m.
Shearer Hall
Free Career
Exploration Workshop
December 8
2 p.m.
Testing Center (Student Services Center)
MCC Ambassadors
Applications Due
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
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Area Citizens
Receive Awards for Service to the Community
Three area citizens, John Scott, Rita Taggert, and Tonya Reid
were presented with MCC’s Viola Parker Diversity awards in recognition of
their service to the community. The award is named in memory of Viola
Kimbrough-Parker, a long-time employee of Mitchell who devoted her life to
the betterment of all people. The presentation was made at a ceremony
honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Scott received of the student
award. He currently serves as the president of student government
association. Taggert received the employee award. As a coordinator of the
Humanities Department, she has worked consistently to include courses that
encourage critical thinking and engagement with differences and diversity in
society such as American Women’s Study, Race in America, African-American
Culture, Working Lives, and The Holocaust. Reid received the community
award. A social worker for the Department of Social Services and the
Iredell-Statesville School System, she serves as coordinator for juvenile
court and the system’s homeless student population. She serves as the
chairperson for the Weed and Seed Committee, is a board member for I-CARE of
Iredell County, and a member of the education committee for the Statesville
NAACP. —Submitted by Kathy Holland
(01.21.09)
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