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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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Archive |
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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 &
Wellness Corner Archive |
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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
December 18 |
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Power of One
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The gift of $1 or more would make a great impact.
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193 Full-Time x $1/mo. |
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$2,316 |
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400 Part-Time x $1/mo. |
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$4,800 |
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3500 Students x $1/1-time |
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$3,500 |
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Total Possible Contribution |
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$10,616 |
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PLUS |
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48 Retirees x $1/mo. |
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$576 |
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Total Possible Contribution |
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$11,192 |
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Your gift has the
power
to help students save lives…
Since 1984, Mitchell’s Associate Degree Nursing Program has graduated more
than 1000 students and continues to build upon its outstanding reputation.
Endowment funds were used to upgrade the nursing program’s simulation lab
where students are able to build clinical skills and learn to be prepared to
care for patients in even the most life-threatening of situations.
—Submitted by Harry
Stillerman (04.22.09) |
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Your gift has the
power
to make music...
Over the last five years Mitchell’s music program has been restored
and the department was provided with a permanent home. Funds from the
Endowment have played a vital role in this resurgence. Today the
program has 28 students majoring in music. Earlier this spring, two of
the voice majors auditioned and were accepted to a
prestigious summer program—The American Singers Opera Project of North
Carolina.
—Submitted by Harry Stillerman (04.29.09) |
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Your gift has the
power
to help students find their voice...
The American Dream Players
are a newly-formed drama club that consists of compensatory education
students in Mitchell’s Basic Skills Program. Funded by the Endowment, these
dramas help build
student’s confidence and vocabulary, enliven their discussions and release
their creative energy. Most importantly, they help adults with special needs
make sense of their lives and develop self-esteem.—Submitted
by Harry Stillerman (05.06.09) |
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Your gift has the
power
to help students answer questions...
The Spring Research Fair was
created in 2006 and is held annually. Funded by the Endowment, the Fair
gives chemistry and biology students a unique opportunity to research topics
of interest and
provides a public forum for reporting their findings back to our campus
community. —Submitted by Harry Stillerman (05.13.09) |
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Your gift has the
power
to help solve problems...
Funds from the
Endowment made possible the Quality Enhancement Program. The QEP is a
student learning initiative designed to improve the math skills of
Mitchell Students. Contextual teaching and learning activities help
students make connections
between math and their everyday lives as family members, citizens and
workers. —Submitted by Harry Stillerman
(06.03.09) |
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Your gift has the
power
to expand campus boundaries into space and beyond...
The
endowment funds programs like the MCC Nerd Herd and Mitchell’s
Projectile Society, where students not only fling pumpkins into the
Statesville skies and blast rockets into space, but are learning
skills to become tomorrow’s best and brightest engineers.
—Submitted by Harry
Stillerman (06.17.09) |
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